"There he is, there he is, soon we’ll know everything!" This is a terrific piece.

These journalists need to understand that "engagement" and "followers" were never part of the four elements of posting. 1. Mental illness 2. Pervert / Horny 3. The Rascal Life 4. Cyber bullying

That chap's name? Wes Streeting.

I missed the bluesky vs X discourse but as always you can start everyone one of these debates with a simple question!!!!! - Does social media website come packaged with a software system designed to freely generate child abuse materials on request 🔳 Yes 🔳 No

There are insufferably dense people on here (mute & block!) but the alternative is a place where mates / mutuals were routinely threatened with **** and ***** etc etc so seems easy really.

every time the X vs. Bluesky discourse comes up the conversation eventually gets here and i'm amazed that it finds a way to continue afterwards

"A key associate of former Donald Trump strategist Steve Bannon has told a gathering of Australian conservatives that Angela Merkel, the former German chancellor, did more damage to the fabric of Germany than the Nazis and Adolf Hitler...at a conference organised by right-wing lobby group Advance"

ALP Nat Con postal ballots arrived. Congrats to the candidates who timed a dead tree how to vote that arrived the same day.

Leaving *aside* that this guy was almost certainly a *** offender computers used be much cooler

Terrible food pyramid tbh

It was exactly fifty years ago today that AC/DC filmed this iconic clip from the back of a flatbed truck in Swanston Street, Melbourne. And it's still a long way to the shop if you want a sausage roll.

Bugger. I had my money on a couple of roughies on Polymarket. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Recall that this man was last seen being selected Number 1 (so guaranteed election for 6 years) on the Libs SA Senate Ticket. And a Coalition Deputy Prime Minister has joined as some sort of co-leader.

Kash Patel is going to make history as the first FBI director to get medically evacuated from Burning Man

Absolutely SHOCKED to find out that neo-Nazis are not filled with the milk of human kindness!

We’ve arrived at “what does the commemoration of The Great War mean for Sydney house prices?”

This great book offers useful context for any "Rothschilds" references one might encounter in the wild. Some might mean such a reference innocently or generically, but the name "Rothschild" has long been one of the loudest dog whistles out there in far right circles. It is the ur-conspiracy theory.

Training a pope takes 70 years of food.

As a man who has done / does a lot of solo multi-day walks this story made me sad and angry. And what on earth are the cops doing here? www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

This is a really good explainer from Professor Chun on how polarisation is a design feature of social media.

Why are all you people so suspicious of the USS Sinon?

For many many investment rental properties - particularly older houses cf. apartment stock - it’s a bet on the land value appreciating. The building and the yield is a bit of cash flow or cream.

Not a single landlord in Australia thinks rental yield alone is a good investment. They’re in it for the increase in capital value, or for tax jiggery pokery, or both. In yield, a term deposit is probably better. These people need to accept that they speculated, didn’t account for costs, and lost

Paging Mr Betteridge.

Lord Downer of Hahndorf currently on the BBC World Service talking about how popular Queen Camilla is in Australia?!?!?!?

Bobby is going to run up a *major war criminal* body count. More utterly grotesque stuff.

Given the horrific stuff people would be pumping into this thing, how bad must it have been to have had "about a dozen" staff discussing it and sending it up the management chain (who did nothing) ? They claim 800 million weekly active users. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Feels like he's getting desperate because these takes are getting just objectively terrible. This is one of the silliest arguments about anything I've ever heard.

Butch Shitposter & The Sundance Kid

The Supreme Court:

Posh Nosh was a documentary.

The weird combinations of law, custom and ancient bigotry necessary to sustain any monarchy is so laughably stupid and yet...........

The Fitzroy Latin Fiesta is on and all good but they blast the worst music imaginable for two days. Like, what your recently divorced uncle who thinks the stripper likes him would dance to when 12 sangrias deep - but played on a bad stadium PA.

When you're the kind of Catholic convert who is really into how an ecumenical council in the 400's CE means women shouldn't drive forklifts or wear a watch and the Pope nods politely and says afterwards "that guy is a weirdo."

If you have never heard this, do it. Four blokes from Sir Joh's police-state Brisbane made one of the greatest ever punk albums.

i've decided not to listen to the audio of a teacher reporting a kindergartender because frankly I don't want to become the person that that event would turn me into. but one thing I hope we are collectively coming to grips with is what it meant that we have lived among such people this whole time

49 years ago today (I'm) Stranded is the debut album by Australian punk rock group The Saints released on this day in 1977 included the singles '(I'm) Stranded' and 'Erotic Neurotic'. #punk #punks #punkrock #oldschoolpunk #thesaints #imstranded #history #punkrockhistory #otd

"Thank You For Your Service Is Brought To You By Polymarket Thanks For Playing."

me [looking at a thing billionaires and fascists in government are forcing into every corner of life in the name of efficiency and control]: is this counterculture?

Thx to Nicholas Brown from ANU for this thoughtful engagement with my book and what it can tell us about Australian politics for @insidestory.bsky.social insidestory.org.au/frontlash/

Everybody should read this.

Starting your new job by calling for higher interest rates and more unemployment, superb political skills. (He’s finding out that this is a fair bit harder than talking shit at the IPA / on Sky Noos. Buy him a picture book about economics.)

Remembering a clip where he called out at a rally "I hear that Gays for Trump is here, Gays for Trump, where are you?" and a guy shouted "wooo!" And Trump looked genuinely crestfallen and said "you don't look gay."

We should try electing some kind of deliberative body that makes decisions about levying taxes.

I think it's admirable that all these particular people are pursuing this particular line, and would happily encourage them to identify as defenders of Epstein and his cohort whenever possible.

Look at my lawyer dawg I'm going to jail

Forbes 30 Under 30 remains undefeated

an hommage to his dad