Proust Baking Company Recalls Thousands of Madeleines

pretty sure you can literally fluster many just by reading this exact thing but having the pink parts in a very synthetic voice

Be vocal about protecting trans people, and offer material support

you're laughing. a waymo committed suicide and you're laughing

The Australian literally found a guy with a Porsche and a property portfolio to be the voice of the 'victims' of the budget

Spain’s growing reliance on renewable energy has helped keep power prices stable even as the war in the Middle East drives up costs, said the country’s minister for environmental transition

not to overreact but this quote made me want to buy a firearm

Congratulations to Lee Lai, winner of the Stella Prize for Cannon

key thing here is to NEVER admit it is because of the supersizing of "cars" which, being SUVs, are just trucks for the suburbs. owning an SUV in a city is insane. genuinely. it should be taxed at 500%.

This is a flat out horrifying article. It may be too much for some to read. But this should be documented, and we should know this is happening.

Awwww FUCK. Rest in peace, Makiko. 😔

Wes Streeting supports the Cass Report and Palantir's UK govt contracts. Either he lacks the critical thinking skills to evaluate the evidence/arguments against them, or he ignores these things for ideological or other reasons. Either one makes him unfit to be PM in my view. (Not going to debate it)

From being a parent myself I know how much absolute fucking idiots with an opinion will tell you you're parenting badly if you don't behave abusively towards your kids, emotionally neglect them, humiliate them for having inconvenient sensory issues or behaving in a way that's not totally subservient

Massive budget backlash from the fantasy ETF traders

Always love the irony that it's always these people who are the ones demanding a discriminatory immigration policy based on the theory that "there's no way to tell which is the good one" (actual Pauline Hanson quote, about Muslims).

FYI: That image being shared around, the one where the government is trying to define trans people as terrorists? It's been edited. The stuff is all in there, yes, but two paragraphs have been put together to make it look as scary as possible. THIS IS EXTREMELY IRRESPONSIBLE, DO NOT FUCKING DO THIS

You can tell people with absolutely no relevant experience but too much bravado are weighing in on the picky eater book and how you should handle kids who don't want to eat the food they're given. I keep seeing "Don't give them a choice! Eat or starve!" as if plenty of kids wouldn't pick "starve."

Multi-millionaire Pauline Hanson is very upset with the budget tax changes because they "redistribute wealth!" (Video credit: Mike Bowers)

Portland bar and club managers talk about "It" happening like medieval Europeans talked about Prester John. Times are bleak now, lads, but one elderly man's failing organs are all that stand between us and 150 million Americans launching a drinking binge.

heard a guy say "you have to access it through the portal" and i was momentarily struck by how sad it is that what he said is so boring :( "accessing it via the portal" should be wonderful. we deserve that at least. it should be cool to access it via the portal and instead it sucks shit

Abe Sapien: is that a shrimp? Hellboy: He's got a gun!

I gave an interview recently about the importance of making nightlife more affordable for young people, and some of the feedback was, what a woke interview. And I think: so much of the current moment is just indulging people who don't want anyone else to have nice things.

Gas Station Price Sign Using Scientific Notation

I'm always so confused about the thought that the medical establishment only wants to give you drugs. Every time I go to the doctor they want me to cure myself by talking a walk and eating a piece of fruit.

Hey Mr Mayor and Mrs AG can you please do something about the hospitals ending trans healthcare by capitulating to non binding fascist decree please thanks :) fucking do something like we absolutely know you can and haven’t been please thanks :)

It's frustrating that I have done my best to build friendships, but I still don't feel close to anyone less than 300kms away, and obviously it's hard to foster those friendships at a distance

Sorry I'm very sad and very alone and I think I've just started my period

I treated myself like I didn't exist for so long that it came true

My new license just came in the mail. Correct name, correct sex marker. That’s the last of my identity documentation updates. LEGALLY STELLA! STELLA FOREVER!

Wes Streeting is like if Grima Wormtongue thought he could be King of Rohan

The case studies hey

Tele having a normal one I see.

There are basically 5 ways to accumulate a billion dollars: 1) Profiting from a monopoly 2) Insider-trading 3) Political payoffs 4) Fraud 5) Inheritance Don’t believe the self-made myth.

[a moot I've never spoken to] my friend online--

the fact that the average person just does not give a half of a shit about trans people and what is being done to us daily (and what is being threatened) is really really really starting to wear me down. just total apathy, even from the people that purport to care

When we took office, NYC had a $12B deficit. Today it’s zero. And we didn’t close that gap on the backs of working people. We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets, & public housing. Call it Pothole Politics or Democratic Socialism: We are government that delivers for the people.

The massive cuts to the NDIS in this year's budget are going to have devastating consequences for some of the most vulnerable members of our communities. All while big gas continues to get a free ride. @mattgrudnoff.bsky.social @grogsgamut.bsky.social #auspol #Budget2026

For context, $4 billion cut from climate and energy, $46 billion on fossil fuel subsidies and $36 billion cut from the NDIS.

I just feel so small and so far away

Tonight’s Labor budget has nothing for you, but billions more for weapons manufacturers, a free-ride for multinational gas exporters, savage cuts to people on NDIS and even more money for cruelty to refugees.

Sarah Ferguson: Jim Chalmers, you've broken your promise to landlords! Jim Chalmers: Yes, but we've also made life much more difficult for people with autism, so it balances out.

[Calmly, to the television] I don't know who that Pokémon is.

Anyone arguing that John Howard was a good PM - show them this graph. Oh look landlords started losing money on their portfolio of rental properties right about when Howard made it a generous tax lurk. Just one of his fiscal time bombs. #ABC730

Certainly not an original thought but I can't get over how people who will be "affected" by CGT changes talk about how the goalposts are being shifted (& how that is a bad thing) but those on NDIS or other payments that are cut are just supposed to accept it? And we never talk about that difference.

In 18 years of closely watching federal budgets, I've never seen a budget measure with this level of social spending cuts (not even in Joe Hockey's 2014 budget). $36b in NDIS cuts over the forward estimates

Pretty big cuts to the department of climate change etc, health disability + aging, and social services

When you say you’re saving the NDIS from itself while committing to cutting 160,000 people from its services, the implication is that you think the NDIS would be fine if it didn’t have to support disabled people. And, that’s the implication because it’s exactly what they believe.

congrats www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

notable that environment / climate didn't even get a 'loser' badge this year, neither were considered worth including in any way at all