some amazing things happening over on threads — ever since they “shut down CERN”

Even as a football know-nothing I can see that France is a special team. Far out.

Just read Christopher’s Strong Legs by @ringworm.bsky.social absolutely beautiful. I feel lucky to be able to read his stories. infinitegossip.ghost.io/christophers...

Love to see teachers standing up for themselves and for Victorian kids and schools. removepaywalls.com/https://www....

Here's a thing Claude just said to me: "The posture fork is the crisp choice and the universal floor. Is there a second day-one call genuinely worth surfacing, or does more than one fork dilute the magic beat?" What are we doing here, people.

If Uhlmann was employed by anyone other than The Oz, his boss would see this and ask him to seek medical help.

If you finish the toilet roll in a public toilet / cafe etc, do you find and install the replacement roll, or do you leave the empty roll in place? Your answer tells me everything I need to know about you.

My god, Octavia Butler, just miss ONCE

Police violence disgusts me.

#hirdmentum making me real queasy

The difference between having a cat and having a dog is staggering. Having a dog is like having child who’s disgusting. Having a cat is like having a painting that’s mad at you.

There are days when I miss being an editor. I loved writing headlines. Whoever did this, I hope they took the rest of the day off.

I am moved beyond words by this beautiful piece of writing on How To Eat by the wonderful Yasmin Khan open.substack.com/pub/risingup...

I just received my PLR/ELR statement. PLR/ELR is a way that Australian writers can receive income from their books in libraries and schools. I remind writers to do your bloody paperwork so you can get paid and I remind readers if you borrow our books from libraries we still get paid.

"I wish Kyle and Jackie O were taken off the air" *cursed monkey paw closes finger*

Even when you fight back against the lies, that's just evidence of their truth. I mean, ffs

My strategic ally told me airshows keep eating his fighter jets so I asked how many fighter jets he has and he said he just goes to the hanger and gets gets a new fighter jet afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding fighter jets to airshows and then his taxpayers started crying.

Truth.

Forgive me for sharing this again, but the Kyle Hudson inquest was incredibly affecting – and revealing – about the depth of harm gambling can cause to a young man with no adverse circumstances, the info betting companies have, and crucially, what they do with it. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Making slight changes to tax settings (especially half-assed tinkering by grandfathering things) is not going to resolve our housing crisis. The market will not adequately create or distribute the things we need to survive.

A lot of people in my professional circle are having a big cry about CGT. I have so many thoughts about it all, but the main one is: are you not embarrassed to respond to a change that makes our society theoretically more equitable with "wahhh, my imaginary millions"? Come on.

Good to see the robots writing recipes for us now.

God, fuck them so much.

I assumed that Scientology speed-running was seeing who could go clear the fastest 😂

"We do not know what our product is for"

Happy birthday David Attenborough, you’re the best.

Michael Gawenda seems like an excellent candidate for LLM psychosis.

Supreme Court Overturns ‘Right v. Wrong’ https://theonion.com/supreme-court-overturns-right-v-wrong-1819573211/

A very nice Markdown viewer: apps.apple.com/au/app/mud-m...

Happy 4/20 everyone I am sorry to inform you that this appears to be real

Dr Richard Denniss dismantles the gas industry’s favorite threat. If taxes kill investment, why is the gas industry rushing to Norway to pay 78%? 🙄 “They are playing us for fools.” 🔥 Nationals’ Susan McDonald has no rebuttal & scrambles to change the subject. #auspol

“When you say things like… we pay more tax on beer than we tax the fossil fuel industry for extracting all this wealth from the land and simply shipping it over as if it belongs to them. “This is brilliant.” - @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social ✍️ Support a 25% gas export tax: https://theaus.in/485Pi3V

Zach Galifianakis has a new gardening show on Netflix. I guess he really liked the ferns

Flash animation is a dying craft and its ancient practitioners should be encouraged to preserve their skills. We need to continue the macromedia-based traditional practice

lmaooo have fun

experiencing a tiny bit of patriotic pride

The VIC Gov has approved destruction of rare snow gums on the summit of Mt Macedon so people can get a view of Melbourne. Take action here and help to #SaveMacedonSnowGums www.melbournefoe.org.au/save_mt_mace...

Another way to put it is... if you don't use AI platforms because you have a moral objection to them, but you publish your words on Substack, you haven't really thought about this stuff.

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto https://theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-cocktail-at-sam-altmans-home-claims-he-was-following-chatgpt-recipe-for-risotto/

This kind of thing at Substack (including their Nazi problem and trans hate problem) are why my newsletter is at Ghost.org and always has been. Andrew Tate is a spectacularly vile human being accused of numerous violent crimes against women and hugely corrosive for young male minds.

They have just started to destroy Snow Gums on Mt Macedon in order to “restore” historic views of Melbourne from the Memorial Cross on the top of the mountain. Only 21ha of Montane Grassy Woodland remains in central & western VIC! themountainjournal.com/2025/08/21/p...

Fuck the Forum and fuck the Marriner Group. Today they tore down the "She Matters" mural in Hosier Lane, curated by @sherelemoody.bsky.social as part of the Red Heart movement highlighting Australian femicide. What a shameful thing to do 🤬 australianfemicidewatch.org/database/

The Finnish word for an auction, huutokauppa, means “shout market” (or “shouting shop”) * read on for more of my favourite Finnish words (a thread in honour of today being Day of the Finnish Language)…

New shark just dropped: www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

COOL. www.skoda-storyboard.com/en/skoda-wor...

Lol at Nike Shoulders www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Brutal.