Claire

Original, non-AI haiku: 多くの花 枯れてが、紫 菊は生る (Many flowers wither, but the purple chrysanthemum endures)

youtu.be/9eaHJPduSQg What sort of a world are we living in, where 💩 like this can even happen, and grownups have forgotten how to be grownups? Thank you, mainstream social media. The whole of Australia is now praying for her speedy recovery. 😢

Day of referendum shame 😪

Re Christa Pike and a botched execution: have they not heard of Babbacombe Lee and the English court's recognition of divine intervention in the event of a failed execution? I used to own the Fairport Convention album: youtu.be/XJOmi0E1gOw

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Same tune: surely Gilbert and Sullivan's Model of a Major General, updated for our times! 💖🤡 www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy2L...

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I don't believe it is necessary to state explicitly to whom the pronoun refers 🙄

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At the pointy end of the footy season, all sports commentaries start to sound like:

Love my new hot pink bicycle, because (1) it is a reincarnation of my favourite car, a Toyota Celica, named after the Somali heroine Arawela, and (2) it reminds me of the professor's granddaughter in Murakami's Hardboiled Wonderland, ridiculously happy to have a hot pink bicycle! 💖😇

I thought it was a joke yesterday but England vs. Argentina really was a flashback to the so-called Falklands more than 40 years ago, and "las Malvinas son Argentinas", and the English really are the biggest thieves on earth!

My favourite ever Sam Neill movie, our own Melbourne-based Death in Brunswick, with bonus John Clark, and no one who has ever lived in Brunswick will fight me! 😎💖 youtu.be/E9JXrJ-y5tA

First Nations people hold mixed reactions regarding the removal of Nicky Winmar's statue. While some condemn his recent assault conviction as domestic violence, others are highly critical of the Western Australian government and the AFL for the speed of the removal during NAIDOC Week.

This International Pride day, gays really do write some of the best classical music from Tschaikovsky to Samuel Barber, and the rest of them are secure enough in their own sexuality not to feel threatened by this; so sue me! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

Ha ha; love it, as a vego, and one of my favourite artists too, Remedios Varo: bsky.app/profile/wome...

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Pauline Hanson against multiculturalism? Then she is also against the Socceroos, made up of first-generation Australians, former refugees, and players with diverse European, African, Asian, and Oceanian heritages; we are a proud mongrel nation, and monoculturalism is so yesteryear!

bsky.app/profile/carc... Not a soccer fan, but how sweet would it be if Australia did this to the US next round? 🙏😎

Dumbest ad for AI ever: the one for Google Pixel where a guy relies on Gemini to tell him to say, "Thanks". 🙄

Elon Musk: SpaceX "to take the fiction out of science fiction" - that is what we are worried about, because sci. fi. is mostly about dystopias of one sort or another 🙄

youtu.be/fy2L90MMjiQ Very Gilbert and Sullivanian: REAL genius!!! 😍

bsky.app/profile/demo... Can he now run for Victorian premier down under as well, please? 🙏

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Falco's Mozart has also dropped out of the #Freedom250 - what if they gave a birthday bash and nobody came? 64.media.tumblr.com/7d8202081498...

"Everything old is new again" (Peter Allen), and we all know whose Big Beautiful obituary we are awaiting these days! youtu.be/XDkhzVw0yBs

"Freedom 250" is so b.s.! 😡 youtu.be/gh2Cx0-kQ8A?...

youtu.be/jV9mEkvJAbE Beautiful... should leave not a dry eye in the house!

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I am a vego, because I refuse to eat anything with a central nervous system; not a vegan though: honey is fine! 😝

youtu.be/OKUxxDRf7mY Chinese diplomacy genius level: in effect, the new transliteration means Mr Rash, Rude or Clumsy! 😀

bsky.app/profile/1stb... Even the so-called Dark Ages in Europe (500-600 years) weren't all that dark, which is why historians now prefer to call them the Early Middle Ages 🙄

Not happy: Israel came in 2nd in Eurovision, when they should have been boycotted completely! 😡

No job is safe now, not even that of Buddhist monk? 😳 www.tiktok.com/@bbcnews/vid...

Now that Victoria has officially declared certain White Australia groups hate groups, does this include Pauline Hanson's One Nation? If not, why not?

Just my luck that the one year Australia's Delta Goodrem is hot favourite to win Eurovision, is also the year I am also boycotting it, because Israel! 🙄

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Sussan Ley, "the voters never get it wrong"... really? So they were right to elect Trump in the US, Farage in the UK and would also be right if we elected Pauline Hanson PM in Australia? Germany was right to elect Hitler, ffs? Give me a break!

classic100.abc.net.au/thanks GOAT classical music? Vote now!

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