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I know doing hard things is good for you but maybe signing up for an advanced samba class wasn’t the smartest move

Contraceptives and menopause treatments to be subsidised as federal government pledges $573m for women’s health

Got absolutely sprung doing my best and loudest Bowie impression driving home from the gym, Let’s Dance blaring

I’ve been following the story of this building since it was first proposed. But this article is so beautifully written it is worth your time even if you think you know everything there is to know about building development follies. Bravo, Eric Lach. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

This was a great episode.

I’m just a girl, sitting in front of her house, trying to work up the motivation to get out of the car

Apple has opted iOS and MacOS users into an AI photo scanning feature which tries to extract landmarks from your photos called Enhanced Visual Search by default with little notice. www.theregister.com/2025/01/03/a...

What it’s like to read the news

Saw a Dodge Ram the other day with the licence plate ‘TWUCK’

Waiting for my daughter to wake up from her nap so we can go in

We say it every time there's a great Test, but in a world of instant gratification & where substance takes a back seat to sensation, how great is it to still have at least one sport which twists, turns, unfolds gradually & is as gloriously unpredictable as Test cricket! #AUSvIND

Reckon I might be feeling a little imposter syndrome about the new job I started before the end of year shutdown.

Dreamt last night I was in Copenhagen, muddling my way around the city, with people pityingly asking me if I was aware of various cultural norms when I inadvertently and constantly bumbled through them. Someone asked me to translate some basic German and I couldn’t, though I thought I could.

Mangoes. Foul.

Tempting

Aside from anything, The Age’s use of ‘spokeswoman’ seems unnecessarily gendered

Spent Christmas (mostly) off grid at this beautiful spot on the Shoalhaven River. 1yo took to sleeping in a swag like a champ.

The traditional Bubble O’Bill, coveted by chickens everywhere

unlike the other parrots we study, gang gangs just hang around at their hollows all day - it means that an 8gig card on our cameras which can last 3 months on a swift parrot nest, will fill up in less than a week with GGs - thousands of photos of their silly red heads just loitering around 👑🪶🌿🧪🌏

Can we please stop using the term ‘well-deserved break’? 1. It’s overused 2. It insinuates that rest should be linked to productivity and I reckon it shouldn’t

your true love gave you eight maids a milking? cool. just one question. what the fuck are you talking about

Not really inconvenient. Dutton is arguing that nuclear will be cheaper than renewable generation and transmission. Storage has little to do with it (and is often ignored in QT when it comes up).

Dog park was packed at 8am ahead of the extreme heat warning for today. Bruno made friends with a sopping wet German shepherd and a 6 month old chocolate lab. Had to call it short when he tried humping a Rottweiler.

Reading George Megalogenis’s wonkfest Quarterly Essay. Includes this interesting read on the Voice referendum from Essential’s Peter Lewis.

Roadside colossi: the global allure of a really Big Thing and the Queensland expert plotting their rise

Barnaby Joyce on RN talking down renewables as publicly expensive, non-continuous power sources, using the term ‘intermittent swindle factories’. The election is on, baby!!!

Hearing the kookaburras laughing through my daughter’s baby monitor: 10/10

Flavor Flav’s complete lack of irony is the salve I need in 2024

i always misread the label on these nitrile gloves as "TouchNStuff" and i'm like, "yeah. i do be touchin stuff"

For some random reason I can't put my finger on, I've been thinking a lot lately about the jurors in the Martin Shkreli trial harpers.org/archive/2017...

Now up to 7 days in a row of gas-sponsored coverage in the Murdoch tabloids....