One of the Bondi attacker came from India. The hero of Bondi, Ahmed Al Ahmed came from Syria. Presumably, under Angus Taylor's policy, the shooter is in, the tackler is out.

Today marks 35 years since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody made 339 recommendations to address systemic racism and over-incarceration of First Nations people.

Since then, more than 630 First Nations people have died in custody, including 12 so far in 2026.

My toddler once pulled open my blouse and threw up down it 30 minutes before I was to address a committee of the European Parliament.

Also I once sewed a witch’s hat for Halloween under the table while participating in a webinar and never broke eye contact.

Also I can dead lift my own body weight.

A screenshot of the part of the accessibility settings with the option of “Require alt text before posting” selected

Reminder: including alt-text on your images is helpful in many ways! It increases accessibility, can add context/detail, makes search more effective, & can improve your reach (a lot of us won’t re-share images without alt-text). If you set it as required in accessibility settings, you can’t forget!

Spent hiding chocolate eggs on tippy toes 😅 The kids are light sleepers, especially when they expect the Easter Bunny 🐇

Folk Festival, hot air balloons and rainbow leaves are so quintessential Canberra autumn!
Have fun!

The 2020s are just a painfully slow Bruce Willis action movie.

Brisbane artist contacted by police over works that allegedly violate new Queensland hate speech laws James Hillier, known as Nordacious, told he could face jail time for some of his designs made in support of Palestine

Brisbane artist contacted by police over works that allegedly violate new Queensland hate speech laws
James Hillier, known as Nordacious, told he could face jail time for some of his designs made in support of Palestine.
The Guardian.

This is censorship of the worst kind. & breaking the law itself

A new fully automated “news” site, The Daily Perspective, looks like a diverse, credible newsroom... but every journalist is AI, scraping real outlets for content. It costs peanuts to run and shows how easily Australia could be manipulated by synthetic media.

#AusPol

Four carrots that look like pairs of legs, posed in front of a selection of my cookbook collection

I needed to buy carrots this week, and my local supermarket had a bag of “ugly” ones. Anyway, please enjoy this selection of sexy leggy carrots.

An adorable #crochet pink and purple axolotl with marled white gills and tail is pictured. It is small enough to fit in the hand of the person taking the picture. It has closed, almost smiley eyes and cute pink button nose

#crochet birthday axolotl. Once again finished in a hurry 🧶 No legs because they looked like tiny nipples...
Made mostly with wool, holding two strands together to get a marled effect.
One of my favourite plushies so far, it is so cute!

Crochet sleeping capybara seen from the side on a plant pot. It is wearing a pink fluffy scarf and a blue, speckled jumper.

Same crochet capybara seen from the other side. It is still asleep and looks adorable

A close-up to the head, we can see its fluffy ears (they've been brushed) and the precious little nose.

#crochet sleeping capybara for a birthday kid. Mostly made of wool, with some less "natural" fibre for shine and texture.
I brushed its ears, tail and jumper for extra fluffiness.
Pattern is from Sleek Grace on Ravelry 🧶

It’s been six years since Covid was declared a global pandemic.

Most people moved on years ago.

Decided to go “back to normal” whether it was safe or not.

They left people like me by the wayside.

They abandoned the vulnerable.

They embraced the comfortable lie.

#crochet sea turtle seen from the side. It has a fluffy blue shell, with pink and yellow puffs of yarn.

The turtle seen from above. It has two flowers on its head (it's a fashionable turtle)

The same turtle is now having a rest on a kitchen bench. We can see its lovely head and its left limbs.

Last minute #crochet sea turtle for a 9yo's birthday party 🧶
No pattern, it was a relatively easy construction. I enjoyed playing with yarn textures and colours. The fluffiness might not be anatomically correct but it is very enjoyable!

For Israel & the U.S. to go to war during Ramadan is also a message.

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

Aerial view of gray ground with rows of tiny black graves and yellow backhoes

Graves.

165 graves.

Each for a little girl killed by the Israeli-American strike that targeted a school on the first day of the Iran War.

When I saw the news story about the girls school being bombed, one of my first thoughts was about how unlike American physics, Iranian physics is 50% women at the undergrad level and how some of those girls who had been murdered were going to be physicists one day

I dont think irans nuclear program is located in elementary schools for young girls but apparently thats what we’re bombing

Waou… Il y a des jours où je n’ai plus les mots.
À 17h, déjà 149 records de chaleur ont été battus en France, y compris dans des stations installées au XIXᵉ siècle. En FEVRIER, s'il vous plait (quel délire !), on approche les 30°C au pied des Pyrénées, plus de 25°C sur la moitié nord.
1/5

Affirmation Poem Affirmation to youth living in prison after Assata Shakur Speak this to yourself until you know it is true. I believe that I woke up today and my lungs were working, miraculously, my voice can sing...

"Speak this to yourself
until you know it is true.
I believe that I woke up today
and my lungs were working,
miraculously,
my voice can sing and murmur and ask,
miraculously.
My hands may shake, but they can hold
me, or another."

- Eve L Ewing - www.liberationlib.com/affirmation-...

An infographic from Our World in Data titled "Global land use for food production" uses a series of stacked horizontal bar charts to visualize the distribution of Earth's surface and the disproportionate land requirements of livestock. The first bar shows Earth's surface is 71% ocean and 29% land (141 million km²); the land surface is then broken down into 76% habitable land, 10% glaciers, and 14% barren land. Of the habitable land, 45% (48 million km²) is used for agriculture, while 38% is forests and 13% is shrubland. The agricultural land bar reveals a major disparity: 80% (38 million km²) is dedicated to livestock (meat, dairy, and textiles) including grazing land and cropland for feed, while only 16% is used for crops for direct human consumption and 4% for non-food crops. Finally, two smaller bars at the bottom contrast this land use with nutritional output, showing that while livestock uses 80% of agricultural land, it only provides 17% of global calories and 38% of global protein, whereas plant-based foods provide 83% of calories and 62% of protein.

80% of agricultural land is used for livestock (and textiles), yet this huge land use provides only 17% of our calories and 38% of our protein.

16% of the land used for crops provides 83% of our calories and 62% of our protein. It's past time we rethink what we eat.

The worst thing about being arrested on your birthday is it rules out the possibility of getting a cake with a file in it for another 364 days.

For the last few days, our lift has been out of order because it made a very scary noise. We are pleased to report that we are once again fully flat access to all galleries with a lift in full working order.

It turned out, the lift needed lube. The moral of the story is lube is IMPORTANT.

We are living in a world where we have safe and effective vaccines against some of the most detrimental diseases in history.

And yet people choose not to give them to their children and protect them and others.

Measles could have been eradicated by now.

I barely *watch* the news but I *read* or *listen to* the news on a daily basis. Images are often too hard for me, but I still stay up to date with what is happening in the world. Tbh, I'm a slight news junkie.
The "I'm ignoring the news in all shapes and forms" baffles me.

A slightly grumpy blue tongue lizard is seen inside a live-catch trap. It got caught in our shed, visiting the trap set up for the couple of rodents who have recently adopted the place as their own.

Caught an extremely weird scaly (?), blue-tongued (?) rat (?) in the live-catch trap we set up in the shed (we have had some annoying visitors of the rodent kind recently) 🤔
Our resident blue tongue felt a bit silly, getting trapped like a common mammal... 🦎

I feel this way about pretty much all vaccine-preventable infectious diseases. You shouldn't be allowed to dump cyanide into municipal drinking water and you shouldn't be allowed to recreationally spread viruses around shared public spaces.

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."

A painting of a bird beside the text "Swear to fuck, i've met smarter potatoes"