The President of the United States said I insulted Jesus. You want to know what insults Jesus? Kicking the sick off their healthcare. Bombing schoolchildren in Iran. Deporting moms and babies. Covering up the Epstein files.

Herman Melville on moderates, all the way back in 1857:

Fascinating stuff! theconversation.com/the-deaf-bla...

Never saw Baker Boy's previous Like A Version until today and holy fuck 🤯 youtu.be/BGDZkt1hEm4?...

I think you’ll soon find that Lebanon has never existed.

A classic anti-masker tactic is to claim that if you don't wear a mask 100% of the time, it isn't worth it. Untrue. Every single time you wear a mask, you reduce the chances for viruses to spread. Wearing a mask always improves public health, even if you only do it occasionally.

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Why must this man continue getting W’s

I was sad to hear Michael Silverblatt, one of the greatest literary critics of my lifetime, died earlier this year. May his memory be a blessing. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

My hot take is that OBAA is one of the best films of the twenty-first century so far, but the climactic car chase is probably the worst part of it. You can start booing now.

This is how I need to be moving

Some (slightly tentative) good news

Underrated Simpsons line of the day

"As in those languages where a verb is inflected by its object, the nature of a justiciable killing depends on its victim." How could any aspiring historian ever hope to be as eloquent and erudite as Patrick Wolfe?

The Christchurch mosque massacre should have been a turning point that forced this country to confront its own racism, but the reckoning never came.

🚨Call for Papers! 3–4 September, Universität Augsburg: 2-day workshop on "theorising uncharismatic species in environmental history". Who are they? Where are their voices in the historical record? What insights do they offer to the field of environmental history? Be there! Abstracts due 15/05/2026!

The massive rise in Islamophobia, consciously fuelled by large sections of the media, is a national disgrace. I'd love to hear the PM and LOTO speak out about this and the dangers of white supremacy but ....crickets

good move in Victoria: 'Get The Pill At Your Local Chemist Without A Script'

More proof, if it was needed, that the Gaza genocide is the Vietnam War of our time.

They are enacting Greater Israel before our eyes. There are no adequate words.

Sydney pubs where a glass of wine costs nineteen dollars:

Lol, US military commanders are telling their troops they're on a "spiritual mission" to bring about "Armageddon", and the Zionists have been using their old religious books to justify bombing kids in EIGHT fkn countries, and our media is like "IRAN IS AN UNHINGED THEOCRACY"

If this is a genuine assessment and not just bait, then you're so foolish you never should have been awarded a PhD in the first place.

New blog post!

Nope. We don't have to do this. The courageous act would be to refuse. Jingoist slop like this is an enormous factor in why the US has been terrorizing the world for decades. There are no heroes bombing Iran.

From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.

once again, it doesnt matter what you think about the iranian leadership right now

He really does represent all the worst Australian impulses: unquestioning deference to bullies, refusal to use political power for anything beyond protecting his immediate interests, accepting anything Yanks do as intrinsically worthy. My contempt is unlimited.

Imagine having a Prime Minister who didn't suck shit.

The purpose of this website is to help unburden your brain by releasing horrible sentences that live in there like demons

Ah yes, the Islamo-Marxist Jesuit cabal strikes again!

Counter-proposal: there should be eight parliamentarians, selected by sortition for five-year terms, and all political parties should be abolished.

As species increasingly move into unfamiliar regions, its time to confront our bias against invasive species, which is not always backed by science. This Essay by Carlos Santana explores the 'double standard' at the heart of ecology

As someone who has never read George R.R. Martin and never bought into the Game of Thrones hype, I can freely say that I watched A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and I think it was: pretty good!

Literally every day since I got dumped, my phone has been giving me random push notifications telling me to download Tinder 👍👍👍👍👍

Massive respect to Tony Gilroy but it's pretty funny that the guy who created one of the best written and most politically radical tv series ever is low-key an inarticulate centrist

The really insane thing about arts funding cuts like the ones currently devastating Victoria is how small the savings are. Jacinta Allen is presiding over generational damage to the arts scene, for a saving of around 1 day of transport infrastructure spending

A truly astonishing number of moorhens on Merri Creek this afternoon

'Wolfdog named Nazgul' is the most northern Italian thing ever. Half that country are full-on geekazoids. Giorgia Meloni got radicalised at a festival called Camp Hobbit.

Are we going to do something about the fact that many Australian journalists no longer know what words mean?

Sorry if this makes me a NIMBY or whatever but an unconscionable amount of established vegetation has been eradicated to build the North-East Link

"An invasive species" 😐 the elasticity of this metaphor!