Portrait of a young Brown Cuckoo-dove. #birds

JB is in fine form today…

This is hilarious!! 🤣 🤣

Michelle Grattan never fails to disappoint in @aunz.theconversation.com. Labor has an enormous House majority, the opposition is a rabble, and the only support they need in the Senate is the reform-minded Greens. It's basically never been easier to make significant reforms. THEY SIMPLY DON'T WANT TO

If The Future Fund’s "responsible investment policy" enables investment in genocide-enabling companies like Palantir and Elbit Systems, the policy - to put it mildly - needs review. Great work from Cam Wilson. #auspol

Just when you think Linda Reynolds can't stoop any lower... #auspol

Almost all salmon in Australia is from Tasmania, and the industry there is essentially unregulated - and dangerously unhealthy. Do not eat it.

hi everyone this is your regular reminder that @lyrebirddream.bsky.social is this guy: newmatilda.com/2020/06/28/a...

Nigel Farage attended Davos on a pass sponsored by the family office of Iranian billionaire Sasan Ghandehari, which told the World Economic Forum that the Reform UK leader had advised the company since 2018. ft.trib.al/V138xDu

Preparing to give away their trophies to the US President.

Excellent point. They are still here, and just because the US government is not funding them does not mean we can't. There are millions of BlueSky members. If those who can donate did so, that could amount to more than the US is cutting. www.who.foundation/about-us

The regime has terminated its partnership with the WHO but sane people don’t have to. The WHO isn’t going anywhere. In fact, it’s right here on BlueSky.

Happy Birthday Larry! 🥳 🎉🎂🎁❤️ This week, Larry the Cat from Downing Street in the UK turns 19 years old. That's >90 yrs old in comparative human years. #cat #celeb #larrythecat #uk

Well done Japan

There was a fair bit of gnashing of teeth about the IMF "calling out" Australia. It did no such thing. My column for #ThePoint thepoint.com.au/news/260122-...

There’s valuable information recorded in Chinese on Tasmania’s old Chinese headstones that is gradually disappearing, like on Claude Nam Shing’s headstone in Cornelian Bay Cemetery. I’ve worked out some of the characters, but not all of them. Any thoughts, clever people? 🗃️ #EverdayHeritage

“You can lead The Liberals to water, but you can’t make The Nationals think” Traditional Australian saying

A very good column: Allied nations are openly reassessing their global relationships with China and Russia in light of the US’ increasing unpredictability. Australia? Not so much. www.crikey.com.au/2026/01/21/a...

If it weren’t so irritating it’d be funny… At what point do the various nations remind Ametican’White House officials’ just how much of their soaring national al debt is held in European hands? Honestly… Trillions added to that debt since the Orange Codswalloper return to the Oval Office Tosspots!!

"This wasn't my plan for the bill, but it has been magical to watch" - Albanese chaser.com.au/national/con...

So think about these two facts: 1.The US imported almost $6B worth Danish pharmaceuticals in 2023: mostly Novo Nordisk's Ozempic & Wegovy diabetes/weight loss. $1B of that $6B was insulin: 75%of total US consumption. Do we all get why the Danish PM said in Davos "everything is on the table now"?

Pick up the nearest book. Open to page 42 and post your second sentence. Add #page42 and include this rule as a reply. "As we glided quietly out of the channel, I saw several carefully placed wooden boxes dotting the headland”

They just love a defamation case these geese 😂🙄😂

I needed the again

Imagine you were about to appear at a writers' festival to talk about your first book... then the whole thing fell apart. I wanted to find debut authors who almost talked at Adelaide Writers' Week. These are 21 folks I've identified so far but *please* let me know who I've missed or mixed up.

My latest article in @theshot.net.au on the dark days of McCarthyism coming to Australia to eclipse our cultural landscape under the guise of eradicating communism - whoops sorry - antisemitism The Adelaide Festival, the arts and the dark arts #allfeedbackwelcome 🙏🏽 theshot.net.au/uncategorize...

Today we will see the clamouring of politicians, all desperate to appease the lobbyists of a foreign govt, blaming the “cultural left” for the human toll of hatred. So I’m posting this to demonstrate what an Australian leader looks like (cc @albomp.bsky.social - watch & learn) #auspol

I want to see someone give him a stick of Nobel's original invention as a prize

I’ve been seeing the global rise of fascist movements for fifteen or twenty years. Any comments I’ve made have been laughed at. The western world is populated mostly by people who have only lived in liberal societies. They have no idea how fragile that is.

I had a great time playing this. I'm in the trumpet section. I hope you enjoy watching it. If you do please share it youtu.be/rdcGEBk9egA?...

We don't hate Jews or Judaism, Greg. We hate genocide. We hate apartheid. We hate ethnic cleansing. We hate racism. We hate war. We hate terrorism. We hate settler-colonialism. We hate all these things that Israel was and is guilty of yesterday, today and tomorrow. We want Israel to stop.

“The water is the scariest part. They’re asking for 2.5 million gallons per day." www.404media.co/project-mata...

Was going to launch this at Adelaide - but will now be Canberra in March. I suck at promotion, but it’s open for pre order at wherever you get your books (and you can ask your library for it too) 🩷

Seconded

#Epstein #EpsteinFiles

He’s not wrong

Seconded!

I only have a flat with a shaded balcony, so there’s lots of moving plants around to get sun, or warmth or whatever at the right time of year. We chat as we go

It's very sad - & I think avoidable in theory. There doesn't seem to be an aerial response to that new fire in the sth (ground crews responding); and the Wyperfeld fire which started at Boinka yesterday only got little air tractors to help ground crews. Too little too late. Fires build & get away.

All the creatures…. Again

Ummmmm…

The Guardian doing inexplicable voluntary free public relations work for a corporation profiting from sexual abuse by headlining this as the image gen being "turned off". It isn't off: they've just monetised it. What the fuck are we doing here people, come on. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Zero sympathy for the Australian Jewish Association In 2018, they invited Lauren 'The Great Replacement' Southern & her Nazi security detail to tour Bondi & Caulfield. Her rhetoric helped inspire the Christchurch massacre. They need a history lesson. Nazis are bad, mmmkay?

Hey @sandyhorne.bsky.social & @callissclan.bsky.social ‘someone’ received two very early (or late) birthday presents Might have to a) get to the Coorong for a bird watch & b) do some cooking… Anything you’d recommend Sandy & Jo? Take note of the card ‘La resistance’

Most people probably don't have any context for understanding how gooseshit crazy this post is, but imagine 57 giraffes high on PCP 69ing on a pleasure cruise off Staten Island during a battle of the bands featuring six mariachi troupes playing simultaneously and you have an idea