blue moon tonight! thepeoplesrepublicofcouch.org/moon-phase-c...

looking forward to season four

"the rocket's red glare"

Fibonarchie sequence.

gonna gauge how effective these changes will be by whether sarina russo has a tanty. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Creating a system of armed religious groups in Australia is such a self evidently terrible idea, it’s hard to believe it’s being seriously discussed www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

just saw that the carlisle's been bought by a group that owns a bajillion other pubs :(

BIG NEWS in the Open Visualization Academy: openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com/p/data-femin... We're launching 'Data Feminism for Data Visualization' by @laurenfklein.bsky.social and @kanarinka.bsky.social #dataViz #infographics #dataVisualization #dataJournalism

trucker hats: the awning to the windows to the soul

trucker hats: the awning to the windows to the soul

"gonna settle in and read the ~40,000 words the pope just wrote" is not something i'd ever imagined myself saying, yet here we are. www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

steaks prices at my old local via google st view 2007: $7 2026: $19* * should only be $11.35 if it increased in line with inflation, according to the RBA calculator (good run where it only went up $3 over ~15 years though)

steaks prices at my old local via google st view 2007: $7 2026: $19* * should only be $11.35 if it increased in line with inflation, according to the RBA calculator (good run where it only went up $3 over ~15 years though)

the children yearn for the molotovs www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

the children yearn for the molotovs www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

pubs should show the prices of the beers on tap.

C'est un |

C'est un |

when you deserve the best

students booing c-suites who gush about ai in graduation speeches are my new cat videos.

my gf works corporate and is on a training about AI and there's a word cloud for "what do you use AI for." the largest word by far is "Nothing" and the trainer is PISSED

my first and only task will be to ask to make an app that functions exactly the old search techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/g...

man, this is fucking bleak. www.wired.com/story/i-work...

visited some of these pools again recently, and updated the ratings, as feel i was perhaps a wee bit harsh on some of them (bronte baths is still the best though) thepeoplesrepublicofcouch.org/ocean-baths/

this rules. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHN9...

... of course i wasted even more time doing a full interactive version. thepeoplesrepublicofcouch.org/words-to-cen...

tim tam is short for timur (tamerlane)

if you'd wondered what chalmers' budget speech would look like if you replaced all the words with coins based on the number of letters (and gold coins for numbers), well wonder no more:

happy budget day, (aus) politics nerds!

#164 Kampung Laksa Parramatta, NSW **** thepeoplesrepublicofcouch.org/laksa-a-love...

my love language is doing invites for mate's parties in the form of old public transport tickets.

Ceci n'est pas une golden calf.

Just the most incredible thing that governments have allowed the rezoning of private housing at the click of a button because it ... happens on the internet. The social cost of Airbnb across the country is profound and it could be stopped tomorrow. All these hollow places restored.

Phillip Narc www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

dance like adam curtis isn't filming

one more sleep! thepeoplesrepublicofcouch.org/is-david-att...

it seems at some point i largely decided to just let anko determine what i wear

i'm pretty sure he's not.

can't work out whether this sponge in my sink bothers me cos it reminds me of a certain scene in 'love lies bleeding' or of IE6

someday the last person to have watched a scheduled episode of the simpsons on a CRT TV will die.

Okay, so we all know NDIS fraud is a thing, but I want to addressa claim I’ve heard of “fraud” about SILs charging 24/7 care when clients go out for 3 hrs a day for social and community support. 1/

'shitpostmodernism?' that's the sound of several chefs kissing scores of fingers. spikeartmagazine.com/articles/ess...

Slightly diminish a book. The Unpaid Fellowship of the Ring

i should have made this earlier, but thepeoplesrepublicofcouch.org/is-david-att...

I won’t be publishing with UQP any more and neither will Evelyn Araluen, Tony Birch, Melissa Lucashenko, Randa Abdel-Fattah, and Sara M Saleh, among others. The list is growing. The press is dead. I wrote about why here: sakr.substack.com/p/the-cultur...

the transition from shepard avocado season to hass is like going back to work after a long weekend.

Australia Institute research shows that nurses pay more tax than gas and oil companies. Meanwhile, multinational gas companies get 56% of our gas for free and then export it overseas. Sign the petition: https://nb.australiainstitute.org.au/fix_gas_export_problem

i should have made this earlier, but thepeoplesrepublicofcouch.org/is-david-att...

windy bin days are nature's way of showing me there's someone else on the street who's on the same cholesterol meds as me.

every generation gets its geese* *the band