I've always found it strange how the fact that 30% of Australians were born overseas doesn't seem to play much of a part in our national discourse. In the US it's only ~16%, the UK ~17%. The huge dynamics of that reality here should be kept in your thought orbit before opining about stuff

Imagine the laughs you’ll have watching [checks notes] Jimmy Carr co-headlining with [checks notes] Louis CK at the [checks notes] Riyadh Comedy Festival

CHOTINER: And you thought it would be funny to do a fake interview by me? ME: A lot of people have, so CHOTINER: You were looking for engagement? ME: Well, to make someone laugh I guess CHOTINER: How many likes and reposts did it get? ME: That's, uh, not really the metric...look can we start over

CHOTINER: And when was that? MY CAT: I mean at least 14 hours ago CHOTINER: Well hold on. You're telling me you haven't been fed at all today but if I look in your bowl here I see a- MY CAT: An untouched serving, I know, but if you'd let me finish- CHOTINER: Yeah, of course.

Feel like I was a lot more interesting 5 years ago. The mid-life blands are a terrible affliction, but no one's interested enough to study it.

The only thing that can stop a bad man with an escalator is a good man with an escalator. Escalators don't kill people, shadowy UN conspiracies kill people.

Oh for f**k’s sake, they’re dragging all the moldy oldie activaxxers out of retirement.

Damn. This thread.

Quote this with your reaction to getting left behind in the rapture.

Dynastic politics remains weird in every system in which it's practiced, tbh.

Got to the bit in my Homicide: Life On The Street rewatch where Pembleton is coming back to work with an ABI and it's an uncomfortable watch, despite (or because of) Braugher's extreme genius. Can't comment too much on the accuracy of lived experience, ofc.

The cost of Ita's personal discomfort.

Justice Rangiah in his own words in Lattouf v ABC penalty decision. The broadcaster has been ordered to pay $150,000. I was previously awarded $70,000 for hurt and distress. ABC has spent in excess of $2 million on legal fees. The real cost to Aunty is immeasurable.

This from the Chotiner interview is actually just a straight question-answer, but my god does his presence encourage the brainworms to escape the skull and squint into the daylight from their boreholes.

Proud to announce the project I've been working on 🏳️‍⚧️🧬 Had hoped to have more ready, but the events of the last week stressed the importance of speaking up against fascism NOW I'd appreciate your support in spreading the word, esp if you work in life sciences research, healthcare, or biotech

Only one matters. youtu.be/OV3xp5ZXSYA?...

Of all the brands to go for you pick the one that held its own through “the tylenol murders” and refused to change its name

Memes and cartoonist fodder. Nothing else.

jimmys kimmel

Breaking: everyone diagnosed with autism drinks water! #QuackMcCullough

I think "unorthodox" isn't quite the term for the Opposition leader presenting an alternative foreign policy position for Australia to a partisan faction of another country's government.

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

of course he wouldn't be able to make Father Ted today, his brain is a half-eaten blancmange full of hate chunks

Incredible image. Also incredible that the vast majority of white Christians in this country align with the men in camo.

Stands on rooftops: 📣 🗣️ 🗣️THERE IS NO LINK BTW ACETAMINOPHEN & AUTISM. IT HAS BEEN STUDIED FOR MANY YEARS IN MILLIONS OF PEOPLE. 🗣️THE ONLY REASON THEY ARE TALKING ABT THIS IS THAT THEY DO NOT WANT AUTISTIC PEOPLE TO EXIST. 🗣️IT IS EUGENICS. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION IN THIS MATTER. -EmilyPhD

The Australian medical system is multi-tier - worst for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, shithouse in rural and regional areas, hundreds of thousands of people unable to get prompt treatment, surgery and best-practice scans & diagnostics on Medicare- oh and it's great if you're rich.

Just when I think it can't get any sillier.

While the overall quality can be debated, the earworm features are stupidly undeniable. www.youtube.com/watch?v=on8D... #NowPlaying

When my grandpa died, the priest at his tiny parish in Clonmel, KS, used the funeral to speak his political truths to the largest crowd his church had seen in years. At one point in the eulogy, he went off on a rant about Surgeon General Jocelyn Elders teaching kids how to masturbate.

Will be trying to utilise this more this year.

A good illustration of how traditional journalistic neutrality runs into trouble with Trump, these people are required to live in a Trumpist halluciniation that demands they invent and believe total fictions to remain in good standing bsky.app/profile/mmas...

I'm RTing a screenshot of an RT of a screenshot of an RT of a post. Join me. Together we will defeat infinity.

If they're going to try and retcon Charlie Kirk, then we should try to retcon him too.

Another episode of Adventures In Polling Infographics.

Revoke woke. Go Broke.

"Silly" is literally ableism. Check your privilege, Louvre. I will no longer be viewing artworks in your so-called "gallery".

Rallying around the memory of Kirk isn’t just deranged whipped-up myth-making, it’s a tacit admission that the present is too compromised and the future too uncertain. They’re weak & in crisis. Trump is no longer a viable standard-bearer for the MAGA movement, and dead men can’t go to jail.

<downgrades GF day plans>

Attention, @failbettergames.com.

Patience is a virtue. #WorldBollardAssociation

Dudes rock

turning a big dial taht says "Joe Biden" on it and constantly looking back at the White House for approval like a contestant on the price is right

There's a fixed belief in centrist wonkism that all progressive policies are sugary chocolate Christmas sweets that mummy and daddy can only give out on special occasions and that any conservative idea is definitionally sensible, kitchen-table stuff everyone wants and knows they need

If people are shocked that the March for Australia was organised by white supremacists then they've been extending a suspiciously generous benefit of the doubt to date...

It's like, "Oh, you think that a special tea will undo a TMPRSS2–ERG fusion that just gave a prostate cancer cell all the tissue-invading abilities of a hyperactive blood vessel? Let me know how that works out."

I tell you what, learn a little bit about cancer and people who think you can cure cancer with diet or supplements do look very silly. This is why cancer biologists have such a hard time not being snarky.

I don’t know Waleed, so take this with a pinch of salt. But what his latest piece *looks like* is celebrity logic refined (but not altered) by a PhD. Celebrity logic loves broadcast media: a one way flow of information from them to hoi polloi. The information flows down, and from a great distance.

And now for some good news.

the accusations about my youtube algorithm are true