Louise Truscott 🌻

Painting by Genevieve Davey in various orange tones, giving it an apocalyptic feel, of a naked blonde woman standing with her arms thrown out and her head thrown back, her face is not visible

Without a doubt, it has to be this painting called "Empowered Woman" done by my younger sister, she's so talented!

a close up of a woman 's face making a funny face . Alt: a close up of a white brunette woman's face and she is doing a double take in disbelief

Just casually watching Pool Spa Life Australia (because there is bugger all on the TV) and am confronted with Matt from Love Island and I'm A Celeb AU spruiking the pool company he works for. That's right, I said WORKS!

This is Bruegger. He learned a highly advanced new trick, demonstrating excellent use of both free will and spatulas. 13/10 (TT: maddmaddmad)

I think all women should aspire to one day being labelled "difficult" because what it really means is that we are standing up for ourselves and for others

#auspol

Nation's second oldest literary journal rescued by Queensland university The 85-year-old literary journal Meanjin will return to Brisbane, where it was first published, after it was controversially closed by Melbourne University Press last year.

Yay!

Restore funding for Writers Victoria - Petitions - Parliament of Victoria

Restore funding for Writers Victoria

#amwriting

a man in a suit and tie is saying " this pleases me " Alt: Loki from The Avengers movies is dressed in a black suit and tie and saying, "This pleases me"

Just took a two-minute online quiz that tests for PTSD symptoms in the guise of my PTSD-suffering main character and am able to report to her that the "responses suggest that you may be experiencing PTSD."

#amwriting

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Just when you think Linda Reynolds can't stoop any lower...

#auspol

Thanks, I feel like most news these days needs to be accompanied by a between-the-lines interpretation

Labor’s hate speech bill inadvertently led to the Coalition’s collapse. So what’s in it? Albanese government says laws, crafted in wake of Bondi terror attack, are ‘strongest’ Australia has seen in combating racial hatred

I just read the @australia.theguardian.com summary of new hate speech laws that have been rushed through parliament in response to the Bondi Beach murders. Can someone tell me how these would have in any way helped to prevent it? #auspol

a woman is holding a rocket in her hand and laughing Alt: a woman gleefully runs across a yard with a leaf blower in her extended hand

I am about to become my neighbour's worst nightmare - I have bought a leaf blower. However...

I hereby solemnly swear I shall never use my leaf blower before 10.00am or after 6.00pm or blow leaves onto someone else's property or the street.

‘I fell in love with him on the spot’: Alan Rickman remembered, 10 years after his death On the anniversary of his death aged 69, stars from Sigourney Weaver to Sharleen Spiteri, Tom Felton to Harriet Walter, remember the wit, charm and endless generosity of one of Britain’s best-loved ac...

Absolutely beautiful, heart-warming stuff - you were so loved, Alan Rickman, and you are so missed 🥲🥰

Headline of article in Sydney Morning Herald reads, "Frontrunner to replace Rudd called Trump 'moronically stupid' "

Finding someone who hasn't called him "moronically stupid" might prove a tad difficult...

#auspol

News van with "24 Live News KJHX New York" written on it parked on a city street in Melbourne, Australia

First responder van with "FDNY Ambulance" written on it parked on a city street in Melbourne, Australia - the front of a tram is visible on the left side

Large blue bus with "NYPD Emergency Squad" and "Police Communications Division" written on it parked on a city street in Melbourne, Australia

Spotted yesterday in Collins Street, Melbourne as it stands in for New York while they film Empire City

For many years I lived in an apartment without aircon. My list of places I could go to escape the heat in metro Melbourne

(Oh no. The thing I thought was a poem and then thought was a story might actually be CNF. This is not where I wanted to go with these thoughts. They are safer inside line breaks.)

Amazing how many Bluesky posts read like poignant little #poems, ☝️ is one of them

#poetry

a man with a beard and glasses is holding his chest and saying `` i 'm in my prime ! '' Alt: An old man with a beard and glasses is holding his chest and saying, "I'm in my prime!"

Currently waiting for news of the first of the next generation in our family. Feels very weird that I will be a great aunt in my 40s. Surely I'm too young for this...?

In today's episode of "Animals with More Style Than I Will Ever Have"...

...and people who reverse into car spaces

Have just left the house for the first time since Christmas, can confirm I still hate peopling

In today's episode of "Animals with More Style Than I Will Ever Have"...

Revealed game answer misspells the last name of the person who is the subject of the "Who Am I?" but it is spelled correctly in the very next line below

Revealed game spoiler... bit of a boo boo today, who can I see about this?

a black cat with green eyes is holding a nail file in front of a brick wall Alt: a black cat with green eyes is smugly filing his nails with a nail file in front of a brick wall

Was feeling very superior last night at the emergency vet as my #cat and I waited for her UTI flare up to be treated. Everyone else in the waiting room had a dog that had eaten grapes, chocolate and various other types of confectionery...

Bankrupting a rape victim isn't the reputation restoring win Linda Reynolds seems to think it is. My opinion of the former senator has never been lower...

how do women not die of rage aneurysms every single day