Funny how the date Australia was created through federation goes by without mention year after year.

I was gonna make one of them bucket lists, but it turns out I don't want to do anything, really.

I was reading Reddit to trouble shoot a robovac when I came across this guy who lost his so I guess it could always be worse

Possibly my favorite headline of 2025. (With apologies for the very Australian language.) @chaser.com.au

I learned something interesting. I cant smell "stink bugs" because its apparently a genetic trait to be able to do so (like how some people taste soapy cilantro). I always wondered why they were called stink bugs when I never noticed any odor from them. Apparently only some people can haha

Business people and ‘prominent’ Zionists don’t have to get off their rich arses and walk down a street in Australia to protest. They just sign a letter somebody else wrote and get the media to do the rest

Never believe the gov when they say they can’t afford it, bc they can. The money is there, they just don’t have the desire to do anything meaningful to fix your life when it would have a slightly negative impact on their own Greed is a hell of thing #auspol

The Australian yelling about *business* groups and *business leaders* wanting a political thing to happen but I thought that was "woke" and not their role?

Get ready for the most exhausting game of the year: Culture War Bingo

"We'll see what happens to it, then". My grumpy old neighbour who doesn't like people (or maybe just me?) parking in front of his house. I don't want my car to get damaged, but I'm also not moving it, bcos it seems important not to let this old sh!t bully me out of parking on a public street.

When you give a driver a “desperation score”.

Tennant Creek mother who died in police watch house described as well-respected and bubbly www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

You would think one fucking Very Serious Commentator would’ve realised this by now, but seems no

what’s happening with grok and nudity spam requests should be a global wake up call about AI image gen and instead very few media outlets have even covered it yet

this AI has a contract with the U.S. military!

2026 is about affordable homeownership. No more "policy" this year. Feed the local fauna, befriend them, and then use them to overpower homeowners so you can occupy their dwellings.

Who organised this, and why does the ABC not state this? Josh Frydenberg? Why should this matter, when petitions signed by a far greater number of ordinary Australians are routinely ignored? www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

The Guardian also running this story without saying who organised it. Who sent it to media outlets? Be transparent Disappointing www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

day one in mamdani’s new york

X is owned by a person. It and Grok are run by people. Elon Musk and the people who make decisions about Grok need to be held accountable for producing Child Sexual Abuse material.

I actually missed the "demons out of the jug" comment by Minns. Must've been in the post-Christmas void.

lmao jfc

People who paid pure lip-service to a Royal Commission's findings suggesting we need a Royal Commission. Glorious. Stick it on the front page.

For the last few days on X, people (mainly women, and sometimes children) have had nonconsensual images of them in swimsuits (or much worse) requested by users and created by Grok. Musk's only apparent response thus far has been to crack jokes about it.

I dunno what the eSafety commissioner is up to this time of year but I reckon she’s got some pretty urgent work to do re:Grok. It’s pandemonium over there on X.

Jan 1: this is the year of new Me Jan 12: [eating shredded cheese directly from the bag] new years resolutions are a bourgeois construct for disciplining bodies into productive units for capital

Sportsbet users were trying to unsubscribe but, instead, kept receiving multiple texts from the company. This is the media release Sportsbet didn't want people to hear & succeeded in changing.

How does a private gambling industry company 'pressure' a regulator? Ponder.

Fuck it I don’t care anymore

One of the oldest, dumbest tricks the press has is to depict people they hate as wasteful in luxury over you, you poor little peasant. Meanwhile out the other side of the new york posts mouth, bezos wasting billions on space bullshit is just fine.

How many ppl on X love to call trans ppl (or any queer ppl) "groomers" and yet can't see they're being groomed by the platform itself?

Also something important to note that this is the software responding to a prompt to write an apology, not a formal apology from X, which I reckon makes it a fair bit worse bsky.app/profile/leah...

Here's an idea, @albomp.bsky.social : set your reform agenda in the context of fighting #inequality, to benefit all. You know, like Labor did in the old days. #auspol

Dr Assal Rad— “𝘈 𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘫𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘴 “That’s @apnews.com’s way of describing the deadliest year for their colleagues.”

Mamdani: I have been told that this is the occasion to reset expectations, that I should use this opportunity to encourage the people of New York to ask for little and expect even less. I will do no such thing. The only expectation I seek to reset is that of small expectations.

just so it's clear: this is the exact core function of genAI Fascist government and climate deniers love it because it can produce the aesthetics of knowledge without any actual tendency towards truth. It is automated denialism. Shame on every climate scientist promoting its use (there are lots)

Happy new year. My resolution is get this bod

Welcome to 2026. 🥳😮‍💨

I've decided it's important I brush my teeth before midday. Or, at least, start brushing...

By me: It’s easy to feel powerless about climate chaos. Here’s what gives me hope - my swan song for @theguardian.com, at least for now www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Fireworks may be pretty, but I think I grew to truly hate them last night. They started around 8:30pm. Then various ones went off sporadically over the next 3&1/2hrs. Then half an hr of more organised ones. Then sirens. Dogs barked ALL evening. Can't imagine what it was like for the local wildlife.

No political party is perfect but, man, it’s such a relief that the Greens have this solid line in the sand

The Dogs of 2025 youtu.be/K_1tNbud-8g?...

And the dogs are barking. No, not my feet, the local dogs. I can see some of the fireworks through the trees a few blocks away. They're pretty, but I feel sorry for the dogs. And any of the birds who fly in that direction around dusk who were probably settled down for a snooze.

I’ve joined UpScrolled because the clear trend across the major social apps to date is suppression of dissent, and this is going to get worse not better.

Went to Big W for clothes and somehow came out with 3 boxes of chocolate liqueurs.