We live by the railway line in Brisbane that is used to take coal from a Queensland mine to the port. Usually there are a handful of coal trains each day. The last few days there have been at least one every hour, because Trump's war is spiking the price. The mine must be working double overtime.

Woah

Listening to A Grand Don't Come For Free. It's still magic but I don't really understand why if a girl plays with her hair it means she's Robbie Keane.

Seeing Shamima Begum's name referenced in Australian news stories is a grim reminder that lots of the UK population feel that if a child is groomed by adults, trafficked by adults, safe-housed by adults and finally given to an adult specifically so he can fuck a child, it's the child's fault.

Few things beat an fun afternoon in the away end

that 'recreate a photo of yourself as a kid' challenge is doing the rounds again

Chatting with Australians about the cost of UK public transport, and they can't even comprehend that this could be real (Deal to London annual season ticket: £7220).

I'm pretty sure George Plantagenet would disagree

Bloody hell, Evernote. No it won't.

Me after hearing the latest excuses for VAR being an inaccurate crock of shit.

Apparently I'm not being helpful with my daughter's English Language workbook when I define "bard" as "something a sheep did"

New trick to mitigate the stress and tension of watching a penalty shootout: Sit in row A, seat 99 at Adams Park. Sorted.

Welcome to Deal, courtesy of Network Rail

That feeling when you're accustomed to all public transport being 25 pence, and then you come to London on holiday and pay over twenty quid just to get your family from zone 5 to zone 1.

Wait did someone leave Baker Mayfield with two minutes and a one-score deficit again?

Just checking in on the progressive left in the United Kingd... Oh fucksocks

Very few things in sport give me more satisfaction than seeing Baker Mayfield absolutely thriving, while his former employers, who dropped him to bet the entire farm on an unrepentant sexual predator, flail around in the wilderness.

Not sure about this framing, @australia.theguardian.com

Southern Water: "We're all trying to find the guy who did this" #dealkent

Queensland media on Net Zero: "Is Net Zero going to bankrupt this nation with the most abundant renewable energy on the planet? We talk with a fossil fuel executive, and for balance we also talk to a fossil fuel executive who was in a different class at Churchie"

"Where are you going to place your penalty, Lucy Bronze?"

When I was campaigning for Australian Greens in the recent election, we were up against Labor telling everyone that the only party of meaningful environment action was themselves. “Action, not outrage!”, the guy kept shouting over my conversations at the polling station. That “action”:

“Gonna make me feel like I’m the only gull in the world”

As many as four computers believed to be impacted

The best comment I’ve read on Labor approving an extension to Australia’s dirtiest gas mining project until my kids are nearly 60.

They don’t mess around in Queensland

I think this is still my favourite joke from my old Grauniad cartoons.

Just seen that Leeds and Burnley are now mathematically relegated from the 2025/26 Premier League. Commiserations to their long suffering fans

For those who are obsessed with the existence of trans people, nothing will ever, ever satisfy them. As you are going to see.

Day by day you’re letting this wave of hate and discrimination sweep away the rights of trans people. Wes Streeting and Keir Starmer are throwing the LGBTQA+ community under the bus to cater for Telegraph, express and daily mail readers.

The sponsors of the Supreme Court action are now loudly applauding a judgement based on on "biological sex" which doesn't define that phrase beyond pointing at what is written on someone's birth certificate. Maybe it's a different JK Rowling to the one who was recently calling Imane Khalif a man.

Presumably for something to do while they waited

Fulham at Leyton Orient in 1997.

lol at the entire Bournemouth defence feigning injury at once on 92 minutes

Imagine being an actual fucking billionaire and still feeling obliged to dress up and go to show fealty to your feudal lord and master.

Cobham Services Leopard has seen things you wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the hard shoulder of the A23... C-beams glittering in the dark near Clackett Lane. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain... Time to die.

He's doing *exactly* what you voted for, you bell-end

This aged well.

I might be a bit late to the party with this insight but "You said I was cheap / You were the sale of the century" is a fucking great lyric.

Isn't that just Teslas?

Day 1 living after moving from UK to inner Brisbane: “wow that’s a fucking ibis!” Day 2: “there are loads of ibises in the street!” Day 500: “silly bin-chicken get out of the way”

We had over 27cm of rain in about 20 hours in our area of inner Brisbane, plus plenty more either side of that timeframe. #cyclonealfred

Here we go then I guess.

Cyclone Alfred stalled overnight and now expected to hit us 24 hours later than originally predicted

When you think about it, it's utterly mad that Australia renamed k'Gari to "Fraser Island" just because some bloke crashed his boat into it. It'd be like calling the lamp post on our street "Dave Streetlight"

Our apartment building’s book swap library is ready for cyclone Alfred

Wait, what?

I miss scarves out of the car window. You don't see that anymore 😔.

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