Good is something you do. It's not something you are. If people understood this there'd be a lot more good done in the world. Or at least a lot more people honest with themselves about what apathy constitutes.

The most incredibly wasted amount of money I ever paid through HECS was a year of accelerated/immersive German. Mad number of contact hours for an Arts degree. And every time I’ve been in a German-speaking country I get through 30 words tops before the other person switches to English.

, fam.

Ok, airport. Settle down. No need for this shit when I’ve just gotten off a 14hr flight and am about to jump on a 6.

For reference, the GDP of Russia is (roughly — sources vary on the precise figure) $1.7tn

Ok so when someone sings "One thing I know about the rest of my life", what do you scream next?

if this is real i will absolutely fucking eat it

I wasn't gonna buy a new phone but they targeted me very specifically by showing a broken down Saab 9-3 wagon by a lake. My hands are tied. Well played.

Hilarious that we just straight-up gave the US a nuclear submarine dry-dock in Western Australia and now the President is big mad that a milqetoast journo said "why you make so much money this year, Big-Daddy?"

It's 2000, & wreck diver Rod Macdonald has discovered something terrifying: "Dave and I couldn’t resist the temptation to fin over to the edge of the pinnacle & look over the side, down into the 200-metre deep abyss. [Then] I became aware that my exhaled bubbles had stopped rising upwards..." 1/

Those two drinking vessels are going to need YEARS of therapy.

Imagine John fkn Yoo going "ooooh that's a bit much".

Remarkable to see John Yoo, author of the Bush administration torture memos, on the same side here: www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Guys D is incredible wtf we get sushi AND meat pies

Elnathan John gets it.

Just spitballing here, but I reckon there's a good chance he hates Australian journalists because of the first-term Jonathan Swan interview where he got absolutely rinsed.

LMM: 🎵first commandant of this college, I'm 'bout to paint you a collage, can we turn this station for sheep into a place for young men to reap.... WHAT THEY SOOOOOOOWWWWWW???! Other guy: No. 🎵

I wonder what would happen if we built nebulous but powerful structures of control but then the other side worked out how they functioned and used them against us. Oh well, guess we will never know. Fun thought experiment tho.

The real reason to oppose age verification is what you are seeing right now, with the bloodlusted attacks on people insufficiently mourning a dead podcaster. They went after porn and sex workers as the easiest way to justify creating a panopticon they'll use to murder people. And it's bipartisan

If there was ever a load-bearing post, to me, this is it.

What's a track that you remember but everyone else thinks you hallucinated? Mine is the Crowded House cover of The Zombies' "She's Not There". www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGHj...

Boom, my NBN upstream just doubled. What a world.

Tramell Tillman is such a beautiful man. Good Lord.

Just checked in on my blocked words/phrases list and it's amazing that I see anything at all on my timeline these days.

I don’t know if I can take another year of heartbreak.

Erin was just ragging on one of the shows I like and then pulled up short and said “I want to be clear, I’m not making fun of men talking about feelings. I *am* making fun of men talking about feelings _in space_, on teevee.”

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1648

Tell you what’s weird now is when you watch a show that has scenes in the Oval Office and it hasn’t been hit with the mega-bedazzler.

Look, it’s quite simple. Words are ascribed meanings. Some words then hold power through their meaning. Other competing meanings then attempt to make a word convey increasingly tenuous values.

I have been on this world for a full fifty-two years. Last night I saw a firefly. Never seen one before. I’d heard that they were a thing. Never popped up in my life though. But I saw one.

As a semanticist, I’d note that we have over time devalued the word everyone is using today.

This is worse than that time they tattooed that U2 record onto the face of every baby on the planet.

My *psychiatrist* uses this but given that psychiatrists are just astrologist with a “Brains for Dummies” book and a prescription pad I was like “the robot can’t do it any worse”.

So the sound system in the place we are staying in can only be accessed by Spotify for some reason. I don’t have a pro account so I’ve been leaving the dj duties all week to one of my mates and he has had an absolute blinder.

If Russell Crowe’s German accent is anything like his Italian accent, “Nuremberg” promises to be an uncomfortable time in the cinema trying to stifle laughter.

Brb paying Bobby Fingers to make me an incredibly realistic John Howard mask. Then watching some porn and having one off the wrist.

Someone needs to tell the ABC what Guam and Puerto Rico are territories of.

People ask me why I’m such a fan of Scoot, and I get it. It’s a discount airline with minimal frills. But I have to extend my stay on this trip for work reasons, Erin need to make our original flight, and we were on the same PNR. On most airlines, that’s nightmare fuel. /

Went to get a haircut yesterday and I don’t speak Thai and the haircutter didn’t speak English. So I gesture for a comb and showed how much I wanted cut off at different zones of my skull. Absolute game-changer and I’m doing this at every haircut from now on.

@hotdogsladies.bsky.social Hey, Mate. Did you write something once that included a phrase that went something like “the Big Mac costs what the Big Mac costs”?

When they say that vaporising a go-fast boat with eleven passengers is essential to stopping the flow of drugs into the country, but they pardon this fucken guy. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/t...

Mike Cannon-Brookes, meet us in Point Piper in 72 hours for an arse-kicking.

Atlassian Web Browser is a concept terrifying enough to power a Korean horror film.

I got the rookiest of sunburns today. Been at least 15 years since I copped one this iridescent. 29°c, overcast, and I just hung out in the pool for 45 minutes thinking about stuff. I deserve this.

The broad left (of which I am a part) are *terrible* at sanctions and remedies. We decry the idea that people should be at the mercy of companies. We believe that nobody should be forced to poverty. But boy howdy will we call someone’s employer to get them immediately sacked.

Imagine sacrificing everything to run the richest company in history so you can sit between Sergey Brin’s girlfriend drawing up plans for war with Venezuela and some PayPal shithead, waiting for your turn to tell the laziest motherfucker on earth how great he is

This article in The Age brims with incredulity that middle-class and upper-middle class people could be Nazis, which tells you all you need to know about how they think of the working class and the working poor.

At Erin’s birthday dinner, the villa arranged a giant balloon with “Happy Birthday Erin” printed on it. Then they said not to inhale the helium. Not because that’s bad for you but because the balloon is filled with glitter. And that someone found this out the hard way a few weeks ago.