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• Post #4453414

  At this exact moment 19 years ago, my youngest child arrived into the world. He’s still got the cheeky smile and wild hair he had as a toddler. Sunday is a celebration of the caring, creative, courageous young man he is today.

• Post #4323782

  I am once again spending my Sunday afternoon reading meeting papers about governance and financial management. But this time, thankfully, it's for a policy committee that I volunteer for, and not Cabinet.

• Post #4307731

  I have found one of the historical documents of my people. It has been archived appropriately.

• Post #4127811

  I have two phones. The one I only turn on once a week to check WhatsApp groups I’m in (and I’ve forgotten to even do that for weeks), which will stay off for the AusAlert check because it isn’t used in emergencies anyway. And my daily use phone, which is staying on so I will definitely get an AusAlert in the event of a disaster like the emus reprosecuting the Emu War of 1932. I would be on the side of the emus, they should justifiably be running Parliament seeing as there’s one of them with th...

• Post #3972201

  2 degrees is not enough degrees to get out from under the doona, and yet I have to drive a kid to their work and then go to my own work. At least I work indoors and have a heater, and an unlimited boiling water tap for making tea.

• Post #3934975

  I want to sign up to an email newsletter for a venue that has the kind of shows I like to go to, but they only publish to commercial social media and their own website. No newsletter, no RSS feed for the What's On page on their website. Guess this means I won't be buying tickets to any of their shows.

• Post #3924582

  Every day, I wake up with a tune stuck on loop in my head, and the only way to get it out is to listen to the whole song and then listen to something else at random. I don't think the songs are my subconscious telling me anything, it's probably just a couple of notes from a chord that wakes a memory of a tune I've heard before, something like that. Very annoying when I can't listen to music to break the loop though.

• Post #3900412

  Gold level #lichensubscribe

• Post #3868871

  I just heard the geese complaining outside. Not enough to make me think "foxes!" but enough to make me think they regret their choice to not go into their enclosure at sunset. I wonder if this means they'll go into the enclosure tomorrow night?

• Post #3681061

  @AvonVilla very cool! And very soothing to watch those clouds.

• Post #3681060

  The thought occupying my mind as I went to sleep last night: if I plug my SNES emulator into my old iMac via USB, will the iMac work as a display for the SNES? (I know it won’t work. But I can wish.)

• Post #3681059

  You know the internet is not what we dreamt of in the mid 90s when Google rolls out a new AI note taking feature and you’re pleased that it defaults to not being switched on.

• Post #3681058

  Today shall involve buses (multiple kinds), planes, trains, electric cars, and possibly also light rail / trams.

• Post #3485924

  Today I tried out a chai shop I’ve only recently heard exists near my office. It makes excellent proper brewed chai to order. And sadly, it is closing to move to another suburb. So that was my first and last order. Also nice about today’s visit is that the young fella who made my chai was excited to do a course in train / tram conducting recently, which is a job he would very much like to be doing.

• Post #3461074

  Beautifully written explanation of why Europe’s heatwave must not be normalised, whether it’s to “but that’s every summer in Australia” or to “I guess this is just what summer will be like in Europe from now on”. There is still time to mitigate some level of climate change, and we don’t want to waste that opportunity with apathy and inertia. #heatwave #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis France Is Hotter Than the Sahara. This Is Everyone’s Warning. https://www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/france-is-hot...

• Post #3443642

  Re: heatwaves in Europe… it’s not just that their buildings are not equipped for temperatures that are normal in Australia. They also have higher humidity levels, so the methods we use to cool down in a dry climate are more effective at heat management than they would be in a climate with more moisture in the air.

• Post #3403671

  Already looking forward to the next #Crux from @daedalus@eigenmagic.net about goose value and ASI and I’ve not even got out of bed yet.

• Post #2267446

  If you’re in Canberra today and want the voices of disabled people heard on the truly awful cuts to NDIS, come to the rally at Parliament at 2pm. I’ll see you there! Lots of other ways to take action listed on the page, and protests in other cities today. #NDIS #disability #autistic #neurodivergent #Canberra #auspol #Budget2026 https://www.greenleft.org.au/2026-05/event/national-day-action-protect-our-ndis-canberra

• Post #1984278

  Another very nice Crux newsletter from @daedalus@eigenmagic.net today. When I first read about the Axon Bluetooth security fails in tasers used by Australian police, it felt like something from a satire on modern infosec and government purchasing decisions. And yet, here we are. With nobody telling police officers that they are trackable using the very weapons they so often carelessly use on citizens.

