Grandson entitled this “The Angry Mum”. Powerful work.

Commentators love a batter who looks very organised and knows their game

Spinner would have been handy here

I told you I was ill

I don’t like the “Richies” and I’ve told them as much

Bit of spin might not have hurted here

I’ll tell you what, Sydney around the harbour is unbeatable

Excited to see Australian music legends, Split Enz, are touring

Cricket on today

Interesting cabinet papers release — it begins with the collaboration between Australia and Indonesia in rebuilding Sumatra after the 2004 tsunami. Devastating event but a peak in the relationship. Then the Corby/Bali Nine arrests set a tone for years ahead. flatkopi.substack.com/p/cabinet-pa...

Thought I saw a dad cutting off bits of onion and feeding it to his kids and then I realised it was fennel so no probs

NYC’s Mamdani follows that great democratic socialist Chris Minns and the famously revolutionary NSW ALP

Bluebottles aren’t a single animal but a colony of four kinds of highly modified individuals.

An end of year treat for subscribers: some thoughts on the proposed rule changes sportress.org/2025/12/31/s...

Zizek gives a useful outline of the difference between real Zizek and deep fake Zizek

At a Chinese restaurant in Taree with my family on our way to Port Macquarie. Mental as Anything arrived in a Tarago and sat at the table next to us.

I’ll tell you what’s a nice bird: the eastern spinebill

She is one very, very lucky walker. Someone had a compression bandage, a phone had signal and ......... helicopter medics got to her with antivenom in 50 minutes.😱

The ultimate Christmas/Valentines Day present

Nationalise pitch curation

An immoral victory Void it

Didn’t want to be watching cricket anyway

dudes rock

Not a great ad for the sport.

if they haul it back to 3-2 there’s genuinely a case for an open top bus ride

mad that this shambolic, nihilistic farce of a series is - by dint of this single stupid win - now in england’s top ten greatest men’s ashes tours since WW2

Sure win now there’s nothing happening champióne

This is like a Muppets version of a cricket game

This pitch is embarrassing

Strong Vinnies find

In many ways The G is the colosseum of sports

I would love some recommendations on good things to read about how countries that have done actual disarmament/truth-and-reconciliation stuff after deposing authoritarian regimes have made this sort of thing work, when and where it has worked.

[doing backing vocals for Sam Cooke] Science Book

It’s actually pronounced Jay-hi Richardson

I suggested leaving 0mm of grass on this pitch but was ignored as usual #ashes

They should invent a form of cricket that goes for five days

120 looks par on this deck.

120 looks par on this deck.

Konstas would simply have ramped Australia out of this difficult position #ashes

Pope Leo decried conditions for Palestinians in Gaza in his Christmas sermon, in an unusually direct appeal during what is normally a solemn, spiritual service on the day Christians across the globe celebrate the birth of Jesus reut.rs/4sbgSVO

RIP Chris Rea m.youtube.com/watch?v=Yfaw...

More party name games. The VEC has approved a name change, Companions and Pets Party now known as End Mass Migration - Reform AU. Might be a crowded field by later in the year. Though there will be no benefit from group voting tickets if they are abolished as promised. #springst

Also rapid response help in deleting bad posts

This is an interesting read. #RugbyLeague www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/d...

One of the greatest to ever do it

Just saw this elsewhere. Not a bad summary.

lfg