Yikes. I knew Campion was dodgy, but this is next level

This is the best product launch video I've ever seen.

Rest in peace to Jane Goodall, whose tireless advocacy for primates has brought us closer than ever to the Planet of the Apes becoming a terrifying reality

TODAY IS THE ONLY DAY YOU CAN REPOST THIS!!!

RIP Jane Goodall

I'm running a Beatles pun contest, and I'm getting Paul McCartney to heyjudicate.

Yes President Trump was slurring and exhibiting disordered thinking in his appearance before the generals. But at least he didn’t have a hoarse voice like Biden in the first debate.

I read "priorities" as "hostilities" and I think that is the substitution we need to do every time.

slightly ominous mailer from the Red Cross

David Pope in Canberra Times

The Lost City of Melbourne is pretty interesting, especially if you’re a long term Melbourne resident On SBS and Netflix

After a 4 year FOI battle, @jommytee.bsky.social finally has the facts on Scott Morrison's sacking from Tourism Australia & the brawl behind the scenes is fascinating #auspol michaelwest.com.au/brawl-over-s...

The notion that American comedians shouldn’t perform in Saudi Arabia because of its government’s human rights abuses is hilarious. In this scenario, are we to believe that Americans are paragons of virtue? There’s no populace more wretched, no govt anywhere with more blood on its hands than the US.

One of the curses I wish I could shake in a sustained fashion is the one where I need to be a performer seeking praise from an audience. I am getting better, but it’s a curse alright.

My time over the last two plus years or so was spent trying to immerse myself in mainstream Australian culture. Not just talk about it - just engage with it. What have I learned? It’s fun when you are involved, but quickly pales into mediocrity when you consider it.

Something in common between Twitter and Bluesky is the white hot hatred expressed by men towards Annabel Crabb.

What I would say is people who work for ICE & the National Guard don’t deserve to go uncelebrated for their work. Every single one should be named with an accompanying recent photograph & then have that info kept on a data drive or something accessed via an onion router for a Christmas Card list.

Standing ovation for this one

I wonder how many hard core rugby league fans think Betoota is actually funny or tryhard with their league content. Not knocking them for giving it a go, but I do wonder.

All I am noticing here are all the Giants’ caps.

Yes, but he committed the crime of appearing in two Alvin and the Chipmunks movies, so I am torn about this. Great, he hates the Riyadh comedy festival Pathetic, he idolises douchebags. Yeah, he is still the Alvin movie bloke.

Burwood is not Australia’s coolest neighbourhood by any objective measurement. Aside from Burwood Chinatown (which is one of the coolest things in Sydney), it is a depressing, high rise mess where school children stay at the library until 9pm. I know this because I worked near there for 5 years.

The debate should be clear that when Hastie says *people feel like a stranger in our own country* he means this. And Box Hill and Preston and Harris Park and Springvale and lots of other great neighbourhoods. Nobody should mistake what he said.

So exhausting..

Remember when Latika worked for JJJ and people were pleased that she got a gig with Fairfax? Classic case of Conservative capture of a person with few skills other than tweeting at speed. “The Nightly can reveal”. What actually is The Nightly, other than an expensive reactionary blog.

When John Howard was Prime Minister, he participated in many International Democracy Union events overseas from 1996 onwards. He even was elected the chair in 2002 while Prime Minister so attended its annual forum overseas every year as Prime Minister. The sheer desperation of this #auspol beat-up

one of the new owners of tiktok, kids

Incredible hashtag journo poasting about how tough the conditions are for a reporter ....... when riding on the PMs RAAF plane.

Maron keeps popping up in my feed for all the right reasons: “From the folks that brought you 9/11. Two weeks of laughter in the desert, don't miss it! The same guy that's gonna pay them is the same guy that paid that guy to bone-saw Jamal Khashoggi and put him in a fucking suitcase.”

#Moldova's pro-EU party takes decisive lead in election fraught with Russian interference claims www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

Coorey failing to understand it’s actually very normal in Europe for the leaders of parties to speak at big events & even election rallies held by sister parties, unlike in the US www.afr.com/politics/fed... #auspol

The victory of the pro-EU party, PAS, in Moldova is a big deal. Shows that Putin can't buy neighbouring countries. www.bbc.com/news/article...

This is amazing. I was in Moldova last year, and saw all the corrupt money Putin was pouring into that country trying to buy the vote. If Moldova stands against this, Europe and democracy wins

George Brandis is a dumb person's idea of what a smart person should look like. The reality is that he's a sloppy partisan hack. Ben Raue has summed up just how bad Brandis' piece in Fairfax was about the possible expansion of parliament. www.tallyroom.com.au/62130?fbclid...

James Massola, Chip LeGrand, step up the plate. Go on, you know you want to.

Genius

The ABC and Fairfax continue to act as if the Liberals are in Government or should be. It's pretty sad.

oh great, how exactly am I supposed to summon my hounds now

The "Irish unification of 2024" Star Trek episode was pulled in Britain and Ireland: m.independent.ie/irish-news/w...

Do people on Bsky watch Jet Lag The Game? I have opinions

After Trump claimed without a shred of evidence that Portland is ‘war ravaged’, I’m counting down until some right wing Australian politician or journo labels Melbourne ‘crime ravaged’ I give it two days max

You know that a post gets a few likes when you get absolute dickheads who don't follow you attacking you. Of course, it was Zionist zombies. But with this, it's easy to block and hide their bullshit.

I sending this one onto @claireymcsweary.bsky.social

PT to Kardinia Park is also better than PT to the Lions' home ground, which is the Gabba...

Wow, that Riyadh Comedy Festival truly has the best of the best...

Can't imagine the framing of an ALP or Greens agitator, undermining their leader, being anything close to resembling the puff piece from Massola et al here. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

Jesus. I have heard a fair bit of this amongst middle class men in outer suburban Melbourne.

Recently @amyremeikis.bsky.social reminded my of Umberto Eco's 14 points of "eternal fascism" in which "it is enough that one of them be present to allow fascism to coagulate around it". And well , there is a sh*it load of coagulation happening.

We went to Europe this July and I have come back with an obsession with small European cities and European train systems. Probably helped by the fact I had a major knee operation because I fell over in a French hotel.