Not taking this for granted yet but encouraging whispers about possible scrapping of Group Ticket Voting in Victoria. It is absolutely necessary that it be scrapped or this year's upper house election will be another farce. #springst archive.md/FoOq8

Given the Christian Brothers' appalling record, this does not exactly instill confidence.

Heh. And they thought being lickspittles would save them.

Listening to this guy is the exact equivalent of being brainwashed by Fox News. Both are full of shit and they aren't just partisan, they are toxic. Spinning Platner into a victim is so nasty

Absolutely amazing twist. No notes on this script.

Watching last night's interview between Sarah Ferguson and an Iranian professor who supports the regime. Ferguson got completely owned. The interviewee at one point said that she wasn't much of a journalist based on this interview. A supportable view.

Srsly tho this guy sucked

Any UniMelb students out there, would be great if you can help with this.

Biggest horse that's ever been given. Shpws how much they respect me. Other leaders would have got much smaller horses. Obama they didn't even offer a horse.

The children yearn for the garbage trucks.

“There's violence on the television And letter bombs in the mail: But things can't be all that bad 'Cos Derryn Hinch went to……..”

That feeling when I can finally post an image I saved a year and a half ago

Will say that the use of "I need a hero" in Saints Row III remains a top 10 video game moment for me.

For some of us, it was even weirder than that.

Feels like time travel

Cartoonist Ruben Bolling has been absolutely killing it, and here's another one

Astonished how much Segal is showing her whole arse in this appearance at the RC. If the Government hadn't been spooked previously, have to assume it's well and truly letting a tiny bit of wee out now.

I would love to live in a world where it didnt feel like every industry and hobby I love is having the copper wire taken from it

Interesting apparent discrepancy. Wonder how much of it is so much of the (rapidly expanding) north and western fringes of Melbourne not on the suburban rail network.

New @nytpitchbot.bsky.social account is just different enough to be entertaining.

My most Gen X-coded comedy opinion is that cringe for the sake of cringe is a comedic dead end, and that if you don't wedge a TINY bit of empathy into your humour then all you're doing is sneer.

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I'm agreeing with Angus Thompson. Did someone induct me into The Matrix when I wasn't looking?

Memories of Sam Boulding linger...

My god. Gets within half a second of saying "We thought someone a bit monstrous would really resonate with voters." but pulls back.

Oh in Africa. Okay

The constitutional question for me is whether he would be able to wear his helmet in the Commons.

Jillian Segal is absolutely living up to her role as Antisemitism Envoy. Every time she says something like this, she increases antisemitism in Australia. I'm sorry, I have to be facetious about this or I will cry scream. Our community used to be respected. This makes us at best a laughing stock.

Perfect feed alignment.

Typically measured piece by Os on how to frame patriotism as something other than the last refuge of the scoundrel. Only qualm I'd have is that what we identify as the core of our national ideas DOES shift over the decades, and how we adapt our sense of home and place is a piece of political work.

Tasmanians: It's terrible, never come here. <Neil departs> Tasmanians: not like that

Defiant individuals shouting "It's more of a comment than a question" are quickly incarcerated in the slop piles, unable to emerge until they have identified a breakout hit.

Interesting that (like Segal) Newman is South-African born. Not indicative of anything specifically (Segal's family apparently emigrated due to political opposition to apartheid), but just interesting.

Not a huge Madonna fan, but listening to Confessions 2 and... it's fine. Feels very much like a late 90s/early 00s dancefloor album. Production is solid, vocals are on point (even if obviously a lot of treatment) and a bunch of Debbie Harry-style sotto-voce rapping. Again. It's fine. #NowPlaying

How utterly ridiculous. How much ABC coverage of Gaza is acceptable to Segal ?

Behind the Second Opinion Following The Passage Of Time, coming soon from Coolzone Media

Think this is Segal seeing her own political mortality fast approaching and trying to lay down as large a web of influence as she can before the end.

All of this outside a hipster coffee shop?

That most Freudian of slips.

holding the government to account during bushfire season by running around shouting FIRE to make sure engines turn up to wherever I'm at

This is utterly delusional. You are a shadow minister, which is a polite way of saying you are not a minister. You have no official role, let alone one that requires or entitles you to make non-emergency calls to 000 - something every Australian is told from childhood *not to do*.

Expecting lots of this.

Genuinely thinking the ALP will lose skin on this. Not necessarily because other parties are bigger supporters of the NDIS, but just because people saw their lives getting easier and now they're being made harder again.

Unfortunately, a stunned Paris is how they all got into this whole mess to begin with

Margo's Got Money Troubles does nail a bunch of the little true horrors of having a small baby. The show runners did their research.

Absolutely LOVE how rattatouie had almost no intensely flavourful ingredients, but still manages to kick absolute arse as a dish...

A bunch of relentless self-promoters on here (not you, obviously!) and I get socially and emotionally tired just watching them.

To paraphrase something originally said about autism... Racism is like a great bit mixing desk. You can turn up different tracks and put different effects on it, but it's still all racism.