"Thank you to Gina for flying us all to this meeting." chaser.com.au/national/one...

Dirty Pair fans came out of the woodwork to back this project—to the tune of US$731,406 what they got were years of delays, authoring problems, and a disc wrapped in a napkin. What happened?

Though I live in NSW, I work in the ACT, so I get to have far more days off

Is it 1981?

This is not a unique take across Australia

Please be nice to the genocidist, it won’t make any difference to how many Palestinians he kills is why I subscribe

Community Leather Coat Drive Helps Bad Boys In Need https://theonion.com/community-leather-coat-drive-helps-bad-boys-in-need/

"4.7m account deactivations across the 10 platforms" is utter bullshit, btw. Josh Taylor points out: "this includes not just accounts identified as being under 16 but includes historical, inactive and duplicate accounts". As teens will tell you, the ban is having almost zero effect.

The coverage of One Nation this week has been some of the softest coverage of any political force, ever. It's been a shocking week. I think people would be shocked to realise how it compares to what journalists were asking Pauline Hanson 25 years ago. www.lamestream.com.au/how-the-medi...

“The normalisation of One Nation, through reality TV, breakfast TV slots and inclusion as a serious political player in Australia has been media-driven, dressed up as the people’s choice,” writes @amyremeikis.bsky.social. Read Amy Remeikis’ full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/4alz8EU

As it stands, the Triple J Hottest 100 only shows what little point of view the station has left, writes Shaad D'Souza. It playlists a lot of the same music as Fox and Nova, and is breaking relatively few Australian artists in the way it once did. satpa.pe/tUgJ6Dc

Are prejudicial statements intended to stoke fear and hate against whole religious communities ok under the new hate speech laws? Just checking…

News rooms urge caution around using the word 'terrorism' when talking about throwing a bomb at an Invasion Day protest, "it's not like something extreme happened like a uni student eating a slice of watermelon."

I have a lot of old anime magazines from the early '80s, and there's so many fan letters about how the Urusei Yatsura anime is bad and Mamoru Oshii ruined it and ruined Lum, etc. No doubt in my mind this is why the Stormtroopers get so much screentime. I love these nerds

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The Oz all out there trying to find the guys who helped give the far right legitimacy

Morale plummeting among ICE agents over long hours, quotas and public hatred: reports

Sick of the heat. Six week trip to Japan being planned for mid January and all of February for 2027 already. Totally prefer snow any day

The highest temperature ever recorded in Victoria is 48.8°C at Hopetoun on 7 Feb 2009. The forecast for Tuesday at Ouyen Victoria is 49°C.

Colin Hay ‘strenuously disapproves’ use of Down Under at March for Australia rallies

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Scoop: One of the first acts of Australia's new anti-corruption watchdog, NACC, was to carry out $30 million of office fit-outs. It was only when staff were preparing the agency's first annual report that they realised the project broke laws meant to fight... corruption. www.crikey.com.au/20...

Little note in the new Bill on Hate Speech Good thing there will never be a Minister who acts in bad faith when they go about banning groups.

"Women Love Gay Romance" says a popular British entertainment podcast on ice hockey drama "Heated Rivalry". In the 80s, or even into the 90s, it wasn't uncommon for yaoi or boys love to be discussed in the west as a somewhat mysterious interest on the part of Japanese women and girls.

"In the 1935 book, the US is torn apart by a flamboyant blowhard politician who uses fearmongering and empty promises to the working class to win election before consolidating his power, shattering the traditions of governance, breaking any laws that constrain him and stoking paranoia and division."

with the greatest respect to my colleague dr k, this seems pretty open and shut

What is the end game here? No publicly funded cultural events that aren’t approved by Israel? No arts boards that aren’t pro-Israel? The sections of our political class and media who are active in this attempted gutting of our cultural landscape need to ask wtf they are doing here.

"We tend to find that sending out ‘thoughts and prayers’ and saying ‘now is not the time to talk about this’ is a more efficient way to learn from our mass shootings”. theshovel.com.au/2026/01/12/a...

Just saw this. What utter bullshit. The Israel lobby are devoted to destroying the livelihoods of anyone who does not share their love of genocide. The SMH is a rag. www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...

Yankland is fucken shithole. Imagine debating if a woman seemingly killed for no reason by law enforcement deserved it. I'd say that's fucking third world shit, but I think that'd be an insult to people living in third world countries

新谷かおる原作アニメ「クレオパトラD.C.」のBD発売、TOKYO MXで一挙放送も https://natalie.mu/comic/news/655471?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social

Sorry, but this place is still kinda shit for a lot of Japanese pop culture news and info

Sort of gives away what this is all about doesn’t it.

Had anything like this happened before in Australia? A Royal Commissioner appointed through negotiation with bad-faith actors, details leaked out via extremist activists journalists?

Always find yanks suggesting that somehow food from other cultures are blander or worse than Yankland food quite astounding. Imagine actually believing Indian or Japanese cuisine is blander than theirs

The American people electing Trump after he staged a coup attempt 5 years ago was a nail in the coffin of our democracy. You can rationalize it all you want - But inflation! But wokeness! - but ultimately it was a societal suicide attempt and probably the dumbest collective voting decision ever made

Grass roots. My @smh cartoon.

Just remembering all those allegations about Kunihiko Ikuhara from years ago, and how literally nothing ever came of them. Just odd to me that none of the anime news outlets were willing to report on it, regaless of legal issues

Had 10 days off between Christmas and New Years, and just felt fantastic. First day back today and I'm feeling really off again. Been toying with the idea of quitting for awhile and having a gap year as such. I'll soon be able to afford it. Just wondering if I can go back to temping afterwards

"We will be monitoring this delicate situation to make sure there is no unnecessary loss of innocent oil” chaser.com.au/world/ally-l...

Trump is trying to force US oil companies to rebuild Venezuelan oil fields that are too expensive to invest in at current crude prices while a full blown energy revolution is happening with cheap solar and electrification growing exponentially. This is a dying empire shit.

there's just something morbidly funny about how he just throws everyone who sucks up to him under the bus.

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Pathetically insufficient. There's literally nothing the US could do that could inspire criticism from albanese

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It seems like the extent of strategic planning was the demented one saying “just go and get him and everything will work out”. No troops on the ground, a non-compliant regime, an angry populace, a live hostage situation, a divided nation, a corrupt US leadership in fantasyland. It’s a nightmare.

Toying with the idea of going to Japan again late January through to end of February in 2027. Even though it'll be my eighth visit, still quite a lot I still want to do. I'm surprised there are a few things in Tokyo/Kanto region I still haven't done which seem really interesting