Leonie Wood

A brief history of noodles in Melbourne (plus 11 top spots to slurp them) Our nationʼs history with the long strips of dough is young and surprisingly vast.

Plumb bloody stupid
"But our [Melbourne's] history with the humble noodle is actually less than 200 years old"

Bugger me!
Melb was founded 1834. Before that, it was First Nations.
So, yep, no noodles.
@theageaustralia.bsky.social showing gross naivety & ignorance.

www.theage.com.au/goodfood/mel...

On 26 Jan 1788 the British invaded lands of a couple of First Nations. There's over 300 Nations on this continent, so 100s of invasions occurred over many decades. There were Martu people in 1964 who'd never heard of white people. Invasion was not a single day. Colonisation is not a single event

Sign the Petition Create an Australian Long Weekend: Move the Public Holiday from Jan 26

Get on board.

c.org/z8n8Fc9MyX

Cardiff couple invited man in for Christmas, he stayed for 45 years An arrangement Rob and Dianne Parsons thought would last a few days ended up changing their lives.

Merry Christmas, everyone!

Native orchids captivate photographers in search of undiscovered bush treasure Two centuries after orchids were first documented in South Australia, photographers are still discovering new plants.

Hey @shaynecalliss.bsky.social
FYI article below. Any time you've pix of them while roaming, I'm in- not a geek, but saw extraordinary ones in Sarawak in '94 while travelling with specialist from Bonn BotGardens- including sand orchids the size of newborn fingernails
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

Graph showing temperatures during the day in two locations, Melbourne corresponding to the blue line, and Geelong the red line.

The change is coming, Melbourne.

Geelong (red line) just dropped 13 degrees in 10 minutes.

Just lovely. Are these all natives?

How long since a human hand has picked up this rock?
The area around here is full of sink holes and caves.

Wow! Brilliant.

Exquisite

2 metres of sugar and potential seed

Single frame. Left side: Storm clouds, lightening, house on fire among trees also burning, “HELP” coming from house. To the right, David Littleproud, behind him a huge wave. He says: “No point in us doing anything until the rest of the world is on board.”

No hurry.
My @smh @theage cartoon.

Brilliant

Someone at The Age has had a long day …. Or some such sumfink, y’know.

Charlie Kirk’s killing was a tragedy. But we must not rewrite his life | Moira Donegan In the wake of horror, honest accountings of his life have not only become rare – they have also become dangerous

THE best piece I have read on this issue.
Bang on. Every word.

Kirk did not ‘debate’; he belittled, vilified, and based his opinions on vile moral prejudices.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Brilliant. I love your takes on the world.

Before each full moon first it must get fully charged at one of its strategically placed docking stations

NUMBER CRUNCHING "Yvette Cooper and Labour thought they could dump immigrants into communities and turn a blind eye... empty hotels are being filled overnight with young foreign men." - Shadow home secretary Chris Philp, Daily Express, 20 August 56,042 Asylum seekers being housed in hotels in September 2023, when Philp was a Home Office minister 32,059 Asylum seekers being housed in hotels in June 2025, the most recent month for which data is available

Private Eye, 6-18 Sept edition

Hear you - big-time.

And I value my old-school journalism.

Good god. Count the spelling mistakes.
You might miss a couple at first blush…

Magical. And Wally. And ball.

Even NewsCorp subs think some “news” is plain shit.

I kid you not: you might never see that headline again.

Your posts are poetry. It’s a daily joy.

Dear Jeff Bezos …

JFC!

See the Wall Street Journal - Boston Consulting was considered the elite of the elite in business and risk consulting.

Its ‘aid’ involvement in Gaza and a plan to restructure Gaza are horrendous. See the questions to be asked - last line of the article.

@shaynecalliss.bsky.social Thanks for putting me on to Jesse Welles. There is hope.

Domestic Error and Red are on high rotation in my car - every word, every dripping sanction.

Tillis: What do I tell 663,000 people in two years, three years, when President Trump breaks his promise by pushing them off of medicaid because the funding's not there anymore, guys?

‘Post-apocalyptic’: medical staff struggle as gangs fight over aid supplies in Gaza Militants, clans, Hamas and criminal gangs bring violence and anarchy as they vie for power amid Israeli strikes

Awful, appalling. And exactly to the Israeli government’s playbook.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

How Can the Democrats Be Losing to These Cruel, Stupid, Inept People? You may have noticed: While Republicans debate Medicaid and other cuts, there’s one aspect of Trump’s big ugly bill that absolutely cannot be discussed.

"The whole thing is just a disgrace. A policy disgrace. A moral disgrace. Rural hospitals will close, and working-class people will die so that Trump’s golf buddies can get tax cuts of tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars."

https://trib.al/bBYxuas