Moveable feast: myna birds on Sydney train looking for food not a ‘joyride’ in viral video

Moveable feast: myna birds on Sydney train looking for food not a ‘joyride’ in viral video

Mynas are ‘incredibly good learners’ and likely hopped on the inner-city train to scrounge, expert says A viral video of common myna birds appearing to calmly ride a Sydney train in place of winged flight has shocked social media users. But not experts, who say it makes perfect sense that avian life has adapted to routinely navigate public transport. Bird life is ubiquitous in Australia’s urban landscapes. They appear in our shopping centres, our workplaces, our homes. To witness a feathered friend on a train isn’t exceptional. Continue reading...

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Goodnight Rene Magritte - The Masterpiece or the Mysteries of the Horizon, 1955

Brain Damage (1988). A boy and his drug secreting brain parasite. An easy metaphor for addiction becomes a robust psychedelic walkabout in the last days of old dirty NYC. Strong lead, shitty synth score, they don't make 'em like this anymore.

THE STREET (an excerpt) By #LeonardCohen It's going to be September now for many years to come, many hearts adjusting to that strict September drum. I see the Ghost of Culture with numbers on his wrist salute some new conclusion that all of us have missed.

THE MIDDLE GROUND by #WilliamSegal There is a middle ground, a basic Reality embracing self and Self. It may be called my true nature. To discover what prevents me from the experience of it, I have only to look at myself, just as I am. It is so simple. At this moment, what is my state?

The function of the #Gnostic in this world is to be the workshop for the production of the invisible, the transcendent. - #MohammadHosaynTabataba’i

The highest form of intelligence is meditation, an intense vigilance that liberates the mind from its reactions. - #JeannedeSalzmann, 'The Reality of Being: The #FourthWay of #Gurdjieff'

When one gets quiet, then something wakes up inside one, something happy and quiet like the stars. - #WBYeats

Creatures of a day! What is a man? Man is the dream of a shadow. But whenever the radiance of Zeus comes, a bright light and a gentle life rests upon him. - Pindar, Pythian 8

“…inside my little room there plunged the rays of Love… out of which the Nameless makes a Name for one like me… and I was tumbled up in formless circumstance… my room it looked the same— but there was nothing left between the Nameless and the Name." - #LeonardCohen (in the song 'Love Itself')

From the true opponent, a limitless courage flows into you. – #Kafka

The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility. - #eecummings

Beyond religion and doubt is a vast desert. In the middle of that desert, we find ecstasy. - #Rumi, ‘Robai’ 395

Everyone in your life is a figment of your imagination—even you. - #ByronKatie

Two things are certain in the long run: one is that we'll all be dead; but another is that we'll all be wrong. Clearly, a good scholarly career is where the first comes before the second. - #MarshallSahlins

What a spiritual practice all too often and actually looks like:

What #therapy and #counselling actually looks like, courtesy of #WHAuden:

We would rather be ruined than changed, We would rather die in our dread Than climb the cross of the moment And let our illusions die. - W.H. Auden, 'The Age of Anxiety'

Your #existential PSA for the day, courtesy of #WHAuden:

What #therapy and #counselling actually looks like:

"We can have billionaires, or we can have democracy. We cannot have both."– @gilduran.com on his new book for the Australian national broadcaster: I would have liked to see nmore analysis on the implications for Australian politics & society by the Australian journos www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...

'Silicon Valley fascism' is waging war on democracy

The author of The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy, has a warning.

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BREAKING: Gloria Steinem, the potent voice of the U.S. women’s movement and a co-founder of Ms. Magazine, dies at 92.

Gloria Steinem, a potent voice of US feminism and co-founder of Ms. Magazine, has died

Gloria Steinem, the most visible symbol and potent voice of the U.S. women's movement in the '60s and '70s and a fierce advocate for feminist causes for the rest of her life, has died at 92.

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I'm 52 and for reasons beyond my control am no longer a property speculator sorry I meant "homeowner"– and I am increasingly accepting that I may never be again: we will need a new politics for demographic changes like this and others ... www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...

Australia is facing a 'looming crisis' as people enter retirement as lifelong renters

More people are edging towards retirement as "forever renters". They are making tough decisions about work, where to live and how they will afford to retire.

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I'm sure this is fine www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...

US declares it will accelerate military presence in Australia

Defence Minister Richard Marles has met with his US counterpart in Washington DC to discuss an expansion of the US military presence at Australian military bases.

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You don't say? ... "Four in five under-16s in Australia using social media despite ban, study shows ... A major factor in teenagers’ continued use of banned social platforms was inadequate age verification checks. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

Four in five under-16s in Australia using social media despite ban, study shows

Experts say law not enough to stop children accessing harmful content online and more ‘convincing strategy is required’

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Comfort is the slow poison of the spirit. The soul grows only through resistance.

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Brothers and sisters have I none, yet this man's father is my father's son

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Sean Lennon is a dad to former Beatle John’s first grandson