Traffic control concrete baubles in #Beijing getting the winter crochet cover treatment. They’re lovely eh! #China

SUVs and big Utes "are 44 per cent more likely to kill an adult pedestrian or cyclist in a crash compared with a sedan, and 82 per cent more likely to kill a child" www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

Why do so many ships in the Sydney to Hobart have such terrible names? Is it sponsorship naming rights which has led to such crap names?

Continued… thread with messages of goodwill towards Ahmed outside his closed shop in Sutherland in #Sydney’s south. I was struck by how many kids have done drawings for the man who ran towards danger to save others and someone bought him a beer. Seasons greetings #Australia! Look after one another!

Continued… a thread with the messages of goodwill towards Ahmed outside his closed shop in Sutherland in #Sydney’s south. I was struck by how many kids have done drawings for the man who ran towards danger to save others. Seasons greetings #Australia! Look after one another!

Continued… a thread with the messages of goodwill towards Ahmed outside his closed shop in Sutherland in #Sydney’s south. I was struck by how many kids have done drawings for the man who ran towards danger to save others. Seasons greetings #Australia! Look after one another!

Continued… a thread with the messages of goodwill towards Ahmed outside his closed shop in Sutherland in #Sydney’s south. I was struck by how many kids have done drawings for the man who ran towards danger to save others. Seasons greetings #Australia! Look after one another!

Continued… a thread with the messages of goodwill towards Ahmed outside his closed shop in Sutherland in #Sydney’s south. I was struck by how many kids have done drawings for the man who ran towards danger to save others. Seasons greetings #Australia! Look after one another!

In Sutho, I walked past the currently-closed shop of Ahmed who ran towards one of the Bondi gunmen, disarmed him, got shot himself and saved others, especially the Jewish community being targeted in the nearby park. There are flowers, messages of goodwill and pictures drawn by children. A thread…

Lovely and I love the pictures

A beautiful thread

The VB might be inappropriate given his faith but oh so Australian. Ahmed deserves it all. He saved lives and substantially reduced the scope for divisive rhetoric to take hold.

In Sutho, I walked past the currently-closed shop of Ahmed who ran towards one of the Bondi gunmen, disarmed him, got shot himself and saved others, especially the Jewish community being targeted in the nearby park. There are flowers, messages of goodwill and pictures drawn by children. A thread…

"Indeed, Trump's National Security 'Strategy' is entirely consistent with the goals of both Putin’s Russia and China’s authoritarian regime, both of which have long viewed the weakening of the Western alliance as a key part of their effort to displace the US as the leading power in the world."

All journalists in #Australia should be asking these questions of politicians: what does protesting have to do with these killings? Where is the link?

China’s government has long sought to silence dissent abroad, but recently there’s been a disturbing escalation: harassment through sexually explicit letters targeting activists outside the country www.hrw.org/news/2025/12...

The Shire has produced none better! Muslim fruit shop owning legend, 43 yr old Ahmed al Ahmed, ran at one of the gunmen, disarmed him, drew bullets away from the Jewish community under fire and is in hospital after being shot twice + he is from Sutho! #Australia www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

Thinking about all the paramedics, and all the nurses and doctors in the ED's, operating theatres and ICUs (and the support staff) - we are enormously lucky to have them.

One reason “only” 16 people died is that the terrorists used singe shot bolt action rifles, thanks to Australia’s strict gun control laws. If they had access to semiautomatic rifles it likely would’ve been much worse.

Drawing for the Bondi Beach hero who risked his life to disarm one of antisemitic terrorist shooters in Australia. According to 7NEWS Australia, the hero has been identified as Ahmad Al Ahmed, 43 year old father of 2 and Sydney resident.

A Citroen 2CV outside the old Bank of China building in Hong Kong, which was at the time a stronghold of the PRC in the Britsh colony…c.1968

Tyson is shutting down its Lexington, Nebraska plant in January 2026. That’s 3,200 workers gone in one shot, the largest plant shutdown in company history. Blame Trump’s tariff chaos and the lowest cattle inventories in decades. Tariffs jack up costs. Supply shrinks. Plants close. Towns hollow out.

