@boontavista.com tell Ben that dance macabre was a ripper

🎶 The sleigh bells, they were ringin'
The snow was fallin down
The carolers were singin'
The day Santa Claus came into town

He rode through the sky on a bright red sleigh
Laughed and flew above the trees
He made his way down the chimney shaft
The day Santa gave a gift to me

(follow my 🧵, in G 👇)

Not sure what my favourite part of this is, that the offender had a golden gun, that they were going to clown school, or that their claims to have accidently brought the gun were disproven by a calendar reminder to 'pack the gun'. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Refaat Alareer on the Falls Road in Belfast

🐎🐎 EPISODE 19 IS OUT NOW 🐎🐎

With readings in Mongolian, Arabic & Chinese, and with the sounds of Mongolian folk music, find out how the world's largest land empire rose and fell, and left the world we know behind.

Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/5OJE...
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyqS...

the Ask Historians subreddit is one of my favorite spots on the internet and the bottom of most of its posts look like this

Ausplay data on the major team sports participation in the ACT.

Like NSW, soccer is way out in front on participation, and like most places basketball is big.

Unlike other states, though, the ACT is fully mixed-code as far as the Barassi Line goes, pretty evenly spread between Rugby League and AFL

Every time someone complains about the size of Australia’s federal public service, remind them it is relatively smaller, compared to Australia’s population & labour force, than it was just over a decade ago despite having more responsibilities & work now #auspol

youtu.be/TVpRN-R0ifA?... I really want to get one of these. We have a BYD Dolphin that is the perfect urban runabout. Our other car is a Skoda Kodiaq which is running fine so no need for a new car just yet but in a couple years maybe. The zippiness of the electric motors is just something else.

if a manager has no metrics for judging productivity other than "is this person physically here" they are useless. even my shitty warehouse boss had metrics for productivity (line count) and he was dumb as hell.

Here's Woolies competing with Coles on price "every single day" #ACCC

For me, the most incredible artefacts from the ancient world are the letters people wrote on clay tablets and sent to one another over thousands of years in Mesopotamia, going back to more than 5,000 years ago.

They contain recognisable humanity, warmth and humour. Here's a thread of my favourites.

Solidarity to Canberra bus drivers taking a snap unprotected strike today to protest increasing occupational violence ✊️✊️✊️

Transport Minister critiques the strike for being "disruptive"... but that's kinda the point of a strike!

Stand up... there you go. You were dreaming. What's your name?

this rules

🇳🇿 #nzpol