i just want to live in a world where paying attention to things isn't this annoying

ABC MD Hugh Marks had clearly been recruiting his new director of news before Justin Stevens even resigned. Job wasn’t advertised, there was no open, merit-based process, and internal staff had no chance to apply. The whole thing stinks.

You used to be able to google the time of the sunset, and Google would give you the exact time right on top every single time. Thankfully, with artificial intelligence, you can now ask Google what time the sun will set and it will conveniently tell you "I don't know."

Time to delete your Linktree!

Ah AUKUS. Here we are, reduced to obsequiously accepting - and paying top dollar - for the US's offcasts.

It’s scarcely believable just how bad the National Anti-Corruption Commission is at doing its one and only job nickfeik.substack.com/p/inside-the...

The NACC is in crisis, thanks to the leadership of Brereton. The Albanese govt owns a large share of the responsibiliity too, and now has a serious mess to clean up. By Michelle Fahy and Elizabeth Minter and I. ICYMI:

“These elder boomers who run these sparsely populated towns and counties, they do not want thriving rural communities. They want a quiet little tomb to die in” vt.tiktok.com/ZSxGDfkmt/

The AFR has spent the past couple weeks actively campaigning against the budget changes. So don’t let anyone tell you the conservative media just want to report the news with balance.

The person organizing this conference that Greg Bovino is speaking at is Martin Sellner, a neo-Nazi activist. Sellner, among other things, corresponded and agreed to meet with the man who went on to murder 51 worshippers at two mosques in Christchurch, NZ in 2019 www.theguardian.com/world/2019/m...

"At a moment when support for Israel has never been so controversial, the Commission could not find time to hear a single anti-Zionist Jew or Palestine supporter in its first forty-five hours of public sessions."

This AFR editorial might be the most ignorant thing I’ve read for a long while. Pure bullshit fantasy. Written by a paper desperate to simp for rich people rather than defend democracy.

It’s remarkable how this administration has done every single thing conservatives pretended liberals were doing when Biden was in charge.

Another big consultancy scandal, this time at KPMG www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

After @news.abc.net.au revelations on this week's 4 Corners about BHP quietly walking away from its climate commitments, it covers itself in further glory with its pursuit of @michaelwest.com.au.web.brid.gy & now seeking a suppression order over its own lawsuit. michaelwest.com.au/bhp-urgent-s...

If only our NACC worked, it could look into this. #AusPol

Deb O’Neill unloads on ASIC’s Sarah Court for continuing to let PwC & KPMG “run ASIC round & round” at taxpayer expense after Court says it’ll be hard to investigate KPMG’s latest tender-rigging scandal coz they hire expensive lawyers “It’s an outrageous proposition”🔥 #auspol

guys I just tried googling this to find the exact Andor quote and jesus fucking christ guys what the fuck is happening here

I remember when I could just mistype half the words of a half remembered misheard quote and the most powerful search engine on earth got the movie exactly right in a list, and I just read the answer. Now I get to play stupid games to make IT stop playing stupid games or use B-tier DDG. Oh, what fun.

The AFR is taking "saying the quiet part out loud" to new heights...

BREAKING: KPMG Australia CEO Andrew Yates has resigned. Follows explosive Senate evidence revealed by Senator Deborah O’Neill of an internal whistleblower being suppressed after exposing KPMG Partners accessing secret Lendlease files to rig multi-million dollar tenders. #auspol

Extremely funny to issue an indignant denial of a story that's been reported by at least three different outlets when you are also maybe the single least credible lawyer in the entire country right now

Jillian Segal can’t explain any services provided by co of ScoMo’s fmr sec Yaron Finkelstein who she contracted without tender. Says it’s an “advisory contract” Pocock “$200k for ad-hoc advice?" Segal “I didn’t say that" Then what’s the $200k for? Peak integrity.🙄 #auspol

Changing the sheets at midnight because our elderly dog pissed in the bed. Cool. Good. Excellent.

David Shoebridge slams Jillian Segal who refuses to release conflict of interest docs claiming they’re “private” Segal, stumbling, then claims her conflicts are actually “public” Shoebridge “if it’s public, why do you object to them being published?”🔥 Trainwreck💥 #auspol

The same Trump-appointee who fucked with the Broadview 6 grand jury is the one going after E. Jean Carroll.

A President ordering the Justice Department to criminally investigate a woman who won a sexual assault lawsuit against him makes Watergate look like an unpaid parking ticket.

Better to hurt the lives of people with disabilities than upset Santos, I guess.

@markbutlermp.bsky.social this is a true invitation. Come on my Dollars and Sense podcast. I'll bring my daughter and you can explain why she needs her funding cut 25% like this eg in your bill's explanatory memorandum

Hey @markbutlermp.bsky.social - I am giving you an open invitation to come see my daughter with Down Syndrome and then you can tell me to my face that it will be good to cut her social, economic and community participation funding by 25% (heck the explanatory memorandum gives an eg of 50%).

Sonny Rollins, one of the most influential Jazz musicians of our time, died this afternoon. He was 95

sure, these cowards will allow steroids. but they still refuse to give Gun Boxing a proper chance.

Uber’s COO has said that it’s getting “harder to justify” its AI costs because there was no way to show a link between AI spend and any meaningful increase in useful features. This is the first time I’ve seen a company say this directly. www.businessinsider.com/uber-coo-and...

If you're wondering how the recently resigned #NACC Commissioner, Paul Brereton, spent his time in his $800,000 p.a job, at least some of it was dedicated to writing to the Inspector General about some individual called, Ronni Salt's, twitter activities. Seriously - I kid you not #auspol

Having thoroughly trashed the reputation of the organisation by refusing to resign when it first became obvious that he should, Brereton has managed to do even more damage. He lasted until just after the Robodebt findings, too. Shocked I say.

I love the implication that it takes a nobel-prize winning economist to reach this conclusion. "I've crunched the numbers and I've discovered that Democrats will win if they choose the candidate who is most likely to win."

It's time for the Democrats, at long last, to consider electability. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/24/o...

I am struck that the one time I wrote for The Atlantic, they had a fact-checker who demanded I include links for even quite minor claims in the piece or at least substantiate those claims to him, whereas when TCW writes for them, there isn't a single link or example to be found.

So to clarify: There's no agreement on nuclear enrichment or arms; or on the $25 bil of Iranian funds under sanction; or who will control Hormuz or if it'll be tolled; or on Israel's invasion and attacks in Lebanon (which Iran says are integral). Other than that, it's virtually a done deal.

A day after The Late Show ended, Colbert hosted an episode of public access program Only In Monroe, reviving his 11-year-old gag. How bad is CBS/Paramount taking it? They issued copyright complaints for a show they don't own. 🤣 CBS would hate it if you watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DlF...

from the moment it was founded activists and human rights watchdogs have warned that DHS was constructed to be an almost unaccountable private paramilitary force at the president's sole disposal.

How did I only just discover that Don Jr is marrying the daughter of a prominent Epstein enabler? Her late dad, a banker, wrote Epstein a reference letter calling him "a gentleman of the highest integrity" to help get him tax breaks &… his island. Can’t make this stuff up.

Imagine missing your own son’s wedding so you could go surrender to Iran

Absolute King shit.

this is slightly earlier than expected tbh www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

A friend did the maths on this and noted that in the last 5 years there has been one hostile news article for every ten trans people in the population total.

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.

Real weird decision by NYT to even create a PR account in the first place, imho

AOC: This is what drinking water in Georgia looks like after Meta began data center construction in the community.

every one of these folks should be primaried unconscionable betrayal of their constituents