So enjoyed being in conversation with the great Ian McEwan in the Sheldonian last night for the launch of his 19th novel ‘What we can know’ in which @bodleian.ox.ac.uk features prominently! It is a brilliant book (from @jonathancape.bsky.social) and available from @blackwelloxford.bsky.social!

Nobody hates trees more than coastally adjacent narcissists. Here’s how we should deal with them | First Dog on the Moon

Sad news... www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

The Greens urge Labor to support our bill to implement the outstanding recommendations of the Royal Commission, to terminate the disastrous welfare suspensions system now, and deliver justice on behalf of the victims of Robodebt.

@asherwolf.bsky.social Thank you for your part in #robodebt revelation as being revealed (again) tonight on SBS Nothing like getting it on the tele! You are a hero Bless you xxoo

In the first Trump Administration it took 3 years before we got to the "insane off-the-cuff medical advice from Dr Don" phase. This time it only took like 8 months.

How to achieve the new climate target www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au

Word is the Disney+ & Hulu sites are crashing under the weight of mass cancellations. Looks like the message is getting through. Keep the pressure on all businesses that kneel to Trump & Fascism. Keep it going people.

For some inexplicable reason, this brilliant 1938 anti-Appeasement cartoon by the great David Low came to mind when I looked at the list of the Mega-Powerful / Hyper-Rich at yesterday’s Windsor Castle nosh up for our superhuman masters.

William Dalrymple: Britain must help establish a Palestinian state

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archaeo robot magic. Nice youtu.be/UgGK8lETeK0?...

This is how you protect your democracy. The US is a demonstration of what happens when you don't. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

new #MedlowBath footbridge ....more than bit #P&O Have often referred to #HydroMajestic as a stranded ocean liner 😉 🤍💙🤍💙🤍💙🤍 Magnifique !

AUSTRALIA Weekly COVID Update: 12 September 2025 Cases up in ACT (+17.3%) and WA (+9.0%; 51/day hospital) Cases down in SA (-20%); QLD (-15.1%; 53 in hospital) and NSW (-9.3%) VIC and TAS next report: 19 September Aged-care cases are down (-6.5%) Sadly, 5 deaths reported

I Went to London’s New David Bowie Centre in Stratford Before It Opens to the Public: Here’s What New V&A East Attraction is Like share.google/5hXz0mmhN8wD...

The job of a capybara is to be sat on. Start training them young.

Some more photos of this morning's blood moon. Adelaide, South Australia. #eclipse #bloodmoon

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Welcome to Spring! 🌞

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We will now go beyond three years without a snowfall in the Blue Mountains (Blackheath) other than a dusting. Longest stretch since records began in the 1800s. It's quite easy to view snow records as data has been recorded via websites, observers and newspapers. Photos show our last fall, 24-8-22.

A major way we avoid talking to another human being is by driving cars.

A microscopic tardigrade going for a stroll through some algae. Credit: Sinclair Stammers