We now enter MERRINEUM - that vague numberless stretch between Christmas and New Year measured by naps, novels, cricket & leftovers

I had no idea that Little A's came into existence because children weren't allowed to participate in athletics! No wonder they were resistant to merging with the grown ups insideathletics.com.au/blog/austral...

Hanson is calling for tougher hate speech laws, while she is currently in court trying to appeal against her loss in a hate speech legal case. A fact not mentioned by a single outlet covering this story.

something quite relevant to this that I completely forgot I wrote a few months ago" "Australia’s lead advisor on fighting antisemitism has singled out X for successfully using artificial intelligence to “root out hate” More: www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/11/a...

Some guy in Kensington NSW has 27 guns www.toomanyguns.org

What a friendly thing to say. Very generous to of you to think of us during our most recent mass shooting and share news of your better one. Thanks for this friendly message, friend. I don’t think any of us were aware there could be such laws or indeed a better way of living. Good lookin’ out

Anyone watching #zatopek10 ?

The kids' social media ban is turning out to be my favourite type of law: one that sets a norm that's probably good but isn't enforceable or enforced so no one actually gets dragged into an Encounter With The Police

Stop what you're doing and read this.

As an aside, I just noticed that if you google a font, google displays the entire results page in that font. Which is neat.

"In the examples we reviewed, the greatest impact on the outcome ... [was] ability to advocate for themselves and ability and willingness to share the details of their personal circumstances with an officer who they had never dealt with before." ombudsman's report is damning and distressing

people who don't follow sport in this country are really missing out

This outlet usually does reasonable reporting but i can't for the life of me understand how the words in this piece were assembled together

Jess Stenson Australian record at Valencia marathon!!! We love to see it!! She's raced so well in "championship style races" so good to see her smash a very very fast one out as well 🤩 Feels like a real breakthrough moment for her, which seems weird since she's been Aus distance 👑 for so long

I liked this, arguing against the idea there is an LLM "voice" that's inherent to some aspect of the technology From @maxread.skystack.xyz open.substack.com/pub/maxread/...

This is great! 50th running of the women's race this year! I'd love to read a collection of biographies of past winners... rtyi @fastwomen.bsky.social

The "Peter Costello and his staffers ate porridge to save taxpayers' money" anecdote at the start of this piece is killing me. They were staying in a hotel where a continental breakfast cost the equivalent of AU $100!!! www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

There are *no* Australians currently banned from athletics! What are we doing?! Are we rule-breaking larrikins? Are we a nation of cops, dobbing on each other? Neither, apparently!!

This is actually about a corporate landlord locking out the growers... The landlord is an asset manager with a business model based on asset price inflation premium of 1-2% plus the rental yields (AFR article in next post)...

This is 100% not my experience. I have not seen any real change in students' reading or texts or of course requirements. I've been tutoring (taking discussion sections) for... 10 years?

I, for one, refuse to join the "got to hand it to Norths" brigade. No! Boo!! We must bring them down!! #aflw

Pro-Library Discourse Online unreasonably raised my expectations of the range of reading material i'd be able to access through my four (4) library memberships

Update, 1x Piper in top 3!

i'm getting more grumpy about this the longer today drags on and the more i wish i could look forward to watching sports tonight. lots of big names competing in cross country trials, can't wait to watch the text-based results appear on rosterathletics dot com #running

Impressive setup for tracking runners at UT Kosciuszko! Marnie Ponton (marathon PB 2:31, idk if she's done much trail racing?) looks to be running with the leaders in the 100k live.utmb.world/kosciuszko/2...

There are three women/girls named Piper in the Australian under 20s cross country race tonight

If you look closely you can see me and @old-black.bsky.social 😎

if australians have to be bombarded with 'black friday' ads, we should also be given time off work to focus on baking projects

This is being a NSW person in Melbourne and the place names are AFL teams

This is really sad. Guy thought it was a residence not a synagogue and was in the midst of a delusional episode, probably very scary in itself. He has already spent longer in jail than the time he's been sentenced to, has been homeless, and again, is very unwell

Reading this I find it hard to envisage a similar reaction if the same thing happened today. Hard to wrap my head around the implication 2000 was a high point in radicalism? 🥴

That's 15% of students enrolled...

Truly disturbing insight into the cruel bureaucratic paternalism of our "welfare" system

what was it that bob brown imagined the greens to be? "not left, not right, but a two-winged bird flying straight ahead" (??) well

"uncurated list of grievances political elites have litigated for decades" is the perfect description of this material, with the exception that it also includes business elites' grievances. (Business council quoted whinging about how hard it is to calculate payroll taxes klaxon!)

This is disgusting and so... recognisable 😕

Sydney Morning Herald ("here's to reason") doing the exact same thing today, next to their reprint of a Telegraph oped about the ban

Minns:

The modern olympics was founded on the exclusion of women, good to see some traditions never die 🙄 "Nous estimons que les Jeux Olympiques doivent être réservés aux hommes. Et d’abord, en application du proverbe fameux illustré par Musset : il faut qu’une porte soit ouverte ou fermée. (1/2)

I'm not reading anything beyond the headline, i don't care if there's redeeming or less horrendous details, I'm logging off and reading Caster Semenya's autobiography instead

✨️fuck this✨️

Times like these i could really use a US politics filter

The woman characters in these two, on the other hand... johnny mnemonic's was ok. Chain reaction's was the most useless yet

Watched a couple more on the list this week and enjoyed them both. Action movies pre-CGI are generally a good bet. The plot and the effects can be quite silly and you still have a good time

For a while, I was following a story about potential salary cap violations in the NBA by the Clippers. Mark Cuban & others were like, "The Clippers are owned by Steve Ballmer! He was CEO of Microsoft! You think he broke the rules?" Uh, yes? Are you unfamiliar with Microsoft?

This guy's rescuers were my kind of rescuers He hasn't had food or water for 2 days, not much for shelter, and...

@tresantes.bsky.social hello!!! when is your next run!!

To be fair, Microsoft's accounting practices *are* questionable

FIFA found a new form of bribery they hadn't tried before!

This is the Cheney obituary you need. Excellent argument that he founded the "Imperial Presidency" that we are seeing under Trump. Who cares if Cheney opposed Trump the individual, he directly built the power base for a future Trump www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/11/cheney