This is why people, especially a president, shouldn’t rush to post unverified claims during an active shooting. The suspect was not in custody, and misinformation in moments like this can get people killed.

About 60 kilometres off the southern coast of Western Australia they’ve discovered a wave breaking in the middle of nowhere dubbed “The Thing”… wild looking! #Australia www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

About 60 kilometres off the southern coast of Western Australia they’ve discovered a wave breaking in the middle of nowhere dubbed “The Thing”… wild looking! #Australia www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

“From Beijing’s point of view, there is only one measure that will determine whether Lee will keep his job: will he be able to prevent any protests and snuff out any signs of dissent? By that measure, his performance so far has been faultless.” @antd.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/commen...

Person who actually deserves a trophy is the artist who made the FIFA peace prize trophy look like everyone in the entire world holding their head in their hands out of secondhand embarrassment

"When there’s no war, you aren’t committing war crimes when you kill people indiscriminately. You’re just a straight-up murderer."

It really is amazing that the president has a noticeable an unexplained physical ailment that is disfiguring his right hand and there's no reporting about it. The White House's line is that it's from Trump shaking too many hands! Something is clearly being covered up.

It took dozens of special agents the best part of a decade to bring Juan Orlando Hernández to justice for flooding US cities with cocaine. Then, in a single social media post last week, Donald Trump set the former Honduran president free. on.ft.com/4oxBJ2v

Mourning continues to be policed in Hong Kong.

China is deploying a large number of naval and coast guard vessels across East Asian waters, at one point more than 100, in the largest maritime show of force to date www.reuters.com/world/china/...

God damn Guomao gridlock. 哎呀！ #China #Beijing

At a time when #France has never had greater need to understand and promote understanding of China, the government has decided not to hold its annual examinations for recruiting Chinese teachers in secondary schools. This on the very day that Macron travels to #China. www.lemonde.fr/campus/artic...

Shenzhen-based Vanke, once the nation’s largest builder by sales, told creditors that it was seeking a one-year delay to pay the 2 billion yuan ($283 million) note originally due on Dec. 15 along with interest, people familiar with the matter said www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

China's factory activity unexpectedly contracted in November, according to a private survey released Monday, as soft domestic demand continues www.cnbc.com/2025/12/01/c...

Now that's what I call DIPLOMACY!.

Rua das Estelgens, Macao’s former “rag trade” street, 1986

#Taiwan’s representative in #Finland has just performed on stage in a bit of metal diplomacy. Apparently his wife was on bass. All other diplomats watch and learn. ;-) m.youtube.com/shorts/rADk5...

At what point should we stop reporting #Trump's claims that there is a "real chance" of a peace plan for #Ukraine working (except in passing)? How many times have we been here? How many times has this come to nothing? Where's the indication that #Putin might stop the invasion?

#USA #Trump… www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime. If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder. It’s that simple.

“Ah, just one more thing, sir. You’re blowing up those boats, saying they’re filled with drugs headed for the US. But then you go and pardon the guy who brought in 400 tons of cocaine. That’s billions of doses. Help me understand that.”

Given that #HongKong's ICAC did nothing to investigate the multiple accusations of police corruption during the city's 2019 upheaval (I can list a some if needed) do people there still trust this institution? Such a fall from grace for a body which started with such international fanfare. #China

TRUMP: If you look at Somalia, they are taking over Minnesota. REPORTER: What do the Somalians have to do with this Afghan guy who shot the National Guard members? TRUMP: Ah, nothing. But Somalians have caused a lot of trouble. They're ripping us off.

Who does #China's government expect will believe this? Chinese travelers should be worried about the danger of assault in, ahem... #Japan??? They want to punish Tokyo by reducing the significant tourism take there from Chinese travelers but this is deliberate deception www.scmp.com/news/china/d...

As a principle, how do members of parliament - who were voted in representing a party platform - think it's ethical/appropriate for them to quit a party & remain in parliament as an "independent"? The electorate didn't vote for an independent. Want out? Leave parliament, then stand as an independent