Why are we not seeing a range of Ministers on the hustings? There are great communicators among them, much pithier than Albo, and a full hand would be a telling contrast with the paucity of talent in the LNP.

For the birders on BlueSky, and for anyone else needing solace in these troubled times, here’s a rather stately Brolga, one of Australia’s two crane species, that strolled though our camp.

Lastly, John Menadue’s blog Pearls and Irritations is a great source of thoughtful comment on all manner of topics, here on the Middle East and the Israeli conflict.

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And then more recently (The Times of Israel article), we’ve never received the full story of Mossad’s use of Australian passports, why was Ben Zygier imprisoned and did he commit suicide?

www.timesofisrael.com/zygier-was-a...

William Dalrymple’s podcast Empire is brilliant on so many fronts. This Youtube clip looks at the role of, chiefly, the British in establishing Israel (with Churchill’s breathtaking aside on Australia’s treatment of First Nation’s people).

If God is real, his name is Carl Sagan. The full significance of his lesson of the ‘pale blue dot’ dwarves the stories of that Christian book. Failing to understand this is putting humanity in peril.

Great witchy work, MFWitches. Your model of educating advertisers has promise. There’s more to be done for a civil society after Vile Kyle and Jackie O no longer disgrace the airwaves.

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Indeed it can, and as for attending protests to make, even however slightly, 2025 bearable, take every opportunity that presents.

Not so rambly, introvert. There’s a lot in this article that says what you’re saying.

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Tell her she can go dark to the 5 G signal with this bit of cleverness.

This radio host has a following in Sydney but is getting no traction in Melbourne. I love being a Victorian. That he says this stuff is disgusting and all power to the campaign by the Mad Fu##ing Witches to dissuade businesses from advertising on the Kyle and Jackie O program.

You missed Stephen Miller, from here in Australia he looks to be of the nastiest people imaginable.

Wasn’t a settee a couch with legs?

Is there a shorthand (I must be boomer, who these days knows shorthand?) way to move ‘following’ and ‘followers’ across from the detested X?

I cannot in all conscience continue with the ‘free’ speech oligarch. Twitter/X is now a cesspit. Check Anna Krien’s essay ‘The people who mistook their lives for an app’. This is what we’ve become.