I wonder if the organisers realise this could end up slightly, er, *awkward* backstage...? #RiotFest

Since a number of you were asking... How good was it? This good. Let me inform you. #MattBerninger scenestr.com.au/music/review...

PSA: If unaware, Israel's National Security Minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, is a sociopathic sack of shit and a lowlife. #JustSayin' #GazaFlotilla

So the "A" in A-League stands for Aotearoa now? #AucklandFC #GrandFinal

Redneck MAGA glee in #Colbert's CBS show ending has the mood of 8th grade bully taking another kid's lunch money. Admittedly, 8th grade was probably the peak of many of their lives anyway. Much like their dear leader: Bad losers, even worse winners.

Overthinking, or brilliant character backstory?: Bluey's dad Bandit is an archaeologist. Thus: He is a dog that digs up bones.🤨

Mood (recurring). #Hug

So, the equation seems obvious: *Delta and Dami Im duet. *Duelling grand pianos. *Temu Celine-style big ballad. *Pyrotechnics: vocal and literal. Win assured. #Australia🇦🇺 #Eurovision

I like how we treat it, Terry Wogan-style, as a big glittery camp joke until we have an actual chance of winning. Then it suddenly becomes The Nobel Prize, The America's Cup, and Gallipoli rolled into one. #Eurovision #OurDelta

The Living Room Lamp (Cressida Campbell, 1982).

There are few sweeter words at this end of the season than "mathematically safe".🦚 Thank you Arsenal. Thank you VAR. #PremierLeague #LUFC

I am unsure if he's being represented as holding a strap on an imaginary subway train or pulling the chain of an old-style flush cistern. #Trump #GoldenCalf

Extraordinary thing. Get. This. Record. Ok, I haven't exactly worked out what's going on in about half of it, but that there are wonders afoot is certain. #AldousHarding #TrainOnTheIsland

Sydney Heads II (Margaret Preston, 1925).

Chocolate teapot challenges motorcycle ashtray to captain leaky boat. #Downer #Abbott #LiberalParty #auspol

Martin Place with taxi (David Moore, 1948).

Labyrinth (Jeffrey Smart, 2011).

Wait, Liam Bartlett is a desperate tabloid hack who misleads and misreports? I'm shocked, shocked I tell yas.* (*Yeah, not really shocked.) #MediaWatch #Spotlight

Even after the magically unscarred ear, even I didn't think he was capable of faking an assassination attempt. But this would suggest he's either completely deaf, or just didn't give the missus the heads-up the act was on... #Trump #WhiteHouseCorrespondentsDinner

Let's face it, the president's speech would have been so pissweak, it would have been met with silence in the room, and ridicule from the outside world. Stephen Miller organises "gunman" to avoid another Trump mantrum and Truth Social gushing. #WhiteHouseCorrespondentsDinner

St George #Dragons increasingly resembling current federal #LiberalParty: *Big in '60s and '70s. *Can't work out why what they did then isn't working now. *Getting flogged every outing. *Sack leader, install new one. *Still crap. #auspol #NRL

The stairway, Péronne (Arthur Streeton, 1918).

Depending on the vagaries of international time zones, we are in or around the 24th anniversary of an album that has saved my life more than once, and I still reckon is probably the best record of the 21st century. Fight me. #Wilco #YankeeHotelFoxtrot

Book just finished, book just started. Both have climate change as a major plot point. Could be it's a thing, eh? #IanMcEwan #GeorgeSaunders

Just here for the default #MAGA reactions: *Every vote they lose must be "rigged". *Every charge or arrest is a "witch-hunt". *Every legal case they lose is "activist judges". *Every protest is "paid actors". I just wish "the left" were half as organised as the Trumpists think they are. #Virginia

Like some of the privatised Job Service Providers for the unemployed, #NDIS contractors mostly being for-profit companies attracts spivs and shonks who are just monetising peoples' misery. That's the part of the system that's broken. #MarkButler #NPC #auspol

Newtown celebrity spotting, #4665: #BenLee in queue at Bourke St Bakery. It was crowded, but we were all in this together. I didn't stand too close, as I worried I might catch his disease. Of course, I didn't think of those references until well after I'd crossed King Street. #LEspritDeLescalier

The Walker (Jeffrey Smart, 1965).

Parsley Bay (Cressida Campbell, 1992).

Happy #InternationalHaikuDay. #Bilston

Park At Night (Noel McKenna, 2001).

If you're a 'self-proclaimed' anything, perhaps check the veracity and credibility of your sources. #JustSayin'

Interesting to watch #MAGA suffering from both a disabled gag reflex so they'll swallow anything, and a goldfish memory for when he contradicts what he said five minutes earlier. And he's saying he was portrayed as a Red Cross doctor? Oh do fuck off. #Iran

I believe we have a winner. #America

#Jaguar's new logo/typeface is apparently causing quite some consternation among the flat-cappers. But it's not the first time the company's changed images. They actually started out as "Swallow Sidecars", but the late 1930s saw them reconsider their name and crest. Perhaps wisely...

Unfortunately we can't just tell #America to go fuck itself right now, because hopefully one day sooner rather than later, it won't be run by a geriatric infant with impulse control issues. #PennyWong #auspol

To the MAGAs sooking about #TomMorello mixing music and politics: As the now old joke goes, What Machine did you think he was Raging against, the toaster?

Not sure this reboot of Jimmy Stewart's Harvey is hitting quite the right note... #Trump #EasterEggHunt #Iran

Ah, #America. Crude, threatening, unhinged. And that's just the president. #Fuckin'

Ah, #NRL tradition. Like Cronulla changing the name of their home ground every season. So, it's now Ocean Protect Stadium. Aka: Endeavour Field, Pointsbet Stadium, Southern Cross Group Stadium, Remondis Stadium, Toyota Park, Ronson Field, Caltex Field, Shark Park, and/or Sharks Stadium...🦈.

Used to the mix of Christ hanging round the Cross and a bunny distributing chocolate eggs... However, some local shopping centres now add another tangent: said giant rabbit is accompanied on his mission by "Alice". From the gospel according to Lewis Carroll, apparently. #Easter

Australians, particularly rural: "Why can't the bloody government just stay out of our lives?" Australians, particularly rural, after natural disaster, or maybe a fuel shortage: "Why isn't the bloody government helping us?" #auspol

Earlier draft: "It is my melancholy duty to point out some of you will carry on like pork chops at the bowser like you did wrestling over the last six-pack of Sorbent a few years back. Cut it the fuck out..." #AlbaneseAddress #Fuel #auspol

*Thirty* years ago, old mate already had her sussed... #Keating #Hanson #auspol

Please note the difference between "Cancelled", where punters get their money back, and "In liquidation", where no-one is quite sure where the money has gone. #BigRedBash

House in Tamugimata (Ray Morimura, 1999).

Resorting to having to watch Sunrise, even post-Kochie, or Today with Karl doing his Temu Tucker Carlson impression, should be enough for most people to realise how much we need the #ABC.😬 #ABCStrike #auspol

Morning Star (Peter Kingston, 2002).

How dare you reveal our candidate was a sex offender, you bastards! You're dropped. #SAvotes #OneNotion #auspol