So… no more male loneliness epidemic?

After the NACC cleared Morrison et al of corruption because "hey, a politician wouldn't lie!" and "he's too stupid to read" - it's worth reading why Royal Commission concluded that their conduct is a corruption issue worthy of referral

I'm not a commodities guy but I don't know how many more events like this the markets will be willing to overlook because Trump occasionally shouts, "nearly done!" at a reporter from his golf cart.

Sending hugs to anyone still at (or abruptly not still at) former employer today.

lmaooooo sloppelganger

"We don't believe Morrison would act dishonestly, because he was a member of parliament for many years" is a very funny argument. I'll give them that

This looks like one of those photos someone is secretly very proud of getting into a Wikipedia article.

leaders like trump are why sun tzu had to write a bunch of advice like "don't write your enemy a letter detailing what tactics you really don't want them to do"

Feels like Rogan's role is to show people on the periphery of the cult that it's OK to doubt sometimes, but that's no reason to abandon the cult.

Bofors deez drones.

i'm looking to talk to any australian pokemon fans for a piece i'm writing for guardian aus, especially anyone with memories of the first wave of Pokemania in Australia. hmu!

This is the stupidest g.d. thing I have read all day.

every new restaurant in every major city is either called Thistle+Thorn and thinks adding turmeric to brussel sprouts makes them worth $30 or is called Burger Bitch and has a neon sign in the window that says “im gonna fuck a hamburger”

He’s really intimidating so long as you’re standing three or four feet directly in front of him, and you’re too tired to move.

It's kinda wild that they invented a tool for match fixing and then expanded it to insider trading and then manipulating government policy and apparently no one will do anything about this service.

I can't compete with this.

If I had a nickel for every time Franz Ferdinand was involved in the precursor events of a world war, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice

great news everyone finally a venture capitalist in charge

The grovelling is an engagement tactic. The tool needs to regain your trust so you will continue to use it, so it has been trained to simulate being sorry and promising to do better in the future, even though it's fundamentally incapable of delivering either.

I mean, it was probably Yoko's idea.

“MANY MANY DIG DIG” deserves to enter the language.

Pretty sure at this point the only sub in the deal is us.

Having now seen the X-Files movie, I can say…. Fuck that one bee in particular.

AI coding assistants work in two phases: 1) find out 2) fuck around

No AI No autotune No quantizing No click track No practicing No second takes No songwriting No warming up No DAW No computer No electricity No lights No heat No water No chance of escape Now self-employed Concerned, but powerless An empowered and informed member of society

Today in odd weatherman legal wranglings: After a Florida meteorologist was fired from WINK Fort Myers, his non-compete clause prevented him from reporting on weather in the Southwest Florida market. He's got his own page with 1.2M followers now... but legally can't label any city in SW Florida

It's funny because I regularly try (unsuccessfully) to talk Donna out of having conversations with Australians about who she voted for.

we're back to the early 2000s and "my teenager can make a website, why do we need to have a whole IT project to do this [whatever]?"

two wolves...

I mean I guess it's funny this is happening just in time to accelerate the adoption of technology that allows anyone with a sufficiently powerful GPU to generate whatever pornography they want.

I too have fond memories of the happy innocence of america when I was a child (a meatgrinder war in Vietnam, huge constitutional crisis with watergate on the horizon, gas shortages, inflation, political assassinations, etc etc)

My largely abandoned blog is generated by a decade+ old scala site builder I wrote called 'fishbowl'. Its dependencies are so out of date it's basically unmaintainable so I prompted Claude to re-implement it in Kotlin, but forgot to tell it what to name the new app. It picked 'koi'.

omg, nailed

My rule of thumb for alt text is that it should, in some way, answer the question "of all the images in the universe, many of them very similar, why did you choose to attach THIS one to your post?"

THEY TRANSFERRED HER TO WISCONSIN? A US CITIZEN? bsky.app/profile/matt...

Exhibit n+1 in "you couldn't fucking pay me to visit America right now."

From @kevlin.bsky.social

It took two hours for Albanese to declare support for the latest US/Israeli war crimes. How long has it taken the Labor Party to consider raising the rate? To halting fossil fuels? To seriously address the racism to First Nations and Muslims? The ALP in your head is long dead.

Periapt [PAIR-ee-apt] (n.) - A charm or amulet worn as protection against mischief, misfortune, and disease." Used in a sentence: “Young Peregrine wore a small brass periapt against illness, though, in the end, it proved regrettably ineffective against falling pianos.”

Pouring one out for the lawyers who had to dredge through hours of our in-jokes and shitposts. www.theaustralian.com.au/business/com...

holy fuckin shit lmao a supply chain attack perpetrated by a prompt injection in a github ISSUE TITLE eh. coding agents? what could go wrong

🎵almost died in your arms tonight 🎵oh fuck you must have poisoned my tea

two astronauts scheduled to go up on the same shuttle mission in 1992 got married 9 months beforehand but kept it a secret from everyone bc NASA wouldn't have let them go up if they had known. do i have to draw you a diagram

I mean also they’d have to keep Whedon at arms length or every episode is going to be micro-analyzed for “how is he writing his creepiness into the show this time.”

***This drives me craaaaaazy.*** I have had this exact experience of trying to read old Complex articles for research and the pages are just completely fucking broken, leaving me to rely solely on my pre-existing deep understanding of hip-hop culture and history (a disaster for us all!)

No matter where you are, they’re using the same playbook