Couldn't become unemployed as an algorithm would hurt you. Can't get old & in need of care because an algorithm will hurt you. What else you got? Can't buy food as the algo says no? Can't move somewhere without prior algorithm approval? Can't live because an algorithm determines human value?

Israeli soldiers fired nearly a thousand bullets—at least eight of them at point-blank range—killing 15 Palestinian aid workers last year in a massacre in south Gaza. That’s according to a joint investigation by the independent research groups Earshot and Forensic Architecture published Monday.

A panda just fought Deadpool on then did a strip tease to a cover of a Brittany Spears song. On ice. I do mean the frozen water. He's the Olympic champion.

Italian bootscooting on ice. Love it

We've reached the aliens chapter of the ongoing Epstein etc presidential deflection saga. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Season's Greetings, or should I say Merry #Libspill to all those who follow on this important day

It's time this is paid, with interest.

Even an innocuous a site as The Dodo is reporting the f'd consequences of ICE under this US regime. search.app/fUxqU

Yay. It's almost 830pm and the temperature is now below 40 Celsius outside. #melbourne

We should start naming heatwaves after fossil companies The Santos Heatwave The Woodside Heatwave etc

15 people shot on Bondi Beach and the government introduced new legislation within days. 1 man killed by a king hit, government introduced new legislation within days. 2 or more women killed every week at the hands of partners or former partners and …. crickets. Their priorities are wrong!

Every day it's wtf USA. Not content with merely doing nothing as armed maniacs terrorise & murder school students, the regime instituted abducting children leaving schools. ICE detains 5yo Minnesotan as he came home, says school share.google/uG0qujDXSv5S...

Today in everything is suspiciously significant, the first song I hear is Virtual Insanity by Jamiroquai, who appears as some kind of oversized hat wearing prophet from the distant 90s to point out the strikingly obvious right now. If only we'd really listened to the lyrics back?

Is it just me or do the lyrics to Frontier Psychiatrist by The Avalanches apply to certain people in the news? Nah yeah or yeah nah?

Nobel Please Prize

It's award season. Here's my list. Most Frustrating Comedic Fantasy: House Hunters & HHI. Best lifestyle ad for USA: Home Town. Worst Dystopian Feature: the news. Series superseded by actual events: The Night Agent. Worst Ongoing Reality Series: Reality. Least strange show: Stranger Things.

It feels like a small gripe but ABC radio hosts mispronouncing regional town/road names during live read emergency bushfire broadcasts could be dangerous. (Tallangatta). Esp given radio is the main source of info for many during so many outages @abc7746.bsky.social

US alarm bells have been ringing so long and so loudly everyone everywhere has industrial deafness and bell PTSD.

Australian things that can get in the bin: Bins. Council household bins are top heavy & the wheels never work. 'Feels like' temperatures. It's always hotter or colder than what it feels like. Institutionalised racism, sexism, ableism, classism. That's you too Australian literary establishment.

Drop da 🎤...

Nah. Just thinking of when oil companies & the CIA deposed Iran's leader for wanting Iran's oil to go public...

To the lovely strangers who helped me up when I fell: thank you so much. Like I told you all just now: sometimes it takes a village to lift up an idiot who didn't see the painted yellow curb while looking for their car. I am bloodied and shaken, but thankful.

FFS can people stop destroying everything?

In the early 2000s (?) I bought a bag from a shop owned and run by a member of The Cutting Crew, a band famous for their song (I just) Died in Your Arms Tonight. I believe this wins the 2025 round of minor celebrity interactions. Thank you.

People who design shapewear and in fact all clothing designers: humans are three dimensional. No shape is wrong. Tar very much.

FFS. Let the aid in. Now.

Sad Christmas versions of songs like YMCA this supermarket plays, along with cheery sales jingles are creating a vibe. Not a vibe I enjoy or want as not even I hate myself that much, but. I've forgotten what my point was. And holy freaking silent spring how much does my shopping cost!

Boiling AUSTRALIA November heat arrived: 46.7C today at Birdsville (not a random place,but a well known heat champion) is a new seasonal max. in the Southern Hemisphere. Next days the heat can even get worse,specially at night and some November records might fall. Stay tuned !

The age of the Poet is here. Forget the techbros, or the hacker black hats or white hats, the Poets are a hooded cloak away from deploying their poetic licences to put the assonance into AI, using their allusions & juxtapositions to halt the pernicious creeping unrealities of large language models

When they use all the water &/or get their electricity cut off?

Living wages, a welfare safety net, & universal healthcare is cheaper, safer, and healthier for everyone than industrial imprisonment, but the US does what the US does...

some better news: Australia’s first formal treaty with Indigenous traditional owners passed in Victoria share.google/HxSU9UMQpljw...

It's wealth isn't it? It makes everything shinier. With wealth™️* safe secure ghousing and leisure activities to create social connectedness are no problem so you can chill & be happy. *Wealth™️ subject to availability, check eligibility criteria before enquiring.

A quick, birdlike clothesmaker

Do we agree this paracetamol/autism BS is a Project 2025 ploy to further disenfranchise US women, blame them for a condition beyond their control, & actually endanger them if they don't take the safest medication available to treat fever while pregnant? But don't believe me, seek medical advice.

I walked a letter to the correct mail box across the street. My neighbour got a package, & left it at my gate just after I received a pic of it outside their door. Tight deadlines, poor map skills, or illiteracy bringing a street together via mutual mail exchange frustration. When do we get a cut?

"One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this." - Omar El Akkad, Oct 25, 2023 This! So many still won't speak up and out about the truth. Never. Again.

Take him to prison, officer.

Can we not leave it at elves? Yes yes accuracy in research & yadah yadah knowledge is power but we're in the age of "vaccines cause bubonic plague in orcas so they attack submarines" era so, please, elves?

Shaking my head in Australian. Is this a well regulated militia or an example of an army deployed by internal tyranny that a well regulated militia is meant to combat?

But I won't

Looking forward to 2 Salty 2 Real, The True Salt Path exploring whether editors fail at due diligence to create opps to publish sequels to possibly falsified memoirs, which will then be infinitely easier to promote? It's a flawed business model, but it seems that's the theme of the entire industry.

Cat pee on the stairs sounds like a spy code phrase but it's just this evening's main event at my place. Just keeping it real here.

You know the drill #melbourne there's been rain so watch out for flash floods in usual places (like the corner of the good kebab shop), expect public transport delays, drive to conditions (the weather not yours - check yourself for your condition) & mind the Montague St bridge.

Apologies if it seems like I'm only here to complain but, I'm in pain, it physically hurts me to go shopping, and when I have to go I thus attempt to ensure ahead of time the place has what is required. So yeah, I'm annoyed when said place does not in fact have the thing.

Australian retail websites: why they remain utter shiite, a thesis, maybe one day, if I can be bothered, which I can't, which is much like the websites themselves, they should be useful but can't be bothered.

The emotional toll of always searching for the tiny slippery google mini remote is ruining me. Or would be if nothing else had happened over the last few years, and continues, streamed to the world

Winter solstice weekend: car aircon is on after I went to the supermarket as it felt too hot and I have to wear a mask. The sun is shining and every freaking vehicle has their too bright led lights on casting shadows everywhere. Meanwhile, far away, bombs fall & starving people are executed.

Ah. The approximately monthly complaint call to Australia Post. The call taker was kind, and frustrated on my behalf. We'll see what happens next.