Anne

It came and has now went.
A lovely drop of rain with it.

Storm clouds above a yellow sky.

Quite a storm.

🫂

War on Iran signals urgent need for Australia to end risky imported oil dependency The widening conflict in the Gulf has exposed Australia’s extreme reliance on imported oil. With minimal fuel reserves and a $12 billion annual diesel subsidy to mining, energy security has become a national security emergency.

With just weeks of diesel reserves and 90% reliance on imported refined fuel, Australia remains dangerously exposed to global shocks. Reforming the $12bn Fuel Tax Credit is now a national security imperative.
#auspol #EnergySecurity #FuelTaxCredit #ClimatePolicy #NationalSecurity

1, but I hope not.

A man sitting on the ground outside the shops asked me to buy him some chick peas. “These ones”, he said, holding up a box, “You get them from the Indian shop.” So after getting a few items for myself from the supermarket I went to the Indian shop.
When I came out he’d gone.
Good prank!

Towns cut off, cars swept away in extreme weather across the country At least four states are facing extreme weather and heavy rain, with some areas tipped to receive the heaviest rainfall in more than a decade.

"... it’s getting quite close to the full years’ worth of rainfall in the past seven days ..."

Extreme weather across Australia due to #ClimateChange. #FossilFuelCorporates & complicit media downplay severity & responsibility. Lives are being ruined. Insurance will soon be unaffordable. 💔 🇦🇺 🐨 🌧️ 🌏

Slept in until 7:30 AM. It was blissful. Now late for work but it was worth it.

I very much identify with this. May your heart be strong and steady.

Very sensible. I had every window and door open before I pedalled off to work. Could be a damp homecoming!

Donald Trump is building an enormous tower on the Gold Coast – this plan cannot fail! | First Dog on the Moon A winning combination of schoolies, real estate and fascism – very Queensland coded

First Dog nails it again.

To add to résumé:
Strategic placement of buckets and bins during severe weather events.

Women’s bodies and invasive medicine.

😢

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

I honestly can’t imagine why anyone in their right mind would visit the US now. Pity anyone working in the tourist trade.

I agree. There was a beautiful contentment for Janie in those final pages.

I’m late, but just finished reading it today. I wondered why Tea Cake had to smack Janie to prove his love of her, or her love of him. I wondered if his end was an echo of that attack on her: the violence that echoed through their love.

Once upon a time…

I shall!

Evenings Joanne. The jam is delicious! I haven’t had any since I scraped the pot clean, but I will bake some bread tomorrow and crack a fresh jar.

Evenings Ian

Paging Tethys.
Tethys to the smiting area, please.

This is so ridiculous.
In London these images are on a frickin billboard!

Your health system is completely terrible with a capital F.

[Poem] Looking Back by Ursula K. Le Guin Remember me before I was a heap of salt, the laughing child who seldom did as she was told or came when she was called, the merry girl who became Lot’s bride, the happy woman who loved her wicked city. Do not remember me with pity. I saw you plodding on ahead into the desert of your pitiless faith. Those springs are dry, that earth is dead. I looked back, not forward, into death. Forgiving rains dissolve me, and I come still disobedient, still happy, home.

By Ursula Le Guin

You can also read it with other poems of hers at this link: electricliterature.com/three-new-po...

What a wise woman she was.
The world seems duller without her.

Seriously tempted!

My neighbour’s dog wakes me up every night. Last night it kept me awake until midnight and then started again at 5AM.
I’m not my best self today.

Ooh I bet that’s delicious!

Five jars of blackberry jam.

Jam.