There are a disturbing number of people who think like this. I've been seeing a rising number of commenters on my Hidden Gems roundup who are upset at being shown games they've never heard about, because if they haven't heard about it, it must be bad and thus it can't be a gem, so I must be lying.

Australia's tech industry group's chief left suddenly after 16 months in the job. I wrote for the Siz about how Tech Council of Australia under its new chair Atlassian cofounder Scott Farquhar has been pushing policies that critics suggest help global tech companies more than our own 👀

Don't worry guys, im sure there will be a massive technological breakthrough that'll cut costs and increase efficiencies! :^)

It's worth reiterating that independent creators are getting debanked for the same content

Your Nationalism is not Antifa. Winston Churchill was not Antifa. General Patton was not Antifa. Your favorite Nationalist was not Antifa. That’s literally the point. rt to spread awareness.

Thinking about how much of their violence has been normalized already, how scenes that caused shockwaves 6 weeks ago are now part of the rhythm of daily life. Watched a TikTok from a daughter who has to do her parents' laundry & get their groceries because they're in hiding. This is just it now

Some bloke just barked at @seeyouspaceoomfie.bsky.social and I at Woolies and we can't handle it.

Precisely. Banning young people from social media just so ill-informed boomers can get over their made-up moral panic simply ends up harming the most vulnerable, for whom social media are a critical lifeline. 👇👇👇

It's galling to see the Albo government paint the U16 social media ban as a great success when there are expert organisations working with vulnerable children queuing up to demonstrate how it will make young people less safe online. Children will suffer as a result of the social media ban.

There's a bird outside chirping the Tower Knight theme from Demon's Souls right now.

But if i post everyday on the bluesky site (There'll be guys in your mentions toniiiiiiight)

Great run-down of the mutual obligations system — both it's current unlawful administration, and it's rotten ideological underpinnings that destroys lives — by @amyremeikis.bsky.social here: www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

🧵 If this peace deal is successful, we'll be back at the perpetual statemate that characterised the status quo ante. Israel will continue to expand illegal settlements in the West Bank, it will continue to control Gaza's borders and we will be no closer to Palestinian statehood.

The cruelty is the point.

My favorite cafe plays jazz versions of pop songs from the 80s-late 2000s instead of just putting on a jazz radio station. I think the majority of people have been forced into this nostalgia hyper-reality because they can't cope with the world we're living in.

Scoop: OpenAI has signed its first ever Australia government contract, quietly inking a deal with Treasury amid the ChatGPT-maker's charm offensive on policymakers. This modest contract is an ideal foothold into future, more lucrative deals, according to one firm's analysis. www.crikey.com.au/20...

🚨 NEW: 58% of Australians agree that a genocide is happening in Gaza, according to a YouGov poll commissioned by the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network 88% of Greens voters and 72% of Labor voters were among those who agreed with the UN report on Gaza

I mean, it's a miracle that media and government are treating this a scandal rather than an example of an organisation being Forward Thinking and Getting Ahead of the Pack and Innovating etc etc www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Explain your user name I made my original username when I was in my lol random phase of my teens, Sadistic Sausage. That became SadisticSam and then I shortened it to SadSam. Then add on 0451, the Looking Glass door code. Mentally Grill, because I'm depressed and like to grill.

Soon you can have your sushi delivered by the same drones that shot toddlers in the head while they were scraping spilled flour off the ground

The Australian Government has told us that ID will never be the only option for verifying your age, but the fact that its even an option is dangerous enough.

Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs

I have 19 spooky movies i wanna watch this spooky season and i just crossed one off!

PAY ATTENTION! Albanese will be offering to give Amerika control of our mineral wealth! NO-ONE voted for any politician to even think of that concept The Duopoly isn’t just selling us out .. it is treating us like serfs to be traded away for NOTHING WTF!!!! www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/01/d...

Me when I see NRL fans being mean to the Warriors on instagram.

