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Not sure how you can oppose something as a matter of principle, but support it if Russia were to vote in favour of it 🤷‍♂️

1/x In the 1840s, a lame American naval officer, grounded at a desk in Washington, cut weeks off the world's ocean voyages without inventing a single machine. His raw material: a warehouse of logbooks nobody had ever read. Matthew Fontaine Maury, Pathfinder of the Seas. A 🧵 #maritimehistory

Is this #AusvsBan #cricket series going to be some kind of record for Australian batsmen chopping on?

My upgraded #Vodafone internet is glacial (4G backup). Talk to chatbot on my PC and it's useless, with an idée fixe I must be asking for a refund. Later decide to try again, happen to connect from my phone. Chatbot is helpful, quickly finds correct human, problem fixed. Wondering why the difference.

Looking to buy a couch. Didn't know they have USB now.

There's much discussion as to how many seats Pauline Hanson's One Nation will get in the South Australian election. But nearly all PHON senators have been opportunists who abandoned the party during their first term. The time to worry might be when that stops happening.

It's Poseidon's birthday, everyone!

The #Belvoir's production of #AMirror is strongly recommended.

Stokes just called for a "normal silly point". In #cricket, even silliness is standardised. #ashes #AusvsEng #EngvsAus

Just had the classic Australian arachnophobe experience - a spider landed on me when I was lying in bed. It was a daddy long legs which on a fear scale of 0 to 10 is I guess about a 3? Didn't think to get a photo.

Hot day today. This little one turned up on my mum's balcony seeking shade.

I would like the secret masters of #typesetting to tell me how deleting a letter moves the word to the next line.

I found out about CDK, which the rest of you probably heard about ages back. www.facebook.com/reel/1617475...

When I read the script for #shakespeare 's #MuchAdoAboutNothing I now hear Benedick's lines in #MattBerry's voice. I think #Krapopolis is principally to blame.

Australia didn't become independent all at once. But the single most important event was ratification of the Westminster conference, 73 years ago today. After this Britain can't make legislation for Australia, and Australia has its own ambassadors and foreign policy. #notfederation

Trump thinks he can do any job better than experts, whether that's medicine or economics or golf. Essentially he thinks he's Barbie.

People who think Israel's bombing of Qatar is a mistake have I think forgotten that Israel's interests and Netanyahu's interests don't align. The moment the emergency ends Netanyahu is off to court and then prison.

When are we likely to know the dates for #dinoconuk 2026? In particular how they relate to the total solar eclipse in Spain, on August 12.

With Ozzy Osbourne bat decapitations no longer to be feared only two defences remain against Dracula's return.

My phone has started giving me advertisements for the real estate agent who sold me my home.

The winner of this year's @aptshadow.bsky.social #AlienClay award for creepiest organism assembled out of semi-independent overly plastic parts is #MyakuMyaku, the mascot for the Osaka Expo. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myaku-M....

Trump has asked for soldiers who agree with him and have a particular look he thinks desirable to be seated for the cameras. He's basically one step from creating the guards regiment of Frederick the Great, where all the soldiers were tall and had moustaches.

Deform the police. (rural Korea)

In Sydney someone might point out shopping by saying there is a shopping mall. In Seoul someone indicated shopping by saying that the density of shopping malls was unusually high in that area.

Did anyone have Elon Musk = Yevgeny Prigozhin on their bingo card?

In the West institutions draw sharp boundaries. To pass this point you must have a ticket, or must buy the goods you have selected. In Korea things bleed more. Here is a shopping mall, that's a piece of another shop and those people are buying ice cream and sit over here but in between...

Mud loach taste better than they sound. Actually they don't taste of much at all.

As usual my hotel in Korea is 2 star. Again as usual that means my fire escape involves a rope, an abseiling device and a fifth storey window.

The authorities are spoilsports, intent on preventing anyone from reenacting iconic scenes from Titanic. (Incheon, South Korea)

booking.com helpfully offers an "upgrade". It's exactly the same except it allows smoking and is more expensive. Non-smoking was a requirement in my original search.

I don't know why #Thunderbolts is getting so much praise. Not actively bad, just a bit tiresome and paint by numbers. I couldn't help feeling if someone gives you Pugh + Kurylenko + Louis-Dreyfus you ought to able to make a better film than that.