One of the most interesting pieces on writing successful historical fiction I've ever read archive.md/kyKeN

Incredibly bland Australian MP, John Anderson, appears here to basically say ‘if she was a Muslim, it would have been ok!’

lmao absolutely banger complaint. "i would be more popular if I weren't a twat". an all timer. get this woman a special hat or something

Photo caption: Dave Hughes: “It looks like I’m a druggie, I’m not.”

this is even better with the sound on

Had a quick skim through suit-wearing feminist Karl's list of past podcasts - seems like the only women he's interviewed are Holly Vallance, Pauline Hanson, Jacinta Price, a childcare advocate called Sarah Secker and the Farrer by-election candidates.

I resent the video-fication of podcasting. That's just a TV show. Podcasts aren't supposed to be for hot people. They have everything else

Showing solidarity with women is actually not a "tough needle to thread". Trump is a convicted (in a civil court) rapist, self described pussy grabber and frightening misogynist. At the very least men could commit to backing women up if they do push back.

Won't somebody think of the 18yo small model train business owners who inexplicably want to saddle themselves with a mortgage in their teens.

Olives, pumpkin

Are the subs at The West taking their revenge or are there just none left?

'The bear at the Fukushima steelworks attacked three more people before it was chased into an electronics factory, where it reportedly climbed out of a window and is still at large.'

University over-enrols students in nursing courses for years to boost income from fee, clinical placement shortage ensues, accreditation now threatened.

Ninefax finally gets a suburb profile that isn't a boring, smug 'my little enclave is perfect and you've never even heard of it' brag

be more fun to do an annual King's Birthday dis-honoured list

Electricity Prices Fall Across Australia As Renewables Build Momentum cleantechnica.com/2026/06/01/e...

it’s wild how TERFs convinced themselves that de facto segregation is an inalienable right you fought for single sex spaces? really?

These REAs are so shameless - inspections are just an excuse to charge owners for a pointless service www.watoday.com.au/national/wes...

403 MPs and UK Labour need someone outside parliament to be its next leader

I don't quite know where to start on the premier of NSW apparently (deliberately?) misunderstanding how tax brackets work.

This is horrific. Watching the outpouring of sympathy and understanding for the couple who killed their autistic kids in Perth in January was appalling. I even heard it referred to as 'mercy killing'.

Thinking how angry and upset by Gran would be by this. She spent weeks in hospital alone with it as a child, thinking she was going to die and had a scar on her next the rest of her life.

'In the South West town of Nannup, 260km south of Perth, short-stay rentals outnumbered long-term rentals 90 to zero.'

They can still buy a loss making asset and subsidise it out of other income for years if they want.

still one of the elite tier posts

the most German story ever www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/w...

Today's space exploration news

RIP the WA dimpled koala, wiped out 28,000 years ago in a major climate event www.abc.net.au/news/science...

Maybe a system of vouchers to use in the private market wasn't the best way to deliver social care www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

E-bikes or e-scooters would be the perfect solution to the problem the family here have (suburban gridlock means 8min drive to train station takes 30mins) but e-rideables are evil so it's not even discussed - back to demanding more roads. www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

Jeff hasn't edited Overland since 2014. He was 9 years gone from the job in 2023. He neither organised nor published that letter. Five seconds on Google would have informed Gawenda of this. In journalism, we call this "fact-checking".

A good opinion piece on the way EVs force people to think differently about refueling their cars. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Bring back the ancient knowledge

lol the photo

One of the most remarkable achievements in modern political history has been the emergence of "anti-establishment, anti-elite, people's army" parties - committed to "bringing back the nation-state" - that are led, directed & financed by the richest, most privileged & most mobile people on the planet

Good stuff from Kevin Bell. www.afr.com/politics/fed...

Gored by a tusk www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/w...

The ABC’s emphasis in this coverage (left) is wrong, in my opinion. Attacking the Welcome To Country does not represent a crisis of community cohesion. It’s an extreme right orchestrated campaign, as the Guardian (right) reported correctly.

good luck with that home petrol bowser, my car runs on sunshine

Pretty intense victim blaming here www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

Just like when you discuss induction cooktops, suddenly every cooks daily with a wok…

Weirdly negative article. Seems to assume the number of chargers around Australia is fixed and won't increase with greater EV uptake. Dismissive of home solar charging. Also some of the time cost was...a one-off ten minutes to download an app? www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

lol Freo www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

Hesperian Press having a normal one over that guardian story about the killing code www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Absolutely insane ad from 1979, the last time the Australian govt tried to get people to save petrol: www.youtube.com/watch?v=80pr...

Its fuel shortage was caused by those cretins so no?

I dunno, I think the roof rack thing is good advice even without a fuel crisis. Guy I know who drives around with a kayak permanently strapped to his car has taken it off recently. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

Amazing story about what a brilliant academic achieved in the 70s - kinda makes me wonder what we're missing out on now that unis and academic careers are so thoroughly enshittified www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

An American beast. Tamed. #WorldBollardAssociation

Just got back from Vietnam which was lovely of course but the temperature was 9C over the average for a lot of the trip, making what should have been a pleasant week in the high 20s close to 40 some days. Climate change sucks.