This new Stargate series looks odd.

A female Green Jumping Spider (Mopsus mormon) having breakfast on a galangal leaf. Probably adds a little frisson to the taste. #bugsky #cairns spotted while watering.

Not the earworm I was expecting today www.reddit.com/r/CringeTikT...

Hey music cataloguers, do you have any thoughts what genres like post-punk, post-rock and post-metal will be named after a suitable amount of evolution?

“The only way to stop drug trafficking is blowing up boats and pardoning the drug dealers.” —Senile Satan

In case you didn't know, Blue Asbestos Mining, which started the Wittenoom health and environmental disaster, was founded by Gina Rinehart's father Lang Hancock. Trees and apples. #SundayShot

Please tell me some people in #cairns refer to Dunwoody's as Wood Dunnies.

Perennial album cover style - WoC reclining on a bed

Macquarie Dictionary word of the year team

Oh no, Barnaby must have got One Nation pregnant.

Omg www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

On FB I just saw a video of Irish comedian Peter Flanagan say Pauline Hanson looks like what would happen if Ron Weasley's grandmother was a butch lesbian and I old school lolled

You will be visited by three spirits

I'm just leaving this here #auspol

M.O.

The BBC removed a line about Trump being the most openly corrupt president in American history...from a lecture about the cowardice of today's elites. I wonder if the BBC has heard of the Streisand Effect

Imagine getting 10 wickets in a match and not being a shoe-in for MOTM #sorrymitch #ashes

Love songs and dedications for the #ashes youtube.com/watch?v=Dzjg...

How the hell does someone get a ton off 69 balls in a game where neither side has got to two hundred? #ashes

What this guy said

Sad to see Aaron Finch replaced by Hayden in the commentary team #ashes

Head taking the piss #ashes

Good to see the former South Australian premier get his first test runs #ashes

Highest opening partnership of this match 0 for 2 FTW #ashes

The ABC AM News daily email has image alt text that is often more intriguing than the actual stories

The “peace plan” for Ukraine is just a framework for Russia & the US to take assets away from Ukrainian recovery, and to ensure Russia evades accountability for war crimes Europe can, and must, craft better with Ukraine A point by point analysis of the shambles: www.greatpower.us/p/28-points-...

Excellent piece

I still struggle with the Democrats being left in any sense but ‘relative to republicans’

Bob Katter. Lebanese, in a gang, has a knife. Living the stereotype.

Chris Kenny never looks intelligent if you pay attention to him #MediaWatch

England hasn't been the same since Anglo-Saxon migration.

TIL ICE is pronounced "icky"

This is not a recommendation to read (I couldn’t finish it) but it is semi-interesting to note the disconnect between “the teals are the political arm of renewables sector” and their slavish devotion to killing the planet for Gina’s stock portfolio. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic...

My iPad has an idea for a short story

Guardian management smelling as bad as Vic Labor in the ep of #SundayShot

On "government by billionaire", US poverty, desecration of the social contract, and the shrinking middle class #sundayshot

Does not instil confidence.

A major failure of our elected representatives is a failure to protect whistleblowers www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic...

Another intersting piece from Secco Couldn’t hold back the thought that Sandilands wouldn’t hold back on torte law 😉 ‘It was word for word’: The political power of John Laws www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au

Filed under “No shit, Sherlock” And the report is just on enrolment, only the last two paragraphs of the article come anywhere near mentioning graduation rates. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Wtaf #bsky ?

No surprise, but kudos to those who speak out. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

The scene: Bunnings #Cairns 11am. It's packed. "The Last Post" starts wafting from the PA. Takes about 30 seconds for everyone to realise what's going on, but a respectful silence does descend on all. Then back to normal when Dire Straits "Walk Of Life" comes on. #RemembranceDay

TIL dragonfruit did not originate in Asia.

This is probably the only story you will read about Gough’s left nut today…beautiful piece by Mike Bowers thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...

BALLARRRRRRRD! #SUNARS

Tomorrow's #SundayShot has @mariecolemanao.bsky.social on the Dismissal, @mrdtjames.bsky.social on the Victorian Treaty...and I went to @punterspolitics.bsky.social's dinner in Canberra. Tune in (and like, subscribe and donate!). www.youtube.com/@TheSundayShot

I see Llew O'Brien talking nuclear for baseload power. As soon as someone says baseload it means either they know FA about what they're talking about, or they assume you know nothing.