Chris

Hahaha, never gets old!!

Turnbull says people call Taylor 'the best qualified idiot they've ever met'

😂 👌
#auspol

Today her roosting HQ is the golden penda. I love her ❤️.

Corrugated iron + mango tree still going okay despite it all = Qld subtropics.

Just beautiful!! Love our eucs so much.❤️

After smooching up together yesterday (first pic), today they are opting for some alone time - vital for a healthy, long-term relationship. 😀

FYI, Mr Tawny is on the diagonal bracing under the back deck, lol.

A couple of tawnies in amongst the lilly pillys this morning.

wearing blue beat the guys wearing red, and Bad Bunny and Lady Gaga made MAGA snowflakes cry. But the NFL can also teach Americans a huge lesson about economics, "socialism," and the differences between Republican "free market" nuts and FDR's re-regulation of the American economy that created the largest middle class in history and the first in the world to include more than half of a nation's citizens. Most Americans would be highly offended, for example, if the NFL took big bucks from Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg or somebody like these monopolists to change the rules so whichever team gave the League the most money could have an extra three players on the field at all times. But that's pretty much exactly what Reagaonics and deregulation have brought us in our marketplaces; it's the staggering difficulty that every small business in America faces today in the form of massive corporations like Walmart, Facebook, X, Google, and Amazon. For capitalism to work in a way that doesn't produce oligarchs and monopolies, it must be regulated. Capitalism, after all, is just a game that people play using money and mutually agreed-upon rules. Just like football. The NFL heavily regulates football in the United States, at least the football played by its teams. Those regulations include how many players are on the field at any time, exactly what constitutes a down or a touchdown, and rules about how players may physically contact each other, and under what circumstances.

6h • G ... The NFL's super-socialist regulations also decide which team gets first pick of new players: they decided that the worst-performing teams should have first choice of newly available players, giving every team an opportunity to rise up through the ranks in the following season. It's much like progressive income taxation and the estate tax, giving the little guy a chance while slightly restraining those already at the top. These regulations guarantee the safety and stability of the game itself, and also guarantee that fans of football have a consistent experience, because everybody understands and follows the rules. That's not meritocracy; it's planned redistribution of future resources to maintain league balance. If American public policy worked this way, the millionaire opinion bots at billionaire-owned Fox "News" would spontaneously combust. The league also pools its television and licensing revenue and divides it equally among all teams: No owner gets richer just because they're in a bigger market. In a pure "free market," the Cowboys and Giants would drown everyone else in cash. The NFL says, "Nope, everybody eats." That's redistribution by design. And they impose a hard salary cap so rich owners can't simply buy championships, and they require owners to spend what is effectively a minimum wage on players rather than hoarding profits. Teams that overspend are punished: that's collective control of capital to prevent oligarchy, the exact thing conservatives scream about. NFL teams are also required to spend a minimum percentage of shared revenue on their players. Owners can't just hoard money; they must reinvest in labor. That's closer to social democracy than laissez-faire capitalism.

•.. The NFL figured out something America forgot after Reagan: markets only work when rules prevent the powerful from rigging the game. In other words, the NFL is a regulated market with enforced rules that prevent monopolies, protect labor, and preserve competition. And because of that, small-market teams can win, dynasties don't last forever, and fans get a fair game. If the American economy were run more like the NFL, we'd have fewer oligarchs, more competition, and a much healthier middle class.

The choice in front of us is simple. We can keep pretending that letting billionaires write the political and economic rules and own the media is "freedom," or we can remember that a fair game is what freedom actually looks like. Because when the rules only work for the owners, the rest of us aren't players anymore. We're just there to watch, pay, and lose what little we have so the billionaires can buy another super-yacht. Headline: The NFL Is "Socialist" on Purpose, and It Exposes Republican Economic Stupidity

Ok this article titled, ‘The NFL Is "Socialist" on Purpose, and It Exposes Republican Economic Stupidity’ is bloody great.

In the world of politics, they call it ‘socialist’, but in the world of sport, it’s called a good game.

Have also chucked it all into Alt Text in case it’s too hard to read.

I habitually rate each dog I see out in public. This one outside my local Woolies scored 11/10 - bonus point for the horse ears.❤️

Isn’t she!!!

Yes, she’s so beautiful!

Celebrating 36 years hitched with my lovely fella this week 😮 What the hell!! Photos of another resident happy couple below:

YouTube video by Brotherwhitelion No Fixed Address ~ We Have Survived (Official Video) ~ Australian Reggae - 1982

Kinda surprising and pretty bloody great to be down at my local Bunnings this morning and hearing ‘We Have Survived’ by No Fixed Address playing as their muzak while I was selecting a bucket in Aisle 51. Such a gutsy, catchy song which I’d semi forgotten about.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVI2...

Ms Tawny seems to be in good form this morning!

To be honest, I don’t think they’d get too many customers in there like him. The security guard told me they’d never seen him before, and that he was there with his mate who’s a regular. Apparently, the regular was telling him to pull his head in.

Yeah, especially because the pub was at West End!!! This is the same cap as the one he had on. 🤢

Gee that AO women’s final was great! So pleased that Rybakina won.

Oh you’ve anthropomorphised her perfectly! 👌😅

😂

We’ve been enjoying a drink in that same pub where old mate cracked the shits, and the security guard just found me to ask if I was okay. How nice is that! I fessed up about what I’d said and reported that I was just fine😂. They said he was asking for it by wearing that cap. ❤️

In response, he screamed (and I mean unhinged kinda screamed where the security guards started walking over), ‘GET BACK HERE & TALK ABOUT IT!’
I said, ‘I already have.’
Lol, so triggered…

Just walked past a bloke sitting outside a pub who was wearing a One Nation MAGA cap. As I walked past him, I said, ‘That’s the dumbest fucken cap I’ve ever seen.’

Just watched a screening of all four episodes of Bush Mechanics at the State Library of Qld this arvo. Haven’t seen it since it was on the ABC 25 years ago. So good!

Ms Tawny looking comically judgy.

Just so lovely to watch.
Vale, Catherine.❤️

YOU DON'T OWN ME Words and Music by J. MADARA & D. WHITE 12/25 Recorded by ORMSBY BROS. on E.M.I. INTERSONG PTY. LTD. Sole Distributors for Australia & New Zealand CHAPPELL & CO. LTD. 49-70 Clarence Street, Sydney. Melbourse — Brisbane — Wellington, N.Z. AUTHORISED FOR SALE ONLY IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND 45c

A page of beehive hairdo sketches.

Picked up an old manuscript in an op shop of what is bloody great feminist anthem (though interestingly, written by two blokes). Inside was a page of sketches offering a window into the world of, I’m guessing, a teenage girl circa 1964. ♥️

Report: Feels Like We Should Be Making A Bigger Deal About Someone Throwing A Homemade Explosive Device Full Of Ball Bearings At Aboriginal People On January 26th WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT As the nation greets 2026 head on, many have confirmed they are still trying to wrap their heads around the media landscape for this year. This comes after a couple ...

Straight up excellent reporting from Betoota here.
#auspol
www.betootaadvocate.com/report-feels...