RIP

Apropos of this, and the mix of sanctified death and iced vovo it represents, I remember my gran had a magnet with an iced vovo in resin preserved forever for our reverence like a dad communist leader

Sortition: you're hearing it more and more

beautiful women!! are listening to ska punk!!! in your area!!!!

a. that's a lot of time for a broken game b. why is this in the NRL annual report?

This is something I have wondered about for decades

Much of this story considers difficulties for the particular subpopulation "Australian born but UK citizens by descent who never thought about it" and my most obvious response is "It's very unlikely the UK government will know you're legally a citizen"

At the airport

iambic tetrameter ass stick

Never a big Narnia guy but this 6 seconds typifies everything I love about British television.

When the magpies are nesting

Comparing the header with the header as linked from the main part of the paper

ESPN's Women's Asian Cup hub is up and running. We've got scores, news, pods, videos, and yarns including 10 players to watch across the tournament from my colleague Gabe Tan! www.espn.com.au/football/sto...

Noted authority in thirst studies Professor Sargent

Amazing how many people instantly know which is booba and which is kiki

Here Gelman speculates on the idea of Left wing junk science and the funny thing is there was once a meme in blogosphere discourse that left wing rejection of science was evidenced by....RFK jr statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/02/20/5...

Dearly hope this dude visits Osaka

TIL the Kindle App, by default, does a zoom to show each panel in a comic individually as if a exec had a personal grudge against Scott McCloud. Anyway, a good tech lesson for my daughter in finding the hidden toggle to turn off "shit mode" in any given bit of software

I've parked near Japanese community events in Canberra and this was the easiest way to identify which cars belonged to fellow attendees

Today's random discovery; this craft beer video shop in Albuquerque maps.app.goo.gl/Q17j92CGpo99...

AAA makers think we want subscriptions, unlockable content, endless cutscenes, crypto and pointlessly higher polygon count. But the true challenge the gamer craves? Try not to cum.

Sincerely my favourite league in the world. Watching Euro highlights is like hyper real but soulless AI art; this is humanity

The real thrill of the Olympics is every time I look at my phone I’m ignoring the most important 90 seconds of a person’s life.

Saw a bunch of 12 year olds demonstrating "sagging" which was vintage 2000 hip hop baggy pants undies showing shit

Take an infant. Show him a face? Does he kick it? His choice is made.

Sounds great! www.ign.com/articles/tun...

Posting this here for reasons 😒 If you happen to see any Finji ads that look distinctly UN-Finji-like, send me a screencap. If you are someone who writes intelligently about something like "massive company running ai versions of paid ads without small company's consent" idk, maybe reach out.

the data hoarder subreddit has been losing it over the last month

I'm not confident making many predictions about LLMs, but I'm quite certain that in a year we'll still have discourse that begins with "ok, but in the *last few months* they've gotten much better"

"A government audit of the 2.7 hectare site found several heritage retaining walls were "failing or have already failed.""

I'm not making a point of any sort, but it's funny that in over a decade in Australian government the only portraits of politicians I saw in Departmental buildings were discreetly placed behind reception desks so security didn't do something awkward

I appreciate his attachment to his sport, but if the expenditure is to protect and project liberal values against authoritarianism one must recognise Union's repeated failures in Vichy, Russia, the Gulf, Rhodesia and the great evil of Apartheid makes it ill suited. www.smh.com.au/sport/rugby-...

Just went down a rabbit hole because it looked like the Canadian women's ice hockey goal tender had Cerberus on her helmet, which made sense for a Canadian but not for women's sport. But it might be a moose driving a golf cart

📢 As nearly two billion Muslims celebrate Ramadan, a secluded Australian territory observes the holy month differently. On the Cocos Islands, the tight-knit Cocos Malay community maintains cultural traditions and a pace of life rarely seen elsewhere. 👉 Bot to check Bluesky account creation dates

The timeline of legal accountability for British royalty 1640s: Waging a war against the commonwealth 2000s: Dog bit some kids 2020a: Nonce

lent and ramadan kicking off on the same day

This is the argument Geoffrey Robertson made in his biography of Cooke

I don't know why, but the judge is now citing the historical precedent of Charles I of England. This is an incredibly ominous sign for Yoon.

Of all the "what ifs" hanging over the start of the Pacific War, Konoe's raging case of hemorrhoids is a tale yet to be told It was evidently so severe he carried a cushion everywhere he went. Some close to him later said, “Had his hemorrhoids not become so bad, the war might have been avoided”

saw someone in the comments suggest that Epstein would fawn over Gladwell's brand of sophistry, and, yup, can confirm

Films are not something I'd expect to get angry at, but I do remember the absolute contempt I had for Ichi the Killer

60 million poms about to discover Michelangelo uses nunchuks 🤯

Not to mention that “persistent questions about profitability lead to disputes on prophet ability” is the rare headline that works for both Karl Marx and Adam Neumann.

I imagine it was extremely disturbing

Reading about the Prussian military decoration F Pour LeMé rite

Litigating exactly how these differ from the donut king twisties

guy who votes for one nation under the misapprehension the main plank of their platform is the abolition of the states