Good turnout for the Xfac Mission Day at Sydney for the #Ingress anomaly. #missionday #sydney

One of my favourite things about travelling through small inland Australian towns: the historical museums. Which are often just "we had some rusting machinery so we put a fence around it." Free entry, obviously. #australia #smalltowns #victoria #roadtrip

Kash Patel has just released pictures of the shell casings found at the White House Correspondence Dinner.

If your take was "ANZAC Day is for all Australians, don't politicise it with a Welcome to Country" — I'd genuinely encourage you to look up what a Welcome to Country actually is. Then maybe don't say that again. #auspol #welcometocountry #anzac #anzacday

Years of discomfort vanished in seconds.

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

This month we are reading The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers. Grab a copy and get reading.

Yes. Matt Canavan and Angus Taylor. The perfect party leaders to win back those lost urban seats and female voters.

By Dutch Cartoonist Ruben L Oppenheimer #epstein #trump #uspolitics

January Reading Wrap-Up. #booksky #tgbc

No, dear Guardian columnist, this has already happened. You describe a sense of urgency, but the sooner you stop saying and thinking that 'this is not who we are as a country' and start to acknowledge that this is, in fact, exactly what the US is, the better.

From the Age March for Australia Rally on the left, Invasion Day Rally on the right

Thanks all for coming!

Brothers. Would you believe it? 😆

The most common version of internal bleeding is called: 'A bruise'

Final update tonight. Andrew Denton is also out. Have also crossed out Michael Veitch & Tracey Lee Holmes as they were part of Better Off Said, which is out. Remember the list is a not final. Don't assume those not crossed out are going Others to be found here www.artshub.com.au/news/news/ad...

Wow, the Trump administration is now really wagging the dog. Playbook.

This is the best one thus far 😂

Weaponising the Bondi tragedy is a betrayal of all our children theshot.net.au/uncategorize... Spot on @davemilbo.bsky.social We really need to avoid letting grief be weaponised into more fear and control.

12 dead at a mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach.💔 A 43-year-old father of two, Ahmed al Ahmed, snuck up & tackled a gunman to disarm him. Ahmed was shot twice. Both Jewish & Muslim faiths teach that “to save one life is to save all humanity.” Let us hold fast to our humanity.❤️

The only thing you need to stop a bad man with a gun is not a good man with a gun, but Ahmed al-Ahmed

Great turnout and 25 points gained during the Melbourne's Shard Storm in #Ingress yesterday! Getting max points against an opposition who also brought the numbers was an increbile team effort. Ending with a 60km jump across the bay! @ingress.com @eng.ingressupdates.com #ShardStorm

Amazing show last night at The Forum in Melbourne. Stolen Nova warmed the crowd up with his Prince-like guitar play and TV On The Radio was even more than I hoped for. Incredible setlist open.spotify.com/playlist/4qQ... #forummelbourne #stolennova #tvontheradio #livemusic #melbourne

Be glad there's no ChatGPT wrapped.

I don't even know where to start on this one. It's so batshit cringy sad.

Good turnout at the Cross Faction Battle Beacon Event in Melbourne, Australia @ingress.com @nianticspatial.bsky.social Over 50 agents, deploying over 600 beacons, battling hard and many personal badges achieved.

Apparently Trump's first taste of presidency was a lot earlier than 2017

So first men are not allowed to read in public anymore because it's 'performative' and now celebrities can't start book clubs anymore and share their love for reading? I think the bigger issue is all this gatekeeping coming from a particular demographic of readers.

Look, even IF it turns out the new A Feast For Crows Illustrated Edition was not AI generated, it might well as be. There's no intent, no detail, no understanding of character or lore. Every house colour, piece of clothing and design choice feels wrong. How did this make it past editors?

I'm glad they group the Dutch wishing deadly diseases upon one another under the term 'medical'

Completely checks out 😂

Random morning thought: is the red pulse on Pink Floyd’s Pulse CD still blinking away somewhere, three decades later?

Just heard Smells Like Teen Spirit playing in the supermarket. I guess it’s official that the sounds of my teenage rebellion are now background music for the pasta aisle.

Alright, finally, my submission for ABC Radio's Top 100 Books Of The 21st Century. I clearly need to read more. Vote now: bit.ly/45rGkgE #RadioNational #Top100Books #booksky #books

Yearly Reminder

Vacant offices hit a 30-year high. Affordable rentals are at crisis point. You’d think combining the two would be easy. But it was never about space, or WFH, or a ‘dying CBD.’ It’s about money. And nothing else.

You know what? I know a club who'd love to have you ... Come home, Erik, they need someone other than Oosting #fctwente

The fact that my white ass, as a recent immigrant to Australia, has been told multiple times today that this ‘March For Australia’ isn’t about me or people like me… tells you everything you need to know. They’re confusing racism with patriotism.

So in Melbourne several hundred anti-immigration protesters turned up for the March For Australia, among them open neo-Nazis and one speaker in a wannabe Gestapo trench coat. And the police response was to pepper-spray the almost 10000 strong anti-fascist counter rally? Have I got that right?

Recent purchase. What a marvellous 2-player #boardgame is Paris: La Cité de la Lumière. It's a bit like an upgraded #patchwork. Quick game, about 30 minutes, with a lovely theme and great artwork. This one will be on the table more often.

So many books could be 200 pages shorter if the characters just sat down and had one honest conversation. #booksky

Someone who bulldozes the Rose Garden for a concrete patio, then slathers the Oval Office in gold, doesn’t do it unless they think they’ll be here another 10 years.

Oslo Davis cartoon, August 9, 2025 www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/opinion/cart... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au

Ok, this terrible piece has made me angrier than I should be. It centers the voices of landlords over workers. It treats the economy of a few city blocks as more important than modernising work. No word on urban decentralisation, work-life balance or productivity evidence from hybrid/remote models.

Bye Bye Google Nest Wifi. Bye Bye to mystery dropouts. Bye Bye to increasingly long buffering times. And hello Orbi Mesh AX6000 RKB860

After that first episode, I'm so glad South Park is still there for us. Holy shit, did I need this! #SouthPark #S27

Is anyone actually using em-dashes more often now that ChatGPT showed them how to use them properly?

Read More, Talk More, Make More Friends. The Spotswood Chapter of Tough Guy Book Club meets at The Spotswood Hotel. Like every chapter, it's on the first Wednesday of the month at 7PM Come have a chat. And don't worry if you haven't read the book. #books #bookclub #toughguybookclub #tgbc