I am always tickled by these. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazda_R...

Come with me back to a time when someone would mail you a thing and it would eventually arrive; and the whole process generated zero emails.

Pure slow-motion heroism from the whole family. Just astonishing. They just kept going.

Our place is on the left just after the badminton ka'bah, you can't miss it.

On Friday lunchtime I went over to have a nap under a tree in the park; and set off a chain of events that ended with me back at work, locked out on our small barbecue area deck, no phone, for 25 minutes.

The best part is how they both look utterly crestfallen.

Afternoon

One thing I see liberal outlets giving ground on that I feel the need to correct: it’s impossible to “dox” a paid public official By simply reporting their name, institutional role, and political affiliations

Dave Graney tribute band called I Held The Cruel Bees #niche

I sincerely appreciate that right from the first steps, the Thark Ridge Track on kunanyi/Mt Wellington suggests you just fuck off home.

‘Poldark on Mopeds’ is a singularly brilliant few seconds of television.

I'd never heard of Cameon Winter a week ago but now I think he is probably a genius. His band Geese is first class, his solo album is very odd indeed but this is a stomper. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xee_...

I wonder if people ever find themselves Troved. As Trove does its excellent work digitising old newspapers (Canberra Times is up to 1995) there must be from time to time things people assumed were buried pretty deep getting somewhat… unburied.

It's no big deal but Buzz Aldrin's mother's maiden name was Marion Moon

the thing about that “first they came for” poem is that we’re at least halfway through it, and it’s not a very long poem

Don't forget to win the test boys #ashes

Go well Usman, a great career for Australia and a wonderful human being. 🏏 #ThanksUzzy #Ashes

Trav is doing the right thing here, giving Jake a chance to knock up a dead rubber century.

Never been more necessary to show up, witness and post quick. Organised quality fakes corroborating each other still takes time.

Been rewatching Golden Girls. Grew up with the dub, it's crazy how different the sub is.

#ashes A bit of excitement

Next time ABC are broadcasting the rhythmic thump of the pitch tamper could we have a Diz or Corbin freestyle rap please. #ashes #grandstand

Australia's weirdest named suburbs; what have you got? 1. Beserker (Rockhampton) 2. Kings Meadows (Launceston) 3. ?

"Brydon Carse has given everything. He has been flogging in like a dead horse." Aggers is ready to go home. #Ashes #Grandstand

When It Happens there had better be one hell of a Shootout at the DC Corral between Vance Miller Trump Jr Hegseth etc. Dust settles and the head of the DC Drainage Board is the ranking Republican.

We've jumped out of the blocks

Community notice — be careful out there this week. Heatwaves kill more people in Australia each year than any other natural hazard. Hot days & nights Wed, Thu, Fri especially inland. Check on your people & animals ❤️❤️

Wide-stance chuds like Hegseth love to say they are freeing up their 'warfighters' from rules and paperwork. Stephen Miller has a boner about pure power of arms wiping out international law. If you're in US uniform out there in the real world how do you feel about this? It's Mogadishu rules.

The 'man of the series' conversation has started. OK pack it up. #Ashes

Happy Usman Day to those who celebrate

I got an amazing parking spot at 7am for my 4pm podiatrist appointment (had to bring bags of shoes) then spent an extra hour walking around before work on my sore heel. Some kinda genius I guess.

If this place had the Sports Juice right now there'd just be a welter of two word skeets "Missing Leg"

I know we have some cricketers with funny names in the #Ashes and we ought to be over it by the 5th test of the summer but come on. DUCK FOR TONGUE!

We've invaded Venezuela because of drugs, and we might invade Colombia because of drugs. Then Greenland because of… drugs.

S Clark stop badgering A Mitchell about break dancing and Crufts, she is trying to call the cricket.

www.theguardian.com/football/202... How is West Ham's away record at Lincoln? Will be relevant next season when they're both in the Championship.

Great fun being able to beat up on England whether they get out (hopeless!) or spank a chanceless century (oh shame ya couldn't do it when it mattered ya pillock)

Mixed emotions to learn - Craig the elephant has died - There was an elephant named Craig

Jacob Bethell's synth pop combo had some top 40 hits in 1984/5, went solo at their peak, and was never heard of again. UNTIL NOW. #ashes

It's inane that a small and young league like the A League has a strip clash like Melb City / Sydney FC. Hard for my small brain to watch this and remember who is Sydney. #MCYvSYD

TIL that 'panic' is short for 'panic fear', literally groundless fear as engendered by the God Pan. We treat it like a noun but panic was an adjective.

This guy rode to the tip and back with me. Now we're gonna go from town to town together, solving crimes.

Not getting offered after dinner mints as often as I'd like.

Before seeing "Avatar: Fire and Ash" @benpartridge.bsky.social: The first one's one of the worst films ever made; the second one was like wading through hot cat sick. Henry Paker: It took the baton didn't it, and shoved it up it's own arse.

While the media continues to whip up a frenzy over a royal commission into the Bondi attack, the chief of staff to Chris Minns fought a summons to appear to a NSW Parliamentary Inquiry to answer questions about the Dural carvan hoax -- and won. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

These are the hammock days of our lives

To any bees on here: my face is NOT a big flower. I don't know how this got started but I don't have ANY pollen and I'm sick of it. Please share with your networks.

Email today from a guy called Paul Hibbert; like the late Vic cricketer. I said I think we've met; we sat and chatted on a Skybus from Tullamarine once? He said nah mate, been to Melbourne once and I didn't like it. Now I remember it was Paul *Sheahan*. But not *that* one, his cousin, same name.

Things are crook when the ICC *does something*

I'm properly on holiday! Put on my new board shorts and took the wave ski for a paddle up and down Browns River, then had a toasted ham and cheese croissant. The shorts have pineapples on them. More details as they come to hand.