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@criprights @ShereleMoody Lawyers like this should not be practicing, he said the offence was “something that arose in the spirit of the moment, with poor impulse control”, occurring after the child “rubbed her waist up against [the offender], which I might take as something of an invitation”

Give that judge a fucking medal. @ShereleMoody

@MadameGilflurt I loved them - thank you!

Thanks for joining me this week for our #frockingfabulous birthday celebration of Diana, Princess of Wales. I hope you enjoyed my selection of #Diconic looks this week!

@SketchesbyBoze Never! I shall watch it again right now!

I get the impression that the 1995 Pride & Prejudice is fading from cultural memory, and that’s a shame because it’s PERFECT. Every character is impeccably cast. The extended length allows for full immersion in the story. Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth are utterly luminous.

@ElizabethKamel Amazing! I hope it goes well 💕

Trial setup for daughter’s market stall.

@PatriciaPoulos1 @EurekaMag The things we don’t know about where we live! Fossil is not a word that comes to mind when I go to Brookvale. I wonder where they were found.

@EurekaMag Thank you so much for this. I'm in Sydney

The Triassic fish-fauna of Brookvale, New South Wales, is of considerable interest since it is intermediate in age between the two well-known faunas also from Gosford and St. Peter's, described many years ago by Sir Arthur Smith Woodward.

@ElizabethKamel I hope they do!

Same but do girly ones count?

@DrAnnieHickox X has become more rage, less connection. A few years ago the community on X helped me with a bad episode, I felt isolated but the empathy here helped. The current meds I take were informed by posts from psychiatrists here. I’m sad that is gone. But I’m glad you’re still here.

I often think this about so many of the accounts that often try to pick a battle with me. Do they not have pets, families, interests, failures, celebrations, thoughts about life, cultural leanings, etc etc? Single issue accounts come across as stony and repetitive. We are free to share anything we want here, as long as we don’t hurt others, so why not show a bit of your off-line life?

@ElizabethKamel I shit myself every time!

Mum is over coz I’m scared like a child using a pressure cooker for the first time. It’s going well but whoa releasing the steam scared the bejeezus out of me!

@simongerman600 The type of mixer & beaters used affects the meringue, people have requested my recipe for many years but I only recently realised that its uniqueness lies in my grandmothers 40 year old mixer rather than in the recipe

I took me a while after moving to Australia to understand that while a pavlova might look simple it has fuelled a great trans-Tasman divide. Australians and New Zealanders use essentially the same ingredients, yet produce surprisingly different desserts. Australians favour a wider pavlova with a thick, crunchy shell topped with cream and passionfruit, while New Zealanders prefer a taller version with a delicate crust, soft marshmallow-like centre and fresh kiwifruit. Same recipe, different national identity. I’ll have to side with the Kiwis on this debate.

@JoyceCarolOates Agreed, adding addiction risk is 50% genetic - simplified some genetic variants make dependence more likely, others less so. Add life stressors & western social environment where alcohol is embedded in social rituals & culture, it’s not willpower alone that determines addiction

I am not saying this lightly or provocatively but when you seriously consider how painful life can be, the all-but-unspeakable losses & personal suffering, you actually wonder why EVERYONE is not self-medicating. I did not have that thought until mid-life; it was not a thought I could have entertained in younger years when I believed more in self-sufficiency, strength of will. some people overestimate their strength- it can be quite a surprise when life knocks you flat.

@beccaderex Good morning from Australia! 🦘🦘🦘

Just a quick little “behind the scenes” clip while I look for my buddies 🐻🫎🦅🦊🦉 Going to lose reception here soon as I move further back, but looking forward to catching up with everyone later! 🤙🏻🩵

@tylerblack32 @jayguay Last year I had some customers with small maple pins on their lapels, we shared a joke about their wish to signal upfront that they weren’t Americans

@jayguay haha yep

🇨🇦Best passport in the world🇨🇦 (The new Canadian passport looks excellent!) Especially these days, what incredible pride I have holding it. Canada is not a perfect country, but I'm very happy to be Canadian.

