This was incorrect, apologies to all water birds who often get dismissed mentally by my new birding brain as “probably a duck” cos upon going over yesterdays footage (videoing is a big part of how I’m learning!) I now realise I can also add - Eurasian coot - Australasian grebe … to my life list 🥰

A really nice cab driver picked me up from the airport for a relatively short drive to Pitt St. I was late to an appointment, so he hurried me out the cab and grabbed my bags for me and offered the EFTPOS machine to tap and go… and I stupidly didn’t check. $117. www.smh.com.au/traveller/tr...

Holiday update: in the last 24 hours I’ve added FIVE BIRDS to my life list, what a bad bitch

🧐 www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/li...

Great to see teenagers engaged and passionate about politics!!!!! 🤪 www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...

These are definitely the files everybody wanted to see released

What’s a reasonable taxi fee from Sydney Airport to approx Town Hall d’ya reckon?

It wasn’t long into my conversation with this outback nurse for me to realise - there’s something really special happening here. A First Nations-led program achieving real results for communities dealing with a diabetes problem in a town with limited resources? Yes! www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Day for it, mate! 🤙🏼 www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

NEW: No, Charlie Kirk was not practicing politics the right way. That's what Ezra Klein said. We can condemn this heinous assassination but also recognize that with his 2020 election denialism and extremist rhetoric, Kirk built his movement with falsehoods and in a wrong and divisive manner.

This week’s column www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

I can’t believe I’m reading this right. Our immigration minister refused visas to international researchers coming to attend a conference on the basis of “social cohesion” and they happen to hail from “Kenya, Uganda, India, Pakistan and Georgia”? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Was glad to be able to discuss this with Senator Pocock on Wednesday afternoon on ABC NSW - and the feedback from listeners seemed to indicate there are a lot of people who’d like to see this reform too. on.soundcloud.com/GLlhlklRLG5P...

Living by a popular fishing spot, I cannot tell you how often I am cleaning up fishing line, hooks, lures, AND cigarette butts all discarded carelessly by anglers. It makes me SO MAD! Genuinely do not understand how so called outdoorsy people can give so little care to the environment they’re in.

imagine fleeing the Vietnam War and in your arms you're carrying a baby who will one day grow up to correct the US Secretary of Defense on his jeans. like bringing a football into the end zone

it's crazy that i wake up every day and think "i can't possibly have anything else to say on twitter" and then the US Department of Defense will be like "Our Secretary of Defense has great jeans ☺️"

I disagree. I will tell you what's wrong with his jeans. 🧵

The year is 2066. I am 85 years old. I wake up, and gingerly reach for my iPhone 58, the font on my waiting notifications large enough for my ailing eyes to make out the text… “New episode of Mushroom Case Daily just dropped” I gasp, splutter, then die. The podcast has outlived me.

MEAA supports the right to protest and freedom of expression. We stand up for press freedom across the world, including the almost 200 journalists that have been killed in Gaza since October 2023 — the fact that international media has been blockaded from entering Gaza is a press freedom crisis.

I look forward to the next strongly worded statement issued by world leaders, they seem to be working well.

“Israel has built the most efficient starvation machine you can imagine... “Israel is starving Gaza. It’s genocide. It’s a crime against humanity. It’s a war crime.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

John Oliver not mincing words: "Gaza is starving, is a sentence that's objectively true, but it's also slightly misleading because it's too passive. Gaza is being starved by Israel,"

Ooft quite a correction

When one of my BFFs was a donor years ago I went through the paperwork/legalities with him and clocked that if you use “natural” conception methods, even if there’s no relationship, the guy has full parental rights & obligations… feel like many women don’t know this? www.smh.com.au/national/vic...

This article reminded me of a terrible ex who demanded I sleep on the side of the bed closest to the window. Why? So if burglars came, they’d get me first. 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 It’s funny now but ONLY cos I’ve had enough therapy to stop choosing dud selfish partners 😂 www.bodyandsoul.com.au/relationship...

Chris Martin is going to be the internal narration in my head whenever I see a canoodling couple who seem a bit suss. “Ooooh, look at these two! Alright cmon, you’re ok… uh oh what? Either they’re having an affair or they’re just very shy”

Here's Colbert on July 14 making fun of Paramount for paying Trump $16 million. It's hard not to see CBS canceling his show through this lens. "I believe this kind of complicated financial settlement with a sitting government official has a technical name in legal circles. It's big fat bribe."

