Learnt properly nothing from this. And they asked people who thought the Libs had gone too far left, so dunno where they got the 'both sides' line.

I wanted nipples but they only had bushes.

For non-yanks, none of this is as bonkers as the fact they have an entirely political judiciary and police force.

How does a doco about a gold-digging sex worker cost $40m to make?? (They would have received far more back in kickbacks obviously)

Ford Rangers are definitely losing their spot as #1 wankpanzer. Take a bow Ram.

The 'eurostack' is a very very powerful idea, that will be attacked by NSA etc relentlessly. Can't have people owning their own tech.

How in fuck one quarter of Australian adults think Porleen could run this country is beyond me. (which isn't a ringing endorsement of the last several incumbents).

Just who would be this dumb?

I think we got away with it - didn't mention climate change.

Friend of mine asked ChatGPT how to reconcile with her sister. Anyway now she's blocked on all platforms, so that went well.

HISTORIC HEAT IN AUSTRALIA Climatic history is set to be rewritten with an absolutely deadly week: Today 48.5C in South Australia,47.2 New South Wales, 45.3 Queensland,45.0 Victoria ‼️We might expect 7 CONSECUTIVE DAYS >46C in New South Wales and we can't rule out 50C. A HELL

*sigh* time to bite the bullet and convert the house PC to Linux. #FuckMicrosoft #FuckAI I don't enjoy tech tinkering.

It's a ritual every morning in Australia to open your socials and be confronted by fresh horror. Anyway, went and saw the Talking Heads Experience last night and it was awesome. Twelve great musicians having fun with fantastic material.

It's quite shit how everyone is cheering on the rearmament of Europe (which I agree is necessary) without any real consideration of the costs in welfare etc. There's probably going to be some Keynesian pump priming, but even so what foregone social investments?

I can't handle all the racists in the comments on instagram.

With most psychedelic drugs, you never know what you're going to get. But this mysterious mushroom from China - without fail - causes users to hallucinate tiny people: crawling up walls, popping out from under furniture and marching under doors. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

This is a fascist technology that fundamentally -by its core design and characteristics as a technology- serves the goals of bigots, racists and bloodthirsty white supremacists It has no role in progressive or left advocacy, no matter how much time it saves you. When you use it, you're helping them

Tell you my pet's name in a GIF? Easy.

Advance skirts around the edge of being a hate group, they could readily cross the line, & a moral D-G of ASIO could recommend their listing. And it's a retrospective law. So any current funders of Advance could quite possibly be criminals, if there was any justice.

Quick NSW Police, mark down another anti-semitic attack.

They'll already be working on the Federal budget in Canberra. Things I'll bet they've already ruled out: #RaiseTheRate #TaxThePolluters #FixSuperRorts Anything else you expect to be disappointed by?

If only they had the numbers in Parliament!

This is much better than Hi I'm Kevin and I'm here to help. I've never understood why clear communications are so unnatural to so many politicians. I wish him well.

Carney's speech is little more and nothing less than a giant fuck you to Trump.

Forget the speech. I wanna see David Pocock tackle Trump like he was Richie McCaw.

Cast your mind back not very far to when the potato was Home Affairs Minister, and this dark joke seems very real.

The mere existence of Palestine, a State recognised by Australia, is now a political statement. Good grief.

Everybody knows this is true.

My latest article in @theshot.net.au on the dark days of McCarthyism coming to Australia to eclipse our cultural landscape under the guise of eradicating communism - whoops sorry - antisemitism The Adelaide Festival, the arts and the dark arts #allfeedbackwelcome 🙏🏽 theshot.net.au/uncategorize...

I remember a more innocent time when Americans would scold you for even talking about the death or murder of their President. Partly because of fear of their Secret Service, partly because (gawd remember this?) "respect the sanctity of the office". It never went down well.

Interesting that China can still hit 5% growth with declining pop & low hanging fruit of development picked. Maybe the western productivity crisis is nothing more than too many parasites (billionaires)?

I'm just back from a short break in NZ (big election over there this year) - and was going to start TrueNorth up again next week - but with everything going on - will start it up again today. If you're not already a signed up please do so here #auspol > truenorthnews.substack.com

When does the punk renaissance kick off?

China had already won the 21st century well before Trump came to power, but it's almost funny just how hard they're trying to retire hurt.

French judge explains how Trump sent people from the US Embassy to try to intimidate her during Marine Le Pen's trial for embezzlement — and details how he has used similar fascistic tactics to intimidate other judges around the world who rule against his alt-right friends.

Macron might be a shithouse President for France, I might hate him if I had to vote on domestic issues, but he's such good value internationally.

Almost got banned from Metafilter for using USAians. To be fair, I was trying to piss the right people off.

Greg Bovino might be a weird freak who deserves great mockery, but again heightism is considered hilarious.

One might have thought that this was news worthy of a brief mention in our national broadcaster? Nope, silence.

Apart from 'seize the moment', was there ever any justification given for rushing these laws through Parliament?

Former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating in 2016 advised us Australians to cut the tag with the USA. Before AUKUS, he foresaw where this was all going. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11...

Trump isn't going to give up on this idiocy. It is becoming one of the most bizarre and foolish incidents in international relations of all time.

Will you look at this disgrace? Plainly a lot more consumer education required. Ping @ketanjoshi.co

Just drove past a Lamborghini Anus and I don't think I've ever seen an uglier waste of $400k.

Disappointing that In Our Time is wrapping up, but I've got about five years of back catalogue to get through.

You will never see this in CNN

Trump, the four times bankrupt, is going to at least flirt with the idea of defaulting on US debt.

just one more AI call to action button in the UI will do it bro, one more AI button, just one more AI button bro