Past Me volunteered Current Me to go do stuff before 8am on a Sunday, the woman was mad. Someone needs to stop her from doing this sort of shit.

Awake early through no fault of my own, but now I have the rest of the day free and I’m gonna make a long overdue trip to the nearest Spotlight for important art supplies

The weather was very nice today and a couple of days recently, and they’ve started refreshing the grader lines around any paddock that borders bushland and planning “Using The VicEmergency app” info sessions for the community. Feels a bit like staring into the mouth of a dragon … yet again. 😬

New:
A deep dive with some alarming new revelations on the silencing of one of the few remaining independent progressive voices in Australian media. Who killed Meanjin?

Get you a partner who looks at you the way this filthy freeloader looks at this potato chip
(He’s not allowed to have it no matter how much he pines)

It is actually so hard to get photos of just how lovely this time of year is out here, because no sensible camera would believe for a second how violently yellow the fields can be and my phone gets all confused. It never looks real in a photo, but it also never looks real in person.

Our article on the things that keep climate risk folks awake at night from Australia’s first National Climate Risk Assessment. May explain my insomnia.
….with @tasvo.bsky.social & Prof. Lucas Walsh @theconversation.com

theconversation.com/is-this-aust...

The National Climate Risk Report - my life for two years - has just been released.
www.acs.gov.au/pages/nation...
Minister Bowen press conference at: www.youtube.com/live/GLvd_fu...
My specific report on the weather and climate hazards: climateservice.maps.arcgis.com/sharing/rest...

Filthy shag rug or my eight year old inky-pawed son: how will we ever know??
(do not touch the tummy to investigate unless all the stars are positioned correctly and the wind is blowing your way)

One day, nearly 2000 years ago, a cat dashed across some drying tiles, somewhere near Hadrian's Wall.

It's immortality of a kind, isn't it?

Eye bleach: Percy loving scritches so much his back paws are almost floating. Elevator butt to the max. Nothing like a happy cat ❤️

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Spring is not a terrible time to be a country mouse, driving around the shire is the best part of my work day I think ❤️

I didn’t mean to leave the supermarket with anything alive and I do NOT understand how to handle plants that aren’t made out of glass, crepe paper, or fabric, but he was pretty and all alone so I guess it’s time I learned.
His name is Tom. Ato. Obviously. Look it’s been a long day.

LiveJournal icon zine!! 📣

THIS IS NOT A DRILL! Please submit yours so i can see them in the next print run!!

The pressure of making the first post on a social media app, any app, after you maybe kinda sorta ghosted almost everyone you knew and abandoned the entire internet five years ago 🫣 uhhhh… I aten’t dead