Loving this!!

When it’s 40°C we order grilled fish, Greek salad & rice for dinner. Delightful.

Too hot to sleep

This country is not those two. They were radicalised extremists. That’s the point. Extremism is by its nature rare. It does not grow from a failure of moral consensus. It seeks to shock the consensus that exists. Those suggesting otherwise for their own advantage betray the memory of this tragedy.

Tells you everything you need to know really. Despicable.

Bought ingredients for beef rissoles with honeyed carrots, snow peas and blanched broccolini tomorrow. But I really don’t want to be turning the oven on in 40°C heat. 🥵😩

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.

No human rights issues to see here … move along 👀

Lunch was a platter assembled by yours truly.

Been watching Chuck Berry videos with dad all day. And proved why Prince was an elite guitarist with his face-melting guitar solo in While My Guitar Gently Weeps. It’s the little things.

Yeah look,

In case it's eluded you, here's my Best Journalism Linkers list. "The top 40 or so BlueSky accounts most likely to give good link about journalism and its struggles." I use it to keep track of what's being reported about both the media industry and the journalism world. bsky.app/profile/jayr...

I’m 40 pages into Fourth Wing and I’m hooked. Suspect I’ll finish it by week’s end. 😁

Senator John Kennedy is a RWNJ. But he was destined for comedy. He says the funniest shit. “We shouldn’t give money to countries that hate us. They should be able to hate us for free.” “The brain starts working in a woman’s uterus and stops working when you get elected to congress.” 1/

Less than 48 hours after the deadly attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach that left more than a dozen dead, Australian authorities announced proposals for sweeping new gun laws. n.pr/48UTa7g

Have seen this "explainer" urging a soft, cautious response to gun law reform in Aus shared a few times now, but no one seems bothered the author is affiliated with the gun lobby theconversation.com/why-can-some...

Completed my reading challenge for 2025. I may just surpass it with 16 days of the year left and no more exams to do. Debating on which book I should read next. Quicksilver or Fourth Wing? 🤓📚

Mum surprised me with a new Kindle and I’m obsessed. I love physical books but I just don’t have the shelf space for them anymore. So Kindle it is! Can’t recommend this enough it’s excellent.

Breaking my hiatus to spread more of this. ⬇️ Because in the face of hatred we say no. All people are our brothers and sisters in this world. Support and uplift each other. Don’t forget common decency toward your fellow man. ♥️🙏

Ahmed al Ahmed, the reported Muslim man who tackled the Pakistani shooting suspect at Bondi Beach, serves as an important testament that entire ethnic or religious communities should not be blamed for the hateful and violent acts of individuals.

As someone who has a degree in Arts (Journalism) & was a journalist I urge people to refrain from sharing unverified information re: Bondi. Be extremely careful about your sources. The media, through the demanding fast pace of the 24/7 news cycle, get things wrong while striving for the “scoop”. 1/

In case you have never seen this.

This is not the Australia I know. The scenes coming out of Bondi are frightening, devastating and horrific. My friends in Sydney, we are with you. We will not allow this heinous attack to fuel the flames of intolerant ideology and hatred. The taking of innocent life is never justified. Never. ♥️🙏

I think we can all agree that the man who disarmed one of the shooters bare handed, and the other who threw something at one have balls of steel.

This may be another case of the Mandela Effect, but I thought John Cena had retired from the WWE years ago.

Just finished reading Alchemised. At 1024 pages long it is dense, not just physically but the story is rich with world-building and character development. This is what I would call traumantasy. It’s bleak, dystopian, harrowing, and it rips your heart out. But it’s so worth it because it’s brilliant.

Things women take from men that annoy men: Hoodies, t-shirts, deodorant. Things men take from women that annoy women: Their peace, sanity, stability, belief in humanity. We are not the same.

BREAKING: Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein's sex crimes and a group of Democratic members of Congress are asking for an independent review of the Epstein case files to determine whether any of the records have been "tampered" with or concealed, ahead of the release of those files by next week.

Perhaps the only good thing to come from the social media ban is that it’s more difficult for people to create troll accounts because they have to verify their age by legal documentation.

Madeleine Wickham, a British author who splashed onto bestseller lists as Sophie Kinsella, the pen name she used for her “Shopaholic” series of rom-com books about an overspending fashionista, has died. She was 55.

Today kids will be cut off from social media. This punishes the many for the wrongs of the few. Teaching parents & kids about bullying, harassment & harmful content online is the key to creating a safe space for children. Taking away choice & freedom of expression/communication is not the way. 1/

Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn’t a selfie

Had a watermelon salad for lunch today.

My favourite fruit is back in season. Janerik/Koromilo/Sour Plum.

Spring clean my room ✅

It’s taken me a month to read Alchemised. Over 1000 pages long & I finished part 2 which is 84% of the book. Starting part 1 again b/c it makes part 2 make sense. But it’s so emotionally traumatic. The sacrifice & pain is immense for this protagonist. The movie needs to do this masterpiece justice.😭

Had dinner at Roccella for mum’s birthday and it was lovely.

I will never get over the fact the one of the Titanic’s bakers helped people into lifeboats, throwing some people into them to save them, threw chairs into the water for people to float on, drank copious amounts of whiskey and stayed in the freezing Atlantic for 2 hours all before being rescued. 🤯

As soon as I put my summer doona on, the weather changed and became cold again. 😒

I’ve had this new mattress open and expanding for not even 10 minutes and Achilles has already claimed it as “his bed”. 😒🤨

TFW you buy a flat-packed mattress and as soon as you open it, it explodes taking you out. OMG. The violence.

Though I'm not sure "The Catwoman actress" is the best way to refer to her?

Traditional Greek breakfast of fried eggs, potatoes, feta cheese & oregano.

Breaking News: A federal court said that Alina Habba, a Trump-appointed lawyer, had been serving unlawfully as the U.S. attorney in New Jersey. She was neither confirmed by the Senate nor appointed by district trial court judges — the two traditional pathways.

Slowly spring cleaning my house and emptying out my wardrobe so the Christmas tree is going up a little later this year. We’ll keep it up until February. It’s fine.

It’s December 1 and you know what that means. Cue the cheesy, B-grade Christmas movies. First on the list is A Castle for Christmas with Brooke Shields and Cary Elwes.

Dinner: Lamb cutlets, lemon roasted potatoes & homemade tzatziki.

Cleaned out half my wardrobe today which resulted in 4 garbage bags filled with clothes, some of which I don’t even remember buying or wearing. Lesson: Be a more conscious shopper. If you don’t need it, you don’t need to buy it.

I feel like one of the most underrated explanations for what's happening right now in global politics is that almost everyone has lost their minds.

Watching the new episodes of Outlander and I’m already shocked. Wow I did not expect this turn of events.