apparently we have given automatic weapons to NSW Police for doing the job of frightening small children.

Other peoples wars.

Mr Nobel Peace prize.

'But the crops!'

"They say aspirin is good for thinning out the blood, and I don't want thick blood pouring through my heart." They say. "I want nice, thin blood pouring through my heart. Does that make sense?" Nope.

Why would it need the streamlined bow and stern?

Outstanding machine translation: "'By wanting to recreate the ocean, the industrialists think they are gods,' blows an associative."

Hoping that St Vincent's - a vitally important (publicly funded) institution in Australia will see fit to respond to these questions by @wendybacon1.bsky.social

It's the wet season; so far not an unusual one. These are big businesses, currently making bumper profits into a near-record high market. So why the knee-jerk subsidy (even if a pittance)? www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

*Puma concolor* – cougar, puma, mountain lion; previously in all of the Americas south of the Arctic. In 2024 one walked past me just a couple of metres away; it's not an especially large animal. But then a single dingo can kill a young human.

Flammable polyurethane sound deadening foam. The rest of the speculation here sounds like crap. Talking a confined space, drunk patrons, limited exits, toxic smoke ... people gonna die.

This is a thread of major media outlets falsely anthropomorphising the "Grok" chatbot program and in doing so, actively and directly removing responsibility and accountability from individual people working at X who created a child pornography generator (Elon Musk, Nikita Bier etc) #1: Reuters

It appears extra Special Envoy Jillian Segal's handpicked expert to conduct antisemitic report cards at universities - Greg Craven - is getting paid $232,466

Sign the petition for nationwide action www.change.org/p/buffel-gra...

Alice News online is telling it straight. Link to have your say on the NTG plan and also a petition calling for National Action on buffel grass in the comments. www.alicespringsnews.com.au/posts/cattle...

Maybe just don't? Makes shit coffee anyway.

'Where to go to pollute the world's remaining clean air.'

Does he really write this shit? Seems likely some of it, yes, which is in itself weird beyond belief.

Typos...

We all seem to be assuming a guilty plea, as in the Christchurch mass murder, and eventually also Port Arthur. Not a given.

Oh.

Much frustration over the last weeks about MSM/ABC as they refuse to play their vital role in our democracy - & the sad truth is they are never going to change So we have to We've plenty of great independent media to consume & support here #auspol > docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Adelaide. Are we still sure this wasn't a (climate-augmented) invasive species? Why?

It's orrite, only the exterior is green.

The Fitzgerald Inquiry, one of the more effective in Australian political history, was not constituted as a royal commission. Just sayin'. www.ccc.qld.gov.au/about/about-...

A surprising site. Doesn't seem to be completely terrible.

Things did not know: The were at least two paedophile islands, Epstein's in the US Virgin Islands and convicted Canadian paedophile Nygard's in the (British) Bahamas. Yes they knew each other; Epstein also kept a house in the Bahamas. The brother of our King, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, knew both.

The NZ Royal Commission into the 2019 mass murder in Christchurch by a New South Wales terrorist provides many useful insights. Before embarking on a micro-community driven lawyers fest here, we could do well just to read them: christchurchattack.royalcommission.nz/the-report

Wait. That face...

'Understanding the mechanical properties of tetravalent metalloids like silicon is inherently a semiconductor problem, making digital computers the ideal tool' ... and other logical absurdities.

"Some ... overreach." Fuck this is a useless government.

Oopsies.

Sanctioned for being an international judge www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

Albanese?

Here we go.

Actually, juvenile longfin eels could surely climb it. I'm surprised that researchers were surprised to find some above it. (Not my pic; mine's too hard to search out.)

A tiny number really. If this is you biggest challenge as a country of 70 million, not much hope for you in the coming refugee world.

If your "art" is made by AI, it's not art, it's slop.

How does a private gambling industry company 'pressure' a regulator? Ponder.

Second worst president in US history? We now know that was Biden, who failed to expedite Trump's prosecution for the 2020 insurrection, thereby facilitating Trump's second term, and failed to recognise his own incapactity, thereby ensuring it.

That'd be the Yemeni Presidential Leadership Council now based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Greatest danger is surely invasives, notably introduction of one or more larger predatory species, native or exotic. How do you protect against that? www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

“Pauline Hanson and her chief of staff, James Ashby, flew to Florida on Gina Rinehart’s private jet in October, but the One Nation senator is yet to declare the sponsored travel or answer questions about whether she may be in breach of parliamentary rules” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

About the expected number iirc. It's a well tolerated and highly effective vax.

Wait, '#Gaza' is now anti-semiotic? Well I never.

My phones think it's my birthday, because today is what I tell everyone not entitled to know.

A feature of gerrymanders, widely missed, is that they make it more likely that you lose many seats, given a sufficiently large swing. Happens because gerrymandering works by spreading a party's vote thinly across many seats, to try to win them all. But if that vote falls substantially, watch out.

In 2026, what is the remaining population of Gaza?

Dear @albomp.bsky.social please expel Israel's Ambassador to Australia Doctors without Borders (MSF) speaks with @sstephanietrann.bsky.social about Netanyahu expelling 37 humanitarian orgs from Gaza. michaelwest.com.au/israel-bans-...

2026? Republicans lose control of both houses in the US, Trump resigns to forestall impeachment, claiming enduring greatness, and Vance is president in 2027. Disaster ensues. Xi takes advantage by blockading Taiwan, which rapidly capitulates. Putin then nukes Ukraine, because why not.