Hell of a thing to put next to a statue of Joan of Arc. (h/t David Pilling)

I realise that there are lots of erudite and entirely correct reasons against leaving the ECHR, but surely the main one to be repeated ad nauseam is "from the people who told you Brexit would solve all of your problems - how did that work out for you?"

Not a single right wing idea has made any normal people’s lives better. But people are being convinced they just need some REALLY right wing ideas. And when they don’t work, it’ll all be someone else’s fault. Maybe, just maybe, the ideas are bad. And maybe it’s unproductive to pander to them.

My latest article in The Shot "The largest contributors to the breakdown of social cohesion in Australia are the governments of Australia, practising a privileged fuck-you version of democracy that makes its own rules & caters for those within the club" #pffft theshot.net.au/uncategorize...

Yeah. Everyone is 12 now. And the more power/status they have the more 12 they are.

This is a very good piece that captures a lot of what I feel about Churchill. Was he a racist piece of shit that many countries are right to despise? Absolutely. Was he the right guy at the right moment? Also yes.

I've been saying for some time that the far right, and the heavily overlapping manosphere, all sound like how I remember not very bright 13-14 yo boys sounding

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... If you were to get everything that is wrong with Australia, mince it up and stuff it into a saveloy skin (stuffing the top just a little too much) you would end up with Babet. This moron is so stupid he's dangerous. Thanks Clive. #auspol

I do not want to enable location services. I do not want to create an account. I do not want to sign up for special offers and news about your product. I would like to engage in a simple transaction where I give you money in exchange for a good.

My problem is that today the system doesn't just demand I do certain things, but that I also feel specific negative emotions ("How can you NOT be outraged by this?!?" "If this doesn't terrify you, you're not paying attention!") and I just can't do that second one, sorry.

And this one is for the current US administration... m.youtube.com/watch?v=p6me...

Man, however much dough Putin funneled into the Internet Research Agency to melt the brains of America’s Fox News Uncles, he could not have imagined the return on investment he’d get.

(shouting to my family in extreme Iron Maiden voice) TEN MINUTES TO DINNER

I don't want smart appliances. I want dumb appliances designed by smart engineers.

How is this so much more Andrew Hastie than Andrew Hastie could even muster

I fear the AI-augmented thick people revolution quite a lot

I think the reason so many Tech Billionaires are so enamoured with GenAI is it treats you like a tech billionaire; ie it does everything you ask immediately and prioritises flattering you and pleasing you over being accurate. So they think it’s better than it is because that’s just how their life is

How not to illustrate the similarity of bone structures between humans & horses.

"So, do you have that illustration of human and equine bone structures ready for the textbook?" "Sure, boss, just like you asked."

I have at my disposal a highly trained phalanx of warrior philosophers called the Kirkeguard Oh suit yourself

I definitely prefer my non-stick pan. Cooking things in there is far easier than it was with my previous pan, which was made entirely from sticks.

This one is has “fuelled” a lot of really interesting replies and quote tweets. Feels like someone could start a “Car Guys For Multi-Modal Cities” movement.

How Labor plan to use their thumping majority. Morphing into the Liberal Party…

And all those people who you romantically like to still believe are alive are dead and ill wipe my snot on the arm of your chair as you put another Roger Dean poster on the wall..... ❤️

they should invent a potato peeler you can find

Been thinking about this track a lot lately. Seems rather more relevant in 2025 than it did in 1992 for some reason. m.youtube.com/watch?v=lRKx...

This was from before the US election. It was all so predictable.

This isn’t just! It’s unconstitutional! It’s hypocritical! It’s immoral! It’s illegal! It’s wrong! It’s unprecedented! They don’t care about any of those things. They laugh at handwringing. It’s about acquiring & wielding power. You can’t shame them, you have to defeat them.

Definitely D. Contains most Middle Eastern, South & SE Asian cuisines, along with a bit of Mediterranean. Sadly also includes the Chiko roll and a bunch of confectionery noone with functioning taste buds would eat, but you can't have everything.

Presumably the US admin's crackdown on those insufficiently sad about the death of a moonfaced shitstain of a podcaster is a dry run for what's gonna happen when Trump actually shuffles off.

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Post a movie you like with a terrible Rotten Tomatoes score. www.rottentomatoes.com/m/funny_man Sorted. I'm off for a toss, me.

lot of people been posting this one but here’s my post of it with my name correct. okie doke

Charlie Kirk was a bad person and his death is cause for celebration, writes journalist Evan Urquhart. Read our very special free speech edition of Assigned Media. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Reform, “We’ll fix the country by recruiting all the people who broke it in the first place…”

Maybe some people dont *want* a workout. Maybe they just want to get from one place to another quickly, conveniently, and not requiring a change of clothes and a shower when they get there.

One of the problems of societies pursuing celebrity as a high order affair, where simply being seen is to be seen to be doing, is that whenever some media person gets clocked, the entire industry has a circle jerk about it, as if they were the difference between civilisation and barbarity. You aint.

Just saw yet another argument by yet another pundit on the left saying a lack of empathy for Kirk makes us like the right. And I just don’t think it’s a fair or just argument. I’ll try to explain why briefly.

people always say "don't give them an excuse" and i always say "they'll just make one up"

The UK gov on anti-immigration need to realise: you don't win by confronting it, you just prolong & grow it because there's no changing those people's minds. You fix the obvious issues and make people's lives better so they stop giving a shit about it because they've got more important things to do.

No one wants choice in public services. They want the one nearest them to be good.

Ever time I see that picture of Abbott and Kirk that’s doing the rounds I think, and I know this is a bit ungracious so cancel me if you like, a bloke with a head that big should probably avoid encouraging gun ownership.

It'll be hilarious if they botch his special boy state funeral because they all immediately stopped giving a fuck Imagine the guy getting a Four Seasons Total Landscaping funeral because everyone involved moved onto such as being angry at a candy bar logo changing

the past two days truly unlocked a new level of rage I didn’t realize I had in me. every awful person did the usual awful things they do, but dialed up to eleven and all at once so it felt like an avalanche

How come the alt-right can't organise here like they have in the US and UK? Because every time one of them speaks it's like "The woke, transvaccines killed my crypto-marketing small business" and everyone backs slowly away towards the door. Compulsory voting single member electorates will do that

BLITZER: Now we’re getting reports that one of the bullet casings was engraved with a message saying that if you are reading the casing, you are gay. We must warn our viewers we’re about to show the photo and don’t know at this time whether the engraving is what makes you gay or if it just tells you