The BBC used to be the voice of reason, now it appears to be the voice of Rowling.

When Kendrick comes on, go out into your backyard and wait for Not Like Us and then join in so that the whole of north Canberra yells “certified pedophile” at once

I made a bunch of protest themed cup cozies to give away (and keep protestor's coffee hot, water cold) and saved a bundle of patterns for knitting and crocheting different protest themed items of all shapes and sizes ravel.me/neithj/psct

Been rather dispiriting how much ink has been spilled by the gallery on MP expenses, while the report into mutual obligations has been pretty much ignored. @amyremeikis.bsky.social is on it #ThePoint (what is The Point? It’s not news, but it SHOULD be) thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...

transphobia is a grift. someone on cab found this why bother writing comedy anymore when you can just run around harassing and abusing ppl and then get a bunch of lonely twitter-brained ppl to give you their money? he's a con man ( i have never had even close to this amount of money in my life )

25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.

It's fitting that the cover on AI mindlessly apes an earlier creation and also displaces workers while elevating Silicon Valley plutocrats.

Climate protesters win groundbreaking class action against Victoria police over use of pepper spray

Husband loves Spotify Wrapped and hates Joni Mitchell. All year i've been playing non-stop Joni on his laptop every Sunday while he's at football. Now we wait.

SCOOP: Academy Award-nominee Liam Neeson narrated a recent anti-vaccine documentary that glorifies RFK Jr.’s rise to power. In the film, Neeson—a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador—calls the COVID-19 vaccines “dangerous experiments.” www.importantcontext.news/p/liam-neeso...

Maybe you shouldn't have given $400bn in tax cuts primarily to higher income earners (Stage 3) then? Maybe you should reverse them now? Otherwise it was always a bad faith mechanism to cut services and starve the poor.

This is an evil company and we need to find decentralised, non-evil alternatives for people who still use its shitty products, esp Facebook - for local community connection (marketplace, local groups, councils) - for extended family connections

Days after FIFA awarded Trump a fake peace prize, DOJ moves to drop charges in FIFA corruption case www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/n...

There are strong links between child sexual abuse and suicide but investment in specialist services to address this national tragedy is sadly lacking.

"Australia passes a shameful milestone: over one million children now living in poverty" #ThePoint thepoint.com.au/news/251212-...

The ALP designed the NACC with the assistance of the LNP to ensure everyone remained very, very safe and comfortable

This is the point, not the by-product.

wall is giving thai restaurant

One day I will make a quilt with a clear finished outcome in mind from the start. Today is not that day 🙄 #quiltsky

A mate works for a large corporation. His international flights are at best premium economy. He figures he sets the tone for his staff and how they view their budget. Our politicians tell us their budget can’t afford to raise the rate for unemployment benefits, but can afford first class flights.

"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more." pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...

The cycle is almost complete. Big Tech helped erode my attention span, and now the source of my brain rot, all these dumb apps and phones, chug so slowly with all this AI bloat an BS that they're too frustrating to use for my short-ass attention span. Like an Ouroboros of shit.

Update. That tanker was going to China. I’m sure everyone is going to be totally chill

I look forward to news.corp’s new found care for teenagers applying to all the trans kids.. *oh wait, I am being handed a note…*

"there's a new serif in town"

The November monthly temperatures have been released and 2025 looks set to be the 2nd hottest year on record. Remember when warming apparently stopped in 1997? That is more than 0.5C ago.

groups of teens hanging outside the bottle-o asking passing adults to age-verify their snapchat account

Incredible the difference I'm observing mere hours after the child social media ban. Four boys on my street started a journey from their treehouse to find the body of a missing kid in the wilderness. Along the way, they're learning about themselves, & the meaning of friendship. Great to see

CONFIRMED: Eileen Higgins, a Democrat, will be the new mayor of Miami. She'll be the city's first Democratic mayor since the 1990s. She flipped the office from Republicans, and does so easily. She leads the DeSantis-endorsed Emilio González 59/41 right now with most ballots counted.

Standing on my desk right now.

"Social media harms children [which is our job exclusively, should their skin tine so dictate]"

So after we got over that whole McCarthyism crap in the 50s, we got the freedom of the 60s and the weirdness of the 70s and I just really hope I'm around to see straight men in makeup and crop tops and heels in 2040, dancing to Space Disco with long hair and mustaches once we're through ALL THIS.

“Given Amazon’s willingness to work with law enforcement & digital surveillance providers, combined with its poor security record, we’d suggest Ring owners, be careful about identifying anyone using their proper name; …Not everything needs an AI upgrade. “ techcrunch.com/2025/12/09/a...

The important thing about the social media ban is that the govt is seen to be implementing a social media ban. The idea of it working or not is irrelevant. They don't give a shit

Years ago @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social did a hot take that Twitter [as it was then] should be nationalised because it was too valuable a piece of social infrastructure to remain in private hands, and time has proven him right beyond all expectations

This will be the first Christmas I’ve spent with my mother in maybe a decade (?) and I’m fucking dreading it. Nightmares and the whole enchilada. Being estranged is underrated.

Jesus Feckin Christ. There are teenagers on the streets wreaking havoc. Leaving cigarette butts everywhere. Cutting off the end of my hose for bongs. Snogging in the park. Doing wheelies on their BMX. Why aren’t they home on the interwebs anymore?

Under a secretive billion dollar new deal, refugees in the Australian community are being ripped out of their homes and sent to Nauru. "It's a wild escalation... Scenes similar to ICE'", says Ogy Simic of the @ASRC1 www.instagram.com/reel/DSCEmf_...

Finally finished installing our staircase art 💙💚🧡

So they’ll be putting more funds into community centres and local facilities? Right?

PSA: if anyone in your life is trying to dissuade you from getting the shingles shot, you should probably assume that person hates you, and wants you to suffer. There is literally no other explanation. Shingles hurts worse than childbirth. Worse than knee surgery. Worst pain of my life.

These aren't blocked by Labor's social media ban, so what's the bet isolated teenagers who previously could have found communities online now turn to these horrific lie bots? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Gee, I can’t possibly imagine why this would be happening Ben.

Pretty infuriating: King Gizzard quit Spotify over ethical concerns -- and now Spotify is letting AI knockoffs of its music (with all the lyrics copied verbatim) proliferate on its platform futurism.com/future-socie...

"No one at school gives a shit about my interests, they say I'm gay and bash the fuck out of me, my parents don't understand anything about my life. Great mate, thanks, good chat."

cannot begin to tell you how happy I am to have stumbled upon the Paris building shared by metal music fans and the union for metal workers, what a delight

we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.

More on the horrifying new policy of the NT Government, to send trans women to men's prisons, exposing them to significant risk of violence and sexual assault. #ntpol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...