"The only way to prevent another catastrophic nuclear detonation is to eliminate nuclear weapons from the face of the Earth. We can never be safe while living in a house made of dynamite," writes Hiroshima governor and president of Hiroshima Organization for Global Peace, Hidehiko Yuzaki.

Hey folks! It’s time for the parade of the 16 BEST ALBUMS OF 1989! If anyone asks you what the 16 best albums of 1989 are, you direct them to this official and binding list. The albums are presented in seed order, from highest to lowest, from most expected to be here to least expected.

Stick me in the Matrix. 1999 forever. The peak of civilization. GWB is just a Texas governor I only know because of that one Simpsons joke. Trump is just a cameo in Home Alone 2. Plug me back in.

The grand old duke of York He gave twelve million quid To a girl he never met for a thing He swears he never did!

New Torment Nexus just dropped.

I’m so tired of this, man. We’re dealing with an all out war on intelligence and higher education. STEM and the social sciences and the liberal arts need to all stand together instead of this absurd petty squabbling.

As is always the case with this nostalgia crap, "what they took from you" was the feeling of being 12, not any actual thing in the past. (Also, those 1960s, 1970s cars were deathtraps compared to modern vehicles)

Ah yes, the Eureka Stockade, famously opposed to disruptive protests

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

Today’s brilliant editorial… www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/21849/...

one response to this (correct) observation is to say “well, the cops will attack you no matter how you dress and behave.” that’s right. images of cops and ICE beating grandmas and kids in inflatable frog costumes is a win for the opposition.

Dessert Day and Real Sugar Day should really get together for some joint events.

My god. “Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

RIP Jane Goodall

Okay, funny bookstore category

ICE attempted and failed to disappear a food delivery guy. It needed to be scored.

"Which is your favorite/definitive version of the original Prince of Persia?" 💾As promised-- after 35 years, here's a proper blog post with my thoughts, and the story behind Prince of Persia's multiple 1990s ports. www.jordanmechner.com/en/latest-ne...

Quote this with your reaction to getting left behind during the rapture.

CHOTINER: And you didn’t know this person - what did you call him again? CELEBRIMBOR GREATEST OF THE ELVEN SMITHS: Right, his name was Annatar but CHOTINER: And you taught him to create a ring harnessing all his malice and cruelty? CELEBRIMBOR: Well I mean I was deceived CHOTINER: So you’ve said

at one point Albania was on the brink of civil war after the collapse of pyramid schemes that had sucked up roughly half of GDP, and now that is only the *second* stupidest thing the country has done.

Patience is a virtue. #WorldBollardAssociation

Banksy unveiled a mural at London’s Royal Courts of Justice showing a judge in wig and robe striking a fallen protester with blood on their placard. He confirmed the artwork’s authenticity with a brief Instagram post. #art #banksy

Attention fellow AUSTRALIANS! 🇦🇺 We now have an official petition to parliament to STOP MASTERCARD and VISA from its campaign of censorship, restricting what legal products we can buy. Please sign it now, and if you're not an Aussie, spread the word! www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...

There are many reasons we don’t let drug warriors play judge, jury, and executioner — like killing innocent civilians. No doubt Hegseth would have cheered this shoot down of a suspected drug flight over Peru in 2001. Whoops, it turned out to be US missionary Veronica Bowers & infant daughter.

‘When Britain conquered Egypt, it shipped 180,000 mummified cats back to Liverpool to be processed into fertiliser. Soon the dead were being reclaimed before they could even be put to rest.’ @jjvincent.bsky.social on the scramble for phosphorus: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

It's giving

In Which Nadine Amuses a Dragon and Makes Autumn Happen

I deeply resent having to defend John Bolton but “the president sends his goons on a fishing expedition to raid anyone who criticizes him” is in fact very alarming

Wake up babe, new 2025 metaphor just dropped.

I say this extremely seriously: one of the main skills children have to learn to be adults is to do things they *don't* find interesting. This is both because many necessary things in life are boring and because sometimes interesting things take time and effort first.

I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/

Margaret Pomeranz remembers David Stratton: ‘I feel as though one half of me has gone’

Post a character whose downfall would have proceeded identically if you were in their shoes.

There are a lot of horrifying photographs of the damage and human toll at Hiroshima. But it's still this one that sticks in my mind the most. Noboricho Elementary School, about 1 km from ground zero. School children were an important source of data about the bomb's mortality. 98% fatalities.

It ended well for Rasputin and the Romanovs, right?

I grew up on these streets.

effect/affect misuse.

The "Pepsi briefly had the sixth-largest navy in the world" claim is another classic zombie factoid, passed from news article to news article, embellished along the way and completely disconnected from the actual facts.

As of 11:25AM AEST "THERE IS NO TSUNAMI THREAT TO THE AUSTRALIAN MAINLAND, ISLANDS OR TERRITORIES." www.bom.gov.au/tsunami/nati...

Listening to my nephew complain that they put too much truffle on his risotto in a restaurant recently, and I just sat there thinking “when I was your age, they had orange juice on the menu as a starter”.

Vale Tom Lehrer, without a shadow of a doubt a real one.

although just as a general heuristic if any member past or present of 2 Live Crew bails on your event over degeneracy concerns that should be a gut-check moment for you

You are NEVER too smart to learn anything. Thats the moral of the story. “When am I ever gonna need to know this” is the battlecry of fools

This graph is astonishing. The people that bang on about “natural birth” and “women have been doing this forever without help” need to be forced to stare at this until their eyes water.

Remember that odd story before the election about a neurosurgeon tearing down Monique Ryan’s campaign corflute, talking about burying the body under concrete? I decided to investigate. Turns out that behaviour did not exist in a vacuum. Watch #4Corners 8.30pm, ABC TV. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

I’m telling you 2025 is messed up.

DON’T LOOK AWAY: Children seen shackled and escorted by federal agents out of a downtown Los Angeles detention center. Multiple minors. In chains. In public. This is not a “border issue”—this is a fucking human rights crisis.

everyone talks about ai “assistants” like it’s some whipsmart loyal sidekick, but they’re actually this guy: a scheming, sycophant vizier who whispers delusions in your ear and is actually working for another master

Who will audit the auditors? This article showcases the really depressing reality about carbon offset markets. We either need to find ways to truly fix this or move on to other approaches. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...