The border must go. We cannot do this to people over lines on a map. We CANNOT Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Every USN vs PLAN encounter after 2032 is like the USS Masculine Warfighter, Glorious Defender of the Cracker Barrel versus six identical copies of the CNS 我们昨天建了这个 supplied by a ship that does nothing but make birthday cakes for the other ships

I used to feel this way about sports when I was super young, like primary school. That being said, Victoria is the AFL homeland and I've never really been interested in AFL. My opinion on sports as a whole changed in early highschool, though.

excited about steel ball run

Fuuuuuckin hell that was a stressful watch #NRLStormSharks

Sorry, I’m not reading your article. If you want me to understand your politics, please write them on a bullet and shoot me in the head. Thanks

This is the behavior of a class that knows no legal institution or government will stop them.

People in palestine are bracing for greater crackdown as Israel punishes them for statehood recognition by UK, Canada, & Australia. As I, and many others, have pointed out - these proclamations of recognition do nothing to stop the violence.

"Don't speak ill of the dead" being made into an unbreakable commandment by a culture that has done so much to shame away and erase any connection to ancestors in the cultures it oppresses is absolutely infuriating.

The FBI has been doing this kinda extremist labeling to Muslims, animal rights activists, and anarchists for decades already. It's nothing new. Is it bad? Yes. Is there a fed sitting in every group chat? No. Just use signal if you're worried. Is it the Kristallnacht? No. Don't fucking panic!

ICE shot and killed a man in the Chicago suburbs last week. In the days since, we've seen a laundry list of escalating violent behavior from the feds: reckless driving, destroyed property, dawn raids, intimidation and threats against reporters, witnesses assaulted and threatened with pepper spray.

At 47th and Western. ICE just snatched a man outside Home Depot and then, while speeding away from the scene, nearly hit a 17 year old boy on a scooter on his way to school this morning. He's okay. He jumped off the scooter in time. Agents didn't check on him; they kept driving.

Liberals now feeling what it has been like to support Palestine in the US. Every word twisted. Loss of job for a simple opinion. Taken off air for a monologue. Lists to target you. Employers harassed. It feels endless, coming from all directions. It only gets worse from here

if you don’t support the neo-mccarthyism you don’t support the operators of the Extortion Machine

Two Betrayal and Keyes get far less hate than they deserve. Fundamentally worse than The Library imo

A mainstream outlet finally does more than repeat the official BS statement from ICE about the shooting of Silvero Villegas-Gonzalez. This man's death should be a national scandal. Grateful for indy journalists who questioned the official narrative that corporate outlets mindlessly echoed last week.

Loving the Count Zero cover art that has the planet of the bass guy on it.

Man, you can really think "there's no way I can hate Nazis more than this" and then be proven extremely wrong when you read the words "Child Euthanasia Program"...

ICE just killed an immigrant at a traffic stop outside Chicago while simultaneously tear gassing protesters ALL IN ONE DAY and the entire timeline is still massive accounts talking about the Kirk shooting and Pritzker scaring Trump off Literally what the fuck is wrong with all of you

Despite being "the gayest NRL fan" i haven't really been watching recently. The beginning of the season was so hype because almost every team was playing really well and it was a close pack but it really felt like most of the teams coming up to the finals were completely spent.

My morning routine has devolved into blasting myself with the hair dryer whilst doomscrolling the news and smashing a can of monster. Could be worse, i guess.

Political violence is the kidnapping of Mahmoud Khalil and hundreds of thousands of other immigrants. Political violence is the murder of at least tens of thousands of Palestinians and the displacement and intentional starvation of millions. Political violence is what the police do every day.

"In a democratic republic, Engels continues, “wealth exercises its power indirectly, but all the more surely”, first, by means of the “direct corruption of officials” (America); secondly, by means of an “alliance of the government and the Stock Exchange” (France and America)." - State and Rev, Lenin