Really good

Merry Christmas one and all, from the Vaders 🎄

Harry Ellis from Die Hard is giving such JD Vance vibes.

So #CarolsByCandlelight not only named the tragedy in Bondi but addressed it. Didn’t promote itself as being a tribute or anything. Just into it. Then Ode to Joy. Not that hard, Channel Seven.

Narrator: His critics can't be satisfied. The criticism is the ends, not the means, where ghouls compete to see who can climb atop a pile of dead bodies to shout the loudest.

American school teachers in some parts are absolutely dangerously clueless.

God, Twitter just makes you angrier just by being there. Even normally rational people tweeting “Sydney is best city in the world” with a picture of a ferry. I mean, what?

Police "didn’t know what law they were planning to make any arrests under, so that helped. When the police finally got into the room, 'one officer started reading a section of the Town and Country Planning Act, which another officer asked him to stop reading because it wasn’t right'.” 😂

Bari Weiss is the logical endpoint of corporate media. This is what happens when people who hate journalism are in charge of it. The only way journalism works is when it’s independent from the power it’s supposed to hold to account, which means ownership can’t have anything to do with those in power

If press gallery journos were honest: "We love to be players, and pretend we are not" "Many of us have had our views shaped by junkets to Israel" "When I write shit like 'The Jewish Australian community feels...', I am quoting self-appointed representatives, who really represent a foreign power."

The reality of Sydney’s trains in the outer west and north west. Just not enough stations or access to trains in that part of Sydney.

Tallawong is the perfect case study on how park-and-rides can never scale up to meet the capacity of a metro line but will consume the prime land around the station trying to do so. www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

It’s madness over on the hellsite. I tweeted this, and it has inexplicably high engagement numbers. The responses are fascinating in an anthropological way.

Remember, Ley & news.corp et al aren't talking to you, or even about you. They're screaming at each other & mistaking the echo as a response. Most Australians want to honour the victims, have stronger gun laws and to get on with their holidays in peace free of unhinged ranting (relatives excepted).

Yep, so many high school students really don’t know how to use so many tools that will be useful for most of the jobs available post school.

2/ Minns : “I want to make it absolutely clear that anyone who is interested in whipping up racial hatred or violence or disunity in our community will be smashed by NSW police. There is zero tolerance for it right now.” Gotta say: NSW police had YUGE tolerance for it on NOV 8.

prescient www.theverge.com/business/793...

Truly pathetic. The type of performance that has your colleagues start doing the numbers. Not just stupid, but stupid politics - gives Albanese an easy chance to show himself as a leader and take the high road. Most voters don't even know who Ley is. So this will be their first impression

This sounds like very @davidmgreen.bsky.social areas to me.

What do we want? - "Social cohesion!" When do we want it? - "Just after we finish booing our political opponents at a memorial service!" That one might need a bit more work.

Only an out of touch ABC journo would find it “astonishing” that a Zionist claque would boo someone who doesn’t pander to their desire to rid the nation of Muslims.

Its nothing short of a relief to see the feds not leaning into the culture war bullshit some of their opponents are embracing. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

Sydney’s Carols are always the worst carols. Always cringeworthy. That’s because Sydney is the most embarrassing, substandard city in Australia.

Remember when this bloke in 2020 thought the ALP leader should be Eddie McGuire?

Ever since Rob Harris returned from England, he has been hellbent on building up his beloved Liberal Party. Here he is, trying to pull a revisionist "analysis" of Frydenberg's naked cynicism.

Bizarre

Watching Jurassic Park - the original - for the first time in years. We should have heeded one of its main messages - never trust techbros who control the coding.

Wetherald suffering from playing his whole career in Shield cricket, not being used to asking for reviews. #Ashes

My Foxtel app broke down, which forced me to watch the Channel 7 coverage of the Ashes. Who is on? The Brown Nosed Gnome, Justin Langer. I would rather not watch than spend one minute listening to him.

Nick's shoutout even more relevant after appalling coverage of Bondi by mainstream media. Uncritical parroting of Netanyahu and Hanson, blaming protestors, and ramping up anti-migrant racism. Great ep from @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social & @scottmitchell.bsky.social . podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/h...

The AFR run a 2 year campaign to get the ALP to weaken the changes to super tax concessions to make it easier to avoid paying the tax. The ALP does it. The AFR criticises the ALP for weakening the policy because people can avoid paying the tax. My column #ThePoint thepoint.com.au/news/251213

Those England barmy army fans are amongst the worst in cricket. Khawaja wasn't sure that he caught it - yet still those wealthy gammon turds carry on about Australia "cheating". Pathetic.

Excellent piece from @mmasnick.bsky.social - based on the scoop by @cameronwilson.bsky.social @crikey.com.au . The bottom line: 'policy development' in Australia is far too often based on vested interests, with evidence not even getting a look in. #auspol

Of all the former PMs making statements about Bondi, it's Turnbull looking the most rational and professional. Howard needs to stay in his cold dark cave.

Opinion | Trump’s crude remarks about Rob Reiner are unbecoming of a FIFA Peace Prize winner.

Rob Reiner either made your favorite movie, or made somebody you know’s favorite movie. If you’re a Californian, he’s also part of the reason you or your friends can get married. He has changed more lives for the better than this asshole commenting on him ever did.

Malcolm Turnbull on Benjamin Netanyahu's criticism of Australia - he said our support of a Palestinian state is inflaming anti-Semitism here - in the wake of the dreadful Bondi massacre. "Stay out of our politics," he told him.

Um, not quite right, Grauniad.

Very few politicians are willing to state the obvious - a failure of Australia's intelligence apparatus. Father/son terrorist attack, with long links to Islamic State characters and IS flags in the car? Nothing to see here apparantly.

Tony Wright notes the political blame gaming in responses of Sussan Lee et al to the horrendous Bondi tragedy and recalls the Port Arthur massacre, where leaders of all Australia’s major political parties mourned together and took Australia with them. www.smh.com.au/national/aus...

I don’t use social media to argue about politics with strangers. I use social media to talk to people about fish. When I talk about fish on Bluesky, people ask me questions about fish. When I talk about fish on Twitter, people threaten to murder my family because we’re Jewish.

Fascist, inhuman monster

The lesson I am learning from Australia's journalists is to not help anyone, because they will try to destroy you.

Today in "The Age's VCE results coverage is laughably clueless", I wonder why a student at CAULFIELD GRAMMAR would get a high score in an obscure subject? Huh, amazing, yeah?

Of course Le Grand would make the reaction to Bondi all about his continuing campaign against Allan.

Ah yes, that's where a recently unemployed 24-year-old bricklayer, who spent years hanging around Australia's pro-IS network, and his 50-year-old migrant father were radicalised: university anti-genocide protests 🙄 Be fucking serious for a moment.

X has been a cesspool of people focusing on Albanese’s response to Bondi. Putrid.

Really significant thread here.

The main question I think many will have is how someone with IS links that was known to ASIO could be allowed to have six guns.