Oh ffs, suddenly swamped on insta with ads for those bras for women with boobs the size of your head. Why? Never for women with fried eggs (👋), always the mega boobs. Sheesh... 🤬
08.12.2025 05:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Sad about the PNG twins (Tom has died after urgent separation surgery), but it was always inevitable. Let's hope Sawong makes it through. 🤞
08.12.2025 04:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Great, himself is crook. He's miserable but triple RAT is neg, so just a cold, but bad timing! I'll be down with it before Friday, which is our bookclub Chrissy party we've been planning for months, with one of our ex- members coming up from the coast. Grrrr...
08.12.2025 01:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
* Mutes mentions of Barnaby Joyce* 😱 #AusPol
08.12.2025 01:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Screenshot of article about brutalist architecture titled "They rose out of the ground! Scotland's brutalist beauties - in pictures" from the Guardian
Nice Guardian story about #brutalism #architecture in Scotland
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2025/dec/04/they-rose-out-of-the-ground-scotland-brutalist-beauties-in-pictures
07.12.2025 20:59 — 👍 2 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
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ABC #news reporting (both on TV and their app) on #bushfires in #newsouthwales and #tasmania , including property damage and at least one death, without using the term #climatechange .
No reference to the urgency of the energy transition. No mention made of the uninsurable properties due to […]
07.12.2025 20:41 — 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
December 8th? Forty five years since we lost #JohnLennon, which is longer than he was alive, sheesh. Anyway, that was a day I'll never forget 💔. Yoko still going at 92, bless... she'll be lighting the candle at the Dakota, and the Imagine Peace Tower in Iceland will be turned off.
07.12.2025 22:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Looking down at the ornately decorated historic indoor shopping centre.
A stained glass window illuminates an entrance.
A whimsical gold clock hangs from the ceiling.
Stained glass windows above shopfronts, with illuminated green, yellow, pink, and blue square lead lights in carved arches.
Think all shopping centres are ugly?
Sydney's QVB begs to differ.
#qvb #Sydney #building #buildings #architecture #nsw #Australia
07.12.2025 09:09 — 👍 3 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0
Quarterly Essay:
THE GOOD FIGHT
What Does Labor Stand For?
Sean Kelly.
Fortune cookie insert:
"With great power there is great responsibility".
Just finished this. Highly recommend. Yes, Albo's a disappointment but don't write him off yet. Meanwhile my fortune cookie had a msg for him:
07.12.2025 07:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Mel - The Documentary
A documentary on a small part of my younger life
I wonder if I could be as hateful as I was when I was 16 1/2 ... Hate and self hate was a top ten hit with me
Hugz & xXx
https://video.beartrix.au/w/gN3kCTdMbKFvUSPNGZDEe8
07.12.2025 05:01 — 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Penrith, what a shit hole. Still, we have things to do, not the least of which is to find a nice suburban Chinese joint for tea. Then home!
07.12.2025 06:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A spectacular concert in Blackheath from the Song Company. We totally forgot to go in CBR on Thursday so we popped up to catch them here instead. My goodness if they aren't the best 6 Acappella singers in the country! Last concert for the year, but if you see them around next year (Sydney, CBR […]
07.12.2025 05:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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"No Wind Farms in State Forests" and "Betrayed by state govt" signs littering an area south of Oberon, where Australia's biggest wind farm will be built in a massive pine forest, and will generate 8% of NSW's energy. What's not to like?Cookers cooking up all sorts of disingenous reasons against […]
07.12.2025 01:44 — 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Daytrip to Blackheath. But first my weekly stroll to the markets.
06.12.2025 19:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Parramatta Powerhouse, and the cultural institutions that could've filled the space
Despite the circumstances surrounding its creation, I genuinely want the Parramatta Powerhouse Museum to succeed.
Western Sydney is desperately underserved when it comes to cultural institutions, and the Powerhouse will hopefully begin to close the gap.
And Parramatta can't genuinely the second CBD in NSW without a world-class cultural institution.
But at the same time... I have questions.
And they only grow deeper reading this feature article in the _Sydney Morning Herald_ :
> Construction giant Lendlease has begun the phased handover of the Moreau Kusunoki-designed building’s two main exhibition halls, as chief executive Lisa Havilah locks in a rotating schedule of massive, immersive, temporary blockbuster shows.
> Under Havilah, the new Powerhouse is primed for the TikTok generation, for audiences who may have felt excluded from traditional institutions, and for multicultural communities largely absent from the museum’s collection.
> In these respects, Havilah sits at the vanguard of a cohort of cultural leaders rejecting the “neutral temple of expertise” model in favour of self-aware museums that foreground multiple perspectives and points of view.
> The Art Gallery of NSW, Australian Museum and National Gallery of Australia have all flirted with these postmodern ideas – from Mike Hewson’s Tank Gallery playground to Lego-built exhibitions – but none occupy a building designed expressly to “upend the hierarchy of the museum”, as Havilah puts it.
> Critics argue that she has abandoned the museum’s core business and legislated core purpose in pursuit of “shallow entertainments”, dismissing the Powerhouse as “Carriageworks west”, the multi-arts centre she once led.
Is our new ‘museum’ brilliant, bonkers or just a big box?A billion-dollar cultural experiment is about to open its doors – and no one can agree on what, exactly, it’s meant to be.The Sydney Morning HeraldLinda Morris
So what exactly is the Powerhouse supposed to be?
