Sums it up.

I wrote this some time ago - with all of us knowing this day would come, and Rob, of course, fighting like the bloody-minded bastard he was to the very end. He irrevocably changed my life - and how our country saw itself. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...

State govt playing politics with the most serious issue facing the state. It’s crazy

[schumer perfectly triangulating a hail mary] The politics of yesterday's pedophilia have failed. It is time for pedophilia that works for American families.

#OtD 18 Jan 1929 800 women - mostly the wives of striking Port Adelaide workers - began a march in support of their husbands. The women, many with their children marched to the port to confront scabs, and fought back when attacked by police stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8978...

Oh look - Gang of Four, live in Zagreb, 1981: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUSw...

what idiot called it hansel and gretel instead of And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Bread

Making this the new primary picture for the Wikipedia entry on America.

Huge if true (from taohuadao.com.au translated into English)

Another reason why you should get your music from Bandcamp: stereogum.com/2485199/band...

Melbourne Airport has got to be up there as one of the worst arriving passenger experiences in the world.

🛬 MEL

Maids of the Stone Age

Anyone who invites Friedman to an event isn’t really interested in ideas anyway. The man is an idea-free zone.

Simple things. A plate of mantis shrimp fried in garlic and chilli.

Sore back? See this guy.

Has England's #Ashes 🏏 performance been more or less embarrassing than us getting bowled out for 20 by @icelandcricket.bsky.social last year? More embarrassing: Repost 🔁 Less embarrassing: 'Like' ❤️ jonathancampion.com/2025/08/06/2...

Being a Russian tourist in China must be an absolute mindfuck.

GREAT news we have added a new column to the chessboard and a new piece that can move any direction within a 4-square area called The Drunk

No no that’s cool keep on playing Wordle

Fuck off America.

This is an ear cleaning service in a Beijing mall. When I came back later he was working on someone’s ears and there was a crowd of people watching on the TV as he cleared out the wax. (I was one of them)

2026 starts with a little bit of good news.

He’ll absolutely shit on Albanese while he’s here.

Posted without comment www.theage.com.au/world/asia/w...

So anyway I was up in the country today, no reception. How’d the cricket go?

I remember the phrase "they can't be allowed to melt back into society" re: the de-Baathification of Iraq after the war there. Like everything about that experience, the attempt was cynical, stupid, and botched. But there really should be a plan about what we do with guys like these in the future.

Merry Christmas to all. defector.com/what-did-we-...

Oh no Stuart Broad is a commentator? #ashes

Merry Christmas!

Mr. Beast, all my friends and I were saying how good at boxing you’d be

Bed for the scraping www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaWR...

List of the best cricketers for the Ashes series as chosen by the BBC’s readers. Only one Australian batsman in it and they got that wrong too. #ashes

BREAKING: Last update for my journalistic year. Following our #4Corners investigation God Complex into neurosurgeon Greg Malham & complaints by patients & staff at Epworth Hospital… Medical regulator AHPRA has imposed conditions on Dr Malham’s registration. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

A podcast asked me to record a voice note about my prediction for 2026 and here it is.

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

Whoever that guy is that disarms the shooter deserves a medal.

Fucking hell

Hey, my girlfriend and I noticed you from across the room. Are you gonna finish your fries

In 1956, the Chinese Sports Committee, commissioned four tai chi masters - Chu Guiting, Cai Longyun, Fu Zhongwen, and Zhang Yu - to create a simplified form of tai chi as an exercise for the masses. www.risingmoontaichi.net/beijing-24

Bureaucrats have no soul www.dezeen.com/2025/12/11/g...

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

Ladies and gentlemen, this is Capt. Jones and I'll be your pilot today and, uh damn that's a lot of buttons. That's a lot of fucking buttons

Very good

FIFA are playing Trump off a break here

John Howard

Please, Apple, do this one right. Neuromancer by @greatdismal.bsky.social finally gets a TV series. Could be amazing, but expectations will be high from all of us who read these books when we were young. Count Zero was a personal fave.

Yes! Signed. Also a bunch of libraries are pulping way more than half of their books to give spaces for people just to look at their phones. There’s a mutilation happening and the thinking is that they’re more “community hubs” than libraries. I’m calling these wannabe bookless places ‘vibaries’

That only 12,000 people get to tell the story of seeing the great North side win their second in a row is an indictment on the salaries of the visionless executive of #AFL Three women working four days a week could do a better job than those overpaid plonkers #AFLWGF #AFLW #AFLWRoosLions

Let them keep the money