yesterday mum said she’d heard a friend’s dad, in palliative care with stage IV cancer, was allowed one final holiday flight by his doctors and that when the plane was halfway to the gold coast “his brain exploded”

mum reckons she saw a three year old drive a boat into the swimming area at torrakina and her immediate response was to call the police

my mum once ate a bit of popping candy chocolate by mistake, assumed she was having a massive stroke, and lay down on the couch to die

putting mums on blast. 1 why do you keep the best plates on the wall. 2 what did you think would happen to grandma if she kept getting older

In the shadow of Uluru, a First Nations remote community football carnival gives rare opportunity for young women to play - ABC News abc.net.au/news/2024-05-1…

In 1989 I met a man called Chris Webb. He was the 1st assistant director on the two movies I shot that year. The beginning of my film career. Only a year or two older at the time, he was mature and wise and funny beyond his years.
At the end of the shoot for The Crossing…

The ATO saying that that 90% of landlords are lying on their tax returns is wholly unsurprising.

one year 💔

i’m sure it’s been said before but god those old i spy books are so beautiful. i don’t think literally anything has ever been lit as good as some of these photos

🚨 Science journo job alert! 🚨

Come work with ABC Science! We're on the hunt for an online science reporter. And yep, that's my job -- I'm moving into a different role, so will still be around, but it's definitely time to pass the baton careers.abc.net.au/en/job/504029/…

Me: *makes a fun language observation and posts it on twitter*

Linguists on twitter: /wɛl ˈækʧuəli/...

Such mixed feelings here.
The hearing world is simply not prepared to accept deaf people as just a different way to be human, is it?

real hater shit

Me: I wish there was just a pill you could take for heart break.

Cajun therapist: Why don’t we head on down to the bayou and shoot us some gators bon ami

Me: *starts crying*

Cajun Therapist: *writing referral to local witch doctor* she hit you with that bad juju huh

... the bellows breath of cinnamon, subtle aldehydes ... acids ...

shai-hulud... the maker... the worm who is god

Your language is not a nasal language unless it comes from Kaur Regency on Sumatra, otherwise it's just sparkling air in your nose.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasal_lan…

As a same-sex dad from Newtown this feels quite personal smh.com.au/national/nsw/n…

A NSW police officer has been granted bail today after being charged with multiple domestic violence offences, including five counts of common assault and one count of assault occasioning actual bodily harm. He’s also accused of stalking and illegally accessing data. ABC News

Happy 22nd birthday to all of Morrowind, but especially to Creeper