This was a fascinating listen. Intriguing to hear from a person on the inside about how defending someone at the International Criminal Court works.

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It's endlessly incredible campaigning. What a team he must have!

The absolutely brilliant pitch perfect troll of getting targeted by your opponent with virulent Islamophobia and then immediately releasing an ad in all Arabic.

Promoting @pepperraccoon.com because it is nearly the festive part of the year, their range of goodies is very cool, and I am obsessed with the raven pins they sell. I must purchase more as I keep giving them away.

Today, Saturday 1 November, is World Numbat Day. www.daysoftheyear.com/days/numbat-... Also, Pâté Day. www.daysoftheyear.com/days/nationa... And it’s happy 65th birthday to Tim Apple. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Cook

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

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This link should get you past the paywall - archive.li/rdK2i

Spectacular good news. A victory for the family who sued; for the local trans activists; & for anyone who pushes back against Australia falling into the western Trumphole of non-peer-reviewed, JFK-brain , Project 2025 nonsense 😍✊

This young male Satin Bowerbird has developed some of his first mature black satin feathers... around his eyes so it looks like he's wearing eyeliner or mascara XD #birds

👀😬 Bulging eyes and razor-sharp teeth. The Vampire Rabbit of Newcastle Upon Tyne - sits atop a ghostly doorway near to Amen Corner 🙏 at St. Nicholas Churchyard. 🧛‍♂️🐰👻 Look closely and the door itself has a ghostly countenance...😱 #iseefaces

This is currently my top advice for using the NZ medical system. Ask your practitioner if they're using AI to transcribe your patient notes, whether to transcribe their dictation (bad) or to generate a transcription from listening to the consult (appalling). If they say yes, ask them not to.

"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness) As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)

So in a rare moment of blatant self promotion who wore it better, me or the Australian PM?

AI is part of the fascist political project

First flying duck (Caleana major - large duck orchid) of the spring near Genoa, East Gippsland, VIC. Only a few scattered plants out in flower here but quite a few more of these very distinctive orchids in bud nearby - despite the recent dry conditions. #orchids #inthefield #ozplants

#RecipeOfTheDay is Bara Brith, that wonderful Welsh fruit-speckled tea bread, which I recommend eating so thickly spread with butter you can see your teeth marks in it when you take a bite (what the Danes refer to as tandsmør)! www.nigella.com/recipes/bara...

This is a great piece from Mel Saward on some of the First Nations books that should have appeared on RN's Top 100 Books of the 21st Century.

Two surviving children stand at the top of the hill overlooking the miners digging to find children still buried in the slag, Aberfan Coal Slip Disaster, 21 October 1966 by David Hurn. #AberfanDisaster

incredible article

okay, it’s Ace Week (formerly Asexuality Awareness Week), there are some new folks here, I’ll be a designated Asexual Answering Questions if y’all stay cool about it. I don’t have infinity time today but l will get to what I can get to thoughtfully ngl.link/handsrm1

if you showed this to anyone at the crimethinc house in 2002 they would call the cops themselves

Canberra types, it’s the last day to register for this event. I was going to go, but the flights were diabolically expensive so I sent an old pair of boots instead. btaa.org.au/events/head-... . Otherwise you can help get the quolls up kunanyi pointtopinnacle2025.grassrootz.com/menzies-inst...

that's it just be fucking normal because i guarantee nobody else in their life is being fucking normal about it

do you guys want elizabeth's spicy take on how to actually be a supportive friend or relation to a parent who has a kid in the NICU? this isn't the usual advice, they usually tell you to send gift cards for food delivery. here's my advice:

I have recently been rewatching The West Wing. I am now watching the new season of The Diplomat. Having the actor who played Josh Lyman 'married' to the actor who played CJ is messing with my mind.

Telopea mongaensis (Monga waratah) in Monga NP, Monga, NSW. I really like this waratah as a garden plant but rarely see it available in nurseries tho is used in some hybrids to give the 'classic' NSW waratah (T. speciosissima) a bit more cold tolerance with a compact/bushy habit #waratah #ozplants

Top notch goth plant 🖤💜

To be clear, it is the official position of the Australian Government that Work for the Dole is the only mandatory activity in the employment services system. Everything else those providers have forced you to do? You consented to this, according to the Australian Government.

Share a cartoon from the past that kids today have probably never heard of

I established the Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Scholarship Endowment Fund at UQ to enable more Indigenous Australians to go to university. Anyone can donate at donations.uq.edu.au/aboriginal-a.... Every $ counts! And, now until 15 Oct, all donations up to $20,000 are matched! Thank you.💜

I spoke at BWF on Thursday and after a year of seeing our cultural institutions bowing and scraping, I had a few things to say about freedom of artistic expression, the importance of bearing witness, and the history of protest song. This is the relevant excerpt. www.patreon.com/posts/140529...

remember folks, "the salvos" are a far right religious bigotry cult.

Just sharing John Spencer’s Mini-Manual for the Urban Defender for no particular reason https://www.johnspenceronline.com/mini-manual-urbandefender

Stunning Waratah flowers direct from a friend’s garden yesterday

PUP is having a SEVENTY PERCENT OFF sale and PERIOD is one of the books you can use this discount towards - if you still haven't bought it, now's your chance! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

🚨 It's launched! you have until midnight on Hallowe'en / Noson Calan Gaeaf / Samhain to pledge! very grateful for any sharing x🎃 Check out Queer Crow Death Magic Tarot by Frank Duffy on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/fra... #tarot #tarotsky

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Australia’s CDC could be invaluable in helping with regional health crises like the HIV surge in Fiji If well funded and directed

Two views of Mount Yasur, Tanna, Vanuatu.

“I’m Mexican, I’ve tasted spicier” protect him at all costs, Portland 🥹

🚨 #BREAKING The Department of Employment & Workplace Relations has some breaking Friday night news for us. Sanctions under 42AG for work refusal failures have been paused since July 5. NO mutual obligations payment cancellations since then. 🫡 dewr.gov.au/assuring-int...

A reminder that I'll be at BWF this week talking about the legacy of Pig City and protest songs with John Willsteed. It's an opportunity I don't plan on wasting 👀 brisbanepowerhouse.org/events/pigs-...

These babies out in profusion. #FlannelFlowers #Awabakal

The Hampstead ponds have REPEATEDLY voted to include trans women. But the officious pricks at Sex Matters don’t care what other women think and are forcing a public consultation anyway. Throw the ponds some support.

“Give Anne Twomey a tank”!

Ife Thompson is researching Black British English in the courtroom and is running a survey for UK lawyers 👇🏽 www.linkedin.com/posts/ife-th...

Vote for your favourite Australian Insect of the Year: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-03/2025-australian-insect-of-the-year-finalists/105660068

just a fantastic set of insights