And of course, it already exists.
Somewhat random. Full of all the vices and none of the virtues of my Gen-X heritage. He/Him.
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TIL that a curfew is also a literal object! the word has its roots in the French couvrefeu - "cover fire" - and was used to denote a bell rung to warn people to cover their fires overnight to prevent the outbreak of flames between wooden houses. a curfew was a bell-shaped cover for embers!
FOX news host suggests we euthanize the homeless, someone goes into two encampments and starts shooting. 13 people shot and Jacob Frey and the media are just talking about it as the new best reason to clear the encampments
Amusing in some ways that twenty first century Victorian Labor is extending dominance over the electorate in similar ways to how Kennett did, by ostentatiously opening pretty infrastructure and by treating the opposition (and to a lesser extent, the media) with contempt.
Turns out swivel eyed frothing at the mouth hyper online race politics doesn't go down well in a largely placid multicultural electorate like Victoria. People want trains and hospitals, they don't want to be cannon fodder for a global far right swing.
Go on. Once more for freedom.
š¶Is there a chance the world could end? Not on your life, tout va bien!š¶
Based off the top 20 largest #auspol programs by expense, if Medicare, NDIS & PBS are off the table unless theyāre means-testing student loans or school funding, all they have left is tightening the eligibility to child care subsidies/support for aged care or families/pension or reducing Jobseeker
Other than Medicare, the NDIS & the PBS, there arenāt really big social spending and welfare programs that are not means-tested at all Is Ley suggesting the Liberals wants to means-test Medicare, the NDIS or cheaper medicines so none are universal anymore? #auspol
Oh no. How terrible.
Sarah Cooperā "Jury Selection for the Trial of Luigi Mangione #sketch"
Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough
When you see a bad joke incoming
Why are there not more communists represented in the Southern Baptist Convention? Why are short people underrepresented in the NBA? Why has my application to the Nation of Islam been unaddressed these many, many years?
Never again to sit on beautiful white* beaches and enjoy a refreshing dried meat flavoured milk and check out all the fine š·š¶šš“š¦šš“. A shame, a damn shame.
Have to live without Afrikaner-Australian cuisine. It'll be hard.
congrats to your grandma in heaven on finally being able to fulfill her fantasy of being eiffel towered by paul newman and robert redford
Although, being honest with myself, good to see the Liberals getting back to their key conservative taking points rather than the pure culture war LARPing.
Ooh, needs based? So franking credits are coming under scrutiny, Sussan?
"Our National Character" #drink
Or alternately, get politically fixed in place by the end of O-week and remain that way for the remainder of their lives.
Drew has outdone himself
D the hands-down winner but purely based on this delicacy
Yeah-nah. My @smh cartoon.
I cannot stress enough how the last three paragraphs of this piece are exactly why Coates voice is so important right now.
If someoneās not mourning the death of Robert Redford in a manner thatās consistent with your views, make sure you set up a database, call their employer, and get them fired.
I know it's not the first time I've said this, but my brain is weirdly susceptible to gaslighting. I know the Trumpers are lying liars who lie and I still pause when they step up to the podium and confidently declare "WELL YOU DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING WHEN OBAMA FUCKED A WALRUS" and think wait, did he?
Always feel a little bit of dissonance when Europeans talk about foxes as mischievous and charming scamps when their Australian identity is as supernaturally vicious serial killers of native wildlife.
It wasn't enough. But it was close.
* ROBERT REDFORD, SCREEN IDOL TURNED DIRECTOR AND ACTIVIST, DIES AT 89 -- NYTIMES @reuters.com
Turning into the World Athletics Championships, primarily so I can hear Bruce McAvaney's dulcet tones. Doesn't sound like he's lost a step.
Wow, actual hopeful signs about abolishing group tickets in Victoria perhaps even in time for 2026 election! (Believe it when I see it but this is interesting!) #springst www.theage.com.au/politics/vic...
This, from The Londoner yesterday, also features people on the march who claim not to be racists. Though the things they say prove otherwise
Think we can now say we've tried a podocracy, and the results were disastrous.
"But we grovelled entirely in good faith!"
Yeah, that appeasement policy really worked out for you in the long term NYT. Well done.
Psychic paper, Pat, psychic paper.
Neo-segregationist remains my go to description of Trump 2.
Wouldn't be civil. Or polite.
Odd, but I'm sure the specifics line up with the sentiments they're expressing here. That's what journalism is for, after all.
Make THIS guy Prime Minister (via www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/15/i...)
Sky Noos loved Amy's piece on Charlie Kirk, so much they devoted a morning's word vomit to it, with the neutrality and commitment to truth they are so well known for.
Banger of a piece. And Australia isn't the place where they'd face severe commercial consequences, so it's really puzzling that they'd be so lily-livered.
Has anyone actually provided an explanation as to why the Remeikis piece was pulled from The New Daily?
