So waxy

Bring Yusuf home, says former prisoner in Iran, Kylie Moore-Gilbert Politicians and humanitarian advocates are vowing to pursue the imprisonment of an Australian man detained in Syria without charge. Yusuf Zahab was a Sydney school boy when he was taken to the self-de...

Are there any updates on Yusuf Zahab and whether he has received medical treatment and repatriation to Australia? There seemed a lot of media interest in his terrible plight in early 2024, then silence.

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Tawny frogmouths take patience to appreciate. They will reward you with insights into their remarkable lives | Stephanie Convery Spotting tawnies is a bit like completing a crossword: it’s easier once you are familiar with the patterns, but you can always get stumped

And just like magic, this tawny frogmouth article appeared today.
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Black and white photo of a city street corner featuring posters, a shop entrance, a no standing sign, and an AC/DC Lane street sign with band mural art above the door.

it's a long way to the top...
ac/dc lane, melbourne, australia
#photography #acdc #Melbourne #ClassicMono #EastCoastKin

Nice. We see a lot of possums running across powerlines and into trees, large fruit bats and the occasional tawny frogmouth.

Our corner block is on one street full of mature oak & plane trees. Lovely, green & shaded though masses of leaves. Raking leaves and small branches from drains on each curb of the corner to reduce flooding was getting to be ‘a lot.’ Called Glen Eira Council and they put it on regular street sweep.

Purple and yellow Dutch irises blooming in Melbourne spring garden

Purple and yellow Dutch irises and pink bulb flowers have bloomed in Melbourne garden.

I don’t consider myself a very successful gardener, though these bulbs beg to differ. A warm weekend in early Spring #Melbourne and has provided a burst of colour.

Labor during the election: “we’ll fully fund public schools”

Labor after the election: “actually we meant private schools soz”

This is so insane. Public education needs a massive boost, not cuts. Almost all non-gov schools are religiously affiliated in some way- why are we outsourcing education to religious orgs? Education is compulsory- we should have pride in and strengthen our secular public schools, not undermine them.

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Tree trunk, gate, horse paddocks and mountain range in the Dandenongs, Victoria

Magic day in the hills today! Dandenongs, #Victoria #photography

And it still doesn’t name her… just she.

Instead of the water bombers we need.

Satisfying Dominion game score 67 : 1

Dominion 67 to 1
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Just realised we are coming into 'your time or my time?' season. Thoughts and prayers Australia

Golden retriever under Spring blossom covered arbour in Stanhope Gardens, Murrumbeena.

Blossom festooned arbour in Stanhope Gardens, Murrumbeena (with #goldenretriever ).
#GlenEiraCouncil has done a great job.
#dogs + #gardens

This is depressing. Though I love Blade Runner, I don’t want to live there after the movie ends.

Would it be so hard to introduce a sliding scale for investment properties. Having rentals in the market is good, so…
Investment Property 1: xx% tax concession
Investment Property 2: x% tax concession
Investment Property 3+: no tax concession.

Some people would need to rejig asset portfolios. Good.

Golden gates around Versailles. Shiny, shiny things for tine, tiny minds.

Golden statues. Shiny things for tiny minds.

Weak. I can’t believe he hasn’t even got gold fencing around the Whitehouse or a golden fountain in the rose garden yet. He should focus on these very important things.

Traditional owners slam SA premier for 'disgraceful' call on Santos gas project The debate over Santos's Narrabri gas project reignites, with traditional owners condemning 'disgraceful' comments made by two state premiers.

Just Saying

you have @albomp.bsky.social sprooking climate action at the UN Security Council and wanting the COP31

Murray #WattTheFCK approving Glencore Coal projects

Whilst the SA & NSW Premiers are supporting Coal Seam Gas (CSG) projects ??

WTF Dudes … you can’t have it both ways

#Auspol

Can we just offer #Turkiye some lucrative trade opportunities? Their manufacturing? Flight slots direct from Istanbul? Maybe some professional engineering / technical specialist exchanges to combat shared drought and wild fire challenges. Something that benefits #Australia and Turkiye.

I’m in. (What a find!)

3/ Tech fascism in a nutshell: “Computers are so much more rule-based, controllable, fixable, and comprehensible than any human will ever be. As many political schools of thought do, these technolibertarians make a philosophy out of a personality defect.“ She wrote this in 2000!

photo of paulina borsook

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

Tree covered in white blossom in Spring, Murrumbeena, Melbourne.

And here’s Murrumbeena Spring blossom today for those that enjoy life in black and white!
📷 #melbourne #photography

A tree covered in white blossom in a Murrumbeena garden in Spring.

Murrumbeena today
#Melbourne

The final day in Lattouf v ABC.
At 10.15am on Wednesday 24 September, Justice Rangiah will hand down his judgment on the penalty the ABC must pay for my unlawful sacking.
Some thoughts.

Nothing really to investigate: we all know the ABC has been white anted by IPA sleepers. The real mystery is why a Federal ALP government has done sweet FA about it in over 3 years…