This is a great first line for a short story.
Emily Herring@emilyherring.bsky.social · yesterdayI'm in Germany for mysterious reasons
Tim Lyons
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Ex union boss. Organising, political economy, labour markets, tax, pensions, climate, China, Spinoza. Proud @UnitedWorkersOz member since 1990.
Emily Herring@emilyherring.bsky.social · yesterday
The 15 minute city conspiracy theory is very weird to me because it’s just a straight description of urban spaces that are good. Why would you be against proximity to services and infrastructure
I'm gonna break I'm gonna break my I'm gonna break my rusty cage and run
ABC News Bot (unofficial)@abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 13h agoAn interim report has confirmed a runaway coal train reached speeds well in excess of the safe limit and rolled backwards for 5 kilometres before coming to a halt.
I love that there's some mushy ice on the ground and Kiwis start doing Yo Full Sick Tony Hawk down a suburban side street where Death Via Hitting An Old Parked Camry"is the main chance www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
New Zealand capital delights in rare snowfall as southern city residents ski down world’s steepest street
Snow falls in Wellington for the first time in 15 years while snow blanketed Dunedin and Christchurch on the country’s south island
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The ABC managing to run this without mentioning there is currently no way to refuel our one Antarctic research / supply ship in Hobart.
ABC News Bot (unofficial)@abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 18h agoThe aging Macquarie Wharf 6 on Hobart's waterfront is being dismantled as part of a project to deliver a modern home port for RSV Nuyina.
Is needing to blow up the Danube riverbed to try and provide emergency supplies of cooling water to a nuclear power plant A Good Thing? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Romania blasts rock to divert water from drought-hit Danube to nuclear reactor
Hungary and Romania face energy crisis as record-low river levels force atomic power plants to reduce output
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When you jump on the blower to the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church and tell them "youse are a bunch of f'ckn dogs we run this town"
And now a One Nation Senator and national spokesperson on Parking Meter Fraud and the Feral Goat Industry.
Christopher Owen@oysta.au · 2d ago12 years ago #NeverForget
“If this was true, I would be in jail,” is not meant to convince you that this man did not commit gender violence. It is meant to remind you that we have collectively decided that gender violence will be de facto invisible to the law.
The unprecedented wildfires have revealed buried munitions from the global war of annihilation with the fascists. Nature is healing.
AFP News Agency@en.afp.com · 2d agoWWII shells surface in wildfire-ravaged French village Around 400 shells and pieces of ammunition have been recovered in the area where over 180 homes were ravaged by flames u.afp.com/SHUK
A Swiss-Italian lawyer in a $5000 suit who lives in Qatar doesn't get his call returned any more. Getting the full Atlantic City Casino creditors meeting experience from Trump.
There’s a guy, great king, incredible king. Prester John. Scepter made of emeralds. Descended from the Maggie. Sent me a letter, beautiful letter, tears in his eyes. Begged me to let him help open the strait, big strong guy. I’m giving Iran 24 hours to comply or, Prester John, I might tell him yes.
Trump Baselessly Claims He Is Viral 40-Pound Tabby Cat Named Daddy Cinnamon https://theonion.com/trump-baselessly-claims-he-is-viral-40-pound-tabby-cat-named-daddy-cinnamon/
Bigger than Operation Linebacker II in 1972? (Which was 1000 aircraft attacking Hanoi / Haiphong - you can still see part of a downed B52 in a pond in the middle of Hanoi.) This was also prompted by stalled negotiations after a strategic US defeat......
i personally don't think child molestetion should be required to play volleyball
Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d agoAn initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
I said this yesterday but I didn’t want it to come true *this* quickly
My shop's "no fake tobacconist" sign is raising a lot of questions, all of which are answered by the sign.
What's the bet that the trucks moving the straw around use more diesel than you can make from the straw? (Meanwhile: electrification is right there!)
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 3d agoRegional WA renewable diesel project aims to reduce reliance on Middle Eastern oil trade
Also most Americans think a pied-a-terre is a dish from the Louisiana / Arkansas border made of catfish, creamed corn, table grapes and ground beef.
Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · 3d ago81-year-old demands political party accomodate him and him alone. www.mediaite.com/media/news/j...
airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027
[Today in "all this stuff is just racism all the way down really"] Includes chud claims that rap is not somehow authentically American....... apple.news/AvA2O5UcFR1C...
if there's a sunday chore you hate doing i encourage you to avoid it. yes you've painlessly knock it out every other week and yes it only actually ever takes 15 minutes, but what if this time it kills you? best to avoid it
Whoever is PM and Premier of Qld in the two years leading up to and during this putative debacle is doomed.
Ian Whitney@iancwhitney.bsky.social · 4d agoI know 'we'll never be ready in time!' is an unofficial event of every Olympics, but considering they need to host test events in 2031, I would have hoped Brisbane was a bit further along than 'ambitious concept art' stage.
