"You can say all that you want about being tough on crime and putting victims first, but if it doesn’t come with CCTV footage for the news, then it’s clearly not a government priority." The Crisafulli government has no intention of addressing DV. #qldpol www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Yep. Mass Media/Entertainment 101. Commercial organisations exist to a) return dividends to shareholders, and 2) deliver eyeballs and customers to advertisers. #priorities A cold call surveyer ☎️ once asked me about an affiliate of a national TV network: did I think they 'cared for the community'?

Donald Trump is such a small-minded, self-absorbed sociopath he will literally *kill* people in states that hurt his needy feeling by not voting for him.

Wandering, blundering, blathering back from the pub at 02:34am AEST on Tuesday 21 July 2026. Mum used to ask me when I was a youngling, "Billy, what would make you the happiest little boy in Blackett Street?" I can tell you what made me the happiest litte boy on Stanley Street. People. 🙏🤲💋

My dream is to meet such a woman. "Is your grandmother seeing anyone?" My standard dad joke when talking with younglings. Then two nights ago, talking with two young musos, one asked me if I was single. Er, yeah. Why? "Because my grandmother is... What's so funny?" 👵🧓♥️💝💞

He’s been getting quite heavily into mindfulness lately. It’s not that I have a problem with it. I just wish he would stop banging on about it all the time

Had to flip my hotel room bin around the other way because the right is garbage.

I've been trying this for 3 years, he did it in 3 seconds 😅 #Cat #Caturday #Catsofbluesky #LifuX

Been talking and writing a bit lately about truth and lies and the shades between, but this via @anxovert.bsky.social is much more succinct and is close to my own approach. Which is in part two because BSky sometimes has weird character counts.

A metaphor for my life right now. 18:53h AWST (10:53h UK) Thursday 16 July 2026. Just heard on SBS World News Keir Starmer is stading down as England prime minister. Wow. Who knew? Last time I had anything that looked like a home was April 2014, Sydney. I was a 24hr news cycle junkie. No more.

To use a phrase of my people, Yeah nah. Or Yes Nope. Me: political animal. Horrified by Trumpistan. Don't do hate much but do hate tRump Xxxxxx Family and GOP. Addicted to ⚽ so allowed myself to watch #FIFAWorldCuo if I match with activism/slacktivism. I engage with RWFWs. Some baiting but also:

P.S. Much as I maintain multiple online accounts for networking reasons, my preference: 3D. 6.41am here and I've already interacted with five or six champion people, none of whom I've known more than 48hrs. I might keep count today. Let's call it five. Your time starts... About an hour ago. 🕠⌛⏳⏲️

As a sufferer and recently diagnosed with multiple post-traumatic stressors, I have a lot of empathy with anyone suffering from many things. I'm grateful the depression and related genes skipped over me, while mourning my late father and having care/concern for the next generation(s). BUT... Pt 1/2

Must be some sort of record: 22:02h AEST (8.02pm where I am) Wed 15 July and I'm only just into the second half of #FRAESP in #CoupeDuMondeLaFIFA - #NoSpoilers. At final whistle it'll be Étage 11 of #letour #tourdefrance2026 #sbstdf Many viewers blow up deluxe over ads. Me? I only abhor a few.

People Are People by Dépeche Mode What's The Matter? by Catie Curtis You Woke Up My Neighbourhood by Billy Bragg Maggie May by Bush Gothic Our Lips Are Sealed by The Go Gos Foundations by Kate Nash A New England by Kirsty MacColl (w. Billy Bragg) Pt I of III Via @astrokittycat.bsky.social

@dirtyboy69.bsky.social @sickosfc.bsky.social #CoupeDuMondeLaFIFA #WC2026 #Norway #Norge #Noreg #RandySkandis with their 'stuffed raccoons' the dirty, dirty, dirty boys. 😉 True story: met an old bloke in the club last night. Thought he was Norwegian but his sentence wasn't finnish. He was. 😁

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Devon: in my country - my home parts of it - your name means cheap, processed, pretend meat. Full of fat, salt, bad for the heart and constitution. Mate, if I don't understand something, I ask open questions, listen to answers OR

