One experiences a weird psychic bifurcation living in a community that has Mohamed Semra as mayor in a nation that wants Pauline Hanson as prime minister

slightly tardy naarm weather update

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Bespoke scheduling clearly designed to attack me specifically

Quite a few friends live in the *literal* shadow of the west footscray data centre and it is grim af, perpetual hum and distinctly off vibes

When I was a kid some luckier kid from school would come back from a family trip to Disneyland and they would have a new pair of Reeboks and I mistranslated this into erroneously presuming the US was some kind of functional society

If you’re a writer, write “i waited” without saying it: fuckin Godot, fuck's sake

oft I will see a dumb post and consider slaying the poster with my rapier wit, then see that they follow me and realise they are not entirely beyond hope given their impeccable taste and clear desire for self-improvement, thus I quietly allow them to live another day

Feature not a bug episode 3492

Love me some Sad Grover

More like Hilldong eh Brian?

Not sure who is advising them, but this is a hot mess of an email for the MSO to blast at this point

Coalition could cut the oxygen to One Nation by not making the racism Olympics a thing but for the small matter of the Coalition loving to do racisms at every opportunity

it appears the 11/12-year-olds of williamstown do not mess around

broke: sponsoring my kids reading books in the MS Readathon woke: sponsoring my kids doing a TikTok Scientology Speedrun

Such a pleasure to hear Sally Sara setting all new lows in the softball interview genre with Barnaby this morning while he was rolling out a 14 Words reboot

Remember video stores? They should invent somewhere like that but for borrowing books

saddest day since we lost

people still eager to piss away what little is left of their tattered reputations on the altar of defending the genocidal state of Israel and being egregiously wrong and defamatory as they go about it is certainly a choice

Further evidence the lucrative lonely chaser market is the only sustainable ai business model

sizzling fresh take from guy who gave us “gorillas of Gaza” and “black-hearted Arabs”

obligatory Yarra looking resplendent this evening post

There is a running app called INTVL where you 'win' the territory you circuit until someone else captures it and I can't help thinking someone is going to get Nancy Kerriganed for stealing the wrong turf

My lifelong aversion to jam bands has me finely honed on the workplace Security Awareness Training front

wait up Thomas Yorke told me these were 'complex problems'

Ooh pick me i think I know the answer to this one

Only worthwhile twist left at this point would be Shoei Kisen Kaisha sending the Ever Given to get stuck in the Strait of Hormuz

what's Australia's best musical duo and why is it the orbweavers

It makes no sense for Northcote and Thornbury to have this many music venues and my neighbourhood to have so few, this november I will vote for whichever party enforces involuntary redistribution so at least 3 of them become walking distance from my house (and throws carwyn cellars' back bar in)

Dadmaxxing by cringemogging your kids when their friends are over doesn't quite make up for those sleepless nights but it's a pretty sweet start

oh yeah happy 30th birthday for yesterday

psa

Rage scoring the abc some column inches in the Oz and/or a senate estimates cameo

Interesting as I also got my hands on a postcard AA sent DT

Not now 'unprecedented' refinery fire

Just read the full details of the allegations against Antony Catalano and it sure does pay to be rich if you don't fancy being held on remand over horrific violent abuse

As primary caregiver with a deadbeat dad I feel reasonably qualified to quietly suggest you get in the bin you coddled sook. Read a book! Talk with and learn from mothers! Start a baby club! Take your bub to your nearest brewery and find another dad to discuss how hard you've got it!

They promised us flying cars and robot maids (problematic), they gave us Looksmaxxing influencer and streamer Clavicular has been hospitalized after suffering a suspected overdose

if you're looking for some upbeat dinner-cooking bops tonight Erythrite Throne has you covered

gotta say Donny was pretty on the money with this one

Runners up: -2.58 suckerpunch piledriver to the head of Mogwai's Like Herod - 3:16 3-man pedal stomp in Pile's “Born At Night” (Amps In The Room live session) -opening 9 minutes and 56 seconds of Songs: Ohia's The Big Game Is Every Night Winner: Lenker's primal "hunger" that tears open Not at 2:24

Happy for the Hungarians but also a momentous day for people who enjoy the thought of sad Tony Abbott

Parents of teens/adults - did you keep all the work/crap they brought home from kinder/school? Do you now wish you had/hadn't?