Labradors have amazing hearing . Asleep in another room, they actually heard me peel a banana.

Colouring in search creatures with my 4 yo grandson and he is singing away. Didn't recognise the song but he said it was Slipknot. Then I realised it was Devil in I. Even had the death metal voice down pat.

My heart breaks for Venezuelans. So sad. 💔

“Andrew Hastie told Coalition colleagues he would ‘rather get taken out in a box than bend the knee to One Nation’,” reports Paul Bongiorno. trib.al/Xbr1DnL

Well, well, well. Who would have thought it.

Straight up Putin’s ass

⚡️ Ukraine's Flamingo missiles 'successfully struck' key Russian military plant in Volgograd, Zelensky says. "Confirmed strikes were followed by a fire on the plant's premises," President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

Controversial take perhaps, but I think you can install air-conditioning and shutdown data centers at the same time. maybe even steal all the air-conditioning units from the data centers and install them in public housing. Then run them off solar and battery while taxing the hyper rich to death

Beluga Whale Escapes Research Facility And Swims Hundreds Of Miles Back To Her Baby. It is wrong and immoral to hold beings of self awareness captive if they have committed no crimes.

This is Holly. Every day for the past 5 years, she picks out a stick and brings it to her favorite spot for “zen time.” While her stick may change, her routine never does. 13/10 (IG: hollythebluestaffy)

My grandmother had jelly and lots of ice cream

Quietly hopeful and optimistic

So, so heartbreakingly horrible. 💔

WASH POST on the U.N. Report: “Deliberate shooting of children by Israeli soldiers; destruction of hospitals, schools… strategy to destroy the future of Palestinians and reaffirmed the earlier conclusion 🇮🇱 harbored genocidal intent.” www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

Are you a 15th century king? Do you want to show that you’re down with this humanism stuff that your scholars keep talking about, but you’re also terrified of your own people & the damn French? Ask your architect if Fancy Renaissance Gate Sandwiched Between Existing Medieval Towers is right for you.

America Explains Canada To Itself

When the government wants universal ID. youtube.com/shorts/e0dkI...

In the early 2000s I would make the 140k round trip to help kids from Pandanus Park come to school. I have never seen anything like it except in pictures of refugee camps. Images seared into my skull.

One way to deal with Nazis I guess.

Australia has never been culturally homogeneous. First Nations plurality predates European settlement by 65,000 years. The First Fleet’s own diversity — African, Bengali, Jewish, Irish, Scandinavian — 1973 policy choice formalised what was always structurally true blakandblack.com/2026/06/25/i...

I draw a line at celebrating cucumbers.

25 June 1926 | Austrian Jewish boy, Berthold Werner, was born in Vienna. He emigrated to Belgium. He was deported to #Auschwitz from Kazerne Dossin in Mechelen on 4 August 1942. He did not survive. --- Children at Auschwitz 📖 Lesson: https://bit.ly/4ryCOJe 🎧 Podcast: https://bit.ly/3O8yeDh

Same dude, same. From the age of 10 the library was my refuge and my safe space

A 2nd century CE shrine at the Roman quarry near Segóbriga (Spain) found! ⛏️“Roman religious practices extended beyond major urban temples & ceremonial centres. Instead, sacred spaces could also emerge in industrial landscapes [like a quarry!] where communities worked & extracted natural resources.”

Pauline Hanson’s politics is finding new resonance because it turns real pressures over housing, services, tax and insecurity into a familiar politics of exclusion – offering some migrant-background voters the dangerous comfort of a place near the gate, Fred Zhang writes. #auspol #OneNation

The Belorussian Offensive Operation codenamed Operation Bagration began #OTD in 1944. This was a massive offensive that progressed to a depth of up to 600 km on a 1100 km wide front, obliterating Germany's Army Group Center. #history #WW2 #WWII

Angus Taylor was asked five times yesterday if he supported multiculturalism and five times he refused to say yes. He clearly has both Pauline Hanson and Tony Abbot living rent free in his head. It’s pathetic and dangerous.

I dont watch any podcasts that are videoed. I donate to a few and don't even watch them. Each to his own. To me a podcast is a wonderfully listening medium not a talk show.

This is Lady and Piper. Lady really loves playing fetch. Maybe even enough for the two of them. 13/10 for both (TT: rachaelsteinle)

Banks and their processes are bloody complicated for their customers. No more can you zip in and out. It's a mission every time.

Love it. youtube.com/shorts/j7JWO...

Australia’s rising right-wing populism reflects real economic and social grievances. But imported MAGA-style strategies are turning that anger into culture war rather than Australian solutions, Kim Carr writes. #auspol #OneNation #MAGA

read more: trib.al/VpK8ny5

46 degrees… This stopped being funny a long time ago.

#Nuclear is a bad option. In an overheating world where avoiding a reactor meltdown depends on cooling systems that cannot cope with heatwaves, we are throwing money away on hugely expensive #NuclearPower when we could be spending it on relatively cheap renewables and battery storage networks.

The Antisemitism Envoy will now take control of which doctors can work in our hospitals, and which can't. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j... #auspol

Wulfstan I, the new archbishop of York, was with Æthelstan, king of the English, at Worthige (King’s Worthy, Hampshire) #OTD in 931, where he attested his first royal charter. He subsequently attested all of Æthelstan’s charters until 935. 📸Athelstan Museum

Splendid pieces

It’s my 16th ancient relic from each country in the #WorldCup. It’s EGYPT 🇪🇬 Spoilt for choice here, so I thought I’d opt for something whimsical & unusual. Herewith, 3 pottery figurines of jerboas (little desert-dwelling rodents) which formed part of a person’s grave goods. Very cute 🕰️1850-1640BC

Beautiful objects. For me, the magic is: nearly 4,000 years separate us from the people who made them, but they found the same things charming.

What a powerful message! My aai (maternal grandma) in India got small pox. My mom had to get the small pox vaccine. She has that same vaccine scar. Their generation saw the havoc. We were spared from that. The public health actions taken by the past generations affect the future of children. 🧪

Ukraine's HUR deletes russian idiots deep in the rear, in the occupied territories. Apart from going for the logistics trucks, they are also targeting the cover groups with their machineguns that take down Ukrainian middle-strike drones.

China is Russia’s and the war’s biggest enabler, which makes it an enemy of Europe

Beautiful

What AI-Generated Images of Robert Gould Shaw Leave Out and Why it Matters #CivilWarMemory 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

This Khmer lime pot in the shape of a rather cheeky-looking grinning cat, made in Thailand in the 11th–12th century (The Met) 🗃️

After the Romans destroyed it, Carthage was rebuilt and became one of the great cities of the Roman Empire, but we never hear much about that period of the city’s history. So here’s an “oops, all mosaics” post to help rectify that! 🗃️ worldhistory.substack.com/p/carthage-a...

My gripe today. Bloody banks, particularly the NAB. I am a primary card holder and I order a a new card for my wife. The card comes and she has to go to the app to activate it. Not showing on the app. I go to my app and it is showing but I can't activate it as it is not in my name.

I think in all my years of field archaeology, lifting the bones of infants in the unconsecrated ground close to a church is the one thing that will always stay with me.