As a travel writer, I'm vaguely concerned at her inability to find the uber zone at Sydney airport, BUT I will say every time I have been ripped off by a taxi it was 1) at SYD and 2) took MONTHS to resolve. www.smh.com.au/traveller/tr...

Genuine question, but has Julie Inman Grant actually used the internet since 2016ish?

Lmao

One of the worst things is just knowing that in 5-7 years there will be a full court press to rehabilitate Ivanka

The After Party is great fun, but since it's on Apple TV it may as well be sketched on a cave wall in Svalbard

As an Australian, I should not be obliged to know who Bari Weiss even is but this is like reading that Jay Rayner review of Le Cinq. You don't need to have first hand knowledge to enjoy such a filleting.

I read my first Jilly Cooper novel earlier this year and, as a 42 year old man who has seen internet pornography, still was scandalized. Nobody did it like her. RIP, queen.

Just seen a thread from a left wing American who got Australian citizenship and moved back to Chicago because they were so horrified at our (yes, it was horrific!) refugee discourse of 2010-2015ish and... how's that working out for you nowadays.

Define "long period of time"

It’s happened again

Bluesky engineers when their website is successful

I feel like 2025 Uber customer service can best be summarised as 'Go on. Take a taxi, big man... yeah, just as I thought you piggie.'

This has become particularly bad recently.

It’s bigotry to hate those inflatable flappy arm guys from outside car dealerships

Was curious about JFK’s health so I asked google. TIL he was pregnant in 1960 but only put on 15-20lbs

Meanwhile in Australia’s Northern Territory, Justice Blow has published his report about dodgy employment practices in the local police, and a local journalist has just spuffed all over his keyboard.

I think I'm going to open a book on Hastie.

Circumcised Husband (Taylor's Version)

I've seen a few Australians share this and... boy, do I have news for you!

It’s funny because it’s true

Microsoft shoved their AI Copilot into everything in Windows 11. Which lead to an increase in Windows 10 use. So they announced they'd stop support for Windows 10, but its usage was still strong. So they started to put Copilot into Windows 10. Windows 7 use is surging 5x now. AI is product poison.

By the way, this is blatantly not true if you look at the way they suspended a bunch of people after Kirk's death. You can absolutely harass these people into moderating the way you want them to, you just have to be a right winger.

In memoriam...

Mixed metaphors ahoy!

Article is very thoughtful but also... jesus christ

I need to know who put the money up for all this media placement of a non story this week

This is one of the most insanely stupid things I have read recently. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Super Mario Galaxy 2 finally ported to Switch 2. Still delightful. However the controls from Wii to Switch for things like using Yoshi's eating ability are fiddily and a bit painful.

The social media ban is the 2025 version of telling women not to walk alone at night. We're regulating the behaviour of victims and potential victims, instead of addressing the people causing the harm

i have never become the Joker more than i am becoming the joker right now

the meta ai video slop TikTok is I think the first tech thing where I have been 100% on the side of the Luddites (vernacular usage, I know the actual Luddites were more complex than that, nerds). Usually I think there's a little too much of that reflexively on the left tbh, but no this shit sucks.

I would genuinely like to know who the ABC is for nowadays. I know I live in a bubble, but is the Death in Paradise demographic really that massive.

The reason it's hard to take the fanfiction->publishing deal pipeline seriously is when they say shit like this. Oh no, you may have to be original! Yikes!

To be honest I actually prefer this honesty to what a lot of the 'take the money from Riyadh' set have claimed ("I've long wanted to support football in the Arabian Gulf" "I've long been fascinated with Saudi culture").

I’m glad there’s finally push back to therapy speak self destructive advice that’s been going around the internet for years. People have conditioned themselves to find virtue in selfishness then complain they’re lonely.

Can I just say, no insult to the great nation of Sri Lanka, but the auto-captioning on Prime of their anthem is amazing. #CWC25 Umpire Sharma. Upper Hutt Madhavi. Upper. Phil Donovan. Superman Lanka. Whanganui. Upper. Neighbour Martha.

This is really interesting about how nominally centre parties seem to be constantly trying to impress a mythical other at the expense of who actually votes for them.

The less important the delivery, the more update notification. Laptop: Nothing, Nothing, *doorbell* New AA batteries: The goods have been taken off the shelf! Packed for sending! Sent! Received! In a truck! The driver's name is Faisal! His youngest child just turned 4! He's playing Gold FM!

I tend to think the more likely explanation is that they are just vaguely aware of the last 50 or so years of US history which has repeatedly demonstrated that there is no political crime that will lead to jail. Iran Contra, Nixon, Gitmo, GFC. Take your pick.

(Me to a girl in the club): People would probably be pretty scared if there was a stegosaurus here. Not me - I know that they're herbivores.

If there is one thing citizens need, it's hearing from Waleed Aly and Kevin Rudd and Barnaby Joyce and Samantha Maiden even more than usual.

The asteroid cannot come fast enough. We can't have a long radio news bulletin at 7.45 am in the morning (that had run since 1939) because money but this is cool I guess.

Love the insight of Ninefax.

Pilates but FOR MEN lol www.smh.com.au/business/ent...

I wonder if Jimmy Carr will update his arsenal of the "most offensive jokes ever" for a Riyadh audience or if he saves those for minorities who can't fight back

Okatsuka posted the censorship rules for the controversial comedy festival, noting how many "You can’t say anything anymore!" comedians have signed on. www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...

Always interesting to see the differences in reporting between Hastie (or previously, Joyce) making trouble for their party and, say, Lidia Thorpe.

Also economically. The argument is explicitly 'New Labour's economic approach was wrong'. Okay, Keir...what is yours? Do you have one?!