Laurence

Would very much love a Jackson Lamb* to be upwind and kicking back, saying “Sorry about that, you’re lucky we’re outside” (*Slow Horses star character Gary Oldman)

Your everyday garden box corner sore not-yet-woke bonk & bloat climate broke bloke.

Liberal MPs question Sussan Ley's attack on Albanese's Joy Division shirt Sussan Ley stands by her criticism of the prime minister for wearing a Joy Division T-shirt while stepping off a plane last week. Privately, some of her Liberal colleagues are questioning the attack.

Most Aussies seeing that would not begrudge a PM wearing the T-Shirt of their favourite rock band. For crying out loud he used to be a DJ and you want to hang him over that? Some of these Noalition people seem to have nothing better to do than be vexatious.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

A few things come to regarding his childish walk-ahead:

- he thinks he has far too much self-importance to be ushered in by an upstart new prime minister.

- the new PM is a woman

- secret service said he can’t stop moving

He was pacing out another ballroom to distract himself from people he thought would bow to him.
Bow to them?! Pffft!

Coincides with the end of land lines perhaps. 🤔

True.

To be one must require a bathroom to hold in abeyance all manner of secrets, surrounded by an gold old receiver of one or two subs and other “bad deals”.

It must take a good dose of narcissism, overcooked celebrity and dumb headed hubris to expect others to be fully accountable for capriciousness, with one’s own rolled gold ballroom buttocks twerked on the coattails of a messianic potus bloatus, branded bible and gold pumps.

In sod we trust.

This got my attention in Beijing’s relatively new 大兴国际机场 (Daxing International Airport). The name of this shop wouldn’t pass muster for the average Aussie.

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Somewhat ironic that China now has the belt & road initiative, yet in its history was hardly a colonising force.

When you ride a modern high speed train in China, a train travelling at 300 klm/hr feels like it’s moving at a leisurely 100 klm/hr - unless it passes you at the station at that speed - then it feels like an F1-11 passing you at close range.

Our hapless politicians are too accustomed to special treatment in the Qantas lounges…for us to move beyond 3rd world country status with no high speed intercity rail options, despite each seat using a fraction of the energy of one in a pressurised vessel - with all the turbulence & inconveniences.

Perfect video … no notes.

Summary of Trump’s speech to the UN today:

1. Your countries all suck.

2. None of you know what you are doing.

3. The US is better at everything.

4. All because of me.

5. I’m right about everything.

6. You should listen to me & do what I say.

7. And give me lots of awards.

Ceiling Cat meme: Meme says Share if you love cats or if you know that Trump & RFK Jr. are full of shit about "Tylenol causes Autism"

If not, she could lose the privacy saucer and clone herself for Robert Palmer.

Not sure that journalists are too far up the diplomatic food chain for today’s current crop of politicians looking on and seeing what the Trump administration can get away with. I recall seeing foreign journalists in a recent Pacific Islands event being shut out of the room effectively.

'Cost-cutting' hasn't just led to job losses, it's led to loss of life: analyst Optus made another catastrophic mistake, but this time three people are dead after the telecommunications giant let customers down "when they needed them most".

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

It’s a foreign owned company - why would it have an intrinsic interest in protecting the lives of all Australians in vulnerable positions?
Question is whether they’ve got a universal emergency service obligation to us or not…or it’s just the cost of doing business?

ANZ has acted deceitfully and it has profited. Misconduct of this magnitude cannot be waived through as business as usual. I asked ASIC, after 7 misconduct investigations in 8 years, where's the proof this fine alone will change the culture?

King Charles hails 'vital' AUKUS pact during state banquet for Trump King Charles praises the AUKUS defence pact between the US, UK and Australia during a state banquet for Donald Trump.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Who are these people ? 🤔

*Chalmers

Charmers allowed the opposite - ANZ acquired Suncorp bank even though the ACCC said it was not in the best interests of customers. Was increased cybersecurity compliance /that/ costly that joining one of the big 4 became inevitable ?

Wow, didn’t we just have a banking royal commission not that long ago ?!?

Breaking: ANZ faces record penalty for ripping off customers and government ANZ bank agrees to a record penalty with the corporate regulator over its dealings with about 65,000 customers, as well as the federal government.

ANZ - one of the world’s most profitable banks - has betrayed Australians. Gouged customers. Engaged in repetitive misconduct. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

My DNA is 60% 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿, 18% 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿, 13% 🇩🇪, 5% 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿, 2% 🇵🇱, and 🇮🇪. I’m 5th generation Australian in one side and 1st gen on the other with that parent being one of the last “£10 Poms” who immigrated here in 1973.
Those racist fuckwits marching today are just racist fuckwits who share similar DNA but hate diversity.

HAPPY NEWS, Australia! Based on the turnout of the “March for Right-Wing Racist Dickheads & Plague Rats” today (less than 20k nationwide with Perth still to report in), more than TEN (10) TIMES as many Australians are willing to mobilise for peace in the Middle East than make #auspol more racist. ✅

Holodeck 3

Thomas Nagel might have something to say about that (The View From Nowhere).

Wow they hid that data centre very effectively. 😁

Hopefully not a future scenario: Greenhouse gases from AI meant no more forest ecosystem so AI had to be relied on to generate an image of it. 😑