Just finished The Rum Diary by Hunter S Thompson. Sparse prose, masculine aimlessness abroad. Closer to The Sun Also Rises than Fear and Loathing. Written before gonzo existed, you can feel what Thompson was about to become. Enjoyed it more than most Hemingway I've read. #booksky #books

The only - and I mean only - good thing about Australia not being a republic yet is getting to humiliate a few other countries every four years. #commonwealthgames2026

The final cleanup of a long King's Dilemma legacy campaign. With the right crowd of five players this was an absolute joy. The storytelling, the great houses, all of it. We'll take a breather and play some other games before diving into Queen's Dilemma. #Boardgames #KingsDilemma

Standing behind the falls at Lower Kalimna in the Otways. Two hours from Melbourne and genuinely otherworldly. #Victoria #Waterfall #Otways

Cabo Verde had more attempted shots on goal vs Spain than Argentina did #ESPARG #Worldcup

Perfectly said. #WorldCup #FIFA

mensrea@mensie.bsky.social · 2w ago

German broadcast. Nailed it

It's halftime at the World Cup. Americans are doing Americans things. Good time to do some chores for 30 minutes and turn the TV back on in half an hour later #ESPARG

Count Binface is genuinely funny political commentary. Turns out the anti-establishment voice can be stolen: just make yourself more outside than the outsider. Nigel Farage is now the establishment with a seat, donors and media access. Binface has a bin on his head. The bit is winning.

Don't get your hopes up, don't get your hopes up, don't get your hopes up... Damnit... My hopes are up. share.google/wLxD0UOSwv6J...

Xbox's Obsidian and Bethesda are making a new Fallout game together, here's what we know

Xbox's Obsidian is canceling an Avowed sequel and pivoting to make a new Fallout game in the wake of Microsoft's mass gaming layoffs this week.

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And she was right. VAR and some of the new rules in regards to intent are currently really ruining games.

CJ Fogler@cjzero.bsky.social · last mo.

I don't think she liked the VAR decision

Germany: this will go down as the worst penalty shootout in World Cup history. Netherlands: hold my beer. #WorldCup #WorldCup2026

The refusal to date of the ALP to actually reduce emissions [...] has been conceptualised as ‘tactical fatalism’, ‘the intentional, weaponised insistence that a worse future is the only future’

Climate policy and the ‘overshoot’ conjuncture: the Australian case

How does the Australian Labor Party govern the climate? Despite a suite of climate and energy policies introduced by the Albanese government, real domestic emissions remain essentially unchanged, a...

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The solution to crowds booing mid-game ad breaks in stadiums? Turn the music up louder. Truly we have peaked as an organisation, FIFA #WorldCup #FIFA

Currently halfway through Katabasis. What I love about R.F. Kuang, whether it's Poppy War, Yellowface, Katabasis, is how deeply flawed her protagonists are. Sometimes actively unlikeable. But there's always a logic to the flaws. She explains without excusing. #booksky #rfkuang #katabasis

Nice piece on Shay Leighton and how Tough Guy Book Club went from one pub in Collingwood to the biggest men's book club going. Proud to be part of it. #BookSky #Books #TGBC #ToughGuyBookClub goodreadingmagazine.com.au/article/shay...

Fed Square at capacity for the Socceroos watch party in Melbourne. In the rain at 4AM

Amazing how the same word can mean different things on each side of the pond. In the UK and AUS, "hydration" means drinking water. In the US, it means TV adverts.

I get the urge to torch the political duopoly and the lobbyist-media complex in Aus. Genuinely, same. But One Nation isn't an alternative, it's a different costume on it. Deregulation and gutted institutions just hand billionaires more leverage, not less. #AusPol #OneNation #AustralianPolitics

May was roadtrip month, so much more audiobook than physical reading, but some amazing novels! #booksky #books

“If you want to get on in life, there’s things you have to ignore, so you can keep on.” This month we are reading Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan. Grab a copy and get reading. #BookClub #Reading #BookQuotes

Good turnout for the Xfac Mission Day at Sydney for the #Ingress anomaly. #missionday #sydney

One of my favourite things about travelling through small inland Australian towns: the historical museums. Which are often just "we had some rusting machinery so we put a fence around it." Free entry, obviously. #australia #smalltowns #victoria #roadtrip

Kash Patel has just released pictures of the shell casings found at the White House Correspondence Dinner.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 3mo ago

MAGA accounts tweet in unison about the need for a White House ballroom following WHCD incident

If your take was "ANZAC Day is for all Australians, don't politicise it with a Welcome to Country" — I'd genuinely encourage you to look up what a Welcome to Country actually is. Then maybe don't say that again. #auspol #welcometocountry #anzac #anzacday

Years of discomfort vanished in seconds.

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

This month we are reading The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers. Grab a copy and get reading.

Yes. Matt Canavan and Angus Taylor. The perfect party leaders to win back those lost urban seats and female voters.