Just now learning that MOG dies and narrates her own death. Huge Judith Kerr energy.

Solidarity with all my striking colleagues at the ABC. On mat leave so can’t strike but supporting them from the sidelines.

The If You're Listening team is striking today, calling for fair pay and conditions, particularly for casual and fixed term staff.
I'm lucky enough to have an ongoing role - many of my colleagues don't.
As a result, this week's Thursday episode will be released on Friday.

It took me a while to understand this

Former defence guy: our biggest threats are disinformation and climate change newsapp.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

Four year old constantly horrified when I tell him an adults birthday celebration has no theme, or worse, an adult is not even having a party.

my sincere condolences. I had it both times. So much harder than anyone warns you.

They teach our kid the rights of the child at the kindergarten, which rules. Thank you for your advocacy!

'Helium is critical for MRI machines to cool superconducting magnets.

1/3 of the world's helium supplies comes thru the Strait of Hormuz.'

🫠

I need directors to know I don’t need as many drone shots as you think I need.

Money seems fake when you read stories like this.

Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power They’re saying the quiet part out loud now.

"Palantir CEO Alex Karp says his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men."

Just saying it right out loud now.

newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

Feels like maybe we shouldn’t have let Uber convince us it’s ok to rate human beings out of five. It’s been basically downhill tech-wise since then.

Are e-bikes the electric vehicle we've been overlooking? In the push to decarbonise our economy, much has been made of the need to transition to electric cars. But advocates say there's a much cheaper and greener EV to consider.

If you're thinking hard about an EV right now can I suggest the two wheeled variety?
I have two EVs and while I love the car, the bike is the actual superstar. 7c to fully charge, free parking everywhere, has saved me THOUSANDS in fuel and fares. www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07...

This is why we have a lower life expectancy (the accidents)

I hate how math is forced to continuously justify itself by its uses and it can't just be allowed to stand on its own.

Humans have done art for thousands of years because that's what humans do. It's the same with math. Humans reason about pretend things that don't matter, and that's okay.

Desiccated premises!

Very disappointing, though ultimately unsurprising, to see the DOJ surrender in the middle of the Ticketmaster-LiveNation case after political pressure from the top. Hopefully the states will continue to push to break up a monopoly that should have never been allowed to exist in the first place.

Just obsessed with the nurse at our local GP clinic who does the kids vaccines. So warm, personable, efficient, competent. Takes all the anxiety out of the room.

Oh my god

Just a quiet word for anyone storing jerry cans of fuel in the garage: improper storage of fuel in quantity can potentially invalidate home insurance

Now feels like a good time to remember that Big Oil is the reason why we're still hooked on dirty, dangerous fossil fuels.

The industry's lies have essentially stolen a generation’s worth of time that we could have used to transition to cleaner, safer energy sources.

It’s time for accountability.

Absolutely. That’s good old fashioned sexism hey. I’m more talking about the industries we’ve been romanticising.

Well this makes me feel both more and less insane

In our current world, the upkeep of people and places is deeply undervalued.

A lot of previous generations built businesses around boring things that we all need and are very difficult to “disrupt”: plumbing, gutter cleaning, knife sharpening, aged care, child care.

Been thinking how much our generation came of age when disruption was the major paradigm when actually a lot of human needs comes under the umbrella of the opposite of innovation: maintenance and care.

I remember that genre of joke from high school 🥴

Watching so much Couples Therapy (US) I am now unfortunately a licensed counsellor

Are we falling out of love with nonfiction? In the early 2020s, readers flocked to books to explain political turbulence. But is the world now too grim to read about – and are podcasters taking the place of authors?

my view on this is that publishers should stop it with the 80k wordcount obsession, so many contemporary non-fic books are obviously 40-50k pieces of work stretched to the extent that they become very boring to read - just let people write cheaper, shorter books! www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...