The word you want here is lustration. Look it up.

Three Delta widebodies and an American Airlines 777 currently parked at BER airport for this.

Fantastic view of Sydney in the 1960s, with some great lines, plus a view of what the government of the day had planned for the Rocks that will warm the heart of any YIMBY.

Germany has known this for years. They even have a word: Bewerbungsfoto - application photo.

I am informed that KFC in Australia is now offering something they describe as a "Zinger Banh Mi".

If I ran a streaming service, I’d just remove foreign content until low-cost Australian-produced slop was 10% of my library. Unfortunately, prices would have to rise to cover the costs of this extra work.

Maybe the internet was a bad idea.

Struggling to think of four words I hate more than "full time content creator".

So the right-wing Conservative People's Party of Estonia has Martin Helme as their Chairman, and Mart Helme as their deputy chairman (different people). Must make things confusing.

A rare beast, the actually good LinkedIn post. It made me think of @johnb78.bsky.social.

I’d just ask ChatGPT to tell me if a particular bit of code would terminate or not. Don’t see what all the fuss is about.

You all seem like lovely people, but I have no idea what you’re talking about.

German culinary atrocities, Dresden edition: (The French taco place also offered bubble tea!)

If the allegations against Andrew Windsor are serious enough to warrant his expulsion from the royal family, then shouldn't they be investigated by police?

Huh, Steve Keen still doing his thing. Surely it’ll be this year that he’s finally proven right and the Australian housing market will crash.

Where would we be now if YouTube had never been invented?

It is especially worth contemplating the word "crucial" here. Crucial to whom, and why?

An astonishing oeuvre - from the most horrible capabilities of humans, to natural beauty. What a juxtaposition.

Will this deal involve Australia paying lots of money to the US, and receiving nothing in return?

I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time

Over the last 40-odd years, the US has invested in madness infrastructure, whose effect (and possibly purpose) was to drive the country insane. This is the result, Turkmenistan-style weirdness and delusion.

Politics and journalism under social media reaction economies have become increasingly indistinguishable from trolling: They feed on online outrage, and every shitpost or snarky comment from your opponents becomes a trophy to be shared online, as evidence that you‘ve always been right about them

Why does Australia have so many panel shows? Do they need to cull some comedians?

We should round up all the product managers and executives who thought that AI auto-dubbed online advertisements was a good idea, and execute them.

I'm sorry, but what the fuck is this? Mark Latham drove me to the gym?

My world has been blown by learning that zucchinis are basically pumpkins.

I don’t think unrealized gains should be taxed. However, getting a loan against unrealized gains should count as a realization of those gains. Borrow $10 million against the $1 billion company you founded? Great job! That is $10 million you earned and should be taxed on

Every time I've purchased property, showing my passport was adequate. Took seconds, cost me nothing since I had the passport anyway.

Perhaps the most useful outcome of the AI slop factories is that they will ultimately kill social media. The output of LLMs is fundamentally boring and mediocre, and the novelty is already wearing off.

This is literally going to be the thing which destroys anglosphere societies. High rents drive high wages and prices, making production uncompetitive, stifling innovation by driving up business startup costs, and corroding society where precariously housed people have ever fewer options.

In a weird way, you've got to take your hat off to Jeffrey Epstein for successfully running a sex trafficking ring without a single one of his rich friends finding out about it.

That’s it. That’s enough now. Shut the internet down. There is not enough grass in the world to touch to heal this harpers.org/archive/2025...

Oh c'mon now. What did he expect?

People living in Sydney: an important chance to support affordable housing being built in Alexandria - send a quick email using @sydney.yimby.au's easy form.

Yes, just look at how the US’s codified constitution is working.

It’s time for some more premium dachshund content.

Can't help but feel we'll be seeing this image a few more times in the years to come.

Boris Johnson is a profoundly stupid cunt, but sometimes bad things happen, and it’s not the government’s fault. It’s not as though the UK did nothing when Covid came around.

The Unwashed Swine are expressing Opinions again, on Matters which only properly concern Experts, Academics and Property-Owning People of Refinement.

I cannot understand the praise that Boy Swallows Universe gets. It’s shit. It’s a fucking YA novel that Australians have somehow decided is “literature”.

Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!

Who’s behind all these obviously fake resistlib accounts that endlessly post? What’s the point? Where does it get them?

Always fascinated by arrangements like this. If you were going to setup a florist, why would you do it when there are 10 direct competitors right there?

What a load of victimhood horseshit. Company forced to take action after finding its cybersecurity was woefully inadequate, boo hoo.

Perhaps the most dangerous mistake anyone can make is to confuse luck with skill.

Speaking as someone who did fuck off back to Europe, one of the great pleasures living here is that many more people have a worldview much broader than their own nation. Donald Horne was 100% right.

The fibreglass walruss wishes you a very “Vau Vau Vau”.

“We use an AI agent in almost every meeting” = “We’re using one of the dime-a-dozen AI notetakers and summarizers”

this tweet turns 10 today 🎂🥳

Hahahaahaha wat