Buckle up people, here we go!

TIL, Platypus and Echinda don't have stomachs. www.livescience.com/41661-why-pl...

Excalibur 1981 youtu.be/nthojvLZoNY?...

One of the most fascinating facts about the ocean, is that there are whales alive today who were born before Moby Dick was written. Some of the bowhead whales in the icy waters off of Alaska today are over 200 years old.

Your Friday reminder that trickle-down economics is a cruel hoax. Cruel because it's used by the super-rich to avoid paying their fair share of taxes. And a hoax because nothing has ever trickled down.

Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.

Thinking of the student Mary Young who 106 years ago today 'said "shan't" under [her] breath when told to repeat poor work'.

Don't steal pies this Christmas.

The complete Bayeux Tapestry has finally been released and proves that Bishop Odo had absolutely nothing to do with the illegal Norman invasion of England.

EVs aren’t just a car. They’re part of an energy system. What happens when millions of vehicles become part of the electricity system? Vehicle-to-grid will turn every EV into a mobile battery storage opportunity. #climatecrisis #electricvehicles #V2G #auspol www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/colour-...

Bohemian Rhapsody is 50years old today and I think that rocks 😊💚

Or maybe it should be... We've tried all the other options

It was 44 years ago today that the BBC ruined Christmas for 9 million viewers #Blakes7

The English cricket team spent this morning visiting the Adelaide Children's Hospital. "It's heartbreaking to see their sad little faces with absolutely no hope" said Timmy aged 7 #Ashes #AusVsEng

Vaccinations work! Australia has got NO CERVICAL CANCER since they began giving the HPV vaccine!

🎵🎵🎵 Her name is Luthien She dances on the sands Trekking with Beren now Across the dusty lands They grabbed a Silmaril To make their wedding plans When Beren grabbed it, though the wolf bit off his hand. 🎵🎵🎵

LIFE RULES: Insulate your house with books to ward off evil Oppose the zombie AI apocalypse Never click on a link to the Daily Mail Use double the recommended amount of garlic Always stop to say hi to sheep And to horses too (but in a fake posh voice) I think that's more or less everything covered?

Fergal Sharky will be happy!

“.. The US unemployment rate is now up by 1.2 percentage points from its trough 30 months ago. We have never seen that kind of increase without the economy already being in a recession.” - Schwab #NFP

it's a style council kinda evening.... youtu.be/k5HfOipwvts?...

I just want things to get better, for once I am so fucking tired

As a Melbournian I can attest that this map FEELS correct.

playtime by jacques tati is both the best comedy ever made and the best movie ever made. note the absence of an "in my opinion" from this post

Today in “Dudes Rock”: A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder.

Happy 100th birthday to Dick Van Dyke!

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

Going to be so easy not to visit USA. And be treated as an Alien - no matter how many billions of hard earnt $$ we gift the USA for the Aukus submarines..

Thank you @kazcooke.bsky.social for spearheading this people’s movement to #saveourlibrary #saveourslv

Let's be careful out there youtu.be/MJDQewSMB-E?...

You wouldn't read about it... "The rich get richer The poor get the picture The bombs never hit you when you're down so low"

This iconic Fabian Todorovic cartoon is still one of the best I’ve seen at illustrating the remarkable amount of space we surrender to cars, leaving little space left for everyone and everything else. The text added later makes the bonus point that many drivers still manage to complain about it.

You may ask yourself, "Why am I in this House?" You may ask yourself, "Where did my career go to?" And you may ask yourself, "Am I right, am I a nong?" And you may say to yourself, "One Nation? What have I done?!"

The fastest energy transformation in human history @fssau.futuresmart.com.au expanded graph for pace of adoption of electricity generation by source from >100TWh annual generation threshold point

Used to do a lot of these type of posts on my old blog. Always a joy when the media releases quote don’t really reflect what was actually said… thepoint.com.au/news/251206-...

Here is a godawful joke in chart form to ruin your Christmas season 🤪🎄

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern forever

The State Library of Victoria’s ‘major’ proposed cuts include slashing the number of reference librarians and free computers for public access. Some staff are shocked.

Those two days of cricket on Friday and Saturday were so good. I reckon someone should invent a format that goes for something like 4 or 5 days. That’d be ace. #Ashes

If you only work 2 days of the week instead of 5, can you still get paid a full week's wage. Asking for an English friend #ashes

I'm not sure how I feel about these new 2 day internationals but it's always good to see England beaten thoroughly #Ashes

Shocker: Canavan's claim ignores the data Wind, solar smashing grid market-share records Fossil fuel generation falls to new low reneweconomy.com.au/wind-and-sol... Burning more fossils only increases VW electricity price, while renewables bring lower electricity price linkedin.com/posts/raywil...

Escape from all the news about the incredibly suss behavior of modern aristocrats by listening to our latest episode about... uh... some incredibly suss behavior of aristocrats from about 1000 years ago. These f'ing people.

Never forget Kaz, when I was in London working the comedy circuit in the 80s and ended up sat at dinner next to a critic from 'The Times' 'So you do comedy? Where...in outdoor dunnies and BBQ's? Haw Haw!' Needless to say, I came back to OZ! Rest is history!!

I'd forgotten that time that feels so long ago now when music videos could be loads of fun to watch ... this one from 1985. #WhenTheGoingGetsTough #TheToughGetGoing #BillyOcean #KathleenTurner #DannyDeVito #MichaelDouglas #TheJewelOfTheNile

The Liberals be like