Oh, is a massive ritualized deflection of our cultural anxieties happening?

It’s a pretty weird week when a guy who wants to be a trillionaire is simultaneously getting headlines for the economy-shattering IPO expected Friday and the racist pogroms he is accused of stoking — but these stories are viewed as separate and in no way connected or prescient of the future.

Eyeing trade in the gym like

2026: I am struggling in a terrible economy because America has fucked up the Middle East 2003: I am struggling in a terrible economy because America has fucked up the Middle East 1991: I am struggling in a terrible economy because America has fucked up the Middle East 1982: I am struggling in a

CGI wishes it could create explosions this beautiful

Waiting for The Australian to run with glowing headlines on how unemployed can get about income rules to claim more Jobseeker and avoid mutual obligations...

can a program pray to a machine god to manifest flesh? can a flesh person pray to a machine god to manifest a digital body? when the earth cries, doth its tears ever leave its body? the barista wiped the table.

This would seem to suit the populist mythology of "out of control technology controlled by shadowy elites." This has the secondary purpose of reinforcing other populist fables of untrustworthy and impotent authorities and adds a boost to the hostile rhetoric of anti-science. #moralpanic

Hoarding is not the Australian way, except for housing, which is the key economic and cultural commodity of our society, which is hoarded to hell

yeah im bummed about sora. bummed i sora bunch of stupid fake videos

I know it's a silly jokey joke, but people REALLY need to stop anthropomorphizing their boyfriends. "My boyfriend told me" your boyfriend didn't "tell" you anything. "My boyfriend thinks..." your boyfriend can't actually think or feel; just output a convincing simulation of it based on probability 🙄

caveman: ugg caveman therapist: (nodding) ugg caveman: *starts crying*

And the streetcar is electric. Wichita Falls, Texas, 1927.

Even when journalists reference Hanson’s past comments on Muslims, they reach back to 2016. Why not just mention the case from 2025, that is currently in front of the High Court? Surely the entire media industry isn’t unaware of the case? So what’s the reason?

Queen Bitcher United States, Census, 1880

Oh there’s an idea, putting responsibility where it actually belongs: perpetrators, not kids

Actually - the entire comment is good...

Woody Guthrie at McSorley's Old Ale House — Eric Schall, 1943

Australia has had a rise of 237,000 children living in poverty. Which brings the total up to 950,100 which means this year we are at risk of it surpassing 1 million bcec.edu.au/media/anothe...

Adelaide writers festival, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne Symphony — in every case of censorship, boards have shown themselves. They will destroy the reputation of the institutions they lead, to be on good terms with people in their cocktail set.

Expanded on this rant a little on my blog: yeahrighto.substack.com/p/the-point-...

Albo et al finding there’s a big difference between talking about fighting tories at the Uni bar and fighting actual fascists as a grown arse adult.

I've been tracking the spread of nonconsensual deepfakes on X for more than two years. Here's a timeline of how Musk's leadership allowed the practice to flourish from a once-underground market to a viral trend, with little recourse for victims or legal enforcement. spitfirenews.com/p/grok-csam-...

incredibly wild that we live in a country that the government gets you to upload your id in order to have a chug so as to "protect children" while simultanously shurgging as our social media overlords allow for their ai to create inappropriate images of children.

Regardless of the merits of the issue the social media ban is indefensibly poor policymaking and legislation, it's a corporate quid pro quo with News, and the public have been asked to pay for the victory lap.

Fill out the Sweltering Cities Summer Survey! They run it every two years to see what affect heatwaves and climate related temperature rises have on communities.

Being exposed to trauma in childhood is linked to serious mental and physical health issues later in life. These findings show trauma is not rare.

Man, and here I was thinking I was being too hard on planning in my most recent piece... thefoxandthecity.com/articles/urb...

Gough raised unemployment benefits to their highest level relative to poverty - then Fraser (and his treasurer John Howard) fucked it up as soon as they could. Hawke/Keating repaired some of the damage... then Howard fucked it up for good thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...

It’s crazy that the marketing wing of an Aussie gambling company runs a large platform dedicated to radicalising teen boys into the alt-right pipeline as a way to get the kids illegally gambling, and it doesn’t get any coverage in Aussie media

As anticipated, Hannah Conda is the highlight of the drag race finale.

“is your pony pink?”

“DEI is not a threat. It’s a gift.” — Alicia Keys accepting the Global Impact Award at the #GRAMMYs .

This makes me so sad 🙁

Hear hear!!

I first reported on this story in 2019, and I have doggedly pursued it since. It involved many hours, often unpaid, and it may not have won me any awards, but I remain fiercely proud of this work. There's not many who can say their reporting helped get a community uranium-free drinking water.

On the Gold Coast for Christmas, re-realising why I left

Does secretly loving a heatwave make me a masochist?