This headline confused the shit out of me until I realised it was a Dutch website.

“Two high profile Liberals defect to One Nation” Also, Hollie Hughes and Teena McQueen.

I mean: Delta. Fourth. It was inevitable, and this is why we need to teach Classics.

ALIEN DAVID ATTENBOROUGH: Having boycotted Eurovision, the humans on this website start arguing about something entirely unrelated. [beat] The Odyssey.

I’m sure the Democrats will greet you as a liberator.

I am no bigshot entertainment mogul but if the last movie from my big franchise came out five years ago and I needed a new star I feel like I might have already started looking a couple years ago

New Primus EP. First track is great! Gets a bit Rush towards the end but brings it back. “Holy Diver” cover is fun too.

In the 47th Parliament, I introduced a private member’s bill to abolish seismic testing. I’m pushing for it to end. Earlier this year, I welcomed NOPSEMA’s decision to reject a proposal for seismic blasting off Victoria’s southwest coast.

Also the Andrews sculpture is a (possibly accidental) way to wedge Jess Wilson: she's criticised the cost and the announcement timing, but she knows as soon as she makes it about Andrews himself the health stuff will come out and she'll look like an arsehole.

If we're doing statues of former state premiers...

Given the jaunty poses of Dunstan, Bolte, and Cain, the Dan Andrews statue needs to be in the “on the phone in Tiananmen Square” stance

Yesssss Dan Andrews Colossus. Astride the heads of port phillip bay, staring out to bass strait with an expression of cold determination. North Face can pay half. Dan Andrews colossus. Dan Andrews colossus. [bashing clipboard] Dan Andrews colossus. Dan Andrews colossus.

I dont think politicians should get statues for doing their job. But, this is only going to piss off the absolute worst people so Im all for it.

i think that babies should have to file tax returns under penalty of law. hear more on my daily video series And I Can’t Even! that costs $8,000 to produce per episode and that people have only ever seen by accident

There’s a glaring historical inaccuracy in Christopher Nolan’s upcoming film of The Odyssey: they didn’t have cameras back then. Theatres should have a blank screen and an old man reading out the script

Just in case this isn't clear, there is no company running snorkeling trips to an underwater graveyard. He pushed for this. Multiple government agencies had to coordinate so that he could personally snorkel in the remains of over 900 dead people...for fun.

"Girthmasterr"? Not "Rod Pound" or "Stirling St John" or literally anything but "Girthmasterr"? In what world is that the name of a porn star and not a brand of golf equipment?

Yeah I’m not sure the phrase “Hey Jude” does in fact mean the same thing to fascists, Paul

POOL CLEANER: ok but before we get nasty, let's ask Ta-Nehisi Coates about whether the post-Obama moment can be salvaged and the prospects for a rebirth of American letters. Thanks for being joining us on Brazzers, Ta-Nehisi. COATES: Thanks for having me POOL CLEANER: First, congrats on the book,

my favorite genre of international dialogue

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Spotted on Tumblr…

Update: It’s all to play for, Australian political journalism #homelateboydinner

This is your brain on LinkedIn

Must we keep holding our politicians to such impossible standards?

Every non-guitar-related product branded by a guitar company feels like it’s setting someone up for a “I sleep in a big bed with my wife” response

“These big burly guys, they come up to me, ‘Sir,’ with tears in their eyes, they say ‘Sir, I don’t understand how drugs are being smuggled into the country visually, Sir’”

Yeah this is a point that always gets lost in these discussions: these are not productive assets! These folks sink a huge chunk of the available capital into something that produces nothing, *and* want it to be risk-free *and* want us to reward them for being 'investors'!!

For those outside the region, a "pikelet" is a sort of small pancake that is typically eaten cold, with butter, and without any sort of joy.

Hahahahahaha. Yes! Yes!

I will shout a rotisserie chicken and one of those big cans of Asahi to the first journo who says to someone like Bob "Given the statistical likelihood you'll be dead in ten years, why do you need investments anymore?"

Why would you work when you could be a house.

Labour MPs calling for an orderly transition but unfortunately their government needs to be at least 18 years old with four doctors to sign off first

"[Younger voters'] relationship to Albanese is loveless: the great-uncle you see once a year at Christmas who cannot quite recall the name of your spouse or what you do for a living." - @frankbongiorno.bsky.social

Please God let this be a bit, this has to be a bit right

also what's with that photo, it looks like he's trying to order off a takeaway menu in low light

Note the confidence about how he’ll be spending the “coming days.” British people complain they’ve had too many PMs in recent years, but if this was Australia the factions would be doing the numbers all weekend and Starmer would be rolled by Tuesday lunchtime.

When you think about it, JFK really died of Addison’s Disease.

Star Wars did 9/11.

It's common to note that First Past the Post is a terrible electoral system - because it is - but it's also a terrible name since there's no post to get past. It's more like....closest to the post where the post is 100 per cent? Bad stuff all round

I said something once about the desecration of the classics and he told me something very interesting. Now this is one technician’s impressions from like 40 years ago… but I think time has borne him out. He told me that the point of the whole thing wasn’t colorization. It was restoration.

Even allowing that the US has a fairly limited choice of EVs (due to keeping Geely and BYD out of the market), in what possible world is the Cybertruck a safer or more practical family car than, say, the Model Y?

This is horrific. There was a time when UH Philosophy was punching *preposterously* above its weight; ditto in other HASS areas. Leading the post-92 unis. Then came years of management hostility, and now this act of cultural vandalism. Solidarity with all my old colleagues at UH, and students.

This I was not prepared for. Heads up - it goes heavy places. But with sensitivity and openness.

I genuinely think so much of this comes down to the destruction of a certain whiggish security that life only gets better (Covid, not 9/11, finally ended the 90s), plus “we were inconvenienced but nobody has compensated us yet.” Entire populations have been waiting six years to speak to the manager.

It was a real shock when I realised so much of the US discourse on voter suppression/staying in line was because polling stations are huge and fairly centralised. I’ve always voted at a local primary school and I’ve almost always been able to see it from my house.

Dawkins spending his entire career berating basically pretty normal people for being so stupid as to believe in God and then immediately giving himself Roko's Basilisk Derangement Syndrome after talking to the AI catgirl waifus is just the funniest shit.

Maybe the idea that political discourse has to be pitched at the level of an adolescent with a concussion is part of the problem? Maybe that’s how people start to consider it viable to put a senile, semi-literate reality show host in the White House?