Thank you so much for all of your happy birthday wishes. Honestly, I don’t really feel 100. I feel pretty good. I feel like I’m only 98!

Exclusive: As KPMG’s most senior leadership resigns over governance failures, it can be revealed that the consultancy is still being paid by the government to offer ethics training to top-level public servants. trib.al/VAZ7Pjb

Cuuuuuunts. We already had this fight. Discrimination is illegal. Why are our governments so lazy on dealing with this kind of thing? #AusPol

judging from the reviews, this does not auger well

Exit light Enter night Take my hand Morocco beat the Netherlands

absolutely amazing. just straight up lying and then immediately doubling down on the lying bc it Really Makes You Think

Of all of Gerard Henderson's nitpicks, this certainly is the most recent.

I think we need to ask why a previously normie TV personality would leave a $2m a year job

“Now just hold your horses, everyone. … Let’s let it run for a minute or so and see if it gets any colder.”

Technically, they’re Remains now.

"Apologise for winning, Zohran, apologise NOW. Of course I'm serious!"

can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool

Okay. Ai can go bankrupt then. This is not our problem, this sounds like a rich tech billionaire problem.

my kingdom for a glasses case that just sits on its base so I can rest the glasses in there without closing it ... oh and maybe don't have quite so severe hinges ... and a bit larger so it actually fits the cleaning cloth ... [fades into the distance still complaining]

Centrist Israeli politician admitting that Israel’s interests conflict with those of the rest of the world. Important ally though. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Oceans are now battlefields

This sentence is a horrifying rollercoaster.

You have to fast before surgery because otherwise the surgeons will be too tempted to cut open your tummy and steal your chips.

You know how in Pluribus Rhea Seehorn's character does not entertain the situation for even a second, and instead feels nothing but an anger that is piped deep from her humanity, and then when she encounters other humans she is unable to understand why they aren't angry? That's me and LLMs

how many different fossil fuel companies advertise during the footy with the same "hey renewables are cool kids but let's not forget about good old gas" message

40 straight years of budgets geared towards them, and one year the (rich) boomers are not at the forefront of the politics and you get this.

Well he's not wrong

Just let the woman storm out!!! Let her be herself!!! Who she is sucks and people rightly want to be mean to her about it!!!

You just know that every time anyone remotely off-white / working class leaves what is effectively a culturally unsafe workplace management puts it down to a personal flaking out that justifies their preferred approach of cookie cutter status quo hires and promotions

I understand the urge to point out the first fleet was multicultural or refugees are kicking world cup goals or any other such gotchas but one of the perks of fascism is never having to give the slightest shit about inconsistency or incoherence

one of the rules of software development seems to be "make sure you keep changing the look and feel of your layout and icons so that users don't get too comfortable with finding stuff"

What if a piece of fabric was a bomb. What if a shark was swimming in the catered soup? What if David speers fired a gun instead of a question

Capitulation at Versailles (disambiguation)

Anyone gonna tell him?

It’s worse than supine bothsidesism … a media starved for numbers is salivating at the prospect of tapping into hanson’s apparent popularity. They don’t want to hold her to account: they want her audience.

I’ll say it again: The folks in our public life most vocally obsessed with the idea of masculinity all very conspicuously act like an adolescent boy’s idea of a man, not an actual grown ass man.

"One Nation wanted millions from the NRA while planning to soften Australia's gun laws" www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03...

As ever, trying to imagine a newspaper running a "Four moves that will help you get ahead of changes to jobseeker mutual obligations" etc column

Interesting what the Times Of Israel considers to be a loss for Israel

'We are clamping down on the harm caused by social media. 'Read all about it on the Nazi pogrom deepfake abuse website'

So tired of blacking out every full moon when I really want to stay up and help the townsfolk hunt for the werewolf

The changes to CGT and negative gearing were 'Ground Zero' for the housing crisis. Since then, many changes have been introduced to try to make up for the fact that investors, not owner occupiers, have had the tax system on their side. @grogsgamut.bsky.social #auspol

Cosmic horror is great because it just kinda invents itself. Spend a bit too long thinking about the sun and you realize it’s a radioactive death ball larger than your mind has capacity to comprehend, so inherently dangerous that looking directly at it will harm you, and it’s just sitting there.

was curious to see how many AFL games each team has played at York Park, Manuka, Trager Park and Marrara Oval combined ... it seems the "big four" Melbourne teams are a bit scared of travel. Oh well I'm sure it's all extremely fair! (apart from the terrible concessions given to interstate teams ofc)

It’s fascinating how widespread this opinion is among TV & radio personalities, including at the ABC. They’re not scholars of digital media or the public sphere. They’ve not studied the history of the media in general. They chiefly mean something like: “I don’t like it when the masses talk back.”

Ok, but what about every other NDIS participant who needs their own “University of Life” and doesn’t have an unused flat attached to their grandad’s home? Don’t slash NDIS day activity funding! People need organised programs. Cc. @grogsgamut.bsky.social

Reporting on Elon Musk becoming a trillionaire should be done with the same general tone as a lethal virus escaping containment, not as an awesome achievement.

“An average home would cost $595,500 now if prices were the same relative to income as before John Howard turned the market into an investor casino,” writes Greg Jericho, Chief Economist at The Australia Institute. Read the full article ➡️ https://theaus.in/4v2qrY7

It's a wretched outlook, and a betrayal of the scheme's basic ethos. As an aside, it won't save money. Not in the long run. The financial costs of nation-wide unmet needs will be *vast*.

Oh dear, how sad, policy working as intended!

"Hi Brad, this is Ryobi ... we'd like to get you back in for another scene ... no it's not a speaking role I'm afraid"