A gentle reminder if you've received an invoice from a Freelancer/Self employed person which is due before Christmas. Be a love, and pay it today.

I like video games because they allow me to act out my wildest power fantasies

It’s like people have forgotten that a cathedra is where the cathedra is! Which also, fun fact, why St Peter’s is not the Catholic cathedral of Rome. That would be St John Lateran, which is also a pretty cool building.

This is so awful. If you are in Queensland please take 5 minutes to write to the minister to let him know your feelings on this decision. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

Our new golden age of free speech, where opposition to immigration enforcement can trigger a federal investigation

this is essentially a horror story, an old guy interacting with an alien entity that has taken the shape of a friendly helper that always agrees with him and coming away with the lesson “it’s my buddy!”

After the 2016 blackout in South Australia, Frydenberg didn't waste a single second in using the disaster to aggressively dismantle renewable energy targets www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG3g...

My niece has just recently started being able to say my name, and now "Uncle Tim". My heart still grows two sizes every time she does it.

can genAI be used in a way that’s useful? of course! And a Juicero can hold down loose papers securely how many times does someone get to say there are “clear productivity gains” without any gains before we shout “bullshit” the world needs to stop trying to do Sam Altman’s homework for him

I can’t believe someone who won the FIFA Peace Prize would act like this.

I know there's no bottom level to Australia's media but also seeing Pauline Hanson elevated to Expert Commentator status is fucking shocking considering SHE WAS RECORDED CLAIMING AUSTRALIA'S WORST MASS SHOOTING WAS A FALSE FLAG OPERATION Immediately memory-holed. Like it never happened.

John Oliver really was not kidding about the overwhelming rebellious power of just saying “Fuck you, make me.”

Have seen this "explainer" urging a soft, cautious response to gun law reform in Aus shared a few times now, but no one seems bothered the author is affiliated with the gun lobby theconversation.com/why-can-some...

i created a graphic to explain

I unfortunately cannot give blood* but please give if you can. *Fun fact: people with ME/CFS cannot give blood in Australia.

And the blaming of people who support Palestine has already begun…

We are horrified and shaken in the wake of the mass shooting at a Chanukah event in Bondi this evening, which has left at least ten people dead and injured many more. This is the first night of Chanukah when we gather with loved ones and friends to light the Chanukiah. 1/4

If the racists could take a moment to not make everything about them right now, that would be tops.

Sending lots of love to people in Sydney right now.

Imagine if we put equivalent restrictions and applied the same scrutiny to, say, mining subsidies as we did to Centrelink payments.

Tomorrow is my last day on Gamer, and before I leave, I wanted to give everyone a little gift. Below, you’ll find Good Game: The Complete* Collection. All 12 seasons of Good Game, 418 episodes, in one massive playlist. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Politicians, charities, and advocacy orgs really need to make a point of moderating their comments sections whenever they post about trans issues, because they always immediately become a torrent of the most vile, awful effluence you've ever seen.

Same paper that campaigned to have kids put in gaol. Makes sense.

Nearly 40% of newly minted billionaires this year received their wealth through inheritance. This is the highest figure since UBS started releasing its annual billionaire wealth report in 2015. Another reminder that the myth of the "self-made" billionaire is just that, a myth.

There is a direct correlation between how fake your job is and how much value you see in AI

Five year anniversary of a time Twitter was being very Bluesky.

His salary for this weekly column was reported to be a cool mill a year, meaning this complaint about people asking for too much earned him £19k.

Always interesting seeing people post friendmas pictures at this time of year, and everyone at their party has exactly the same body type...

He looks like he’s trying to stop his dog from leaving him

One regular thing I see from supporters of the U16 social media ban is that they somehow think it will stop children accessing porn. While I do think access to pornography is a real problem for teens, we all realise this social media ban will do nothing to address that, right?

Kirralie Smith ordered to pay $95,000 for unlawfully vilification of 2 trans women She must also issue a public apology

I love it when Kirralie Smith faces the consequences of her actions.

Tell that to the heartbroken daughter of a friend who’s quit guides because of this shameful move, Joanne. She can’t bear to see trans girls excluded. Your Harry Potter money funds this shit. Don’t buy in.

I never feel more left out as an Apple user than Spotify Wrapped season.

We are governed by bloodsucking, technocratic morons. more technofuedal enshittification from the incrementalist in chief.

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Just a note that when a freelancer like me asks "what's the deadline" for edits or whatever saying "however long you need" is not a good answer.

Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.

I was diagnosed with #HIV in 1998, when I was 30. Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50. I’m 58 now. HIV treatment works. Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex. Ensure HIV treatment for all. End HIV stigma. #WorldAIDSDay

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seethes in Brisbane

The purpose of a system of is what it does.

What a complete joke and failure of a car the Tesla CyberTruck ClusterFuck is. My 92 year old grandma in a wheelchair handle snow better than this! Ht: @28delayslater.bsky.social $TSLAQ

My main issue with the Pokémon Flabébé is that I can't stop myself pronouncing its name how Moira Rose would pronounce it.

can not think of a better way to depict this human shrug

the 29th prime minister of australia (a useless centrist who was done in by his own party) had his official portrait unveiled this week, and