Wind so strong it blew Darwin into Sydney.

A proposal to the gov’t that would improve Labor's changes to our environment laws so they actually protect nature, with 15 changes including removing native forest logging exemption & removing fossil fuels from national interest test You can read more below: www.davidpocock.com.au/proposal_to_...

Today’s noisy nature therapy

#Aussie Men around Australia mowing lawns and doing house maintenance jobs today instead of watching Test Cricket . "Bloody poms"

Veerrry interesting ….

Bastards!

its easy to feel powerless. But each of us has the power to save or transform lives. @nickKristof’ has done the research. Read his suggestions on gifts we can give that save lives www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/o...

VIVA Guy Pearce ✊️ Where are all the other celebrities on the holocaust of our times????? Crickets!! #IsraeliNazis #PalestinianHolocaust #FinalSolution #auspol #IsraelIsATerroristState

If government actually cared about child safety online, they’d ban targeted ads, not teenagers. But regulating corporations doesn’t win headlines. Punishing kids does. #auspol

In our future 🤬 www.scientificamerican.com/article/iran...

Just Saying 33Million #FCKN litres of water a #DAY !!! is what BHP take from only 2 wells supplied by “The Great Artesian Basin” we are mining our way to extinction FFS how can industry not #GAF that this is a Finite Resource a it’s like all those #FCKRS who thieve from the Murray. #Auspol

Australia must stand with the courageous Palestinian people as they suffer under Israel’s brutal illegal occupation. Israel must withdraw from all Palestinian territories, and pay reparations. 🇦🇺 🇵🇸 #IsraeliTerrorism #EndTheOccupation #FreePalestine

no sorry you’re right this technology is absolutely worth depleting our water supply

'Winter fields' by Hester Cox, English printmaker #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Most AI image detectors are unreliable but one reason we know this image is fake: it has Google's SynthID watermark. Google rolled out the ability to ask Gemini to check for the watermark this week. It can't be seen by the naked ID and is embedded in the pixels. This image has the SynthID mark.

MANY GREAT LEGAL SCHOLARS AGREE

Many great legal scholars. Maybe the best legal scholars. Nobody scholars the legal like they do. Top notch legal scholars, everyone. They come up to me, tears in their eyes, and say, we are so good at the legal, let us tell you what's happening. And I know more than them, but I listen anyway.

you alright bro

Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.

Oh, wow. How great. Thanks, Penny!

This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

For #BlueSkyArtShow on the theme #Small here's a close up of the tiny fruiting body of a Chlorociboria fungi.... a lovely little Elfcup! 🧝‍♀️💙 Happy Saturday everyone! #FungiFriends #Photography #Macro #EastCoastKin

This ‘memory’ dropped onto my screen today & reminds me that I haven’t been back to this beautiful place since just before covid. Way too long. But as a non driver it’s quite a hike : two buses about 90 minutes each way. I will get back this summer tho, & into the water, I promise myself. 🤞🙏🤞

Me ... after I impress the boss with my excellent graph (he loves a good graph). Australasian Swamphen, Mount Gambier. (And someone will tell now me what these are called in NZ. I don't know why people do this but they always do.)

No photography today - terrible weather - but hopefully tomorrow. So here's something from the vault. A ship at Port Adelaide. The photo has a Mondrian or Jeffery Smart feel about it.

You cant protect nature if you wont protect native forests from chain saws & bulldozers Great column by Virginia Young on Labors deeply flawed new ‘nature laws’…the ones that’s are so flawed the mining industry are desperately lobbying the Liberals to vote for them thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...

Gustave Courbet, L’immensité, 1869

The news has been coming so fast, I did another later which might not otherwise see the light.

Barnaby Joyce’s enormous hat looks ridiculous and only confirms the rural adage, ″⁣the wider the brim, the smaller the property″⁣. Donald Hirst, Armadale The Age, letters

Trusting @albomp.bsky.social @australianlabor.bsky.social to deliver a genuine, effective environmental protection bill is like trusting the fossil fuel lobby to draft it. 🤔…Oh, but they did, didn’t they? And like the toothless NACC, a sweetheart deal with LNP will see it passed into law #auspol

As mayor of New York Mamdani controls access to the one thing Trump values above all else: tickets to CATS.

This is going to be a challenge

Tina Brown on: Zuckerberg; “Meta’s slippery salamander” Prince Harry; “the ginger whinger” Lauren Sanchez; “proof landing the 4th riches man in the world requires the permanent display of breasts like genetically modified grapefruit” Listen to Brown whose observations are in a class of their own

Margaret having a suitcase bed as well as other beds is very splendid. I can imagine her thinking, "I shall retire to my chaise luggage" (in a French accent).

If you're still on Twitter/X you're standing there, listening to Nazis.

#Victorians! Our State Library is being trashed by a series of executives with no experience or understanding of public collections. Many hired as 'temps' without full process, who then caused scandals & exodus of specialist & librarian staff: a full wreck looms. www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

Mamdani probably got home, turned to his wife, and let out the longest, loudest “this fucking guy” of all time

DOD contractors “mistakenly” landed on a Mexican beach, declared it US property and planted “restricted area” DOD signs, triggering a tense confrontation with armed Mexican forces. Mexico removed the signs, insisting the area is theirs. Yet another example of total incompetence.

🇦🇺 Really important piece by my @qutdmrc.bsky.social colleague @antmandan.bsky.social in @aunz.theconversation.com on the ways that teenagers can protect themselves from the incredible damage to their lives that @albomp.bsky.social’s impending #SocialMediaBan will wreak.

Ok but this is totally something Charlotte Church would do

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. ~ Omar Khayyam

can't believe the BBC edited Donald Trump's posts to make it seem like he threatened violence against members of Congress

get your flu shot folks! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/h...

I asked grok who was the better role model for humanity, Jesus Christ or Elon Musk. GUESS WHAT.

Behind this important reversal is a member of the Coast Guard who saw what was happening and had the courage to leak it to the press. That person deserves serious praise.

You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?

I've removed the paywall permanently from this piece, which is a chapter from my novel Villager, told entirely in the form of an online village message board. If you like it, you'll probably like the book. If you don't, you won't... www.tom-cox.com/the-village-...