Apparently / Google doesn't / even trust itself

Today the post-
woman brought
me what looked 
like some sort 

of interrogation
tecnhique. I had
to ask her: is this 
a glottal stop

ʔ

wednesday newstrip

Twitter to rebrand to X & drop blue bird, says Elongated Muskrat · paramedic makes housecall & finds a man who’s had an amorous encounter with a meter-long mop · Barbie & Oppenheimer smash the box office around the world · "I am become Shiva, the destroyer of worlds" said Barbie, while Oppenheimer looked pretty in pink · drug found in toddler's autopsy matches police seizure · YouTube personality & longtime MrBeast collaborator Kris Tyson has come out as transgender in a joyful interview · Tony Bennett’s family find solace in his ‘musical legacy’ in the wake of his passing · Netanyahu has pacemaker fitted on eve of pivotal Knesset vote on the government’s highly contentious judicial overhaul · DoNuts T.®ump calls the United States a third-world country run by perverts.

wednesday newstrip

Dingoes allegedly becoming more fearless as rangers consider fate of animals involved in Queensland island attack · parents of toddler who 'miraculously' survived after ingesting fantasy sent to prison · extreme heatwave: Greece battles to contain wildfires as temperature in Italy forecast to hit 46C · turning offices to residences is touted as a housing fix for a work-from-home era, but a $520,000 listing takes the brief too literally · Margot Robbie is slammed by Americans for talking with her Aussie accent while on the press tour for Barbie · cheers, standing ovation at celebration of the world's first openly transgender elected politician, New Zealander Georgina Beyer's colorful life · scientists vibrated a box of particles & they formed a strange new material.

wednesday newstrip (again courtesy of Rupert Murdoch)

'We'll rue the day NACC (the Australian National Anti-Corruption Commission) was founded' · ‘gutless’: Prince Harry slammed for letting world believe Royal Family was racist · DoNuts T.®ump blasts 'crackhead' attorney after White House cocaine discovery · ‘Boss moment:’ Kate involved in ‘brilliant takedown’ of Harry & Meghan’s racism claims · voters 'will make Biden pay' at the ballot box after the Supreme Court sunk his half-baked student loan forgiveness program · Australian eco-zealots are heading for a messy divorce with green energy · Princess of Wales masterminded royal response to Sussexes' Oprah interview · 'monsters:' Alex Stein blasts Biden family as 'evil' for refusing to acknowledge grandchild · ‘this is obscene:’ advocates calling for a ban on DoNuts T.®ump Jr.’s visit to Australia criticized · left-wingers have created a ‘new science’ for gender & identity · Meghan Markle warned there’s ‘no future with Harry’ if she wants to ‘save her career.’

wednesday newstrip

Scientists have finally 'heard' chorus of gravitational waves that ripple through universe · 2 people are dead · 28 people were injured in mass shooting at a Baltimore block party · Aussie TikToker ‘accidentally’ spends $10k on Taylor Swift tickets amid fan frenzy · US Supreme Court backs businesses refusing same-sex couples · the last refugee held on Nauru was evacuated to Australia after 10 years, it has been announced · France to deploy 45,000 police to tackle riots. Macron blames video games, social media · New Zealand doctor tells woman to drink '4 cans of Coca-Cola' to remove chicken bone from throat · Canada is going to war with Google, & it might not win · European Space Agency launches new telescope to find dark matter.

Today the post-
woman brought 
me the DVD 
of Peter Quince
eating caviar 
that prompted the
well known poem  
by Wallace Stevens.

wednesday newstrip

US approves chicken made from cultivated cells, the nation's first 'lab-grown' meat · US navy detected an ‘anomaly’ that was likely the Titan's implosion but only realized that was what it was after loss of contact with the submersible was reported · the owner of the Wagner private military contractor escalated his direct challenge to the Kremlin on Friday, calling for an armed rebellion aimed at ousting Russia’s defence minister · it has been revealed that multiple versions of Sony Pictures’ Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse are currently in cinemas · turn your phone off every night for five minutes, Australian Prime Minister tells residents · Pasifika health professionals are defending a new formula that uses ethnicity to prioritise patients for non-urgent surgery in Auckland, saying it will help address racism in the health system · clash over LBGTQ+ decor at Starbucks leads to planned strikes at more than 150 stores in US.

wednesday newstrip (courtesy of Rupert Murdoch)

Meghan Markle ‘cutting the chain’ from ‘mentally disturbed’ Prince Harry · Australian men jump position in global penis size ranking · New Zealand police patrol streets amid soaring youth crime · Joe Biden ‘making up for lost time’ despite never being ‘good on gay rights’ · ‘Other groups’ besides women interested in receiving uterus transplants · London Mayor Sadiq Khan has produced an “inclusivity guide” for his staff to tell them “what they can & cannot say” · Sky News Australia host reacts to latest ‘lefty lunatic’ · Russian cyber hackers compromise top-secret defensive data in historic breach · Harry & Meghan ‘$20 million’ Spotify deal cancelled · direct conflict between Putin & NATO military units on the ground in Ukraine 'the next logical step' after Zelensky's failed counter-offensive.

geographies : Natimuk

 

The back lawn, in black & white, after the sprinkler's done its work

Six Australian white ibis with their black heads

Four magpie larks

Two willie wagtails

& a magpie, just come along
to see what all the fuss is about

it's amazing what turns up!

