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

Please, my folks.

specifically, if I see one more article that doesn’t seem to grasp that Ukrainian FPV drone pilots are almost always on the frontline, in *extreme* danger, and are very regularly killed because their controller signals are easily detectable via electronic warfare methods

Food for the soul. Visually Noel Fielding is Painting Syd Barrett. It’s a feast for eyes and ears. youtu.be/Pd-qu_ErkbE?...

Yes please, my folks.

Please sign and share, my folks.

The very last Phryne. Shall be putting off tasks and reading!

A reminder to please teach the kids in your life, we don't approach or touch or talk to any service dog in harness. That dog is working and we don't distract it. And also for adults: don't take the arm of or otherwise touch another human without asking if you're required. #blind #lowvision

Ha, Classic Radio Ukraine, I salute you - what a lovely Bach-y day you're giving us. And not a single repeat!

A bacon sandwich on a Sunday morning is a fine thing.

Ha, persons of a certain age sharing stories...

I would be quietly pleased if all russians were collectively struck down with severe conjunctivitis, tinea and haemorrhoids, all at once. Now, please, universe.

Yet another of the reasons I vote Green - looking at real things, about real people.

All that said it’s hard not to watch this without a sense of weary despair… we won’t save this world will we. Somehow the momentary needs and greed of vested interest will win out. A tiny self-absorbed few will do for the rest of us… they’ll blight the future to line their pockets. Sod ‘em.

So here's the favour I want to ask: if this post crosses your feed, please take this chance to support the Gitxsan and Gitanyow by watching our latest HGA and passing it on. Help us put Ksi Lisims and PRGT on the map 🙏

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Because everything is shit, I give you ... Puggles. #Platypus #AustralianWildlife

Does your bank fund fossil fuels? Market Forces found that 85 out of 103 retail banks in Australia don't finance coal, oil and gas. Compare banks and take action. (I'm pleased to say mine never has.)

There was a sausage; the facilities are *still* closed (!); lost the specs and found them again; now to unload the car.

Word of the Day is ‘catchfart’ (17th century): an obsequious individual who sucks up to the boss and always follows the political wind.

Doing a Bunnings run tomorrow. For the uninitiated, this is how one makes a serious dent in the finances - garden stuff, building stuff, all sorts of goodies. I have a list, and I'll *try* to stick to it, but good luck wishes would be appreciated...

Oooh. Waiting... waiting...

Ha, the internet has been restored. And I managed not to use *all* the mobile data!

Internet outage has the provider scratching their collective head, so have resorted to tethering the phone. It's no *slower* than the miserly ADSL they allow us out here (no I will not use Starlink), but I wonder when I'll run out of data...

It's always annoyed me that the Windows DirectX diagnosis tool is called dxdiag when dx is a common abbreviation for diagnosis, so it should clearly be called dxdx. Just needed to tell someone

BoM reckons 24 tomorrow. It's going to have its work cut out - it's feeling a bit wintry at the moment! Add to that the internet connection died, so have taken to my bed with cats. For some things there's only one palliative.

The choice of music is delicious.

You can now inform your kids: “Clouds today are also made of polyethylene, polypropylene, polyethylene terephthalate, polymethyl methacrylate, polyamide 6, polycarbonate, ethylene-propylene copolymer, polyurethane and epoxy resin.” johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...

Have to agree, although we seem to be moving in the American direction, ugh.

When children grow up with constant criticism, they don’t stop loving their parents — they stop loving themselves. Love and forgiveness aren’t luxuries in parenting; they’re lessons in self-worth. Kids don’t need perfect parents — they need repair, not rejection. 💛

🏭☠️? Just found this great website: Reliability Watch - "We keep track of breakdowns at the (Australian) National Electricity Market’s fossil fuel powered stations." www.reliabilitywatch.org.au #auspol #EnergySky

“The fuck? Is that a mouse? Number one, phazerator on kill!” “On it, sir” “And run a level one diagnostic on the rodent control systems.” “It’s the ships cats, sir. They’re on strike.” “Explain!” “Spacefleet is evaluating computer controlled meteor defence. The Consolidated Union of Mousers […]

Nice. Pass it on, eh?

Also. on the drive there (Swan Hill. Keep up, people) I managed not to hit a couple of galahs. Perhaps as a reward, on the way back, I saw TWO stumpies - tiliqua rugosa asper, eastern stickleback, known locally as stumpy-tailed lizards - trundling purposefully across the road! <melt>

I know there's a good reason the optometrist shines horrifying lights in one's eyes, but I don't have to like it. In other news, facilities still closed (they'd better be seriously improved after all this); cats speaking seriously upon return, not even waiting for the unpacking...

All Saints' Day, ha. Let's see how Swan Hill sounds...

Aha, a warm day! <sheds layers happily>

Please sign and share, my Oz folks.

I know it's not sensible to eat in the middle of the night, but you people don't make it easy...

At last, cheaper Braille?

For those of us hornswoggled by the new BOM site, help is at hand:

Each evening at 6pm AEDT, 9am their time, Classic Radio Ukraine plays a minute of memorial for the fallen soldiers. Let's not forget that people are fighting and dying to try to preserve their place in the world, because of another invader, the inimitably horrible Putin and his cohorts...

Doesn't seem to have occurred to everyone yet that the US Congress may never reconvene.

Ireland has its collective head screwed on right. Would that more countries would emulate!

it's bad enough on its raw characteristics, but what's really emotionally destabilising is the substantial chunk of the clean tech climate space who have decided its their new job to excuse, rationalise, downplay and otherwise facilitate what is unambiguously a HUGE fossil infrastructure build-out

Catherine Connolly: "History did not begin on October 7. It's important to point out the history of the many atrocities committed by the Israeli regime. Western countries should have no say about Hamas. Hamas is part of the fabric of the Palestinian people. Israel is acting as a terrorist state."

Good one. Please sign and share, my Oz folks.

Fingers crossed...

I heard a Nat on RN talking about ‘prime farming land’ being sacrificed to wind turbines &solar. Let’s ignore coal mines & fracking as he did, but no one wants profitable land converted. Its in the rubbish land every farmer has that can be converted to renewables that opportunity lies. &he knows it.

I call on the Australian government to #RaiseTheRate of all support payments to a living wage. This would be the single most effective way to lift the productivity, quality of life, and well-being of the whole country. #CommitToALivingWage