My area has been subjected to major waste water infrastructure upgrades for the tunneling project. Some fuckery has led to the water being switched off for the entire street at least, with "cartons of water being dropped off if it's not on by 6am" We're in the middle of a heatwave

you’re all making jokes but the reason Greg Bovino was removed from duty is a safety issue we all need to take seriously

speaking of UNHR High Commissioner findings on mass incarceration of First Nations peoples on their own Country, a quote from federal Liberal Party politician Andrew Bragg on RN this morning: “there is only one group of Australians who are living in cages effectively and that is Australian Jews.”

Wil Wheaton is a disingenuous shitlib!? WELL I NEVER

It is absolutely wild how many people are using GLP-1 agonists that they've purchased online from grey/black markets. Really not something anyone should be fucking around without regular bloods and some personalised medical advice from a doctor.

according to bluesky, working for ice is a protected class against discrimination lol

Gentle reminder that occasionally it’s beneficial to put down your phone, go outside, and judge and criticize people in person.

This graze is almost as painful as the time my shins got turned into crackling under the sun. Constantly stretching and ripping scabs anytime I use my feet or legs. Horrid place for an injury.

Be a real shame if one of the many journalists who follows me wrote this up and it went super viral and people followed him around throwing National Geographics at his head

this is a fake problem. no one is saying this to regular, offline people who are coming around. they’re saying it to people who are engaged in professional political analysis who committed professional malpractice by scolding people who saw what was coming. no, those people shouldn’t get a break.

43°C at 7pm, overnight low of 31° and I am forever grateful for the wheezing, rattling Kelvinator window box making one room of the house bearable.

Look at this weird little...stick insect? Hops like a cricket.

If you will not be humbled then you will be humiliated :)

Taking apart a ratty old wooden patio, and a beam fell and scraped the front of my shin...which is now a hideous lump covered with a graze and it's giving me the body horror.

there will be a sea change, in the way americans approach politics, when they pick up on the notion that in Minneapolis, *ordinary people* are deciding the work of preserving society, they are building the institutions, they are directing the resources and their *own* labor. this is lawful rebellion

via 'Cities by Diana' on Facebook

Quality performance art. Easy to parse, thematically relevant, kinda gross. Love it.

After the Dial-A-Curry hazardous-district-declared fire on Sunday we now have the St Basils inferno. Croydon Park not having a good week.

finally got my home VPN working again, through the magical process of deleting everything, reverting to default settings and re-setting it up. No need to bother with Jellyfin remote access now.... or even Jellyfin, since I can use Plex 'locally' wherever I am now.

On the flipside they are restricted in what emergency surgery they can perform on him if he's on blood thinners for blood pressure

If every Democrat voted NO on funding ICE, it would not have passed the House. But, 7 House Democrats voted to fund Trump's lawless, masked goons, so it passed. Hakeem Jeffries refused to whip his members to vote against ICE funding. Genuinely unforgivable.

the Bulgaria instagram account just posts deranged shit

beginning to suspect Google's AI summary search result/s are a ploy to get everyone to use, and log into Chrome, to get rid of it

"progressive" in politics in usually just a euphemism for "polite"

I think about this almost every day

Rewatching The OA, a show I remember enjoying as much as I remember it...not being great for my mental health? but in a kind of helpful way

I know we're all seeing 87 unhinged things per day, but "guys if our multi billion dollar product doesn't start being useful for something, literally anything, the people might not appreciate us wrecking the planet over it anymore" is a truly bananapants thing to say out loud

I guess I do think if you participated in the arrest of a five-year-old you are probably just fundamentally incompatible with society. That you are not a safe person for humanity to be around, generally

I keep thinking about the number of people that have to be involved to kidnap a small child, transport him to one facility or another, then an airport, then a plane, then another facility. Did no one on that chain stop and say hey what the fuck?

The banter on Bluesky today

Tyler O'Ryan Gramlin, 32, of Borden, IN is a Border Patrol Agent who has traveled from state to state committing extreme violence. On Jan 21, 2026 Gramlin emptied a can of pepper spray directly in the face of a prone protester at point-blank range in Minneapolis #MPLS #OneOfOursAllOfYours #UnmaskICE

that woman smiling so serenely in her wheelchair, those white faces holding up those placards... contemporary Nazi rally imagery

People can say they didn’t vote for this but people are liars

Kinda tired of seeing smoking (harmful) and nicotine consumption (not harmful) conflated. Tobacco control enthusiasts don't want to lose their sweet pile of cash though and have pivoted accordingly

looking through old memes

In the space of two minutes he confused Greenland and Iceland four times by my count. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Talking up a fear of the Chinese, while handing them an ideal scenario: Europe and the US at war. It seems so unlikely because this is very very stupid, but they're dead serious

I have sapped the garbage ep of its magical going-to-sleep powers. V sad, thankfully I can fall back on the classics

Yes

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

I suspect that "it's got Palestine" is something we're going to a hear a lot more of in future. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Remembering visionary Maestro DAVID LYNCH on what would have been his 80th birthday. We miss you so much, David. 🖤🖤🖤

weird how the solution to unregulated industries is to regulate people instead

You cannot overstate how startling it is to see a politician just say the thing with clarity and poise. No fearful hemming. No overwrought qualifying down til it’s meaningless. No lingering sense that there is a loyalty to a donor class or an ideology of stasis that they’d never admit to.

Getting buzzed at least once a day by one of these guys, they're slow and noisy at least so can suppress the swatting impulse

So I just found out that someone made a claymore into a plush toy. It is a cute little thing

Jess's response: Schrodinger's President!