Sue Young

He meant dearth, obvs. Anyone can have a slip of the tongue.

Actually I think you're right, the ones with dogs do generally say hi.

ikr?

I've been saying 'morning!' to people I meet out walking the dogs here in suburban Melbourne just as I would at home. Some surprise me and say it back; a lot just nod/smile uncomfortably; but the ones who just look right through me – it's a bit soul-destroying.

That headline is pretty much what I said when I heard.

FFS I follow just about every Australian I see just to try and get a bit of Oz content in my feed amongst all the overwhelming US stuff, and now this.

'Ruin their petty little lives until they shit rainbows.'😂❤️

Just said this, not so pithily, in comments on a dev edit.

A content warning for very, very significant police violence on this video: Israeli President Herzog is visiting Australia, and police in New South Wales are violently bashing prone protesters.

The media is framing it in completely neutral terms.

Watch the video, then look at the headlines.

Scene is Julia Gillard and Chris Bowen (then Min for Immigration) in a lighthouse with "Light on the Hill: written under the bulb. Gillard is turning the light off, saying 'It was attracting the boats"

I have many, many favourite Kudelka cartoons but this, from 2011, is possibly one of the best Aus pol cartoons ever drawn.

This rolls on. Like a snowball. But made of shit.

Remind me again @albomp.bsky.social why this site is safe for Australian consumption (& why you still use it)?

#auspol

Let’s be super clear.

Disallowing a protest of a foreign leader who has been an enthusiastic participant in a genocide leading to international warrants for the arrest of members of his government, is the most undemocratic, unAustralian and fascist action I have ever seen in Australia.

Rise. ✊🏽

Could someone please remind me which search engines still work and are not corrupted by AI? I'm finding Google useless now.

Yeah macros are one reason for using Word imho.

What an excellent, detailed write-up of the copyediting process, showing how it's so much more than many people imagine. I'll have to give reading aloud as I edit a try.

Who else has the time?

I've seen/heard them around our place (near you I think) a few times ths past year too. Love their song.

Still gobsmacked at the woman in my dying mum's shared hospital room, scrolling thru high-volume TikToks till late at night. Outraged when I asked her, politely, to use headphones or even turn it down.

You have my vote.

The bed keeps my feet warm and has room for my 2 dachshund assistants.

It was astonishing. I mean, why would you?

I really miss those gift-wrapping videos that were filling my Instagram at Christmas time. So soothing.

The Albo government's antisemitism bill is a rushed hatchet job. Nobody has proper time to consider it carefully enough, and it will have all sorts of unintended consequences if passed. It is the worst kind of law-making: moral panic induced, pandering to powerful lobby groups' demands.

Their statement show that clearly. They don't think they were wrong; people are just being meanies and taking it the wrong way and that's why we can't have nice things.

Absolutely. I'm increasingly missing out in information because I don't want to watch a video. Transcripts all the way!

‘Add blood, forced smile’: how Grok’s nudification tool went viral The ‘put her in a bikini’ trend rapidly evolved into hundreds of thousands of requests to strip clothes from photos of women, horrifying those targeted

@albomp.bsky.social , if you ever do have that RC on the flourishing misogyny in Australian society and why so many women get killed, this will be in the evidence. Ban it now.
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

It was an excellent cartoon, and the paper should have supported you.

Bannon resigned over that one.

OK that job you didn't get, Naomi? It wasn't because you were white.

What gets me about all these people changing their tune is, Trump has never made a secret of what he stands for.