Everyone saying the Louvre heist is an Ocean's 11 moment needs to get their heads out of American media for 5 seconds and educate themselves on Arsène Lupin.

And on that day, not a single shred of dignity could be found. Spinelessness in leadership has become the defining trait of our modern era. I should probably stop being so disappointed.

One of these days my foggy perimenopausal brain is going to feed my dogs twice in a row and it's going to be their best day ever. Signed, someone who just tried to fetch the same thing from the freezer twice in under a minute and couldn't figure out why it wasn't there the second time.

Look I'm not a mosquito (last I checked) but this seems like an obvious choice.

'Would you like to switch off your upcoming alarm?'

A non-Australian instagram account posted a reel of Margaret Pomeranz that was a sequence of clips of her funny intros and someone in the comments still somehow managed to make it about Charlie Kirk.

Just apropos of nothing, one of my favourite Shakespearean phrases is to be hoist with his own petard.

This is no longer a beach. It's a 4WD parking lot. God I loathe cars on beaches with the passion of a thousand suns.

The audacity of FaceBork asking me to participate in a survey. YOU HAVE ALREADY HELPED YOURSELF TO ENOUGH OF MY DATA YOU META-GHOULS.

My neighbour keeps giving me a ridiculous amount of lemons because I just live in one of those kinds of quaint rural situations, so it's lemon drizzle cake time! (And preserved lemons, and lemon curd, and lemon sorbet)

I just got loudly and aggressively complimented by a teenage girl. EXCUSE ME!! I LOVE YOUR BAG!! .... ... me: um, thanks! Strangely terrifying to be honest.

I entered a new decade this week. Boy, they do just keep piling up don't they? Anyway, this was me trying to look cool as I hurtle ever onwards towards geriatric mayhem.

What in the dystopian fever dream kind of game is this? You're supposed to unbolt the cage before the dog drowns? BEFORE THE DOG DROWNS?!? Think I'll skip the trauma and just keep matching candies and smashing bubbles thanks game devs, also please go and see a doctor. . . . Seriously wtf?

Turns out that the 'leave us alone to garden' approach to societal collapse might not even work. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Ordered a new phone case and it's been dispatched from somewhere called The Fulfilment Centre, and I'm unsure if that sounds more Brave New World or some weird sex thing.

Look, I'm not going to lie, most of the Top 20 made me feel like I'd walked into the wrong lecture room. In my defence, I voted for one post 90s song which is very progressive of me.

I work in a Govt funded sector that operates nationally. What our collective 50+ orgs could do to support the environment and climate resilience with $1.6B would be huge. Instead we have to prostrate ourselves for a fraction of that once every few years. What a colossal, unforgivable waste.

Is it just me or does it seem to be standard practice now for a lot of trades/services to charge you for their time to come back and fix a thing that they didn't do correctly the first time? Is my brain in a different era where you just don't charge to fix your mistakes?

Midwinter Sunday tune on a cold rainy night youtu.be/bTqv7xEtnxI?...

Meals of note, Darwin edition: Laksa at the beach, tropical fruits (jackfruit, guava, plum apples, dragonfruit), sticky rice with banana,Thai pawpaw salad.

A few snaps from Darwin in the dry #northernaustralia #tropics #holiday

Oh my god are Trump's trade letters written in Times New Roman? Times New Roman?! Is it 1996?

I'm in Darwin this week and it's just lovely. Silting in a cafe about 2km from where I was born.

Friendly reminder from a comms person working in a not for profit that regularly on-shares events when other NFP orgs ask. PLEASE DEVELOP A SOCIAL MEDIA PACKAGE. A socials tile, short text and live links. We don't have time to extract it from the email & repackage it all for you. Every. Damn. Time.

This is the second time being an amateur plant geek has won me a prize - I did kinda ok on a plant ID quiz (the other one being a 1kg pot of honey for the best guess on the number of seeds in a eucalypt pod back in the late 90s). This is such a gorgeous book, I'm super chuffed #COCE2025

I've just spent the day at an international conference where the background in-between-talks song was Hallogallo by NEU! Outstanding. youtu.be/zndpi8tNZyQ?...

I can tell you who the world's number one state sponsor of terror is and it isn't Iran

Woke right. Uh-huh. Ok. Say, is there some kind of new brain eating amoeba in the water supply that we should be concerned about?

Explain your @ I mean, I think it speaks for itself...

Next year they're going to slum it in a mid-budget motel that only has free to air tv channels

Once upon a time the vacuum cleaner disappeared under the couch and came out with a ball. Every vacuuming session since has had to be monitored closely. Very Closely.

Invade Greenland! Gaza-Lago! Tariffs 1.0! Elon good! Invade Canada! Panama Canal! Gulf/Golf! Saudi Arabia good! Tariffs 6.0! Deport everyone! Fire everyone! Harvard bad! Alcatraz good! Trans bad! Zelenskyy bad! Tariffs 9.0! South Africa bad! Protestors bad! Elon bad! Epstein! Sad parade! Bomb Iran!

I gave Catch-22 a couple of red hot goes back in the 90s but I could never really get into it. Reading it again now and I can't stop laughing. Maybe I wasn't cynical enough in my early 20s, it's one of the most diabolically funny and pig-headedly frustrating things I've ever read.

The G7, a study in 'this fucking guy' eyeball language youtu.be/PeAx_CKbC_w?...

Still life with a sleepy spaniel

I claim a pair of blundstones every couple of years because I technically do sometimes wear them out to work field trips. Follow me for more Financial Hacks.

The recommended amount of powder:milk for any hot chocolate based drink are wildly insufficient and not taken seriously by anyone. Sincerely, reality.

And also, how do I get $750k in retirement savings? Asking for a friend. Asking for a lot of friends. And me. Asking for me and a really large number of friends.

How I define success: - Getting outdoor jobs done before the rains come -Finding a 2nd-hand treasure - Making a meal out of something about to go bad,or something I grew -Building, making or repairing anything - Finally finding a use for a thing I hung onto for 20 years Feel free to add yours!

Sure Jan.

Going to add 'Musk gets sent to El Salvadori prison' and 'Trump's Tesla explodes' as outliers for my 2025 US politics bingo card

This modern remake of Caligula is a gas. Now he's having a very public diva-spat with Incitatus.

Me, reading the 'Early Signs of Burnout' up on the toilet wall at work. 'Oh!' 'Oh....'

Real talk. I bet you own too many rubber bands and you know you won't ever need more than a few but they might be useful and so you just keep adding them to your junk drawer, don't you? Don't you?

Pet peeve moment but I hate it when an audiobook narrator affects (& butchers) an accent when characters are in a non English speaking country, speaking their own language, to each other. Cinema used to do this too although they finally grew up. 'Oui arr een Pahrees, you con tell by mah ahxent'

A glass of red, pasta puttanesca made wirh my own tomatoes, olives and nasturtium capers, and a couple of very contented couch hounds

Well if there's one thing that Meta insights can deliver it's that our attention spans have been absolutely decimated. You've got an average of about 5 seconds, tops. Everyone's creating but somehow nobody's watching.

"If this was somewhere else in the world, there would be a national outcry. "The pollutants that are coming out of those Woodside stacks are actively degrading the rock art surfaces. "It's incontestable." 🎙️Professor of Archaeology Benjamin Smith #savemurujuga #auspol

Is Trump just a using a random word generator to come up with policies at this point? I mean yes, I get that he's pathologically unhinged but the autofill function on my phone is more coherent.

The annual autumn tradition of naming all of the spiders that have moved into the house for winter