Boiling AUSTRALIA November heat arrived: 46.7C today at Birdsville (not a random place,but a well known heat champion) is a new seasonal max. in the Southern Hemisphere. Next days the heat can even get worse,specially at night and some November records might fall. Stay tuned !

The age of the Poet is here. Forget the techbros, or the hacker black hats or white hats, the Poets are a hooded cloak away from deploying their poetic licences to put the assonance into AI, using their allusions & juxtapositions to halt the pernicious creeping unrealities of large language models

When they use all the water &/or get their electricity cut off?

Living wages, a welfare safety net, & universal healthcare is cheaper, safer, and healthier for everyone than industrial imprisonment, but the US does what the US does...

some better news: Australia’s first formal treaty with Indigenous traditional owners passed in Victoria share.google/HxSU9UMQpljw...

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A quick, birdlike clothesmaker

Do we agree this paracetamol/autism BS is a Project 2025 ploy to further disenfranchise US women, blame them for a condition beyond their control, & actually endanger them if they don't take the safest medication available to treat fever while pregnant? But don't believe me, seek medical advice.

I walked a letter to the correct mail box across the street. My neighbour got a package, & left it at my gate just after I received a pic of it outside their door. Tight deadlines, poor map skills, or illiteracy bringing a street together via mutual mail exchange frustration. When do we get a cut?

"One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this." - Omar El Akkad, Oct 25, 2023 This! So many still won't speak up and out about the truth. Never. Again.

Take him to prison, officer.

Can we not leave it at elves? Yes yes accuracy in research & yadah yadah knowledge is power but we're in the age of "vaccines cause bubonic plague in orcas so they attack submarines" era so, please, elves?

Shaking my head in Australian. Is this a well regulated militia or an example of an army deployed by internal tyranny that a well regulated militia is meant to combat?

But I won't

Looking forward to 2 Salty 2 Real, The True Salt Path exploring whether editors fail at due diligence to create opps to publish sequels to possibly falsified memoirs, which will then be infinitely easier to promote? It's a flawed business model, but it seems that's the theme of the entire industry.

Cat pee on the stairs sounds like a spy code phrase but it's just this evening's main event at my place. Just keeping it real here.

You know the drill #melbourne there's been rain so watch out for flash floods in usual places (like the corner of the good kebab shop), expect public transport delays, drive to conditions (the weather not yours - check yourself for your condition) & mind the Montague St bridge.

Apologies if it seems like I'm only here to complain but, I'm in pain, it physically hurts me to go shopping, and when I have to go I thus attempt to ensure ahead of time the place has what is required. So yeah, I'm annoyed when said place does not in fact have the thing.

Australian retail websites: why they remain utter shiite, a thesis, maybe one day, if I can be bothered, which I can't, which is much like the websites themselves, they should be useful but can't be bothered.

The emotional toll of always searching for the tiny slippery google mini remote is ruining me. Or would be if nothing else had happened over the last few years, and continues, streamed to the world

Winter solstice weekend: car aircon is on after I went to the supermarket as it felt too hot and I have to wear a mask. The sun is shining and every freaking vehicle has their too bright led lights on casting shadows everywhere. Meanwhile, far away, bombs fall & starving people are executed.

Ah. The approximately monthly complaint call to Australia Post. The call taker was kind, and frustrated on my behalf. We'll see what happens next.

Yep do this. And never, ever decide you can clean the gutters by standing on a ladder, unless you really want serious head, back, shoulder and hip injuries.

WE ARE RELIEVED TO HEAR A U.S. COURT HAS RULED THAT TARIFFS AGAINST OUR ISLAND WERE ILLEGAL AND A SPECTACULAR MISUNDERSTANDING OF GEOGRAPHY, BIOLOGY, AND REALITY. FLIPPERS UP UNTIL WE ARE PERMANENTLY SHOWN DUE RESPECT. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER -PM Tuxley II

Israel and Gaza today. #Eurovision supporting genocide. Fuck them

Australians voted! But what helps is the Australian Electoral Commission - the AEC runs elections, registers voters, & sets rules based on law. It is independent. What the US has is state based party registers & is so messily opaque it feeds conspiracies. Create an 'AEC' then make voting compulsory.

🎶 Don't look away. Nothing is A-OK. Your neighbors got deported from there... where we used to meet. Can you tell me how you got so lost, abandoning Sesame Street? 🎶

Make this kid the US health secretary, now or when graduates. He's more eloquent, scientifically accurate, & compassionate than RFK Jnr on autism and everything else.

Meta released a new standalone AI chatbot app last week which includes a social feed to show what other people's conversations. Looking through the feed, it appears that people are accidentally publishing some private and sensitive conversations www.crikey.com.au/20...

Every time I see fields of bluebells I expect a 19th century romantic poet, probably Keats, to stroll through.

They get everywhere don't they (floofy ginger cats that match floor colours)

Just fantastic www.theage.com.au/national/the...

Reparation, not just recognition, is overdue to families of Aboriginal veterans who were denied what other soldiers received: ability drink with other vets; right to work & have a family without govt permission, land, veteran & widow payments, RSL membership, & even citizenship. #AnzacDay

I would like for stupid people to stop making important decisions that affect my life

This warm, sunshiny endless summer coupled with the golden light of long autumn evenings is fine for photos. But rain is needed & I'd like some hint of cardigan-worthy weather before winter officially sets in. It's 24.5C inside, it's a disturbingly gorgeous day. #melbourne

There it is. The clam before the storm.

Pope Francis, the head of the Roman Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City, has died aged 88.

Equality is not a thing that can 'go too far'. The reason exists in the word: equality. If you believe it's possible for equality to go too far then you don't want it. What you want is to maintain whatever privilege & power you have at the expense of the lives of those you think less of.

Told Ramsey about Pope Francis not meeting with JD Vance at the Vatican and he said "so the pope Holy Ghosted him"

There are two wolves inside you. Good job! One more, and the three little pigs are avenged!

What you're seeing are wet microbursts—intense downdrafts from thunderstorms that slam rain into the ground, creating those stunning lobes. Like a reverse explosion from the sky. Captured in Perth, #Australia

Word of the day is ‘bugiard’ (17th century): one who distorts the truth beyond all recognition to fit their own agenda.

Less business leaders sending celebrity women into space & more business leaders paying employees fairly & transparently, including vacation time, sick leave, overtime, & offering flexi time, shares, & opportunities for growth via investing in employee development. But that's just me.

ABC reports after a decade spent golfing some bloke is now immortal. Why is everyone else bothering researching regenerating jellyfish, or genetic editing, or sacred objects from myth?

So criminal

The outlaw US president & his downfall by a pod of whales Me, workshopping film scripts & titles. Needs some work.

I see a lot of you are worried about your stocks so I’m glad I invested all my money in the one asset that will NEVER decline in value: tulips