Every Summer I’m reminded that had we voted Bill Shorten in as PM instead of the clown we got we would have a fleet of water bombers by now.

We were going for a high of 39⁰ tomorrow. Updated to 43⁰ . I can't move my appointment again! 🫣🥵

#WQuers I double-checked tonight! Thirdle # 1373 2/6 💃💃

What does this tell you? Trump calls for US military spending to rise more than 50% to $1.5tn

How to fold those darn fitted sheets. I'll just have the guy. 😅 My daughter sent me this, btw, I wasn't hunting! 😅

OK, I'm supposed to look younger within 4 weeks. We'll see what happens!

Stay safe. IIRC, the BOM mentioned before Christmas that we're experiencing a Sudden Stratospheric Warming event. Cool, wet spring in the SE followed by hit dry conditions. Last time this happened was 2019, and we had catastrophic bushfires across Gippsland. It might shape up that way again. 😬

Smart Traveller should have the USA listed as DO NOT TRAVEL! We need to #BoycottUSA

Him and his entire WH team of criminals all need to go to jail. He doesn’t deserve the money he’s stolen and his coward family also need jailing and all proceeds removed.

He did say several times in 2024 that if you voted for him it would be ‘the last time you have to vote’ but everyone thought it was just him rambling on. He warned everyone!

AOC: This has now become what we feared most about ICE for a long time—that it would be used as an anti-civilian force with no accountability. At the end of the day, what we saw today was a murder, and murders in cold blood need to be prosecuted.

This just keeps happening. Maybe, just maybe, they should try something new “A 49-year-old man has been shot and killed by police on the New South Wales Central Coast after a welfare check turned into a protracted standoff on Wednesday evening” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Please let there be justice for Renee Nicole Good. prospect.org/2026/01/07/i...

Why is the media staying silent about more than a thousand rank-and-file Labor members calling on the govt to rescind its invitation to Israeli Pres Herzog? Is it bcoz they’re too busy making noise about a small group of former Labor MPs calling for a Royal Commission? #auspol

BBC is reporting that the same ICE officer who murdered Renee Good was involved in another violent incident in June.

Fox Producer: Jesse Watters would like to invite you on his show AOC: He has sexualized and harassed me on his show. FP: That’s not true AOC: He accused me of wanting to sleep with Stephen Miller. So why don’t you tell me what you think is acceptable to tell a woman.

This is Renee Good. She was a mother of a six-year-old child. She was an American citizen. She described herself as a “poet and writer and wife and mom and shitty guitar strummer from Colorado.” And she was gunned down in cold blood and broad daylight by Trump’s ICE agents.

New: Grok is generating far more graphic sexual content than on X. Grok’s image generator, Imagine, has been used to create explicit sexual videos of celebrities and violent sexual videos, a review of public posts shows. 70 Imagine URLs appearing to depict minors were sent to regulators today

Heartbreaking

Our temp has, it seems already peaked. A bit strange, we've dropped from 30.9⁰ to 23.9⁰ in the last 90 minutes.

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OK, that's all the news I can deal with today. If WWIII breaks out before bedtime, someone DM me.

WTF???? Trump muses about canceling the 2026 midterm elections, before saying he won’t

‘The most dangerous day’: bushfires break out in Victoria as BoM warns of catastrophic conditions to come

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Greenland in response to Trump wanting to buy Greenland (see post 2). This is getting worse by the hour. We are not for sale': Greenlanders express fear and indignation as Trump eyes territory

The mayor says the Trump administration's claim the incident was self-defence is not true, and told Immigration and Customs Enforcement to "get the f*** out of Minneapolis".

The first major heatwave of the year enters its second day with temperatures up to 47 degrees Celsius forecast in northern parts of South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales without real reprieve in sight until the weekend.

Devastated to see some huge old bunyas with phytophera along the D’Aguilar Highway a few days ago - between Moore and Yarraman.

It was, not least for the 173 deaths and over 400 injuries. Then we had. Royal Commission, and many of the recommendations were ignored, and then in 2019 it happened again. Now that we're experiencing similar weather conditions again this year, expect more as summer proceeds. 😬🥵🥺🔥

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#WQuers Has a GREAT night's sleep! So I'm a little late today! Thursday - another warm day ahead, 32⁰ C. Wordle 1,664 4/6* ⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜ Hmmm, hello Elvis. ⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟨🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⛳️ squareword.org 1438: 7 guesses Phew! Was a bit scated after yesterday! 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟨🟨🟩🟩🟨 <6:🟩 <11:🟨 #squareword

#WQuers I had it in 2, changed a letter at the last minute which was stupid as it was a letter I had to include! Can anything else go wrong today? 😳🥴 Thirdle # 1372 3/6

This is so sweet! 🥰🥰 Students help teacher pop the question at remote WA school

Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban are officially divorced

People living near Bungil, Granya and Thologolong are being told to leave immediately, as a nearby bushfire burns out of control

It’s amazing, even the kids eat it www.recipetineats.com/broccoli-sal...

Is it too early to call it a #ClimateCrisis yet?

Never going to happen here as long as the ALP and LNP are both suckling at the fossil fuel donation (aka bribe) teat.

Political vendetta! 🤬🤬 Feds freeze $10 billion in social services funding to blue states The states expected to be impacted are Minnesota, New York, California, Illinois and Colorado, a federal health official confirmed to MS NOW on Tuesday.

Why not? More returning women to barefoot & pregnant in the kitchen by the USA. 🤬 Can absolutely guarantee I could out-shoot Hegseth if we were both in our 20s. (My eyesight now, at 70, would inhibit me). DO NOT MARRY USA MEN! Pentagon reportedly to reassess allowing women in combat roles

Sharing this here too as EPs can be beneficial to a range of people. #health

So many of us are yearning for strong, decent, uncompromising leadership. I know you’re out there. Hurry up 🙌🙌 #auspol

WTF? Was it oil or dance moves? 🤔 Watch: Trump says Maduro copied his dancing. Did he? In a speech to Republican members of Congress at the Kennedy Center, Trump claimed that former Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro imitated his dance moves.

US discussing options to acquire Greenland, including use of military, White House says It came as European allies rallied behind Denmark after renewed US insistence it must have Greenland. 1 hr ago US & Canada

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Rising tree death rates in all types of Australian forest tied to climate change #climatechange #environment People do realise we actually need trees, right?

After Venezuela, Donald Trump's other threats ring alarms around the world Named by Trump: Greenland Iran Mexico Colombia

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So today my area has both a Heatwave warning AND a Fire Weather warning and I'm in a Melbourne suburb! It is already 30⁰ C at 9 am!