Oh well

And why not? It’s Friday

Albo has the quite likely what will be the biggest ostensibly left wing majority this country will have in our lifetime and he's pissing it away supporting genocide, illegal wars, and banning kids from the internet while doing nothing about life affordability, climate change, or class disparity.

A reminder - the opposite of doomscrolling is gleefreshing

valentine's day isn't just for couples, it's also a day to celebrate love. for instance, i would love it if housing prices came down.

Happy #LibSpill Day for those who celebrate.

Australian Census on University Staff Wellbeing results are out. Every uni recorded scores indicating high/very high psych risk.

And in news surprising no one, "only senior execs and deans rated their workplaces as medium or low risk while all other staff groups reported high-risk conditions."

Illustrated political poster showing the silhouette of QLD in bold blood red, textured like a lino print. Large hand-lettered text across the state reads, “From Brisbane River to Moreton Bay, I’ll decide what you can say!” A caricature of Queensland Premier David Crisafulli looms from the top right, looking down at the map. His finger presses into the lower part of Queensland, denting the surface and breaking a placard in half.

Up to 2 years in prison for saying “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” - that’s the legislation currently before Queensland Parliament under the Crisafulli government. They’re going to have to build more prisons before we choose to be silent about genocide.

Thinking of all those professions where people may get bitten in their workplace who are able to de-escalate without punching someone pinned down... many of who have asked for pay rises and safer workplaces.

I very genuinely do not think that Australia's media industry can be classified as any other than fully supportive of police violence, because you have to actively, consciously and knowingly work to frame what happened as general "violence mars protests" rather than "police violently attack protest"

We knew from the moment we heard it that “social cohesion” would be one of those Orwellian terms which would be used to cover all manner of state sanctioned abuse and deprivation of civic freedoms.
It fuels the very unrest it pretends to seek to quell.

Is there anything better than getting into bed? No, there is not. I will not be taking answers at this time.

I’ve had such an epic summer of reading. Did you know you can acquire a book, a work of pure fiction even, and you can simply read it until the end? No further technologies are required, although I do like a lamp

Here we are again. January 26. The date on which British colonisation of Australia officially commenced. It’s a poor excuse for a national day. We could do a lot better if only we allowed our imaginations free, for once, from the dark shadows of colonialism. #ChangeTheDate.

As a former tap kid this warms my heart ❤️

If you play your cards right your phd gets a split decision and boom you get a third reader!

Abdel-Fattah disputed Berg's claims that she, along with Adler, led the charge to cancel Friedman. "I was one of 10 Indigenous and academics of colour who wrote a researched letter with references and footnotes about the harm of racial tropes," she said in a statement to Guardian Australia. "What is missing in this is the question of power. We write letters on Google Docs to boards. The people who want to cancel us have premiers intervening."

Randa Abdel-Fattah on all the conservative outrage of her signing a letter two years ago and why it can't be compared to the last week. www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

Postdoctoral Fellow, Creative Writing - Cairns, QLD, Australia - Townsville, QLD, Australia - Other, QLD, Australia College of Arts, Society and Education | James Cook University Fixed term to December 2029 Part-time (20%), increasing to 60% by 2027  Located at either the Cairns Nguma-bada campus or Townsville Beb...

Creative writing post-doc! I can't even remember the last time I saw one of these advertised, so if it sounds like you, jump on it.

A whole bunch of artists and cultural workers have lost work because of the implosion of Adelaide Writers week — writers, producers, stage crew, front of house. None of this was their fault. Something for the Labor premier to think about

No really - where is he?
Nearly 100 writers have now pulled out, so the festival obvs cannot proceed…

The govt said it wouldn't be perfect from day 1. It's opportunistic for those that called for the policy to declare it is a failure so early.

The only way it would be perfect is a full ID check situation which the opposition (rightly) forced the govt to exclude. This is the mess you all made.

Melissa Mcintosh MP Shadow Minister for Communications Shadow Minister for Women Federal Member for Lindsay 10 January 2026 The kids are still on social media The Albanese Labor Government's implementation of the under 16's social media ban has fallen flat, with reports very few kids have been kicked off their accounts one month on. Despite an expensive PR trip to New York to promote the ban's success before it had even started, even the kids have heckled the PM on his own social media about its failure. "Many under-16 accounts have not been deactivated, while others that were initially removed have since become active again. New accounts are being created and the age-verification tools that the Government assured Australians would be effective, have proven laughably easy to bypass with some makeup and good lighting," said Shadow Minister for Communications, Melissa Mcintosh.

The opposition is claiming the social media ban is a failure because kids have bypassed it and also they haven't put in enough mental health funding to support kids.

If only people could have predicted this when the opposition helped along by News Corp pushed hard for a social media ban.

with Bluey taking off in America there will be a whole future generation hungry for more a Brisbane-centric pop culture. They will listen to Regurgitator. They will read Praise by Andrew McGahan.

Oral sensory seeker, perhaps - maybe the swallow was accidental?

Endlessly depressed by the lack of colour available each time my young but solid kid sizes up.

Really is a gap in the market for bright coloured rash vests in larger boys' sizes. Bright colours exist up to about size 8. Bulk of what I can find in larger sizes is black or blue - the colours discouraged for school swimming.

The passion – and politics – of Peter Combe: ‘Children are wonderful critics because they’re very intolerant’ Wash Your Face in Orange Juice, Newspaper Mama, Toffee Apple … the children’s entertainer who has sold more than 1m albums and DVDs reflects on his 40-year career, childhood and speaking up

Great article, legendary artist

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

‘Don’t mention Hitler and you’re sweet’: The great March for Australia deception Anti-immigration rallies that have drawn tens of thousands of Australians are being secretly controlled by neo-Nazis – part of a co-ordinated “fraud on the public”.

Nepo baby Hugo Lennon cosplays as a “concerned centrist” online, but when he wanted to know which version of Mein Kampf to buy there was only one group he turned to. Today we reveal Auspill’s neo-Nazi connections. www.theage.com.au/politics/vic...