Why is Brisbane so obsessed with pretending that buses are trains?

I feel like (i) there are many more people complaining about people clapping after the plane lands, than there are people clapping after the plane lands (ii) on the occasions I have been on a plane where people clapped after landing it was great; it has saying thanks to the bus driver energy

Revisiting the cooked playlist I made for the first dinner party I had at the sharehouse in Canberra where I lived in 2019 which contained both the Eb maj and D maj versions of Sufjan Stevens – Tonya Harding, half of Carrie and Lowell, and Lady Gaga – Joanne

The Berlin Zoo named their baby Hippo Brötchen. :) (Bread roll 🥖)

I think it's time to bring back hot cross buns for the year

I'm glad that this article on the ABC website includes this para explaining the uses of milk, for those unfamiliar

#analysis

Not sure why looksmaxxers bother tbh when they aren't ever going to get their clavicles as big as a whale's clavicle

Fewer trad wives, more trad mice Just scurrying through a cut-out arch in the skirting board with my yellow wedge of swiss cheese

It's wild to me that there's a Melania movie that isn't in the same vein as Vice

You should get penalty rates for working when it's this hot

The gap between Christmas and New Year's is an excellent time to see how much soil the council will let you get away with putting in the red bin

@abolishflesh.bsky.social Coles sells 100 Plus Zero Sugar now

When will P!nk record a new version of her 2007 #5 hit 'Dear Mr. President' (feat. Indigo Girls) with the lyrics updated for today's world?

At the Lady Gaga concert in Melbourne, Ms Germanotta committed an act of absolute VIOLENCE by saying 'some of you have been my fans for 20 years now'

The Keith roadhouse that normally plays Christian radio is playing Marina and the Diamonds – How to be a Heartbreaker... What does it portend??

It's a total double standard that they'll let you take a trolley out of the supermarket but not a basket

My husband flew to Brisbane this morning on a Dutch plane that was old enough to have ashtrays in the armrests

If I have to know about a primary candidate for the Maine Democratic party, more Americans should be talking about who is going to be preselected to replace Stephen Mullighan in Lee

If anyone sees a bunch of chives that was left on the 167 bus, those are mine thanks x

This is the most cursed possible South Australian sentence

Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Doctor says, "Treatment is simple. Great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go and see him. That should pick you up." Man bursts into tears of joy, realizes how much happiness he brings into the dark and uncertain world. "I am Pagliacci. Thank you doctor."

Ruined my morning by reading the Ozbargain vaccine discourse thread

Normally the chirping of the sparrows that live in the underground Coles in Rundle Mall seems cheerful, but today I just feel revulsion at the world we've built, they should be outside

More dawdling, more flim-flamming and shilly-shallying, more joie de vivre

Outlook on my work computer has updated so that the top menu item when you right click an attachment is now 'Summarise with Copilot' instead of 'Preview', a function I use dozens of times a day, but the good news is at least clicking the 'Summarise with Copilot' button doesn't actually do anything

Someone has put up paper flyers in the car park of my local Woolworths advertising their Onlyfans

In 2019 when every newsagent and convenience store in the Sydney airport Tiger terminal had a shelf of the collected speeches of Xi Jinping

Richard 塚正ー緑@rhtebooks.bsky.social · 11mo ago

People know about the billboards for fighter jets outside Canberra Airport, but there's also ones for streaming services noting local artists, presumably to forestall calls for local content quotas by backbenchers. For all the concern about lobbyist access, they resort to some very crude measures

Wishing everyone a 'you can claim 1 CPD point in the Bullying, Discrimination, and Harassment category for R U OK Day activities'

There's one person at the servo across the road who always tries the most cooked up sells Last week I went in to buy petrol and she asked if I wanted two pies with that. When I declined she goes 'oh, just one pie then?'. When I said no to that too she said 'we also have sausage rolls'.