suggest you find Windborne and their superb song '.4 Cents a Play' (is on Bandcamp, and their 'Of Hard Times & Harmony' CD) ... perfect modernisation of old English folk song about how lead miners got pathetic pay for their work.
is swearing permitted here?!!!
Exhibit A of the kind of rank stupidity we can expect from the Coalition now, as a companion to its racism. Citizens have a right of return; they're our problem and our responsibility. Might as well be calling for the return of witch burning.
geez, another person/s spending quite some time in a hospital emergency dept .. this time 17 hours at Concord Hospital.
Then's there is another of only (!) 6.5 hours at Ryde emergency dept.
Westmead Hospital Emergency Dept for 22 hours 😶
Good to see an MP call it truthfully
Yep.
Here's the irony in their hi-vis vests.
(Apologies for the blurry image and for not being able to credit whose video this is).
Perfect day! Happy Birthday Ingrid :-)
This is Kevin. He's a reactive dog getting some training to be more comfortable. His trainer brought him to a pet store for some socialization where they learned he is no longer reactive when given a giant stuffed dinosaur. 14/10 (TT: katieandtatesfostermates)
that's fabulous Ingrid, congratulations!
Great news about the visa Rick, so happy for you, and all the worlds it opens up!
3. For explanations of the work and the science behind it, plus papers and data, please see our website: www.earthroverprogram.org
1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I love that any post from Rick Morton finds me in the echo chamber of folk-who-think-like-me
My tuppence on this CSIRO fiasco: let's keep hammering our federal MPs so they can never ever state "none of my constituents said a word to me about this issue".
Ditto with all the other Aus Labor ratbaggery
OVER budget. The full cost is almost $90m. And it’s years late. And still not finished.
The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Read that back.
When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
So, the rollout (of some, not all, cos it's not all migrated over yet - thanks god cos the old site is still usable) has happened, and has flopped quite spectacularly.
Hey @squigglyrick.bsky.social have the howls, moans, cries and sighs of BOM users reached as far as Paris yet?
As you well know the new website had been in development for quite some time, and quite some $$$.
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off-topic is good, thanks.
Is this flower scented?
Just brilliant news! Thrilled the prize money gives you more time in France though it is a pittance compared to what you gave of yourself in writing that book.
Vive la France!!
But if I've been having annual flu vaccinations to protect me from the seasonal flus, and haven't had seasonal flus, then I would be more vulnerable to H5N1?.... so not positive news for some?
How quickly we forget :-(
could you drive to the NSW south coast and wash you car here? plants and grass are struggling. appreciated
Lyndall Ryan's wonderful last great project, a monument to historical truth.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
inside quote marks, the quote says "It's a bit up in the air still."
the article is about Cyclone Alfred and some genius says "It's a bit up in the air still."
This is a goddam cyclone, of course it is still up in the air dude!
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...
white Rockpool Tarantella sea kayak on the calm water of Brogo Dam, NSW. Reeds and trees in the background. Kayaker wears a faded orange hat and a blue rash vest. She is smiling.
out in the reeds today
a magic day with an awesome friend
when we explored and marvelled
and smiled and laughed at our good fortune
Those eyes and ears, beautiful, what is it called?
After limbering under logs and dragging kayaks over tree branches, we discovered the creek ended at a cow paddock. Back over tree branches and under logs we went, laughing at our mad adventure!
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white Tarantella sea kayak at flat creek water with sandy bank, green grass and a few trees ahead
That day when we went to explore a local lake system and chose a creek that on the topographic map seemed to connect between two rivers. Except it didn't.
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Stunning part of the world, especially when seen from a kayak
