It’s not an ordinary citizen’s duty to watch videos showing murders, and I say this as someone who did have to watch a video showing a murder, as a juror in a trial. It will affect you in ways that will not make you a better person.

COLDEST 100: 2026 EDITION 26. Ride the Sydney System (1984) NSW State Rail #coldest100 #hottest100 youtu.be/8e91WqWdGIo

The indescribable ancient nameless horrors, eldritch beings from timeless aeons past, who have plans beyond our intelligences, can be glimpsed on occasion. If only you will unflinchingly look.

COLDEST 100: 2026 EDITION 74. Love is in the Air (2010) Scottish Football Supporters #coldest100 #hottest100 youtu.be/tYVMB_hUfw0

I am picturing thousands of polite Midwestern mums popping off marine flares and chanting Трамп хуйло

The world salutes the Midwestmaidan

in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today

I’m sorry theres no such temperature as -21°C. I refuse to believe that

Lots of excitement backstage at the Coldest 100. Kick-off at noon AEST #coldest100 #hottest100

Everyone needs to either follow, or block, @ozkitsch.bsky.social today. There are no in betweens here

The thing about compusory voting is it means the assertions about Aus elections being won from the centre is true. What it doesn’t mean is that the ‘centre’ represents political ideas that are more coherent or more true, or even that exist: all ‘the centre’ is is a numeric space where votes are

While we are talking about greatest ever cinema car chases, I would just like to remind everyone of the greatest ever real life low speed car chase, brought to you by the one and only city of Newcastle, New South Wales

Come at me, bro,

It is a bit remarkable that John Howard hasn’t been asked for comment on the coalition’s walkout. He is alive isn’t he?

There’s a gun lobbyist ad I’m seeing on SBS streaming which is basically: ‘you’re a responsible gun owner, you passed all these checks, and did the right things, and Labor is taking your guns!’ I would like Labor to run this unchanged with their own authorisation. It’s great. Take those guns

If you’ve sent me a direct message I can’t see it, because Bluesky wants me to comply with Australian law and prove my age with a form of ID. Which I’m not going to do. If it can’t substantiate my age from the sheer Gen Xness of my posts I don’t know what to say

Hey speaking of surfacing content from last year, this holds up orangejuiceandryvita.com/218/burger#c...

‘More shit to the posts’ —Eggs Harris-Rustla, 1967-1993

The removal of a statue (to ‘pioneers’, say, or of a known perpetrator of massacre) is in the same order of ordinary heritage management and memory curation as the renaming of streets when the significance changes. There’s a reason there are so few streets in Eastern Europe named for Lenin and Marx.

Bløg: Statues #blog #heritage orangejuiceandryvita.com/235/statues

Liam Hogan Thought on public statues

When I say I don’t think the Americans are a reliable treaty partner or ally, I don’t mean ‘under this government’, I mean the American people as a whole who elected it, twice. I like Americans! I have met many! Americans are usually pretty cool, but as voters I fundamentally distrust them

Even after Trump is gone, the world will remember that he threatened to forcibly seize the territory of a peaceful democratic ally, and our institutions failed to immediately remove him. That makes US dangerously unreliable, not just one senile gangster.

I cannot tell you how absolutely infuriatingly this stuff comes across to Europeans. When we say America is no longer a reliable ally, it goes considerably deeper than Donald Trump himself. This kind of complacent, condescending shit is a *huge* part of it.

The Inuit James Bond is on his way back to base, to end his mission with a quip

#SeppoSpill has a certain… tang

Simon Crean has been seen leaving Air Force One

Is it on? #spill

Entire Swan Lake ballet is available for free on YouTube just fyi

MFW theres an aurora alert and I live in a massively light polluted major city

‘You have to flatter him’ makes intuitive sense, but is demonstrably wrong, because he’ll always let you down

It is every Australian’s secret horror. They might, without even having been conscious of it, be eligible for British citizenship. Could you be entitled to a UK passport? Check now

American Vatnik Mind

Someone hating on Freddie de Boer is my own personal Bat Signal

Lol

Francis Fukuyama emerges from his well to shame mankind

The thing about Europeans is this: if you asked; are they willing to fight to extraordinary brutal lengths, at their own expense, over pissant stakes and extremity, you would say, in the context of the last fifty years, no, or at best, fifty fifty. But in the context of the last fifteen hundred?

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Anne Twomey in a tank, obviously

Man I cannot get over the irony that the American Revolution was partly a personal challenge to George III, an erratic, personalist ruler of a decrepit and corrupt ruling system

It is a critical matter for the sake of world peace that Hollywood make Rush Hour 4 immediately

Mad Kings used to build real things. Pointless canals in Siberia. Golden statues to face the sun. Neuschwanstein.

To the Americans saying, we can fix this, all of this insanity can be un-done, I think you are vastly underestimating just what’s been *revealed* to the rest of the world about your country, not just what’s been done to it. It’s Russian liberal exile kind of hope that everything can just be normal

The Greens should lean into Millenial cultural boomerism and make this a campaign song youtu.be/HUL4T8WcFdA?...

See also the Liam Hogan Thought principle of political carcinisation: anyone who actually contests the Nats and manages to win rural seats eventually just becomes the Nats

The Twelve Percent Rule holds

I don’t understand why anyone is confused by the notion that Australians will noisily hate a Party in power, and its leader, and everything the government does, yet consistently vote for it. Do none of you remember John Howard?

Would love to see figures on where this shift is actually happening. Is this just safe LNP seats in QLD threatening to go PHON? That seems easier to imagine than the idea of a PHON resurgence in Labor-held metropolitan seats.