I have watched the Delta Goodrem Eurovision wassname (my only engagement with the whole thing) and... it's a perfectly adequate song, and has the most bling piano I've ever seen

This is very good. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

I'm reluctant to speak up on trans topics these days because it's often not worth the pain caused, so I'm probably going to regret this, but disappointingly a lot of people need to hear this. Accusing trans women of "male socialization" is an astonishingly cruel, callous, and spiteful thing to say.

Summer flowers in Hanoi My sister's photo

my wife sent me this photo the other day and said "you HAVE to draw this" and I agreed completely :3 Thank you for letting me draw it @lovatt.com ! bsky.app/profile/lova...

A friend in an alleyway

I think it's pretty obvious to everyone that the next Bond should be a trans woman, and I'm glad there's at least one thing that can unite us in this politically fraught era.

Follow @timritchie.bsky.social for views of Sydney you'd never normally see (Had misspelled his name in earlier post so have deleted and fixed)

A Sydney morning of many weathers: a warmer start; pleasant breeze; cloud cover; temperature drop and cold drizzle filled winds; clouds parting; sunshine now. Grey and then colourful, hello from Bondi.

The forecasters said stay in bed, showers. The sleep doctor said rise and shine. The weather gods said it’s time for a Sydney autumn dawn delight. Botany Bay on a rather balmy start.

Another damp day for Sydney. This is the normally busy corner of Crown and Devonshire Streets, but if you come early enough in the day, it might be just you and me.

Clearly I need to up my fucking game

The indexation of tax brackets is basically Angus Taylor saying don’t trust me to manage the budget, I can’t make a decision on taxes each year, I need a rule. Any govt each year could increase the thresholds in the budget. They don’t because $$$$ and also not every year is it good policy.

@profanity.accountant talk to me about swears

Important statement from all the national disability organisations - two weeks for submissions, only two hearings is wildly inadequate for such enormous changes in the lives of disabled people

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

Photographs of reflections - pink swamp rose mallow 🐡

Morning Jane, does purple-adjacent work?

Hello #PurpleFriday

Massive shoutout to nerds on the internet. Thank you for making my life easier because of your special interests and sharing that with everyone. Today's hero is Matthew Proctor

The Holy Book of the religion they profess to be a part of. Cover to cover. The whole thing. OK, maybe skip the ancestry bit unless personally important. But not just cherry picked sections they're told to and nothing else. And, damnit, ASK QUESTIONS!!!

Europe's grid operator warns that if data centre growth isn't well regulated, it would result in hard limits to renewable energy output in constrained areas. Now let's take a huge sip of coffee and check whether data centre growth is being well regulated ☕️ www.pv-magazine.com/2026/05/09/e...

One Nation’s victory in the Farrer byelection was a long time coming. The party’s backers have finally laid the groundwork to establish it as a major and permanent fixture in the Australian electoral landscape, writes @alexmckinnon.bsky.social. www.deepcutnews.com/p/one-nation...

Unemployment is *built into this system*, so the idea that everyone’ll be employed is insulting nonsense. Aspirational propaganda. Raise the rate. Do some good.

Yeah... key demographic.

My drow OC, Jesper Xorlarrin 🕷️📖 (2024) #dnd

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It's a cliche but it's true: budgets are about choices. Labor is choosing to let the 1% accumulate vast wealth while others make sacrifices. Often with their lives. Aged care, welfare, NDIS, public schools - it's always the people with the least asked to do the heavy lifting.

Just as I was about to run a training course for some colleagues, I upended an entire mug of tea across my desk. That's how my day is going. How is yours?

Hey @erinbiba.bsky.social farmers’ market sure has changed

I hear from the community they feel abandoned. Islamophobia, antisemitism, anti-Palestinian racism, racism against First Nations people need a sustained, systemic response. Together. Cutting the Human Rights Commission while rights violations are rising is the opposite of that.

Meanwhile the Government is allocating $124 million to Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) as part of the response to the Bondi shootings, for ECAJ to allocate that funding as it sees fit. Labor says this is for social cohesion.

A budget detail many missed last night was how the Albanese Labor government is addressing what it calls social cohesion. It is cutting $9 million from the Australian Human Rights Commission, the independent body that protects and serves every community equally.

Me at work: $25,000 - ah peanuts, that should be easy to get approved. Me at home: $25,000? I don't have that kind of money, I'm going to have to take out a loan or go without the thing This makes my brain go "ooof"

we've moved on from "making up a person to be mad at" to "making up a person to be mad on behalf of" and boy that sure feels like progress

I’m not a wealthy person. Will never be able to buy a house. However $250 will do bugger all to change my situation. It will do a lot more to change someone on Jobseeker’s situation. Weekly that is. #Auspol.

dear god PLEASE let this also lead to a wider acceptance that treatment needs to include *improving quality of life* and not just "how to make them have baby"

WHAT is this image choice of "conventionally attractive woman maybe has a headache or is upset about something in expensive shirt"?? please can we be serious about visual language????

The systematic war on Palestinian farming in the West Bank is an enraging travesty both for cultural identity and food security.

Quite literally all the cool artists were fringe and underground and counter-culture. The culture itself was a fever nightmare of Reagan era greed-as-virtue and rotted 80s excess.

Yeah literally just take their jobs and give them blindly to every random writer and activist that's been working free on here towards the good since twitter. Let us pick our hours. Pay us super generously. Things again would get immediately better right away.

JobSeeker is nearly $300 a week below the poverty line. Immiserating people on welfare is utterly immoral and makes it even harder for those who can work to find a job. We're sick of Labor crying poor when the 1% grow their wealth in their sleep. Tax the rich. Raise the rate.

I’ve known people that were told to just manifest a house by housing providers. Groceries electricity and rent have all increased and our politicians are happy to ignore it. They’ve never been in these positions and tonight I feel like they will ignore it again

In the last 5 years I’ve watched my community members priced out of rentals I’ve known 2 people suicide who were being evicted. I’ve watched people who never had to line up for food banks lining up. I’ve seen my local park be filled with tents.

Just build public housing. We shouldn't be offering corporate landlords incentives through the social security system to house people, the government should just build enough public housing (NOT "community" housing) for everyone who needs it. michaelwest.com.au/budget-boost...

Australia, "The Lucky* Country" *if you're a landlord

Clermont Ferrand, France

Removing Deborah Conway from my music collection and playlists has been genuinely painful for me, but the sheer fury of her support for murderous apartheid and her claims of victimhood give me no other choice.