Very little (any?) fanfare about this, but Australia joined just 29 other countries to be declared trachoma-free last month. Excellent news!! Such hard work and research by many should be celebrated. Trachoma is caused by the bacterium called Chlamydia trachomatis. www.who.int/news/item/29...

Yes, but hear me out: My favorite faculty profile pic is the one where I brought a probe with me and refused to put it down for one single shot, so they had to use it on the website.

Am I wrong though?

RIP Sisyphus you would have loved Chumbawamba

Australia is not a serious country. Actual legal tender:

a vanilla soy latte is a variety of three bean soup

Reaching back into the mid 90s with the first album of the morning, Tonic's Lemon Parade. Interesting trivia - band member Jeff Russo went on to do a huge range of soundtracks, including the Fargo TV series (listen to to incredible character theme track below).

The RBA is still trying to force open the Straits of Hormuz with interest rates, I see

Pay rises don't come from nowhere, they take organising and strength in numbers. Join your union.

UTas staff (academic and professional) are the *lowest* paid in the country, and will still be the lowest paid at the current pay offer.

NTEU members on strike in nipaluna/Hobart.

Railing really feeling it today

My family just started rewatching The Mandalorian. My kids commented on Werner Herzog's voice, so I just had to show them the "Werner Herzog Yelp review".

Recession tornado siren.

Happy Sunday c0re! Hope your day has been awesome! #BananaBread

The Manchurian and Grogu (1962)

222 years ago on this date, the first massacre was committed against Aboriginal people in Tasmania. The occupational settlement by white British nationals was one day old. About 300 Aboriginal people from the Big River and Oyster Bay tribes had gathered for a kangaroo drive. Upon being sighted by

Richard Dawkins right now

Saw this poster last night at a uni residential college. Today the temperature was the hottest May day in 144 years of records. More than 12oC above the May maximum average.

This 👇

Will likely delete this shortly.

Day 2 of my trip to Tasmania brought me my first endemic birds - Tasmanian Native Hens. They are flightless members of the Rail family aka "turbo chooks" because they're extremely fast runners, reaching speeds of up to 50 km/h. Apparently they can also swim. #birds #birdwatching #birding #WildOz

funny how the only people you hear talking shit about pyramid schemes are the ones who aren't about to receive a hundred-fold return on their modest investment

Why didn't they just make their own way to Funky Town instead of repeatedly asking someone else to take them there? 🤔

Some people know no boundaries - Vegemite toast update!

Checked my consumables account in the solvent room.

a luxury handbag

this post is warmly dedicated to everyone who bought an SUV 'for safety' www.transportenvironment.org/articles/eve...

Well, I guess this is my first ever piece of breaking news - probably the biggest rare plant story in Australia this year. Over at @tasinquirer.bsky.social. tasmanianinquirer.com.au/news/very-ex...

I am absolutely shite at recognising when someone is flirting with me. Like, comically bad at it. My mates would mock me about it. But something happened today that made me so happy. 1/?

Futurama (Series, 1999 - )

I gave a rambling answer to a question on the speed of lighting a match and ended up referenced in this article on humanity in a world of AI and our need for friction.

You're just supposed to scratch a bit on your toast that already has butter on it. Like the one in the front if you're new and the one in the back once you get addicted.

Sad to hear about James Valentine. He was a part of my weekday TV routine as a child, and I was very excited to be interviewed by him on the radio so many years later. The topic is was the Chemistry of eggs. He was very focused on what came first (spoilers: the egg).

it’s so great how where i live in tassie the tax-dodging, internationally-owned salmon companies ruin summer w diseased, dead and rotting salmon + antibiotics pumped into the water right off the beaches we love, which are calm sheltered waters with huge dead zones full of shit under the fish pens…

I bought an air purifier for our house during COVID times, but the real value has been lowering indoor smoke during these burn offs and regular suburban wood burning in winter.

My head assploded and harsh words came out after reading the ABCs stupidest ever 730 report on EVs

Best part of getting my car serviced is the pastry shop just around the corner. Still warm. 😊🤤

This morning's joy🥳

Konrad Benjamin on fire in today’s gas tax inquiry, says those claiming “we can’t afford anything” are full of it, we have plenty of resources to benefit from “This gas issue is the perfect eg of how it’s a lie” “We’ve been sold out”🔥 #auspol @punterspolitics.bsky.social @australiainstitute.org.au

This was such hot garbage Imma pull my whole column forward to rag on it tomorrow

After three decades of advocacy, and for the first time in my life, I was able to donate blood today. Thank you to everyone who helped make this possible. More here: ymlp.com/zcgz8Z

How my brain reads it.

Starting today, gay/bi men in long-term monogamous relationships can donate blood. People who take PrEP, or who have multiple partners, are still excluded. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...