Zohran Mamdani called someone ‘mate’. But his tone made it very clear that the person wasn’t his mate at all. When will Mamdani address these lingering accusations of being Australian

i love the logic of “it we purposely misunderstand a cultural difference people will start to turn on zohran mamdani!”

"a band, Joy Division, whose origins are steeped in antisemitism" Clueless dilettantism. Calling a suicide victim who voted for Thatcher an anti-semite. Dumb and trash politics. I move that the member be no further heard.

the American century of humiliation is in full swing

Do you think I’d explain my masterstroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I made the NYPD woke 35 minutes ago.

I'm not sure there's ever been a more amoral man than this. There have been more evil ones, sure, but has there ever been someone as utterly empty of all moral character? You really do wonder about the people who were taken in by this guy in the 90s. It's so transparent.

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

probably my most deeply-held belief: it is not possible for a slide deck to be both (1) a good presentation aide; and (2) a standalone document that can be read and understood in isolation.

People seem upset but I think shutting down the United States sounds like a pretty good idea given what it's been up to. What are we replacing it with?

This is doing numbers on social media right now and it's so depressing how people truly yearn for this shit and want to preserve that feeling indefinitely like a mausoleum of false memories.

Things were better when computer was in room. Now everywhere is computer. This is bad. Computer should never have escaped room.

It is, I argue, now the era of the Climate Vulture: the grinning, glib dudebro breezily diverting the infrastructure of climate action to feed AI slop, carbon removal scams, geoengineering soon-to-be-scams etc. It's dinner time for the Climate Vultures. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/m...

Bloody hell. For context, that is 10x the high-end estimate of Soviet fatalities in the 1979-89 Afghanistan war.

It is the same social phenomenon as "people who write for the Express read the Guardian". Everyone wants cachet from the liberal intelligentsia. It's specifically bluesky users they want to be read by. Talking to the audience they get on Twitter is killing them.

If you want a picture of the future, imagine Panthers and Storm boots, stamping on a human face forever

I know intellectually this is one of the youngest squads in the league, Canberra were expected to finish near the bottom this year, and the core of the team is locked up for several years of serious contention, but man this is a fucken hard pair of games to take.

Rugby league is a sport where fascism inevitably triumphs

Still thinking about this.

I fully believe many cats get violent over belly rubs but maybe I'm just built different - I've had 3 cats and they all either like or ignore belly rubs

truly one of the most unintentionally funny things i've ever seen someone post online about themself

I guess the main thing I’m learning this week is that lots of elite media people knew charlie kirk personally and didn’t know any minnesota state legislators

Hey so what happened to "no one’s above the law" hey Tony Burke

Incredible clip of tech CEOs fawning over Donald Trump. Someone store this clip in the underground archive vault

There's a world class twat fade on this article

Hey what's the go with twisties

It's so fucken windy out on the Hume that I can feel it buffeting my poor little Micra off its straight line

Promotors who run the local beer and food stuff at Henson Park with a pretty rad poster for the Swans games

Made a new friend called Jacob at my brother in law's house

Going to see the Aunty of Broden Kelly, the football podcaster, or something of this nature

Darcy Moloney will play her fourth game for the Swans on Sunday - the 50th of her career - and it was watching Laura Gardiner excel in the harbour city that made her think "that could be me" #AFLW www.afl.com.au/aflw/news/14...

I'm not a doctor but clearly the humours in his body are all out of whack due to moral derangement and loose living, and he's rotting from the inside as they putrify

I miss the days when rugby league was simpler. There was no bunker, no Sportsbet ads and apparently the Balmain Tigers were sponsored by the concept of “computers”

“I don’t want asylum seekers to live on my street” is genuinely a wild thing to say as a notionally progressive politician

For actual serious: have any journalists managed to get *anything* from Segal about the neonazi rallies yesterday? Absolutely anything?

Digging in a bit more on the report today. Interesting that Yoti, which is arguably the most mature of the age assurance companies, had a false positive rate (i.e. thinking someone was 16) of 34% for 14yos and 57% for 15yos. ageassurance.com.au/wp-content/u...

Trump was spotted this morning in a white polo, MAGA hat and black pants as he heads to a golf course in Virginia, per pool

Everything the pro-Israel media think the pro-Palestine movement is (racist, extremist, building up violent hate) is actually happening with the anti-migrant “March for Australia” but with a fraction of the outrage.

The incredibly muted political response to sovereign citizens being responsible for the murder of four police officers in 12 months is remarkable. The police / spook / political / media extremist framework is clearly only designed to be deployed against Islamic extremism, any other form breaks it.

There's only been one Gold Coast team win a national sporting title, and the league they won immediately disbanded afterwards. The Suns men are one win away from the chance to start defying Gold Coast's cursed legacy of sporting failure. Read more here! www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

Would it be more or less embarrassing if their excuse that they didn’t use AI but simply made lots of basic errors was actually true?

they'll say he's the only fighter, the only one standing up to trump etc, but that's all a way to avoid admitting (to themselves, in some cases) that they simply agree with his conservative politics

the dems backing newsom just want a trump of their own. their not-so-ironic worship of him is less a satire of trump & his followers and more an emulation. the glee taken in doing something naughty that you imagine will annoy your enemies is part of the original package too

the thing about metaphors is you are in control of all of the parameters. there is a dial here called 'percentage of hitler' and liberals will reveal their hand by setting it to 99

Good morning! Ahead of the pivotal game today, here's our look at some of the numbers behind Fremantle's transformation this year and the Dogs' many green lights www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

Going back in time and killing Pascal Paoli as a child and returning to find nothing changed

Something I hadn't really anticipated about the decline of America is that it would become a place you had to get all your shots updated before travelling to

For TWIF this week I decided to take a look at how the *radically* smaller North Sydney Oval can impact gameplay, especially in light of the occasional suggestion I see to shrink AFLW fields for unspecified aesthetic/scoring reasons. thisweekinfootball.com/twif/round-2...

This Week In Football: Breaking down Brisbane v Collingwood, the enigma of Luke Beveridge, Goodwin and the 666 rule, and how does a radically smaller ground affect an AFLW game? thisweekinfootball.com/twif/round-2...