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Extremely proud of my Sous Chef son whose restaurant, 6Penny, just won restaurant of the year in the Good Food Guide!!! It is a brilliant dining experience.

If you're visiting Canberra (as you all should really) The National Arboretum is quite spectacular as you can see. It is entirely peaceful there apart from the huffing and puffing of cyclists powering up Dairy Hill a bit ;)

This is a good example of the analytical poverty of Australia’s policy elites. Well-connected economist Nikki Hutley’s Number 1 idea to “restore faith in politics and bring some relief” is … raising the GST www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

So, advice for potential PhD students re emailing potential supervisors to connect with them. 1) Do not use AI. Like seriously, don't. It's a Dunning-Kruger issue ... your email might look good to you, but for those of us in our fields AND getting a million of these, the generic language is OBVIOUS

In the interests of mental well-being, please enjoy this little 🧵 of echidnas going about echidna business

Seriously? An ex-politician? Labor really are just tacking the piss on all this aren't they.

I have many questions...

Readers in the British Empire and subject dominions can get this bad boy now. Americans, sorry. Sucks to be you for another two weeks.

Yet another elderly driver... How many injuries and deaths do we need before we regulate elderly drivers better?

So wrong. Aptos and Botanic deserve at least 2 stars.

Wow, what a farce. No way on earth Botanic and Aptos are one star. We ate at both 2 months ago and they match the 3 stars we dined at in Europe. #michelin #foodwanker

Another incidence of this, far out. Also, given the very awful history of the base with that name perhaps we should retire the name.

Need a Harvester judgment-type ruling somewhere that basically says that if you can't do business in a climate responsible manner, then perhaps you shouldn't be doing business. (nb this is not the same as saying all steel manufacturing and cement plants should immediately shut down)

Each and every day…

For example: Metronidazole, sold under brand names like Flagyl and Metrogyl and the DO NOT DRINK alcohol. No current evidence... eg doi:10.1345/aph.1A066

Strikes, teaching bans and slashed subjects: how Australian unis are an education in uncertainty and cost-cutting | Saria Ratnam

Dear USofA academics, please stop assuming the world revolves around you and your country and please put the very simple USA somewhere in your abstract. The rest of the world does it, how about being better global academic citizens...

@davesag.bsky.social ...👀

This is a moral atrocity and it needs to be loudly condemned as such. There is a reason that democracies *don't* do publicly televised executions (and why many don't execute people at all): it inculcates and rewards bloodthirst, which corrupts the spirit and corrodes the foundation of the polity.

In Crikey today, I have a long read on Canberra’s endearment with AI and the dubious promise of data centre riches. While Australia’s creatives are being sold down the river, you don’t need to fire up Claude to spot some cracks in the hype-doom sales pitch ($) www.crikey.com.au/2026/10/08/a...

Ok, that would be cool #CBR

I'd suspect a vast majority of the heterosexual community would be stunned to hear that up until *1992* consensual homosexual activities could be prosecuted as service offences under Australian military discipline law. Or that only *now* can such convictions be removed.

Isn't that sweet? One Rinehart subsidiary purchases a building for the use of another Rinehart subsidary.

aus + nz nov + dec tickets at dandywarhols.com

Feels obvious to say but we should say it more: AI and data centres are being pushed and supported by politicians, celebrities and the media because money. It's money. Existentially challenging quantities of money. See also: fossil fuels, the arms trade, gambling.

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"It found none has been fully implemented. Four show no real action. One – better coordination of support under the National Disability Insurance Scheme or NDIS – is going backwards.

Tonight’s wine. IYKYK. After a rather challenging few weeks I’m really looking forward to this one.

Waterford excoriating Labor: "Labor does not consult with or listen to the wider population or to Labor constituencies in the poorer half of the community... it is a classical crony government, in many respects worse than the Morrison government, governing for its mates, its donors and itself."

Did they eat plastic food too?

George LuCat looming over me… #cats

Damn I hope Shoebridge in charge of the Greens means they get a stronger return at the next election. It should by any measure.

Let the world know you definitely have a record of domestic violence and at least 3 DUIs with this one simple trick…

There's this one business school prof who keeps writing about how AI has basically mastered and rendered irrelevant all of the entrepreneurship lessons he teaches. I think he's right. But I also think that says something *very specific* about the pre-existing nature of his field.

Under Labor we have seen wages flat line, the rise of the far right and record war profits from fossil fuels going untaxed. We think these are ‘somewhat concerning’.

I’m excited to step up as Deputy Leader of the @Greens alongside @DavidShoebridge. My generation has grown up seeing politicians sell out our future for corporate greed: delaying climate action while housing, childcare, and living costs get harder to afford. It has to change.

Utterly disgusting and disgraceful.

Very important that Australia has its own controlled access to abusive, energy-wasteful and incorrect computation Doesn't matter if it's harmful or socially corrosive, as long as it's Australian www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...