San Francisco’s Ocean Beach!

Oof.

Finally feeling that cooling southerly. 🤗 In the trees outside it sounds like a rough surf, whooshing in gusts. Here inside I’m at last getting some cool air to breathe - yay. Might even be able to sleep now. 🙏🏼

Tennis inflation… 🎾Total purse for Aus Open increases by 16% in 2026 to Aus$111.5mn. 🎾 Ouch: decent ticket for Women’s Final a lazy $1,999. #ausopen

44 degrees in Melbourne is high anxiety for chikkies - and this anxious ‘minder’. They survived - with lots of chilled melon, extra shallow bowls of water…and all digits crossed 🐓

Goodnight all. And, thank you. And may we remember our shared humanity & contribute in whatever ways we can to living together peacefully. 🪷 🕊️ 🪷

Mount Warning in beautiful Bundjalung Country on the NSW north coast.

Rallies will be held across Australia against a visit from Israel's president Isaac Herzog, with organisers calling on the government to instead impose sanctions on Israeli officials Melbourne rally organiser Jasmine Duff spoke to 6 News: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlRl...

A message from Sikh Volunteers Australia (based in S/E Melbourne) if you’re able to help them with some small ‘goodie bags’ to be handed out to firefighters in Victoria. They’ll need to dropped off to their base In Langwarrin #auspol #VictorianBushfires

A remarkable read👇

“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”

Smoke from #VicFires. Avoided being out in it

The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred. It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become

Zionist lobby groups: If we give an Indigenous Voice to Parliament it will be divisive. If we don't give a Zionist voice to Parliament it will be antisemitic. #auspol

Denton, Garner, FitzSimons, Dalton, de Krester, Hammer, Lette, Zadie Smith... It is very much at the point where the lower risk is actually to drop out. That is the mainstream position. The Festival board (and those who support them) are the extremists.

He shot her in the head, then called her a “fucking bitch.” That isn’t self defense, it’s an angry execution.

#ICE #Trump #USA

"Australia is told [of] an unprecedented wave of antisemitism, a crisis requiring extraordinary measures, including a Royal Commission. But police data, court findings, and parliamentary evidence tell a very different story" #auspol michaelwest.com.au/antisemitism...

No-one should buy this. He’s neck deep in it. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Just saw a text Message from Ausgrid about power outage. So they are across it. 👍

Uh oh. I think we have a power outage here in North Sydney. Hope it’s just that & not a bunch of appliances a kettle, tv, etc , suddenly calling it quits. Luckily phone & iPad are charged. But hey, it’s very u expected.

God you don't know how insufferable I would've been if I'd written this. WELL DID I TELL THEM OR DID I TELL THEM?!?

If only…..

#adelaideWriters www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

Feelin’ Hot Hot Hot youtu.be/rbc_LxfhSoY?...

I know how you feel buddy, and your situation is a lot more dire than mine. 🙏#ClimateChange #BloodyHumans

Thank you Laura Tingle, Peter Greste, Helen Garner and Yanis Varoufakis — along with the rapidly growing list of writers who have shown moral conviction by withdrawing from the Adelaide Writers Festival. Their courage will not be forgotten.

Affected (or know someone who is) by Jan 2026 Victorian Bushfires? Click➡️ emergency.vic.gov.au/relief/#janu... Info. /Links to 🔸Relief Centres (images below) 🔸Help with pets, livestock etc 🔸Emergency Relief Payments 🔸Travel/Road Closures 🔸Power Outages & more... #Vicfires

Please support the Sikh Volunteers...

Any writer’s festival that would let politicians dictate who is allowed to speak isn’t an event worth associating with

rare to see an american politician speak in these terms and it rocks

Bit hot right now in my ‘hood. (Temp in Celsius for Fahrenheit.)

Zero sympathy for the Australian Jewish Association In 2018, they invited Lauren 'The Great Replacement' Southern & her Nazi security detail to tour Bondi & Caulfield. Her rhetoric helped inspire the Christchurch massacre. They need a history lesson. Nazis are bad, mmmkay?

Coral reefs could feed millions if we let them rebuild [via Smithsonian] 🧪🥼🌊🦐🐠 "study quantifies [what's] lost by [overfishing] reef #fish communities [for] food provisioning and, in turn, how much could be gained from rebuilding #reef fish stocks" stri.si.edu/story/fishin... #food #security

Best of 2025 – New revelations of the Murdoch empire’s underbelly – From The Hack’s real-life journalist https://johnmenadue.com/post/2026/01/best-of-2025-new-revelations-of-the-murdoch-empires-underbelly-from-the-hacks-real-life-journalist #auspol

Treemissions A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

For the millionth (ok, the second) time today, this is not how it works. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

TBH it's like attacking a flea with a sledgehammer. Josh not the brightest person.

Looks like ICE is now cracking down on … Native Americans. This letter was just posted by the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North/South Dakota: “Our Nation is a sovereign government and our members are not immigrants. We are not subject to immigration enforcement on our own lands.”

"Some may not like what Randa Abdel-Fattah has to say, but then others may not like what pro-Israel writers who are also to speak at AWW have to say either. And that is the point – all deserve to be heard."

Who would have ever thought that it would be a president of the United States who would threaten to invade NATO territory and not Vladimir Putin?

Kathy Lette's out?! The Adelaide Festival Writers' Week is no more! It has ceased to be! It's expired & gone to meet its maker! It's a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace! If Malinauskas hadn't nailed it in the press it'd be pushing up the daisies. Its literary processes are now history! It's

Well... I guess I'm glad Zionists murdered a writer's festival and not hundred of thousands of children this time

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... “The Israeli government, through the publication of this dossier, is seeking to interfere in Australian political discourse by attempting to intimidate and discredit critics of the Israeli Government.”

Political cartoonists are not fuckin’ around this week. (thread) 1. Pat Bagley

As stated, this is an interim list which will be updated. Many people on it won't even know about the fiasco yet. People are free to make their choice, once they know about it. (What an incredible line-up has been so insulted & sabotaged. Look at this list of what the festival was going to be.)

😳 It’s mighty hot out there already. #sydney #heatwave

Best of 2025: The revelations of Nick Davies book’s afterword add considerably to our knowledge of developments over the last decade and to a deeper understanding of the politics and culture of the Murdoch empire. #auspol #Murdoch #review