He’s offended because The Odyssey is about something near and dear to him: being an absent father while chasing vanity for 20 years

Is there a version of nominative determinism but where your entire appearance and demeanour makes clear that there is a better than even chance that the next words out of your mouth will be "actually it's *ephebophilia*"?

buttballs

i love living in the first village of an rpg man. friendly neighbors, music is chill af, we even got that one kid we adopted into the village of whom the ancient prophecy was written about. anyway there’s a big ceremony tomorrow can't wait to still be alive after it

yeah I mean I love Mara Jade very much but it’s kind of hard to bring her into the continuity when Luke’s story is “became an angry monk” and not “married the coolest person alive after she tried to kill him several times” we’ll always have the old Zahn books at least

The searches seem to be coming from areas with lots of politicians and journalists. chaser.com.au/world/thesau...

7/ In this footage, a protester viciously & repeatedly attacks a police officer's fist with his head & liver while forcibly restrained on the ground.

Jon Kudelka, much-loved Australian political cartoonist, dies aged 53

JK Rowling has not tweeted since openly denying that her team invited the world's most notorious child rapist to a kid's play despite evidence directly disproving her claims

ok not to be a philosophy asshole but what does Mr. Jones think preparation is?

I’ve only got Delta Goodrem and Guy Sebastian left on my calling for a royal commission bingo card. Feeling pretty confident.

This is it. I found the dumbest fucking thing you will read today. Apparently free public transport for people under 18 will cause "an issue" because when those people turn 18, they will have been "conditioned" not to pay. By that logic, toddlers should pay rent and board.

this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.

Never mind if it's possible. Even if it were, is that something we want? Having no shared culture? Imagine having read a book, or watched a film, or played a game and having nobody you can talk about it who have read, watched, or played the same thing. That seems awful in every way.

he’s just a big fan of numerology

Watched Bladerunner again last night. Would have been so much better if they had gone with the original idea, that instead of origami unicorns, Edward James Olmos’ character had made balloon animals. “It’s too bad she won’t live; but then again SQUEEEK-SQUEEEK-SQUEEEEEEK-SQUEEEEK Who does?”

Roblox wanting to add sports betting for kids actually kind of explains how they got an exemption from the social media ban

I'll just leave these here

(spending 9 billion dollars to make a robot say "i have always loved you") hard times create strong men

I've been saying for a while that when a real conspiracy emerges the Conspiracy Theory Complex will be some of the least interested people in it, because the point of the Conspiracy Theory Complex is not to discover conspiracy but to create rationales to justify untenable beliefs.

your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️

a “Space Force”, if you will

Great job to the Australian for making a sinister looking abc logo image for a story that has nothing to do with the abc

Days since an Australian university admitted to wage theft: 0

Hi, Jean. My friend is a Nigerian prince who needs to urgently retrieve $1,000,000 from an abandoned trust from his father. If you can wire $5,000 today, you will be entitled to 35% of the trust. Please reply at your earliest convenience.

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

What has she ever done? Has she ever made the Hyperloop? You did. Has she ever invented self-driving cars? You did that. Has she ever taken humanity to Mars? That is an accomplishment you have pulled off, that she never will.

Zohran caught in LIES: Mamdani claims to have "loved Final Fantasy III" when he was growing up. yet research indicates that the game he played was in fact the SIXTH Final Fantasy game

My closing pitch to voters? “I will only live in this awful place if I rule over it”

Barnaby Joyce being disloyal? doesn't sound like the families man we all know

On the other hand, it's been a long time since someone from The Australian turned up and found themselves the smartest person in the room

yeah me too mate, that's why we're both at the local library

It’s so embarrassing for us as a species that our next major economic crash is gonna be because of the ‘gamer company selling chips to billionaires so they can make ai girlfriends to jack off to’ bubble bursting

From the folks who brought you “stop virtue signaling”…

I need to know who put the money up for all this media placement of a non story this week

he asked for the Girlfriend Experience so I had a panic attack and made him drive me to the ER and wait with me for 6 hours for them to tell me I'm fine

sky news australia having a normal one www.theguardian.com/media/2025/s...

Smart move leaving out twitter where not a single nazi goes to hangout

I hear Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.

the Weinstein guy is truly incredible. at least the guys who get driven insane by chatGPT and think they've invented a new type of physics were driven insane by chatGPT. this guy deluded himself into believing he invented a new type of physics without any type of robot gassing him up

What would Orwell think about a huge face on a gigantic screen telling a crowd of people they should wage war on foreigners and dissidents? No way of knowing, I guess.

Locked box with a scribbled note inside: 1. anita sarkisanisn 2. ex wife 3. karl (guy at gym) (eat shit karl) 4. trans (all) 5. hilary clinton 5. guy in apartment above (suspect jew?) 5. rest of jews 5. femininsm

Same day, back to back

I take no pleasure in this, but

Debate someone you love today.

i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence