things I'm happy to never have done, even though for years people told me they were v important and I was missing out: 1 have children 2 be on LinkedIn

Rav@rvbdrm.com · last wk.

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POV: you have an extra dog staying over and have just woken up

#BREAKING 🚨 Labor in their draft 2026 platform have replaced their previous statement of belief 'that there should not be poverty in a country like Australia' with a 'recognition' the social security system should support 'better health and wellbeing'.

Tom Studans@maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 2w ago

ALP conference somehow even more sauceless than everyone thought it would be this year. Not you, internet smart guy. You already knew it would be bad. I mean even among attendees who had properly calibrated their expectations to 'zero'.

EPIC BATTLE dog vs tyre

is that the face of a dog who would jump up on an old lady and punch her in the pacemaker, I don't think so

Australia's jobseeker system fails workers and enriches millionaires, report says

Private firms profit as Australia's job system fails workers, report finds

A new report argues Australia's employment services system is failing jobseekers, while filling the pockets private equity and millionaires.

abc.net.au

*cough*

Bo Thompson@gaudipern.bsky.social · 3w ago

This Odyssey is beautiful and cinematic and dramatic and surprisingly faithful. That said, I really want someone to do a Romeo+Juliet style reimagining. Apply some magical realism to a present day journey. Use the entire Odyssey as a metaphor for the psychological journey of coming back from war.

Ceci n'est pas une bin

About as hard as I pressed the Off button when my friend with c-ptsd got in the car when I was listening to the @ifbookspod.bsky.social episode about The Body Keeps The Score

Apple Bottom Jings@afraidofwasps.bsky.social · last mo.

Got into my sister's car and a spooky podcast episode called "Toy Story is real" started autoplaying lmfao You should have seen how hard she pressed the Off button

Advertise your Bluesky account with a Simpsons image

Jessica Zellers@stellagarp.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Advertise your Bluesky account with a Simpsons image

"You're an author? Would I know anything you've written?" "Have you heard of the book Eat Pray Love?" "Oh wow. I have, actually!" "Well, in one of my books I say it sucks."

Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"You're an author? Would I know anything you've written?" "Have you heard of the book Eat Pray Love?" "Oh wow. I have, actually!" "Well, one of my books was printed in a typeface not totally dissimilar to the one in that."

today's no-context text from a friend; always applicable

you go into public hospital with low expectations, but the staff have all been a fucking delight - I asked a student nurse to grab my cardi as I was a bit chilly, & he winked & said "I can do better" & got me a warmed-up blanket out of some kind of magical blanket toaster oven

I always tell people @stobiepole.bsky.social is a thoughtful guy, just not in a traditional way. Case in point: he just messaged me (in hospital, getting IV antibiotics for cellulitis) to take a photo of my horrific blistered leg because his artist friend might like to use it.

Australians need to subtitle kung fu movies more

"Think back to your childhood. Do you remember when the anxiety started?"

Simulflow (Jerrified)@simulflow.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"Think back to your childhood. Do you remember when the anxiety started?"

I told Chris I heard the Smiths playing at Bunnings and he said 'they're basically the Carpenters now' and in a moment of Gen X horror I realised they always had been

Three of my faves that I always think of together - they work pretty well as a trilogy: Jane Eyre, Wide Sargasso Sea, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

John Wiswell@wiswell.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Say a group of friends is making their own Top 100 Best Novels List. Your friends ask you for your recommendations. What are the first three books that come to mind? No overthinking. Share the first three greats that hit you.

Look it was a very tight 76 minutes, and Riki Takeuchi was as ridiculously cool as ever.

Dog-park behaviour report (inspired by @gonzo.bsky.social ): 10% good, 30% harass of a pug, 30% steal ball off a cavoodle, 30% ignore mum even when treat container rattling

feeeets

Sarah Archer@sarcher.bsky.social · 4mo ago

post the best picture you have ever taken of your pet (if you feel like it):

Call the sun in the dead of the night And the sun's gonna rise in the sky Touch a man who can't walk upright And that lame man, he's gonna fly

Jonathan Edward Durham@thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 4mo ago

What’s your favorite Bible verse? (Wrong answers only)

the evil emperor cozying up to the pope’s idiot brother is so fucking renaissance, man. it’s so funny. the emperor is forming an alliance against the papal states and there is war in the holy land. there are rumors of plague.

There's a reason we call them the Barker and the Biter. This is how they responded to the unexpected presence of a dumped tyre at the dog park this morning.

Australia mentioned!

The reason Moby Dick is the most American novel ever written is because it is about a violent white man enacting a confusing revenge fantasy against a cheap source of oil.

Moby Dick@mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 8mo ago

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

Genuinely surprised to discover I am apparently neither German nor autistic.

My fellow Antipodeans, amazing developments in fairy bread are happening in Japan

Unseen Japan@unseenjapan.com · 4mo ago

"Food that makes you happy"

I think it's actually essential to children's moral development to be exposed to short stories moderately beyond their reading level where a bunch of fucked up shit happens and then instead of offering a moral lesson or any sort of emotional or narrative resolution it just ends.