his wife eventually wondered what was taking so long and went in to find him. she discovered dad with his whole front, body & face, drenched in white paint, sadly mopping the floor with a staff member assisting and 6 more watching in tears of laughter. she goes "Barry! we have to be at Brian's by 6"

It’s a real wasted opportunity that there are four tennis grand slams but only three playing surfaces. Time to make it a proper challenge: French Open - clay; Wimbledon - grass; US Open - hardcourt; Australian Open - hot coals.

I don’t hold with this namby pamby shut-the-roof-at-the-tennis stuff. Keep the roof open. Remove the drinks breaks. Make them play in bare feet. Set the umpire’s chair on fire. Shine mirrors in their faces. Sacrifice a child for every double fault. Then we’ll find out who the REAL tennis champion is

Fitzroy Pool tragically closed for a booked out carnival… consoling the kid (and myself) with ice cream.

Fantastic. Great move. Well done Angus.

New Zealander here, Cameron supported an anti cycleway right wing faction at local elections last year. Our country's run by a right wing coalition of culture war freaks. Jim just doesn't want it to be too in his face or feel guilty about it..

Look, I believe in casts, but if a parent has strongly-held anti-cast beliefs, they should be allowed to let their kid’s broken arm grow back all floppy and fucked up, even to the point of lifelong, debilitating pain. And that’s not child abuse because a kid’s bones are their parents’ property

Trump's Davos speech was the act of a madman and that is the only sensible manner in which it should have been covered iandunt.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

Inside you there are 12 wolves

There's a special, Balkans-only Internet that the rest of the world isn't allowed to know about, where they call each other slurs that would kill anyone else stone dead.

going to use "at my most enigmatic and expansive" to describe the next time I have a few too many wines

No thanks.

As an NHS clinical psychologist, I can say pretty much everything here is contributing to the distress people are feeling. It's so validating- to feel heard & understood. This is not the usual 'political spin', this is a presentation of reality that so many people live every day. Thank you.

Vallor's paper really hit the students hard - it was about up-skilling cases where automation replaces a useless skill and gives us more time, vs. cases where automation replaces a crucial skill and de-skills us, makes us fall out of practice. Her core cases are about AI-based moral judgment.

Seeing some strong evidence for the "bluesky users can't identify a joke" theory this morning.

calling my little module that warms up a cold started instance a heater seems appropriate

A consequence of the Somyuwrecking of Victoria's local government election system: shelling out for by-elections instead of countbacks www.theage.com.au/politics/vic... #springst

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will skip the signing of US President Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace” in Davos after Switzerland confirmed it would enforce the ICC arrest warrant over war crimes in Gaza.

Gun laws? Who said anything about gun laws? Read the last few words of the lead: “in a suspected domestic violence attack”. I couldn’t be less surprised. Any chance we could get some legislation about that sort of hate? #AusPol

And like, this guy here could probably have authentically embodied pie and a V aesthetic. But he disappeared and I suspect it's now too late.

If Labour want to try and co-opt Mamdani's style without any of the substance, at least do it right? You need to translate to the typographic vernacular of the bodega sign into its New Zealand equivalent.

The TACO cycle: Markets want to price in TACO. But TACO only works if Trump sees stocks tank. So we get a loop: Trump does things → nothing happens (markets already priced in TACO) → that emboldens him to do more → until markets start to think he might not TACO → stocks fall → TACO is restored.

"This wasn't my plan for the bill, but it has been magical to watch" - Albanese chaser.com.au/national/con...

I think we’ve got better and more culturally-varied street food than I could have imagined, cool jackets galore, and drugs that make us think we’re really fast and strong before they kill us.

20 minutes after collecting the order and going off to deliver something else somewhere else the uber eats driver has now just passed the original store again on route to my place good reminder to myself why I don't use uber eats

The excitement/hopefulness on Bluesky upon the initial reports of Air Force One turning around was probably nothing compared to what they felt in Davos.

Let tonight be a lesson to all of us: Make sure you have established your own, and are aware of your loved ones', advance directives. Do you want to be awakened from your slumber when It Happens? Or do you want to find out when you awake naturally and unlock your phone? Let your loved ones know.

completely unironically, this is how we'll know

You used to be able to "inspect element" in this country. You used to be able to download video

It’s not often talked about but fiscal conservatives will nearly always choose dependency on corporate oil/car domination and social hierarchy of wealth and race, even when it means inconsistency and contradiction with their claimed principles. thespinoff.co.nz/politics/21-...

I genuinely don't have a problem with Luxon saying this. He leads a right wing party & is looking only to go into coalition with other right wing parties (NZF being culturally right wing & ACT everything right wing). But the Greens are pilloried for the reverse. It's an irrefutable double standard.

The good law, gun reform, was passed with the Coalition voting against it and Greens for it. The bad law, racial vilification, was passed with the Coalition voting for it (some Nats excepted) and Greens against it. Neat encapsulation of the social utility of each party.

'gooncoding' is the state of excessively using AI programming tools like claude code to overengineer things that aren't actually making you more productive but make you feel like you are

“first they came for the X” logic in fuckin warp speed

Danish MEP Anders Vistisen to Donald Trump :"Let me put this in words you might understand: Mr. President, fuck off."

The Economist, April 8th 1933. (The territorial dispute between Norway and Denmark over parts of #Greenland was decided in Denmark's favour by the International Court.)

“We’ve just thrown a live grenade into the room but it would be highly unseemly to throw it back”

Little note in the new Bill on Hate Speech Good thing there will never be a Minister who acts in bad faith when they go about banning groups.

The *only* hindrance to the minister proscribing a group as a Hate Group is that the Head of ASIO first needs to advise them to do so...

No shit Fuckface - because you are from Brisbane not New York. Wanker.

"I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace"

I'm good thanks. I think I probably won't move to the country where the authorities pump out neo-Nazi memes and masked militias roam the streets.

My anti-car crusade creeping into my work doing reception in accommodation. “I would strongly advise against driving into the CBD” a regularly used sentence. Doing Good Works.

"... and then FIFA tried to prevent world war 3, by giving him their own peace prize. Like fools, we mocked it."

i just feel like america has no business starting fights with the country that makes ozempic

medical science has always told me a man with his diet and lifestyle should not live this long, so i am very much blaming medical science as well

Mad Kings used to build real things. Pointless canals in Siberia. Golden statues to face the sun. Neuschwanstein.

Ban them. Crush their toys. Throw the whinging lot in jail. But enough about golf.

This opens up wider questions about how far the UK and Canada in the 5 eyes intel sharing framework as well as other former allies of the United States can still provide the Americans with any sensitive intelligence information at all