Plumb bloody stupid "But our [Melbourne's] history with the humble noodle is actually less than 200 years old" Bugger me! Melb was founded 1834. Before that, it was First Nations. So, yep, no noodles. @theageaustralia.bsky.social showing gross naivety & ignorance. www.theage.com.au/goodfood/mel...

On 26 Jan 1788 the British invaded lands of a couple of First Nations. There's over 300 Nations on this continent, so 100s of invasions occurred over many decades. There were Martu people in 1964 who'd never heard of white people. Invasion was not a single day. Colonisation is not a single event

Get on board. c.org/z8n8Fc9MyX

Merry Christmas, everyone!

Hey @shaynecalliss.bsky.social FYI article below. Any time you've pix of them while roaming, I'm in- not a geek, but saw extraordinary ones in Sarawak in '94 while travelling with specialist from Bonn BotGardens- including sand orchids the size of newborn fingernails www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

The change is coming, Melbourne. Geelong (red line) just dropped 13 degrees in 10 minutes.

How long since a human hand has picked up this rock? The area around here is full of sink holes and caves.

2 metres of sugar and potential seed

No hurry. My @smh @theage cartoon.

Someone at The Age has had a long day …. Or some such sumfink, y’know.

THE best piece I have read on this issue. Bang on. Every word. Kirk did not ‘debate’; he belittled, vilified, and based his opinions on vile moral prejudices. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Before each full moon first it must get fully charged at one of its strategically placed docking stations

Private Eye, 6-18 Sept edition

Good god. Count the spelling mistakes. You might miss a couple at first blush…

Even NewsCorp subs think some “news” is plain shit. I kid you not: you might never see that headline again.

Dear Jeff Bezos …

JFC! See the Wall Street Journal - Boston Consulting was considered the elite of the elite in business and risk consulting. Its ‘aid’ involvement in Gaza and a plan to restructure Gaza are horrendous. See the questions to be asked - last line of the article.

@shaynecalliss.bsky.social Thanks for putting me on to Jesse Welles. There is hope. Domestic Error and Red are on high rotation in my car - every word, every dripping sanction.

Tillis: What do I tell 663,000 people in two years, three years, when President Trump breaks his promise by pushing them off of medicaid because the funding's not there anymore, guys?

Awful, appalling. And exactly to the Israeli government’s playbook. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

"The whole thing is just a disgrace. A policy disgrace. A moral disgrace. Rural hospitals will close, and working-class people will die so that Trump’s golf buddies can get tax cuts of tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars." https://trib.al/bBYxuas

Lovely grad speech on the importance of doubt, how philosophy embeds the challenge of questioning, and what to do with all that. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Antoinette Lattouf has won her unfair dismissal case against the ABC. A hard won justice that came at great personal cost for Antoinette

JFC.

Fascinating read.⤵️⤵️

Love this. www.wsj.com/us-news/fren...

worth reading and absorbing: wapo.st/4kJERXT

All broken twigs should have legs imho.

Today while running errands for my grandma I saw maybe 4 dozen senior citizens outside their retirement home, waving U.S. flags and signs saying “abolish ICE” and “No Kings.” Mobility devices everywhere. I wept. I’m weeping now remembering it.

Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

I love how the tree trunks glow with appreciation after a good rain

Today's lunch spot. The scrub is the land I manage. The dunes are Coffin Bay National Park.

The world is crazy, always was, always will be. But it's also beautiful.

#Breaking: PM Albanese has announced the appointment of Steven Kennedy to replace Glyn Davis as Secretary of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet. Jenny Wilkinson shifts from Finance to become Treasury Secretary, the first woman to be appointed to the role. #auspol #NPC

Dallas!

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

👇👇

Looked online, couldn’t find the story anywhere, did find the govt recommendations. It’s true they’ve changed, but doesn’t Fordham understand nothing about “balance of risks” and distribution of resources? Eg, before, when disease was epidemic, it made sense to vax widely to stop the spread…

Was at my Dad’s this morning, listening to Ben Fordham, who went on a rant about how the govt has changed COVID vax notes to recommend against healthy infants, children, teens getting the jab. He reckoned the govt should apologise for having made people get the vax before. No chat with med expert…

Fascinating. www.wsj.com/style/monaco...

Parts of northern Europe have seen their worst drought in decades in recent weeks, with farmers from Scotland to the Netherlands fearing the dry spell will dent harvests if it continues. u.afp.com/Sp3t

FASHUN? Honestly, this is what Target has on display at Australia’s biggest shopping centre, Chadstone. NFI. Australian retailers really are shambolic, incurious, uncreative, and bone lazy.

Jeezus! What ‘passes’ for, er, fashion at Target these days! You’ve got to be joking. Australian retailing is hopeless.

Attys allege here that a Burmese man & a Vietnamese man were summarily removed to South Sudan on ~12 hrs notice, in violation of a 4/17 preliminary injunction & a 5/7 order reiterating it ... 1/2 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Read more Letters to the Editor: wapo.st/4mdmiMT

Women and men everywhere, you need this … How #Barbie swapped high heels for flats: a scientific analysis (by Monash Uni researchers) #Melbourne www.thetimes.com/article/43ba...

Wow.

The York Helmet was discovered by mechanical digger operator Andy Shaw during work at 16-22 Coppergate #OTD in 1982. The C8th Anglian helmet is made of iron and copper alloy, and bears a Latin Christian inscription mentioning Oshere, presumably its owner. 📸York Museums Trust #medievalsky