Emma Symes

[Emma Symes @EmmaSymes1]

@crikey_news I didn’t want to read this, but thanks for making it free to read!

[Emma Symes @EmmaSymes1]

FFS

[Crikey @crikey_news]

Scott Morrison’s final public words as prime minister were delivered yesterday – not to the Australian public, but to his local Pentecostal church, the Horizon Church.

Read them in full, here [FREE TO READ] #auspol #ausvotes
https://t.co/PWsEBPUOvN

[Amanda @Pandamoanimum]

The final dance in Dirty Dancing, but they’re dancing to The Muppet Show theme tune.

[Doc  @DocAtCDI]

A truck loaded with thousands of copies of Roget's Thesaurus spilled its load leaving New York
Witnesses were stunned, startled, aghast, stupefied, confused, shocked, rattled, paralyzed, dazed, bewildered, surprised, dumbfounded, flabbergasted, confounded, astonished, and numbed.

[Peter Baylies @pbaylies]

@chloellene

[Amanda @Pandamoanimum]

Dolly Parton as Easter eggs.

A thread.

[Girl on the Net @girlonthenet]

NEW blog: I got a @GSilicone Morpheus, spent a week wanking with it, had a revelation, deleted my #dating site profile, and then wrote this... https://t.co/r8HnJB78Qm #SexToys #dating

[Crikey @crikey_news]

Since Prime Minister Scott Morrison took office in 2019, he's delivered at least 50 lies and falsehoods on issues of national importance.

We've documented the lot of them – you can read the full list here [FREE TO READ] #auspol
https://t.co/8eSlc0ai69

[Carrie Courogen @carriecourogen]

A lot of great films nominated this year but this is the real best picture winner

[Nicole Attercop @LadyAttercop]

Y'all. Y'ALL.

I just had an idea. The Golden Girls are supposed to be in their 50s when the show started, right?

IT IS TIME TO REBOOT THE GOLDEN GIRLS WITH A GEN X CAST.

[Simon Love @SimoLove]

During a debate on a Greens Public Housing bill, Liberal MP @WendyLovellMP told @vicparliament : “There is no point putting a very low income, probably welfare-dependent family in the best street in Brighton..”

@10newsfirstmelb #springst

[Bite-Sized Nostalgia @landofthe80s]

On this date in 1984 at 7 am, detention began at Shermer High School for 5 students. #80s #80smovies #TheBreakfastClub #1980s

[Gail Simone 💙💛 @GailSimone]

Okay but WHAT IS THE ALBUM WITH THE RED HARP THERE.

WEIRD.

[IndigenousX @IndigenousX]

While we engage with deep, complex matters in the courses I teach (as these students are in their 3rd & final years of their degrees) I also find myself highlighting & repeating the same points literally hundreds of times a year. I’ll share some of them below.

[Jorts (and Jean) @JortsTheCat]

No cat sizes, but sharing since so many of you aren’t cats (no offense)

[Marcello Toscanini @mtoscanini510]

For #FossilFriday I present this collection of coal footprint casts from the Prehistoric Museum at Price. It’s hardly believable how small some of these footprints are — they display the lower end of the growth sequence for a duck billed dinosaur 80 million years ago

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The smell of the air after a storm is caused by Geosmin: a chemical released by dead soil bacteria. Humans are sensitive to it, capable of detecting concentrations ~5 parts per trillion. It's theorised in our evolutionary past this helped us seek out water https://t.co/ssYs59LklV

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

'Codswallop': words or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas

'Bunkum': insincere or foolish talk; claptrap

'Blatherskite': voluble nonsensical or inconsequential talk or writing https://t.co/HUKAcucBGv