And the Catholic church - like many others, I expect - is absolutely political on the inside. Those with power need to be on board or it's a waste of time (even possibly regressive).

People who stand in front of elevator doors waiting to get in

The idea that it should take a photo with the president to not be in medical poverty in a country with riches is pretty sickening.

Well I hear Frank's is good on astronauts, so at least that checks out

Honestly, it's bad enough for us to be watching this from afar and I can - if I try hard enough - cut myself off from the news. I don't know how you've survived this long since the fool got back in.

Omg .. this is the most cockatoo thing I've ever seen!

I wonder how my old boss is going.

The one that asked me back in 2016 "What do Aussies think of Donald Trump?"

I hadn't realised at the time that people might like or respect him, so I gave her my honest answer.

She then told me that politics is a topic to be avoided.

Bet she still loves him.

My wife said I spoil our dog. Fuck knows how she thinks he's going to shuck his own oysters.

Hard agree on both

I don't lift, so for me this was more a matter of interest.

My dog also needs a bit of extra weight, so I've been giving him some extra fun meals involving fish, porridge, egg and yoghurt 😅 Protein and fibre in one yummy sitting.

You do you, big fella. I daresay you'd have fine tuned it by now. All that lifting is gonna make you a hungry boy.

For interest's sake, how much of this 200g is meat / powder / something else?

i vetted this to make sure it wasn’t ai so you could enjoy it fully

You timed this perfectly for my morning scroll time!

Gorgeous .. but I bet that dog would fart like a trombone after all that broccoli.

Me too .. sobered up sufficiently just in time for an evening meeting.

Summer was HOT at times. Sent to a strike team for fire mop up, but even that was an hour from here, so a bit luckier than last summer.

March down here is, hands down, the best time of year. Warm days, cool nights. Bliss!

Public holiday the day before has actually made it better - I'm not losing a weekend day in front of the tv 😅

Despite the efforts of my parents, I'm not much of a footy fan (or any sport, really), but I often watch the GF.

At last .. but you've still got to wonder if the AFL will balls it up somehow?

Haha, what a gorgeous pic .. happy birthday, so glad I stumbled across you 😘

I really enjoyed the walk from Leura (Lura?) to Katoomba. Not particularly long, flat along the bottom, but a lovely walk.

But you're so pretty? To hell with the haters!

I like how you completely messed my sense of perspective, making the KittyCat an essential structural component of the bridge.

So rediculous at the end, I love it!

I remember selling some guys a parallel cable so they could copy data from one PC to another - and telling them to keep the packaging intact so they could return it if their plan didn't work out.

That dance where two people walking towards each other move side to side to avoid a collision: why haven't we established a rule we all follow?

Yes, but do you chain them together into one really big JWST, or point them in all different directions?

Year-end surge: electric trucks outsell diesel for the first time in China - electrive.com In December 2025, 45,300 fully and partially electrified heavy-duty trucks were newly registered in China—accounting for 54 percent of total heavy-duty truck

EV trucks are taking over in China

Can't wait to be rid of the noise and smell of diesel trucks

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If you get this, we're friends by default

Glad to see you're fully absorbed in something not directly related to work or <waves hands around> and dragging us all into it.

If only you had lyre birds there, that'd be an awesome time waster.