Saw the original SMH socials post on this story and originally (blame bad transcription or young journo mishearing?) this originally referred to a “video empire” Proud to say that my simple, effective comment “Empire or umpire?” led to deletion and reposting with correct wording UR WELCOME ALL 😂

“The application alleges Latham engaged in vile acts, “including defecating on me before sex and refusing to let me wash, forcing degrading sexual acts, pressuring me to engage in sexual acts with others, demanding I call him ‘master’…” www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...

When you clock the problem by episode ten (and the 17455th emotional outburst being portrayed in the show) so you send a runner out for an eye dropper STAT 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Finally the drought breaks!!! One solitary tear!!! Can’t stop laughing at this ☠️

Such a fan of the DroneSharkApp account, so long as I remember to have the sound off at all times 😂 It’s like OMG look at these majestic whales making their way up the coast, this glorious footage has me absolutely gripped - uh oh I’ve touched the unmute button SHIT EDM COVER SONG RUINS EVERYTHING

Imagining a world where Chip Le Grand and Parnell Palme McGuinness go out for coffee and bounce column ideas off each other.

I would gently suggest that if you cannot cry as an actor, if you cannot muster up even the *slightest* wet eyed look when you’re portraying deep emotional distress, it‘d be good if the people behind the show you’re in don’t give you ENDLESS scenes of apparently bawling your eyes out #toomuch

🚨Antisemitism boss Jillian Segal and her husband are the second biggest funders of far-right group "Advance". The extremist lobby group spreads online racism and xenophobia, including directly targeting Palestinians... theklaxon.com.au/hrgd

If you ask the new Grok (via grok.com without any custom instructions) for opinions on controversial topics it runs a search on X to see what Elon thinks I know this sounds like a joke but it's not. This genuinely happens: x.com/jeremyphowar...

ME: Well, I guess Australian news organisations have pumped out the maximum amount of content about Erin Patterson from all conceivable angles since her convicti— oh okay there are more

Andy Lee doing the publicity rounds for his new kids show and… he’s just a delightful presence no matter who he is talking to. IRL sweet guy too. Did a live podcast w him that had a lil $100 payment for guests - he found out I was climbing Kilimanjaro & donated his share to my fundraiser instantly

Oh by the way! I don’t think I’ve posted about my Melbourne gigs but you CAN still get tickets to this for tomorrow night I think? It will be fun! www.wheelercentre.com/events-ticke...

You know how some airports are installing those fancy new scanners that make it easier to go through security by not needing you to take out your laptop? I respect that MY regional airport is like, nup, not only will you show me your laptop… do you have any chargers or cables in there? THEM TOO.

Literally just got back to back emails from Qantas “Hey girl so soz but ur info got leaked :( hackers suck!!” Then “Hey girl so soz but I feel like that morning flight u booked is actually super problematic??? So like we HAD to cancel it :(“ 🫡 ✈️ 🦘

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Ed Husic breaks ranks to criticise Israel and express alarm over ‘fraying of rules-based order’ following US strikes

As a child dies from shrapnel wounds to his stomach and Israel denies starvation is occurring in Gaza the UN's aid urgency issues a warning that kids may soon die of thirst.

As my friend Bernie Sanders says, "They've got the money, but we've got the people."

The ABC sacked our colleague because of her political opinion and to appease a lobby group, the court found. And they spent more than $1 million on ridiculous defences including the she was never sacked and there is no such thing as a Lebanese race. Time for the ABC to rethink how it treats staff.

The ABC has been ordered to pay $70,000 to Antoinette Lattouf after the Federal Court found the broadcaster unlawfully terminated her employment over her views on the Israel-Gaza war.

Me when I see one of my kids with the look in their eye that indicates they’re going to make one of the other kids cry.

Yup, international law is just so quaint and nostalgic when our allies are the ones breaking it. But God forbid someone we have designated a threat step anywhere near the lines we’re hastily pretending never existed

Scott Morrison signed us up to a deal which has seen us give hundreds of millions of dollars for nothing so far, and to tie us to the country that has just kicked off a war. And now he works for a defense consulting company and is on TV telling us this is fine 👍