Well done sir, they're calling it your best interview yet

Coincidentally, YouTube recommended I watch this documentary from 1992 called Fires of Kuwait last night. Putting out oil fires takes some interesting creativity. youtu.be/-tUzkF_Dp8M?...

I for one am glad that Angus is promising to get to the bottom of the Ustaša capture of the NSW Liberals for decades

He's certainly kept that quiet.

You’ll hear it said that Jon Kudelka was a genuinely wonderful and generous man, this was undeniable, and the interactions I had with him bore that out, he was also a fucking punisher of hypocrites, he adored fighting bad people, and he had picked some quality enemies

I have many, many favourite Kudelka cartoons but this, from 2011, is possibly one of the best Aus pol cartoons ever drawn.

I don't think federal Labor ever recovered from this one. Vale Jon.

Vale Kudelka. An incredibly generous and warm cartoonist, open to supporting new cartoonists (he DMed in the early days of my twitter tooning to suggest I pitch places) and justifiably savage to those who deserved it, all with a light pen that carried a heavy impact. What a loss. Jesus.

These leaked Taylor swift lyrics go crazy

Imagine being a journalist in 2025, where you've spent your entire life witnessing <points around at pretty much everything in the information space> and you fall for an Israeli foreign influence operation. At this point, it's not about being a mark, it's about being a willing participant.

This is ghoulish nonsense from the Bendigo Writers Festival

Sometimes it's nice to think of Trump just dropping dead overnight, from an embolism or something.

the crisis over, his wars won, cincinnatus returns to plow flight attendants in exchange for horses

It's Zoever

“He was disabled and on the NDIS. He was hungry. He was under state guardianship - under the care and protection of the Minister. And it was the state that killed him,” said Debbie Kilroy, a leading prison abolition advocate with the National Network. www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article...

Looks like Labor is about to approve the North West shelf gas expansion, which among bad news for the planet and WA energy costs is terrible for the nearby Murujuga rock art - which is so old, it has one of the first known depictions of the human face australiainstitute.org.au/post/woodsid...

To address a recent post of mine about the Nationals: I was wrong

Huge step forward for AI as a computer-driven Tesla masters the famous 'Turning Test'.

"Nationals consider split from Liberal coalition for exactly the 5 seconds it takes for the nats on the coalition front bench to realise they will lose $60k+ in salary entitlements"

apparently Elon's gotten so mad about Grok not answering questions about Afrikaners the way he wants, xAI's now somehow managed to put it into some kind of hyper-Afriforum mode where it thinks every question is about farm murders or the song "Kill the Boer"

I'm taking a screenshot for the next time I talk about hyphens! (This reminds me of all the great #whyhyphensmatter posts by @madamgrammar.bsky.social on Twitter in days of yore.)

Another exhibit for a key plank in my policy platform: "Ban all regular op-ed columns"

George Russell's father sold what

We see this article after every single election and nothing changes

Everyone reporting that the federal labor party can get things through the senate with only greens support is missing that they can also get things through (probably with less electoral pain, mostly) with Coalition support.

If I could control the Secret, I would manifest a fatal myocardial infarction for Rupert Murdoch this very day. Alas.

Just so you know: the last two times Port has played on election day, they've predicted the winner. If they win, the coalition does. They just got smashed by the mighty bulldogs by 91 points

Random assortment of thoughts about Thunderbolts*: -Florence Pugh and David Harbour accents good enough but still distracting - finale was a bit Eternal Sunshine - where did they spend the money because it wasn't the a-list cast, lighting or CGI - casting depression/trauma as a villain is novel, but

Mark Carney should launch a surprise attack on the USA

An election campaign that started in part with a focus around fighting antisemitism ending with "were the neo-nazis right in their heckling at Anzac Day?"

Ausgrid are selling small plots with active electricity substations to would-be homeowners in Sydney. Prices are predictably absurd, but you wouldn't catch me living here. These are the things that explode in sparks when the EMP gets activated www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Flattered, but unavailable for the papacy at this time

Whenever I watch the NBA I see the world's most celebrated players travel like it's not even a rule. Is that a thing people talk about like AFL fans talk about throws, inconsistent 15m estimates, or has the travel rule changed since I played?

I watched Slow Horses S1 over the past few days and am finding it more difficult than usual to ignore the gigantic plot holes and implausible scenarios. Good premise, characters, Kristin Scott-Thomas, there's a lot to like.

The turmoil Star Entertainment is facing doesn't get much play outside the financial pages, but I've been dipping a toe because it's a fascinating natural experiment asking "How does a casino make money when anti-money laundering regulators actually do their job?" Answer appears to be "It doesnt."

Can anyone think of a word in English with more suffixes than 'maddeningly'?

Helpful PSA from @purplepingers.bsky.social for landlords in the short-term rental market. Such community-minded content! youtu.be/QKk-qx9lrjs?...

I just want to tip my hat to the crack team of White House economists who were able to discover--in just a few short days--that the U.S. is dependent on China for smartphones, computers and semiconductors.

A Melbourne cinema cancelled a Jewish Council of Australia screening of the Oscar-winning film No Other Land after saying threats were received. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ap...

Algorithms are mostly shit, but sometimes you'll go months forgetting a person exists and then the algorithm will say "remember this guy?" And it's nice but it must suck for them I reckon

Long mooted and should be significant. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Make America Go Away

The tariffs situation is worse than anyone thought for Australia, I just read in the AFR that Australia's closest 'Trump-whisperer' is Joe Hockey. We're going to end up on 34% like China

Canada puts milk in gallon bags, silly

One thing this will do is bring "autarky" rocketing back into popular usage.

Today's had a lot of great news to be thankful for. Nice to have those days

One of the best things about Reddit is you typically don't know a soul IRL, which makes it very weird when you realise you do.