A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

i don't know which organisation is the one to do it, but there should be some kind of organised push for an australian boycott of the world cup and olympics at this point

It seems I totally blanked on Din Tai Fung closing.......... in 2024. 🥟

The dialogue in Street Fighter 6 is more than a bit contrived. Unfortunately it's mainly just to read so you have to use imagination for their accent and speech quirks. #switch2

"It’s not a strategy you’d teach in diplomacy school. It’s not even a strategy you’d teach in a casino. But it might be the only play left, in a world where democracy is forced to beg for attention from men who think peace is something you win, not something you build."

"When it comes to serious matters like imperial competition, even Fox quits its bullshit" worth reading.

I'll take "CUNT" for $1,000,000 please.

'Six framed photos of Keanu Reeves were placed around Cr Lynagh's mail receptacle last Wednesday, along with three battery-operated candles and a note in Morse code saying "the black raven is the key".' www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

"That was a potato at 70" "No, it was a mozzarella cheese ball at 68"

"ShatGPT summarised the entire Wikipedia article for me, AMA"

Almost time to go back to Melbourne. The good thing about small airports like Mildura is you can take a photo of the runway from the café - I got in trouble trying to take a snap from the tarmac when we arrived on Friday. ✈️

"11 Re-Truths. 25 Likes" He's the proverbial old man yelling at a cloud.

Hot tip: row 11 on a Dash-8 plane has an obstructed view and doesn't really have its own window. Anyway, hello Mildura! ✈️

Malinauskas is proof that having a great rig as a middle aged man comes at a severe cerebral cost, and many rigged up dads are experiencing the ill effects of Long Himbo

Ugh someone has let their huge dog take a huge dump in front of my house and just left it for me to clean up. Have some damn respect.

"a good start " is fair. How well it holds up to police requests, trespassers etc is yet to be seen.

had to be done really. I regret nothing:

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

The Fraternal Order of Police is a scam, they're crooks. youtu.be/nKLveXWvb2s?...

It has never been more important in most of our lifetimes than now to make art that deeply offends and concerns fascists.

Don't ask me actually to say anything по-русски because the owl app is mainly a glorified memory game.

More frequent services all day every day would get a lot more people onto public transport and out of the traffic. Big improvements are possible without a huge investment in bigger fleets and more track. #Melbourne #PublicTransport

diacritics matter

Back to work in the morning. The key question being am I ready to go back to work in the morning? 🤔

Catching the new train into the city it's interesting to see the number of people who will wait on the platform for 8 minutes for a loop train rather than catch the earlier tunnel train and interchange. I suspect they'll be very confused come February 1.

I’m a cyclist and I know the road rules. I also know that the bogan in the Hilux will do whatever he wants, with little consequence, even if he kills me. International rule of law seems quite similar.

Fixed it. (in all seriousness, a great op-ed worth reading) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #venezuela

Americans are winners, just like North Vietnam. youtu.be/EfX7AxRuCyc?...

Remember how appalled we all were in 2022 when Russia completely unprovoked attacked Ukraine? That is what we’re doing tonight with Venezuela. We are the bad guys here. Everyone who supports this is supporting unprovoked murder. Fuck every last one of them

Strong Adam Curtis vibes, but absolutely yes ✅

Flicking through a paper copy of The (Sunday) Age while I have a coffee and amazed that they still print the free to air TV guide for the week. Since it's part of Nine Entertainment I guess they're going to keep flogging that dead horse as long as they can.

What is he even fund raising for at this point? Or is it just a garden variety shakedown of the stupid now?

Niche porno

There is an old travel agent's sign in Sunshine that still has the Ansett Australia logo. I wonder if next year will be enough time since it collapsed - 25 years - for them to paint over it.

When the robot is doubled over at the end it is as if it finds the whole thing hilarious. 🤖

Excellent news.

"Get me Francis Ford Coppola!" “He's unavailable." “Then get me his non-union Romanian equivalent!"

jfc the "Summer Start" on the new tunnel line is stupid. It's not really a usable service, particularly if going beyond West Footscray. The Myki app wants me to walk to Melbourne Central rather than get the next train and change at WF.

I've spent the last 45 minutes looking for pomegranate, giving up.

Feels more like a high day to me 🤧🤧

Getting extremely mad at git today. 😡😡😡

'Former Prime Minister John Howard—imagine Ronald Reagan crossed with Dick Cheney crossed with Gollum'

Linking the march across the bridge to the massacre is disgusting and everyone doing so should be deeply ashamed of their giving tacit support for genocide www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Alternative idea: have a fucking spine and speak your mind. You're a fucking news organisation, you're supposed to speak truth to power.

"Requiring temporary visitors here to surrender five years of their social media to the US will send the message that the American commitment to free speech is pretense, not practice. This is not the behavior of a country confident in its freedoms.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Remember when you could google a lyric and not have an LLM politely tell you it didn't happen. Not helpful.

the severed heads of Santas displayed as a warning to others who would spread yultide cheer

Melbournians: noooooo

This shits over the Big Pineapple or any of Australia's other "big" things. (maybe except for the Big Bogan which is objectively funny).

The PTV app showing #metrotunnel services terminating at Town Hall in their app is really backwards. It's a cross town line, some folks might like to ride it to the other side! @ptua.org.au