“It’s just quite annoying,” said Susan. - evergreen vox pop. Every story needs a Susan. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

What a cheery way of thinking about journalism. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/m...

to be fair, two of them are Trump. Though interestingly Clinton is a month younger than George W, who is a month younger than Trump.

There should be a corollary to Betteridge's Law of Headlines - If a headline says someone has 'broken their silence', they had absolutely nothing of interest to say.

I like the sound of this 'Smallzy', who definitely is here to replace both Kyle and Jackie O, in the literal sense, but has a deeper sense of his place in the world. They really nailed his nickname, God knows how they came up with it, people can be so creative.

I know I say this fairly often: people are right to complain concerts are too expensive, but they got that way because a lot of artists started to make almost no money out of their actual records. We have to look really hard at how we pay for music.

had a death in the family and was almost completely off the internet for a few days & my observation is that there is too much happening too fast such that basic facts abt the world are difficult to ascertain unless you are mainlining info all the time & doing that seems to drive people insane

Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion and The Terror, dies aged 77

Bold new editorial direction from the SMH today

Colander-wearing Pastafarian strains the rules with Queensland driver’s licence photo

Good Morning Australia

Column today - the fuel tax credit scheme for miners, farmers, industry is one of the 20 biggest budget costs. It's also a fossil fuel subsidy. Why are multinationals still being refunded these huge sums? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Totally on board with news.com.au's move to brand itself as the voice of the Millennial generation, desperately disappointed that Gen Z aren't really into heavy drinking, and are terrible at major crime.

New York has disappeared completely, and here is a photo showing it.

Reckless YouTuber Threatens Fabric of Reality by Wiring Together 400 Car Batteries https://gizmodo.com/reckless-youtuber-threatens-fabric-of-reality-by-wiring-together-400-car-batteries-2000725469

what even is the fucking point

Putting it like this, really sounds like King Charles and Anthony Albanese had a super awkward argument

🚨 sound the on the nose metaphor klaxon for 'newspaper printing plant demolished for ai data centres' 🚨

Our story on unfortunate tattoos is hilarious, my favourite is the guy who got 3:04 tattooed as a cool obscure reference to a Frank Ocean song, only to realise that it says "hoe" upside down www.theguardian.com/fashion/2026...

NFTs are hip and cool again

Until now I've been broadly in support of limiting social media exposure for young people, but this story has moved me to the more considered opinion that we should dismantle the entire internet with an axe. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Find me one person ever who said 'no please don't raise my salary to a really high level, as unfortunately I will be forced to work less hard out of pique at losing a bit of the raise in tax'

There are four ways to fix increasing inequality in the property market (as per our Age of Inheritance series). But they're all taxes, so opposition and media would shout them down, while at the same time blaming the government for the problems they would fix. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

The Queensland premier just said "no blanket statement is ever true". But was he right?

This is an inspiring piece of data journalism laurenleek.substack.com/p/britain-lo...

douglas adams was our most accurate futurist

Whenever I'm craving next-level gibberish, the Daily Tele's stock picker has me covered.

how odd that The Australian didn't explain the famous originator of this phrase...

Fun fact: select the Guardian as a preferred source and you’ll have more control over what shows up in your search results without having to rely on the algorithm alone. www.theguardian.com/membership/i...

Fun fact, the people who just bought all Britney Spears' music also own Olivia Newton John's

I know it can be hard to read sometimes but I think the Daily Tele is being too hard on itself here

"Smug is the emotional tone of Mastermind. I want the buyer to feel judged by the box. Like the box is already disappointed in them. If you don’t want smug, don’t name the game Mastermind. This isn’t fucking checkers. This is a duel in a seminar room at Davos."

Highly compelling visualisation of the link between economic growth and environmental breakdown - can it be broken? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

btw, do come work with us on the newsdesk. We're fun and you won't have to put up with me much because I'm the mornings guy. workwithus.theguardian.com/job-search/e...

Some big news in our neck of the woods. www.theguardian.com/guardian-aus...

there's lots of news around but spare some time for Cait's skiing story it is pure gold to the very last line www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Measles in the US is accelerating, it's hurting children, and they're mostly unvaccinated.

the bushes were people 😂

"While we spoke over Zoom, an A.I. program she was running ingested her prompts and outline and produced a full novel, about a rancher who falls for a city girl running away from her past. It took about 45 minutes."

Looking forward to The Magic Fluke, i hear it features a number of catchy tuna

You've got to work hard to create sympathy for someone paying a bit of tax on a huge investment windfall, but the tabloids know how.

I guess Morrison has to hand back his trophy then.

all week I've been trying to remember the source of this quote from Isaac Asimov, which is still one of the nicest comebacks to the anti-science crowd I've ever read. Just remembered it was in 'X Stands for Unknown'. Here it is in full.

Marina Hyde on the 'dark switcheroo' in the response to the Epstein files www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

When in years to come we look back at the Age of Algorithm-Fuelled Hyperbole, "god-tier new classic" will be considered the high point. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

Not out of the woods - but it's good news www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

hilarious read on a human infiltrating the new 'AI social network' that turns out to be a morass of gratuitous nothing takes, scams and imposters *unlike the other social networks amirite* www.wired.com/story/i-infi...

This article by Creighton reminded me of this quote by Isaac Asimov... except it's not just the US.

TIL the Transport font used on British road signs (and the cover of In Rainbows) was at first considered a subversive outrage www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...