This ought to be engraved somewhere.

There's no more fitting tribute to Charlie Kirk than the one they're giving him right now: nominally Christian survivors on the same grift clambering over one another for more publicity, capped by the shambling, lurching embodiment of everything they long to be. You couldn't write anything meaner

It is genuinely absolutely bonkers that one year into a massive new government majority, all the discourse is about what will happen under the allegedly inevitable majority by another party. Much of it is the govt’s fault but not all - this very much has not happened under past unpopular govts!

A fun fact about McCarthyism is that just two and a half years after he was condemned and censured, Sen. Joseph McCarthy drank himself to death at 48. Fevers break. Petty tyrants fall. Censorship and persecution drive good people to stand together and fight back.

Reminded of Waugh on Randolph Churchill's cancer scare: "They cut out the only part of him that wasn't malignant"

What an interesting "case study" Sam Coates provides. Apparently, protecting children is boring, especially since most people agree with it. Xenophobia, on the other hand, is eye-catching and creates division. What a depressing state our media is in. ~AA

Tiktok isn't going to be any *better* now it's controlled by a Trump-aligned billionaire, but the idea that it'll be any *worse* than when it was controlled by a Xi-aligned billionaire seems at best low-evidence

I wish Bluesky critics would acknowledge this simple, somewhat horrifying fact

"cheap foreign labour" is just the ugliest, nastiest phrase.

This seems obviously correct re Australia's daft nicotine policy: make vapes more widely legally available and treat people who sell unlicensed cigs or vapes in the same way as people who sell other illegal drugs johnquigginblog.substack.com/p/the-nicoti...

also engenders a dangerous complacency where the mass civil society response that is required to actually push back on this stuff doesn‘t happen because people convince themselves “it won’t happen so why should they have to put their heads above water on it“

Once more: the best evidence shows that Tylenol taken during pregnancy is not harmful. **This question is settled.** The benefit of reducing discomfort and fever is extremely important at a time when the fetus is developing. Pregnant women - Tylenol is safe. sciencebasedmedicine.org/tylenol-and-...

The offer made to women in the enticement to become trad wives is the same as the offer made to citizens in the enticement to embrace authoritarianism: give up. Abandon the aspiration to self rule. It’s imprisonment recast as rest and relief.

This is a great cover version open.spotify.com/track/1MkSNJ...

“Voting for a populist party is like diving headfirst into an empty swimming pool, because you’re angry that there’s no water in it” - sleuthfortruth

One of the great ironies of the immigration problem is that the people trying to come here think Britain is brilliant, the people most furious about them trying to come here pretend they think it's a crime ridden dump www.economist.com/britain/2025... From The Economist

Funny thing going around American FB.

Comedy is IMO the purest expression of a nation's character, which is why none of the straight remakes really work well even across very similar countries (see, for instance: Call My Agent! - the French version is funny *to Brits*, the British version is funny to no-one).

In addition to Katie's point, what these takes all miss is a lot of people on the centre and left...haven't actually left X. Continues to be startlingly to me how many people just don't *notice* the degradation of their media environment.

I find the Twitter vs. Bluesky thing very boring but as it's come up again I will share my one opinion: not-far-right people who have remained on Twitter and are critical of bluesky are obviously trying to assuage their own guilt about using a far right platform

We're at the point where the Trump does something worse than Watergate daily, often multiple times a day. And none of it makes news; it's just normal now.

Quite impressed ChatGPT got this straight away: "I'm originally from France but now I'm resident in Australia (although I travel a lot). I'm 17 years old, but I'm worth about $50 million and have four Rolls Royces. I once had a very bad time leaving Singapore."

Sorted For Eels and Whizz.

Sadly she never met my Aunt Louise

It turns out that ignoring the increased radicalisation of loyalist communities does not, in fact, lead to peaceful community cohesion.

🎶 When your eel gets all wack On a Thames full of gak That’s a moray 🎶

How about Novocaine for the sole?

These people are insane. It’s madness. Generations put in effort barring the doors to hell shut and they want to open them because they think the demons will politely eat a few libs and queers then leave everything else tidy and unmolested. They are risking millions, perhaps billions of lives.

I have nothing to add; this is already the final form of the joke

4k annual return on 75k invested is pretty good, and that isn't considering the replacement cost if my alternative is a ICE car.

Sucks for the US economy, but great news for me as an Australian tech worker with no interest in moving to the US

There's nothing left-wing activists love more than underestimating the income and wealth of the median Australian

*Greens stans on here simper and seethe about the government* *the government's 2PP polling majority rises to 58-42*

yeah I want my beliefs to be the norm among boring basic 2.5 kids white picket fence suburbanites, government bureaucrats, and other normies, aka the people who decide how the violence of the state is wielded. I do not enjoy being an outsider to the political mainstream. it fucking blows.

The difference between having ideas that are considered radical and being very into Being Radical is that the former hates the fact their beliefs are marginal and the latter get off on it. Yeah, I don't wanna be a righteous oppressed underdog. Shit sucks. I do want to be the state. I do want power.

"Disney+ She-Hulk star Tatiana Maslany publicly canceled her Disney+ subscription and encouraged others to do the same,"

that's why you bring the US flag to protests, folks

The fact that Democrats allowed themselves to to be gaslit into not running primarily on abortion, and that abortion is no longer treated as an uncompromisable issue, is a sign of how much male pundits who are completely out of touch have taken over the consulting class

Odd to miss off the most powerful and obvious of the trirumvirate here

"Because someone died, we have to take away your rights" -- the same pretextual rationale that authoritarians always use

I understand the existence of the political need to pretend otherwise, but I genuinely don't understand how anyone could hold this sentiment honestly

Much of the violent, racist rhetoric from the man arrested for allegedly threatening the life of Zohran Mamdani is almost indistinguishable from what top GOP politicians were saying in the days after Mamdani won the primary. (Also similar to what Girdusky said to me on CNN!)

David Rose, the police officer and Afghanistan veteran with a wife and 2 small children, was murdered by a white, right wing extremist man a month ago over antivaccine conspiracies pushed by RFK Jr. and this administration. He did not get recognition from political leaders or even much news coverage

I wonder if the Australian Nazi Lennon is related to the English one? www.theage.com.au/politics/vic...

beautifully done

Just, please, everyone, turn off your bleeding hearts for a few years and don’t bail them out this time. They want it fixed, they can vote us back into power.

Like Glasman and Goodwin in the UK, this is best filed under "unpopular populism"

🎶 I never let my friends down, I never hypnotised a boob