Electric buses and electric Ubers have been here for a long time too.
#luddites

The dog groomer said “your dog hates the scissors around the face “. I replied “don’t all dogs hate scissors around the face ? “
She shrugged and said “I guess”.

States and territories left in the dark on NDIS savings State treasurers say a meeting on NDIS reforms to be announced tomorrow was light on details, leaving states and territories waiting with everyone else to find out how a new round of savings measures ...

Will the states agree with the plan from Jim Chalmers and Mark Butlers to divert children away from NDIS to thriving kids under state budgets ? Time will tell.
#DisabilityRights #NDIS
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Car wash is an ideal place. Car wash, coffee and EV charging all in one place.

Plenty of better brands out there which are not nazi adjacent tho.

Prolonged spell of unseasonable warmth for large parts of southern Australia Maximum temperatures will be around 5°C above average for several days in Melbourne, Adelaide, Hobart and many other locations in unseasonable autumn warmth.

Unseasonably warm weather southern Australia .
Global warming, anyone ?
#weather #climatechange

Prolonged spell of unseasonable warmth for large parts of southern Australia www.weatherzone.com.au/news/prolong...

Lemon tree with green leaves and one green baby lemon 🍋

My lemon tree with its first lemon 🍋
#BlueSkyGardening

Kanopy via your public library is excellent and has great old time classic movies and musicals .

Oh no that sounds awful.
I’m having an asthma flare up rn and sound like puffing Billy.
I’m maxed out on my prednisone puffers and ventolin puffers . Breathing is nice when it works well.

Ok that’s great Susan . What about the more than 20,000 people who DON’T work closely with the gas industry?

Mango lassi

Mostly it’s racism . Whyte ppl are fond of saying our cities are too big - meaning we want only Whyte ppl to emigrate here.
Personally I like a multicultural city but I’m in the minority for saying so.

It will cost $$$ in fuel . It’s cute tho

In the 70's the Government owned Energy, it built houses, it owned Public Services and it employed people.

Now billionaires own it all, and they pay you too.

So every year prices go up more than wages.

It's not complicated why things are only getting worse.

It's billionaires

Live: Tsunami alert issued after powerful quake off Japan's northern coast A magnitude-7.5 earthquake strikes off the east coast of Honshu, Japan, the country's meteorological agency says. Follow live.

Earthquake off north eastern Japan
Measuring 7.5 on the Richter scale
Possible tsunami
#earthquake #tsunami

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Milk, bread prices to increase within weeks due to war in Iran Farmers ask for a 30-cent-per-litre price rise for milk as fuel and fertiliser prices surge.

Milk , meat and vegetables to rise due to fuel and fertiliser cost increases
#fuelcrisis #costofliving

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With few exceptions, Americans should not own guns . At all.
One child death is too many.

Nothing . Tip it out and get oat milk instead .

Photos of cage used to hold boy with autism at Canberra school become public The ACT Education Minister slams Canberra media organisations for publishing photos of the cage used to restrain a young boy with autism.

This reminds me of a cage built especially for an autistic child in a government school. Yikes 😧
You would think we could have moved past this, but no.
#DisabilityRights
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In addition, SARS-COV-2 is known to be oncogenic. So protect yourself and your loved ones from repeated infections from respiratory viruses.
#wearamask #Covidisnotover #CovidisAirborne #CovidisOncogenic

It would be an interesting exercise to find out how many politicians have solar , batteries and EVs on their properties , either residential or investment .

20 years of pickup truck design progress in one photo

Roasted Tomato Burrata Pasta with Basil Oil What would you cook for a MasterChef Perino tomatoes mystery box challenge ? I had so many ideas but I decided to go with my heart… a beyond delicious Roasted Tomato Pasta drizzled with basil

Made spaghetti with roasted tomatoes, garlic and capsicum
Clean plates all round
#tomatoes #burrata #garlic

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Surely someone like yourself Marcus could put the hat round to mates in broadcasting and media and form a limited partnership and own it yourselves . Just a suggestion.

Australian Government media release page titled “Free RSV vaccine for older Australians.” Banner includes a photo of Health Minister Mark Butler. Text states the government is introducing free RSV vaccinations for older Australians to protect against severe illness. Details show media event date and publication date: 19 April 2026. Media type: Media release. Audience: General public.

Free RSV vaccine for older Australians.

From 15 May, a $445.3 million investment will fund free Arexvy RSV vaccines for Australians aged 75+ and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people aged 60+, with doses otherwise costing around $300 without NIP listing.

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Crackdown on unregistered NDIS providers coming in bid to save $6b a year NDIS Minister Mark Butler will announce reforms to the disability scheme on Wednesday that will aim to save more than $6 billion a year by 2035 — and the largely unregulated market of NDIS providers i...

Looking to cut disability supports instead of cutting Aukus
Disabled people will be worse off under these conditions.
Showering and eating are not luxuries. Getting out of bed into your wheelchair is not a luxury.
#DisabilityRights #NDIS

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Stanley Cup playoffs begin today (Saturday night US time )
Philadelphia Flyers vs
Pittsburgh Penguins 🐧

First power play
I get to see Sidney Crosby play today
#NHL #StanleyCup #IceHockey

I must be getting old and curmudgeonly - kids running around outside screaming , having a screaming contest . About 40 mins worth.
I went outside and yelled at them to shut the F up. It worked , and they went home .

a man wearing sunglasses and a hat with the words we 're putting the band back together Alt: a man wearing sunglasses and a hat with the words we 're putting the band back together

We’re putting the band back together