sobbing and throwing up as Mr. Milchick makes me say this for the 500th time

BODACIOUS IGNATIUS

Man, the Bluesky Wrapped 2025 is pretty brutal

Lithgow saying that a family friend with a trans kid came to him and literally said “please don’t do this” and he did it anyway really gives the game away. they don’t not know

last fm's listening metrics are fun and good and if I thought they had any budget I'd say they should lean further in on this. 3D representations of any given listener's engagement with Scandinavian jazz. pie charts specifically referencing thrash variants

Another fairywren for Wrensday Wednesday. This one's a purple-backed fairywren. #wrensday

Scott Bessent said something remarkable on Fox News yesterday. If Russia attacked Europe, he said, the US would... sell us weapons - but no troops. NATO kaput, in other words. Should this not be headline news across Europe? Is it not a sign of EU brain death that it is not?

also > last year, ChatGPT’s referrals to e-commerce apps were only 0.64% of all ChatGPT sessions on Black Friday, and that figure only grew to 0.82% this year. we're now talking about one of the most popular platforms on the internet and it's still a sliver of referrals?

EXCLUSIVE: Funding and support plans for national disability insurance scheme participants will be generated by a computer program and staff will have no discretion to amend them, under a major overhaul of the NDIS to be rolled out next year, @australia.theguardian.com can reveal.

avg linkedin user like "i'm happy to announce i'm starting a new position as part of the how to kill superman by blocking out the sun research team at luthorcorp" & the comments are all goons from similar branches of the legion of doom going "omg congratulations 🎉"

no Ron Howard Grinch = no Mariah Carey theme song = no “Hottest Female Up In Whoville” = no Matt Rogers musical Christmas special = no Las Culturistas Culture Awards = no Meg Stalter wearing a Diet Coke carton as a tube top so on balance it worked out

The Nuzzi story isn't about an affair, it's about the extraordinary corruption, moral stupidity, and cliquishness of elite media. (From the Feed Me Substack.)

The first of two features with @petrastock.bsky.social on the rush to build data centres in Australia for AI and the energy and water requirements they bring. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

A piece Olivia Nuzzi published yesterday (as part of a Substack Q+A) called "Signs Your Book Rollout Has Gone Awry":

"The playbook here is familiar," @parkermolloy.com writes for HW. "Find a trans person in a position of minor institutional authority. Manufacture or amplify a confrontation. Blast it through the conservative media ecosystem until it becomes national news. Watch as institutions capitulate."

it's worse than that: the machines could crank out a larger volume of shittier cloth *and* didn't require a lot of training to operate so instead of paying the same workers the same price for more cloth, they got a bunch of orphaned kids to work the machines

If you're trying to ditch NYT Games, which you should be since their games singlehandedly prop up the entire dogshit rag financially, you should switch to Puzzmo. An annual sub is 50% off today for a crazy $19 and as a bonus doesn't enable the genocides of Palestinians and trans people

not to put too fine a point on it but every one of these people—lizza and nuzzi, obviously, but also sundberg herself—are symptoms of the same problem, which is that larping as a journalist is orders of magnitude more lucrative than actually practicing journalism

This cross-pollination IS how new ideas happen. EVERY field needs humanistic thinking, that's why they call PhDs "Doctors of Philosophy"

Obligatory joke about how at least WBFlix will let you get invested in the first third of a movie before arbitrarily deleting it entirely as a tax write off

i spent a little while going through the AIDS quilt and picked out a few panels that stuck out to me for one reason or another. may the memories of all these beautiful, far too young souls be a blessing.

I don't recall any of these individual media responses by Segal condemning the neo-Nazi rallies. Anyone able to point me to them? www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

in my experience men will also say awful shit to another man they just met, unsolicited, with the full expectation of agreement. there was a period where Uber drivers would start expounding to me on the Evils of Women about eight minutes into an LAX run

I feel about vanity fair trying to get rid of nuzzi the same way I felt about snl firing Shane Gillis - you can’t have buyer’s remorse when the person you hired does the very thing that made you hire them in the first place

AD-ROCK: Yo Ebenezer you gotta show re- BEASTIES: MORSE AD-ROCK: Redemption is not a mere matter of Beasties: COURSE MIKE D: We’ll show you Bob Cratchit’s not a lazy BEASTIES: MOOCHER MCA: We’re Christmas Past MIKE D: Christmas Present BEASTIES: AND CHRISTMAS FUTURE

day 1 is "penzeys revolution blend" and i cant stop laughing at "we have to GET RID of this lying, cheating, CORRUPT SCUMBAG PRESIDENT!! RESIST! REVOLT! REVOLUTION NOW!! good on roast poultry and carrots"

FUCK THE SALVATON ARMY - dashare.zone ADMIN

The Albanese govt sat on this report for TWO YEARS, and then only released it after parliament finished for the year. The report was originally commissioned “to enhance integrity and trust in government institutions” lol

The man who inspired Australia's teen social media ban literally did this:

bro just one more violation of human rights 🥺 pls bro 🥺 pls just one more systemic human rights violation 🥺 one more will fix it 🥺 pls just let me violate human rights one more time 🥺

be the bitch doing something yourself that you want to see in the world

snack anarchists

Any given trans person (particularly one in any role of power or prestige) is at risk of being forcibly cast as the villain in an algorithmic right-wing fairy tale by some grifter who's greatest dream in life is to be a pitchman for crypto schemes and off-brand fertility supplements

POV a right wing Christian sees that they have a trans college professor.

One of the reasons that 'right-wing ideology appropriates absolutely everything' is their quixotic desire to make inherently uncool ideas seem cool. They despise the cultural currency and cachet that a wide variety artists hold and are forever engaged in a futile quest to capture a modicum of cool.

Martin Clunes - 📽️ Shakespeare in Love (John Madden, 1988) In general, Madden’s period comedy is far better than its longtime reputation and Oscar backlash. That goes triple for the ensemble and deep supporting cast, like underused film actor Clunes as real actor Richard Burbage. RIP Tom Stoppard!

From the Far Side collection

the fact that nick fuentes isn’t here but ms rachel is illustrates perfectly that groups like this don’t actually care about antisemitism at all

Young Australians told researchers they see benefits and harms of social media. But they rarely see parents and other adults acknowledging this nuance or displaying understanding of how it works. When it comes to the ban, teens don't think they're being listened to www.crikey.com.au/20...

It really is precisely the inverse of how much work you actually are doing

Love this point from @helenshaw.bsky.social about the way Stoppard’s literary references could be a door, not a barrier www.newyorker.com/culture/post...

Using my God-given Karen skillset on the property manager who just tried to invoke sympathy for our landlords who are evicting us because they have to sell our house for "sad and personal" reasons. Gee golly I sure hope nothing about this situation is sad or personal for us

The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste

Financial precarity. Yes university students have always been living on their last 20 bucks, but the number of students I talk to now who have *multiple* jobs in addition to being fulltime students, some of whom are taking care of family members' survival needs as well as their own, is shocking. 5/

It takes me 3x as long to grade assignments now, because I have to explain gently and effectively why ChatGPT style writing is boring -- they swim in this stuff now even when they don't use the tools. Maybe no one has even told them their own voice matters, so that is down to us. 3/

FWIW I didn’t leave Substack because of the Nazis, though they didn’t help. I left because the management of that company is fundamentally duplicitous, it’s become a toxic social network, and there is no reason to give them 10% of your profits when there are better and less expensive options.

What Australian outlets edited out of the opening of Kerry O'Brien's Walkley Awards speech on press freedom: (The full speech is here: www.walkleys.com/dont-kid-you...)