The new Essential polling is here, although I haven’t read it yet. essentialreport.com.au/reports/30-s...

not sure if I agree with the premise - the decline in sales of processed vegan food is due to the waning of a fad diet. The decline could be attributed to vegans knowing how to cook by cutting back on luxury products for economic reasons like faux meat. www.theguardian.com/food/2025/se...

Victoria's Liberals struggles with compromise as infighting continues: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-08/victorian-liberal-party-john-pesutto-moira-deeming-bankruptcy/105387842

I don’t think the lineup of Lindy Li, Jillian Michaels and Ana Kasparian on ‘Her talk’ will last. Lindy has credibility issues and it doesn’t seem that Ana is impressed and I don’t think she wants to be on a version of conservative “real housewives”.

I spoke with Daniel Browning at RN about Meta’s theft of authors’ work to train its AI and the implications/ next steps for Australian authors.

We need AI legislation to protect creators!

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www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

It's a start! Consumer power over this price gouging, blood sucking, anti trust cartel 🤸‍♀️🤸‍♀️

This is a picture from my yard (from not of) in my far outer Melbournian suburb of Victoria. You can hear the crickets, birds, dogs… and my Neighbours TV. I’ll miss it when I move or more likely my next door neighbour’s landlord sells and the land is subdivides into 8 townhouses… sigh

If I had 1/100,000,000 of Elon Musk’s fortune I would… probably hang out, with the cat and tend to the garden, and buy the nice organic produce at the nice organic store in a nice very country town…. Selfish yes - evil no.

I ordered a pizza and ate it with my Husband and cat (well she was not allowed to eat said pizza but she sat next to us) - I don’t regret it (even if I really did not have the funds for it).

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Had an a minor argument over the shopping list. Not what was on it but the medium (digital vs. analogue). I prefer paper so I am analogue. I am not going digital (text) and I realised I only gave him the list because I don’t like supermarkets. In the future I’ll do the shopping.

Good day at work today… apart from not getting all the work that I should have got done completed. No bad interactions - apart from being blanked by people who don’t like me, which isn’t the end of the world.

Feeling glum while going into the office; too much work and too little time. My current motivation dreaming of the future, which is does not involve my current job and a town nowhere near the city. Disconnected from the world and far away.

Note to self, remember being self righteous is not constructive, helpful or worthwhile. Even if you are in the right sometimes it is better to tactfully ignore rubbish behaviour.

I have a job that I often dislike; I am working on changing careers. To do this I have cut back on spending…. however, today I bought myself a coffee. The barista barely said a word and handed me the coffee with a glare. This irritated me. I don’t really have money for coffee… but it is a lesson.

I hope the young Turks has sick leave and gives their on air talent like Ana Kasparian a break. As someone who works in education in Australia I am grateful for mental health days and Long service leave. I don’t think she is at her best - I wish she would take some time off m.youtube.com/watch?v=