I *may* have read a more beautifully-constructed, eloquent, heartfelt, passionate, exquisitely-crafted, and (ironically given its multi-parts but yea and verily) succinct summary of pride vs critical assessment meets hope and aspirations for possible futures... BUT None spring to mind. 🥇🙏🏆🦘💫💯 👉JG

Not all heroes wear capes. Some wear man buns. Some beat drums, blow horns, row boats. #ArsenalFC supporter since May 1978, me. I used words when Haaland was on my TV I wouldn't repeat here. But from first #WC2026 #Norway goal, I've revelled in #Norge #Noreg successes, Haaland in particular. ❤️🤍💙

"If at first you don't succeed, style it out and sashay away." #CatSky #CatsOfBSky

Not all heroes wear capes. Some wear LBDs. #Booksky #AmReading

Michael Fanone's take on Lindsey Graham is one of the most powerful I've read:

It's like we have been sent an appetizer because the main course is taking too long.

The night I got kicked out of a social group, I made two points I firmly believe. 1. You *can* speak ill of the dead. Lindsey Graham was a dick. A limp, ineffective dick. 2. If someone offers to shake your hand, you can refuse. If this guy tried, I'd say there's not enough soap in this country.

P.S. @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social At end of #SUICOL I'll restart my heart, rewire this hotel room bc the TV keeps freezing and I have two going with a 10sec delay which is hilarious/useful: Gunner ring, make 2026/2027 donation then put some care packs in a car to @asrc1.bsky.social Footerscray.

Been distracted the last 48min #SUICOL. 48mths - 2022. Years. 48yrs ago? 11yo. Yikes! 1977/1978. Mon 24 Oct. 1977. Not the first time I nearly died. A #RangeRover rego'd in #NorthernTerritory smashed into my right hip at pace. Air-mailled me 30ft from 55 Antil St to behind #DicksonLibrary #ACT.

Hands up if you screamed at the screen: "DON'T TAKE YOUR FVCKING SHIRT OFF, YOU BELLEND! DID YOU LEARN NOTHING FROM HAALAND'S SECOND GOAL YESTERDAY?" The moment he did that and it was clear a review... Now, see that second one now in? What if he lost his head and took the shirt off again? #ARGEGY

The guitar tornado at the Pop Museum in Seattle.

If you say 'sport sucks', 'football sucks' or 'I hate either/both/all' then the following apply: a) you're at best a sociopath with no empathy for others b) you are an absolutist with no appreciation of nuance c) you'd rather feel smug about your prédilections than appreciate différences. FukU!

@kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social + @asrc1.bsky.social you hopefully know by now how dear to my heart you all are and how much the work you do gives me hope, joy, and the strength to switch on the news when there are so many reasons to disappear into the yarts and pretend the world stopped turning. So:

Thanks @clove59.bsky.social for being my 500th follower (and will remain so even if I go +/- a few in the next hours). A few months ago, I had a couple hundred. Me no panic. Am fascinated by numbers, but #follower totals <> a target 🙅‍♂️🙅‍♀️🙅🎯. Reach/engagement: ✅️🥅 And @bsky.app doesn't do insights. 🎆🎊

Agree 99.9% except: Exes* not what you wrote. Ex's = belongs to the ex OR 'ex is' e.g. My ex's a dickhead with a small, ineffective micro-penis. 😉

Just while I'm waiting (and very glad noone has responded because it means more people are watching than tweeting/posting), here's another fusion combination of embuggerances I am now #blocking NOT merely #muting. @seidler.bsky.social - it's over. It's over. #Passé #Past #Annoying #Repetitive 🤕🤢🤮

Does anybody know? Can anyone please tell me for sure? Who is the host broadcaster for telhe #worldfeed of #FIFAWorldCup? #MEXENG: The World Feed: the two UK commentators who are currently calling the game. I would like to know if you can tell me. If you Google/Web search it, I *will* #block you.