• Post #1948873

  During the COVID emergency period 2021 and 2022, I was one of the ACT Ministers making Cabinet decisions about public health regulations. Every day for 67 consecutive days, there was at least one Cabinet meeting, sometimes two meetings on the same day, including on weekends. We were given briefs with the evidence base for why certain regulations could reduce transmission and save lives, and the differences in new variants as they emerged. Now I know where some of that data came from. Thank you...

• Post #1911172

  Lovely morning at Mawson with Andrew Braddock, Sam Carter, and my friend Emad. And I’ve run out of flyers thanks to some very pleasant post-stall letterboxing on this fine Sunday. If you also want to see north Tuggeranong and south Woden friends jump on light rail from Mawson park & ride or bike & ride, reducing cars on the road by thousands more each day, you can sign the petition here: https://epetitions.parliament.act.gov.au/details/e-pet-081-25 #actpol #trains #canberra

• Post #1909914

  On Friday night, about 3am, I woke up to see flashing emergency lights through the bedroom window. I hadn't heard any sirens. But I could see that there was a fire truck and ambulance a few doors down the street. I know most of the neighbours, lots of elderly and disabled folk live in our street, so of course I worried. Next morning we found out that an elderly neighbour had died in a house fire around 1:30am. Immensely sad. Her family and friends will miss her terribly.

• Post #1003999

  Final update from my study trip to India… Last Saturday, after flying from Dharamsala back to Delhi, I spent some time at Mughal Emperor Humayun’s tomb. Built in 1558-1570AD by his widow Empress Bega Begum, it was inspired by Persian tombs (in present-day Iran) and constructed in red sandstone and white marble. It included buildings to house up to 300 Persian visitors at a time, spring-fed water channels dividing the 30 acre site into 16 squares that water the gardens and cool the air. The tomb...

• Post #761430

  Our afternoon last Monday included meetings with Sikyong Penpa Tsering, political leader (equivalent to Prime Minister) of the Tibetan government in exile in Dharamsala, and Deputy Speaker Dolma Tsering Teykhang. We also visited Nechung Monastery next to the Tibetan Parliament, home of the Nechung Oracle. And we met with the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy.

• Post #504811

  PILL TESTING SAVES LIVES Not just at music festivals. It can save lives every day if there’s a place to get your drugs checked before you put them in your body. It works in Canberra. And believe me when I say we are not special in this city. The people who use drugs to dance all night, or dull chronic pain, or make the mental trauma hurt less, or change their body shape, or relax when they’re too tense, or manage their ADHD that they can’t afford to see a psychiatrist for, are the same in this...

• Post #448287

  Thoughtful piece by @timhollo about the process of unmaking something so its components can be used to make something else, and the relationship between unmaking and human body death. https://in-between-days.ghost.io/on-mushrooms-death-transformation-and-epstein/

• Post #317903

  Happy lunar new year / year of the fire horse #LunarNewYear #FireHorse #Melbourne

• Post #294006

  RE: https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/116070756284944237 I have no regrets about getting this Voyager 1 tattoo five days ago. (By Annie at Canberra Ink, if anyone is looking for a good artist who likes doing lil space adventures in colour - she also did my Pluto and Charon art). #space #voyager1 #tattoo

• Post #263842

  On 31 October 2025, because #ClimateChange is scary, #RisingTide put on a film night in Braidwood with some great musicians who drove up from #Melbourne. It was a lot of fun getting everyone together for good music, good food, and good plans to change our future. And Clancy Walker, one of the musicians, has included some footage in his latest music video: https://youtu.be/zkViC8RE3Ww?si=EmnBUUeQYJqbTl1P

• Post #92682

  If you’re in #Canberra and need crisis support, these places are open even on public holidays: Domestic Violence Crisis Service: https://dvcs.org.au/ 02 62 800 900 Safe Haven for mental health support: https://stride.com.au/mental-health-services/ Open 3pm-10pm at 56 Lathlain St Belconnen, no appointment or Medicare card needed Lifeline: 13 11 14 Beyond Blue: 1300 22 46 36 Kids Helpline: 1800 55 1800