Credit to the Australian members of parliament who haven’t let this go:

[Prime Minister Anthony] Albanese has said he raised the matter directly with the US, including with the president, Joe Biden, during his visit to Washington in October 2023.

In February this year, Albanese and cabinet members supported a motion put forward by independent MP Andrew Wilkie urging the UK and US to allow Assange to return home to Australia.

The attorney general, Mark Dreyfus, said he also raised the matter with his US counterpart, Merrick Garland, during a meeting in January this year.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/article/2024/jun/25/julian-assange-australia-reaction-wikileaks-founder-plea-deal

That is amazing.

That’s why my shoes all wear out so soon now!

This is how Silo started. Just saying.

“Before going into beta” is HIGHLY optimistic lol

Microwave Watt?? Converts cooking instructions to whatever your actual microwave is (mine’s a shitty 700w beast so I have to add about 50% cooking time to most things). http://www.microwavewatt.com/

Mass produced Knick knacks. Those useless ornaments that just seem to accumulate on bookshelves, fireplaces and cabinets.

It was definitely togs in Qld when I was growing up. Might be the old potato cake/scallop debate all over again.

Bush stone curlew all the way.

Still a drop in the bucket of what’s needed and still not immediate enough. Lots of people gonna be doing a tough xmas this year.

110F = 43.33C if anyone else was wondering.

Interesting history of the 1967 referendum too.

Hopefully good sausage sizzle weather!

I have bamboo sheets and they are great for hotter weather. I find them quite cool.

Would the Australian (NSW) laws apply here because that’s where it happened? They updated their sexual consent laws not long ago and their easy reader is pretty clear that a kiss is considered part of that. Not sure how it would be charged under the criminal code: https://dcj.nsw.gov.au/documents/children-and-families/family-domestic-and-sexual-violence/domestic-and-sexual-violence-hotlines/dcj_easy_read_sexual_consent_digital_accessible.pdf

Probably a dissenter but I like having all those stories in one place now. I think the community is too new to start subdividing it up too.

What an incredible moment. Loved seeing all the kids in the crowd so hyped up for the Tillies!

Because changing the terms gives ammunition to the people blocking climate change action. You’ve seen the discussion about “oh it was global warming, now it’s climate change, make up your minds”. This is the same. To them it’s wavering on what the problem is. Changing terms is ambiguity. It’s being unsure. Just stick with “climate change” and “we told you so”. Maybe what I should have said was “it doesn’t matter how it’s described to people who don’t believe in climate change bc changing terms won’t change their mind. “

Agreed that it doesn’t matter how it’s described. And there’s a need to ratchet up language more and more if you go down this path. What comes after boiling?

I’m glad the Greens keep bringing this up. Something needs to change.