listening to Ed Sheeran's one rap song on repeat just to feel something

Started a podcast on Australian history @deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social, have made 18 episodes so far podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

Only piece worth reading on Charlie Kirk so far www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

Hey this isn’t fair!!! They made up a tonne of stuff in the nineteenth century

Wikipedia. Continues to be like the one room in a house the flooded with sewerage

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

My tummy sensitive salsa hasn’t arrived so I ate some of the real salsa on my tacos and now my tummy is sore. I am 35 years old.

This is very good

I’m basically just using this to say the annoying things I would text if I had friends.

Teens calling Idaho's suicide hotline are being told they can't proceed with the conversation without parental consent. Many of the callers are then hanging up. Idaho approved a strict parental consent law last year. idahocapitalsun.com/2025/08/29/i...

(Intrigued) on fire, you say?

At least 78 Palestinians, including 32 aid seekers, have been killed since dawn as Israel intensifies attacks on Gaza City, aiming to seize the largest urban centre and forcibly displace around one million Palestinians to concentration zones in the south aje.io/7hkxxi

Good thread

AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.

the most irritating thing is that Microsoft refuses to take "no" as enough with this shit. every couple weeks i re open Word and i have to say no to copilot again, or I get prompted to enable it when doing something else on my machine leave me the fuck alone, @microsoft.com

It's now possible to walk into a pub in Sydney and bump into Alan Jones, Mark Latham, Salim Mehajer, Eddie Obeid, Darrell McGuire, Ray Hadley, Caleb Bond and/or Bruce Lehmann

you rarely encounter a perfect intro..........but when you do

There was a time the Australian mental health profession in 2010s dolled out anti psychotics like they were lollies and they were wrong to do that… but sometimes I wonder

🚨breaking: PM Albanese says Australia will recognise a Palestinian state at the UN general assembly next month

Growing up I assumed dystopia would be a Mad Max style wasteland where I, thoroughly unathetlic, would not last long. I never figured dystopia would be writing a heartfelt email about a really difficult emotional issue only to have Microsoft insist it's AI could make it a better.

They're right of course. This would effect Mosman's character. The only solution: bulldoze Mosman and replace it with wall to wall high rise, it's the perfect spot for it www.afr.com/property/res...

Here’s episode sixteen and I go into some detail about Australians going absolutely nuts for clubbing seals to death, we couldn’t get enough of it apparently

I’m currently reading a book where in order to stop the America from stealing the secret of their large hadron collider the Soviet Union hides it in the jungles of Vietnam… in 1968. Also there’s dinosaurs … but it’s the Soviet strategy that seems far fetched

Paris Hiltons death scene in House of Wax. People were hooting and hollering

the shredding of international liberal order's legitimacy is because everyone knows the answer to @edwardluce.bsky.social thought experiment www.ft.com/content/6176...

Just finished @patricklenton.bsky.social ‘s In Spite of You. Came for the chaotic queers and scenes that made me cackle loudly enough to wake my dog. Stayed for the surprising sweet story about self acceptance

I reviewed the Tesla Diner, congrats to me on my new career as a food critic

I have empathy for people who are tired after work to cook, but the answer is just to meal prep? I do 90 per cent of my cooking on the weekend. It’s fine

“Nearly a third of Gazans had not eaten for several days, the U.N.’s World Food Program said this week.”

Joint statement on Gaza from AFP, AP, BBC, Reuters

girl, same

This is a fantastic piece on how central the politics of humiliation are to understanding Trump and the MAGA movement. The right is currently engaged in an all-hands-on-deck effort to *publicly humiliate* everyone who they dislike or assumes dislikes them. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-politi/

Today I'm talking about asbestos and the between 2,000 and 60,000 Australians who died because of corporate greed and state sponsored capitalism. Also, buy @cormacmccafe.bsky.social 's book Nock Loose you'll have a wonderful time! (sorry)

You may not like it but this is what peak male performance looks like

Just finished Brandon Jack’s Pissants, as a person with no interest in AFL or sporting culture I still think this is wonderful. One of the best books about Australian masculinity I’ve read in years. Also very funny

Oof, getting punched in the face by @cormacmccafe.bsky.social prose

Remember if listening to this makes you mad at me this is what I look like. This is who you’re mad at.

The Burning an incredible film that asks the question: what if Jason Alexander was cool?

AI steals from the past to steal from the future. That is in its nature. If we allow it to continue, even if doesn't destroy the world, it would still do that. It's diminishing returns, yes, but from a six-month shareholder profit stand point, they don't care;

This is very good. The main reason I made @deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social was to make academic history more accessible

Jeffrey Epstein had over 10x as many victims as previously alleged by the Justice Department, memo reveals: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/jeffrey-ep...

The richest person on the planet is programming his robot alter ego to advocate a second Holocaust against an imaginary Jewish person, so shit's going really well I think?

I went to the Jersey Shore to read the crass novelty t-shirts and all I got was this lousy magnum opus! www.thecut.com/article/jers...

Watching Norwegian TV and the pronouns in the subtitles are wrong. Feel like it was written by a slightly homophobic uncle who’s trying his best

(Jurassic Park 16. The heroes are running from a genetically modified T-Rex with eight beefy human arms) Very elderly Ian Malcolm: It was hubris to create the Punchasaurus

Shylock is among the most quintessential antisemitic stereotypes. This is not an accident. It follows years in which Trump has normalized antisemitic tropes and conspiracy theories — and it’s deeply dangerous.

New post: The Lattouf decision drew attention to something that needs much more discussion in Australia. I have taken the opportunity.

Possibly my best received story in about two years. Editors keep emailing me to tell me they loved it. :) www.crikey.com.au/2025/06/26/b...

the dream

I ended up channeling Tim and quoting Guy Rundle in this and it is absolutely The Battler’s fault (also listen to the Battler it’s great!) @cormacmccafe.bsky.social