"Humanity is now obsolete. To quote the fifty-third president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln: 'Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.'"
jesus christ
My point is that people will conflate nationality with ideology all the time, no matter how bizarre and ridiculous their irrational thoughts are So if you're Jewish, you're not neccessarily pro-Israel and Netanyahu Also, untold millions of people were killed by the Nazis, not solely Jewish people
An X poster said that because everyone knew I had a German background, you should realise that I have Nazi sympathies š¤ Apart from being one of the funniest things I've read on there, I also have to state that my own family were killed by Nazis Yet neither point makes me hijack the victimhood hat
If you see this, quote the energy you bring to Bluesky
The comparison of Israel to Sparta is literally what Hannah Arendt predicted would happen back in 1947.
Eurovision? You mean the musical contest set up in the aftermath of the Second World War explicitly to foster peace between European nations by cooperating on a shared broadcast? That Eurovision? Itās totally about politics. Peace is a political stance. As is war. As is doing a genocide.
Sounds like they have a really good handle on how all this will go down, very cool
JD Vance is doing the Reichstag Fire the right way. by Ezra Klein
At team meetings, we get asked periodically to do a "values" item. I'm choosing Integrity and the Richard Boyle case. This could get messy.
November 17, 2021 www.mypanhandle.com/news/local-n...
Future generations are going to see this and assume it's fake. That's what AI is taking from us.
Bombshell āWall Street Journalā Investigation Finds Tyler Robinson Once Had Trans Uber Driver
"gaping Farage-shaped hole"
we are in full blown McCarthyism territory folks
Somewhere, Barry Jones feels his heart start to race.
Me: iām Autistic Them: Oh you take things literally Me: No thatās kleptomania
Promise?
The availability of good music, the resurgence of roleplaying as a vital and growing culture, the halal snack pack, the explosion in diverse stories in all bloody kinds of media.
Apparently Howard was right. No ticker. www.watoday.com.au/politics/fed...
These (very specific) fucking people.
The obvious evolution to Young Talent Time. The deification of children, rendered incapable of original self-expression by the norm-reinforcing structure of the "show", the false camaraderie of being part of a uniform-identified "team" and the performative requirements of "prime time audience" combi
LINK ROT: 38% webpages that existed in 2013 were no longer available 10 years later. Even among pages that existed in 2021, 22% no longer accessible just two years later. This is often because individual page was deleted or removed on otherwise functional website. Many implications for knowledge š§Ŗ
Mass joy doesn't seem like his thing.
Collingwood winning remains the best revenge possible.
Given this is making some waves - here is the piece and you can judge for yourself. (I'm fine, there are no issues - right wing ecosystem just doing what right wing ecosystem does). Take care of you - it's rough out there! Ax amyremeikis.substack.com/p/charlie-ki...
Climate Change will manifest as a series of cheap property sales that gets closer and closer to where your portfolio is until it's your own house.
My favourite live TV moment remains when Roy and HG interviewed Jacques Rogge, in a pretty cordial way, and as an outro started out "Well as we know the IOC loves gifts, so..." and watching Rogge's face just COLLAPSE for a second.
Still preferable to the Lovecraftian nightmare on mobile.
Petition for Bluesky to make strikethrough work properly. Grrr.
Ten years ago yesterday, I wrote a story that changed the next decade of my life. I hate that it matters more today ā I mean specifically, today ā than it ever has before. I hate it, I hate it, I hate it. But here it is. www.thedailybeast.com/what-do-you-...
No better foreign agent that one selected for stupidity, tbh.
Yes, Charlie Kirk called for Joe Bidenās execution. But he called for it in the right way.
Look, this IS Richard Roxburgh, right?
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
I wonder what it's like being the political rodeo clown Rowan Dean, having to going to sleep every night thinking 'I'm going to wake up tomorrow and still be Rowan Dean'.
27 is the new lowest Coalition primary ever. 58-42 is the biggest government lead since Oct 2009 and the most lopsided 2PP since June 2013.
#Newspoll 58-42 to ALP ALP 36 L-NP 27 Grn 13 ON 10 others 14
This may explain why thereās an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirkās own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.
It's yelling into the void but something tell me it just needs to kept being said: if you are still posting, RTing, or lurking on X, you are helping keep users there and you are helping this guy pull in advertising revenue. You are a volunteer worker for a slobbering, drug-addled white supremacist
Notting earth shattering. :) bsky.app/profile/jenn...
Weāve been living through 72 nonstop hours of this exact tweet
a question I often find myself asking these days: "are these the moves of a movement that feels that it's winning or one desperately afraid that it's about to lose everything?"
@patrickstokes.com alert.
Heavily based on his book IIRC, and also a condition of ongoing funding. Sadly.
With Kennedy, I've always seen the US operating under the assumption a vast conspiracy has to be responsible, otherwise there's no way such a "great" man could have died.
I just saw a TikTok like āthe motivations of assassins donāt make sense anymoreā but boy have they never. Hinkley shot Reagan to impress Jodi Foster. Oswald was such a complete mess people just assume the CIA did it. Guiteau killed Garfield because no one would make him an ambassador.
Watching (for some reason) the first episode of Burns' The Civil War. When Shelby Foote came on screen for the first time an involuntary growl escaped my lips.
Theyāre getting pretty desperate for someone to be trans here
And we wonder why thereās Nazis marching in Australiaās streets and bashing people.
