One Nation really needs to hire a better photographer for their Victorian candidates. They have made almost everyone look like a squashed thumb

Consider this your gentle reminder, fellow ADHDers, that medication just helps you focus... it does not help you DIRECT that focus (says me, buried in social media all day like a chump)

Perimenopause has me desperately wishing I could afford Botox... not for my face, but for this ridiculous sweatiness I now experience. As a formerly not sweaty person, this is fucked.

After being blocked by the person who keeps labelling Shoebridge a bully in the thread, I do have to wonder - do we live in such a precious world these days that accountability is perceived as bullying? And are we that afraid of debate?

stranger@strangerous.bsky.social · 23h ago

Extraordinary. Defence’s Celia Perkins says she refused to answer questions on selling off police-used Defence land—despite knowing the answer, coz Shoebridge’s questions are “distressing”🤦‍♂️ Shoebridge “This isn’t dental surgery! You’re meant to give the answers you know!”🔥 ffs

In news that will surprise noone, my report comments are too long, and yet, I have so much more I wish I could say.

Maybe, in 10 years time, this will stop some Americans from telling Australians they couldn't possibly comprehend the challenges of living in a geographically large country 😆

Robert Maxwell@robmax4.bsky.social · 5h ago

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09... I can't understand the US objecting to a map change, trump loves map changes.

Everyone is blowing up about the lie, but the real question is... why did they use his Year 10 formal photo?

Read The Velveteen Rabbit to my daughter before bed. She cried. I cried. We are all pathetic.

I made the craziest cake ever. I can't even post a picture properly, because I have no idea how to describe it in the alt text. People may need to have at in the replies for our vision impaired friends, because I've got no idea

I remember when people took The Australian seriously as a newspaper.

Absolutely upsetting people left right and centre by saying NCCD fraud is wrong, regardless of the clientele of the school. (Would also love to see an operating budget out of that school to account for the expenditure. A girl can dream)

It should be perfectly acceptable for a man to say to a hairdresser, "I don't care what you do with it, just make me as good looking as you can given what you have to work with here…"

"Bottom 60% of households" is a wild phrase

I have encountered my first real JAQ-Off online, and there are no words to describe how pleased I was to finally be able to use the term in the appropriate context. (He was also sealioning, but that's less fun to say, and honestly, I like sealions)

I see Matt Canavan has opened his big ol yap again. And, oh look, more idiotic ideas fell out of it. Remarkable, truly.

NSW Drug Checking - festival testing continues, but it is not enough. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

NSW government to resume pill testing at music festivals but rejects calls for wider community rollout

Use of sniffer dogs and searches will continue despite health and harm reduction groups arguing they could lead to riskier drug taking

theguardian.com

Cotton candy skies tonight 🥰

Just had to say no to this post young door knocker for a charity, and the look on her face broke my stoney heart.

Warm weather also makes me much more goal oriented. Get back into blogging! Read more books! Keep the yard nice! (All much easier to think when I am home from work with a sick child)

$328,865,117 in Federal contracts to the big consultants in 2026. $0 yesterday. {1619} https://politicalgadgets.com

Tim Wilson (Reps, Goldstein, Lib) claimed $920,656 in expenses over the last 4 reported quarters for major categories such as travel, offices and cars. That is $393,031 more than the median. #auspol https://politicalgadgets.com/

"The gulf between Australian law and the approach of the royal commission was laid bare by a recent judgement of the NSW Supreme Court" @joshbornstein.bsky.social talking sense in ABC today about the shortcomings of the antisemitism royal commission

The antisemitism royal commission made two big mistakes — will these compromise their findings? - ABC Religion & Ethics

Australian society has been riven by a combustible debate about antisemitism, criticism of Israel and the boundaries of free speech. The royal commission could have provided the intellectual and moral...

abc.net.au

“It was quite astonishing, if unsurprising, just how vociferously businesses groups and friendly journalists sought to blame wages for increasing inflation at the time” writes @grogsgamut.bsky.social Read the full piece on The Point: thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

Today's summer read (which I will clearly not finish in a day) is Niki Savva's Earthquake. It will be interesting to read from the perspective and context of this far into Alvanese's tenure, where I feel like much of my hope and enthusiasm have died.

First day of spring, and it is glorious. Time to kick off reading summer! Last night, I finished On Reckoning by @amyremeikis.bsky.social. A short read, but don't be fooled, by no means is it easy. A powerful account of personal experiences, and the broader experience of being a woman in Australia

My votes for the Top 100 Australian Books. Vote here top100books.abc.net.au/browse/autho...

I am on my annual Hunger Games series comfort rewatch, and fuck me if I don't miss Philip Seymour Hoffman's acting. Consider this YOUR reminder to re/watch The Boat That Rocked.

I do not care who you are or where you are from, "school choice" is just a way of shitting on those who are less privileged than you. Fuck right off.

I let out a shocked noise, reading today's Blind Date, that's such a quietly devastating rejection. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

I haven't made paella for YEARS. Used to be a go to dish I would cook for ny ex... we've been separated for 9 years, figured I was due to give it a crack again. Deeeelicious