Oh no Australia's weirdest niche sports stat is back! Boxing Day Test* finishes before first Sydney-Hobart yacht: 1986 ENG d AUS 1991 AUS d IND 1996 WI d AUS 2006 AUS d ENG 2021 AUS d ENG 2025 ENG d AUS *Must start 26/12 Cricket 6 - Yachts 39

ooh look everyone i got one of these! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Imagine being Scott Boland and being told you're going to open on day 1 of the Boxing Day test

They should invent a form of cricket that goes for five days

Respondents to the poll were asked whether the government should “ban pro-Palestine marches”. Not white supremacist marches, not pro-Nazi marches, not White Australia marches or anti-immigration marches. Just pro-Palestine marches.

[‘Baby Shark’ tune] 🎶 Mitchell Starc doo doo doo doo 🎶

On Wednesday the Sydney Morning Herald published an opinion piece by Cumberland City councillor Ahmed Ouf about Muslim-Jewish solidarity in the wake of Bondi. The piece was quickly taken down. We're publishing it here in full. www.deepcutnews.com/p/ahmed-ouf-...

how good's cricket

Getting a bunch of hate merchants on TV to say “stand up to hate” is the most Australian response possible.

We spoke to a dozen professional concept artists who are currently or have previously worked in game development about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs any easier. Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder. thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...

John Howard has done precisely two good things in his wretched life - institute gun control and disappear from the public eye - and this week he’s pissed both up against the wall

Big "if the Greens didn't vote against the CPRS in 2009..." energy

I feel like not enough people are saying that anyone trying to profit from the Bondi attack is an absolute piece of shit. From John Howard to the security bros on LinkedIn. Every one of them a POS.

no more lying to myself - the font size on my desktop computer has gone from "normal" to "large"

The fact that the estranged adult children are framed as "ungrateful" tells you everything you need to know about these women.

Really love being back in a place where actual observable facts - the previous ASIO investigation, inadequate firearm license regulations - are able to be brushed aside in favour of re-heated culture war bullshit.

Takes time to verify these things and find out, which @donnadlu.bsky.social did. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

This is so sad www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

Building off @cameronwilson.bsky.social's reporting for @crikey.com.au, I highlight how we appear to have a baptist & bootleggers situation in Australia, where it appears the gambling industry was a big force behind the "social media ban for teens" in an effort to kill a plan to ban gambling ads.

Incredible the entire press gallery is actually buying the line (promulgated by Netanyahu!) that Albanese is personally to blame for the Bondi attack. No one is actually explaining how firing academics for opposing Israel’s genocide would stop two people who never went to uni from this shooting.

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

The unarmed man who ran towards the shooter, and grabbed his rifle was a Lebanese Muslim and an immigrant to Australia. As Muslims are so often demonized, worth mentioning that it was a Muslim who rushed to save Jewish lives on Bondi Beach.

Bystander tackles and wrestles gun from alleged gunmen during Bondi beach mass shooting

Cannot really begin to describe how fucking heartbreaking it is. A mass shooting in my old home. I know the world sees Australia as a gun control best-case but that was a long time ago and the gun lobby has been winning its fight against those laws australiainstitute.org.au/post/austral...

one thing I cannot stand is how they're running interference for the bot "is glitching" please have the smallest amount of curiosity to ask why these 'glitches' only ever go in one direction

'There is no information at this stage about the target or nature of the shooting, but a Chanukah by the Sea event was scheduled to take place near the children's playground from 5pm, and had begun.' www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

Found out about CO:E33 doing this just a couple weeks ago and god every nom and win last night just fucking sucked to see with that knowledge. *especially* Art Direction because fucking hell, what the fuck. I have no way of knowing if genAI was used for "inspiration" for that direction now.

Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people

Just a reminder that the US is hosting both the Olympics and the men's FIFA World Cup during this administration. It's a genuine concern what might happen to athletes and staff going there under the border policies of the current US regime.

Threads continuing to come in strong with the undeveloped humans/baby's first short form social media energy

It's crazy to me that people even think like this, because they've always been apex predators. They're also called "killer whales" and not for fun.

i don't often leave feedback on websites, but when i do it exceeds the character limit about the user unfriendly redesign of the BOM website

let's not pretend this is anything other than them seeing the popularity of plagiarism machines like character·ai (that people already write reams of porn with) and deciding they want a piece of that market too

More monsters per square inch than I've ever seen this year. #halloween

I did another Spoken Cartoon! Yes it is the ongoing return of First Dog on the Moon's Spoken Cartoons and this one is about pets! www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIOq...

This morning I went to the Queen Vic Market and bought some more plants for National Security and other reasons. Then I had sushi for National Security purposes.

"the menswear guy isn't fair and balanced." do you even hear yourself? "fork lady is eroding public confidence." "ladder baby is undermining the credibility of the field." "lemon raccoon is acting without transparency or accountability." that's what you sound like.

Getting on other train lines really proves there are some sides of the city that strictly get the old trains lmao

Big Ponzi scheme energy

It's really pointed how in the replies of any post commenting about what CK was like as a person & his beliefs, there's rw grifters accusing the OP is saying they're happy he's dead/celebrating/etc when there is zero of that

So, right now, the only reliable way to diagnose endometriosis is with exploratory surgery. But finally, real scientists (instead of male scientists), are on the job & of course they’ve identified multiple markers in menstrual blood that point to noninvasive testing. www.science.org/content/arti...

Per this disreputable, treasonous individual:

'The developer behind a video game called Heavy Hearts say they were recently informed that their application for Steam Early Access was rejected by Valve because the company could no longer support the model for games with "mature themes."'

Also can I just say Pepys will never read as Peeps to me

expectation: lucy worsley gently cradling me in her arms as she tells me all about her favourite historical topics reality: listening to the audiobook of the diaries of samuel pepys volume iii, read by leighton pugh

Me, looking at timestamp: This seems like a long time to get to the joke Me, watching for 15sec: I am absolutely watching this whole thing