This was what a data centre looked like when I was young. The only thing it polluted was our minds, and the only thing it took from us was our time - I could literally spend hours lost in its evil yet seductive clutches.

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Hey men ... Don't turn to Andrew Tate and his ilk when looking for a role model. If you want to be liked, respected, heard, valued ... If you want women to like you ... be like Sam Neill. There's your role model.

They genuinely don't understand that none of the decisions about AI that affect Australians will be made in Australia, by Australians, or even with reference to Australia... ever.

what Disney needs to do is try something totally different - it should make a movie focused on a young nonwhite female character struggling with internal anxiety, self-doubt, and intergenerational family trauma

why women love islam: the hijab eliminates physical beauty as a mate-selection advantage there's nothing more feminist than socially-policed tribal signals that decrease the mate value of your competitors

Barnaby Joyce and Pauline Hanson say Australia is a Christian, British monoculture. Section 116 says no religion was ever established. The census says Christian affiliation has collapsed from 61% to 44% in a decade. Neither claim survives contact with the evidence blakandblack.com/2026/07/15/t...

Look maybe driving a car at ICE agents is not in fact a wise move

god, remember what the start of this decade was like, it was this shit 24/7

Indian woman brutally murdered by her Indian husband in Australia. There's a rush to return the body to India because (checks notes) it's bad luck for the son otherwise?

All we needed to bring X and Bluesky together for one moment was the death of Sam Neill. Both timelines are just outpourings of love right now. I'm here for it. It will be over in a flash, but I'm here for it.

MJ Rowling: and I took that personally

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Reminder: Sam Neill requested of the costume designer on 1997's "Event Horizon" that Australia's flag of the year 2047 feature the Aboriginal flag in place of the Union Jack

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good news guys, the British Association of Psychotherapy & Counselling has announced that henceforth infidelity is just "relationship diversity" and as we all know diversity is super great

can someone explain why chatgpt is still in the app store? stebe would have gone scorched earth

Wesley Yang on X has an interesting take:

I won't speak ill of the dead

smash capitalism, also

matt decided to run GPT-5.6-sol without strong guardrails don't be like matt

Shitty religion and shitty culture is driving increased child sex trafficking The ABC: it must by the fault of climate change

Complaint to global psychiatry body alleges Australian college is shutting down debate on gender medicine open.substack.com/pub/gendercl...

just add hollywood

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we have always been at war with the Islamic Republic of Japan

whew, glad we got that cleared up

thanks HR

It has been criminally underreported but Kelsey Pfendler has just rowed solo across the Pacific Ocean from the US coast to Hawaii in record time. A 2,400-mile unsupported journey in 43 days, 17 hours, and 55 minutes. Notably beating the Men’s record by 9 whole days.

another of the ancient texts. km-515.livejournal.com/1042.html

oh neat, another Labour promise that something will be built by someone, sometime, and it will all be free, vote quimby

let me get this straight, Mitch McConnell is in a vegetative state and his wife has fled to China to ensure there's no next of kin to authorise the plug being pulled, because election date?

posted by Scott Miller @scottapogee on X: one of ancient texts

I am glad that Belgium beat the USA because I didn't want a nation with a history of racist oppression and colonialism to win

true aussie values 'Three "highly credentialed" sportsmen have been granted a court order barring the ABC from publishing a story, detailing group chat messages which shared “crude descriptions of sexual acts and domestic violence”'

A hero’s welcome for the Cabo Verde team arriving home ❤️

so I started playing playing DOOM for a laugh the other night and within seconds I was totally immersed. Blocky 320x200 graphics, sprites, software rendered, a midi musical score, and I was terrified.

You want to see Norway men’s national football team’s official photo for World Cup 2026 www.nytimes.com/athletic/733...

Three days after Mitch McConnell suffered a heart attack and received CPR, his wife, Elaine Chao, fled to China. thedailybeast.com/mitch-mcconn...

if a man had demanded to participate, it would have been unlawful to exclude him #straya

California returns stretch of coast to Indigenous tribes. ‘This is beyond huge’ www.latimes.com/california/s... now this is how to mark the 250th anniversary of this country. #ProudCalifornian

cape verde, WHAT

if Arthur actually had a left leg it would be on fire, so like, amputee privilege

You can get one of those sick Cabo Verde warmup shirts with the sharks on it here (thank you to @dianamonkey.bsky.social for telling me this info!) capellisport.com/collections/...

What’s Albo got to lose standing up to the gambling lobby? The opposition is in a shambles. Poorlean is being found out. The majority of the Australian public would support it. Grow a pair Albo. Do it. #Auspol.

Excellent scientific commentary by biologists correcting a number of myths about sex and sex development. www.uoaseen.nz/index.php/20...

language is healing