Good is something you do. It's not something you are. If people understood this there'd be a lot more good done in the world. Or at least a lot more people honest with themselves about what apathy constitutes.
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Good is something you do. It's not something you are. If people understood this there'd be a lot more good done in the world. Or at least a lot more people honest with themselves about what apathy constitutes.
Yeah but it’s more than one. Never say the Germans don’t have a sense of humour.
Guy just said to me “do you want to keep trying German or can we go to English?”
The most incredibly wasted amount of money I ever paid through HECS was a year of accelerated/immersive German. Mad number of contact hours for an Arts degree. And every time I’ve been in a German-speaking country I get through 30 words tops before the other person switches to English.
, fam.
Thanks, mate. Doha is a pretty bonkers airport.
Ok, airport. Settle down. No need for this shit when I’ve just gotten off a 14hr flight and am about to jump on a 6.
For reference, the GDP of Russia is (roughly — sources vary on the precise figure) $1.7tn
And lose the $1500 excess on a $7000 car? Are you mad?
🎶
Well I guess you have been lying to yourself.
Friendolino, I’m in email contact with Jay and he said “yeah whatever”
Ok so when someone sings "One thing I know about the rest of my life", what do you scream next?
See this is the big brain stuff that keeps me in Shane-world.
Mea maxima culpa! Thank you.
if this is real i will absolutely fucking eat it
I do not have to *imagine* this. I've lived it.
Put the dude in a boiler suit, insert a French Bulldog and this is a real mood.
a phone (worth 1/3 the value of the car) will fix this
That's easy to diagnose (oil in the coolant tank). It's the electrics that get you. Last one was the starter solenoid. Imagine trying to solve that just by looking under the hood. By a lake. In the middle of fkn nowhere.
I have been that guy looking under the bonnet of an old broken-down Saab by a lake so. many. times.
I wasn't gonna buy a new phone but they targeted me very specifically by showing a broken down Saab 9-3 wagon by a lake. My hands are tied. Well played.
i am imagining that you fkn NAILED IT
you are low key one of the best people on here so i am sorry i will never see it
Hilarious that we just straight-up gave the US a nuclear submarine dry-dock in Western Australia and now the President is big mad that a milqetoast journo said "why you make so much money this year, Big-Daddy?"
It's 2000, & wreck diver Rod Macdonald has discovered something terrifying: "Dave and I couldn’t resist the temptation to fin over to the edge of the pinnacle & look over the side, down into the 200-metre deep abyss. [Then] I became aware that my exhaled bubbles had stopped rising upwards..." 1/
It took me a long time to get into the groove of alt-text, because I was _describing the image_. That's a hiding to nowhere. Conveying the *vibe*? I'm your man.
Real fans know where the good shit is.
I think I did well with the alt text.
The world is in safe claws.
Those two drinking vessels are going to need YEARS of therapy.
Imagine John fkn Yoo going "ooooh that's a bit much".
Remarkable to see John Yoo, author of the Bush administration torture memos, on the same side here: www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
Imagine John fkn Yoo going "ooooh that's a bit much".
I still love *you*.
@wheelyweb.bsky.social
Posted a mirror in the thread.
He’s an incredible thinker.
Guys D is incredible wtf we get sushi AND meat pies
Friendo we get almost all of the good food that exists in Zone D.
My prohibition on discourse has a loophole: discourse-by-proxy.
The original article is at The Atlantic, but here is a mirror, if you're interested. www.euvolution.com/prometheism-...
Elnathan John gets it.
There are people _in my orbit_ who don't remember my name all the time but *absolutely* know the car rego of the person who fucked up their order at Coffee Club 3 years ago because they were gonna spike their tyres in revenge but didn't have a screwdriver handy.
All I can tell you is from my experience, which is that _some people_ as they age, simply *do* grudges.
(is there a spike milligan museum, because if there is i need to see it before the flood)
See, here's where I differ from your opinion. Grudge-people remember grudges. They might lose their keys 5 times a day but they remember that time someone made them look bad because that shit burns deep in them.
ohno what about the spike milligan museum
yuuuuUUUUUUUP
He remembers grudges.
If you've forgotten it, I encourage you to go check it out again. It was an absolute monster of a leathering and it was from… an Australian dude from fkn Axios.
