The most alarming thing about the internet is how it kills our capacity for delight. People spend hours scrolling glass-eyed through content that brings only crumbs of amusement. Real joy is found in the real world: in reading, in starlight, in birdsong, in service to others.

Saguaro Forms & Cactus Flowers, Frank Lloyd Wright 1927

Julieanne Ngwarraye Morton, My Country - Bush Medicine Plants series, acrylic on linen, 2019

Maggie Beer is a gem, so fantastic to see her use her profile and her smarts to improve the lives of our elders. I SO admire her for this. #RNBreakfast Maggie Beer Foundation

Anyone know what's happened to @noplaceforsheep.bsky.social? Nothing for 4 months here. I have been away longer. #auspol

Who ever said dreaming makes it so ... I know it's early and only a small percentage of the total vote has been counted ... but Dickson is NOT looking like a shoe-in for Peter Dutton. #auspol #Ausvotes

Imagine you’re a country funding an expensive Canberra embassy, only for the PM to suddenly base himself somewhere else. At a whim. Just one of many implications of snubbing the capital.

Yes, Australians ARE insulted Senator Warner. Thank you for your remarks re: the idiocy of the policy against us, as you say, a country with a trade surplus with the USA/free trade agreement. We don't take US meat re: quarantine sanctuary, bar Japan and NZ. #auspol www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJDM...

Some great analysis here from Lance Selfa, Red Flag. #auspol redflag.org.au/article/trum...

So, is Isack Hadjar driving for Red Bull next race? #JapaneseGP #F1 #RedBullRacing #SkySportsF1 .@SkySportsF1

oh man this is good

There’s a spreadsheet for that.

“There was not enough investment. The aged care workforce was underpaid. The Aged Care royal commission that was established under pressure by the former government described the state of aged care in its interim report in one word – ‘neglect’.” (Albanese)

One of my issues #AusElection ... distancing ourselves from USA, strengthening our relationships with Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Timor Leste, Singapore, Malaysia, Pacific Islands and NZ, and the rest of the world. Our own future, not USA's #auspol www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Enjoyed Peter Martin on #RNBreakfast re: bills. I think it's ludicrous that companies aren't proactively contacting us, offering us new/better deals. Leaving a cryptic note on the front of the bill suggesting a saving is mean, esp. given long waits in phone queues. At least suggest $ saving. #auspol

Seriously dump #Aukus Sweden has: Gotland submarines. Deadly silent, ‘retails’ for about $100m. Australia could have had 8 by now for the $800m Blekinge-class (A26) built by Saab are even more interesting. As they’re equipped with Kockums Stirling AIP, air-independent propulsion system #auspol

22 years ago today, the US and UK illegally invaded Iraq. In doing so, they unleashed bloody chaos which so many are still paying the price for today. As I wrote in 2016, the Iraq war was not a "blunder" or a "mistake". It was a crime. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Is it just me or is it super annoying for others we can no longer download #ABC radio to listen to offline. I live in the country, mobile phone reception is an issue re: App. I have turned to NPR in the US for things to listen to when really I want Nick Bryant/Saturday Extra. Why is access harder?

This is the new McCarthyism. You may lose your livelihood, your liberty, even your citizenship if you speak out in support of the Palestinian people.

I protested at Tesla yesterday! In a suburb and well over 100 people. People are angry. This lady summed it up for me and I agree.

This upgrade is reliant on Elon Musk's Starlink. How did we get here? Imagine if we'd done NBN properly with fibre to the premises. All that $ for an half-arsed job, in some cases, 20 yrs late. And now comms is in the hands of an erratic foreigner. Ask Ukraine #auspol www.youtube.com/watch?v=HegH...

From Lech Walesa to the US President.

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This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

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A great song when it was launched, and a great song for these times. #zelenskyy #zelensky #auspol #trump #songforourtimes www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc3L...

Hackman was mega-cool but mainly I enjoyed Oriti's genuine interest in Gene, his knowledge, warmth/humour. One of the best interviewers going at the ABC. Last week I heard a great intv about nurses what they can and can't do, what they'd like to do, etc, brilliant. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

I feel mortified for this woman. 3 Commonwealth offences. So disproportionate to all actual "crimes" occurring in Australia today. No harm done to anyone. Meanwhile a nation state recognised by the United Nations has killed close to 50,00 people, no consequences. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

@antonygreenelec.bsky.social Respect. There's you, James Valentine and Ross Gittins. I see no successors, just losses as you all retire. All one offs. #auspol #ausnews

“More than 10,000 First Nations people killed in Australia’s frontier wars, final massacre map shows”

You gotta hope that our Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Australian Treasury are madly war-gaming in a way that worked out well for us under PM Rudd and Ken Henry, 2018. I have only the media reporting to go off, but it's almost like Europe never considered USA not being there with them #auspol

I clearly needed to prepare more thoroughly this morning...

Newscorp cooks up fake antisemitic incident to flare race hate, get clickbait. Josh Barnett #auspol youtu.be/5rPpOQsWdNI?...

A historic graphic of corruption. The 11 federal agencies so far targeted for firings or dismantling by Elon Musk have more than 30 ongoing investigations into his companies. (📸 Malika Khurana for NYT)

Channel 9/NBN please stop referring to the United States as the "leader of the free world". The law is being subverted and democracy overturned there at the moment, your own reporters are covering it. If it ever was, it's not now.

Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models. In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.

A thought for Labor. Does Peter Dutton’s empty policy cupboard suggest he will release it all in the campaign, replete with a Trumpian executive order-style list of “actionables”? He views Trump as decisive, big thinker & a deal maker. Could politics as a reality TV show work in Australian context?

It's not a demolition site it's a mass grave. It's not a demolition site it's a crime scene. It's not a demolition site its a homeland. It's not a demolition site it's Palestine. It's not a demolition site it's a genocide.

Quick Q - How many ABC community forums in Bankstown will it take to fix this?

Imagine you were the richest man in the world. You could have anything you wanted, go anywhere you wished, do whatever took you fancy. How would you spend your weekend? Depriving the poorest people in the world of food and healthcare and boasting about it?

Jillian Segal speaking for all Australians now? At the very least ABC Sydney radio news yesterday at 2.30pm said "Gillian Segel said the majority of the community are horrified over the ongoing wave of antisemitic attacks" On what is this based? More so than other antisocial behaviour? DV?

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What was the point of all that defense spending for for all those generations if the most powerful economy and military in world history was just going to be handed over to a single South African national by the host of The Apprentice in one weekend when nobody felt like changing their plans?

👀 the words behind her.

C'mon good lawyer people, give Michael some assistance please. Indy media needs to be defended and esp. Michael who has given of himself and who has given a platform to many others.