Gifts wrapped. Night Before Christmas recited (from memory - impressed self). Now cats, shiraz, and Murdoch.

Australia: where no sooner did we get a National Anti-Corruption Commission than it became the site of a corruption scandal, necessitating a committee investigation into corruption at the anti-corruption commission.

Bushfire smoke moon. 42 degrees today as we reach the first weekend of summer.

So many things wrong with this label.

Worth doing. Relatively quick and simple.

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

Please sign to ask the Government to hold an inquiry into the legality of Palmer's anti-trans rhetoric and ad campaigns.

www.change.org/p/govt-enqui...

New phenomenon where my Aussie friends now have answerphones that speak in British regional accents...

Mostly the cats out-cute Pongo. But here he is being super cute.

In an attempt to rescue my sanity, I'm going to have fun thinking about music for a few days.

We can call Elon Musk Twitler…..

Last year Musk was earning $537 every second.

You cannot both believe billionaires should exists and say you believe in fairness.

I lived the Australian 2019/20 mega-fires and I really did think it was going to change everything - I was wrong. Australia, five years later, is the second largest exporter of climate pollution in the world.

"They shall not pass" is a slogan linked to a century of resistance to fascism.
One example is the 1936 Battle of Cable Street where 300k diverse people prevented a fascist march into a Jewish neighbourhood, resisting mounted police and the fascist marchers.

Look it up!

youtu.be/KDgp4Ovva9w?...

This is my favorite picture of Stonewall.

They knew they were getting arrested just for being LGBTQ+.

Yet... they're still here, standing outside of the boarded up Stonewall Inn, smiling as the world was at a fever pitch of hatred against them.

I think about it a lot in moments like this.

I know it's 41 degrees, and I resisted as long as I can, but I am making a pot of tea, damn it.

Elon Musk does a literal Nazi salute and the media think it’s a bit “awkward” or “odd”.

Grace Tame wears a t-shirt summing up most Australians’ feelings about Murdoch and cue the outrage from Rupert’s media minions.

Fuck Murdoch indeed.

#fuckmurdoch

Just emptied a bag full of feathers from a burst pillow into a bin bag, which prompted me to check if you can put feathers into FOGO. The answer is: only if you just plucked them from a chicken!
More questions answered here.
www.cityofparramatta.nsw.gov.au/fogo/a-z-fog...

www.propublica.org/article/the-...

Great interview here of Bishop Budde by the wonderful @erinburnett.bsky.social 👉
youtube.com/watch?v=2BMZ...