Bin Chicken

Going to rewatch Kedi 🐈

All the best Australians are on BlueSky imho

Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

Monumental win for mob in a time of turmoil.
We all need to celebrate the hell out of any wins for any of us.
Something Australians can finally feel not shit about.
Something mob around the nation are watching and learning from. Building, always building . Not destroying.

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Morton wins Walkley for “Mean Streak” www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/202...

‘He was shaking’: The encounter in his local cafe that hit home for Mitch Brown The former West Coast Eagle – and first openly bisexual player in the AFL/VFL’s history – on the messages he’s received since he came out in August.

This is an excellent interview, with a great advocate.
www.smh.com.au/national/he-...

"In some portfolios as many as half of the appointments had been made directly by ministers without a formal process" and “all too often these appointments have looked like forms of patronage and nepotism"

TOR prevented looking at current/Labor appointments...

Hmm why they want to keep this quiet?

"Labor won’t take up many of the [Briggs] recommendations, instead opting for a major overhaul of a government-wide framework for ensuring appropriate appointments."

Sums thing up really.

To top things off, perhaps they could forward the report to the NACC? 😂

TAKES A PET LIKE NO PROBLEMMM

Single frame. Man at table with Netanyahu, Israel flag behind. Man says “How’s the ceasefire holding.?” Netanyahu replies, “Well… it’s keeping the ongoing genocide off the front pages…which was a distraction from my judicial crackdown, which drew attention away from our brutal settlement expansion, which kept my corruption charges out of the public eye…”

Nesting offences.
My @smh @theage cartoon.

Victoria could become first Australian state to ban unnecessary surgery on intersex children Exclusive: Legislation would prohibit deferrable, irreversible procedures until child can give informed consent, bringing state in line with ACT

"Victoria will become the first Australian state to ban unnecessary surgeries on intersex children, with legislation to be introduced to parliament to ensure procedures are deferred until patients are old enough to consent to them." #aushealth

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

More meals through $9 million food relief program Minister Ros Spence visited Alex Makes Meals to announce that 133 organisations will share $9 million through a food relief program.

All while federal Labor refuses to #RaiseTheRate

"The Victorian Budget 2025/26 provides $18 million to expand food relief across Victoria, bringing total investment in food security to more than $74 million."
www.foodmag.com.au/more-meals-t...

ahh, yes, the room where i bathe my jackets

"According to data from Media Radar, The New York Times took in more than $20 million in advertising revenue from fossil fuel companies from Oct 2020 to Oct 2023, twice what any other outlet earned from the industry" - @amywestervelt.bsky.social, Matthew Green & @joeygrostern.bsky.social

#NYT

Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens

"We followed everything we were supposed to do"

Legitimate green card applicants with US spouses are being
arrested by armed, masked men at scheduled immigration interviews, taken away from their children, sent to prison

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

Yes, but you're one of the 10 people where I can't do what you tell me to, so...

A dog and a person looking out a window

Me showing an interest in my dog's hobbies

Love this pic of White-faced Heron at Nyngan. I think the dark accentuates the detail on its back. Not sure the chicken chip packet adds anything though..!! #birds #binyourrubbish

At least 1970s editors were just horny chauvinistic fucks, now we're stuck with horny chauvanistic climate-doom-laundering fucks

Don't you think the public has a reasonable expectation that the Commissioner of the NACC being paid well above $800,000 would consider this a full time job and not also seek to freelance outside of it?

Hard to find this disaster on the front pages of the nation's online news ... our nearest neighbours.

Screenshot of the Yoti demo with a pretend purchase of Jagermeister and the message "You have verified your age for this restricted item"

"You have verified your age for this restricted item"

I pretend-bought a £16 bottle of Jagermeister.

I'm sure there must be other checks to access alcohol. But for my occasional accessing of Facebook (which I believe is using Yoti), I'm hoping the real verification is as easy as this demo🤞

Phoebe Waller-Bridge, as Fleabag, looking directly at the camera with a look of displeasure

The picture on my laptop.

Thought I should have a photo of someone looking directly down the barrel of the camera.
That made me think of Fleabag breaking the 4th wall, so...

I tricked a selfie AI age-verification demo into letting a child 'buy' a knife Governments are looking at using AI to estimate people's age using a selfie. I fooled it using a stock image and an old aging filter.

Still not sure what I'm going to do about giving companies data when age verification comes in.
Was reading this old article from Cam Wilson about getting past an age verification demo from Yoti.
Decided to give it a try myself.

www.crikey.com.au/2024/06/14/s...

Pete Hegseth tweet: “For your Christmas wish list… above an image of an altered book cover called Franklin Targets Narco Terrorists: a classic Franklin story”. Franklin the turtle is in a Black Hawk helicopter firing a rocket down at ships.

Insanity. How obviously grotesque and horrid this merging of a popular children’s story with racist, militant war crimes is coming from the mouth of the US “Secretary of War”. Yet when I pointed out this same evil in Bluey, white people lost their minds.