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Farewell to Vane Lindsay, 1920-2026, a giant and a gent in Australian cartooning, a child of The Great Depression who came through the technical college system, a WW2 veteran, book-lover & designer. Sympathy to all those who'll miss him.

Those of you still on X. How goes it on the deep-fake nudes & generated sex-pic distribution network targeting children & non-consenting women run by a sad creep who deliberately does Nazi salutes & has a baby-mama compound?

Lordy.

Almost every big media site has reported this tiny study - with less than 25 New Jersey women who restricted eating to an 8-hour daily window & then did better on some, not all, cognitive tests - to say it protects against dementia. Scientists with good Press releases about weight get big coverage.

Dude, this was a joke about sausages.

Oh that's so great. I was an election official more than 30 years ago for one election: will never forget an elderly gent who didn't speak, who showed me his name on his medicine bottle label so I could find it on the electoral roll. Humbling as.

There's no specific known link to that, but either way, I'm really sorry about your mum. (So many things we know to be more wary about now: talc, radium, gas-fed flame, priests ...)

I'm sorry about your nan. (Association is with ovarian cancer.) Floaty, phouffy motes of talc not a good idea near anybody's vagina or breathing apparatus, especially babies', cancer risk or not.

I beg your specific pardon. If you're seeing carnal theatre in a restaurant's open kitchen, you should definitely tip.

I always love seeing the electoral officers come down the voting queue like democracy bouncers, plucking out people with walking sticks or prams & ushering them up to the front of the line. #compulsoryvoting

Australia has made the most of compulsory voting; it's a brilliant system that encourages community-engaged whingeing, cake stalls & sausage sizzling at polling places to help fund the public schools that whichever newly elected government will then underfund.

I shall check the machine; come to think of it, I did hear a siren yesterday while I was polishing the pneumatic tube.

The Guardian is reporting this ... in its business section. #womenshealth

Might have been me. I was trying to pay the electricity bill & fell insensible with non-specific morbid dread upon the phone screen. God knows what else I pressed, I might accidentally be the leader of the Victorian Labor Party. I presume they'll confirm by telex?

America is about to re-run the 18th Century.

I am both alert & alarmed. #testalert

Britain's vocal rightwing-activists, some politicians & its tabloid & columnist-driven media have a weird anti-trans obsession. Is it a colonial craving to always have a group to oppress? A pile-on mentality? The next square on the bingo card after 'communist' & 'gay'?

'Artificial intelligence systems—now an integral part of the Israeli war machine—began as tools developed to surveil every aspect of Palestinian life.' Target Practice - by Sophia Goodfriend #AI #Israel www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...

Pontificating from your car seat is the new shaking your fist at a street-light.