'I wanna be straight.
I wanna be straight.
I'm sick and tired of taking drugs and staying up late.'

‘Incomprehensible’: birds flee and hundreds of turtles left to die after government cuts water to NSW wetlands Frogs and sheep in the Gwydir wetlands near Moree have also been bogged after WaterNSW stopped environmental flows, researchers say

“An “incomprehensible” disaster is unfolding at wetlands in NSW after the state water agency abruptly stopped environmental flows in the state’s NW leading to the deaths of turtles, waterbirds, frogs & sheep”

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I agree with getting out of AUKUS, but would we be better off waiting until we can negotiate our exit with someone sane?

If we drop out now, he'll take it personally and tariff the crap out of us on anything and everything.

Start talking to the French again, get out of AUKUS in 3yrs time.

Tables reserved for 'Jennifer'

...not square!.
...just early.

The fire season keeps growing and their window for hazard reduction keeps shrinking.

They have to start early.

Sydney Harbour as viewed from Circular Quay station

Back down this end of town tonight:

I find it funny that the UN was pretty much a USA fanclub all through the cold war, but then, just that one time when they said NO over the nonexistent Iraq WMD, and boom, that was it, the UN was cancelled.

They're seen as a protest party and not as a party of government.

Any good positions they take get slowly absorbed into the mainstream (e.g. marriage equality, climate), and the world moves on, and they have to start the next fight.

So they're perpetually seen as the "party of protest".

Slept in my Talking Heads T-shirt and now I ask myself, well, how did I get here?

Astronomical definitions Sunrise is defined as the instant in the morning under ideal meteorological conditions, with standard refraction of the Sun's rays, when the upper edge of the sun's disk is coincident with an ideal ho...

Ok, so this has been bugging me for the past week, and yeah, the definition of sunrise and sunset double counts how long it takes for the suns disc to cross the horizon.
And the further south you go, the longer that takes, because it is sliding up at a shallower angle.
www.ga.gov.au/scientific-t...

Actually being driven by competition now? whereas before it was capacity to pay? They know the ACCC is actually watching for a change?

What's with the crazy Perth Thursday to Wednesday sawtooth?

Maybe the definition of sunrise and sunset comes into it?

Dunno. I don't get why its longer than 12 hrs. If anything it should be a little shorter, because the point where the earth was neither tilted at or away from the sun happened in the middle of the night for us. We were already on our way to shorter days when the sun came up this morning.

Sunrise and sunset times for Sydney on the equinox would be close to 6am, 6pm if not for daylight savings.

Perth is 20 minutes off its GMT+8 timezone, because it is 115E, not 120E

It can depend on how well your longitude aligns with your timezone. 15 degrees to an hour. Sydney is pretty good. 151E, 10hrs ahead of GMT, is only about 4 minutes off.
But Perth 115E, 8 hrs, is 5 degrees (about 20 minutes off)

arctan(noon shadow / stick length) = latitude.

The sun just appearing above the horizon through the trees at the top of my driveway. Today is the equinox, so its due east.

Happy Equinox!

But when it doesn't work, they won't blame themselves, they'll blame the inflation for being "stubborn" or "sticky".
A British Rail-esque "wrong kind of snow" excuse.
Bad, bad, naughty inflation!

Raising rates is the right way to fight inflation is an overheated booming economy.

What we've got right now, ain't that.

Too much money chasing a normal supply of goods is not the same thing as a normal amount of money chasing too few goods.

COVID and the Ukraine war have already shown that.

Raising interest rates doesn't fix inflation caused by supply issues.

It's not too much money chasing the same amount of goods. It's the same amount of money chasing too few goods.

They're not the same thing and they don't have the same solution.

COVID and the Ukraine war already taught us that.

There's always the possibility that Trump will fold in the next week or two, and that these clowns are buying a few months of fuel at top dollar.

The same people stock piling fuel are probably still working their way through the two palettes of toilet paper they hoarded.

I wonder if it's because the shingles on his neck have spread and his head is all scabby.

A 20yr chart of Betashares Aus Equities Strong Bear Complex ETF (BBOZ) from https://www.marketindex.com.au/asx/bboz, showing a long downward trend.

He bought in early 2020, and sold in 2026 for a 'modest profit'?
yeah, nah.

...and in the long term there'll be a resurgence of ISIS or the emergence of some other extremist group.
You can't bomb, or invade, your way into peoples hearts and minds.
Any new, pro-western, government is likely to be short lived -as we saw with Afghanistan.

No priors.

Oh yes, the GST, Australia's consumption tax that we can never use to manage consumption.

Use the FrogID app to let the Australian Museum know.
australian.museum/get-involved...

A bit along those lines, Mark Latham was in my train carriage yesterday afternoon.

Well of course the system is going to collapse.

These guys are the system.

They built and operated and profited from a cruel, evil and corrupt system.

Its time for a new system.