Who needs a new job‽ www.realcommercial.com.au/news/quirky-...

This is exactly the time i was at the CSM and I can recall only 1 male violin teacher...unless there were others I didn't know. I'd like to know who he is. "Ex-music teacher accused of sexually abusing child in Canberra" share.google/hIx89i0VIjNE...

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

Neuroscience finds musicians feel pain differently from the rest of us share.google/niXIandKqvsF...

chickens come home to roost? creators.yahoo.com/lifestyle/st...

Nuns vs the Vatican: documentary alleges sexual abuse and misconduct in the Catholic church share.google/6kLruQkJgUBE...

100 VICTIMS is astounding. Even more astounding, that's less than 10% of Epstein and Maxwell's victims.

Day 3 of the Season of Creation. Posting a daily picture showing the beauty of creation throughout this season. View of the Umbrian countryside from St. Clare's room at San Damiano in Assisi

The Guardian has today printed the names, and where possible, images, of all the media workers killed in Gaza, as part of an international day of action involving more than 150 media organisations. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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we’re pulling at least five pounds of tomatoes out of the garden every day. it rules

Newsletterin' again. 'Salamander are well known for regenerating limbs and tails but some can also re-grow vital internal organs including the heart which means – unique in all the animal kingdom – salamanders have never invented country and western music.' rick-morton.ghost.io/makes-the-he...

Midweek Treat: Blackberry Galette – the most laidback and forgiving kind of pastry project you could imagine – is #RecipeOfTheDay! www.nigella.com/recipes/blac...

Oh goody: France orders hospitals war-ready by March 2026 https://euroweeklynews.com/2025/08/27/france-tells-hospitals-to-be-war-ready-by-march-2026-leaked-letter-lays-out-mass-casualty-plan/

Delivering on the Australian Centre for Disease Control. "The Australian CDC will be led by a director-general, and following the passing of legislation, will be operational from 1 January 2026." Source: www.health.gov.au/ministers/th...

nʌki\'wah Graham Greene💙 He is a son of the Great Lakes basin. This one goes out in your honor RIP 🌊🌊

Came home to find that while I was at work, Ms Tawny had intriguingly opted to move from her usual tree of choice to our custard apple tree, very low to the ground. She is definitely her own (enigmatic) woman, lol. #tawnyfrogmouth #ausbirds #urbanbirds #birds

Righto Frank, you ready to do this? Yes boss. Now i told you about the security cameras... did you bring the balaclavas? ... For FUCKS sake Frank

After 31 months on Substack, I have (for reasons I will explain further in this thread) decided to move my writing to Ghost. You can read my first newsletter (and sign up, if you like!) here. The photo you can see is of my primary school class in 1982 the-villager.ghost.io/a-great-scho...

... , for a smaller, less-overwhelmed readership who are more likely to read what I write, then that means, for me, there is no deciding process at all. I hope you'll join me on there: the-villager.ghost.io

Interdimensional Portal Of The Day.

Female king parrot dropped by for an early morning breakfast. #birds #canberra #nature #australia #parrot #photography #winter #kingparrot #ausbird #ornithology #australianbird #canon

Eastern spinebill on the side fence yesterday arvo. #birds #canberra #nature #australia #photography #winter #Easternspinebill #ausbird #honeyeater #ornithology #australianbird #canon

Cambodia dismisses Thai army accusation that it breached truce and international law after incident near border.

China supports Thailand, Cambodia reconciliation, foreign minister says reut.rs/4mqys4T

"There are a whole lot of ways to be perfect, and not one of them is attained through punishment." Ursula K. Le Guin on growing older and what beauty really means www.themarginalian.org/2014/10/21/u...

They certainly are

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My parents said I could be anything. So I became someone they don’t invite to family gatherings.

Aren’t tree roots brilliant?

Starting the pen-work now the ink is dry.

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Huh. "university faculty classroom speech is government speech"