Just spitballing here, but I reckon there's a good chance he hates Australian journalists because of the first-term Jonathan Swan interview where he got absolutely rinsed.
LMM: 🎵first commandant of this college, I'm 'bout to paint you a collage, can we turn this station for sheep into a place for young men to reap.... WHAT THEY SOOOOOOOWWWWWW???! Other guy: No. 🎵
Gender-blind casting of course, so Rhonda Burchmore can finally play the role she was born for — Andrew Fisher.
I don't _hate it_ hate it.
I wonder what would happen if we built nebulous but powerful structures of control but then the other side worked out how they functioned and used them against us. Oh well, guess we will never know. Fun thought experiment tho.
It's the Gaslight/Valhalla poster combo that makes me so secure in this pronouncement.
Friend, that house absolutely had no fewer than three Leunigs taped to the wall of the outhouse shitter. I feel it in my very marrow.
The real reason to oppose age verification is what you are seeing right now, with the bloodlusted attacks on people insufficiently mourning a dead podcaster. They went after porn and sex workers as the easiest way to justify creating a panopticon they'll use to murder people. And it's bipartisan
You know what I hate?
Yeah, that whole interview is a masterclass in how to be a top bloke.
Yeah I remember this!
linky crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
If there was ever a load-bearing post, to me, this is it.
Whenever I bring this up with friends it's a whole thing where they tell me it never existed. Even hardcore Crowdies.
What's a track that you remember but everyone else thinks you hallucinated? Mine is the Crowded House cover of The Zombies' "She's Not There". www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGHj...
I was part of the working group that agreed upon turning search input boxes into floaty bubbles that hover above (but obscure) the thing you actually need. Let me know if you want a ride in my jet.
Finally, I can UPLOAD my tasteful newds.
Thanks, Obama Turnbull.
Boom, my NBN upstream just doubled. What a world.
We should tax *takes*. I mean it will ruin _me_ financially but there needs to be a price on being a dipshit.
You know what the internet is really enhanced by? Links.
I remember being shown it probably well more than a decade ago and every third comment was about nose beers, beak lettuce, truckie dust, or the glass barbie.
Yeah I found it in a bargain bin mislabelled as 'Aus Rock'. It's called 'Inside' and, yeah, people hated it. It's actually ok! (CHK YR DMS) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside_...
Please also note the pre-Girlfriend Matthew Sweet record that has been absolutely memory-holed by the entire planet.
Fortunately, the internet has saved you the requirement of opening the boomer site: musicfeeds.com.au/news/banter-...
You ever experience the simple joy of reading the "trollsies" on his Facebook page?
Buying a turntable for my office at home was one of the best things ever. Flipping records is such a good natural mini-break. (I have since upgraded the turntable because the Soundburger skipped on coloured vinyl). rossfloate.com/blog/oal2cu3...
Beautiful still. Beautiful in motion. Just a handsome bastard.
Tramell Tillman is such a beautiful man. Good Lord.
Just checked in on my blocked words/phrases list and it's amazing that I see anything at all on my timeline these days.
I don’t know if I can take another year of heartbreak.
I’m rewatching “For All Mankind”.
BE A MAN SHANE (See what you made me do? Now I gotta sob and do some roids.)
Better days.
Ed Baldwin really does have a lot of scenes where he terrorises young males and yells “BE A MAN” and then that young male dies or takes drugs or dies taking drugs in space.
Erin was just ragging on one of the shows I like and then pulled up short and said “I want to be clear, I’m not making fun of men talking about feelings. I *am* making fun of men talking about feelings _in space_, on teevee.”
I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1648
Something I’ve always wondered is how many soundstages exist with replicas of the Oval Office, ready to be lit and have someone with gravitas say “My Fellow Americans” and now someone has to jizz gold leaf all over them all.
Tell you what’s weird now is when you watch a show that has scenes in the Oval Office and it hasn’t been hit with the mega-bedazzler.
Patriot.
It was an overnighter so no dancing etc, unfortunately.
I feel you, Brother.
With respect, I think that idea — “what do you expect given the world as it is” — is something we need to fight against. We need to fight hard and we needed to start 20 years ago. The destruction of shared meaning wasn’t accidental.
20 years of fight. The rest is nap.
Fkn hate that guy so much.
Noam Chomsky, meet me at Terminal 2 arrivals in 36 hours for what you might call “an event”.
