Very sad news, but a great innings. Wonderful writer.

And people have been damping/playing direct on piano strings for decades, and thumping out vaguely exotic tunes for a century or two.

Left- Israel kills a 16 year old boy riding his bike in the West Bank.

Right- Netanyahu says that Iran planned "another HOLOCAUST" while Iran has ZERO nuclear warheads and Israel has 90-400 nuclear warheads.

#RealHeroes Vs #Fascism.

#auspol
#Australia

Here come those tired old tits again.
- Sunday, Bloody Sunday

"While Australia is falling behind its renewables installation targets, China may meet its end-of-2030 target by the end of this month"

#AUSPOL

Usually full any day. Weird.
Am about to go from Spencer St on that line so fingers crossed…

When Trump talked about ushering in a "new golden age," he was talking about a new golden age for his family's pocketbook.

The Texas legislature rammed through a gerrymandering bill at the request of Trump.

Virginia actually voted in favor of redistricting to counterbalance what Texas and other Republican-controlled states have done.

Yet only one is considered a "power grab."

Oligarch-owned media in a nutshell.

#auspol #ukpol #nzpol #cdnpol

Fosters is what we foist on the rest of the world. Along with Rupert Murdoch.

Scientists should be ‘very careful’ how they discuss mathematics.
-JDVance

I firmly believe presidents & people with control over medical agencies should understand percentages!

If *you* don’t, no judgment; I will explain in the next couple posts how they work. The short version is that Senator Warren is correct in the clip, and there’s NO interpretation in which RFKJr is

Screenshot of a Washington Post article titled “CDC won’t publish report showing covid shots cut likelihood of hospital visits.” Subheading says the report had passed scientific review but will not be published. Timestamp shows “Today at 5:00 a.m. EDT.” Main image shows a healthcare worker wearing a mask and gloves holding a syringe and vial. Caption notes an unpublished report found last winter’s COVID vaccine reduced hospitalizations. Article by Lena H. Sun.

USA: "CDC won’t publish report showing covid shots cut likelihood of hospital visits"

"The report showed that the vaccine reduced emergency department visits and hospitalizations among healthy adults by about half this past winter."

Source: archive.md/E24ED

Meanwhile the west dithers and gets destroyed environmentally, in energy and economically with FR conspiracies on renewables.

Australians will understand best.
Mushrooms anyone?
#Australia #auspol

Illustration of two tunacorns swimming in the sea

Today is Narwhal Appreciation Day so if you haven't already please sign my petition to have their name changed to "tunacorns"

"Whaaaaaa whaaaaaa whaaaaa! They did what *we* did. Only better. NOT FAIR!!!"

Music inspired by #Dante in Melbourne tonight, with two new works, one of which is by me.
45 Downstairs at 7:30.

fortyfivedownstairs.com/event/chambe...

Beach with volleyball net, channel marker in a dead calm sea beyond and big blue sky

Stretch of bay with Williamstown in the distance

Kerford Road pier stretching to the horizon

Very serene morning by the bay at South Melbourne

This 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 we are aware of….

Headline from the AFR "Time to end welfare for the wealthy, says big business"

You mean the superannuation tax breaks? No?
You mean the CGT discount? No?
You mean the fossil fuel subsidies? No?
You mean the free gas for multinationals? No?
You mean the failure of the PRRT? No?
You mean the tax dodging trusts? No?
You mean the lack of a wealth tax? No?

No you mean the NDIS FFS

Tell me again how One Nation is the party of “real Australian values.” If this is what you want to be associated with be my guest but I want nothing to do with a political party that at every turn represents the worst of us.

Largely empty railway carriage

I somehow expected the free train to Melbourne would be packed…

Face the Music, 15 10 1975 YouTube video by Neil

When classical #music was still on TV.
Extremely handsome panellist David Attenborough a bonus.

youtu.be/ll--KAfFKj8

Breaking: Tsunami warning as magnitude-7.5 earthquake hits north-east Japan Residents have been warned of a tsunami as high as 3 metres in the Iwate prefecture and parts of Hokkaido.

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

There’s a surprise.

Something you ate?