The best wood, the most beautiful cardboard

Trump railing against signs that were professionally manufactured and given to crowds to hold is hilarious.

#dogs #schnauzer Another fine morning and Otto enjoying the morning sun again. The grass was not damp like it was yesterday so there's time time for a nap before the morning walk.

#dogs #schnauzer Yesterday there was another fine morning and Otto enjoyed the morning sun again. He didn't want to lie down because there had been an overnight storm and the grass was still damp.

#dogs #schnauzer Another fine morning and Otto enjoying the morning sun again. He only suns his belly for a short time just before coming back inside so I had to wait patiently to take this pic.

#dogs #schnauzer Otto enjoying the morning sun again. He goes there every fine morning

#dogs #schnauzer Otto enjoying the morning sun

#nature #birds #cockatoo Cockatoos I saw in the neighbourhood yesterday

Huntsman spider in the bathroom. The bright dot on its head is one of its eyes reflecting my phone's flash #spider #huntsman #Australia #nature

Can you see the huntsman spider? #spider #huntsman #Australia #nature

#nature #flowers #photography I think this Gymea Lily is the tallest one in the park now. They are endemic to the Sydney region and can grow to 6 meters (20 feet) tall

Q: My condolences on the loss of your friend Charlie Kirk. How are you holding up? TRUMP: I think very good. And by the way, right there you see all the trucks. They just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they've been trying to get for about 150 years.

The USA has lots of self taught, half baked, loud mouthed medical experts eager to take their places

#nature #flower This was the tallest gymea lily in the park but now its starting to fall. How fleeting is fame

There is no moral justification for today’s extraordinary concentration of wealth. It is distorting politics, rigging markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of people. Closing our staggering wealth gap is crucial to the survival of our economy and our democracy.

This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Not just an attack on “experts” or science. It’s an attack on facts, knowledge, education or anything that could support someone questioning their iron rule. The bedrock of totalitarian, authoritarian regimes and dictatorships. That’s what RFK Jr is calling for. Only the dictator knows “the truth.”

Pritzker: This is not about fighting crime. This is about the President and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.

BIG DUMB JD VANCE, WHO DEFINITELY FUCKED A COUCH, WANTS US TO BELIEVE THAT WORLD WAR TWO ENDED BECAUSE OF NEGOTIATIONS. HOW FUCKING STUPID IS THAT? FAKE NEWS! THANK YOU JEFF TIEDRICH (ME!) FOR WRITING ABOUT IT — AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO READING MY POST. THE LINK IS HERE: bit.ly/3JRdKws

This too

NASA’s acting chief calls for the end of Earth science at the space agency arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...

The FBI came to my house to intimidate me because I’m critical of Trump. And they wouldn’t let my girlfriend take a picture of their badges. They had printouts of my posts.

The CDC Shooter Was Obsessed With Vaccine Conspiracy Theories. RFK Jr. Was Predictably Slow to Respond. Trump’s health secretary shared photos of himself fishing before he offered any thoughts about the attack.

I have been the subject of many spurious accusations and politically motivated attacks, but this one is in a class by itself. According to Tulsi Gabbard — the nation’s top intelligence official — my refusal to post on Twitter is being reviewed by the Department of Justice as evidence of wrongdoing.

#nature #birds Kookaburra family sitting in a gum tree in my local park. Kookaburras usually lay 3 eggs. The youngest chick is often killed by its siblings. I only see 1 chick here. Maybe food is scarcer this year?

My dog waiting for me outside the French cafe while I get a flat white coffee #dog #schnauzer #cafe

Rollins on farm laborers: "Ultimately we have to move to a 100% American workforce. A lot of this can be solved through automation. We are looking at that very closely. But also ensuring we've got so many job openings in America -- the able-bodied men and women in American who are not working today"

As long as we got the deal with the penguins all will be well.

#nature #flowers #plants The gymea lily It's endemic to coastal areas near Sydney. It has leaves more than 1 metre (3 ft) long and it grows a flower spike up to 6 metres (20 ft) high. The bright red flowers are about 10 centimetres (4 in) across. These are in my local park

#nature #birds It's cold today so no lizards are about so this kookaburra is on the ground looking for bugs

#fungifriends I saw these while walking the dog in the neighbourhood

The Trump coalition. They all share one goal: to end one-person one-vote democracy. To do that, they first want to disempower the federal judiciary and eliminate the expectation of “due process" to making voting difficult and stay in power forever. #auspol #Trump #USpol ...

REPORTER: Amazon will soon display a number next to the price of each product that shows how much the Trump tariffs are adding. Isn't that a perfect demonstration that it's the American consumer who is paying for these policies? LEAVITT: This is a hostile and political act by Amazon.

Turns out that offering the president's wife $28 million for a documentary gig still doesn't spare you from his retributive wrath.

The NY Times publishes an editorial "Fight Like Our Democracy Depends on It" and then includes this nonsense.

I feel like I need to post this every day now

#fungi #fungifriends Little toadstools pushing through the grass. Their time in the sunlight has come.

Another understated bird, the male Black-crested Coquette hummingbird at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica #birds #nature #hummingbirds 🌿

I really hate this take. You have no idea why people didn't vote. We live in a country with systemic voter suppression. Election Day isn't a national holiday in the US and there's a host of mechanisms set up to encourage people in many states not to vote.

We watched people standing in line for 8-10 hours to vote in Georgia, so they made it illegal to give them water. They called in bomb threats to majority Black polling places. They did everything they could to suppress the vote. And then folks are out here like, "well Georgia voted for this lol"

Is this some sort of pretend conflict so Mr Dutton can give the appearance of not being a servant of billionaires? I note reported in the article that Ms Reinhart is going to continue to support the Liberal Party.

Yessssss.

#dogs #cats My dog didnt even notice this cat when we walked by on our walk. He was busy sniffing the ground.

Elon Musk slams Social Security as “the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time.” Donald Trump calls Social Security a “scam.” Howard Lutnick — Trump’s arrogant, billionaire Secretary of Commerce — calls seniors who depend on Social Security “fraudsters.” "Let's say Social Security didn't send out..

“Those nasty Canadians are ripping us off and are controlled by Mexican cartels. They’re poisoning us with fentanyl and need to become the 51st state or they will pay a high price” is a belief that literally ZERO Americans had six weeks ago. It’s entirely invented from scratch.