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Always repost the Handwich.

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

I know we like to be accurate, but pastoralist is basically jargon for "fancy kind of farmer who doesn't like to be called a farmer", no? www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

But watermelon pins. “Leaked chatlogs, photographs and other evidence analysed by this masthead show that members of the NSN have been in close contact with at least 30 neo-Nazi extremist groups overseas since forming five years ago. Nine of those groups are listed internationally as terror cells.”

Chekhov: hang on, where did the gun come from?

jack asked if i would sketch up a poster to tell people in nearby neighborhoods about the partnership between flock and ring, and this is what i came up with. it can be printed on an 8.5x11 sheet of paper.

Listening to the Daily on the first year of Trump and of course Jonathan Swan is spinning out to "what precedent this could set for the next President, maybe a democrat", with others chiming in on "not putting Humpty Dumpty back together"... Idk, maybe focus on the right now, which is already bad?

I love being terrible at chess. I love having no idea how to do a proper checkmate. I love sacrificing all of my pawns fewer than ten moves in. People devote their entire lives to it and I’m just like “wheeeeee horsies”

Is this a "standoff"? Trump has essentially been offered everything Greenland has to offer except the flag on the soil, and has no negotiating position. One man shouting over the fence that he owns your house now without really doing anything about it bar the shouting seems... not like a standoff

The consitently terrible news out of Minneapolis means that I have had "Minneapolis" by That Dog stuck in head all week, which is a very specific and personal silver lining, I guess

The median weekly rent for units is at a record high in Melbourne, & the same pricd as houses (!!) for the first time since 2012. Supply, first-home buyers & getting only so much for moving further away from work and amenities to a house in the outer burbs all seem to be factors. (It's me @ The Age)

I've worked as a designer, I'm an illustrator, I like pretty things, but by god am I sick of slick modular Wordpress/Squarespace et al, video/photo in background, parralax-out-the-wazoo, read-our-testimonials-and-contact-us-via-the-form corporate websites

Guys... I'm not your intern, okay. Keep your 3am salad orders to yourself

It is quite weird (& sad) to think how straight forward and sane those reporting on the genocide in Gaza — & those on the opinion side of news — will look in a few short years, even as they are scrutinised & criticised right now. The facts are quite transparent and backed by independent reporting.

My first story for The Age went up (and in the paper!) today: www.theage.com.au/property/new...

It's morning again in America. The coffee is Irish and Dad's still drunk from the night before.

Wtf is going on with the BOM forecast/current temp atm

The question then becomes: how much more expensive will mid-career employees be if you have to bid them away from firms that are producing them in a few years, and does that exceed what you save by using AI as an excuse not to hire now?

If you think of "hiring in entry level positions" as "procuring labor to do the tasks entry level people do" then you probably do think AI is a magical headcount reduction machine. But the point of hiring in entry level positions is to produce mid-career employees.

hate to be the bearer of such news, but unfortunately substack has the juice

OH on the tram: "I'm not homeless, I just look like I am. I'm not homeless, I just live in St Kilda"

The world went crazy when Iran did 5% of this at least vaguely surreptitiously in the Strait of Hormuz (in Trump's first term), now the US is doing it flagrantly and 🤷

Have been thinking a lot about how the focus since Sunday has been on antisemitism rather than that this was seemingly lone-actor terror event (even if it was 2 people, it was father-son and fits the pattern). Working on this comic expainer back in 2018 taught me so much and it's still so relevant

It's very weird predicting where a toon will do well. This has more than 1.3K likes and has been seen by almost 25K people on Tiktok, it dies a quiet death here and on Instagram.

Personally this seems like an odd thing to say out loud about my ability to digest art with any degree of patience for the form but okay

I don't know man, I just don't thinking taking notes from a country that has a mass shooting a day about what a single mass shooting must mean is the best course of action at this point in time? I mean, fill those column inches, I guess, that's the job.

Here's something dumb (like Time magazine's Person of the Year itself)

Why do food ventures keep selling come variety of charcoal bread/pastry? Do they just hate people on medication, or what?

Some champagne political cartooning from primary school-era younger me here

Thinking of writing a US tv show with a hard-arsed FBI agent or cop who knows something isn't quite right? You apparently have to hire Hettienne Park

There's never been a better time to hold onto the one relatively benign social addiction we all enjoy

Both the "Continue" button and the "Try it now" button do *the same thing* in what is the clearest example of a dark pattern I've ever seen. Imagine someone is getting metrics about the "number of Google Docs users who are using AI" and all the numbers are total bullshit.

Cool to see a PM celebrating a complete disgrace for his party, a mob-affiliated fixer and the spore of mould at the heart of NSW Labor that rotted it out for twenty plus years. You can't defame the dead which means you absolutely don't have to talk them up.

Go visit one of my toons for me! And all the other much more glorious ones

A reminder Japan on-sells more Australian gas to other countries than is consumed on the entire East Coast of Australia. We don't need *more* gas, we need to tax our gas exports properly

Championship level thread

Adam Hyde/Keli Holiday seems like he's probably nice enough but it's hard to take a man who looks like the personification of the "extremely mad, red and nude online" meme too seriously

The gambling help line message at the end of gambling ads may be the most effective public service announcement. It always makes the ad seem like an absolute joke afterwards, to the point of absurdity

shame on sectors like Tennis, Laptop, Cow and Microphone

Congrats on complying with the law, I guess?

I wish I loved anything as much as podcasters and editors love the word "enshittified"

Why do we continue to spend money hand over fist to have US artists (film/music etc) visit and make their own music, rather than supporting our own artists - who desperately need it www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

Gotta say, it squandered its lead in terms of cultural impact, but Stranger Things still looks a billion times better than almost anything else shot for Netflix

@slate.com have you thought about month-to-month Slate Plus memberships? Mine recently lapsed and I'm freelance atm, but would love to continue contributing — annual, even at a reduced rate, isn't viable.

Rather keen to get satanic in that headline, someone wants to do the 80s/early 90s all over again

Stephen Miller’s ancestors were Jewish refugees from the pogroms in czarist Russia. They came to the U.S. in the early twentieth century, even as racists said this same stuff about them.

every AI advocate is like "look out specific industry, AI can now create a weird facsimile of what your specific industry makes, very poorly... looks like it's over for your industry"

Nowadays, everybody wanna talk like they got something to say But nothing comes out when they move their lips Just a bunch of gibberish And motherfuckers act like they forgot about Dre