The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

The Sydney SciFi Film Festival offers a wonder-inspiring line-up of visionary works from various countries. (Why am I only hearing about this film festival today?) #film #scifi #ScienceFiction 🎥 share.google/FNZv0rVc0bx0...

Brilliant of Jimmy Kimmel to stream the full show on YouTube, rendering Nexstar and Sinclair’s blackout ineffectual. It has already topped a million views in the past hour.

95 Democrats joined 215 Republicans to vote for the Honouring Charlie Kirk bill, while 58 voted against it and 38 voted present More Democrats voted for the bill than those who voted against it. And these are the people y’all are looking to save you?

Just a reminder that both Nexstar and Sinclair hold hundreds of station licenses, each of which could be challenged on the grounds that censoring a funny guy to promote a hard-right agenda doesn't serve the public interest.

Disney paid $16 million to Trump to settle a bogus lawsuit involving George Stephanopoulos. Disney fired Terry Moran for calling Stephen Miller a “world-class hater.” Disney suspended Jimmy Kimmel. That Disney has walked back one of those after immense public pressure doesn't change who they are.

Our Space Industry Responsive Intelligent Thermal satellite (aka SpIRIT), developed by our own Melbourne Space Lab in the School of Physics, has been orbiting the Earth for nearly 2 years now. It has now entered the final phase of the mission. Tap through to learn more → unimelb.me/4ngSZt9

This ought to be engraved somewhere.

ABC’s John Lyons has slammed Israel for wiping out an average of 28 children in Gaza “Every Day. Week in, week out, month in, month out” Lyons “There are on avg. a classroom of Palestinian children in Gaza today, who this time tomorrow will be killed by an Israeli bomb”😳 #Abc

There’s no link between Tylenol and autism… but there is a link between Trump and the Epstein files.

Gupta: It is safe. That’s what the best-quality research shows. And how irresponsible, using the podium of the WH to put this out there when you’re not even offering an alternative. That is dangerous. An untreated fever is dangerous. Untreated pain in pregnancy is dangerous.

If the Rapture only happened to people who believe it is a real thing, this would be a much more pleasant and sane country to live in.

I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.

Oxford has been around since 1096. Imagine tossing almost a thousand years of academic reputation into the garbage, setting it on fire, and then pissing it out over a useless fucking plagiarism machine what loses billions of dollars a year telling people to kill themselves.

Why not do this?

Geez, do you think I should phone RFK and tell him I'm as autistic AF, not vaccinated against measles, and my mother didn't take paracetamol during pregnancy (or indeed at all until she was in her 60s)?

NEW: The Pentagon told journalists it will require them to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey. @washingtonpost.com

It’s his fetish.

I wonder if the poor sods monitoring the Australian Broadcasting Corporation inbox saw this one coming. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Got through my first 4-day work week after years off being a carer, and I won't pretend I'm not knackered. It's not the work. It's the waking up multiple times a night thinking the alarm went off and struggling to get back to sleep. Bloody mind and its tricks.

"Late-night jokes shouldn’t be biting, critical, or funny. Jokes should be more like third wives — anodyne, mostly quiet, and on good terms with convicted pedophiles."

'Trump himself is just a very weird guy, the kind of specimen you imagine would result from an unfortunate nuclear accident involving a large block of orange cheese.' Well done, Jonathan Liew. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“This Is the Greatest Threat to Our Human Future” | @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social and I discuss with @nextbigidea.bsky.social about our new book, #ScienceUnderSiege: nextbigideaclub.com/magazine/gre...

1/2 In case you were wondering why the incorrect rumor of “trans activist” and “fascist symbols” on ammo started, it’s because arrows and initials are common ways manufacturers stamp ammo. Including “TRN” the ironsight and a direction broad arrow:

hey the people that stormed the capitol and erected gallows to murder elected leaders want you to know that political violence is not ok

I see headlines talking about “a new era” of political violence. Didn’t some actual public servants in Minnesota just get murdered? I don’t recall seeing a similar claim made at that time.

Neo-Nazi leader Thomas Sewell has been ordered to serve 200 hours of community service after being found guilty of intimidating a police officer.

Your occasional reminder that the mute function is GREAT here. You can time-limit muted words and phrases (and usernames), mutes apply to alt-texted images as well as posts, and they (unlike blocks) are completely private. No one can tell what, or who, you’ve muted. Use with abandon.

This is the same country that rehabilitate traitorous slave owners who lost a war and seceded from the country. We erect statues in their honor and name buildings after them. Of course America would elevate and sanitize Charlie Kirk.

Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life. The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

Yeah, put like this it sounds bad…

Well, not always . . .

Signed, A Teacher 🩷

Today we remember 11 September 1973, where Chile’s democratically elected Allende govt. was overthrown in a military coup backed by Washington and facilitated by Australia’s intelligence services. The result was Pinochet’s dictatorship that killed and tortured thousands. 🧵👇

Mini marsupial bounces back from the brink! Once listed as Endangered, the crest-tailed mulgara expanded its range by more than 48,000 km² between 2015 and 2021, lifting its status to Least Concern. Biocontrol contributed to the heartwarming bounce-back. https://f.mtr.cool/afllseseeb

Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment. Jared Polis has failed Colorado.

#charliekirk www.thedailybeast.com/stephen-colb...

Thanks to Trump’s ICE raid and detention/deportation of 100s of migrants legally in the country to set up the automotive manufacturing plant…. ETTD! #TrumpIsAStupidMotherFuqker #AbolishICE

Extra points for 'bloviating fleck of f(o)etid subhuman excrement'.

That should be 'Rapist and epoch defining fuckhead sues government"...

As the MSM remembers Charlie Kirk and speaks out against his horrific assassination, let’s recall the Minnesota Congresswoman who was assassinated on June 14th 2025 along with her husband and their dog. Do you even remember her name?!

Aging about as well as I am.

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