Multiple sources confirm the Albanese government has pushed lobbyists and industry groups to use encrypted messages and verbal briefings when proposing policy ideas, to avoid FOI and disclosure requirements. Read more: satpa.pe/h3OmIrz

- revenge fantasy rpg where you’re freed catgirl slaves who go around murdering isekai heroes who think it’s okay to buy catgirl slaves because they’re “one of the good ones” - Oops All Vending Machines

David Pope in Canberra Times

Aussie music is falling out of the charts & local acts are wondering if they’ll ever see your face again. "Fewer artists capturing less streams in their own domestic market." "That's your problem." Ex-Spotify Chief Economist Will Page explains how to turn this around. #auspol 🎧 theaus.in/48S3jCZ

On the driest inhabited continent on the planet… #auspol

I wrote a bit for McSweeney's about Isaac Chotiner interviewing Santa Claus. Just a little something for the holiday season. Enjoy!

Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it. So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:

Making money the only motive to do anything has been damaging to humanity

A simple petition about something that *should* have been an easy choice for SBS. c.org/jMGW4DjY5T

this thumbnail will absolutely be a punchline once this shit implodes

I'm bored today so I decided it's time to announce the secret project.

You’ll Be OK

does anyone else notice the giant lady doesnt cut up your hot dogs anymore!?

[7y, discussing someone buying one of their designs]: it's about time. I dont know why more people dont. right? you know how yours are like... kinda bad? well, at least I have three dollars. do you have three dollars? ***** just incredible levels of hating

I switched to this and @bookshop.org for every book, ebook, and audiobook purchase where they have what I want - which is 99% of them -- and the apps are great, and I get to support a local bookstore. It's all win here, folks.

Now more than ever we need to internalize the true message of 'A Christmas Carol', which is that you have a moral obligation to not make your past traumas everyone else's problem

i’m setting you free. i’m releasing you from the discourse

On Saturday December 13th, I will be hosting: “The Worst Charity Stream” For every 1000 dollars we raise, I will play Shenmue 3: Enhanced Edition for an additional hour There will be guests. There Will be a punishment wheel. Money raised will be in aid of Palestine www.twitch.tv/supereyepatc...

I gotta say this is a pretty decent list (bolstered by the fact that it's huge, but still). You'll get a better picture of where games are this year browsing through this than anything (literally anything) that happens at The Game Awards.

i was in the top 0.02% of his listeners this year

Ces emplois sont-ils réservés aux garçons? Dans le contexte économique actuel? Mon Dieu! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Samoa Joe is like a man from a world where pro wrestling is real. Eddie Kingston is a man from our world who *believes* pro wrestling is real.

Dear Lord. Centrelink says 144 different parts of its system have been operating unlawfully or erroneously. This scandal of 44k overpaid debts is just ONE of the 144 issues they say they've identified. The welfare system is in complete crisis & disarray

James Cameron on how close he came to directing 1993’s Jurassic Park & what he thinks of Steven Spielberg’s adaptation. I love this for the honesty, modesty & graciousness of Cameron’s reflections. (It’s from the latest edition of the estimable Empire magazine.)

“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to

I don't recall any of these individual media responses by Segal condemning the neo-Nazi rallies. Anyone able to point me to them? www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

you think you need to leave intelligent, thoughtful comments? lmao no “loved it!” is all you need to say. blurt that out on Steam, YouTube, Amazon for whatever game, book, or video caught your fancy The algorithm is all consuming but you can help cool people by just commenting “👍🏼”’ so do it

six months, then a permanent extension www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A pretty shite stage to reach. "Neoliberalism has won: Australia is privatising its foreign policy" Allan Behm #ThePoint thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...

Your brain is supposed to help! And yet... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Everyone is getting upset about the data centers. They pollute a lot and use a lot of energy and will eventually be very ugly/huge vacant buildings. And I understand being mad about that. Until you consider the state of the lazer tag industry at this moment, and how much help that sector needs.

imho James Garner really is the guy that everyone thinks Steve McQueen is. Garner's fit was so powerful that McQueen threw a tantrum about it and insisted they swap costumes.

The numbers in here are hilarious. Do you use AI on the job? Execs: 87% Managers: 57% Workers: 27% Planned investment by 2030: $5T "Necessary" annual revenue to justify that spend: $650B Current annual revenue: $50B

The secret to early retirement; dine out rarely, fly economy and be a Google employee making $390,000/year married to a fellow Google employee 17 years older than you who likely makes twice as much as you.

Ag business folds because of repeated extreme weather events yet no one mentions climate change in this article… www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

You glorious, brave lot, sticking your oar in to remind the billionaire bastard companies that Australians want the government to stop fannying about, start taxing giant fossil fuel companies and make the country run on renewables as much as possible.

The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste

collab with @moxiest.art at the table heads up. Thank you mox you are the best

Born too late to ever own a home. Born too early to expropriate a billionaire's survival bunker. Born just in time to watch the entire economy oscillate between debt created for websites and profit created by warfare over and over again like those are the only two things anyone knows how to do

So the Home Office, which is responsible for the welfare of asylum seekers & for determining their claims, has decided to call them “illegal migrants” & tell everyone it’s “furious” about them being here, but I’m sure this is fine and not a symptom of a culture of disbelief & gratuitous cruelty

My personal metric for "wow that's a real big success" in elfgames has for a while now been 1000 sales, not in the sense that I think that's a minimum floor but in the sense that anything that sells 1000 copies is, by all accounts in an industry where the margins are monomolecular, a runaway hit

Thanks! You know that TMNT TTRPG that's just fulfilling? Well, if it wasn't *forty years old*, it might be like Mutants in the Now, a retro-modern, mutant-animal, role-playing game with contemporary mechanics, a progressive ethos, a jumbo-sized expansion, 'zines, and more in the works right now!

Let's get an indie ttrpg HYPE TRAIN going and recommend some cool games for people to buy/gift. If you're a small #ttrpg creator (or there's an indie game you really love) drop a quick pitch and a link below. 🚅🎲🎲🎲🌟🌟

no I'm not "posting through it." it's posting through me

What a great headline

i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao

This is the anti-Australian bias I’d like to see those tech moguls hauled in front of parliament to answer for