I haven't had one in AGES but a spaghetti bolagnese pizza. Pizza base, spaghetti bolagnese sauce and cheese. AMAZING

Potato and Leek soup

also Laksa, but I always make a mess when I eat that

University of Queensland Press cancels children’s book over illustrator’s post on ‘Zionist framing’ of Bondi attack Authors including Evelyn Araluen and Melissa Lucashenko say they won’t work with publisher after it dumps Jazz Money’s book illustrated by Matt Chun, who called Bondi victims ‘affluent beneficiaries o...

absolutely gutting news coming out of UQP. Imagine betraying Aboriginal poets and scholars and novelists on Aboriginal lands for an orchestrated pro-Israel grievance campaign.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Relatively clear day in this hemisphere!

Want to see something neat?

Watch as the Sun's reflection (that bright light) crosses the right and left limbs of the planet and how it glints!

Sydney business body calls for complete overhaul of homelessness response after ‘disturbingly lonely and tragic death’ Bikram Lama’s body lay undiscovered for up to a week in one of city’s busiest parks, prompting business lobby to call for greater welfare monitoring

A total societal attitude shift towards the homeless might help as well.

Sometimes clouds like to wear a beret, ok.

The action followed a complaint from a patient – a gender-distressed teenager – after Dr Spencer had raised concerns about the safety of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones and highlighted the lack of evidence for their efficacy.

The Australian, now inventing new language to avoid even acknowledging the existence of trans people - 'gender-distressed' FFS... #transphobia

Ah yes, I have paid for the thing that was in my online shopping cart, now I want to "continue shopping" because clearly I want to spend more money on your site that I haven't yet spent...

Breaking: James Valentine, beloved ABC talkback radio star, dies aged 64 The presenter and professional saxophone player is being remembered for his ability to explore the humour and oddities of daily life on the airwaves.

Vale James Valentine. A staple of my childhood with his Afternoon Show

Removing plastic from our food chain yields quick results, researchers say Perth researchers find levels of plastic chemicals in the body can be reduced within a week by avoiding plastic food packaging and kitchen utensils.

Perth researchers find levels of plastic chemicals in the body can be reduced within a week by avoiding plastic food packaging and kitchen utensils.

On Guerrilla Archives in the Disinformation Age How the archival work of librarians and other activists helps preserve more than just history.

With so much media and history vanishing, these kinds of lay archives are essential; if our society is not going to invest in us, we need to invest in ourselves.

A pair of d20 earrings dangles from a black plastic arch. The earring backgrounds are hot pink, but the outline and numbers are a dark purple.

A pair of d20 earrings dangles from a black plastic arch. The earring backgrounds are light blue, but the outline and numbers are white.

A pair of d20 earrings dangles from a black plastic arch. The earring backgrounds are black, but the outline and numbers are white.

A grid of the 12 currently-available colors for the 3D prints in my shop. Each swatch features a sort of round shape with curved lines twisting up the sides, to show off the color and shadows. The colors are: red, pink, orange, yellow, green, turquoise, blue, purple, brown, gray, black, and white.

You can find the d20 earrings here! They're all natural 20s, of course. I have several colors prepped and ready to go now, but I've also listed an option for custom requests from the available colors. Keep in mind, my filament inventory will fluctuate!

evergreenphoenixshop.etsy.com/listing/4484...

This is wonderful stuff. Five stars.

Athough I’ll quibble about the “thousand year old” bit. Keyboard instruments in general, maybe, but the only keyboard that wasn’t an organ came in the 14th century. Don’t try doing this on a clavichord.

Haven’t read anything recently about the overall economic benefit of the NDIS to the Australian economy. Whatever happened with that?

CDC won’t publish report showing covid shots cut likelihood of hospital visits The report, which had cleared the agency’s scientific-review process, had been delayed. It now won’t be published at all, people familiar with the decision told The Post.

Hmm, I wonder why…

EU’s top court finds Hungary’s anti-LGBTQ+ law in breach of key values ECJ says law passed in 2021 is discriminatory and ‘contrary to the identity of the union’, in early test for new PM

“The EU’s highest court has found Hungary’s anti-LGBTQ+ law to be discriminatory, stigmatising and in breach of basic democratic values…”

This is a crucial decision. The court rejected the political claim that LGBTQ+ representation is “propaganda.” We must keep fighting politics that dehumanise us.

Should have always been a #NDIS Dept.
Always.
Return the #CES as well.

How fucking good is @yungenchee.bsky.social, coming in like a legend with a donation of $2,000 to save the AYCC?!

Thank you Yung! That's huge and so, so, so appreciated. 💛

You can be just like Yung at the link below. 👇

I am highly functional within a limited set of actions. Step out of that box and I cease to function

I don't think the ALP really cares that much about corruption, grift and fraud, or they would have made the NACC better, or spent less on consultants.

But if that was the real concern, fraud by providers will continue until it's regulated, however many people are the NDIS.

So why not regulate providers rather than PWD, seriously?

Is it because it's easier to discipline/cut off vulnerable people who need help with basic daily functions, that dodgy businesses who will take fraud allegations to court?

Ok Redbridge did research for the ALP that found people would accept cutting supports off from people with disabilities if it was framed as fixing fraud by those PWD

But any fraud is by providers, exploiting PWD

If crooks overcharging for services are the problem, why is this Labor government kicking 160,000 people with disabilities off the NDIS ?

'How can a human being do that?': Ann Marie Smith's family face carer guilty of her manslaughter The family of Ann Marie Smith have faced the care worker charged over her death. Rosa Maione was today arraigned in the Supreme Court ahead of her sentencing for manslaughter.

Also , plenty of examples of registered providers causing harm and death of participants
Tw discussion of criminal neglect and death of participant

www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09...

Look, this NDIS stuff. It’s not the recipients. It’s the legalised grift of providers. It’s privatisation for profit. And even with NFP’s it’s still about making profit. It’s yet another thing Labor did without looking critically at the possibility of it going wrong. #NationaliseNDIS

I’m still waiting to see where one example of privatisation has been beneficial. Never ever has it been imho.

'Public health issue': Box jellyfish swarm spotted off WA coast Almost 100 deadly box jellyfish have gathered off a port in WA's north. Scientists say they likely belong to an unnamed species.

The box jellies are coming for us

This is the same issue trying to get the DSP, and it was just carried across to the NDIS. Governments want easy answers and none of this is easy

The NDIS already struggled with the fact that people had multiple conditions that disabled them, trying to rate just one as severe versus the combined nature of all. I have a friend who is autistic, has c-PTSD and a neurological pain condition, and they don't get that it's an AND issue, not OR

There’s ppl on the NDIS for psychosocial conditions where if the supports are withdrawn they will be a threat themselves & others, costing millions in damages. Framing supports as only open to ppl with “profound disability” exposes the stereotypes and prejudices in public understanding of disability