just said this in replies but: the nihilistic school shooter misanthropy that dominates the right wing now was always extremely present online, from my experience. you could not step anywhere without running into it. it's not new: it has been a massive problem with internet culture for a long time

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

Just want to say a giant FU to PBAC, which is only recommending semaglutide (Wegovy) to be listed on the PBS for patients who've *already* experienced a cardiovascular event such as a heart attack, stroke, or have symptomatic peripheral arterial disease. This is horribly bad public policy

art exists to be destroyed in our place

tbh just going to post music videos i like today because independent of MTV losing every vestige of the music part, we don't value the art of the music video as much as we used to. not exactly a huge Madonna fan but i love this video/song www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3ov...

On the 31st of December I watched a video featuring Turnstile's "Never Enough" in the background and a little lightbulb in my brain labelled "Newly Discovered Thing That Everyone Else Liked Months Ago" went off. So, uh, Happy New Year, I guess.

star wars and star trek fans are weak "boohoo our franchise isn't good anymore". there's never been a good tron movie and it rules

I am genuinely worried at the amount of performative puritanism has been spurred by Horses. (Again, Horses contains nothing that wouldn't fly in an M-rated movie) A whole lot of people echoing variants of 'Maybe free speech has been too free lately'.

If like me you were unaware that STRANGE JOURNEY: THE STORY OF ROCKY HORROR is currently streaming on SBS On Demand, and like me the show/film holds a special place in your heart, then I strongly suggest you take a look. It's a loving made doc with great interviews.

i posted about all my favorite games from this year. i hope you will fall in love with them too! One whole year of video game recommendations: www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/one... "The international indiegame scene is full of undiscovered gems. They are waiting for you to find them." #IndieGames

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YEP.

ps2-ass building

The shift from "sir this is a Wendy's" to "just put the fries in the bag" indicates a cultural rightward shift; whereas the former is making fun of someone by implying they're a customer doing too much, the latter is making fun of someone by implying they're a *worker* & should know their place

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These are honestly the stories that should get attention but are buried under endless outrage farmers complaining about minorities or the amount of cleavage alternative costumes have

When decimalisation occurred in 1966, the Australian government compiled an 81 page file on dangers of using decimal coins in Christmas puddings. There was a media campaign warning people not to use the new coins in their cooking. The file is now digitised. recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetri...

Ask and you shall receive

I say this with zero irony: if you are even tangentially a part of a retro video game community, it is your civic duty to push back against this company and shun anyone who doesn't. This is fascism tapping gently at the door and as soon as you let it in, it's going to invite its friends.

I talked with the wonderful folks at Aftermath about the 34 Rockstar workers who were fired in what seems like a textbook case of what union busting looks like. It's bullshit, and it's nice to see the press cover this well. 5/ aftermath.site/grand-theft-...

Christmas hat

Let's choose kindness in 2026. youtu.be/lopMMkz0law

WAFR X TOTP A selection of TOTP performances mostly from Christmas episodes youtube.com/playlist?lis...

JD Vance Begins To Suspect There Another Group Chat https://theonion.com/jd-vance-begins-to-suspect-there-another-group-chat/

Congratulations to the coalition and a mainstream media not fit for purpose, for making about a million of our fellow citizens feel scared and uneasy this festive season. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Viva Greta.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

From Zohran Mamdani’s campaign to the US government’s “Halo” memes, fandom has become the defining language of US politics. www.wired.com/story/expire...

Go ahead and add a Best Crambles category to the awards next year Geoff, you coward. I FLIPPING DARE YOU.

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Linking the march across the bridge to the massacre is disgusting and everyone doing so should be deeply ashamed of their giving tacit support for genocide www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

What a pack of goodies!

I don’t know what making it harder to protest or sanctioning public institutions would have done to prevent the massacre. But I know if the Akram’s didn’t have access to firearms ppl would be alive now. Gun reform is an obvious & popular policy lever that can pulled now before further blood is shed.

We’re so focused on the negative impacts of capitalist tech platforms on young people, but not nearly concerned enough about the screen dependence of older people.

When 97% is 'no clear consensus', and 52% is 'the will of the people', it's time to face facts that Governments do what Governments want to do regardless of what their people actually want.

IMAGINE IF MEN WERE TAUGHT TO LEAD WITH COMPASSION AND A FOGHORN LEGHORN ACCENT INSTEAD OF SNARK AND BELITTLING PEOPLE INTO UNDERSTANDING

Absolutely incredible work. Thanks, @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social ♥️

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"Lay off CEOs instead": Game Awards protesters fed up with the show and the state of the industry aftermath.site/game-awards-...

while industry figures, dressed to the nines, filtered into LA's peacock theater last week, protesters chanted "the industry is dead" outside of it. despite how often geoff keighley says the game awards exist to "celebrate" games and the people who make them, many feel ignored

another day making control 2. everyone keeps asking me if they can kiss ahti. buddy, they won't even let ME kiss him.

i'm guessing money

Here’s an article from this year with the Australian gun lobby boasting that, with surging gun numbers, it was winning the fight against firearms control advocates. Blame guns. Blame anti-Semitism. Blame terrorists. Do not blame everyday Australians who marched for peace.

(its also very weird that this game got caught using ai the same way anno 117 and many others have and just skirted right by, mostly because...too many people liked this game?)

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.