This was the day the worm turned, and the pond decided that this day's serve heap of reptile guff was more than enough ...
Thursday is always the weakest day at the lizard Oz, and this day was no different...
There, at the very bottom, the reptiles decided finally to do a bit of storm chasing ...
How do you do this sort of stuff with a straight face while maintaining climate science denialism rage?
Easy peasy ...
...The October temperatures were the highest since records were first kept in 1910, the Bureau of Meteorology said.
“These are typically temperatures that we would only see in a summer heatwave, but it is still spring and we are seeing these incredibly warm temperatures,” said senior meteorologist Angus Hines.
“That means today, other parts of the country are going to feel the incredible warmth as well.”
Completing the wild weather puzzle, snow was also recorded in NSW in the Snowy Mountains at Thredbo. A light dusting of snow was recorded on Kosciuszko track snow cam at Eagles Nest, which is located at the top of Threadbo Village Resort.
“These are typically temperatures that we would only see in a summer heatwave, but it is still spring and we are seeing these incredibly warm temperatures,” said senior meteorologist Angus Hines.
“That means today, other parts of the country are going to feel the incredible warmth as well.”
Completing the wild weather puzzle, snow was also recorded in NSW in the Snowy Mountains at Thredbo. A light dusting of snow was recorded on Kosciuszko track snow cam at Eagles Nest, which is located at the top of Threadbo Village Resort.
Well played Marcus De Blonk (de Smith fame), a name which resists pond inventions.
The reptiles also tried to slip in petulant Peta on the news side ...
Commentary by Peta Credlin
Beware: ALP ruin in Victoria risks a nationwide breakout
Victoria has become the template for Labor governments everywhere. This means higher taxes, more regulation and the triumph of climate and identity politics.
Beware: ALP ruin in Victoria risks a nationwide breakout
Victoria has become the template for Labor governments everywhere. This means higher taxes, more regulation and the triumph of climate and identity politics.
Apart from correspondent aversion to this puppet mistress, master of the onion muncher, the pond is totally bored by the reptiles banging on about Victoria, and the alternative archived header suggestedthe pain ...Beware: Our country is on the Victorian road to ruin
All this, and yet back in June, Melbourne retained its hold on the fourth spot in the cities deemed worldwide to be most liveable...
1. Copenhagen, Denmark
2. Vienna, Austria
3. Zürich, Switzerland
4. Melbourne, Australia
5. Geneva, Switzerland
6. Sydney, Australia
7. Osaka, Japan
8. Auckland, New Zealand
9. Adelaide, Australia
10. Vancouver, Canada
Amid the gnashing of teeth from cockroaches and crow eaters, perhaps the country does need to join Victoria on the road to ruin, and in the process score high ratings ...
Over on the extreme far right, it was no better ...
Dear sweet long absent lord, not another bout of TG bashing, and worse, at time of writing, top of the reptile world ma ...
Helen Joyce has been deplatformed in Melbourne, but it’s worth looking to the UK to see how to stand up against the tried-and-true tactics because we have the law on our side.
By Julie Bindel
And who's this bristling, unbridled Bindel?
Julie Bindel is a feminist campaigner against sexual violence based in the UK. She is co-host of The Lesbian Project podcast.
The pond's so over bigoted "feminists" having a bash at TG folk, especially Poms with nothing better to do than carry on the sport in the antipodes ...
The blogger bot likely wouldn't allow the pond to tell Bindel to f*ck right off, which is a great pity.
Below the bristling Bindel, it didn't get any better ...
When boys are left behind, society pays the price. So what can be done?
By David Maywald
Let's face facts? And who was responsible for that bout of Sgt Joe Friday-isms?
David Maywald is a concerned parent of a schoolboy and schoolgirl. His forthcoming book is The Relentless War on Masculinity, out in November.
Oh FFS, so concerned, he's just out and about flogging his book.
Cue a "concerned parent" meme ...
Meanwhile, even the alleged lizard Oz professionals struggled to turn in interesting copy ...
Political parties have no guarantees of immortality. Ignoring existential crises is no answer. By the time the remnants of a once powerhouse political party can caucus under a doona, it is too late.
By Jack the Insider
Columnist
To be fair, in the spirit of Jane Hume, Jack tried to give the pond's plunge on the lettuce another boost...
Donald Trump’s dressing down of Kevin Rudd has now joined the pantheon of amusing moments in Australian politics. The POTUS didn’t like Rudd and said he probably never would. Laughter ensued, some awkward.
One can only imagine members of Labor caucuses past and present nodding at Trump’s character assessment: “Look, yeah, we know. But he has his uses. He can speak Cantonese and Mandarin, often at the same time, while writing a children’s book in Esperanto. He’s quite handy to have around.”
Pronouncing Rudd’s position “untenable”, the sibilant Sussan Ley took a swipe at Labor. “Kevin Rudd really was the elephant in the room. And it’s a bit awkward, isn’t it?” the Opposition Leader told Sky News on Tuesday. “When the ambassador is the punchline of the joke and the Prime Minister is actually laughing at him, I think that tells us all we need to know.”
