Rice, lentils, oats and frozen vegetables will get you a long way. But even this menu assumes luxuries that people experiencing poverty simply cannot access, @jasemurphy.bsky.social writes.

New PB at Aldi! No special buys but a few bottles of booze.

I did over 15000 days in a row the same: I ate things. And then, bam. I **stopped**. Trying #fasting. 3 days in, it's not impossible but still, awful! Here's to another 15000 back in the old mode!

#aflgf post. I forecast a day where the half-time kick-to-kick stretches out for the neutrals: the Cats will have all but buried them by half time. A few consolation goals and let's say a 33 point final margin. #aflcatslions #GoCats

There's heavy philosophy about the path to happiness but for me the recipe is just embarrassingly *corporeal*. A tendency to joy transforms to existential despair if I simply. stop. exercising.

Regular reminder: Australia's inflation data is overstated because they sample the price of legal cigarettes, which are up 12 per cent. And not the cigarettes people buy, which are cheaper than they have been for a decade. #ausecon 1/2

Shared Responsibility. @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social

"Mass Psychogenic Illness" at Heathrow Airport-NOT! by David Tuller @davetuller1.bsky.social virology.ws/2025/09/12/t... Image is screenshot from latest Science for ME weekly update

My grandparents couldn't imagine this: meat less per kilo than spuds... www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/18/p...

Day6 Km Takayasu 0-5 (L) Km Aonishiki 3-2 (R) Another installment of “blunting Ao’s attack” laboratory. #Akibasho2025

My grandparents couldn't imagine this: meat less per kilo than spuds... www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/18/p...

Anyone else going to the MCG tonight?! #aflcatshawks. I'm beside myself🫣😬🫨🥺🙀!!

Coeliac was known for a very long time, but not understood, until world war 2. The disruptions to diet in that era were like a natural experiment that shone a bright light on the disease. #Mecfs has been known but not understood for ages. But covid and #longcovid have shone a light on it. 1/2

Coeliac was known for a very long time, but not understood, until world war 2. The disruptions to diet in that era were like a natural experiment that shone a bright light on the disease. #Mecfs has been known but not understood for ages. But covid and #longcovid have shone a light on it. 1/2

Do we hate to love Anko, or love to hate it? I wrote this: au.finance.yahoo.com/news/kmarts-...

Thanks to Ticketek incompetence, I saved myself $77 and a cold trip to the MCG on Friday! Am telling myself watching on TV will be great! 🧖 Can even see it at the pub. #aflCatsLions

New episode of Cut Through is out! In which @jasemurphy.bsky.social very patiently explains to me why the Economic Roundtable crew are so obsessed with "productivity" & we discuss the strange approach to housing #auspol Listen on all of the apps + YouTube: open.spotify.com/episode/2iCs...

I have never been visible on YouTube prior to today: this is my debut! (Been cutting my own hair for about 6 months now and I don't think it shows too badly but... you may see it differently ... 🫣) www.youtube.com/watch?v=547E...

The failure mode of gumboots. A photo essay...

The use of Fahrenheit in the song How to Make Gravy is just an egregious blunder by Paul Kelly, a man whose instincts are usually very good. No Aussie talks about it being a hundred degrees at Christmas.🦐

Shout out to my beloved who has *nailed* this cake from the venerable book.

Ever seen a video of a self-driving cars getting, say, lost in a carpark and someone's scoffing like, UGH! these things! They will never be useful!? Here's what I think of as a "comparator dataset" where we look at the actual status quo. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWTC... 1/2

Listening to Tesla's q2 earnings call and Mr Musk's demeanour at the beginning was stable and smooth. But within just 15 minutes he is slurring his words and leaving long pauses. This could get fun by the time we arrive at Q&A !

Giving a country 'map measles' - dots all over the map - just because rich countries have that? No.

14 years and 7 months old. This Curly Coat Retriever is somehow both on her last legs *and* still desperate for two walks a day.

So, steel cut oats. They're just like gravel? The only way to eat them is to make porridge?

@jamieleftpeg.bsky.social footy book: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

The gap between "men's" and "women's" jobs is shrinking. That's a good thing, economist @jasemurphy.bsky.social writes.

How was Japan? Sound off below if your last Kyoto okonomiyaki was a couple of weeks ago, because the statistics say you probably just got back

If the sun's out, I runs out (to buy a flat white and a loaf. not really for want of caffeine or bread but instead in an attempt to bolster the stores of mental health that Melbourne weather has depleted).

Beautiful assessment by @peterfitz1.bsky.social www.smh.com.au/sport/tennis...

"We're building *you* five new stations" hits much harder than "We're building five new stations." Dog endorses this marketing.🐶

FYI Bluey is a girl. The other kid, Bingo: also a girl.

Any journalist who doesn't write "Nagi Maehashi has been contacted for comment about the apparent quality of this pastry," is derelict in their duties. Send the email!

Its probably true and totally fascinating but you can't help notice the positive spin on Neanderthals since they discovered, a few years back, white people all have Neanderthal DNA...

Erin Patterson walking into women's prison at mealtime and everyone pulling their lunch tray in a bit closer.

Please watch and send me your reactions!

A tasting menu of Bluey episodes for the uninitiated. Spend 35 minutes tonight on these episodes and see why it is not just prestige *children's* TV but elite storytelling. 1. S1 Weekend. This is the pilot epsiode. Meet the characters, get the vibe. Be surprised by the feelings it delivers.

@stevenlenton.bsky.social enquiring minds would like to know: what breed of dog is Slippery Sam? Thanks from a curious 3-year old!

My child demanded a crocodile sculpture. 🐊

I had vitamin B6 poisoning I reckon. Was taking two products with it for ages and my fingers started hurting so much. Doctor diagnosed Raynaud's but that never really matched. Changed my vitamins - pain slowly went away. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

Feeling bad for news editors these few weeks, who have to be ready to go with the Mushroom jury verdict, and no idea when it will drop: today? next Friday? Anything could happen.

Consequences of data breaches should be higher for companies: $10 per piece of data taken. If you have 1000 customer email addresses, that's a potential $10,000 liabillity. If, like Qantas, you keep 10 pieces of data on 10,000,000 customers, that's a $1b liability. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

I just read a review of an experimental private school in Texas. Here's a couple of their extra-curricular activities. !!!

Next job: Replace my solar panels, which look like water got in them?

Possibly my best received story in about two years. Editors keep emailing me to tell me they loved it. :) www.crikey.com.au/2025/06/26/b...

Replaced our gas heater with electric and our usage is down by 70%. :)

interesting, and completely obvious effective of the insanely high ciggy taxes in Australia https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/06/26/black-market-cigarettes-tobacco-excise-inflation-australia/

Possibly my best received story in about two years. Editors keep emailing me to tell me they loved it. :) www.crikey.com.au/2025/06/26/b...