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We are having so many wrong conversations - this is a major one thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...

just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management. remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.

Omar is a good person, the best person. A great poet, a great advocate, and a caring parent with a child who's just been diagnosed with leukemia. It's taking a lot out of their small family. Please donate to their GoFundMe below.

Today we learned of a shocking amendment to the income apportionment bill that involves police in social security decisions. We're joining the call for Labor to abandon police powers to stop Centrelink payments. Why is @amyremeikis.bsky.social is the only one in the press gallery covering this?

Your TL has been blessed by the comfy Phil of good fortune. Share or reply with "trans rights" for a years good luck #Ratsky #Petsky

Today is my youngest kid’s 24th birthday. I’m not sure how that happened. Has there really been that many years gone by? It doesn’t feel like I have enough memories in my head to fill all that time.

End all funding every single private employment services provider. Salt the earth so those in change of them never get any public money ever again - run them out of the country. Get rid of mutual obligations Bring back the CES Raise the fricken rate Ain’t hard.

The ALP didn't bother negotiating with the Libs when it changed IR laws, but now apparently it needs LNP support for environmental protection changes. When govts want to do something, they do it. When they don't, they use bipartisanship as the excuse. No one here should fall for it

I have had a lazy morning of a sleep in followed by scrambled eggs cooked by my eldest, birthday scones baked by my middle kid, and a pot of tea. If I’d had half a brain I’d have cancelled my work shift this afternoon and given myself the whole day off. But I didn’t. Oh well.

So the client is not funded for active overnights, but the client isn’t safe to get up alone through the night. You end up being pressured to do active nights without proper pay because the ndis funding isn’t available

This happens a lot in SIL and respite: NDIS plan funding doesn’t meet the complex care needs, but to fail to care for the client based on their needs is a failure of duty of care aboutregional.com.au/cobargo-char...

Bugger. We forgot it was bin night last night.

private equity ghouls rebadge as a charity, then use charity rules to rip off workers www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Today I went to my ex-boyfriend’s place to drop off a bag of his stuff and pick up the few things I wanted that I had left there. It was a very not fun experience and I am having trouble processing feeling like the worst person ever but also kind of angry about being massively guilt tripped.

I can’t find the right words. @asherwolf.bsky.social I’m sorry. Your work deserves recognition. You are owed so much better than this

<clears throat> www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0FP...

Bloody hell! This is atrocious! #auspol Yes, the betting companies should have to return the money! 😡 Betting companies keep millions stolen from investors by 'VIP' gambler

It's Don't Argue Inside Your Head With Other People Friday. Today, if you find yourself arguing inside your head w/someone who's not present, or whom it's not safe or not fair for you to argue with, gently move your mind away. Do this as many times as you need.

Great, at a time of heightened tension between religions, a leading politician decides to play favourites. Separation of church & state PROTECTS religious freedom, for ALL people of faith & this nonsense undermines that freedom. Stunts like this--WITHIN parliament!--are unconscionable. Disgraceful.

Recognition in the genocide.

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

Fuck that guy, eternally. Link within to Lila Shapiro's definitive @nymag.com piece. Using this link because some folks might not be aware that NG is **suing** one of the survivors of his alleged abuse. something something "ally" something something "feminism" www.vulture.com/article/neil...

Bloody excellent news www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

NOT SAFE FOR RESTING HEART RATE

Yael van der Wouden, who won last night’s @womensprize.bsky.social for Fiction, said she was intersex in her speech and had only got the right treatment because of “every trans person who’s fought for healthcare.” Say it again: Transphobia. Hurts. Everyone.

You’ll be too young to remember, but there was a time when you could wake up as many as three mornings in a row and not find the world had lost its fucking mind.

There oughta be a law against saying you'd love to share something terrible Trump said then not actually sharing it

Australia’s definitely-gonna-happen submarine deal.

Lovely story by @jrdawson.bsky.social in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social www.uncannymagazine.com/article/six-...

A week ago I took my final dose of Effexor. I’d been pretty much fine each time I dropped my dose down, taking it super slowly over a number of months (I’ve lost track 🤣) but going from a little bit to none was apparently a different thing altogether. I am not having fun.

Today's cartoon... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

New glasses. Slightly more expensive than the car repair will be but much more enjoyable. And will result in fewer headaches.

Close encounters of the concrete pillar kind. 😩 I should have stayed in bed. Can only just get the door open wide enough to get in and out.

The brutal truth behind the destruction of not just ancient Indigenous rock art, but the world’s oldest art gallery containing the worlds oldest image of a human face is that for many in the fossil fuel industry destroying indigenous heritage isn’t a cost, its a bonus benefit.

Commiserations to all those facing flood devastation. While you’re sandbagging, Labor is clearing the way for even more climate chaos.

Got my flu and Covid vaxxes done on Wednesday morning. Spent yesterday feeling wobbly and exhausted but still managed a 5 hour shift with my lovely blind couple clients and had excellent garlic prawns while they were having a date night dinner. Today’s plan of a lazy morning is going well.

What do you call it? My @smh @theage cartoon.

What we send. My @smh @theage cartoon.

Today, EnergyAustralia has been forced to admit what @australiainstitute.org.au research has long shown: Carbon offsets are a total sham & do nothing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Time for the govt to stop trumpeting them as the answer. They are not www.energyaustralia.com.au/about-us/med...

Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand: A teen (18?) has just been told the car sitting in the driveway is hers. Tearful happy hugs for Mum, Dad, Nan and Pops. It might be twenty years old. It might not be a cool make or model, but it's hers, it's freedom and it's been given with love. (1)

This is the funniest science writeup I've seen in a long time. It's about why cats are so perfectly evolved 🧪 Apparently lots of other animals have "tried to be cats" and the fact that other species have so much more variation is "because they suck" 😆 www.scientificamerican.com/article/cats...

They knew how to take umbrage properly in the old days… 😉

Pet parrots were taught to do video calls, and it was a hit. The birds not only made friends with each other, and selected who they wanted to call and when, but also picked up new skills from fellow parrots. Good enrichment option for improving captive parrot welfare. 🧪🦜 dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Let The Adventure Begin @marthawells.com #murderbot

The Jewish Council calls on the re-elected Albanese government to immediately sanction Israel and comply with our obligations under the Genocide Convention and international law. This includes cutting all economic, military and diplomatic ties with Israel. Media release here: tinyurl.com/5ydypam7

“If you see this post the most recent picture of yourself on your camera roll” This is how I answered my boyfriend’s “How are you feeling?” text this morning.

Streeeeeetch. #jarvisgaleni #sebastianaral #matildaekaterin #cats