Blue, blue sky, Salvia and Roses- perfect combination. Mother Nature nails it.😍

Clear skies in Melbourne last night so here is an image of M42 from the @Seestar_astro S50 scope. 10km from the CBD. 👍

Here's a very handy clickable list of publishers & commentators in Aust's independent news media sector. Please support & share these news media publishers - & of course sign up to TrueNorth! #auspol > docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

So called Australia made 4 new species extinct this year. Around the world the total extinctions were 5. 4. In . AUSTRALIA

Black father kills a man who tried to rape his daughter & media posts his solo mug shot. White father murders his wife, shoots step child, kills himself, & media posts his smiling picture with family. Make no mistake, this is how media normalizes white supremacy & extremism. We must reject it.

Beautiful colours along the Conglomerate Gully Walking Track in the Macedon Ranges on a beautiful day.

Sinatra kind of a great illustration that you can be the kind of 1950s asshole these guys all idolize and just not be a frothing racist

True I had an editor years ago who said the major downside of widespread praise for investigative reporting on Vietnam, Watergate, etc. was that it made a lot of people want to be journalists who probably should've been actors instead.

i say this with nothing but love for all of you to whom this applies, but the moral rot in elite journalism is because journalism is a trade and it should be done by tradespeople and instead it's been professionalized in a way that makes it cozy to capital instead

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

🔥WOW— Sharyn Alfonsi to her @60Minutes colleagues: “Bari Weiss spiked it without a call to discuss… a political decision… we have effectively handed Trump a kill switch… we go from an investigative powerhouse to a STENOGRAPHER FOR THE STATE… corporate censorship…”

I stand with the Jewish Council for a united and safe Australia for every single one of us. Https://jewishcouncil.good.do/unity/jewish-council-petiton/?v=e1c96332

A good piece: “The danger after Bondi isn’t only that we ask the wrong questions but that we answer them too quickly. Symbolic policymaking may reassure anxious electorates, but it rarely improves security outcomes.” www.smh.com.au/national/aft...

Utterly beautiful and heart breaking at the same time.💔

Thomas Keneally putting into words exactly how I feel. “Attacks such as these are designed to shut up debate; to drive one side to a rancour, & serve to make government more radical, while encouraging acts of radicalism from one’s own side so that the cauldron boils over, stoked from every side.”

#auspol #Australia #Bondi

Israel has killed at least 400 Palestinians since the "ceasefire" agreement came into effect last October.

Here's a quilt of Volume 4 of the Epstein document dump. Gives you a 10,000 foot view of the redactions. that's 2,704 docs.

I feel better now Legal and constitutional limitations Thank goodness www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/19/j...

Rare pink platypus spotted in East Gippsland river by Melbourne fisherman www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

You are either on Team Release Everything (except for victim info), or you are a pedo protector. And everyone satisfied with this obvious cover up is on Team Pedo Protector. There is no middle ground. That is who you are.

Just in! Neo Nazi Jacob Hersant LOSES appeal against conviction he intentionally performed a Nazi salute in public! He will now serve a one month prison sentence 😀

Today, French lawmakers unanimously approved a bill exonerating women punished for abortion before it was legalized in 1975. This "is an act of justice toward those thousands of lives shattered by unjust laws," said Aurore Bergé, minister-delegate for gender equality.

every mainstream outlet has completely buried the lede on 7 men whose cars were rammed by NSW Police in Liverpool. They are all released without charge into the community. Not even ASIO, with its extensive powers to detain, applied to keep them incarcerated. www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

The perfect Christmas decoration doesn’t exist. Freddie- hold my beer

To all marveling at photos of NYT columnist David Brooks dining with Jeffrey Epstein, 2 years after Epstein finished his sentence for procuring a child for prostitution, here's what it was: the 2011 "Edge Billionaire's Dinner". Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos were there too. 1/ www.edge.org/event/the-ed...

In the aftermath of the Bondi shooting, grief was quickly overtaken by political opportunism, as leaders and lobbyists moved to exploit tragedy and target dissent, writes Stefan Moore. #auspol #Bondi #freespeech

Since it's come up again, I'll try to succinctly state my view on "AI" as we think of it in culture & tech these days. I think "Big AI" products (ChatGPT, Google Gemini) are mostly terrible for society, because they've been foisted without consent on millions, with lies about what they can do.

#Bondi Who turned up the next day with meals, smiles, support and comradery? People genuinely seeking to build community & provide a light of hope? The Catholic Church? Pfft. Hillsong? Give me a spell. Exclusive Brethren? One Nation? The Young Liberals? Yeah....right The Sikhs. That's who

“It should not need to be spelled out that there is nothing remotely racist about criticism of Israel…It should also not need to be spelled out that crossing the line from protesting against a nation and its barbaric actions, to blaming an entire religion and its people, is also to be shunned.”

It's over five months since Antisemitism Envoy Jillian Segal made headlines for being one of the biggest funders of highly divisive, far-right political lobby group "Advance". She has at all times refused to denounce Advance, its bigotry and racist hate. theklaxon.com.au/jillian-sega...

Sussan Ley says no room for racism in Australia, how about this gem from you during the election #hypocrisy #auspol

Benalla bushfire BENALLA, VIC. — A major grass fire has broken out as strike teams assemble at Glelrowan CFA Fire Station. 

Just a reminder that while humans can often be truly awful, a Pygmy Possum is always adorable. (Pic: Australian Geographic)

I've never been more convinced Australia has the worst mainstream journalists in the world. Simple, thick, racist, ahistorical, bootlicking dipshits that lie and screech more than they think and feel. This weaponisation of a tragedy against anti-genocide voices is grotesque.

Vultures (Rough)

A look at media reac by @joshbarnettmw.bsky.social in the wake of Bondi attacks. NSW govt moving to ban peaceful protests #auspol youtu.be/8hwZqGB3bVk?...

Neither MUP nor the Melbourne University council even tried to save Meanjin. In fact they chose *not* to pursue offers to help save it. They also actively ignored the advice of the independent review they commissioned into Meanjin's sustainability. They just shut it.

Already at the point where I can’t look at mainstream Aus media coverage of Bondi without wanting to pull my own teeth out, congratulations everyone

Hanson at the Bondi memorial calling for students to be "rounded up" and cuts to immigration. The crowd muttering in agreement, and giving her a huge round of applause once she finishes. Everything is about to get so much worse in Australia

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

This entire weekend

Rob Reiner is gone. Inconceivable. 💔

If you're in need of a distraction, if you're like me and doomscrolling bad news is doing you no good, and if you like trains, then here's a timeline-cleanse of a thread with random railway photos, some by me, some historical I'll begin with a northbound VLocity in Moonee Ponds, 8 January 2011

This is what great leadership looks like. Thank you Zohran. We need more politicians like you, then the world would be a truly safe place for us all.

When people respond to a tragedy like Bondi with more hate, I resolve to be better and kinder. I will not let the loss of innocent lives, wherever they may be, take me down a dark road. I will also face my prejudices head on and vow to be better. This is how I fight back and honour those we lost.

Red Cross in Sydney, asking for blood donations. If you’re due, today is a good day to go, or if you’ve been thinking about starting, do it now. Employers, give people a little time off to donate. Organise your social or work group to go together. Do it today. #Bondi

A horror night for Australia. But the acts of Australians from all walks of life to protect and help shows this nation is much stronger than those who seek to divide us. All love to those and their friends and family in shock and mourning today.

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.