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YouTube video by bessjazz Ella Fitzgerald - Summertime (1968)

#AICouldNever

Something easeful today by the great Ella Fitzgerald

www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2bi...

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She's gone.

Giving our sweet elderly wonky cat a gentle death today. She's had a sudden possible neurological event in the past 2 days and is declining fast. O my heart

I am reading Connie Willis for the first time, what the hell why haven't I heard of her, the Oxford Time Travel series is exactly my jam

avgolemono, if only focused on a punchy, fragrant and tangy broth

Nahhhh. It's Friday

Poor sweet dog

Painting of a clearing surrounded by dense forest in New Zealand with a pool in the foreground. In the centre a moa, a giant ostrich-like bird, is lying dead on it's back with it's feet in the air. Gathered around in mourning are numerous other birds native to New Zealand, including three kākāpo (large green parrots) in the left foreground, three kōtuku (great egrets) stand in the pool, two kiwi, a weka, three pukeko (blue rails) and a pair of huia (black birds with long beaks also now extinct) on the ground, a small flock of tūī (dark irridescent birds with a tuft of white feathers on their chins) fly in from the right, and above a pair of kea are flying and squawking at each other. Also looking on from among the foliage are numerous little human-like figures, the Patupaiarehe, with one in foreground holding an axe and riding on a tuatara. https://www.aucklandartgallery.com/explore-art-and-ideas/artwork/5907/te-tangi-o-te-moa

#WyrdWednesday 'Te tangi o te moa' (Death of a moa) by Trevor Lloyd (1907), depicting the last of the Moa, giant flightless birds which lived in New Zealand until they were hunted to extinction, recently died & surrounded by mourning native birds & patupaiarehe, fairy-like folk from Māori folklore.

Note to self: stop buying toasties from the cafe in my workplace. $15 for a barely warmed, dried out toasted sandwich is extortion

At some point in the past 12 months at my work, everyone in a key executive reporting role that speaks to their portfolios in an all-staff meeting has started to sound like they're approximately 12 years old

academic librarians. DO NOT get between us and the bar

I say this from bitter experience—never, never, ever try to outdrink a librarian.

Ask them to make it from decaf beans, the flavour is the same as long as the beans are freshly ground

Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism

Oh dear www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

Four frame comic. First frame shows a Canadian flag. Text reads : the new canadian citizenship policy, which was enacted in December 2025, restores citizenship by descent, for ancestors as far as you can prove. 2nd frame shows a locomotive. Text reads : that means that if one of your grandparents, great-grand- parents or even farther was demonstrably born in Canada, you don't even need to apply for citizenship - you are retro- actively granted it. Third frame shows an old dusty register book. Text reads : the process involves linking your CanadA-born ancestor to yourself by digging up a paper trail of birth or wedding certificates, proof of immigration or adoption, etc. thanks to Canadian archive- keeping traditions, this is possible by reaching out to towns, parishes, national archives*... Fourth frame shows old factory chimneys. Text reads : between 1840 and 1930, 925 000 French-Canadians fled persecution and economic oppression by moving to the usa. today, their descendants represent around ten million people, or 3% of the U.s. population. if it's time for you to come back, we haven't forgotten about you.

I'm not saying that Canada is perfect, I'm saying that the bar is pretty low right now.

"How is it that people engaged in peaceful prayer can be moved on faster, more forcibly, than black-shirted Neo-Nazis standing outside NSW Parliament?" Ed Husic

"How is it that people engaged in peaceful prayer can be moved on faster, more forcibly, than black-shirted Neo-Nazis standing outside NSW Parliament?" - Ed Husic

gradient.horse Draw a horse, watch it run!

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for

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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.

Natasha Lyonne

My sister is selling her house in Noojee, please consider: www.realestate.com.au/property-hou... #nature #birds #vegetablegarden #bush #fruittrees #forest #greatlocalpub

sooooooooooooooper problematic

The Lychford Collection 1

Still testing the waters on this but here you go torpublishinggroup.com/the-lychford...

Indescribably happy to have found a cozy fantasy series I haven't read yet. There are quite a lot of volumes too. Hooray! That will keep me going for a few days

FIONA

Thanking all the gods for a SE wind. I slept with a doona on last night 💤

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3-panel comic. (1) [Three small arthropods on ocean floor.] ARTHROPOD 1: Now that we’re multicellular, what are your plans? I’m gonna evolve little legs and swim around with them! ARTHROPOD 2: I’m gonna evolve sharp pincers and use them to crunch stuff! ARTHROPOD 3: I’m gonna evolve glands to make string from my butt and use it to construct elaborate geometric nets hundreds of times my size to catch other animals. (2) [Silence] (3) ARTHROPOD 1: *Dude.* ARTHROPOD 2: Can you *please* just be normal about this? ARTHROPOD 3: *What??!*

Early Arthropods

xkcd.com/3199/

for those of us experiencing extreme heat in the southern hemisphere today, this is a nice distraction. Sound off