As we continue to see everyday <points around at literally any random thing>, elites are mostly children who mistake their luck and family connections for talent.

We are all this guy RN and the worst part is, we was right #epstein

Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.

The Epstein Files ought to comprise the easiest political case against the billionaire class ever conceived. Any politician who supports policies favouring the ultra-wealthy should never be able to escape this association.

We absolutely cannot let techbro dweebs and grifters take the term “grindcore” away from the punks playing short, sharp songs with as many downtuned riffs and blastbeats as humanly possible to cram into 30 seconds

Here's one of the rare smart & ethical big men of local music, John Watson, arguing the future is export first, conquer home next. thepoint.com.au/news/260202-...

Lord have mercy on the soul of the total stranger who just asked me to appraise his unedited manuscript

Cool, please send all the billionaires 🚀 www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

I wrote a belated tribute to one of my teachers, the late, legendary Graeme Turner. An enormous loss to Australian cultural studies and critical thinking. www.patreon.com/posts/149223...

So important. What they say is not the story. That is never the story. What happened is the story. Write what happened.

It took me a while to fully appreciate the wisdom of that song, and how beautifully written it is. “These are the years between” - wow. And those years are just about at an end.

This is a formidably great obituary for a formidably great artist. Rest in Peace Rob Hirst. Good job @andrewstafford.bsky.social

I wrote this some time ago - with all of us knowing this day would come, and Rob, of course, fighting like the bloody-minded bastard he was to the very end. He irrevocably changed my life - and how our country saw itself. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...

Review of David Byrne at Brisbane Entertainment Centre last night (first show of Oz tour). As good a piece of performance art as you're likely to get www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...

The idea that we need to deport 100 million people - almost one out of every three Americans! - was, a year ago, a deranged claim you’d hear from neo-Nazis to give themselves permission for limitless mass violence. Now it’s coming directly from this horrific agency’s horrific press office

Ron Asheton celebrates the new year.

I was doing a good job of looking after myself better, then the flu wiped out my entire Xmas break and now I’m comfort eating a packet of biscuits before going back to work

Buyer - makes me an offer on marketplace Me - accepts, asks when they’d like to pick up Buyer - … … …

This is the greatest Xmas cover I’ve ever heard or seen m.youtube.com/watch?v=22O8...

The fact that This Is Spinal Tap and its sequel, The End Continues, were the first and last films Rob Reiner made is enough to make me cry by itself. The first was revolutionary, the last merely excellent, but they both had the enormous heart and nub of truth that characterised all his best films

No problem unfollowing a few people who opened their mouths before engaging their brains last night

Now here is a man with no friends.

State funeral. My @smh cartoon.

It's not even New Year and the scoldings have begun www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Forgot to post this yesterday, a review of Life in One Chord, a new doco on the brilliant Shayne Carter (Straitjacket Fits, Dimmer, DoubleHappys and more). Hopefully more Oz screenings TBC; Shayne's in the country for a couple of dates www.theguardian.com/music/2025/d...

“I find it mind boggling . . . the fact that [Australia is] giving away these natural resources”. – Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize-winning economist Explore how other leading thinkers are finding the courage we all need. Preorder ‘A Time for Bravery’ today: australiainstitute.org.au/store/a-time...

This is a terrible, terrible shock to hear. Graeme was an influential teacher and mentor at the University of Queensland and a giant in his field. He left a huge imprint on me

I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"

On par with @birmo.bsky.social’s legendary obituary for Joh Bjelke-Petersen

NT News headline tomorrow morning: Great Head beats dud Root every time. #ashes

Face Value- my Saturday cartoon for @australia.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

big bugs bunny getting elmer fudd to marry him vibes in the white house currently i see

I haven’t seen this get covered in English yet so let me translate. Grok is saying that the crematories at Auschwitz’s were conceived as disinfectant chambers, not mass execution and that the law has made it taboo to acknowledge that this is what they were X is a Nazi site. Get off the Nazi site.

I remember back in the late '90s -- when magazine writers were still getting big book and movie deals -- an editor of mine who'd worked with a bunch of them sighing and saying, "The story no one will ever publish is the exposé of which famous writers can't actually write at all."

This should be a @nytpitchbot.bsky.social headline

I saw Deliver Me From Nowhere and Jeremy Allen White’s head was tilted to one side so far I kept waiting for it to fall off #Bruce

The Albanese government’s nature reforms would change biodiversity offsets policy, including by setting up a “restoration contributions” fund. Guardian Australia reporting exposed major failures with a similar scheme in NSW. Experts are warning the federal plan could repeat those mistakes

It's written like "post-liberalism" has the momentum of a runaway freight train, when all that's happened is a fracturing of the vote to One Nation and a few sooks quitting or being sacked from the opposition front bench whiteanting a weak leader. No sign of a Labor voter anywhere falling for this.

Without grievance, they are nothing

Giving the Nazis days of nation-wide headline media coverage every time they do a ten minute photo op is not a good way to get them to stop doing photo ops.

How much more Goth could Mothica be? The answer is none. None more Goth www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8c0...

Since Nazis now feel normel enough to show their faces, how about all media editors instruct snappers to zoom in on them instead of depicting looking scawy in their all blacks

There’s only one piece of writing you need to read on the 50th anniversary of Horses, and it’s this one by the incredible jennpelly.bsky.social 🐎 pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

Please do not encourage the PM to wear a 30-Odd Foot of Grunts t-shirt

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Share them Identify them Out them Ostracise them

If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it. Or don’t. (Classic Australian edition)

Me (no byline) with one of my favourite, albeit saddest Queensland stories. Would really love an extra few thousand words to do full justice to it while the main players are still around to tell the tale. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The words “pusillanimous” and “captured” come to mind “Norway has imposed a 56% "special tax" for oil & gas companies, alongside a 22% corporate tax rate. The proceeds..have been reinvested in its sovereign wealth fund, which is now the largest in the world” www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

These days, you can't even speak in support of white nationalism at a Nazi-organised rally and later urge support for a neo-Nazi political party without the politically-correct woke brigade siezing the opportunity to portray you as a Nazi sympathiser.