Nakia from Sydney
@nakia01.bsky.social
Live in Asia, have voted since the 80s and am getting increasingly worried about how things are turning out. Convinced that the arc of history does not bend towards justice. Reader, fanatical runner, miss Sydney.
@jessicaperthwa.bsky.social you beauty! Cmon the baggers!
@jessicaperthwa.bsky.social bloody hell Cripps you right there?
Hey @jessicaperthwa.bsky.social go the blues! Nothing would thrill me more to see you bury the Mayblooms.
@rohanconnolly65.bsky.social was just watching Howie and Dunstall's top 5 and Paul Kelly was on. He said some very nice things about your brother and his lasting influence. I'm sure you've seen it. It was a lovely tribute.
So farewell then Sir Keith Starmer. Your catchphrase was ... Nothing comes to mind.
@jessicaperthwa.bsky.social Geelong + umpiring Jeremy Cameron appreciation squad v Gold Coast!
@jessicaperthwa.bsky.social what a game! Well done the baggers!
26C dew point on my 13km run in tropical Asia this morning. If you've never experienced this, your sweat simply cannot evaporate. An absolutely sodden mess when I got back in, and beat all to hell. The things we do for the love and discipline of running!
AI will never be able to do this. Here's Patti Smith writing about her friendship with the impossibly gifted Sam Shepard. Wonderful writing. open.substack.com/pub/pattismi...
My Buddy
Remembering Sam Shepard on his birthday
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For God's sake, Albo, (I know you won't do it), insult Trump so he gets the hump and shuts down Pine Gap and cancels AUKUS to punish us.
This is all getting freaky. All my life I've wanted the Yanks to piss off out of Australia and would not have cried if they left Europe either. Also, I cannot believe we are STILL using fossil fuels. And here's Trump, removing troops from Europe and spurring the world to renewables. Damn.
The Spanish PM: "Netanyahu launched the worst possible unjustified attack against Lebanon. His contempt for life and international law is intolerable. He is a criminal that must be arrested immediately.” Imagine Albo or Wong saying this. Lol.
How much more shit can Americans take before the country buckles under and slides into the sea.
open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/... An excellent, beautifully-written set of observations by @iandunt.bsky.social
Trump vs Nasa
This week offered two different futures for humanity. The first was based on self-pity and ignorance, the second on reason and common humanity.
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The media sanitising of the unchecked aggression of Israel and the US is par for the course. Every ridiculous, unwarranted invasion by aggressor "allies" of ours since I was born in 1969 has been reported the same way; it's a "conflict", not a thuggish attack for no good reason. Screw you, Guardian.
@jessicaperthwa.bsky.social I was teaching this afternoon and hadn't time to look at the footy score until now. Oh man. I'm genuinely sorry. Damn.
I know this seems unbelievable, but the heat index in Bangkok next week could hit 60C. 60C!
Normally I'd be absolutely thrilled by the ALP caning the Liberal Party in any jurisdiction. But I don't like Albo, or Minns, or that smug Shoppie SA Premier and his sleazy behaviour during the Writer's Festival. They're all bunch of bootlicking rentier Tories in my opinion. At least ONP failed.
Good morning. Woke up. Read again, like every day, that the President of the United States is more insane than any person I've met since being born in 1969. Going for a jog. It's 27C at 4.30am, and the hot season doesn't start for a few weeks. Hawthorn won. The world is bleak.
28km run this morning, up at 3am to beat the Bangkok heat. Made the dumb mistake of doing laps in a huge park midway though, super confusing and very humid. 32km next week and then the Wollongong Marathon. It is going to be total luxury running in dewpoints of 13-14C.
#running half marathon this morning in central Thailand. Dew point 24C, absolutely brutal conditions. Made it through at a decent clip but was absolutely saturated when I finished, even my shoes were squeaky with sweat. Raced many times in Asia but these were the worst ever conditions.
Surely this can't be right. Surely. But, sadly, horribly, I fear it may be.
Anonymous@youranoncentral.bsky.social · 5mo agoAn Iranian ship at a joint Indian naval exercise, where all vessels were required to be unarmed, paraded its sailors along other participants, including the US. The US then withdrew at the last minute, torpedoed the Iranian vessel, and refused to rescue survivors. 87 sailors killed, 60 missing.
An Iranian ship at a joint Indian naval exercise, where all vessels were required to be unarmed, paraded its sailors along other participants, including the US. The US then withdrew at the last minute, torpedoed the Iranian vessel, and refused to rescue survivors. 87 sailors killed, 60 missing.