Perhaps I Am

*rummages through the back of the cupboard for the Scrabble board*

That’s Sydney property for you: can’t move until you move away.

Rats. I thought there might still be a wee rural pocket. At least you have the photos from the farm to turn to when the traffic gets too much.

My golly gosh, there’s still pasture left in Seven Hills? Haven’t lived out that way in 20 years, and just assumed it was all built up now.

At last, some news that is not frankly terrifying

Screenshot from "Letter from our correspondent" in "Papua New Guinea Courier"

The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.

Goodbye, 2024 You sucked.

www.loweringthebar.net/2025/01/good...

“Out of a clear sky you send broken heart emojis”

Zaffar Kunial’s brilliant, confronting poem is scored into the scarred, scoured, “jagged blooded” heart of this ongoing moment.

First written in May, but—as Israeli strikes kill 12 more in Gaza today, mostly women & children—it bears re-sharing.

Bluesky is built to make social more like the Web again, so we will never suppress links. Link to your writing, your art, your personal site — this is the social internet, designed from the ground up to be open and interoperable.

a pikachu with its eyes closed is standing next to a person 's foot ALT: a pikachu with its eyes closed is standing next to a person 's foot

Always remember that "woke" was a phrase that was used to bring awareness to racial and social issues...and then the culture war clowns hijacked "woke" and bastardized it for their own agenda. "Woke" is not the issue; the disinformation and misuse of "woke" IS.

Apparently I was the 9,092,294th person to join this app.

Perhaps one day this number will be meaningful.

I have found here most of the people I enjoyed over on the bird app. This makes me unreasonably happy.

Tweet from Four Seasons Landscaping stating “We’d like to announce that while we are not a hotel, we are a concept of a hotel”

Proving that the bird app is only mostly dead

I do not understand why my feed is so full of pizza. I mean, the pizzas all look fantastic, but what in my preferences suggests I want to see pizza?

big night for transgender illegal aliens who eat cats

So I’ve been here for a weekend, and it feels - in a good way - like the bird app did in the early years, before the trolls and the bots and the ads swarmed in. I wonder whether that will last?