"It grants police the power to recommend cancelling someone’s Centrelink payments, based on the suspicion they have committed a serious crime. Not conviction. Suspicion."

A really good fanvid will get you to watch the show, or at least pique your interest enough to find out if it's available on whatever streaming service you're subscribed to.

Took today off work as I had previously booked an appointment for today back when I wasn’t scheduled to work on Fridays. Turns out to be a good decision as I’ve finished the appointment, met my kids for lunch, and a friend asked if I had time today to catch up for coffee. Nice to be able to say yes!

Guillermo del Toro speaks for so many of us. (Can this please become a meme? Thank you very much. And fuck AI.)

Not only did my mother, a nurse, give us the sex ed talk, she also gave it to my cousins (at their parents request). We also went to a school run information session, for parents and children.

Really taking “flooding the zone” to its limit.

For no particular reason I’m thinking about game studios who fire their entire narrative team after six years of development because their CEO is a delusional malignant narcissist who is all-in on AI. I wish them all the luck they deserve.

I look more like my paternal aunt than I do my own parents, to the point you'd think I was her child. This has had a negative impact on my childhood as my father and his sister loathe each other. Probably a good 20 years since they last spoke, and that conversation was barely civil.

I hope tonight I can convince my father to get his eyesight checked, as he has not seen me from a couple of metres away twice now. Last week was walking in the opposite direction, today was when he got on the near empty bus & sat a few seats away from me. Both times he had no clue I was nearby.

NEW PODCAST: “The 9pm Bongbong in the Region with Erin Cook” @erincook.bsky.social, so it’s about the Philippines and stuff (1h02m06s) the9pmedict.com/edict/000254/ Look for “The 9pm Edict” in your podcast app. Like it? Tell your friends and maybe even throw in a tip at the9pmedict.com/tip.

We planned to have our air conditioner serviced today, but the heavens opened up and so much rain happened during the three hour window the techs were supposed to be here. 😭 While our service has been rescheduled, I live in hope that we do not have any really hot days between now and a month's time.

this is why I think the admin spending all week yelling about a “hate America” rally was stupid anyone who tunes in gets to see funny signs, joyful crowds and shit like “an enormous constitution being carried to the White House” this is a crowd that loves America and wants it to be better

white house has joined bluesky click here to block all official us government accounts instantly bsky.app/profile/did:...

I just keep thinking about the first guy to put on the frog costume reading the news today and seeing frogs literally all over the world what a fucking thing, man that 25 year old did more for the country in a week than most of the NYT op-ed section in a lifetime

I'm highly amused by red hats trying to claim media footage of today's rallies, posted by actual news sources, is fake or from a rally in the early 2000s.

Why is it when I have planned -and started- to wash all of my bedding because the forecast is for a windy and unseasonable 32C day that the skies are grey and the air is cool and still? My feather doona better dry without me having to lug it to the laundromat.

I’m laughing at the decorations hanging up in my local Westfield mall. The Centre have put up the Christmas wreaths, the stores are trying hard to appeal to those who celebrate Halloween (30 years since they started and it’s still not really a thing). Happy spooky Xmas 😆

As one of the last people to watch Dan & Phil's latest video, I have to say I'm not shocked by their announcement. I've followed their careers on and off since they started to become popular, including seeing their live shows. I'm not going to say that I knew, but when they were sharing

This look 🔥🔥🔥

In a case of irony, now that the fun of being the executor of Mum's estate is finally over, as I have met with her siblings and given them all some of her things to remember her by, sold the house and settlement done, I am starting to feel sick. Must be the stress making it's way out of my system 😒

Blown away by how good an idea the costumes are. More shareable and fun than pics of a regular protest, and it’s immediately clear that the protestors are non-violent.

BREAKING: Venezuela's Maria Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize for 2025 reut.rs/42uh3Aw

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

Had to be away from my computer for ages. As soon as looked at my very quite feed I knew he and his team hadn't placed. Very sad for them, but on the up side he drove well and from what I saw his teammate Rio was quite amazing.

I've been busy, so have missed out on the start of the race. Was there an accident on the track or is the safety car out for another reason?

This one will make you cry and hope good things.

I am waiting to get a call from Mum's partner to tell me he can't get a mover for the furniture he wants. Yesterday, which was a public holiday, the movers were supposed to be at the house at 9am. I was at the house at 8:45am in case they showed up early. He did not show up at 9am, nor did they.

Thread 👇

nah, after the most recent waffle incident i have to agree that bluesky the company really does not care about the users that made it what it is right now and telling people "you can leave" is the worst PR strategy i have ever seen the users that made this what it is can't just leave as of now

What it wrong with this website? Desktop and mobile versions are taking a while to load comment threads, or not loading the rest of the thread if you click on the last one. Mildly annoying in the grand scheme of things, but I need my entertainment instead of the RL blahs.

Xiao Zhan is a ray of sunshine 🌞 Happy birthday 👑

“They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others”

We've gone from long sleeve weather with chilly nights to 'oh dear lord it's hot' weather in the space of a day. My body no longer adapts like it used to, so I've opened up our air conditioner this afternoon to use for the next few days or I will melt.

Not Gangs, not drug dealers, not drug runners, not people eating pets, nope Kids

ICE is buying a location tracking tool that harvests data from hundreds of millions of phones a day. Protect your location data by updating a few settings on your phone 🧵 (1/4): www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-...

Today was an interesting day. My brother, SiL & I were clearing out the last things from the house, or at least that was the plan. Mum's partner had requested some of the furniture, which we asked him to organise a removalist to help him take it. These pieces are large display cabinets and a sofa.

I hope they have their asses handed to them via lawsuits. I am so tired to tech bros pulling shit like this and being allowed to get away with it. Where’s the equivalent of Lars Ulrich to shut it all down?

Journalist Rick Morton didn't want to write a book about Robodebt. Now that book, Mean Streak, has won the Prime Minister's Literary Award for non-fiction.

I've had random extended family members contact me recently as they'd seen the house is under contract. Just checking in. For the first time since the funeral that was a year and a half ago. Gee, I wonder why that would be 🙄 tbh, it gave me great delight to say most of the estate has been donated.

It's getting close to when my mother's house is no longer ours. I said to my brother last weekend that we have this weekend and next weekend to do the bits that are left, organise a removalist for the items that are too heavy for us to move ourselves (the furniture is his, so he gets to organise

NEW PODCAST: “The 9pm Uncommon Death Adder with David F Porteous” @dfpiii.bsky.social (1h18m21s) the9pmedict.com/edict/00253/ Look for it in your podcast app of choice. Like it? Please tell your friends and consider throwing in a tip. the9pmedict.com/tip

Finally got all the information I needed to file my tax return. Hurrah, another adulting thing crossed off the never ending list. 😄