Hoo boy. I’d missed all that Chalamet stuff and now I’m all caught up I will continue to not watch his films

Today Radio National went from giant wanker (a profile on Pete Hegseth) to guilty wanking (a story on people who masturbate despite it conflicting with their beliefs).

Hastie opining that Australians are losing faith in the US Alliance. Deadpanned that he thought the Iran invasion has somewhat dampened the US military's credibility. Gosh, I can't imagine why.

Rank and file Republicans really committed to the bit.

Love it when someone from a previous job who habitually tossed me under any oncoming form of mass transit gets into my LinkedIn DMs asking if I can help him find a job.

The correlation between being a Jan 6er and being a pedophile is incredible, it must be like several standard deviations outside what you’d expect just based on chance

Under Zohran Mamdani, gas prices have spiked, the stock market has cratered, and the US is locked in a nonsensical war with Iran. Is this really what New Yorkers signed up for?

Disgraced former Prime Ministers are going full-on bonkers to show the world what the UK endured over the last few years. Liz Truss gave a swivel-eyed speech at CPAC saying Britain had been taken over by Islamists and the shadowy global elite. And Boris Johnson is on GB News reciting sonnets.

Look, while it could be less wet, I am liking this shift in the weather.

I really need to get a set of those little polarising filters for my iPhone camera

Hyundai's electric automunculous (obviously I made that up) is the Inster aka Casper Electric. The second I drove it away from Hyundai, I knew it was good. But how good and how much? theredline.com.au/2026-hyundai...

Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

If you're a fan of my coffee maps, tell me what you think of this (in beta) app I'm vibe coding. At some point I'll move it off there and pay developer to do stuff, but I want to see if I'm going in the right direction: coffeeintransit.base44.app

Anyway, where are all the "Trump is going to save Iranians from the Ayatollah" crowd? He's far too incompetent and I can't believe they thought that was even on.

The golf clap was invented for Trump, wasn't it?

As if to go from the ridiculous to the sublime, tomorrow's review on The Redline will be the tiny Hyundai Inster, all 1305kg and four seats of it. 9:01 eastern summer time, bet you can't wait.

"Gulf states’ scepticism over alleged US-Iran talks signals a distrust of Trump." Oh? You mean the guys who gave him planes and trinkets and orbs and deals know he's corruptible and stupid? Well, well, well. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Why must people keep commenting “insane refresh pull” on YouTube videos?

I love that this modern Mini-sized EV truck has as much room in the tray as a HiLux. I just hate the front end on it, those headlights look awful. www.telotrucks.com

Incredible how "the markets" take anything Donald Trump does seriously. "A 15-point peace plan you say? Have I read it? Of course not, but it must be good!"

Oh, hey, I got to drive the Aston Martin Vanquish. theredline.com.au/2025-aston-m...

You mean a $116 million website.

There is a security person on this train who steps out at every station and appears to be checking nobody is on the back of the train?

I’m willing to own my clangers in that I’ve had the same agency all along.

Remember the halcyon days of…um…a month ago when EU-made cars would be entirely LCT exempt as well as removing the 5% tariff which will instantly be eaten?

Listening to Sizzletown and unfortunately @tonymartin.bsky.social reminded me how absolutely terrible was the F1 film.

I'm not sure Navan has its head around how business travel works. You search for accommodation in a city and "based on your previous stays" it peddles me a room I've never stayed in that's $1000/night so well out of policy. Good job, big data. Good job.

"If you want to lose weight eat in front of a mirror, nude". Tried it. All I saw was a happy naked woman eating cheese.

Simultaneously: - Microsoft bragging that 90% of the code its devs ship is AI generated - Microsoft demanding that its devs burn 10x fewer tokens because it's getting too expensive - Every week brings new and exciting emergency security patches for Windows 11

What a dispiriting afternoon

the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes

Making the Strait of Hormuz safe for energy shipments would be a remarkable accomplishment, one that the world has never seen since the beginning of the month.

This is incredible value: www.carsales.com.au/cars/details... Ripper of a car, good driveline, no silly 0-100km/h theatrics and an easily manageable at-home charging proposition if you have access to a plug.

Kharg Island is, quite literally, a map in Call of Duty. Just in case you're wondering why the current US administration is so obsessed with taking it.

I see Trump has reached the "impotent rage/escalating threats" part of his exquisite deal-making.

Well now.

-I want the most daily telegraph headline known to man -no, that’s too daily telegraph

Of all the terrible negative effects of AI, I think the worst is the power it gives to elderly parents to re-diagnose your cancer-stricken dog with diabetes.

Anyone using Moose Mobile in Sydney?

turns out Banksy was just three artistic statements on the state of the human race in a trenchcoat

Only Sam Rockwell could nail the spelling line in this so comprehensively well. youtu.be/xVa4PHnlprs?...

I know when I get heckled at church (and I do) I usually refrain to connecting it to the banning of a terrorist organisation.

Another flying work-related visit to Melbourne over and I am always stunned by how much I miss it.

At some stage we are going to have to have an honest conversation with the reality that the only tool that the wizards of macroeconomics have to manage the fact that prices are increasing too fast is to put up the price of everything.

My unbroken run of Model Y Ubers is depressing.

Imagine framing the war in Iran around standing up for Iranian women while supporting Christian nationalism here in the United States that is feverishly working to subjugate women here at home and somehow not seeing the blatant hypocrisy.

“The [Neue Klasse] BMW i3 is the first production evidence of BMW’s electric future.” Uh, no, the iX3 was.

Procrastination? Don’t get me started.

Laugh all you like… this woman is six foot three

Here’s a thing. Trying to book a reward flight home from HK in 11 months time. Qantas wants $1100 in charges which I assume is largely a fuel surcharge. Do they have to refund me if the surcharge goes away or do they just pocket it while the ACCC looks the other way?