The Australian Tumbleweed awards voting wraps up tomorrow. Go vote here if you know what that is: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Nine Delights 2026

congratulations to the anti-porn and anti-sex work groups for helping create an internet where independent adult sex workers have been exploited, ripped off, and then run off and are now being replaced by on-demand CSAM

Australian Social Media ban is not working, so now the “war on teens” people are demanding outright phone bans… https://alecmuffett.com/article/138755 #SocialMediaBan #australia #censorship #surveillance #vpns

If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free. consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

all of energy twitter patting itself on the back for continuing to post on a website that is mostly users prompting a generative chatbot to create non-consensual sexualised imagery of children It's where the Serious Smart Experts are Posting www.cnbctv18.com/technology/g...

The world to America:

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And now rise for the national anthem

Attempting to explain AO3

ME: (first day practicing Bug Law) May it please the Court— BUG JUDGE: (sternly) Bug Court.

What a nice thing to find in my notifications 🥰 Thanks to @bortmedia.bsky.social for the honor 🙏 I put much effort into this project and I am so happy to see that it left an impact... and what a line-up to find myself in! Everything on this list is A1+ material!

Tickets still available - The year long Trump-Kennedy Center residency of Song of the South (1946) is only days away!

Suzanne Moore in 2020: "As a feminist, I would argue that gender is socially constructed, and it can be reconstructed." And in 2025: "This must be the year Britain finally kills off trans ideology." Transphobia is the engine that pulls the train of fascism.

This is how you do it folks

Here's our 7th most-read piece of 2025. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-w...

no, that was pre Twitter migration, we don’t call them skeets now. style guide says they’re called ejaculating into a spoon. so for example you don’t say “did you see that guy’s skeet” you say “did you see where that guy ejaculated into a spoon on Bluesky”

Last movie I saw at Cinerama Dome before it closed was Uncut Gems with a Q&A. Some complete normie gets up and asks Sandler, “Why don’t you do more of these serious roles?” Sandler replies: “Nobody asks me.”

What has Labor done with its golden opportunity in this term? Net zero, says @johnquiggin.bsky.social. I agree. Absolutely nada of any substance.

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it’s crazy how obvious it is that donald trump has been actively part of the epstein coverup for half a decade now and he’s just still the president

Thanks everyone, for making #SIZZLETOWN Ep 100 our most downloaded for the year. For those who like lists, cheap jokes, and Warren Perso, there will be a new 'Unplugged' episode out on New Year's Day. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t...

If I ever say this, please tell me to go fuck myself

Two weeks ago I spent the whole day at the Museum of the Moving Image to listen to New Yorkers. This is what Liam shared with me.

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

K-Hole Demon Hunters (2025)

I for one am a proponet of bullying.

From a larger documentary on everything wrong with Stranger Things just in time for the Netflix flooding the internet with promotion of the final season www.youtube.com/watch?v=Skpn... #netflix #strangerthings #strangerthings5

The piss tank on the ISS is now 45% full.

Bari Weiss ❌ Weis Bar ✅

Sony’s Japanese MiniDisc ads with Jamiroquai

From me, @cates.bsky.social, @joshfjelstad.bsky.social, @katienotopoulos.bsky.social, and I: The 20 Worst Things On The Internet In 2025 www.garbageday.email/p/the-20-wor...

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Israel’s PM Netanyahu heralded Ahmed al-Ahmed for showing “Jewish heroism” before learning the Bondi Beach “hero” is Muslim. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/th4zuo

Do something in your immediate orbit which leaves a positive change in the world, and then do it again, and then do it again, and then do it again.

Aussie friendos, we don’t have much experience with mass shootings in our own country, but we know not to jump to conclusions, speculate wildly, indulge our biases and be unkind to each other. That’s the Murdoch press’s job. Let’s do better tonight.

Refreshing to learn that Woolies is going to be too busy to turn the lights and sounds down for the last-minute shoppers with sensory issues. ☺️☺️☺️

Sheriff of Sucking You Off

Newly Unsealed Batch Of Epstein Estate Photos Contains Rare Holographic Dershowitz

their union logo is gonna be so fuckin sick

Tuesday 16th December, 6:30pm at 83 Sydney Road, Brunswick

📢 The online forum platform is seeking to be excluded from the world-first laws, which came into effect this week.

Disney is the one paying the $1B?! For this?!

I've never been more hyped for #Eurovision news. Fuck yeah

Its well known that its cheaper for companies to dump once or twice a year, say, and cop the fine, as its cheaper than treating the waste. Just ask BHP.

NEW: A leaked document shows the key group behind the teen social media ban, 36 Months, was selling a $150,000 "UNGA Event Sponsorship" in the lead-up to Australia's UN event spruiking the policy. It promised brands "influence" and "access" to heads of state. www.crikey.com.au/20...