Completely non-functional on my mobile. It seems the Bureau can’t make a website that complies with basic web standards.

Over the last few years I've been noticing with dismay the increasing quantity of typos, spelling errors and ungrammatical gibberish published at www.abc.net.au/news/justin. But this must be a new low in quality control:

😂😂😂

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

And later the same night.

Aurora Australis, Waratah Bay, Victoria

Yes, by putting 'brave' in quotation marks the SMH is almost certainly alluding to the infamous riposte by Sir Humphrey Appleby.

Welcome to the gecko chamber. I found this guy in the (dry) water-well of an indoor plant pot. They took some persuading that they would be better off outside than in this new comfy home (that was about to be flooded).

At the other place I took @leftinlimbo.bsky.social’s advice to heart (it’s great to sing along to as well). Now I’m doing the same here, but blocklists are making it much easier. Those MAGA trolls don’t stand a chance.

I keep seeing this cute guy from time to time in the front yard, back yard, and once in the garage. I’m not sure whether I’m seeing one gecko, or a family.

Are you a Twitter refugee? Are you wondering what is going on over there? Well here are some examples: the illiterate and barely comprehensible ramblings of “lois bunch of numbers”. It is hard to know what is going on here. Satire? Troll bot? Acquired brain injury?

Meanwhile on Twitter, Space Karen muses about charging everyone a fee (to fight the bots, apparently, again).

Some 1960’s vinyl finds from Licorice Pie, Collingwood