A picture of a rather dilapidated copy of "The picture of Dorian Gray" There is visible water damage to the cover and the plastic cover is yellowing. Obviously, not evident from the picture but there is a truly foul musty smell emanating from it!

Last week, a gentleman returned this rather dilapidated copy of this famous book to us after 50 years. He had found it in his attic!
Presumably this means there is a pristine copy somewhere in our libraries....

A GENTLE REMINDER: we are trying to eliminate fossil fuels because using them kills us.

If fossil fuels were cheap (they're not) or reliable (they're SO NOT), it would still be urgent to get rid of them because their intended use destroys our life support systems.

The problem I see with the NDIS is not an issue of provider registration. Rather it is an issue of service provision standards

'The Grace Tame Foundation has announced it is closing because securing funding is becoming "increasingly challenging" ... In March, Ms Tame said she had lost speaking engagements, something she attributed to an "ongoing smear campaign" against her ... >

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

Planet of the apes the musical

I hate every bot I see. From gpa to gpt

The biggest issue will be for workers who are required to transport clients in their personal cars. I don’t do a lot of that: mostly I drive no more than 5km in my personal car to reach clients at their homes OR I’m in a long distance fleet car

There's a hauntingly beautiful irony in these morons thinking that carefully crafted American hegemony was actually weak and woke, and they would be the ones who would do Power and Dominance properly, and immediately bringing everything crashing down

a man in a striped shirt is yawning in a bathroom . ALT: a man in a striped shirt is yawning in a bathroom .

Hard pass

Getting reports now that the majority of people who call certain Workforce Australia lines are now abandoning their calls, because of the enormous wait times.

If you don't get through to these lines, there's no other way to overturn payment suspensions from your job provider

Hope you’ve got electrolytes, tomorrow’s pretty warm too.

half-remembering that thing about how most Roman citizens experienced the fall of Rome as simply one day their local bridge went out and nobody came around to repair it

'This is influence': Leaked 36 Months sponsorship document reveals promises to sell access to United Nations event The Wippa-led pro-teen social media ban group was selling a 'United Nations General Assembly Sponsorship' for $150,000 in the lead-up to the Australian government-hosted event.

Read the leaked pitch deck that sold potential sponsors the chance to get in on the government’s teen social media ban
celebrations: “An exclusive brand partnership at the United Nations, powered by Nova and 36 Months.” Another scoop c/o @cameronwilson.bsky.social www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/11/3...

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

Ezra Klein: There's a Rick & Morty quote I really like.

Ezra Klein: It goes like this, "Why would a pop-tart want to live inside a toaster? That would be like the scariest place for them to live."

Ta-Nehisi Coates not saying anything

Ezra Klein: Because in the episode they go to a neighborhood where everyone is a pop-tart and they live in toaster-houses.

DOJ finds no evidence Charlie Kirk’s killer was influenced by the Left (NBC) despite Trumps false claims blaming “the radical left”in a reckless address to the nation.

So why do media amplify the bullshit?

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Promo Match Frame Editing

Y'all want to pretend like Charlie Kirk wasn't Charlie Kirk, that's fine.

Delete posts, ban people, wave the flag at half-mast, call for unity, all of that. Show him more veneration you ever did for other victims, and do it loudly and blatantly, sure.

By all means, break any last trust you had.

Cal D I got forced out of my apartment due to contamination from fibreglass, brick dust, and a strange polymer that loves to form in the presence of water. I'm currently living in hotels and boarding my cat

I hate having to do this again but: I am once again facing some pretty steep medical bills for both myself and my elderly cat and I'm broke broke broke. Any and all help is so massively appreciated even if its just sharing

Same in Geelong. Will wait until morning to put mine out. (Recycling comes ridiculously early - like 4:30, but luckily that’s next week)

An April 14, 2025 tweet by DvtChristian with a racist cartoon denouncing Islam and the words 'These Satan worshipping cockroaches need to be eradicated'.

yeesh

i checked and yes, nova peris OAM -- one of the faces of the newly-hatched PR campaign by AUS media corporations called #standuptohate -- really did RT this post ... which makes sense if you read the rest of her timeline.

🫣

h/t : @altmediawatch.bsky.social

Aussies consulting specialist doctors plummeting with some charging up to $900 for appointments New data has revealed the number of Australians consulting medical specialists has fallen 10 per cent over the past five years, with some doctors charging more than $900 for a first appointment. Priva...

Aussies consulting specialist doctors plummeting with some charging up to $900 for appointments www.6pr.com.au/aussies-cons...

BAHA MAN: knock knock

OTHER BAHA MAN: who’s there

BAHA MAN: who let the dogs out

OTHER BAHA MAN: who let the dogs out who

BAHA MAN: who who who who

“You just got mauled by Tiger” Tiger wearing glasses saying “nothing personal kid”

Big difference between "plot" and perfect example of the language used by journalists - passive voice, no subject doing any firing of a weapon.

It's a great example any journalist should be reflecting on and thinking, yeah, not good enough, rather than excusing, as "oh that's just how we write"

DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT.
CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open.
DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open.
CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are.
DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.

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相変わらず美女やないか。Intelligent too, otherwise you’d never be able to know discards and other’s hands

Brainstrust, if you were to ask a public figure to judge a short story compilation, who would you pick?

Paulie: “Hey Tone, you hear about the Greens blocking Labor legislation?” Tony Soprano: “I can’t have this conversation again”

HAFF is the new CPRS

Coke can with “Champ” on it

Great, even my soft drink is taking pot shots