does anyone know if that deal for a new life in the off-world colonies is still current

the various Epstein related emails I've seen today are like a soothing balm against imposter syndrome ... these people are absolute fucking idiots

New York Times social media guidelines prohibit expression suggesting partiality on things like ICE, execution of foreigners in fishing boats, or whether law is a thing. However, tipping off notorious serial pedophiles about other reporters is absolutely fine.

My column on housing policy in this country and the ever juicing of demand

The important thing to remember about Vance and his cadre of skinsuit-wearing opportunistic lizards is that they’ll say *whatever the moment demands*. If they decided that ibuprofen suited their message, they’d say you can fuel your car with it.

If a company runs an ad that doesn‘t promote any particular product, but just says “hey, we’re part of your life” — confiscate all its income and arrest the board immediately. jail the ceo just to be sure

Tea drinkers, here’s a little gift for you. Enjoy this perfect teapot from Starbucks.

This is one of the things I hate most about modern capitalism. The idea of making money has been fully peeled away from delivering any kind of goods or services that people would want to pay money for.

[watching my state-assigned Optimus CrymeGard totter around at the bottom of the stairs I just climbed] oh well, back to crimeing I guess

The Groucho Corollary

I love* how the UK and Australia are currently echoing one another in the worst ways. The supposed party of labour licking the corporate & xenophobic boot. The national broadcaster trying desperately to appease those who hate it.

these people really tell on themselves when they get up a head of steam and just start chanting their personal hate lists

"*warns* of intense competition" Your regular reminder that those who cheer capitalism actually hate a free market, and want a rigged one.

This is a good article, worth reading. Gigantic SUVs are a public health threat. Why don’t we treat them like one? The anti-smoking playbook is worth studying and learning from, and is completely applicable to oversized cars. Via @davidzipper.bsky.social in @vox.com #CarBloat

Insane www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...

we've reached an inflection point where the NBA2K game now looks more realistic than the actual NBA coverage

Well, that's settled.

seriously just capitalise the acronyms, this is not helping anyone

I don't get into the city much anymore, and I just noticed that the Dendy is now a Hillsong venue ... Feel that the universe is trolling me at this point

"Sandwich Guy" found not guilty of assault; jury still out on lesser charge of Social Loafing

lol

In parliament they're trying to kick people off welfare if they're charged by the police... and they're spending billions on stranding refugees on Nauru. Oh and their 'environmental law' changes. The teachings of Jesus sure do hit some people differently.

Or as Sarina Russo says, “Check out my Louis Vuitton!”

First they steal your intellectual property then they make your power bills go up then they demand your tax dollars. How good is AI?

Um, no? Or, if you want me to expand on that: Fuck no.

I wrote this article! 🙂 This is IMO one of the biggest discoveries of the year, but you haven’t heard about it bc of a NASA press release/embargo stuck bc of the shutdown. I however have no such constraint (we’re tracking it in radio but haven’t finished the paper) so got to write about it! 🔭🧪

Australian universities could go on a poaching spree ... oh wait the management class vultures have turned them all into toxic cesspits with no academics

I'm boring & repetitive but The Emperor Has No Clothes: 'The CPSU has said Australia’s employment services system are “a complete failure”'; they're not. They generate incomes (profits) for private owners. That's a success. It's both the intent and effect of privatisation.

modern car technology is amazing ... my car key used to be the size of a car key, but advances in engineering mean that it can now be the size of a small child

New favourite example of structural ambiguity

this is the most successful a CIA officer has been at toppling a government in years.

Dick Cheney died an old man, safe and comfortable. This was a blessing he & his administration took from hundreds of thousands of Iraqis. A good ol’ American monster.

Anyone know what this big chungus is (Brisbane) ... Australian hornet maybe, but it's more dull copper than orange

Allowing "blood libel" to be generalised from a very specific Medieval European conspiracy into "anybody getting mad at me ever" is one of the most shocking pieces of historical revisionism of my life

[playing 5 Second Rule with the 11yo] Me: Name 3 Sesame Street characters Her: The one in the bin, Elmo, and the bird

I think when I'm confronted with 2+2 I'm a very, very good mathematician

happy halloween to what many people believed was the greatest tweet of all time

feel like I've reached some invisible age barrier where sometimes I just stop watching a show because it "got a bit silly"

Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!

I’m not saying I’ve played too much Battlefield 6, I’m just saying I saw this glint and wanted to lie flat behind a rock.

A ceasefire is not “fragile” when 104 people are murdered. It is over. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Okay okay mum I'll call you tomorrow, jeez why do you always have to get the baptists involved

is there a browser app that hides photos of Murray Watt

Ah Roko’s Eucharist

centrists will tell you to your face that we all need to abandon identity issues, and focus on kitchen table issues instead and yet when a leftist candidate runs a generational campaign based on kitchen table issues, it's the centrists weaponizing identity politics to smear the leftist.

A billionaire trying to turn a profit by stealing the output of the unpaid labour of hundreds of thousands of people? Say it ain't so!

@mattgrudnoff.bsky.social writing about how the "for profit" child care model has totally failed. But then we know the for profit model of public services *always* fails, and yet.... thepoint.com.au/news/251028-...