1. Fuck this Handmaid’s Tale bullshit 2. If you want women to stay home and raise children, pay them. It’s work

Wombat$#!% = geometric perfection

"an inconvenient year" is the perfect phrase for this phenomena, and a great title for a book about it honestly.

Well I guess I’m not going back to the states anytime soon? The place I traveled to more often than anywhere else? Thanks Albo? Also way to give One Nation a million more votes you GARDEN GNOME

wait what

New Doctor Who casting is a little disconcerting, but think it'll work well.

Returning to Small Change for the first time in years, and it's striking how despite the air of broken decrepitude, musically it's as tight as a fish's underwear. Waits' secret genius. youtu.be/CLLjLiND8rE?... #NowPlaying

"Supposed to" Uh huh.

If this is how they accidentally get apolitcial AEC-style election in the US, it will be insanely amusing.

I blame badly written fantasy novels. Oh, and all the fascism.

That Seles plateau makes me sad.

I’ve been thinking about how often we say that’ institutional racism isn’t reliant on intent’, which is true. At the same time, it seems relevant to note that there are numerous institutions who intentionally perpetuate and incite racism as part of their core business… and that business is booming.

As is traditional, I'm coming to classic TV series at least a decade after the zeitgeist have. Tonight: Borgen. Incredibly tight first ep.

It’s 2026. There is a measles outbreak in the prison for babies

I hate this but Jeffrey Epstein is evil Forrest Gump

William Gibson reskeeting Bruce Sterling feels like a very mundane perfection of cyberpunk.

holy shit let him cook

It goes without saying that the duck is indeed an Absolute Unit.

cowhive

Chotiner: Tell me what you found interesting about these vampires. Documentarian: Well, it's just -- the group dynamics, I guess. Chotiner: I can see that. I can see finding Nandor, Laszlo and Nadia entertaining. Documentarian: Exactly. Chotiner: So. How many people did you watch them murder?

<James C Scott nods approving from wherever he's ended up>

lol if Isaac Chotiner says "I see" to you, your reputation as a person of any merit is done. Kaputt. Over. Chotiner's "I see" is Vinnie saying "He's gone and we couldn't do nothin' about it" in Goodfellas

Suffering mild anxiety that I've misspelled a word I just made up. Having a brain sucks.

The emerging narrative from the people who worked for Biden seems to be "we debased ourselves repeatedly and violated our own laws for Israel and Israel won't even say thank you".

Adam Giles mentioned in dispatches too. Collect the full set of L-NP right has-beens, same thing is going on in UK with Reform and Tories.

2GB and 6News saying Cory Bernardi will be endorsed as a One Nation Senate candidate. Given One Nation's famous inability to keep its own MPs in the tent for a full term a guy who quit his party seven months into a six year term last time should fit right in.

OMG

Do love how Daniel Radcliffe constantly looks like he's just happy to be along for the ride.

Where's Paul Kelly when you need him...

What if an unknowable ontological paradox... but sex?

Generally loathe reality TV, but if they can get cameras in there BY GOD I WOULD WATCH THE FUCK OUT OF THIS.

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

I do believe I hear Rebecca Watson cackling from half a continent away. Man, Dawkins looks pathetic. freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2...

8. Weiss's project is creating an Operation Paperclip for Epstein's cronies. Taking a group of discredited men and rehabilitating them as necessary pillars of system. Dershowitz and Peter Attia are the Wernher von Brauns of reactionary centrism.

i feel like technically i should be more empathetic, but somehow i'm not making it there

Thank you, @amandalehr.bsky.social and @mcsweeneys.net for reminding us that the America that is is the America that ever was. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-...

<stares in Immanuel Wallerstein>

Discworld QOTD, from Jingo

No Meaning

Literally the entire "trannies are pedophiles" argument was astroturfed by rich, pedophile Fascists.

It is absolutely the least important part in any of this but the fact that the richest and most powerful people in the world can't compose a basic email utterly terrifies and infuriates me.

Find it vaguely offensive that Albo doesn't feel as though he is competent to address the grief of Australian citizens without calling in a ringer. Maybe not the main point, but still...

Rather unexpectedly going to see Nick Cave tonight. This will be the first time I've seen him live. so this'll be interesting. Always been more of an admirer than a fan, maybe this will ratchet my regards that one notch further.

“In order to grieve, we need this genocidal cretin and president of apartheid Israel to visit, we simply can’t otherwise” is an absurd and obscene demand. Literally trying to use the dead to normalise a war criminal. As usual, there is zero self-awareness as to what this reveals about their values.

Catherine O’Hara was the Catherine O’Hara of comedy

Don't know if you've seen it, @grogsgamut.bsky.social, but ON has issued a statement regarding their graphics crimes.

RFK Jr. Demonstrates How To Remove Tapeworm By Scooting Ass Across Carpet https://theonion.com/rfk-jr-demonstrates-how-to-remove-tapeworm-by-scooting-ass-across-carpet/

The day is clear, but Melbourne MUST live up to its reputation as a drizzly rainscape.