And of course I see the little blue fairy wren when out on a walk without my camera. Grrrr

Every tree has a story to tell

Black Friday but make it for girls

Am currently in an Aussie grocery store for the purpose of comparing grocery prices with Canadian stores and The Angel’s Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again is playing and it is the weirdest experience. (If you know, you know)

I just stood up and applauded at the end of this brilliant book by Helen Lewis. I loved Difficult Women but I loved this one just as much.

It’s not even summer yet

Your 13 year old self lives within you for the rest of your life. Experiencing antisemitism as a child never goes away either. I have no skin in this game; I have no clue who Nigel Farage is, nor do I care, but I absolutely understand where this writer is coming from.

Nice

Nothing like having a dream about your son who is 16,000km away, to amplify the low-lying ache you feel every day being so far apart.

Melbourne is a city well known for its vandalism in all its municipalities. The other day, I found city workers in this municipality painstakingly repairing this mosaic with small tiles after they had been vandalised by a blunt object and removed. It’s a matter of priority and will.

narrator: 50 years ago... me: [nods] in 1945 narrator: in 1975... me: what

Some punishments are worse than others

@tonymartin.bsky.social it was great seeing you on Sam Pang this week. Hilarious!

🎵🎶 Hello sunburn my old friend, I see you on my shoulders once again. And while I SPFed up my face real well, I forgot the sun here is hotter than hell. Next tiiiiime I’ll be better prepared, because I’m scared, of the cancers of the skin. 🎵🎶 (With apologies to Simon and Garfunkel)

Are all #Vancouver restaurants that restrict bathroom access to paying customers breaking B.C. law? #BritishColumbia's Health Act bans charging fee for bathroom use: A public place must not demand or req payment for use of a public toilet, with "public place" meaning place public has access to...

I cannot stand this woman. She is divisive, and racist and an absolute moron to rival all morons. But in light of my thread yesterday, I cannot fault this stunt. There are women right now who have no choice but to be covered like this and the world does not care at all.

I could not get all of the photos of these women in one shot and it’s clear they’ve added more since this was put up in Hosier Lane. Is there a domestic violence day of awareness? A week of awareness? Because at this rate we’d need at least a month. I’m not religious but I said a little prayer here.

See you in Whamhalla. #Whamageddon2025

'Some staff are shocked?' ALL recently forced out staff, & the few experts left, everyone who isn't in the questionable senior management tier knows that the State Library in Melbourne is teetering on the brink of irreparable disaster & the end of this iconic Library as we know it. Inquiry now.

Jesus Christ

🎶🎵Two swans a-nesting 🎵🎶 #melbourne #spring

Something very jarring about a place that has a land acknowledgment sign near its entrance with a NO PUBLIC TOILETS sign right beside it.

I'm glad we only see one here. www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

Melbourne has fully embraced Lime

“It is wonderful to be despised, if, deep down, we know we are right.” Pierre Elliot Trudeau

Meta owns Instagram

I’ve read feminists’ critique of religious head coverings. Their position is a (religious or otherwise) head covering is oppression; not the woman’s choice but rather a convention foisted upon them by men.

The urinary leash is still with us

About goddamn time Melbourne remembered it was part of Australia

Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? A: Because it saw someone from work on a Saturday.

Have I ever listened to Hey Jude by The Beatles? Absolutely not. It's addressed to Jude, not me. What about Annie's Song by John Denver? Nope. Not my song so none of my business. Everyone should treat the private communications of musicians with the same level of respect as I do.

Internet scams are going to get worse and honestly it’s just a sad situation. If you have billions of ppl in developing countries who don’t have opportunities to make a decent living but do have access to the internet, some are going to use that to degrade themselves + others, to all our detriment

Iconic? Can any Canadian look at this photo and name the band?

My friend is back!

In an interview with Jonathan Kay, Canadaland publisher Jesse Brown discusses how an anti-Israel faction within his own subscriber base tried to cancel him after he began speaking out about antisemitism.

By the 80s, the story of the Anzacs at Gallipoli had started to fade from the public consciousness. Then an Australian anti-war filmmaker had an idea.

Europe has rejected the US peace plan.

This is the Jewish experience also.

Have always found this fascinating but am yet to encounter mine. youtube.com/watch?v=xBw2...

‘Cannot believe it’s still happening’: readers respond to ‘heartbreaking’ domestic violence homicides

Loved this episode of Strong Songs about the gorgeous simplicity of Stairway To Heaven, which gently takes you on a woodland adventure before luring you into the dragon’s lair for a face-melting guitar solo strongsongspodcast.com/blogs/episod...

I think this maggie just wolf-whistled me ☺️

This is my Bluesky experience today 😈

Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.

Being told I have no right to opine on issues in Canada because I’m Australian is a refreshing change from family here telling me “What do you know? You live in Canada.”

I also took this on my walk last night, but after photographing fluffy baby kookaburras, a king parrot and eastern rosellas all within 300 metres, this was kinda ho hum.

Some pretty amazing science here (I saw this story on tv)

This elected official was shown up in public as rude and hypocritical. Instead of conceding this and apologising, he chose this. It’s fine, but it’s sad for him that he is so thin skinned in a town with real issues that he should not ignore.

One of the most horrific things I will ever read. My god.