(click on image to enlarge)

wednesday newstrip

‘Big Penis USA’ pills banned in Australia over undeclared substance · Australian Tax Office data shows 66 millionaires paid no income tax in 2020-21 · El Nino under way, raising fears of extreme weather patterns · Tjuwanpa Women Rangers sharpen shooting skills in mission to control feral cats in central Australia · DoNuts T.®ump says he's been indicted on charges of mishandling classified documents at his Florida estate · BoreUs(NoMoreNow) Johnson standing down from UK House of Commons after being told he will be sanctioned for misleading Parliament · Utah parent successfully blocks Bible from schools.

Today the post-
woman brought
me a birthday
card from the
Marquis de
Sade. Not for
me, I told her,
two houses up
the road. I ran
to retrieve it
the minute she
was out of sight.

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Mark Young
with the slow-paced turtle replaced by a fast fish
sandy press, 2023
94 pages
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ISBN: 978-1736816066
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Mark Young's language is at once familiar, sprinkled with unusual words beloved of the philologist in us. There is a Magritte-like gap between image and object, with a title that sounds as though it comes from a fable by La Fontaine. These are poems for the Zeitgeist, poems of the Internet Age and post-colonialism, a demystification couched in at times mysterious language. Poems written in a demotic language, apocalyptic, cynical, utopian and always beautiful, stripping pop-culture illusions bare while creating new myths, a deliberate misreading to create new truths. You think you know what's coming in Young's work, but there are always twists and turns enough to surprise you and catch you out; his latest collection, with the slow-paced turtle replaced by a fast fish, does not disappoint.

—Javant Biarujia, author of Pointcounterpoint: Selected and new poems, Resinations, and Spelter to Pewter. Creator of the Taneraic language and compiler of its comprehensive dictionary.

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wednesday newstrip

Three more insurance companies including Tokio Marine have left a United Nations-backed net-zero climate alliance, leaving the group with about half the number of members it counted two months ago as insurers take fright at political pressure from some Republican politicians · ‘last resort:’ government faces legal action to force repatriation of Australians from Syrian refugee camps · Australia's 'misery index' up 220 per cent in a year due to rate rises, inflation · new evidence suggests Russia deliberately targeting schools in Ukraine · Whitehaven Coal's underground mine in northern New South Wales is polluting the atmosphere with more than three times the direct greenhouse gas emissions it forecast it would emit when it received environmental approval in 2015 · popular pub in Adelaide under fire for offering free drinks to woman based on their bra size: 'the bigger the better.'

wednesday newstrip

An Indian government official has been suspended after he ordered the drainage of a two-million-liter dam so he could get his phone back, which he dropped while taking a selfie · researchers say the US city of Manhattan is sinking at a rate of two millimeters a year · in a study published in the journal Science last week, a team of international researchers reported that more than half of the world's large lakes & reservoirs had shrunk since the early 1990s due to climate change, unregulated water use, & dam construction · widely available vape products have been found to contain toxic heavy metals, including arsenic, lead, mercury, nickel, chromium, antimony, aluminium, iron, & nickel, along with known carcinogens like formaldehyde & nicotine, according to new tests · ‘Shops will close’: soaring cost of potatoes batters British chippies.

wednesday newstrip

Woman, 95, Tasered by officer at New South Wales aged care home, when she approached on a walking frame with a steak knife in her hand, police say · millions prepare to flee homes in Mexico as Popocatépetl volcano spews more ash · India wrestlers risk Olympic dream for '#MeToo' protest, accusing the federation's president, Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, of sexual harassment & abuse of female wrestlers · US President Joe BidenMyTime & Republican NoCavin McCarthy end meeting with no deal on US debt ceiling · New Zealand’s ratio of sheep to humans at lowest point in 170 years · the real cost of your chocolate habit: new research reveals the bittersweet truth of cocoa farming in Africa’s forests.

wednesday newstrip

Rudy Giuliani demanded oral sex from staffer during T.®ump calls: lawsuit · Farmington: Teen gunman kills three in New Mexico before police shoot him dead · Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom players are building tanks, planes to commit war crimes · former Australian prime minister Julia Gillard has conceded that her desire to have a debate around the merit of marriage in modern society, instead of supporting same-sex marriage, was "wrong" · ninety-two rooms, full beds & no sprinklers: investigations begin into NZ hostel fire that killed six with eleven people still missing · renowned children's author Mem Fox says a message from her literary agent that one of her books had been banned in the US state of Florida made her "howl with laughter."

wednesday newstrip

Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić promised on Friday, just hours after that country's second mass shooting, that the government will make urgent changes to the country’s firearm legislation · seven bodies found during search for two missing Oklahoma teens · vapes to be banned in Australia for recreational use, 'pharmaceutical' packaging to be required under crackdown · gunman kills eight, sends hundreds into panic in Texas mall shooting · Australian public broadcaster lambasted over anti-monarchy coronation coverage · seven days, seven shootings, five deaths in South Mississippi · garlic planting time is here.