Fun fact - by by calculations Gina Rinehart's initial $1.4bn stake in Space X's IPO was briefly worth more than $2bn, but is now back to about $1.6bn. Easy come, easy go I guess.

Too much AI reporting is boosterism or doomsterism. What I find more interesting is the real world cases that show what's happening right now. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Ekil erif, ekam erif

Increasingly suspect Dr Seuss is co-ordinating an anti-Labor campaign, as 'drop the flops' joins 'axe the tax' and 'fire the liar'. We'll know for sure when we hear 'I am Larissa, I speak for the trees' from the Greens.

our blogger is very much enjoying the march to glory of soccer powerhouse (checks notes) Cape Verde

Fond memories of a decade ago, when Brits used to make fun of Australia for changing PMs so often.

Got to love British election declarations. A Prime Minister-in-waiting launching his bid for the leadership of the country from between a man with a bin on his head and a man in a fox costume.

The casting in this season of The Actual USA is top quality.

OMG it's like nobody has ever heard of this thing that Qantas has 'announced' twice a year for a decade.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Tobacco shops on fire off the shoulder of Chapel St. I watched laser hair removal beams glitter in the dark near the Westfield Fountain Gate. All of these things will be lost in time, like Bec Judd's tears in the rain. #MelbourneAsBladeRunner

never been prouder of a colleague than I am of Sarah Martin right now

Polonius: The actors are come hither, my lord. Hamlet: Buzz, buzz!

meanwhile....

I never tire of the random pairings that pop up when you have a headline that includes two bits of news.

really stuffed up the last one today www.maptap.gg June 17 99🎯 95🏅 95🏆 96🔥 85🤗 Final score: 927

Your annual reminder to watch Tom Holland's lip sync to Umbrella, the purest thing created this century. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...

they haven't locked this down yet - can confirm the names are still visible in the page code

"Jenny owns a crematorium. John’s propane company gives her a $20 billion investment in return for 5 percent of her operation. Jenny throws $10 billion into the incinerator, then pays John $10 billion to buy propane to burn that money to ashes..."

'How a mysterious ghost ship brought cosmic disco to Cape Verde' might be one of my favourite ever headlines

There are many, many funny things in every issue of @theonion.com, but man do I love the hit song titles

Reverse Gallipoli where the Turks can’t get past the Beach

hurray for progress let's give all the AI people 3 trillion dollars

This thread. Wow. "I could no longer stop the system from auto-inviting "reviewers" with zero relevant expertise. Even worse - the AI began actively revoking the invitations I manually sent out to actual, qualified experts."

www.maptap.gg June 12 94🎉 95🏅 99🎯 99🎯 82👏 Final score: 930

This might be one of the most insane scandals in game history When Pokemon Go players scan PokeStops, theyve been unknowingly building a detailed visual model of the world which is being sold to a military contractor to build a no-GPS positioning for the new generation of unmanned killing machines

Imagine how difficult it would be if you had two colleagues, one called Ian and one called Iain, but Iain only had one eye.

I think this is what NYC must have felt like during the events seen in the documentary Ghostbusters

Someone stage it in Aus asap pls I can't get to London www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/j...

Everything is fine.

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A new game in town - Catfishing. Where Wikipedia categories point to a mystery entry. Great brain stretch

GDP can be very misleading about the real state of the nation, and the latest national accounts prove it. Great column from Grogs today www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

Next thing you know everybody will measure things using the heights of famous dead French people. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

well yes except technically Amodei means 'loved by God' not the other way round, I think

Guilty pleasure: one star reviews. This is a doozy. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...

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God-tier NYT correction: Correction (left), original (right) www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/n...

Nope, not going to give it my secret sauce

don't talk to me right now I'm in the K-home

This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

I dunno, I usually find viral fakes annoying but this one does something for me

NYT Opinion today very much has a vibe of drunk people talking over each other, 4 hours into a dinner party.

it has come to my attention that busytown is anti pig

As a politician, if you're asked a hard question you'd rather not answer, a useful* tactic is to ask yourself a different question, then answer that instead. * supremely irritating

Have you, like me, spent the last 26 years worrying if the Canadian Potato Museum STILL has the display of various potato diseases with potatoes in little coffins? Stop worrying. I checked today. Still there.

don't envy the doctor who has to tell Trump he's too fat

Empire of Light by René Magritte, 1953 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137683

"why use google?" webpage from 1999