found the problem. this switch should never have been turned on

Red Dust Rebellion timeline is still well and truly on track. How did I know this was going to happen, lol :)

National is going to raise your power prices to pay for a facility that might never be used, simply to create the illusion that gas has a future and discourage industrial users from switching. What a waste of money

this is so funny because it's like, oh my god, what an awful question for a news show. and then wham the answer is so much worse somehow

Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai has was sentenced to 20 years in jail on Monday following his conviction on foreign collusion and sedition charges. Full story: buff.ly/6MkP1zn

Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.

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

Kudelka from when Gillard's portrait was unveiled (sorry, no alt text.)

The funniest part of Casey (an actual neo-Nazi btw) having a Substack bestseller badge is remembering how the walking skinsuit Jesse Singal spent roughly a thousand words of his rambling pseudo-rebuttal to my 2023 Atlantic piece insisting that couldn’t happen.

This story published shortly after the Post laid off the author, ace cybersecurity reporter Joe Menn, along with the majority of our colleagues on the tech team and hundreds of others across the organization. Like so many others, this was Joe's dream job, and he was very, very good at it.

A Reddit user identifies the boy who took a Grammy from Bad Bunny in the halftime show as five-year-old model Lincoln Fox and says that he was meant to represent Bad Bunny as a child www.instagram.com/the_lincfox/... www.reddit.com/user/BabySea...

Oh fuck... Gutted. 😢 He was fearless as a political cartoonist, but I prefer to remember him in this moment for things like this. #Kudelka

tpusa is pronounced t-pussay

Macbeth: SHIT

I never did follow modern music and have now entered an age where that's kind of expected of me, so with my auntie voice... They're upset about that nice, polite young man?

Vale, Jon Kudelka. And as always, Fuck Cancer.

Using art to smuggle controversial political messages like 'America is good, actually' into popular cultural moments.

Man’s Best Friend. Vale Jon Kudelka.

It's not even midnight and we're already at "Deport Elmo."

Amber Glenn, a queer Texan who started ice skating at the stonebriar mall in frisco at age 5, who plays magic the gathering, is an olympic gold medalist

New Zealand mentioned. Over by the Infectious Disease Physicians, the Indie game developers, and the left wing French.

The birds hang upside down off the sunflower head, pull out the seeds, and then use the back of the head as a table to crack open the seeds and leave the shells.

.. and some just deftly and pointedly wield pencil, paint, pen and paper.

Jon Kudelka drew this in 2004 and it's more relevant than ever. We're all poorer for the loss

time to remind everybody that the Super Bowl halftime show only exists in this grandiose fashion because a tv show called "In Living Color" stole the ratings from the NFL; the execs notoriously said, "get me Michael Jackson's agent" and thus began all the pomp www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

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Remembering Job Kudelka, his greatest one line single panel

Jon Kudelka, much-loved Australian political cartoonist, dies aged 53

Jon Kudelka was not just the creator of the best tea towel in Australian history, and a great cartoonist and artists, but he was a superb friend, incredible husband and dad. Goddamn I will miss him

Cartoonist Jon Kudelka has passed away, his wife Margaret has confirmed. www.facebook.com/margaret.kud...

yikes, pathfinder

Snowy Ptarmigans!

I worry that none of us have enough money to be the target demographic for anything. The commercials are for investors not consumers.

i worry that a 5-year stretch of nothing but ads for NFTs, bitcoin, and AI is a long enough gap that this nation's once-great advertising industry will forget how to sell a product people actually want

a perfidious thing 90s media did was associate the stereotype of the bully with sports via The Jock. sports are cool, you get to hang out with your friends, have fun, get good brain chemicals, and it took me forever to realise that because media told me it was for bad people.

To be very clear, that lady in the NYT article is not making any money with her hundreds of AI slop books. She makes money by *convincing people* she makes money that way and getting them to pay her to teach them how to do it. It's an evolved MLM, and the NYT is helping market it.

That headline is slightly misleading too. Luxon skirted his assertion rather than flatly saying so... “As to whether he apologises for it, that's ultimately a decision for him. But I would have thought he would want to”.

Great to see people talking about Lord of the Flies – but it’s important to remember. It’s actually a trilogy, comprised of three distinct volumes: Fellowship of the Flies, The Two Flies, Return of the Flies.

Media depictions of gamers are stuck in the last century. For example, whenever you see a character who is coded as a gamer, they are always playing a video game. While in reality, there is nothing gamers hate more than video games.

Any time I look to see what the Labour government is up to in the UK it turns out to be things like making posters that Alfonso Cuarón put in the background of the long tracking shot that opens “Children of Men”.

《Rubbish bins》 I am a two-time Walkley-winning IMMIGRANT cartoonist, and this is my cartoon on @PaulineHansonOz. published with @theage today

Knowing which problems are common or uncommon itself requires significant domain knowledge

Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show will be interpreted by Celimar Rivera Cosme into Puerto Rican Sign Language, a unique dialect used on the island that academic researchers and other experts consider endangered.

People keep sharing this article and I am literally begging journalists to read the fucking paper before publishing horrifically misleading summaries in the newspaper

give me the ferments and free my soul I’m only eatin yogurt at the super bowl I’m RFK

I never noticed this either.

Reminder that Steve Buscemi, National Treasure, used to be a firefighter, and when 9-11 happened, he pulled 12 hour volunteer shifts with his old ladder. www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta... In case you want to know the first thing I remember about him. :)