@McFeely_Inforum @atrupar Bernie looks way better than Trump

“Weekend … or any day that ends in “Y” … at Donnie’s.”

@silverpebble Lovely, I don’t think I have heard a blackbird sing before

A couple of mornings ago I woke up about 4.30am, severely anxious, very loud self-hating thoughts racing so fast I longed to turn them off-to step out of my brain entirely. Then I realised that Steve the blackbird was singing. The beautiful repeating patterns of his tweets quietened & slowed my thoughts & I was grateful for every fluting note. Researched shows that birdsong can be more effective than meditation apps at alleviating stress. Sound up 🐦‍⬛🎵🧠:

@JustinWolfers Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives - Leonard Mlodinow So Late in the Day - Clare Keegan

My son just posed a lovely question: What piece or pieces of media -- movie, song, book, TV show, article, poem, etc -- has really changed how you think? (How you think about life, about the world, or just how you think.) Would love to hear your answer.

@economalex @JustinWolfers For me Seinfeld, today it was the puffy shirt, my 2 sons have watched it so it’s a shared language

@JustinWolfers There are three pieces of art that pop up every day of my life since I’ve experienced them — Hamlet, the Sopranos, and Twin Peaks.

@the_mel_jar A therapist once told me if there was someone I hated, I should write their name on some toilet paper & use it, I’ve never done that but every so often I think about it

UNSOLICITED PSYCHOANALYTIC ADVICE FOR ALL: When encountering some very smug and superior-minded individual, or someone who is very much trying to convey to you, and to everyone else, how Elite they are at doing things like suppressing all basic emotions, and of course being quite careful and selective and Good about Restraint, I find it is VERY helpful to consider the fact that every one of these people have pooped poop out of their assholes. And all kinds of poop, too! All kinds of poop, including poop that comes from food poisoning, and other upset tummy issues. Every person, yes, but also: this person! This individual, for sure! This Elite Asshole has, at some time in the past, perhaps even quite recently, had explosive diarrhea, and pooped some very, very stinky poops. They have farted before. Very stinky, silent-but-deadly farts, uncontrollably, in a room with others, at some point in their lives -- perhaps even recently! Even now, as they interact with you, they have fecal matter somewhere secretly hidden within their body, that they and ONLY they can expel, which they must do from the butthole that is also almost certainly a feature on their body. Their butthole might get ALMOST AS much use as their mouth, on the day to day basis, and certainly FAR more use over their lifetime than their genitals, and so they have spent more regular time on taking a dump than they have ever spent on developing their elite opinions about whatever the fuck they are feeling smugly superior in their expertise of now, as they interact with you. For example, every psychoanalytic theory fan has spent more time becoming acquainted with the activity of shitting than they will ever do for the activity of clinical work, or of theoretical interpretation, or of teaching. Humans have only a few things that we are TRULY "expert" in, a mere few activities that we enjoy SO much that we never stop doing them, or at least, certainly ATTEMPT never to be forced to cease doing these, for our WHOLE lifespans! Pooping poop out of our poopholes is one of those. It's actually the second most popular activity that we do, outside of mouth activities. Generally speaking, we do butt stuff only SLIGHTLY less often than we do mouth stuff, most of us. But ONLY slightly!

@frogkenny sydneynimbletours.com.au/journal/austra… there are also many other birds at the Royal National Park, honeyeaters, sea eagles, black cockatoos & sometimes a lyrebird

@Jendelgato Yes, she’s so sweet & positive, I’m very sad for her. I don’t think she will being here for much longer, I can’t think that another chemo will help, it doesn’t slow growth & makes her so sick

Does anyone follow Syd towle? I feel like she’s nearing death and it’s haunting me.

@bwolpe @smh @theage Good photo choice. Trump, slack-jawed and vacant-eyed, a perfect illustration of the mental decline that so many commentators seem determined to ignore

Trump keeps waging wars he is losing, overseas and at home. My essay for @smh @theage.