^ Ts&Cs apply. 3yo: free 4-12yo, 13-17yo: free avail. but parents chose to send private at cost 12-13yo: free UK Grammar/Comprehensive ♥︎ 17-18yo: free plus I rec'd $100/mth TEAS from fed govt 26-31yo: free + tax 31-32yo: HECS paid by work + paid leave + costs paid (books etc.) #BRANOR #education

^ Ts&Cs apply. 3yo: free 4-12yo, 13-17yo: free avail. but parents chose to send private at cost 12-13yo: free UK Grammar/Comprehensive ♥︎ 17-18yo: free plus I rec'd $100/mth TEAS from fed govt 26-31yo: free + tax 31-32yo: HECS paid by work + paid leave + costs paid (books etc.) #BRANOR #education

Yep. Also the sound of #Australians* escaping #winter (southern hemisphere). Me #Ngunnawal #Ngambri more specifically #Kamberri**. On #radio*** I've said this often: U R on ArtSound FM 92.7, 90.3 in Tuggeranong Valley. It's -8⁰C🥶 or 18⁰F❄️ now. My education free^ til 32yo+. #BRANOR #FIFAWorldCup

Yep. For my sins and in context, after months on end eating the same bland stuff every day, losing 45kgs in no time... These last few days I've had chocolate biscuits, some marshmallows, even some bread, a bit of rice and pasta and oh and quite a few ice creams. Put a few kgs back on. Meh. 🤷‍♂️

This is *THE* first vision of any sort I've seen of 'Murica's 4th of July. Thanks, Trump. This is your legacy. This is just a teaspoon of sugar of what you've provided the world with. You suck balls, Mr President. You're a dick of the highest order.

My name is Bill Quinn and I endorse this message.

⚠️ Adult content ⚠️ Holy snaffing 🦆💩. What a life and year. I hope I make it to 60! 😁😉😊 Friends and associates, it's been a long year/decade/lifetime. Yet the older I get, the more things are sent to try me (and FMS they've been sent today) the more I spin faster and get ahead of the breaker. 🌊🏄‍♂️

Probably not. I don't believe a result of Terra Australis v Kemet impacted the outcome of a game 24hrs l8r between a one-time planned secessionist enclave from Australia in South America vs the centre of a one-time world empire that sadly less intelligent Swoops equate with cheese/monkeys. BUT...

P.S. For the information of any #introverts reading this: Those question marks are what we #extroverts* (* Ts&Çs apply) use when we ask #openquestions seeking #answers. So those were questions because I would like to know the answers, and if you reply, "I don't understand," I will block you! 😁 GQ

Empire collapse under the weight of metaphors.

G'day @sandiablanca.bsky.social. Fave bio I've read in ages, though I may've conflated 'United'/'Uniting'. Read 'Methodist' thinking 'Baptist'. www.overheardproductions.com/2020/07/08/peter-pilt-foodbank-nt/ *may* explain my confusion. #BlueWave #PurpleHaze #GreenHair @pukupuss.bsky.social #IYKYK

P.S. For the information of any #introverts reading this: Those question marks are what we #extroverts* (* Ts&Çs apply) use when we ask #openquestions seeking #answers. So those were questions because I would like to know the answers, and if you reply, "I don't understand," I will block you! 😁 GQ

Is anybody else's vision of #PARFRA #FIFAWorldCup #WC2026 #WK2026 a bit #jerky? #Jumpy? A bit #stopstart? A bit @jgeilsband? #FreezeFrame? Or is it just my terrestrial #FTA #TV coverage on @sbstv #SBSAustralia on Ch. 30 #SBS #HD in #Naarm or #WurundjeriCountry #KulinNation? #VICAusTA? 10QIA WFJQ

I really want to see some international football later this year, but this sort of carry-on is what would make me think twice about attending. I'm too much of a #SeeSomethingSaySomething person; I'd get my head punched in by football fan(atic)s. It's why I'm not living (and dying) in USA now.

"Alex, I'll take 'Things that Hitler also said' for $100."

Bridie + Keano must have a private dare to see who can squeeze in most misuses of the words 'perfect', 'absolutely', and 'obvious/ly'. It's the only explanation possible. See what I did there, introverts? Included some bullshit #absolutism of my own. 😇👼🤷🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️ If you can't beat 'em... #couchpeloton