defending against who?

I'm a bit puzzled by today's 'e-bike horror' story - a teen was hit by Land Rover Defender pulling out of a car park onto Stirling Highway.

I wish stories like these interrogated the extent to which doctors are worried because this issue threatens their incomes - that's who rebates ultimately go to. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

that listening age spotify thing, such obvious bait, come on what are we doing here, please everyone just stop falling for this stuff

This Pluribus ad on a fridge caused a schizophrenic woman named Carol to be hospitalized.

@withmeaa.bsky.social is raising funds for the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate, and the Media, Safety & Solidarity Fund with this fantastic t-shirt (front and back shown). Pre-order now from www.meaa.org/shop/#!/MEAA...

Just came across a shared pedestrian/cycle path 'closed in one direction' making me wonder if anyone in Main Roads or councils know how people and bikes are different from cars.

French journalists' unions file legal case against Israel over lack of access to Gaza - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/french-journalists-unions-file-legal-case-against-israel-over-lack

The power of firing the imagination

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

Incredibly depressing if the lesson of the US is preemptive institutional surrender

Every Sydney taxi is on some kind of retainer from transport NSW to teach you it’s easier to just take the train, even if your bag is a bit heavy.

Staff at the ABC have voted to reject management’s insulting enterprise agreement offer, which sought to undermine previous wins, stall careers and worsen job insecurity. MEAA members at the ABC are not only fighting for fair pay and conditions but for the future of the national broadcaster.

Why are people so into Helen Garner?

Not sure these two things are compatible www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

ABC workers deserve a fair deal—not a step backwards. The current proposal fails to deliver on pay, conditions, and respect for the work you do every day. Vote NO to their insulting offer. #FairDealForABC #VoteNOatABC

Having to listen to Freya Leach feature on one of my all time favourite podcasts @ifbookspod.bsky.social was excruciating especially as Peter seems to hate us all now

Deranged stuff from the PTA here

Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.

It had been waning for years, this year for the first time ever there was zero cup activity in the office. No sweeps, no turning the tv on, nothing.

I think it looks cute www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

"Some kind of 'producer'" x.com/dailyportalz...

Unbelievable

I can’t stress this enough: you cannot understand politics without reading this paragraph about why there’s no such thing as a 1/3rd pound hamburger

Just got an email from Hesperian Press showing their latest released book, including from the publisher and owner who has some new titles of his own out... the blurbs make interesting reading 1/

UNION WIN! Over 150 ABC staff on rolling contracts have been converted to ongoing employment after MEAA took action in the federal court to enforce the law.

All the book on my top 10 that were in the preloaded list got into the top 100, and none of my other picks did. www.abc.net.au/listen/radio...

would love to know the backstory here

Liberal senator says she is ‘too fond of good coffee’ to join Nationals where she’d ‘have to talk a lot slower’

Good news for ABC staff thanks to their union @withmeaa.bsky.social and a brave producer willing to stand up - over 100 staff who've spent years on insecure successive contracts (the column is incorrectly says they were casual) have some much needed job security. www.theguardian.com/media/commen...

Truly unhinged ad from Transperth reminding kids to do their free travel properly or take a donkey to school

Truly unhinged ad from Transperth reminding kids to do their free travel properly or take a donkey to school

The number of cars on WA roads has exploded – and so has congestion. Perth people actually love living like this, that's why we're holding a parliamentary inquiry into e-bikes and scooters that only focusses on why they are bad. www.watoday.com.au/national/wes...

I feel like the worst kind of old crank asking this but... do kids genuinely not know how to make phone calls or email now?

The number of cars on WA roads has exploded – and so has congestion. Perth people actually love living like this, that's why we're holding a parliamentary inquiry into e-bikes and scooters that only focusses on why they are bad. www.watoday.com.au/national/wes...

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Metronet leaving Carlisle this weekend in signature style - blocking a footpath outside a primary school with signage for drivers

Why wouldn’t you know who needs to hear this?

this should be good @johnthelyonsden.bsky.social 's report on Donald Trump's billions - www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

The ABC is up to $2.5 million in external legal costs over sacking Antoinette Lattouf illegally, Senate Estimates heard this evening. That's not including penalties or any future costs order.

“You are really saying you want development in other people‘s backyards for you to live in” This person is so close to getting it.

My cousin couldn’t remember the word eclair so just told he bought a hot dog with cream from the bakery.

ABC mgmt seems to love going the federal court. Mediation in this matter was today and it’s headed to trial next year mumbrella.com.au/abc-sued-ove...

On a visit to New Zealand, FBI Director Kash Patel gave the country’s police and spy bosses gifts of inoperable pistols that were illegal to possess under local gun laws and had to be destroyed, New Zealand law enforcement agencies told The Associated Press.

In my dictatorship every wheelchair and buggy would come with a free circular saw for this very purpose

Interesting chart on Alan Kohler’s finance segment last night

Pedro Sanchez pronounces Ardern's first name as "Hath-inda", which would please me enormously if I was her.

Watching #ThePeopleVsRobodebt and Kathryn Campbell is just.. something else. Terrifying to contemplate public servants like this and the power they have over ordinary lives.