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Currently removing fruit flies from my kitchen: a metaphor for my life.

#afternoonbriefing Pru Goward is wrong, the Viet refugees didn't journey to Australia because of our values. They were escaping the terror of war. The only thing they may have known about our values is that we wouldn't kill them & we were ready to offer them safe refuge.

Just 20 minutes before Trump announced the Strait of Hormuz was open—Someone dumped 7,990 lots of Brent crude futures. A $760 million bet that oil prices would drop. Orders far larger than anything else in the market at that moment. They made a fortune. But somebody knew the announcement was coming. This is insider trading at the highest level of government.

The only data centers that communities actually need are PUBLIC LIBRARIES.

On this day 56 years ago, three men fell from the sky in a freezing, half-dead spacecraft and landed in the Pacific Ocean. They had been given almost no chance of coming home alive. Six days earlier, astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise launched on Apollo 13, heading for the Moon. Two days into the flight, 200,000 miles from Earth, an oxygen tank exploded and tore a hole in the side of their ship. Within minutes, they were losing oxygen, losing power, and losing heat. There was no plan for this. No one had trained for it. The Moon landing was abandoned. The only question now was whether three men could survive long enough to get home. Their main ship was dying, so they climbed into a smaller attached craft that was only designed to land on the Moon. It was built for two people for two days. They had to make it last four days for three. The temperature inside dropped to 3 degrees Celsius. Water droplets covered every surface. They rationed drinking water to six ounces per man per day, less than a single cup. Jim Lovell lost 14 pounds in four days. Then the air started going bad. The filters that clean carbon dioxide from the air were running out. Without new ones, the crew would suffocate. The spare filters from the main ship were the wrong shape. Square filters. Round slots. Engineers on the ground grabbed the same materials the astronauts had on board, plastic bags, cardboard, duct tape, and a sock, and built a makeshift adapter on a desk. Then they talked the crew through building an identical one while floating in zero gravity, 200,000 miles away. It worked. To get home, they had to swing around the far side of the Moon and fire their engine at the exact right second. Too steep and they would burn up entering Earth’s atmosphere. Too shallow and they would bounce off it and drift into space forever. The entire world stopped. Over 40 million people watched on television. The Pope led prayers from the Vatican. On April 17, 1970, the spacecraft hit the atmosphere. For four minutes, all radio contact went silent. The heat of re-entry surrounds a spacecraft in a layer of superheated gas that blocks all signals. Controllers on the ground called out. Nothing. The silence stretched past the expected time. One minute late. Still nothing. At one minute and 28 seconds past the deadline, a voice broke through. The parachutes opened. The capsule hit the water. All three men were alive. They never reached the Moon. But the mission became the greatest rescue in the history of space travel. It proved that the most dangerous moment in any journey is not the one you prepare for. It is the one nobody saw coming. Jim Lovell never flew in space again. He never walked on the Moon. Years later, when asked if he considered himself unlucky, he said: “I think of the crew of Apollo 1, who died in a fire before they ever left the ground. I think of the crews who never got to fly at all. No, I regard Apollo 13 as a triumph.”

Just yesterday Labor bet everything in defence on binding us to the US. Trump didn’t even notice, let alone care, and has come out and attacked Australia anyhow. This is not a relationship of friends or allies, we are being held hostage and need to escape.

African inventor makes biodegradable plastic using an invasive plant. In the process, he reduces malaria and provides green jobs for the community.

Finding the best tweet you've ever seen then the feed refreshes and it's gone forever.

Just to be very clear here The NSW Premier @ChrisMinnsMP knew, absolutely knew, that this law was unconstitutional He was told that by expert lawyers & members of his own govt He cost NSW & Aust taxpayers hundreds of thousands of $$ with his arrogance & deliberate provocation

ZERO cases of cervical cancer diagnosed in women under age 25 in Australia 🇦🇺 None . Nada . Zip. For the first time since records began! How did this happen? One word VACCINES!!!!!

WAIT WHAT YEAR IS IT

At last. theguardian.com/us-news/2026/a…

Excellent. Those laws were a crock of shit. smh.com.au/national/nsw/c…

I am sure there is a biblical message in this.. Swarm of bees have hit parts of Israel.

Trump and his oily toadies bray and bellow that God is on their side, and get all antsy when the Pope says ‘er, no, actually He’s not.’ 😂

Ed Husic on #AfternoonBriefing says if Israel wants to be “arguing others shouldn’t get Nuclear Weapons as well” then they should be “a party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty”💯 Finally someone said it. #Abc

Advocacy group Get up created this advert for the by-election in Farrer - on One Nation party & Trump Test results from the electorate show that 41.4% of persuadable One Nation voters changed their mind after seeing this #auspol Crowdfunding link here : give.getup.org.au/page/farrer-st…

Marie-Thérèse is 86 years old. Handcuffed. Wrists and ankles. Sitting in an ICE detention facility in Louisiana with roughly 70 other detainees. She has heart problems. She has a bad back. Her children in France didn’t know where she was for a week. Here’s why: Sixty years ago she fell in love with an American soldier. They lost each other. They found each other again. They got married. Billy was a retired U.S. Army colonel. Billy died in January. Marie-Thérèse had a green card application pending. Then there was an inheritance dispute with Billy’s son. Billy’s son reportedly called ICE. DHS called her “an illegal alien from France.” This is what we’re doing to the 86-year-old widow of an American veteran. What exactly are we protecting? #DemsUnited #Veterans

Seven departmental secretaries are clearing over $1 million a year, which is nearly ten times the average Australian wage. It's time for a serious look at whether that's justified. I welcome the Remuneration Tribunal reviewing salaries that are out of line with what Australians expect. smh.com.au/politics/feder…

it is genuinely insane how their semi-trump parody starts believing he's a divine being in the exact same week as the real trump despite the episode being written a year and a half ago

Afternoon tea at the Bird Cafe in northern Canberra Australia