FAFO Chat GPT style....

Does AFR exist in a parallel universe?

The rise of people who worry about the rise of wokeness as though it is an actual thing....

Amazing how some people can be so proud of having no cultural interest in their life...

I'm always a bit bewildered by how so many Gary Larson fans got so worked up about that one carton. Felt like they were trying to read too much into it.

Why is the agreement not a public document for all to analyse?

Classy Colin Hay.

But because of his posh accent, many commentators treated him as though he was somebody we should all be listening to.

Felt necessary. I'm still far from caring about this story.

The reaction of his compatriots seems a bit harsh....

How long does this brink go on for?

Jfc for a nanosecond I thought this was the Onion

I'd pretty much forgotten he existed since he was jailed. This article spoiled that for me.

Meanwhile Trump still talks as though Putin has been miscast as the villain.

I do wonder if Americans understand quite how insane he looks.

All the media need to stop going along this as though it somehow resembles normality. Perhaps it's always too late though. They ignored it for too long.

Like the description of "physical" contact. No animal email use involved.

Amazed how some (supposedly intelligent) people still support this because they think it aligned with their aims - one it is normalised, the opportunities are there for the parties that they don't like to behave in the same way.

You'd think she'd have got the message that nobody cared what she thought. We did try our best to let her know, but she seems impervious to criticism.

This is not the AI enabled future we were sold...

Are there a lot of shark attacks, or has the media just gone crazy about reporting them?

Looks like Chinese chicken...

This is really fascinating - a snippet of history that I'd never heard mentioned before.

And a far more credible potential leader than Farage.

Not all heroes wear capes

"Trump knows who awards the Peace Prize, and who does not. I have made that clear several times." What's interesting is that, as anyone with demented relatives will know, you can make something clear hundreds of times but people with cognition problems end up not able to absorb the information.

Daniel Part-of-the-Problem Hannan.

Free speech absolutists versus the law... A predictable ending to this farce...

For non-German speakers: “Dear media, I can’t stand the headline "No agreement between the US and Denmark” any longer. If an armed man storms a bank, you don't run the headline: "Robber and cashier can't reach an agreement on money transfer." Stop framing imperial aggression as normal diplomacy.”

This seems like a maliciously put headline to make people feel a certain way. Wikipedia is not partaking in generative AI. They are making AI companies and scrappers having to pay for training their modules off wikipedia texts. And having an AI (not that ai) tasked with updating dead links.

A personal award is not a transferable proprietary right. You cannot assign, say, an A-Level result or a Victoria Cross or a Noble prize to another. One may gift or sell the manifestation of the award - the certificate or physical medal - but the award stays with the person to whom it was awarded.

The Reform pitch is increasingly “the last government was terrible, so we’ve hired everyone who was in it”.

And the Australia Day / Anzac Day rage stories begin...

Did the article author not know what tea bagging was?

Happy New year everyone. In case you hadn't been kept up to date by my family on current events, I woke up on Sunday 3rd Jan for a bike ride. I have no idea what happened next - the following few days were a blur in the hospital that started a few minutes into my ride..

It’s just hard for the rest of us to get our heads around.

Thats the way to do it. Perhaps one day we will see a similar succinct but sweeping order from a new president.

A young woman leads a group of protesters into chants of "don't be afraid, we're all together" in Tehran's Grand Bazaar. Location: maps.app.goo.gl/sDDP83mJR1GH...

Just when I thought X couldn't go downhill further - Grok now seems to be able to change people's clothing - and the site is full of people commenting on photos of young women, telling Grok to show them in lingerie or bikinis.

Paging @georgeous.one

Jackie Chan having more awareness of the situation in Gaza thank many politicians wasn't something I was expecting TBH.

Has anyone ever celebrated the new year at one of the three points in Australia where you can walk a few steps and celebrate it three times?

I find it very disturbing how rapidly the Bondi attack has been politicised by certain groups with political agendas and some sectors of the media.

Despite strong competition and only hours of 2025 left, blue tick amounts on X are still jostling for the title of most asinine UK politics hot take of the year.

God honestly. Doesn’t this just sum up Reform. And their plastic patriotism. Can’t even give a straight answer or follow the rules on their unbelievably naff merch. So on brand. Oh well. You sell or wear one of these, you’ve told us all we need to know about you. (iPaper)

Don't buy into her attempts to rehabilitate her reputation by being right on one thing. She's a dreadful individual.

ruin two bands by combining them: Yes Queen

Unimaginably, Morgan Freeman was once young. Well, not that young. He was 34. Could wear the hell out of a pair of flares, though

Life really does come at you fast when you're Liz Truss

Same people who were chomping on this crap in Spain will no doubt criticise migrants in the UK for not adapting to British traditions and customs.