Is the Powerhouse supposed to be a relocation of the previous Powerhouse Museum in Ultimo?
If so, should it have a permanent collection of science and technology artefacts, like the old Ultimo Powerhouse had?
Is it a museum?
Well, given Parra's role in Australia's colonial history, it's a brilliant spot for it.
So, why not make the focus on the Burramattagal-Dharug people, including their pre-colonial culture, the story of colonisation from their perspective, and a celebration of their ongoing survival.
Or a museum talking about the history of colonisation from the convict's perspective, a short distance from many of the sites where that history happened, such as Old Government Farm, the Experiment Farm, Hambledon Cottage, and Elizabeth Farm. Make it an institution that ties those locations together.
Or perhaps a museum that celebrates the multiculturalism of Western Sydney, akin to the Immigration Museum in Melbourne.
Or even better, it could be a single museum with all three themes covered in permanent exhibitions.
Is it an art gallery?
If that's the case, why not provide the large exhibition space and state government funding to existing local institutions, such as the PARI artist-run gallery? You could give it a permanent collection space, as well as room for exhibitions.
Perhaps provide space in the building for a relocated and co-located Parramatta Artists Studios, Arts & Cultural Exchange, and the Parramatta Arts Society.
Since there's two buildings as part of this project, you could easily have room to do both.
So one building is an expanded PARI, and the other is the Parramatta History Museum.
Instead, we have one institution that kinda tries to do both, but ends up doing neither.
The risk is that it will have a large initial launch budget, fail to deliver on expectations, and then suffer a death from 1000 cuts.
I hope I'm wrong on that last point, and that it will all slide into place once it opens.
And perhaps there is room for some of those other cultural institutions to open down the track.
Arguably, it may become more likely to happen if Powerhouse proves a strong latent interest in the arts in Western Sydney.
So, despite the circumstances surrounding its creation, I genuinely want the Parramatta Powerhouse Museum to succeed.
#Parramatta #art #museum #powerhouse #NSWpol #auspol
06.12.2025 08:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Balmy Army's a cack, eh? They have a little chant for Root (to the tune of Hey Jude):
"Na na na nana na naaaa... Joe Root", with arm actions of course. Pissed as newts. #Ashes
06.12.2025 10:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Bumped into an old acquaintance at today's event, she was going on about the amount of water (and $$) she's going through to keep her yuuuge garden alive. We had a tour of it once and it's all classic English garden stuff: camellias, rhododendrons, roses, fruit trees, pretty flower beds etc, not […]
06.12.2025 06:52 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
New at my Patreon... @narrelle.harris@mas.to and I ride through the new Melbourne Metro Tunnel to inspect all five new stations - and to marvel at their art:
#Melbourne #art #train #trains #TrainTravel https://www.patreon.com/posts/melbourne-art-on-145174317
05.12.2025 23:51 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Off to see the Captain Matchbox Whoopie Band doco at NFSA at 1pm. And Mic Conway will be there!! Excited.
05.12.2025 23:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Bilbao Guggenheim museum on the riverside: a sweeping silvery curvy delight.
My fave architect has died at 96. Vale Frank Gehry. We made a pilgrimage to Bilbao in 2004 to see this masterpiece.
05.12.2025 21:19 — 👍 0 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
Hung out a load of washing at 6.30pm, just brought it in, totally dry. It's nearly midnight and it's 29 degrees.. wtf?!
05.12.2025 12:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Stage awaiting 2 speakers, signage:
" Members (sic) Curator Introduction.
TONY ALBERT
5th National Indigenous Art Triennial: After The Rain"
We're having a day at the National Gallery. Various things on during the day, plus lunch of course. As usual, this place needs work on its grammar and punctuation (I've given up nagging them).
05.12.2025 00:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Bus network update from Monday 2 February 2026
Bus network update from Monday 2 February 2026
Information has been release regarding the new bus network due for launch in Term 1 next year.
https://www.transport.act.gov.au/news/news-and-events-items/december-2025/network
#canberra #publictransport #transportcanberra
04.12.2025 22:29 — 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Just done 2 hours of letterboxing (for the WVCC's Christmas BBQ on Dec 13th), saw quite a few pakkidges in ridiculous places, obvs been there since at least yesterday. Moved a few into more sensible places. 🤯
04.12.2025 21:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The intersection of Railway Pde and Burwood Rd, where buildings are lit up neon red, blue, and purple.
Neon signs hang over a Christmas tree, with a large crowd of people below.
An alleyway with small food venues and a group of people, presumably tourists, taking photos.
A brightly-lit night market stall selling vegetarian pancakes.
The neon wonderland that is Burwood Chinatown (in Western Sydney), with its night markets and alleys.
These photos aren't a special Vivid-style festival. They're an ordinary evening.
#WesternSydney #NSW #Australia #Urbanism #UrbanPlanning #Burwood #Chinatown
03.12.2025 11:09 — 👍 5 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
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I've just sent an email to Federation Council in the Riverina, promising never to spend any tourism money there after their shameful assertion of white supremacy. Here are some relevant email addresses if you'd like to do the same:
Mayor: cheryl.cook@federationcouncil.nsw.gov.au
Deputy Mayor […]
03.12.2025 23:38 — 👍 1 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
