@gaypinocchio.bsky.social I want to give a personal note of gratitude to my only follower who liked my joke about fucking the merlion

I would have reserved that for the two tailed merlion

Looks like Bannon is working straight from the CIA handbook* *implausibly claiming credit for events in a way that appeals to their ostensible antagonists

WHO'S IN THE CAGE NOW BITCH?!?

Just saw a hirl with a 2003 era visible gstring above low sling jeans with her friend in a hijab and to me that is the true essense of the multicultural festival

Apropos of this, I learned both Aloisis (Aloisae) are managing in the CPL www.theguardian.com/football/202...

I was intrigued by this sign at the multikulti but, apart from ABN reports, the only search hit was this SBS Filipino report which makes the bold decision to caption the photos in a different language to the body of the text www.sbs.com.au/language/fil...

Have a read of the recent article 'No Trace: ASIO and the End of the White Australia Policy' by Sean Brawley: doi.org/10.1080/0308...

The reasoning here is interesting (and I think correct) that the distinction between this and financial derivatives are that there's no real products no risk management involved. Whilst you /can/ gamble with, say, wheat futures, that contract both involves actual wheat (if not ever delivered) and

Something often neglected in adaptations is how much time Stoker devotes to van Helsing talking about how dumb Dracula is

The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...

The blurb focuses on neglect of shade but I've found the truly astounding thing in the (extremely sunny) Australian context is how much of planning is devoted to preventing shade

I sure hope the Thagnatius S. Slavedriver Memorial Library and the Eugene Q. Segregationist Institute of Racial Hygiene have not heen bismirched

Our Retired Explorer (Dines with Michel Foucault in Paris, 1961)

*celebrated pop academic at elite university voice* I just want to make it clear my relationship was in service of Mammon, not Ba'al

‘We should retire the Rockwell free speech man meme, to indicate someone giving an obvious opinion or banal observation, and replace it with vernacular equivalents for non-American cultures’

The Accuratus Mouse Phone was an optical mouse that doubled as a Skype phone

I like the flex of putting both the pen and real name of the author on the cover

The subeditor did the dirty on the writer (Katy Hall) giving the impression this was a platforming of the chud view rather than a dismissal

If anybody thinks this is a joke

they say the world will die in fire and ice, print ad, zx spectrum (1984) archive.org/details/zxco...

The bot might just be an admirer of Lee Kuan Yew's PAP, if only for it's efforts to effect a society incapable of quality art

#Jleague Kit SZN 5/15 FC Tokyo (J1) Tokyo Verdy (J1) Machida Zelvia (J1) Kawasaki Frontale (J1)

Genuinely laughed that the answer is 'Bali'. Cheers for the hot tip

When I was junior APS I'd often maintain parallel drafts for the executive and for the pubs team, since the non negotiable editorial idiosyncracies of the former were invariably at odds with the (documented and rational) standards of the latter. The former never realised.

Learning some geography maps.app.goo.gl/fNxBERBjKVYs...

I went to a national league sports game today where the ultras for both sides had pride flags and that probably can tell you what league it was

I've said this before, but the one name that would really fuck me up if it were in a Epstein file is Andrew Gelman

I often think about this Dinosaur Comic but it's funny that the last frame pretty much happened with the original text qwantz.com/index.php?co...

Apropos of this I learn a Chinese rendering of sandwich, 三明治, is the same as "three Meiji", as in Meiji restoration, which should encourage a myth about the Meiji Emperor parallel to that about the Earl of Sandwich

Skynet names its Terminator models with round magnitudes of 10 rather than following exponents of two. This implies the breakthrough that allowed a sentient machine was a form of bit with 10 states.

One can make a case that academia, which has never shed its feudal origins and attendant hierarchy and systems of tribute, is naturally attracted to a practitioner of sexual serfdom

The core problem that Adam Smith wrestled with was that wealth, rank and its holders commanded respect it did not warrant. He hoped a structure of competition and exchange could mitigate and channel that destructive tendency, but today he might propose releasing billionaires' emails

Love u newcastle jets

When you don't want to upset the nazis

Very disappointing Chomsky forsook his forner circle of weirdo genocide deniers in favour of this lot

Very good as per usual. Pls consider subscribing to @erincook.bsky.social’s newsletter Dari Mulut ke Mulut if you want regular news on Southeast Asia. It’s very good and well observed.

When the cabin crew lads hit Oxford Street

When you need a criterion to explain why you are part of an elite when all sensible criteria indicate you shouldn't be

Doo do doo

I mean, if Wes Anderson were to design a democracy it would probably look like Japan's. The color coding of everything, the sashes and banners, the white gloves, just the fussiness and ritual of it all.

Why are they dressed like the house swing band at a 3 star resort?

homowack room 317, mamakating, new york, 1977

This is what happens when a cohort has no good music

I don't work 12 hour days because I'm competent and my work is finished well in advance

Not one mention of Napalm Death in this article!

Your regular reminder that #LunarNewYear is a public holiday in parts of Australia - on Christmas Island they get two days for it. Wouldn’t it be nice if it was emulated across the country? www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... #auspol

Given a central part of this scene is the fact Eowyn is disguised as a man, I can only assume Frazetta envisioned every one of the Rohirrim were dressed like this, and I respect that