I’m in a boarding lounge, about to fly 13 hours and 40 minutes non-stop and people are lining up to be on the plane as soon as they can 🤨

He effectively removed more roadkill genitals than any previous Kennedy*.

(* As far as we know.)

I used to get torrents of them (when I had a job where my input mattered). “Meeting with Greg, <employers name>’s office”.

Gee thanks buddy.

Absurd hypothetical for Ukraine: If someone could assemble a squadron of WWII fighters (P-51, Spitfire, Zero, P-47 etc) would they useful?

Operating well behind the frontlines, shooting down drones. Stick a modern radio (for FAC) in an old warbird and let them shred Shaheds?

Uluṟu (Ayres Rock), Northern Territory, Australia. Looking majestic af. Photo by me.

I grew up in Australia, had seen photos of Uluṟu (Ayres Rock) thousands of times. Absolutely nothing can prepare you for the scale of it.

The walk around the base of it is 6 miles / 10 kilometres, it sticks up 350 metres / 1,150 feet above terrain that’s otherwise flat as far as the eye can see.

a man in a military uniform stands at a podium in front of a group of people Alt: a man in a military uniform stands at a podium in front of a group of people, announcing to camera “right to to jail. Right away!” Maybe from Borat?

Sounds like dem choppers finding new ways to break the laws of physics.

Knock knock.

Who’s there?

Hike.

Hike who?

solitary cow
standing atop a mountain
longs for home – Dundee

Error ⚠️ Not found Forbidden 🔃try again …As a error message in BlueSky app

I signed in, saw all the posts saying “yey! It’s back” then refreshed my feed and got…

Exactly my reaction, 5 years ago 🙂

Welcome to the club

JD Vance wearing a white button-up shirt. It looks like it's a size too small for him.

"pope should stay out of politics." brother you need to stay out of a size medium

a white bird with a long beak is standing next to a pile of plastic cups and a sign that says honk . ALT: a white bird with a long beak is standing next to a pile of plastic cups and a sign that says honk .

And perhaps the most universally known (in Australia), the Bin Chicken

a close up of a crocodile 's mouth with sharp teeth ALT: a close up of a crocodile 's mouth with sharp teeth

Snappy Handbag

Bluesky error text: error ⚠️ Not Found forbidden 🔃try again

Open Bluesky and see dozens of posts “at least Bluesky is back online now”.

Refresh the feed and get this.

Ironically the BBC stumbled on a really important story: Desperate asylum seekers being forced to turn to fraudulent fee-charging “advisors” to navigate a system that is intentionally impossibly baroque and from which all sources of free advice have been removed.

But no: they chose Fake Gay Panic.

a person is petting a snake on the floor with a white glove . ALT: a person is petting a snake on the floor with a white glove .

Danger Noodle.

😍

You think they ever followed you?

Cartoon of man exasperatedly throwing his hands up and saying "I guess"

Millions of lapsed Catholics realizing that they have become realigned with the Pope against their will

A SHORT CROSS-LINGUISTIC POEM ABOUT FOOD…

An English cheese is good
But a Dutch cheese is gouda

An English sausage is bad
But a German sausage is the Wurst

An English egg leaves you hungry
But a French egg is un œuf

In English you fancy some bread
But in Spanish you’re pan sexual

An astronaut, in orange flight suit, sitting in the open door of a US Navy Search and Rescue helicopter. She has a “thousand yard stare”, is bathed in golden hour light and framed by a helicopter window with the sun setting through it behind her.

“I was trying to be kind of respectful and not intrusive, because they did just get back from space.”

📸: Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class (US Navy) August Clawson.

$30m an hour: big oil reaping huge war windfall from consumers, analysis finds Exclusive: Climate action blockers including Saudi Arabia, Russia and major fossil fuel firms set to make extra $234bn by end of 2026

"The world’s top 100 oil and gas companies banked more than $30m every hour in unearned profit in the first month of the US-Israeli war in Iran, according to exclusive analysis for the Guardian."

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I stand corrected, had never heard of a Grog until now.

a black and white photo of a vintage car driving down a street . Alt: Beverly Hillbillies GIF. Buncha rednecks driving along a Hollywood street

Matt Bevan & crew rocking up at the ABC tomorrow…

Working on a emergency management exercise yesterday. After a (simulated) explosion near a rail line, a radio call came in to notify “Network Whale”.

Was it worth breaking my rule about generative AI to ask if this is who they meant?

Okay, I learned something today.

Never seen anything like it, in Australia or anywhere else. I guess it’s like onion rings, but it’s the entire onion?

I’ve never heard the words breaded onion used together before. Off to google this “traditional” “Australian” “food”.

[someone please read my alt text for the gif above, I need validation]

Australian here: what’s a Bloomin onion? 🧅