I don’t obsess over bands and I can’t name the top however many books ever. I’m sorry; I just womble through life noticing things and going “ooh that’s cool” and then forgetting about them.

Are you someone who refuses instant coffee before twattishly remarking "I like to taste my coffee?" Here's some tips: 1. Stop it. 2. If you find your freeze dried coffee too weak, 𝘱𝘶𝘵 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯, 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘧𝘶𝘤𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘢𝘣𝘣𝘢𝘨𝘦.

Laughs in S1 Land Rover.

I did a bit of an explainer on bracket creep and indexing thresholds back in 2024 www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

FYI you’re not being polite by waving someone through a stop sign when it’s your right of way. Being polite is moving your ass according to the rules and not confusing people.

I'll see your miniature tigers and wolf, and raise you half a dozen tiny velociraptors turning weeds and bugs from my garden into conveniently packaged edible protein.

There are basically 5 ways to accumulate a billion dollars: 1) Profiting from a monopoly 2) Insider-trading 3) Political payoffs 4) Fraud 5) Inheritance Don’t believe the self-made myth.

If you’re going to include texts or notifications as a key part of a plot point in a TV show, you have to make them BIGGER and keep them on the screen LONGER.

Ive said it before, and I'll say it again. I don't care how worthwhile the point of your post is. If it comes wrapped in AI shite, you're blocked.

she fetches too hard. i whip the ball and she looks like someone fired an unmanned muppet out of a tshirt gun

Rural services are deliberately kept underfunded to forment a permanent resentment which is of utility to political strategists.

I have just discovered that I am unable to open Excel spreadsheets on my phone. No, instead fucking MS Copilot will present me with a summary of the data it deems important, with no apparent means of overriding it. For fucks sake, fuck fucking AI into the fucking sun.

This applies pretty well to the Albanese Labor government in Australia too.

“People don’t read anymore” this is not new. This is weird fear mongering. I don’t know why I keep seeing it discussed like it’s some downwards trend. In the 80s/90s, I was one of the few kids in my school that read recreationally. Demographics didn’t get better as I got older.

Lots of fucking idiots gettin' blocked tonight.

Why is every account I see that's followed by The Rationalist Society of St Louis invariably someone with the joie de vivre, soul, and IQ of a bowl of cold, boiled string?

Whoever told all these recipe websites that they need to repeat themselves 5,000 times on every recipe page and bury the actual recipe itself 3/4 of the way down, but not quite at the very bottom, needs to be dealt with.

[road trip] DAUGHTER: I have to use the bathroom. ME: *pulls into rest stop* DAUGHTER: Thanks. ME: Make sure you’re back in 5 minutes. DAUGHTER: I will. ME: We accidentally left your brother behind once. DAUGHTER: I don’t have a brother. ME: Exactly.

I don't care if the AI cartoon you share is anti-Trump/anti-fash. It's still fucking AI and will get you blocked.

Hey. You. Listen to me. However much cheese the recipe is telling you to put on top of that pasta bake: it's not enough. You need at least 50% more cheese.

TBH, I'd only previously come across the phrase 8-6 as being about killing someone, not as food service slang, so I'm actually perfectly happy to accept it was used in that context. I just don't give a shit.

A glorious Beltane to all who celebrate. 🔥

Favourite Lord of the Rings character, wrong answers only.

lol the shooter has a BLUE SKY ACCOUNT, well here’s one excuse that won’t work:

Last week, a gentleman returned this rather dilapidated copy of this famous book to us after 50 years. He had found it in his attic! Presumably this means there is a pristine copy somewhere in our libraries....

I like to imagine that Zohran Mamdani, Socialist African-born Muslim, was literally willed into existence by the collective psychosis of the Tea Party GOP over Obama, like the ectoplasm under NYC in Ghostbusters II

I'm quite vexed that my LG smart TV, that I've been quite happy with for 51/2 years has taken to, if you switch it on but then don't select a channel or function, defaulting to automatically showing Sky News, a channel which I have *never* watched. Fucking LG taking the Murdoch shilling...

After much introspection, I have concluded I'd rather be an arsehole than a subscriber to some ludicrous collective delusion of national sainthood. Yes, this *is* a subskeet.

As a child of the 80s, I always expected the world to end in a blaze of detonating nukes. I just didn't expect it to happen by reason of the monumental stupidity of a single individual and their mouthbreathing cult members.

The problem with the NDIS - and there is a problem - is the same one Australia always faces. If you let small businesses exploit the public purse, they'll exploit it mercilessly (remember pink batts or any one of a 100 such programs). The key is in the system design, not the auditing of it.

I don’t care who you are, that’s funny right there.

NASA isn't why the US doesn't have universal healthcare, or a social safety net. The US doesn't have those things because politicians with the power to provide them choose specifically not to (with varying levels of support from voters). Enthusiasm for human spaceflight doesn't drive that choice.

So, is he fucking dead, or isn't he?

May the gods save me from well meaning people with the IQ of a dishcloth.

Anyone else find it both ridiculous and disgraceful that the passenger rail link between Australia's 2 largest cities, in the C21st, takes 11hrs, and frequently more, because the decades old stock and infrastructure in use cause major delays?

I need to stop voluntarily reading people being wrong on the Internet.

I do like the way that, having spent years assuring us that our local ABC is a reliable source of emergency information, the ABC website reported on Cyclone Narelle clobbering the north west coast, then, presumably, everyone fucked off early for the weekend, leaving everyone else in the dark.

Mentally 12yo edgelords, if the accompanying photo is anything to go by.

And you end up paying royalties to a ghastly TERF, so there's that.

The US government are all fucking children. And you can read that any way you like.

The vast majority of industry body awards systems are self-congratulatory wankfests designed to anoint the "right" people.

I do not have the patience to read books (even award winners) that forgo the use of helpful quotation marks, capital letters and other useful punctuation. Those things are there for a reason. #BookSky 📚💙

I’d prefer Dubai to be left alone. As a receptacle of most of this country’s tax dodging, sterioded, turkey toothed, bum lifted, fake tanned, empty headed and charmless narcissists, I think they’re doing us a great favour. Please, Dubai, keep them…

You in another decade