I love Carlito but that hair is tragic

KEEP HONKING I'M LISTENING TO THE HONEYED LIES OF MY TREACHEROUS VIZIER

New: On 1xBet, the strange and shady company which has become rapidly more visible across tennis in 2025 despite *many* reasons for tours, tournaments, and federations to steer clear of its mess. Lots of odd details here, free for all to read at Bounces: www.benrothenberg.com/p/1xbet-tenn...

Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.

part of what I had to cut from this was about how this isn't coming from nowhere - Elon is constantly discussing comedy, criticising comedians, saying comedy is legal again, trying to make being anti 'woke comedy' part of his personality. That makes him open to criticism about it

im bullying the richest man in the world 😭

Reece Shearsmith is so beautiful as a pirate, like Dustin Hoffman in Hook. #Taskmaster

The National Socialist Network held an antisemitic rally outside New South Wales Parliament today - astoundingly, it's emerged this afternoon that they did this with approval from NSW Police. www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...

A very simple reform would be for the state to pay child support, and charge liable parents themselves. I’m pretty confident the government would mysteriously improve its capacity to recover the money when it wasn’t single parents going out of pocket.

there is not. it is using a (highly complicated, multidimensional) statistical model to guess the next word in the chain that is ALL it is doing that is ALL it CAN do there is no difference between valid output and hallucination it can’t search its data, or demonstrate creativity or insight

More #celebritytraitorsUK brush pen doodles. (No spoilers: featured here ‘past & present.’) #brushpen

The scream I let out at that #CelebrityTraitorsUK finale Unbelievable telly

Reading between the lines here tells me that Harford was an even worse coach than I thought I'm so happy the Blues got free of him, if only AFLW fans could do the same from the broadcast #AFLW How brutal Blues review sparked a finals return three years in the making - www.afl.com.au/aflw/news/14...

ICYMI: Dick Cheney died. defector.com/dick-cheney-...

“Liberté, égalité, fraternité” I notice I’m not seeing “securité”

Congrats to Mira Nair’s son, this is nowhere near the level of achievement as directing Mississippi Masala but a good start

Friends— here it is. Updated & expanded thanks to the space afforded to me in the @therumpus.net & the guidance of the brilliant @roxanegay.bsky.social’s edits. The win centers Muslims humanity — but what does that mean in a country that rejects that? therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...

Everything you need to know from The Age Good Food Guide 2026 Awards.

what a funny, strange, quarter of football #AFLWSaintsDogs

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Hello I have locked myself out of my house and my partner is ~90 minutes away with the key Does anyone have any long reads they think everyone should read?

Endlessly screaming no ❤️

Prince Andrew’s titles have been removed. Good start — now let’s do the rest of them and abolish the monarchy.

This is yuge. Charges incoming perhaps. Also lol: “His ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson, will also move out of Royal Lodge and will sort out her own living arrangements.”

Hallo something good you can do today! Kutjala is an Aboriginal community in need of a new bus to help kids get to school, elders get to health appointments, attend sorry business etc. If there’s no bus the whole community is in strife. Help them out if you can! www.gofundme.com/f/support-ku...

Government trying to give police powers to recommend welfare cancellations, senate rebels on enviro laws and David Pocock pulls one over the government in the name of transparency - it is all happening. thepoint.com.au

Can we get the Renegades to play some games at Ballarat so they put in some drainage? #AFLW

No Pritchard and big puddles make this a big struggle #AFLWDogsCats

Disappearing jewels. Today’s Age cartoon

“The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy defines the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as "a bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes". - Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

A really excellent piece by Kristen Amiet in noted welfare rights journal The Australian on: • The Federal Court's decision in Chaplin v. Secretary, DSS • The false dichotomy of 'Robodebt or not' • The dire need to implement statutory limits on welfare debt recovery archive.md/CDXIR

This jumper clash is not working for me at all #AFLWLionsDees

The author of one of my favourite pieces of writing absolutely shredding Lord of the Rings, a book series that raised me. In the immortal words of Laganja Estranja, I am feeling very attacked.

Mitch Marsh expects to be “six beers deep” by lunch on day 1 of the #Ashes. Does that make him more or less likely to open for Australia? #AUSvIND

Cathy Svarc very nearly didn't head into Wilston Grange for her first training session back in 2018. Now, she's a two-time premiership player with the Lions and one of the most exciting players in the #AFLW www.afl.com.au/aflw/news/14...

'"If you approach a bird that doesn’t immediately stand to attention or go to fly away, or at least hop away, and you know it’s looking at you, then it’s in trouble,” says Bishop. “It needs you to call somebody to help it.”'

all my goats are dead to me dead goats everywhere

Was JUST teaching about the (misogynistic/sexist) hx of ’sex verification’ as it trickled down fm elite sports to kids’ recreation. has mostly meant surveillance/policing of girls + women. was bound to affect boys in ways that extend beyond reproducing hegemonic masculinity bsky.app/profile/auts...

Everything I want to say about Larry Ellison would get me banned from this app Jesus Christ I hate him

How about we shift from centre-right dweebs dishonestly trying to reframe our intentions and towards actually being honest with people about how renewable energy only makes your bills cheaper, cuts air pollution and cuts greenhouse gases if politicians actually directly tackle corporate power

Just Minnesota things

the no kings protests are so great, love to everyone out there

i have no hot take at all, it's just amazing to see the numbers

you must be fun at parties (flirting)

Sumo tourism is my absolute favourite thing at the moment. An unexpected delight in this age of horrors.

Setting the “days since an Australian university admitted to wage theft” back to 0 www.canberratimes.com.au/story/908934...

Wheeeewwwwwww that was an absolute banger from Freo and Melbourne Thrilled for the Dockers #AFLWFreoDees

Cricket: a sport where waving gets you a demerit point, but not shaking hands has no consequences whatsoever 👀 www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/s...