Her remarks had a shelf life of about 12 minutes before lapsing into miscalculation and irrelevance. Ley’s remarks went live while Australians on the east coast were still munching on their Vegemite toast and with the Australian delegation at the table in the White House cabinet room trying desperately not to look smug at Albanese’s (and Rudd’s) triumph.
When will the Liberal Party learn to avoid reactive politics? Sometimes it is better to be quiet. Proverbs 17:28 and all that.
And so on, and about all that was good for was as a segue to the immortal Rowe's portrait of that besieged canary, in a cage if not in a King Donald coal mine...
From the detail, zoom out to the bigger picture ...
And that only left Joe, lesser member of the Kelly gang, burbling on about said mission ...
Despite warnings their political differences would damage US-Australia relations, Albanese and Trump’s successful White House summit has silenced the sceptics.
By Joe Kelly
Washington correspondent
Sorry, the pond has had unbridled, bristling contempt for Joe ever since the pond was advised by Media Watch that it was he who was the sorry-*rsed reptile who signed on to Pentagon "champagne Russian asset" Pete's pledge to betray journalism ... only to regret his folly, or perhaps for wiser heads to suggest he'd been a compleat fool.
...on that list was one news organisation which might pique your interest:
Other signers included a reporter for the Australian, a News Corp-owned Australian paper …- The Washington Post, 16 October, 2025
Come on down Joe Kelly, The Australian’s Washington correspondent who was signed up to those very same Hegseth house rules.
Which even his News Corp chums at Fox News and The Wall Street Journal thought a bridge too far.
But once the list of signatories got out, there was a change of heart at the company’s Sydney headquarters...
What a compleat twit, and the pond could only manage to offer a teaser trailer for those tempted to head off to the archive, or the cornfield, featuring the lesser Joe's first flourish of verbiage...
That did it, the pond snapped, and the only use Joe served was as a segue to the infallible Pope ...
Albo will need that weighted sack, because King Donald fancies himself as a giant ball of doom.
And that was that, and unless something spectacular turns up, there'll be no late arvo celebration ...
There was some ongoing intrigue yesterday in another place ...Frenemies for life: Trump vs Murdoch enters round 2
As a correspondent noted, one of the disappointing aspects of The Hack - the pond really should have mentioned the engaging work of Toby Jones - was the dawning realisation that the Emeritus Chairman would get away with it, and while it cost him the odd billion and the shuttering of a tabloid rag, the rogue has gone on to help create a disunited States...
But at least we might get to see King Donald and the mogul scratch and claw at each other in public, in a way as enjoyable as David Tennant's cleverly done fourth-wall breaking asides to camera (oh come on, you didn't like them, you wanted some dull, staid, boring as bat-sh*t voice over commentary to fill in the assorted narrative gaps?)
President Trump is demanding that the Justice Department pay him about $230 million in compensation for the federal investigations into him, according to people familiar with the matter, who added that any settlement might ultimately be approved by senior department officials who defended him or those in his orbit.
The situation has no parallel in American history, as Mr. Trump, a presidential candidate, was pursued by federal law enforcement and eventually won the election, taking over the very government that must now review his claims. It is also the starkest example yet of potential ethical conflicts created by installing the president’s former lawyers atop the Justice Department.
Mr. Trump submitted complaints through an administrative claim process that often is the precursor to lawsuits. The first claim, lodged in late 2023, seeks damages for a number of purported violations of his rights, including the F.B.I. and special counsel investigation into Russian election tampering and possible connections to the 2016 Trump campaign, according to people familiar with the matter. They spoke on the condition of anonymity because the claim has not been made public.
The second complaint, filed in the summer of 2024, accuses the F.B.I. of violating Mr. Trump’s privacy by searching Mar-a-Lago, his club and residence in Florida, in 2022 for classified documents. It also accuses the Justice Department of malicious prosecution in charging him with mishandling sensitive records after he left office.
Asked about the issue at the White House after this article published, the president said, “I was damaged very greatly and any money I would get, I would give to charity.”
He added, “I’m the one that makes the decision and that decision would have to go across my desk and it’s awfully strange to make a decision where I’m paying myself.”
Lawyers said the nature of the president’s legal claims poses undeniable ethics challenges.
“What a travesty,” said Bennett L. Gershman, an ethics professor at Pace University. “The ethical conflict is just so basic and fundamental, you don’t need a law professor to explain it.”
He added: “And then to have people in the Justice Department decide whether his claim should be successful or not, and these are the people who serve him deciding whether he wins or loses. It’s bizarre and almost too outlandish to believe.”
The pond has absolutely no trouble believing grifters gunna grift ... and lavish gifts on fellow grifters...Don't Cry for Me, Argentina. Here's $40B Trump's Giving You ...
And real estate grifters got to bring out the wrecking ball .... Trump's Mar-a-White House...
Would a patriot have turned excavators on the White House? For the sake of a gargantuan, tacky monarchical event space? Would a patriot show so little regard for how it would feel to his countrymen to see this desecration of a national symbol?
Oh come on, vulgarians gotta do what vulgarians do, and spare a thought for the cartoonists, they need the work ...
Stopped clock incident? "The Residence" (Netflix), lauded by the Bro, seems to be quite good.
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