In one of our signal chats, a neighbor calls these “fuckaroundabouts”

The batshit crazy pop culture parts of any opening ceremony are my favourite parts. I reckon here we have Angela Merkel, Italo Calvino, and Nikolai Tesla (

JD Vance loudly booed at the Winter Olympics today.

Please sign my petition to start an Autumn Olympics where all events empty into a pile of delightful leaves and whatnot.

Suicide is never the answer

Pissed off righteous vindicated Obama is my favourite Obama

You know what, the exact thing the world needs now is some Olympics. People doing amazing things and being awesome, a common shared humanity and purpose. Joyous representation of country. All of it.

The sheer scale and spread of people involved in this scandal and cover-up is breathtaking. It’s like a cross between Jimmy Saville and Ponzi scheme.

This is unreal. An AUSA talking like that in open court is about as close as you can come to a total breakdown. Never heard of anything like it.

Reading Ben Elton's autobiography, I'm amazed to discover the existence of a 2018 Elton-scripted Kenneth Branagh film, in which Branagh plays Shakespeare and the plot 'turns on the mystery of Hamnet Shakespeare's death, along with the lack of family closure on that tragedy'. Anybody seen it?

Still enjoy this one

On Epstein files: 1. Why is the press referring to girls as women? 2. Why is the press inventing a term, 'underage women', there is no such thing. 3. There is no such thing as 'sex with a child', it is called child rape or child sexual abuse. Stop minimising the criminality.

I read a lot, and lots of great writing stays with me, but this by Elizabeth Strout absolutely knocked me sideways in an existential way.

Have there ever been any controversies in Icelandic cricket? Take this Carey/Bairstow style runout in 2022? What was the batter thinking?

I regret nothing. This was months old. Dunno if the technofetishist oligarchs running this racist shitshow of a webbed site took note since they’re really trying to make people love data centers or some lickspittle trying to knock my account. Fuck en all. I was right then. I’m right now. Fuck em.

Electric word, ICE, it means Never And that's a mighty fine time But I mean to tell you There's something else Democracy

Electric word, ICE - it means Gestapo and that's a real nazi time.

An absolutely cracking read, hard recommend ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

tired: "man, I logged off for a few hours and how did I miss this much?" wired: "man, I have been FULLY online for the last few hours and how did I miss this much?"

“It will exist as a striking artefact - like The Birth of a Nation or Triumph of the Will - of a time when Americans willingly subordinated themselves to a political and economic oligopoly.”

John Oxley points out the clear yet often overlooked point that young men 18-24 are the second most liberal, left-leaning group in society (after young women) - being more so than young-ish thirtysomething women, and older women, as well as than men in older cohorts

So uh Delta United and American have a great weekend.

i feel like we should just wait two weeks and watch the hilarity ensue instead of certifying Gulfstreams

When Ukrainian forces entered the Russian village of Kozinka they confiscated residents' phones to prevent communication with Russian forces. When they retreated, they left the phones piled neatly under a tree for the residents to collect. www.economist.com/europe/2026/...

It’s 37 degrees at 8:15pm and I am sitting under the aircon spraying myself with water this heatwave can get in the bin

This is on one level awful, but fantastic interdisciplinary research

The egos continue to circle and circle and waste fuel because they cannot land

Annie Wilkes from Misery is spiritually Millennial: ▪️cottagecore ▪️extremely toxic fandom ▪️aggressive side part ▪️weird childish curses ▪️puritanical, but also ▪️horrifyingly perverted RIP Annie you would have been so good at BookTok

1/27/2026 - Minneapolis ICE just attempted an illegal entry into the ECUADORIAN CONSULATE to abduct someone They did not have a warrant

My god, we are light years beyond parody now

This is remarkable footage of a remarkable politician. She kept her head and kept her calm while everyone around her tried to protect her. She clearly knows how to protect herself. Fortitude. Respect.

The time Netanyahu tried to blame a Palestinian - not the Nazis - for the Holocaust. Germany had to correct him. time.com/4083003/germ...

The Atlantic has just published the best thing I’ve read so far about the state of life in Minneapolis under federal occupation. Archived copy here. https://archive.is/2026.01.26-040554/https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/minneapolis-uprising/685755/

I see they’ve pivoted to “Alex Pretti, that poor man, a victim of the radical far-left networks that put him in front of an ICE agent who had no choice but to shoot him 10 times in the back”

Here's a regular white guy (literally "Chad") not a protester. because, "It seemed pointless, or just a way for people to expiate their sense of guilt." Chad witnessed something shattering. And, that all changed in a moment. Excellent article!

We had close to 250 people at our interfaith vigil which is about 100 more than we can comfortably fit. Folks were packed into pews, standing in the narthex, listening on in the parish hall, and sitting on folded chairs in the aisles. It was beautiful, but I’m still so upset we had need to gather. 🕯️

My 19 year old daughter left the house at 6:30am today to set up and play with her local community brass band at a citizenship ceremony event in a big community sporting field in a neighboring town, an event which has drawn hundreds of people from the community. A good thing about today.

FASCINATING ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ worth a read - well done @abcnewsaustralia.bsky.social

I will be disappointed if Sean Bean doesn’t call every bird he sees “yer’bastard”

Absolutely wild. You really should check it out yourself. Every corner of Reddit is inflamed. Forget about “breaking containment.” This is simply everywhere.

“Humans are desperate to connect with one another. We all have that within us which passes show. But if we do not find a way to be understood, we are lost.“ This is a fantastic piece, beautiful to read.

Time to dump ChatGPT! The latest model of ChatGPT has begun to cite Elon Musk’s Grokipedia as a source on a wide range of queries, including on Iranian conglomerates and Holocaust deniers, raising concerns about misinformation on the platform.

They should make an evil empire that's nice to live in

Here’s story 40 and 41 on The Age / SMH websites - that’s being generous and not counting the small blocks of links to live blogs. A ‘story’ about the Murdoch family farm in the ACT is number 18.

Two and half minutes. That’s all the time the CBS Evening News thought today’s events in Minneapolis were worth. Not even time to tell viewers what Alex Pretti did for a living. The winter storm got 8 minutes. NBC Nightly News spent 8 minutes, nearly half the show, on Pretti’s killing