Afantasia is when you can't picture Mickey Mouse dressed as a wizard.

Today’s Thing That Shits Me: Australians who write ‘Mom’ instead of Mum

🚨 BREAKING: Brand new @ACOSS report finds 1 in 7 Australians are living in poverty, including 757,000 children. Millions of families are struggling while our leaders sit on their hands and let it happen.

It'll be great exposure! In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story only someone in your profession would understand.

Approved, pending MarComms feedback. In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story only someone in your profession would understand.

Well, well, well. Origin Energy is planning to drill 4,435 coal seam gas wells across Central Queensland. * Extraction of 29 billion litres of groundwater * 1,300 hectares of koala habitat cleared * 435 million tonnes of climate pollution Tell shareholders we’re 😠 Wed Oct 15, Sydney, details 🧵⬇️

Unsolicited bic pic.

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So does poverty so maybe your family can hand over some of its £20bn fortune, you entitled weapon.

I've been spending a lot of time on LinkedIn

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller October 09,1952

If Syndrome met the 7th Doctor instead of Mr Incredible.

Hear me out: David Tennant & Michael Sheen ARE Waiting for Godot.

Is Anonymous still a thing? Feels like they've been quiet lately, given *gestures around vaguely at the state of the world*

I've always wanted to do a photo feature on the truckies in Hong Kong who go to great lengths to personalise their cabins... but this is next level. Woe to the lone driver on an empty highway who has one of these roll up behind them...

Since Amelia Earhart is making news again, just a reminder she and Guy Montgomery have never been seen in the same room. #BringOutYourConspiracyTheories

In light of recent events, we have taken the difficult decision to ban spectres in the dining room.

Everyone knows that you don't send thoughts and prayers to Dolly Parton overnight... You send them 9 to 5 (in your local timezone) so that they are working.

One of the conspirators who helped Gavrilo Princip shoot Archduke Franz Ferdinand survived to see the breakup of Yugoslavia. He could conceivably have watched the Neighbours episode where Scott and Charlene got married

Vindication for @kirstywebeck.bsky.social at last.

glad to be born at a time when i got to see what life was like before the internet and will be dead before AI completely destroys humanity

Edgar Allan Poe died on this day in 1849. Doom. Plague. Despair. Madness. Creeping existential horror. He would have loved 2025.

Only because Woy Woy was booked out is what I have heard.

‘Just need to get through this busy patch and then I’ll have a chance to relax a bit’ sounds good in theory, except when you realise you’ve been saying it for like fifteen years and things are worse than ever.

I love these... Here are mine Do Not Answer Password Clue Questions

Sources are telling me it’s gonna be in Wagga Wagga

I’ve got a new position! It is called ‘fetal’ and I’ll be here for a while.

Beth Hapworth, 32, spent her entire 20s grafting, hustling and girl-bossing her way through her event photography career only to find she now needs to nap for the entirety of her 30s.

Why is something as vital as triple zero privately owned and operated?

Extremely tepid take on the professional baby namer and all associated "baby name" fuckery: are you naming an accessory that has to showcase your signature style and be unique, shiny, hashtaggable and good for SEO, or an actual human being who will have to lug that name around for life?

it remains really funny that this site was spun up to be a crypto/rationalist platform and then old time weird twitter people and others started moving over here in spring 2023 and ever since management has been mad they're successful but not in the way they wanted

So, where we meeting up after this place does a Twitter?

They come for difference because they can’t control it. They can’t stand minds that won’t conform, emotions that won’t lie, empathy that won’t die. Our existence itself is resistance. #Neurodivergent

Montague told us: “My inner wisdom is telling me to break up with my boyfriend, pack a bag and start a new life under the sea – but then it’s also telling me I need to peel this satsuma in one clean strip or my family will die.”

“Select all squares containing J D Salinger books” - CAPTCHA in the Rye.

My uber is (not) here.

Autistic burnout isn’t just being “tired.” It’s losing skills. Speech. Energy. Coping tools. It can feel like disappearing from yourself. And it doesn’t go away with a dam nap. We need deep, unapologetic rest

Fitzgerald said: “I thought that childhood was a game that I had to win, so I’ve been doggedly copying everyone around me. Now, everyone thinks I’m normal, except they all still seem to hate me a little bit, for reasons I can’t quite put my finger on.”

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#UxbridgeEnglishDictionary BRIEFLY: A parasitic insect that lives on French cheese.

... walk into a bar, order three beers and a lemonade for the kid. The barkeep asks cash or card, and the Mallard says card please because you haven't been able to keep a running bill at a pub since the 1980s.

Guys, is it woke to love and be loved in return?

For the Swifties in your life. New album out. From Friday 2 pm All about it in #EasyEnglish www.readee.com.au/things-you-l... Please share @thetaylorexplainer.bsky.social @ourtaylorswift.swifties.social @melbfilmfest.bsky.social @thesaturdaypaper.com.au @artshub.bsky.social 1/3

I don't know what I was expecting but it wasn't that.

Don't miss Buddy Nutzack's set in Riyadh. youtu.be/lRXn-g1s4T8

Key Word Sign workshop Your presenter: Cathy Basterfield. Where: Online - highly interactive. Lots of sign practice. When: Thursday, 16 & 23 October, 2025 Time: 9 am to 1 pm both days (Melb time) events.humanitix.com/key-word-sig... @becsutherland.bsky.social @tricmc.bsky.social 1/3

Something something two Wongs making it right IDK there's a pun in there somewhere but I can't find it because Ritalin shortag