Sadly, there's a lot to be said for Marina Hyde's analysis here. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

What kills me about Platner Nazi tattoo thing is that it's literally the same skull from the "are we the baddies?" sketch, which aired a year before he got that tattoo.

KRudd just got another dinner-party story for the ages, didn’t he

Prof. Marcia Langton AO absolutely bringing it 💥💥💯👌 “Lifestyle Choices would be a more accurate title for this purported defence of democracy, one that does not include Indigenous Australia in any meaningful way. It is intended to become the style manual for the March for Australia types”.

I think this is genuinely comparable to Mark Antony presenting Caesar a crown

Still can’t wear a fucken mask properly, even when create ld by AI

Amazing that “No kings and no Nazis” is suddenly a controversial slogan and up for debate in 2025. These are the two most basic creeds of American history.

One of my favs

Rahway, NJ. Huge turnout, joyous atmosphere.

I joined the "human banner" at San Francisco's Ocean Beach. This flag was at the center. It was a gorgeous day with enormous waves. #nokings

My garden is jumping out of its skin this week #spring

Another day ends, and Ukraine's Glory SHALL Prevail! SLAVA UKRAINI! youtu.be/Ie9yHgU9yc4?...

LEFT: Citizens assembling in Washington, DC to deride Donald J. Trump with a protest. RIGHT: Citizens assembling in Washington, DC to celebrate Donald J. Trump with a military birthday parade.

Proud papa moment: my son J published a letter in the @nytimes.com today (in print tomorrow) on the need to think our definitions of autism.

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

There were at least 300,000 people at No Kings in NYC. Three Hundred Thousand.

Los Angeles came out in droves. #NoKings

Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.

Do you think I’d explain my masterstroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I made the NYPD woke 35 minutes ago.

The boys from Zaporizhia were separated by Russia's war. A year without seeing each other. Then came an unexpected reunion that changed everything. 👇

Great Thread here to get a sense of the scale and scope of the likely history-making No Kings protests across the United States #NoKings🗃️

How can George Soros afford this payroll today?

So, turns out the person behind the #PartyGate leak was Dominic Cummings after all. Well, paint all my big farts blue and boil my piss black, but I’m absolutely shocked, I tell ya. So utterly and completely shocked! 😳 www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Well, to begin with this morning, happy eighth birthday to this tweet

I think Jarvis lost the plot slightly with this moment of improv.

Here’s another classic Pulp chorus

The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.

J. D. VANCE: We need to end DEI. MONKEY’S PAW: (raises one finger)

Zohran Mamdani is the ethical power empath the world has been waiting for. MeidasTouch has put together this excellent power clip of the best moments of the NYC mayoral debate between the clear moral leader in the race and the corrupt genocidal moral failures he is running against.

The latest grifts seem to be selling old solutions to forever problems on a subscription basis. You too can buy a starter kit for making to-do lists (AKA an analogue management system) for $99, & sign up for more cards each month The clicky pen is a bargain at $125. They "reinvented" to-do lists. 🙄

The inevitable Hanson-Joyce falling out is going to be *spectacularly* entertaining. Latham was just an amuse-bouche.

In the eternal words of Amos Milburn - One scotch, one bourbon, One Nation.

Squawking baby magpies to the left of me, yowling cats to the right, here I am, stuck in the middle with you

I think you’ll find it’s YEAH NAH

Gotta tell ya, trying to figure out a NESA curriculum document is in the same league, with added ‘what is the hidden correct interpretation of these words that only those inducted into the cabal understand?’

Great Moments In Redaction

Looking forward to seeing the new Spinal Tap movie

In today's least surprising news

There *has* to be some rule like Moore’s Law about the amount of time it takes for a new technology to move from general use/information to porn, and whatever that law is, ChatGPT just broke the land/speed record for it.

Genuinely thought this was nice until I got to the photo Whyyyyyyyy is this a thing

As an Australian I don’t have a #Thatcher100 anecdote of my own but I love love love Francois Mitterrand’s observation that she had the mouth of Marilyn Monroe and the eyes of Caligula.

Zohran Mamdani hops on a Citi Bike and a woman heckles him, shouting “communist!” He responds, “That’s cyclist”

British English often uses diminishers as intensifiers. "I'm upset about that" = I am moderately upset "I'm just a tiny little bit upset about that" = I am very upset it's related to understatement, very English since Beowulf: poetryfoundation.org/education/gl...

You may call it ‘Chatfishing’, but I shall only refer to it as ‘Cyrano de Berger-App’ www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

In all the horrible news Israel & the US generate when they work together, it is instructive that I learn that Israel’s strike on Qatar didn’t even kill the Hamas officials it was allegedly targeting *from an article about how Trump will personally profit from the ceasefire.*

RIP to the great Diane Keaton. If you can find it, her book on Clown Paintings - for which she curated a large selection of flea market amateur clown portraits -mostly fantastically creepy - accompanied by the thoughts of famous people regarding clowns - is well worth a look.

A library director in Wyoming who was fired two years ago because she refused to remove books with sexual content and LGBTQ themes from a library's children and young adult sections has just been awarded $700,000 in a settlement. t.co/EA5L1kOZfV

This year’s Bathurst 1000 is like the motor racing equivalent of Black Hawk Down, it is absolutely crazy