What do we want? "Stuff"!
When do we want it? <whenevs>
Most people already know what they want. When they get it depends on the "How"?
Be a "How?" person.
It's the only part of politics that ever changes anything. The rest is flag waving, and your opponents want you stuck waving flags.
First person under the guillotine should be Andrew Wakefield
The liberals
And those restrictions on oil exports are being undertaken by which country again? Yeah this is not a case of the US being benevolent, rather it highlights the grifting
I truly wish more people would read science fiction and not just watch big-budget adaptations. SF authors have thought about the ethics of the creator vs. the (technological) creation / created ever since Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein.
Knowing humans, perhaps long before then.
Perhaps that gold plane wasn’t tribute enough for the ogre
I think if I was ever in the newspaper with the headline "fingered the nostrils of his colleagues" I would find a way to erase any indication that I had ever existed from the face of the earth
Happy 80th birthday to the man who wrote the greatest guitar solo ever, then thoughtfully threw in another (excellent) solo after the first chorus just so you’ll be warmed up and won’t injure yourself on the second one.
I further put it to you that the outro solo on “Pigs (Three Different Ones)” is drastically underrated and is right up there.
A female Kākāpō on a nest with a young chick. Credit: Andrew Digby
Eva at her nest tonight on a very wet Pukenui/Anchor Island. Her chick Evohe-A2 is doing ok and her foster egg underneath her is about to hatch. #kakapo #conservation #kakapo2026 #birds
1. Max Chandler-Mather to be placed in an oubliette during all future campaigns
This was initially reported elsewhere as a certainty and walked back when it was confirmed as false. Now it appears US leadership is begging the Kurds to act.
For those huffing farts over the Australians on US submarines thing - I'm frowning at you for using bullshit as politics - are the Australians working for US Treasury agencies on secondment responsible for the US deficit? What about those working in US Health responsible for measles enthusiasm?
World food prices rebound in February, United Nations' FAO says reut.rs/3Nh60Gl
Editorial line in the two long local stories on ABC TV Victoria news tonight: we have too much access to oral hormonal contraception and not enough access to guns.
There are just hours left for the thousands eligible for Australia’s largest class action payout to register before the deadline closes www.news.com.au/national/pol...
(By emielscartoons on IG)
As sheer stupidity seems to have been the protagonist for this, I’m sure that stupidity will help stand many in good stead - miracles (by which I mean chance) sometimes happen
It just helps the permanently enraged to continue to suspend their curiosity and capacity to learn stuff
Just a small reminder (again) that all the Gulf states rely on migrant labour with few rights (or any if you’re, say, a construction worker or nanny.) The Cabin Crew don’t get asked if they were happy to fly they get told to.
Anthony Albanese confirms three Australian navy personnel were on the US submarine that sank an Iranian vessel. they did not participate in the action (existing protocols regarding ADF personnel embedded in other countries armed forces prevented any participation).
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
The goalposts are moving from aus navy personnel took part in the sinking of the Iranian ship to aus is now being drawn into the conflict despite all the evidence to the contrary. Sometimes some people should just log off
One other chart for summer… Coral Sea surface temperatures hit a record high for the summer just past…
(Via BoM)
“‘You don’t owe anyone drama’: Jim’s Group AI goes off-script offering customer life advice” www.mediaweek.com.au/jims-group-a...
A white and tabby cat asleep on a pink cushion with a shaft of light highlighting the back paws which are airborne, lies next to another tabby cat which is also asleep
Put your feet in the air like you just don’t care #Caturday
Don’t forget to let them rest for a good 12 hours before you put them in the incubator/under a hen. They need to settle after the travel
so many people do not understand that the US was kicked out of Iraq by Iran.
On an emergency run to Werribee hospital. Long story short: I book an Uber from the parents place in the 3030 to the emergency room. Uber arrives 10 mins later than app indicates, with another rider in the car (I didn’t book a shared ride for obvious reasons.
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