Robert Fairhead

Furious Fiction — One Theme, Two Stories My friend Gav Harris and I both made the longlist for February 2026's Furious Fiction writing challenge with our widely different stories.

A blog post about how a friend and I started with the same theme for Australian Writers' Centre's February 2026 Furious Fiction, wrote two widely different stories, and both made the longlist for the month! ✍️ #writers #writing #furiousfiction #shortstory www.tallandtrue.com.au/blog/furious...

That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress, or our allies, or fully explaining to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers.

Reminder that Congress has the power to stop this.

You couldn’t make this up.
And if you did, everyone would say it’s too much.

Operation Outlaw: Iran apologists and the assault on international law While bombs fall on Tehran, Iran apologists in Western capitals dress regime change in the language of peace and security.

While bombs fall on Tehran, Iran apologists in Western capitals dress regime change in the language of peace and security.

Operation Outlaw: Iran apologists and the assault on international law
~ Dr Binoy Kampmark

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A day of shifting bell curves! 😉

I'd say it's more unlikely that I'd pip you! 😂

You pipped me! 😉 Wordle 1,718 6/6

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Please please please get on this

Yes, I thought I was a gonna! 😬

Screenshot of Meta's marketing blurb for their AI agent, Manus. Australia uses Manus Island as a detention centre for asylum seekers.

Oh dear, Meta's clever marketing team hasn't thought through the name of their "go-to AI agent" for Australian customers! 🙄 #Manus #ManusIsland #AIhasn't

Phewdle! 🤏 #WQuers #Wordle #Wordle1718 6/6

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Iraq, Iran - you know, they're all the same. What does it matter ....

Sigh.

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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history. ~ #GeorgeOrwell #quotes #truth #lies #history

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

Bet I know what your 4th guess was! 😂 Wordle 1,717 5/6

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Wordlegram? 😂

“We cannot say that the United States’ actions are against international law, but we condemn Iran’s retaliatory actions as against international law,” is neither a coherent nor a compelling position.

I knew I had today's #Wordle word after my 4th guess! 😉 #WQuers #Wordle1717 5/6

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Just IN: Six suspected insiders from the US made $1.2 million dollars betting on exactly when the strikes in Iran were going to take place

Insider trading on war crimes to promote cryptocurrency gambling addictions.

The latest stage of capitalism

Fuck yeah

Middle-age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you. ~ #OgdenNash #poet #quotes #middeage

See you soon Jennifer!

The male Greater Scaup that is currently living on the river Aln near Lesbury, Northumberland. #nebirding #birdsoftheworld

To think I used to enjoy labouring over #Wordle. Today was another 10 second game! 🙄 #Wordle1716 4/6

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Trump vies for Bush’s crown for worst foreign policy decision in history The US president upended half a century of US foreign policy in an eight-minute video with another attempt at Middle Eastern regime change

"The lives of courageous American heroes may be lost, and we may have casualties. That often happens in war." ~ President #BoneSpurs, #FIFAPeacePrize winner, surrogate #NobelPeacePrize laureate, condemner of #ForeverWars 🙄 #Iran #America #War www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

John Lyons is absolutely shredding Albanese, Wong and Marles.

“I think the Australian public deserves a straight answer from the Prime Minister: do you support this war or not? Not one of them can give a straight answer.”

So, if the 'Bondi' royal commission won’t be looking at Bondi, what *will* it be doing? Royal commissioner Virginia Bell has ruled out examining the Bondi attack due to the risk of prejudicing criminal proceedings. It's worth interrogating what else the commission will be focusing on —…

Opinion | The royal commission into antisemitism risks doing more harm than good as it navigates dangerous territory in the name of "social cohesion". www.crikey.com.au/2026/02/26/b...