It likewise took me a good moment to realise that they don’t meant what I read it to mean 😬

I’m super lucky that I have a heritage listed one nearby.

Cemetery photo. In the foreground is an old grave with a small clown statue next to it. Behind is more graves and then a large tree that throws dappled shade on it all

Sometimes you just need to go for a stomp around a cemetery.

You were moved to do this by pride and by hate. Is it any wonder the result was ruin?

This fuel crisis could last for a while. It’s time for a new approach to fuel use – end it With the same fiscal support that Canberra found to back the oil industry, we could start to end our oil dependence.

"Consider if we spent just one-third of the excise relief – roughly $850 million over the same three-month window – and imagine what could be achieved if we made ending fuel use the goal."
theconversation.com/this-fuel-cr...

You don’t have to be a ‘cyclist’ to ride a bike. Here’s how to start again Plan your route, keep your bike by the door, and don’t worry about Lycra – small habits can get you back on the bike.

"The challenge for cities is not to convince people that cycling is good. It is to make cycling ordinary enough that people can return to it without having to become a 'cyclist' first."

theconversation.com/you-dont-hav...

Book being held up: Monsters, a Fan’s Dilemma by Claire Dederer

Great premise, terrible delivery. It’s memoir, not analysis. Goes off on tangents, makes outrageous (frankly, offensive and fucked up) comparisons, it’s like she forgot what she was doing.

Book photographed on top of a pile of old timber and next to a shovel

You know what’s happening. You know how it’s going to end. But the main character doesn’t know and that makes it compelling.

For decades now, Muslims have been slaughtered for being Muslims by the world’s most powerful military powers. In the west and Western Asia, the principal victims of expulsion, ethnic cleansing and genocide are Muslims. Open Islamophobia is largely permissible in the west. Few fret over this

🧵Spotted on Market Day in Aotearoa New Zealand:

A Tiny Human (1.5?) races through the door of a bookshop. Running at full pelt.
Eyes on the prize.
Huffing and chuffing into the children's book section.
Spinning around and giving Mum a big goofy smile.
This is EXACTLY where she wants to be. (1)

“She didn’t use quotation marks to avoid identifying with Wollstonecraft” 😆

Can confirm: you’re good at your job

🙌

Once at the number three, being the third number be reached, then, lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it.

Women were likely, as women, to take the next generation’s part, not this one’s; they wove the links men saw as chains, the bonds men saw as bondage.

Wasn't BRS alleged to have intimidated witnesses in the defamation trial?

Politicians: no bail for kids.
NSW legal system: bail for 5 counts of murder for alleged war criminal ✅

Geelong Advertiser: "New data shatters the costly myth that expensive suburbs guarantee better schools across Geelong, revealing 15 high-performing institutions where families can save hundreds of thousands...On the list is Geelong Grammar."
🤦‍♀️

"just war" advocate who discovers, to his horror, that the term means the war must be just, rather than calling for a state of nothing but war

Single frame. Man standing in front of woman in wheelchair says: “Instead of complaining about the expensive nuclear subs we may never see, or our increasing expenditure on war machinery, maybe think about how properly funding YOUR NEEDS makes us LESS SAFE as a country…”

Priorities.
My @smh @theage cartoon.

He is not from chocolatine corner and neither are his parents!

The best thread you will read today

Tried to troll the Frenchman by calling a pain au chocolat a chocolatine and he didn’t flinch.

I’m surprised Australia’s Sydney-centric media isn’t mispronouncing Geelong, to be honest.
(Although maybe they have been. I’ve only been reading the news and not listening to it)

My dog died.
And he will die 1000 more times. And it’s unbearable.
He died again when I threw away his medications.

He dies every time I go to feed him and he’s not there.

He dies for every time I don’t call his name.

He dies with each walk we can’t go on.

i see quolls quite often when i drive home after dark which always blows my mind but i have never had to stop and wait for a quoll to finish pooping in the middle of the road before 😳

Please refrain from reminding me of my electoral shitshow. 😭😭😭

Just got a tap on the shoulder at the gym between lat pulldown sets. It’s one of the staff members.
Him: “you know you need to actually lift the weights hahaha”
Me: “you also need to rest between sets”
Him: “hahaha well played hahaha”
😐

But when we crave power over life—endless wealth, unassailable safety, immortality—then desire becomes greed. And if knowledge allies itself to that greed, then comes evil. Then the balance of the world is swayed, and ruin weighs heavy in the scale.

I do an annual read of Pakistani novels in memory of a colleague who died 🥲

Although I did marry a French Catholic in a Catholic Church. So pretty sure the ancestors are already pissed with me 😆