extraordinary reporting from Ben Smee and so desperately sad. The exchange of messages that we know is going to end in tragedy... www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Today's column for ABC news: the strange macho appeal of fossil fuels. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

They even left the AI watermarks on the images of their 'staff'. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

A story for our time...

Coal it? I on! www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

it's true

Can you try Janet's electric foot machine for your shoulder.

Gotta be in top 10 political lane changes ever.

IT'S '6-7', COOPER. A GENERATION ALPHA TREND. WHAT THEY CALL A 'MAY-MAY'. IT'S AN ORPHANED SIGNIFIER, NO SIGNS ATTACHED. ONE COULD CALL IT DADAIST, BUT SOMME SAY IT'S TOO STUPID TO BE DADA. IT'S ANTI-MEANING, ANTI-HUMOUR, BUT DAMN IF THOSE KIDS DON'T FIND IT A CRACK-UP.

"there is a four-second gap between the message “In memory of the more than six million Jews murdered” shown at the end of Schindler’s List, and Binge telling me it’s about to put on NCIS" www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

OMG what's happening in Wyndham, Victoria, people would say if they read this graph. Crime out of control! Aaaaaaaargh! What is happening is that, between 2016 and 2024, the population of the area increased by 50%, and the amount of crime increased by 50%

Oooof "people will begin to suspect you are in fact running a giant heritage museum in which the only cultural workers you respect are the dead ones"

At 16 I did a part time job in a new supermarket. I asked who counts the people. Blank looks. "For the millionth customer prize," I explained. A colleague explained they just pick a photogenic person for a news story. That's when I realised there will never be justice.

i keep seeing this ad where this guy says “Gemini I’ve never been camping before, what should I pack?” and the LLM says “you and your dog should have matching bucket hats!”. and well I think it should be illegal to run this ad in Australia

what a story www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/n...

Note the absence of a zebra crossing.

A Liberal senator was on a plane this morning en route to help her party dump their carbon emissions policy and the cabin literally filled with smoke. A spokesperson from Air Metaphor was not immediately available for comment.

TIL Australia used to have 'drop crocs', crocodilic ancestors that would (probably) climb trees then jump down on unsuspecting victims. Shame they died out really. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The difference in time between now and I can has cheezburger Is the same between I can has Cheezburger and the Berlin Wall falling

Also loving today: Tony Wright's patchwork memories of the dismissal, as a loose unit on the fringe of a historical moment www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

Well worth a read on the man who's about to be honoured with a state funeral. www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

How The Guardian reported the dismissal... www.theguardian.com/world/1975/n...

"Look over there, Sancho Panza, my friend, where there are thirty or more monstrous giants with whom I plan to do battle and take all their lives, and with their spoils we’ll start to get rich. This is righteous warfare, and it’s a great service to God to rid the earth of such a wicked seed.”

TIL that all modern bath taps in Australia are fitted with flow limiters that are designed to slow down the flow of water through them. I totally get this for showers, conserve water etc. But for RUNNING A BATH it is COMPLETELY MAD.

Optimus robots will just kinda follow criminals around and make sure they don't commit crimes again, so we can eliminate prisons. These are all things Elon Musk is literally saying.

“Thanks guys,” Musk said, after briefly dancing on stage alongside the company’s Optimus robots. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Justice in America. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

When a whale starts to breach and a sucker-fish flees: that's remora www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The judge in the sandwich guy case asked for order in the court and the defense asked for a Pastrami and a couple Reubens.

All 15 of the Guardian's 0-star reviews. Interestingly, none date to before 2002, which just goes to prove that culture took a terrible turn for the worse shortly after the Millennium Bug hit. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

became a tiktok DJ today, blessed

hell of a setlist. That encore. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...

Sure it's a blow in the fight against illicit tobacco sales, but it doesn't speak well of NSW government grammar checking processes.

Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest. The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says. "I could smell the onions and mustard."

Big day at U.S. District Court in D.C. where Sean Dunn, the D.C. Sandwich Guy, is on trial for misdemeanor assault of a federal officer. Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore is on the stand narrating surveillance video of the sammie toss. 'Now he’s struck me with the sandwich,' Lairmore says.

More one-eyed Victoria bashing, though at least in this one, the story eventually (TWELVE paragraphs down) admits that NSW is almost exactly the same.

Sad reason behind flying fox burritos. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"Breaks silence"? WTF are you talking about? Diane Ladd died THIS MORNING. RIP to a wonderful actress, and RIP, I hope, to one of the most grotesque and overused phrases in journalism.

If you want to keep running a Victoria-bashing narrative about a 'crime crisis', it's important to omit inconvenient context. For example, that in the last year ten times as many people left NSW despite the mysterious absence of a 'crime crisis'.

Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.

Singlehandedly invented the concept of the dandy highwayman, blazing a trail for all today's dandy highwaymen.

Company... uh, country...

Tomorrow is the 'beaver' supermoon, according to a million new news stories. The moon will appear a whole 7% bigger than usual. In terms of diameter, it will be a bit over 3% wider. Supermoons are bogus.

'As we forgive those who trespass against us' ummmm

E-Porsches now have a charging puck that won’t fry your cat. What a world.

Gonna be some damp trick or treaters.

The fun thing about having a small team working with you is you can say "hey you're spending this week digging for stolen mobile phones in London flowerbeds, I promise you it's a thing". www.londoncentric.media/p/london-pho...

ABC presenter:’ Animal Farm is being used to teach students about the brave new world of AI’ Me, a snartarse: ‘surely they should have used Brave New Workd then’