one battle after another… PTA has got the juice

can someone help me understand the difference between ‘oven baked cookie dough’ and…… a cookie……..

Advocates say the Trump administration’s goal is clear: make the pre-deportation process so punitive that targets give up and leave voluntarily. The administration and its allies see the detention policy as a corrective to decades of catch-and-release policies www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

did I ever have a chance of being flown to Paris for the finale of The Summer I Turned Pretty? no. am I still upset that I wasn’t? you bet

I imagine this is what my friends in different timezones around the world say about me when they see me awake and posting at hours that make zero sense for where I'm currently supposed to be

Scoop: Business Insider informed its staff this week that they are allowed to use ChatGPT to generate first drafts of their stories, while also indicating the newsroom will not disclose such A.I. use to readers. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/business-i...

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN inquiry

wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend

“Do reviews draw readers? Boost subscriptions? Sell ads? And if the answer is ‘no,’ how do reviews fit with both a publication’s identity and its quest to stay afloat?” Read Charlotte Klein’s report on the state of criticism.

either i’m the most upstanding citizen in the world or a dumbass because i paid $30 for parking even though the barrier was broken and lying on the ground and i could have easily just driven away. i think i’m stupid

Charlie Kirk was killed by a meme www.garbageday.email/p/charlie-ki...

There are very, VERY few people who are equipped to talk about this shooter correctly given the brainrot written on the shell casing. You have to understand so much of online culture to get it and also understand how that culture is both connected to and separate from real world ideological spaces

internet culture desks aren't just for cute meme trend stories. ever since gamergate, understanding how and why info moves online is critical to seeing how we got *here*

I spoke to the organiser of the anti-Trump protest that greeted the president in DC on Tuesday night as he tried to dine out for the first time this term: www.thedailybeast.com/protesters-s...

intellectually I know that someone has to live in the apartments in sydney cbd but I do think the guy I met last night who told me he grew up in the city was lying

I’m willing to accept that it might make me a curmudgeon but this era of everything in pop culture simply being a reference or riff on something else in pop culture is boring me

based on how the women with AI boyfriends like their boyfriends to speak to them, I feel confident in my conclusion that dating an LLM is the natural endpoint of the wattpad ––> romantasy pipeline. we can divert people away from this pipeline by introducing them to well-written romance literature

I love being such an AI hater that I have an entire Instagram highlight dedicated to it. if generative AI has no haters left then I am no longer on this earth!!!

I'm experiencing some sort of episode where the only thing I can listen to is All My Friends on repeat

a man who attended the ‘march for australia’ rally yesterday posted on tiktok that he felt ‘betrayed’ by organisers who let a neo nazi speak, suggesting in the comments that the PM potentially planned the whole ‘bait and switch’. he’s planning his own follow-up rally for nov vt.tiktok.com/ZSAVVTQJY/

spotted on r/sydney… www.reddit.com/r/sydney/s/M...

I wish this would be enough to prompt journalists and content creators to examine the role they might play in making life harder for victims by treating criminal cases as entertainment, but I don't think it will be. I'm not sure anything would.

I do think people are getting slightly carried away with declaring things a distraction when sometimes they're just... events occurring at the same time

bob katter is the strangest man on earth, what do you mean he threatened to punch a journalist who asked about him being lebanese. why is he in such severe denial about being lebanese

I got the complaint in the horrific OpenAI self harm case the the NY Times reported today This is way way worse even than the NYT article makes it out to be OpenAI absolutely deserves to be run out of business

deactivate your instagram account: everyone assumes it's a mental health crisis deactivate your twitter account: everyone assumes you've finally achieved perfect mental health

“What is your basis for saying she puts roast beef in her pockets and in her pants?” I don’t even know where to begin. You just have to read these two pages.

audibly gasped at this news… not richard!!!!!!!!!

between david coronswet as superman and ben platt’s cover of diet pepsi going viral this truly is the perfect moment for the tens of people who watched netflix’s the politician

An entire team of journalists, outside a hospital in a tent for journalists, killed by Israel. www.bbc.com/news/article...

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

the most interesting comments i'm seeing on chatgpt user subreddits about the recent update are from people who actively prefer when chatgpt gives them straightforward responses (like in gpt5) compared to the attempts to sound more human/matching the user's energy (gpt4)

watching all ten seasons of smallville but shaking my head the entire time so people know i don’t approve of allison mack’s involvement in nxivm

are people going to have to start explicitly stating in their wills that they don’t want to have their likeness used by AI? do not resurrect me in AI form, do not interview my AI persona on TV, etc etc

everyone says chatgpt writes like it was trained on reddit but it actually writes like it was trained on linkedin posts by self-proclaimed Thought Leaders

bonus: Booktopia, Australia's largest online bookstore, is selling an ebook (that was presumably written using genAI) by Elias Vance, and someone has created a fake LinkedIn profile for Elias Vance using a headshot stolen from British actor Kerby Joe Grubb as the profile photo

Elias Vance

they’re stopping everyone at the doors of this bloc party concert and turning them away if they don’t remember 9/11

Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one child per hour during Israel's war in Gaza. “A whole classroom of children killed every day for nearly two years,” UNICEF’s executive director said. Here are some of their stories: wapo.st/3UCiAjn

people love it when you sing peaches by the presidents of the united states of america whenever they mention the fruit. it's a great bit, and you should never stop doing it (this is a pep talk from me to me)

I made the mistake of breathing while holding glitter and now my laptop is covered in the stuff. I can't really see a way out of this, I think I'm doomed

There were 21 people aboard The Handala. All were arrested and sent to Israel before being deported, except Chris Smalls and Tunisian activist Hatem Aouini, both of whom are still imprisoned. Chris, the only Black person on the ship, was also the only person beaten and choked by Israeli forces.

book!!!! @cameronwilson.bsky.social @arielbogle.bsky.social

am i crazy or is it weird for an actual publication to post hot takes about allegations against leftist internet personalities

maybe you shouldn't have used your platform to talk it up so much using active verbs that make it seem like it is actually independently doing something ? just a thought

I'm five seasons in to Smallville and I think I probably would have become as evil as Lex Luthor too if my best friend was gaslighting me to the extent Clark was every single day

if you spend a lot of time online it’s crucial to have at least a couple of areas that are beyond your comprehension so you aren’t completely consumed. two of mine are youtube and anime

it’s crazy how much nathan fillion’s entire deal does not appeal to me. i find his success mystifying

every time i remember kate mckinnon dated her i incur psychic damage