Men at work on the dark side

If you need some good news, and a flavoursome meal, it's saffron milk cap season.

Airlines are starting to cancel flights as they face jet fuel shortages and rising prices brought on by the Iran war www.businessinsider.com/airlines-can...

ABC 730 with an absolute master class of sane-washing of Trump’s statements

The Democrats and establishment media all over the world being outraged over the fact that Trump said fuck in a social media post but not about the war crimes and naked imperialism is truly a sight to behold

For every $100 invested in data centres, $80 leaves Australia almost immediately www.smh.com.au/technology/f...

An Italian court just told Netflix the price hikes it pushed from 2017 to January 2024 were unlawful, ordered refunds, and said some users could get up to €500 back. Imagine opening the app and finding out the plot twist is consumer protection. 

The 2026 World Cup is shaping up to be the new 1936 Summer Olympics.

hot air..

The Australian has written three articles on this guy's interactions with an AI chatbot and I feel like they're affirming his misconceptions more and more.

Rolled the dice on a $3 Ravensburger jigsaw at the Colac Vinnies. Won.

Going to find ways to use the phrase "well into May" at work.

"ABC ANALASHEESH: Trump Incinerating Isfahan Increases Pressure on Albanese to Accelerate AUKUS Funding Or Risk Coalition Criticism."

I know this exact shirt without seeing it. They sell them at US army PX stores. He is the exact demographic of Australians that buy and wear them.

He’s our Hegseth

I’m trying to think what I’m missing that politicians, media etc - who should be standing up to the worst behaviour by our allies - inc genocide & warmongering - are instead bowing down to it. Why are they doing this? Do they agree with it - or are they just cowards? #auspol

Trump and Netanyahu could stop the bombing whenever they want, but from reading the news that hasn’t occurred to anyone yet

The Pezurection.

It's actually a commemoration of the miraculous resurrection of the career of Mike Pezzullo, sacked from public life in disgrace, but now a regular commentator on all ABC media channels.

They'll try anything but the obvious solution.

The story certainly has no holes in it that can only be filled with extraterrestrial aliens, and indeed no credible reason to suggest anything unusual. "I don't know" does not mean "I do know, and it was a spaceship" skeptoid.com/episodes/208

Would be nice to have government officials who don’t fall for AI slop

never forget when the Easter Bunny sent Teddy Roosevelt to the shadow realm

“The interest in AI writing novels is just another illustration of our efficiency-loving, conveyor-belt society. The threat of AI taking novelists’ jobs is not really about the prospect of it cracking how to write fiction. It is the danger that we stop caring about good writing at all.”

Various people have noted that a Google search for a specific Bunnings store is currently returning AI slop for the top associated image. Just tried for Waurn Ponds. I can vouch that the local store looks nothing like this. What is the red thing? A hair dryer?

Eigenape.

I mean, how do you explain this as somebody buying copilot? “Oh just ignore that”?

"Why is it called Cast Way Island?"

Easter BBQ lunch. Cleaned up a bottle of Crouchen & Riesling (for the vegan), a bottle of Côtes du Rhône, and a bottle of Montepulciano d'Abruzzo. When I say cleaned up, I mean finished what was left in the bottles.

Egg hunt in progress.

Sitting at the chemist for 15 minutes post flu vax observation right now.

Trump’s war exit ramp. Today’s Sunday Age cartoon

Air Canada promises next CEO will gouge customers in both English and French

See also: Australia.

SBS social embeds continue to win.

Dazi had huge Nathan Drake energy.

Qld residential care sector CEOs paid up to $679k: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-04/qld-residential-care-financial-review/106531314

Reminder that the last person the Coalition put up at an election for Australian PM wanted to have an immigration program tailored for *White South African Farmers."

I always announce my major changes on Good Friday because my cash flows are fine. We're all fine. How are you?

gonna find out really quick how many people care enough about this wasteful bullshit to actually pay the API rates vs. burning $3k-$5k in tokens for $200

‘Can’t be trusted’ yet the former public servant is given air time and appears on expert panels. What does it take in this country for wrongdoing to be taken seriously?! Oh to be rich and powerful. www.theage.com.au/national/can...

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Church of the Holy Super-litre.

Crabb's new show "Dunny Cabinet" debuts to mixed reviews. ABC are committed to 45 episodes anyway.

Lucky we have the national broadcaster tackling these stories. Has Pez got a take on this?

The ABC will still have him on half a dozen times in the next months as an expert www.theage.com.au/national/can...

Please read this. Away from the idiotic blame shifting statements from a demented president who’s incapable of empathy or feeling, and the arms manufacturers drowning in blood revenue - there’s dead innocent children and unbearable grief. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

It’s time the Labor Caucus grows a spine and demands that the Cabinet and Hegseth’s mate Marles unequivocally condemns Trump, Netanyahu and Hegseth. Religious extremism underpins this illegal,disastrous war. Working class Aussies will pay the price not warmongering politicians.