Google plans to build a large artificial intelligence data centre on Australia’s remote Indian Ocean outpost of Christmas Island after signing a cloud deal with the Department of Defence this year, according to documents reviewed by Reuters and interviews with officials www.afr.com/technology/g...

WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger. Gen Z women aren't playing around.

Mamdani probably would have been expelled from the ALP

“Incoherent empty men want to sell me the chance to stop reading and writing and thinking, to stop caring for my kids or talking to my parents, to stop choosing what I do or knowing why I do it”

Mamdani cracks 1M votes, the first NYC mayor to do so since John Lindsay in 1969

teen vogue was running circles around every major news publication, but you can't have that!

Federal government’s talking points on Israel-Palestine were mistakenly shared with the Australia Palestine Advocacy Organisation, disclosing its opposition to a proposed children’s hospital in Gaza championed by prominent humanitarian, Dr Mohammed Mustafa. #AusPol open.substack.com/pub/deepcutn...

If ads for ICE weren't enough to get people to cancel Spotify, the fact that they are now requiring non-premium users to watch video ads that take over a third of their phone screen and shut down the app if they are closed should do it.

Being in a family group chat means waking up to another WhatsApp forwarded video, this one titled and I’m not making this up “doctor reveals the truth about breakfast”.

Excited to be able to talk about this publicly now - The Point is now up and running and from Monday, you'll find my parliament blog on it 💃 thepoint.com.au

Love is blind season 9 a rich text for class consciousness

The baby slept two longer stints last night between 11 and 7, we must thank the baby

Looking at maybe getting a new washer because the current one is clanging and there's a search option for "smart washer" and absolutely not. I want the dumbest motherfucking washer you can imagine. The himbo of washers, if you will.

If you want to know how far public figures have fallen you have to watch free to air tv. For example, Stephen Fry is doing celebrity traitors uk?!?!!

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

The Diplomat is very much my thing. You watch an episode and you really want to know what is going to happen in the next one; therefore, you keep watching. This is an interesting approach and I believe more television shows should try it.

Happy Deepavali 🪔 our first time celebrating with two babies has been so special.

spotted on r/sydney… www.reddit.com/r/sydney/s/M...

This is the worst news. The NSN is taking out the First Nations camp / memorial in the domain. I hope there is as much outrage as when a statue is defaced.

The 'Australian Sikh Gurdwara Council' has issued an alert over the March for (White) Australia on Sunday, urging followers to stay vigilant & avoid areas in which the rallies are occurring.

I think if Britain colonised your country of origin you should get free BBC iplayer.

Always interesting to see which groups political leaders say have a right to protest and which are declared enemies of the state.

"Never ask a woman her age, a man his salary, or Bob Katter about his Lebanese ancestry." www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

The incredibly muted political response to sovereign citizens being responsible for the murder of four police officers in 12 months is remarkable. The police / spook / political / media extremist framework is clearly only designed to be deployed against Islamic extremism, any other form breaks it.

So excited about this Mitch Brown news. Can you believe the AFL was the only major sporting league where no man had ever come out as bisexual or gay 🫠 www.instagram.com/p/DN1x3HA5Pn...

An actual child could do a better job of describing politics in the US right now than our most sophisticated pundits are doing, because a child wouldn't be concerned whether or not he sounds like a sophisticated pundit.

I hope the damages are unmanageable. I hope OpenAI collapses under the weight of the liabilities and Altman is left destitute. I hope it serves as a warning to the others

Me reading my teen journal entries, making notes for my therapist

Au contraire! The fastest animal on earth relative to its body size is an ex-Minister for Resources running to their new job at a mining company.

No. At this point, you don't get to claim "mishap".

Today we went to the Eltham miniature railway, an amazing institution entirely run by volunteers. There were queues down the footpath of all different cultural groups. Nothing unites like a bunch of cute little train!!

age 15: Computers are amazing! I'm going to do amazing things with computers! age 45: explaining to the fourth person this week why Chat GPT is not a replacement for google or the library or friends

The same people who think consultants should be anywhere near government are the people who think Gen AI is a net good actually.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

I SWEAR TO GOD JAMES

this saga was so funny cause Choice was like 'hey so this sunscreen doesn't work' then the company was like 'who are you going to listen to us or a consumer watchdog?' and then a bunch of influencers started going 'i did chemistry in high school, so i know that Choice is wrong'

The Australian offshore oil and gas regulator is not required under law to investigate fossil fuel company plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions on new projects even where they lack sufficient detail, the federal court has found. My latest in @reneweconomy.com.au:

If LLMs are widely being used to give legal, medical, and financial advice, why are they not being regulated accordingly

lot of you seem very optimistic about who'll be writing the history of all this

Many have claimed Australia’s diplomatic position is of no major consequence … Israel’s strong response indicates it matters.

everyone loves to hate on the simpsons now but when the simpson family voice actors start dying off you’re going to see millennials come to terms with their own mortality on a scale you could only dream of seeing happen to your least favorite generation

404! La Trobe Uni scrubs mention of the Bendigo Writers Festival from its website. www.latrobe.edu.au/m...

I’m gonna say armed troops from red states descending on a blue city is just a few inches — or maybe one exchange of gunfire — short of a civil war’s opening stages.

Melbourne pastry alert 🚨 Absolute angel Zahara from Beurre Cakes made this luscious lemon earl grey cake for our baby shower and she’s opening up a shop front on Maling Rd in Surrey Hills this weekend! She’s @beurrecakes on IG

Stopppp reading the AI overview it’s bad

The truth emerges. The campaign to silence writers - which imploded the Bendigo Writers Fest - was waged by an anonymous group of pro-Israel academics, 5A. (A group that has no compunction naming and defaming individual writers, btw). Important scoop:

so the secret seems to be, lie, keep lying, lie some more, maybe even admit some lies, but never, NEVER stop asking for infinite money gizmodo.com/as-people-ri...

People are reading AI-generated synopses of books and then claiming they read 100 books in a week. This is how the abolition of books began in Fahrenheit 451: classics were condensed into five-minute summaries for those too busy to do the reading. Later came the burnings.

With the social media now including Youtube and TikTok, the kids know no other option. Read more: chaser.com.au/general-news...