An expat in Dubai has a startling revelation: the Stephen Collins cartoon Reality check …

SO GOOD www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Do you have a problem eating your own sheep that you’ve known and named?

Be honest. Where’s Enid Blyton?

Just leaving this here

"an inconvenient year" is the perfect phrase for this phenomena, and a great title for a book about it honestly.

Our Ben played Christian Dior in The New Look, (Apple) just in case anyone thought he couldn’t act.

Kangaroo causes crash chaos as Jay Vine taken out on final TDU stage Jay Vine was taken out by a pair of kangaroos and lost yet another teammate to injury, but was still able to hang on and claim a second career Tour Down Under victory.

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

Was the kangaroo alright?

This submission by David Brophy is hilarious and demonstrates how poorly drafted the hate speech bill is

“I’ll see you in helvetica!”
- damning with font praise

At the psychiatrist

I think I'm Donald Trump.

Wilcox cartoon was divisive – and we apologise for the hurt it has caused Although there is no place in this country for hate speech, there must be room for people to express their views on politics and world events.

Sorry not sorry…

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"Josh Frydenberg said he opposed Bell’s appointment, without specifying reasons."

What a grub.

Magnificent!

Digested week: Like sex or massages, Christmas is even better when it stops | Lucy Mangan Despite doing twice as much work daily, I still have no free time at all. How? Plus, canal breaches and multiplying octopuses

Christmas is lovely but, like sex or massages, it is even better when it stops.

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if you own a house and you buy an electric heat pump water heater they subsidise it by a big dollar mount, it takes half an hour to apply, most of which is trying to save a pdf via mygov, and it’s approved instantaneously. Wild how middle class welfare has a crazy low administrative burden

reverse advent calendar where I scream a little scream into each tiny box and close it up tight

Or read a book

The great myth of empire collapse | Aeon Essays Societal downfalls loom large in history and popular culture but, for the 99 per cent, collapse often had its upsides

managing collapse

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And everyone outside the UK can’t listen to it anymore because inexplicably they have geoblocked Radio 4 extra.

@greenj.bsky.social what are you doing back in your old seat at Radio National? Didn’t you retire?

Try being a woman - the list of “must haves” suggests to me I live on a different planet.

Quite silly.

Oh okay, well if Idris Elba is going to be the Prime Minister I’ll watch it.

Scream it from the rooftops: Iran offered to return to the Obama nuclear deal that verifiably prevents Iran from even coming close to nukes. Trump & Netanyahu refuse to.

They are LYING to you when they say this is about Iran’s nuclear program. It’s about making Iran submit to Israeli dominance.

Deemings legal costs will be paid by Pesutto who lost the case and was found to have defamed her. It’s ridiculous being asked to feel sorry for him.

Congratulations to @ABCReligion and Ethics Report for doing the job vacated by the ABC Health Report when it comes to reporting on the lack of medical evidence for treating gender dysphoria with lifelong drugs n surgeries. 👏👏👏

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Experience: I fought off a polar bear with a saucepan I pulled back the tent flap and there it was, an arm’s length away. So I reached for the closest weapon to hand – my mother’s old porridge-encrusted pot

Eat your heart out, Martin Crieff #cabinpressure

Childcare is just the latest failure of Australia’s privatisation push. It’s time for an ideology overhaul | John Quiggin

Just sitting with this petty little act of cruelty for a bit to really add some depth and definition to the day's crossness

Derry Girls | The Very Best Of Sister Michael YouTube video by Hat Trick Comedy

Sister Michael rules OK youtu.be/zogCo3flBsc?...