I feel like Ahmed al Ahmed has done more to foster *unity* and decency in the wake of the Bondi attack than anyone else. Just kind of modeling how to be a good human being. Over and above the actual act of bravery on the day.

Melbournians: remember to put some cold water in a tray (or ice block water) out for chickens birds etc

We are 6 days into 2026 and trump has already abducted a foreign leader and is threatening to annex Greenland. Also a portal to the upside down has appeared in Heidelberg

BBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped. The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.

.”People took pictures of me as a child and undressed me. There’s one where they undressed me and bent me over and in the background is my child’s backpack that he’s wearing right now. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The Long Bay prison inmate posting content from a contraband phone (including a cute “unboxing” vid of another contraband device) now has 11.3K followers.

We are just four days into 2026. Is it now acceptable to abduct foreign leaders and “run” their country for them?

Their sense of victimhood when any other country tries to assert its sovereignty within its own juristiction is quite something.

US Congress is coming after our eSafety Commissioner. This makes me so mad. It is not actually about what Americans can or cannot say. We want the platforms take responsibility for the content they show *Australians*. Australian kids in this instance. www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...

@manjusrii.bsky.social arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

Seasonal Australian fashion choice: cicada shells as brooches

This is brilliantly done www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF8_...

What a gross performance. Slapping the table and shouting that Foreign Minister Penny Wong hasn’t “shed a single tear” in public isn’t going to win you votes. Or whatever you were trying to achieve there

Lego Star Wars at Melb Museum

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The GoFundMe for Ahmed al-Ahmed, the Bondi hero who saved lives with one brave action, has reached over $2 million.

Bondi: National cabinet has agreed to look at gun control options in Australia including potential changes to: - licensing - limiting the number of guns able to be held by one person - further restrictions to guns permitted - limiting firearms licenses to Australian citizens

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

The father was licensed for six firearms. How can you possibly be licensed for SIX firearms? We need to tighten our gun laws

Many of the accounts on X that are now opportunistically spreading anti-immigration content in the wake of the Bondi attack are *not even located in Australia*

My heart filled with dread when I saw the news this evening. I’m absolutely devastated by the horrific violence at Bondi beach tonight. This is an appalling and unforgivable act of violence.

Absolutely gut-wrenching. Families, children, people enjoying the festival. If this was intended to divide us, to send a message of hate and division, we should damn well do the opposite. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The underground cellars at the Unicorn Brewery. Built in 1873 at Burra, it's my favourite part of the Burra Heritage Passport Tour. A very worthwhile self-guided tour if you are ever visiting Burra.

I support the social media ban for under 16s. No I don’t have any affiliation with the government. No I don’t work for Murdoch/special interests/all the other things people accuse you of when you think a piece of platform regulation is a good idea (not my first rodeo).

Predictably, lemon8 is on fire today. The thing is, though, it’ll end up getting locked down too: they are already on notice to self assess. Set up a WhatsApp group people

To all the students waiting anxiously for their ATAR on Thursday: it actually isn’t as important as you think it is. The only number that will follow you through life is your shoe size.

The EU has fined X for breaches to the bloc’s regulations protecting users. Musk did not respond by listening to the concerns or trying to make X safer. He’s decided to be utterly infantile.

At one point soon the platforms are going to realise they must either protect users and remove harmful content - or they get fined. Or blocked. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

To all the beautiful teens who are looking for a place to set up camp: if lemon8 meets the criteria for a social media app it’ll just get locked down too. Don’t build your house on sand. Pick a messaging app

Here’s the latest summer release of designer jean shorts brought to by fashion icon The House Of Unit😳😂😂🤣🤣🤣Ian

All those 1st amendment patriots, free speech absolutists etc over there…. Why are you not up in arms about trump’s hint here that he intends to break (or otherwise circumvent) the 22nd amendment?

Your universe is a photocopy of a photocopy of a… on.ft.com/4ahkNKa

I’m so embarrassed that Pauline Hanson is a Senator in this country. Her stunt was designed to stoke anger and division but actually I’m just embarrassed that she sits there at all

A reminder that this pattern of activity including the stupid handles and bio lines and emojis was catalogued in the Senate reports on Russia’s election interference in 2016 — a thing which actually happened! Pretend Americans 🦅🇺🇸⭐️2A has been the game all along www.thedailybeast.com/top-maga-inf...

The CDC just published really alarming *misinformation* on its official website. This kind of behaviour just fuels vaccine hesitancy over here too

Iconic Melbourne sight: A phalanx of hot air balloons passing so close to your house at 7am that you can hear the flame and see the excited faces of people in the basket (Do they ever crash into stuff?)

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I keep trying to think of ways we could break the system, but they've got us running around like trained rats pressing the buttons that keep the whole system going. Perhaps we could avoid citing the most egregious journals except where absolutely unavoidable.

Absolutely broken! Researchers who leave academia can lose access to their own research. Not to mention the research that others do.

The irony here is that academics don’t just write the articles for free—we also referee and edit for them for free. Something is deeply broken. “New Zealand's eight universities spent $30-million a year on journal licences and about half of that sum went to Elsevier. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

It blows my mind that the Liberal party looked at all the seats they lost to teals last election almost entirely on the issue of climate change, and thought “we need more of that”.

They’ve just given Labor a huge gift. The majority of Australians want action on climate change (around 70% depending on the poll). This surely makes it hard to even compete with them?

Gough Whitlam’s removal as prime minister by the governor-general in 1975 — and the Queen rumoured role in the crisis — still rankles republicans decades later

Good on them. “We are finally drawing a line in the sand," minister for digital affairs Caroline Stage said. www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

oh my god they actually did it lmao

We’ve got a new rule in our house that if you just sat Methods and survived you get the burger of your choice right now

Very glad Reddit is being included—it is not a safe place for kids and never has been. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Well done Victoria ❤️ www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Literally opened the app to cancel Apple TV+, to get a popup notifying that the price of subscription is about to increase by almost 25% 🤔 kthxbai Includes a teeny tiny link to 'review your subscription' that is placed dangerously close to the massive OK button to accept the price increase.

lmao, Bolt lives in Victoria but I feel like he's never seen people here?