"Overthrowing a dictator sounds morally right. No one mourns a tyrant. But international law wasn't built to protect the good, but to restrain the powerful. That's why it prohibits force almost without exception..."

Strands #671 “I've never seen that before!” 🔵🔵🔵🟡 🔵🔵

Because international media largely seems to struggle to choose the correct wording to describe what’s happening: the US, under the self describes „peace president“, attacked another country and kidnapped its president. That is factual, no matter how bad or illegitimate Maduro‘s rule is (very bad).

Alt text: a photo of Dasi Oran, Ghor Senator from the Star Wars series Andor, overlaid with the text, which is a quote from season 2: "They have no shame, do they? They don't even bother to lie badly any more. I suppose that's the final humiliation."

Hi there, I'm Australia's national flower - the humble wattle.

Strands #670 “Home is where the hearth is” 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🟡🔵🔵

Happy new year! This was dessert last night - my bestie prepared Raclette and I provided the pav.

Strands #669 “Not your average joe” 🔵🔵🟡🔵 🔵🔵🔵🔵

you gotta laugh at stuff or you’ll cry

David Attenborough [whispering]: “Like a grain of sand in a vast desert, the predator blends seamlessly into its environment, nearly imperceptible to the naked eye.”

"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.

Seen at Woolworth today 😳

The Onion, non-stop winning

Dammit. I thought I'd calculated A's carbs perfectly: weighed things, measured her drink etc etc. Obviously got something wrong because her BGL is through the roof. Sorry, kiddo. #T1D

Thoroughly enjoying looking after my colleague's cat but OH MY GOD M and I are so allergic to her 😭

It's the little things. We're on holiday and taking it sloooooow. A is napping on the couch next to me and apart from the delight of having a 13 year old who still wants to hang out with her Mum, I can hear her Omnipod ticking away delivering her basal dose of insulin. I'm so grateful for this tech.

Strands #659 “Pass it along” 🔵🔵🟡🔵 🔵🔵🔵🔵

Huh. I think generous friend who was buying drinks tonight may have put a Schuss in each of my Glühweins. I guess I will know for sure tomorrow.

#1 film from the year I turned 10....

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... My niece in Australia is completing a Personal Interest Project for Society and Culture at school. The topic is AI and it would be great if a broad range of people could fill it out. Thank you!

In 1811-12, the Luddites attempted to resist some of the first waves of machine-industrialisation. They were crushed. 20 years later "pauper apprentices" (= orphan children) were being SOLD to factory-owners as cheap labour. Think on, dear hearts, think on.

Dragging myself to school for the last time this year. We finish at 12.40 today so I only have one lesson with my precious Baccalaureate class. This term has kicked everyone's butt. Roll on the holidays. #EduSky

YOU'RE PRYING OPEN THE LID OF THE SLAP CRATE I have to check this with my Hungarian students today!!

An English phrase for when someone is getting on your nerves is “you’re driving me up the wall.” A German equivalent is auf die Palme bringen, which essentially means “you’re driving me up the palm tree.”

www.instagram.com/reel/DSSYIJd... Beautiful poem about Bondi. "Enlightenment lives in the death of our biases." Amen to that.

I got visited by three ghosts last night, who were all experts in English grammar.

Just helped a friend at her 8-year-old's birthday party. 21 kids. Bowling. I paid it forward from when another friend helped us with M's (unexpectedly feral) 6th birthday party. It was fun but boy was it loud...

I think this is the first time this has happened since A was diagnosed with #T1D. Two months with the Omnipod and we are very, very pleased with it.

New in PN: A band-aid on a festering hand wound "The Epstein files and illegal boat strikes aren’t the only coverups taking place right now in the White House. There’s also something clearly wrong with the president’s health that the administration is trying to conceal from the public."

that's a fitting cover. digital edit overlaying imagery of people who actually performed labor and built things people needed

We're sick of the dark and cold already - just booked a summer holiday in Croatia so that's something to look forward to...

Oh, fuck off. Is no-one ever going to put this enormous manbaby in his place? apnews.com/article/trum...

Strands #642 “Feeling peckish?” 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🟡🔵🔵

One of my Dutch colleagues went all out and dressed up as Nikolaus today 😁

Strands #641 “In the driver's seat” 🔵🟡🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵

Strands #641 “In the driver's seat” 🔵🟡🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵

I still get emails occasionally from our old bank in Australia. To unsubscribe I have to log in to my account, which I am no longer able to do. Anyway, the subject line today was "scheduled outage." I read it as "scheduled outrage."

Hey, #EduSky... Does your system expect/allow ranking of students? Either in their reports (like, mark 78%, rank 11/30) or when returning tests and assignments? If so, is it ever made public? (Like "congratulations X, Y and Z, you all got an A?")

Our director just #whamaggedon2025 the entire school over the loudspeakers 🤣

Strands #639 “On the web” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵

Not that I would drink Glühwein at 6.27 am 🤔

Strands #638 “On the ice” 🔵🟡🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵

#Whammageddon2025 so I lasted til 6.27 am on 1 December. Hot tip: don't tell your fifteen year old about social media phenomena.

Excited for this discussion today. Thinking back to Almeida Theatre's live streamed production a few years ago - sheer brilliance. www.theguardian.com/stage/2021/o...

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... Methinks they doth protest too much.

Absolutely 🧶 #knit #knitsky