Had an image just now of Trump coming to OZ... ferried from Kirrilbilli to the Opera House in stately progress. And the world's biggest, pissed off, flotilla. Don't even think about it @albomp.bsky.social

Government required to create plan to protect greater glider in major legal win for Wilderness Society

hahah... made me laugh.

Round No.345 of Bird Wars in the garden. The Channel-Billed Cuckoos are out, the Noisy Miners going ballistic. The Miners ganged up and chased them off, for now... Miners 1 Cuckoos 0

This is very good news. Meeting Trump is a bad idea that never helps anyone or any country. Stay as far away from the fetid, racist, sex pest as you can. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Sensible? My @smh @theage cartoon.

“… It is an “agenda” of the white male id — capricious, short-fused, anxious, paranoid, jealous, demanding of control but resentful of the burden of responsibility control brings — the nihilism of privilege.” @keanebernard.bsky.social www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/22/d...

Cicadas out at sunset, just now... like someone turned on afire alarm at full bore!! Summers coming 🤪🥰

Watching the meltdown of U.S politics, I'd like to think that our Australian model of governance has more checks and balances. Esp. our robust electoral system. I'm somewhere BTW "Alert and Alarmed" & "Relaxed & comfortable"... ie: YEAH, NAH!

The government is relying on the discredited fantasy of carbon capture to make its net-zero numbers stack up. We and our children will suffer greatly as a result, writes Bernard Keane.

These things are frigging useless for other than killing non-target species. Ban them.

Toast

The complete jellybacked complicity by elites around the world in appeasing Trump's fascism is really something to be behold. It will never not be shocking, even if completely unsurprising.

Or to put it another way:

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

John Lyons has been a friend and colleague for more than forty years. All that time he’s been speaking truth to power and staring down bullies. Especially proud of him today www.theage.com.au/world/north-...

"All the things I could do If I had a little money It's a rich man's world" The world's first trillionaire? www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Good stuff from Michael Koziol ... Kirk's killer's ideology, motives may never be fully known, incoherent...but the guns are a constant. Only an arm's reach away, the solution to any problem. Sick society. www.smh.com.au/world/north-...

ANZ bank’s risk and compliance department @theage

Thank Christ, Slow Horses has finished (for now) Too many nights in front of the teev, with my husband explaining the plot - and me with utterly no clue. The chances of me writing a spy drama? Zero.

Turning 70 in a few weeks time and in touch with my party invitees. I honestly had not realised how many are a decade (or more) older than me. My cherished mentors - still doing amazing things, creative, sharp as tacks! Makes me feel like a spring chicken (almost) x

Why is @theguardian.com only getting onto this "transparent sea" thing now? Re: AUKUS subs? I thought this was well-known prediction, years back.

Exclusive Brethren says they are “not a cult. “Not a cult. Not a cult.” Ok then. But let’s take action anyhow, just in case.

GO THE WAHS! Love to see youse in the #NRL GF!

As an Australian ... I cannot imagine sending my kids off to school in the morning and worrying that they may not come home. We had our first shooting in '24 - 3 shots, no-one harmed. It's the guns

Dunno who wrote this ... but...

So, as I understand it - this whole thing is coming down to an Alt-right turf war BTW Kirk and Fuentes. In competition to fill the the hearts and minds of young men with poisonous ideology Been watching these two for ages...hard to explain how horrendous it all is to anyone who hasn't been

A Friday afternoon special from the Albanese government. Literally the worst environmental decision imaginable.

Forever known as Woodside Watty. Name the next cyclone after him. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Regulatory capture, conflict of interest, corruption - there's something for everyone's governance class here.

Deeply disturbing rhetoric is spreading from influential MAGA figures (including the President of the United States and the owner of that other website). They have no idea who the shooter is, and many of these same people mocked Democrats when they were victims of political violence in the past. 1/

What's the bet that Trump will want a funeral with military honours for Charlie Kirk as well as Ashli Babbit ... or have I missed that news?

The insured costs of climate change are now 12 times higher than 20 years ago, while local government revenue is only three times higher, a new report from the Australia Institute shows. “Big gas, coal and oil companies make a killing from climate change, and it’s time they started paying for it."

Girlfriend on an art tour from OZ - scheduled to visit the U.S. Friend there says: "DO NOT COME... It's chaos at the borders. You might be detained... deported" Tour is re-routed. How many others, I wonder?

Not only did Jetstar cancel my daughter's flight to Melbourne last night - but didn't upload her luggage to later flight. Luggage full of v.expensive fabric samples...vital for sales with customers. Had to hotfoot it back to the airport in the early hours to collect it. Do better,Jetstar. JFC!

STOP SAYING 'UNDERAGE'. It's dehumanising and creepy to define a person by their local, legal age of consent. Girl, child and teenager are all accurate and respectful alternatives.

One of the reasons I don’t buy the “financial decision” line from MUP is that I’m a Meanjin subscriber, someone (ostensibly) in a position to add a donation to my subscription, and I wasn’t informed about these apparent dire straits. Who cancels the whole thing before pulling the fund-raising lever?

If you're in Sydney Wed, I'd love to see you for the final Dust & Groove, at the Petersham Bowlo. My guest, the wonderfully talented and very fun Mark Callaghan (Gangajang/Riptides). A great singer with an extensive career behind the scenes in the music biz. Come events.humanitix.com/dust-and-gro...

On Father's Day, a shout out to all who opted to be full-time stay-at-home Dads. My husband did for 20 years from 1997 - the percentage of that cohort, barely risen since then. We've been a lucky family to have the choice. "Wouldn't have swapped it for anything" he says. Love to you amazing Dads!

‘In what Wilderness Australia described as “the most significant outcome for forest conservation in NSW in 25 years”, the government has committed to the full 176,000 hectares.’ www.smh.com.au/environment/...

The president of the United States just declared war, actual military war, not a metaphorical one, on a major American city, and one governed by his political opponents. In any other period, this would be impeachment-worthy.

hahahahahah This made me 🤣

What a weird time to be alive - once it was automation and now, increasingly, its robots promising to free us from mundanity - give us time to be creative, fulfilled humans. And AI now seeks to rob us of all that, leaving us... as what? Automatons?

Help in the garden this afternoon Good hens!!

Shocking news of the death of a surfer by shark up our way at Long Reef. Condolences to friends and family. Just awful. I see News Corpse is already politicising this tragic event. NB: The trial to remove shark nets on the Northern Beaches is at Palm Beach, much further north.

Just read it Birmo... the perfect eye-witness account to counter the "good people" bollocks. Thank you @birmo.bsky.social

World's Dumbest Man vs Science. It's a tough call! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

What’s the real reason it’s being shut down? It sure ain’t a couple of hundred thousand dollars. Did the university council not like what it had been publishing, per chance? This was one of the handful of publications in Aus that published Randa Abdel-Fattah or Max Kaiser.

There is the face of a guilty man.