Truly testing the theory of “nothing ever happens”

We live in uncertain times

Post-Marijuana (Dama zhi hou), Written in Shadow Script and Black-on-Black Script https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/336548

New data out today from the ABS shows Australians over the past 18 months really have been doing a lot more international travel. One country though seems to not be all that popular of a destination. Can't think why.

We had two extremists shoot up a Jewish gathering in public and for some reason instead of focusing on intelligence failures we have: is the acting ANU vice-chancellor able to describe the Israeli flag

Everyone who said the Royal Commission into Bondi was a terrible idea is being proven right

My son just told me is favourite sentence is: “I didn’t say we should kill him” because if you emphasise each different word it changes the entire meaning

“.. We’ve burned through all of the buffers we had. Everything,” said one trader. “All of that’s now gone,” he said. @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/6c31...

Just think, guys. We're only on month 6 of our 3-day special military operation to denuclearize Iran. Victory soon!

Imagine using hundreds of words to explain to everyone, 'No one will have sex with me because of my politics.' It's the kind of thing best committed to writing, if at all, in a diary that's found only after one's death.

gods and monsters..

Wait that big wooden horse is full of fucking GREEKS??

Hong Kong: Let's raise a whole generation of idiots

three children I know are alive and thriving because of our advances in premie care.

Sam Neill on tackling depression and imposter syndrome when you’re between jobs.

Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences

To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.

CDT Quote of the Week: chinadigitaltimes.net/2026/07/tran...

DID YOU KNOW IF YOU FIND A HORSESHOE CRAB THATS BEEN TAGGED BY THE FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE AND SUBMIT THE LOCATION YOU SAW IT USING THE FORM ON FWS DOT GOV SLASH CRABTAG THEY SEND YOU A BEAUTIFUL CRAB PIN

oh yeah that's the stuff. what did our boy here do to abuse his power as deputy director of a scenic lake area? suggestions welcome

You guys, this is going to sound crazy, but I’m beginning to wonder… what if he doesn’t actually care that much about “election security”?

If you've been following Aussie politics, you've probably come across the viral posts arguing that our gas exporters pay less tax than beer drinkers. I decided to write a story on this, and ended up going down a rabbit hole on who benefits from Aus' massive gas wealth. Here's what I found...

Lovely obituary of Bonnie Tyler, this:

RIP Bonnie Tyler

my dude you're outhasbaraing the IDF

Trump: "Would you go to Moscow?" Zelensky: "It's difficult. There are a lot of Ukrainian drones there. It would be dangerous."

Every regulator / prosecutor / cop make these value judgments all the time of course because we ration enforcement cost, and that is very sensible in principle, but "resign and it all goes away" may not be a brilliant example to give for this specific institution. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

this is what genocide looks like

“So look. All I want to do is this. I just want to find 4 more goals. Because we won the game. There’s no way we lost to Belgium. There’s no way. We won by hundreds of thousands of goals.”

I mean, this shit is called like Bonk and Magic Internet Money. As a species we've wasted way too much time, effort, money, regulatory bandwidth, political capital and computing power on this utter nonsense. The opportunity cost is huge.

Palestinian pediatrician Hussam Abu Safiya is facing imminent risk of death in Israeli custody after his condition deteriorated, according to his lawyer, who met with him on Thursday. CNN's Jomana Karadsheh reports.

that his speech got rained out is bad for him. do not ever make the mistake of thinking “modern enlightenment people” do not imprint memories of rain-outs in some deep down place in their brain marked “god”

(smugly) oh, your humiliation took a whole century?

Classical Chinese for inclement weather: 天既訖我[川]命…今我民罔不欲喪，曰『天曷不降威，大命胡不至？』 Heaven has stripped us of its Mandate...There is not a single commoner who doesn’t wish for our demise. They say “Why doesn’t Heaven send down its terrors? Why hasn’t a new Mandate arrived?”

It's hard to fully grasp how pathetic Trump is. Imagine winning the presidency twice, with all the power and glory that brings with it, and still being this thin skinned and desperate.

Not the same, but this reminds of when Chinese TV had Confucius and Marx discussing Xi Jinping thought

"i'm a committed catholic. also i waited six years to baptize my child"

new metaphor just dropped

Incredible moment where Fox News puts up a graphic with all the reasons it opposes the DSA and why people should be afraid of them

WASHINGTON—In a judgment the majority of justices said reflected the intentions of the Founding Fathers, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a 6-3 ruling this week that upheld state bans on transgender athletes, adopting an originalist vision for junior varsity volleyball rosters.

@katie0martin.ft.com the Oxford dictionary doesn't have a corresponding entry. Perhaps Cambridge folk are just more fun.

Checking in on MAHA day at the American State Fair. Managed to get pretty close to the stage

TMZ DC with perhaps the most brutal video from Trump's Great American State Fair, showing Dr. Oz on stage bragging to Dean Cain about how big the crowd is, only for the reporter to pan around and show absolutely nobody is there. Original post: x.com/i/status/207...

can’t tell yall enough what a breakthrough it was for me to learn from this interview that most people just want to feel like they’re being obeyed they rarely follow up on whether you actually obey them

upon reflection..

Question: Are Ukraine's strikes on Russian oil infrastructure having a real impact, not only undermining Russia's war machine but also making regular Russians feel costs of war in unignorable ways? Answer: Picture of car line waiting to get fuel, so long that there are port-a-potties along the way.

“Loitering is not permitted in this area. Please proceed to a designated location. Thank you for your cooperation,” a surveillance machine tells a small cluster of National Guard members as they patrol the fenced off Reflecting Pool in the rain.