Laura Harding

#TilesOnTuesday, Basilica di San Crisogono, Rome

YouTube video by ABC 7 Chicago Jennifer Hudson sings 'A Change Is Gonna Come' at Rev. Jesse Jackson funeral in Chicago

She SANG this,y'all. youtu.be/xJIBNMTvkFQ?...

Just read and enjoyed a piece including, oddly, a couple of typos. The sort you don’t get in AI slop. It made me think of an email I had yesterday from a reader about typos and missing words in my last two books. Initially mortified, I’m now thinking of leaving them in as organic proof marks.

"Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach the earth. None of them through the Strait of Hormuz."

Bill McKibben

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Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.

Iran war: What is happening on day nine of US-Israel attacks? The US and Israel continue to strike Iran, hitting oil storage depots and refining facilities for the first time.

Al Jazeera English. It is so interesting to compare the tone. Very clipped and factual. Our news is very urgent and mostly opinion now….

"California—and several other localities—technically have a law on the book that allows cities to set a weight limit for vehicles on its roads, which many newer, larger SUVs exceed. The laws are largely unenforced, but could that change?"

Not your usual Surry Hills wildlife. A lovely little bush turkey…couldn’t see mum…scooted off into a garden…

Guardian headline: “Bob Carr, ‘a masterpiece’ and a hornet queer fantasy”

And this, kids, is why we need Oxford commas…

Interesting story in the New York Times, "The Statues Were Mostly Men or Nude Women. So These Knitters Got to Work." 👉 tinyurl.com/juws7vua

#knitting #craftivism #art #fiberart 1/2

Beggars belief…

Iran should rename the Persian Gulf to Gulf of Iran.

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‘Massive underfunding’ blamed as students enrolled in Australian public schools falls to new low As thousands more students head to private schools, advocates hope new government funding deals might draw families back to public sector * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast In Sharryn Brownlee’s experience, it’s when their kids reach the final years of primary school that a lot of parents start to ask one another the same question. “Where are you going to send your kids to high school? Public or private?” she said. Continue reading...

‘Massive underfunding’ blamed as students enrolled in Australian public schools falls to new low

Oh please - hit me with your latest 5 minute thought fart by phone video…not 🤯

mortgage(n.)
late 14c., morgage, from Old French morgage (13c.), mort gaige, literally "dead pledge” 😵

Dramatic stormy sky with setting sun…

‘Twas dramatic…

Should I use my super to buy a $100k car….

Hats off to the expert satirist - who will one day be revealed to have been behind this column all along…

Those Sydney radio hacks have finally been consumed by their own egos.

Or they’re staging another PR stunt.

I’ll wait for the PM to release a statement before we can be sure.

Alain Bertaud - Order without Design -
I went…
sceptical…

Was surprised to hear him say the first task of planning is to determine what is public and private and to set a structure of streets and open spaces.

Sounds like design…he uses the word quite differently.

yes and thank you for the excuse to share one of my all-time favorite tweets (from @longwall26.bsky.social)

Calling AI "slop" has been one of the most effective instances of the public rebranding a product and it pisses them off.

Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Iran:

“Remember that one can be against a hateful regime, as is the case with the Iranian regime, as is the whole of Spanish society, and at the same time be against an unjustified, dangerous military intervention outside of international law.”

So many things….not raising the rate, AUKUS - but the recent comments about the Isis mothers, and Grace Tame have landed super heavily. Echoes of Abbott and Morrison, from someone who purports to be better…

And where all so very surprised, not

#WoodsideWatty has served them very well

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

I won’t remain silent on this cynical war | The Observer Israelis overwhelmingly back the strikes on Iran, but the most patriotic thing to do is to ask ‘to what end?’

This is good.
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