jesus wept what is going on

As Musk metastasized into a trillionaire yesterday, I kept hearing Robert Burns in my head: "The star that rules my luckless lot, Has fated me the russet coat, An' damn'd my fortune to the groat; But, in requit, Has blest me with a random-shot O' countra wit." The rich will never sing like us.

I know Calvin’s dad is already having a moment, but every terrible “outsource precious and fleeting moments with your children to tech so that you can spend more time on your work” pitch makes me think of that one strip I never really cared about as a kid, but care a lot about as an adult.

Wake up babe new sledge just dropped

House prices are falling in Australia. That’s a good thing – if you believe housing is a basic human need | Saul Eslake

Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

Converting to Catholicism so I can tell my bosses using unregulated AI is against my religion and I will sue them like that cake lady who hated gay people if they make me use it

One of the things grating on me at the moment is the lack of solidarity in my industry (software dev). Nobody seems willing to stand up and say "no, fuck you, I have creative control, I have agency, this is expressive human work and if you try and take it in the name of efficiency, you are my enemy"

None of these reductions make it possible for most young people to buy a home. The huge missing piece of the puzzle is the hundreds of thousands of public homes needed to fix the crisis and give people homes they can actually afford.

Apparently Jim Chalmers has modified the tax concessions I used to get for hunting and eating my neighbours. How will young Australians hoping to hunt and eat their neighbours do so now? Are they expected to give up on the dream of hunting and eating their neighbours altogether?

Fence sitting cowards! Pick a team Aldi!

Sorry ABC - 8m are not on "income support". My fact check for @thepointau.bsky.social thepoint.com.au/factchecks/2...

WE DID IT! 🦆 And just like that, we’ve closed another wetland to duck shooting. 🦆🎉 This protected species faces enough threats from human interference without the risk of being shot by hunters. MORE 👇 #VicPol #AusPol #Animals #Wildlife #SpringSt #Birds #Ducks #Vote1AJP #GeorgiePurcell #Politics

Going out on a limb here

We want to own the shit we paid for again, it's not complicated.

Big Brother is watching you and: 1. he's an absolute fascist 2. the Australian Government gave him your data Time to block all new Palantir contracts and do a public review of what data they have now!

I'm trying to locate these industrious elephants. I would so like to gift them to the 2028 Republican National Convention. What fun to have these symbols of the Republican party roaming freely through the attendees. Glory!

This feels like the appropriate avatar for Easter this year

The Victorian Electoral Commission has responded to the Electoral Matters report on the upper house electoral system. They say they can implement removing GTV if removing GTV is passed by August. #springst

Slept in my Silverchair shirt, now where's my frog?

It's such a sad, pathetic & often wrong & dimly ignorant piece that I can only credit her with demonstrating on the day ABC staff were on strike just how absolutely vital are those journalists who were on strike. Because she showed comprehensively that the ABC cannot do without them. 14/14

Great writing is singular and responsive to the world, even in resistance or flight from it. It lives in the senses, the ear, the tongue. By definition, LLMs can be and do none of these things. The only hope these companies have is to lower our standards to theirs — the philistinism of the rich.

munted vibes

The only thing that will stop Trump bombing Iran is more unemployed aussies

Planets and Bright Stars xkcd.com/3219/

It would be a little funny if consecutive coalition leaders' seats were lost, one to the left and one to the right

Lol, seppos never change

the burden of proof is on the people who just wiped out a grade school.

Trigger warning I strongly suggest everyone reads this, not just Australians. As horrific as this is, it will not be an isolated case by any means. As for the people of Balmoral that sided with the rapists, take a good, hard look at yourselves. The town that turned its back on a rape victim

What if you made a jetpack using rifles? What the latest What If? video in collaboration with @minuteearth.bsky.social! youtu.be/IdlQsjq5vKo

Why have I never seen a video of a cop beating the shit out of a nazi?

But can it buy a lethal dose of ketamine? 🤞

Yeah, it's more like days

*raises hand*

Discworld QOTD, from Mort

*looks up from pasting the entire script of Bee Movie into yet another text box* wait people put personal info in these things??

When FIFA still ends up getting screwed after their peace prize dumbfuckery

Working as intended

If we play our cards right we could get drawn in to both sides of a war, how exciting

I know before this moment I had nothing nice to say about my home town.

They are convinced they both have to fight for every vote to the right of them, and the only way to win them is capitulation. The very antithesis of leadership

Lol he was very mad but not mad enough to resist taking a cheeky selfie?

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

Yes sir they sure are using oil money to fund drugs and human trafficking, two things that definitely cost the perpetrators money, since they're only in it for the love of the game.

AI continues to be targeted at jobs that people actually like doing, fire this shit into the sun

Palestinian solidarity in action as the Illawarra marched across the iconic sea cliff bridge. We will keep marching, keep changing politics, until the bombing stops, the food flows and the occupation ends

*don'tsayitdon'tsayitdon'tsayitdon'tsayitdon'tsayitdon'tsayit* Man the IRA really bombed, eh? *damn*