Traffic on the run up to Blue Mountains from Sydney is chronic - monwdmwt road deaths remain a problem

So I scored a free bench mixer on Facebook Marketplace - slight electrical fault but I’ll fix it up.

In 2024 you all combined to write and complain about the NACC's Robodebt non-investigation Over 1000 people complained It's time to make yourself heard again Take 30 secs or 30 mins to write to the Adelaide Festival board about their actions Voice your complaint Be heard Share this far & wide

Australia's internet safety regulator has stepped up its pressure on Elon Musk's X amid its AI deepfakes scandal, demanding it explain how it's complying with legal requirements to detect and prevent CSEM. thesizzle.com.au/p/e...

Slightly diminish a band name: The Stumble

Day 43 of posting this until there is justice for brothers Fadi and Jumaa Abu Asi who were murdered by the IDF ‼️

I’m curious. Did the board members resign in disgrace or digust? Or were they only in it for the profile and free tickets; leaving now that it seems like the drinks and CV building wasn’t worth the bad PR? www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

Key party, Julia Ck. #auspol

Defence minister says Somalia has ‘confirmed information’ that Israel plans to forcibly move Palestinians to Somaliland.

The Adelaide Writers Festival has shown the support the Israel Regime’s lobbyists and Jillian Segal’s Rules of behaviour, speech are attracting. The Streisand Effect in full flight. Punishing universities etc for not toeing Jillian Segal’s Rules will be very interesting indeed.

Prisons are full of men who justify murdering women who anger or insult them with "she deserved it" or "she had it coming". Let's put one more in prison -- namely Trump MAGA ICE thug, Jonathan Ross.

Andrew Golobic, 53, an ICE supervisor from Cincinnati, OH, was sentenced in March 2025 to 12 years in prison for sexually abusing and coercing female victims under his supervision in the Blue Ash ICE office's "alternatives to detention" program.

A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter. I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.

So I guess Epstein is now taking a back seat to Greenland. OK.

Could Morrissey about to release a good album? Make-Up is a Lie seems to be a great little song. (Also, it’s true: a sweet lie).

The rate of global mean sea level rise has increased from ~2.1 mm/year in 1993 to ~4.5 mm/year in 2023. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Child circumcision should be outlawed. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Just watching Anthony Bourdain re-runs and he was quite the talent… RIP

Tequila!

So the 2026 Audi #F1 looks and sounds better than the 2025 SUVs…

Joyce Division

Israel is quietly erasing Palestinian refugee camps from existence in the West Bank mondoweiss.net/2026/01/isra...

Preventing the sharing of sexualised images of children is “censorship” according to Elon Musk. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

israel has breached the ceasefire agreement in Gaza over 1190 times since it came into force on October 10, killing 484 civilians and blocking much-needed aid from entering the enclave. Do not let anyone tell you that it was about the hostages. Or that Hamas breaches ceasefires. That's all lies!

A question for fearless journos out there to put to Australia's political leaders. Why do we have > $300 billion to attempt to buy submarines but not enough $ to pay more fire fighters & support staff & to buy more urgently needed firefighting equipment, so we have sufficient resources when needed?!

Trump has gone batshit crazy, threatening Greenland and Iran at meeting with oil bosses.

Annabelle Crabb still appearing at the writers fest for her ‘cooking with Netanyahu’ special

America got what it voted for.

Whitlam (Labor), Fraser (Liberal) & Hawke (Labor) AUS Govts actively opposed apartheid in South Africa thru sanctions, and sporting & investment boycotts. 2026: Under the Albanese (Labor) Govt, Australia is selling arms to the apartheid Zionist Israel, profitieering from a genocide! Shame. #auspol

From ABC News. He's "very surprised" at the pushback. Probably not used to it.

When is ICE being issued smart black uniforms?

ICE killed a Black man, Keith Porter, 7 days before Renee Good, and I hadn't heard about it until today. His vigils went unnoticed. His life came and gone and America forgot to blink. Two Americas.

Oh boy… www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Let's be clear: it takes a village to protect & enable sexual abusers & anyone who continues to have an active account on X - including elected officials, journalists & government agencies - are now part of that village

Bendigo Writers Festival, Meanjin, now Adelaide Writers … powerful vested interests would rather destroy the cultural institutions they are supposedly responsible for than allow certain voices to be heard

David Littleproud warns against urgent gun reform, saying if bad people can’t attack others with guns because it’s illegal, they’ll just attack with cars or bombs instead… which is also illegal 🤦‍♂️

2026 is going to be a wacky year.

So that’s done #TheAshes I’ve watched every match and I’m starting to like this game of test cricket

Randa Abdel-Fattah uninvited from Adelaide Writers’ Week, because of Bondi, even though they "do not suggest in any way that Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah’s or her writings have any connection with the tragedy at Bondi." She just can't come anymore. Because Bondi. www.adelaidefestival.com.au/news/2025/ad...

Drummoyne: HAZARD Car on fire. Roads affected: Victoria Road just past Lyons Road. Affected directions: City bound

I swear the English have given away three wicket chances this innings alone #TheAshes

Seems like the English team has woken up #TheAshes

Stokes covering his face and shaking his head says it all really #TheAshes

You’d have to say that this English criket team doesn’t do anything exceptionally well. #TheAshes

I must say that ball looked like it deflected at the point where it passed the bat. Inwiuld have given out. #TheAshes

Bethel will be very happy with this innings. #TheAshes

Australian manufacturing is barely above 5% of GDP (US=10%). Our economic complexity ranking has fallen to 105th place (US=15th). Yet Australian taxpayers are funding US domestic manufacturing recruiting, training and equipment procurement. 🤦‍♂️ #fail #AUKUS #FOI #auspol

NSW Police have shot and killed a 49yo man during a welfare check who has been reported to have been self-harming with a screwdriver.

I wrote this in April 2024, about why people were refusing to leave X as it became undeniably a pro-white-supremacist site But holy hell could I not have predicted that by 2026, it would be a child abuse material production site and THAT TOO is not enough to get people to leave the fucking place

Day 5 in Sydney is going to be played like a T20 game #TheAshes