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What’s the rationale for it?

Headline reading “Heritage groups accuse Zohran Mamdani of Italian-American 'hate' over Columbus stance”

Did, uh, did Tony Soprano write this piece?

Honestly, do if you want! Anyone who’s done it knows the hardest part of indie publishing is finding time and energy, and these dicks are wasting yours. They deserve at least some minor consequence…

I mean, nobody else gets to decide which summer

Imagine being a dog, and everything that you want to investigate you have to lead with the face

Heading out on a limb here to suggest that they don’t need gender divisions for throwing darts

How this engineer helped bring the Sydney Olympic cauldron to life Twenty years on from the Sydney Olympic Games, an Engineers Australia member involved in developing the cauldron reflects on the

@ellehardy.bsky.social lol that while reading about the subject, this should come up

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Few arguments as bone-deep annoying as “this makes men and boys feel bad about themselves”

Toxic masculinity specifies the aspects that can become toxic, it doesn’t generically describe being male

If you fancy yourself a contributor to public discourse, learn how a fucken adjective works

Now that's a major project

Just rewatching the Sydney Olympic opening ceremony like a normal person, and man, the stalled cauldron bit still creates a rush of anxiety 25 years later

The inbred Austrian who accidentally started a war by driving straight up to his assassin?

That’s Franz Ferd Cop-A-Slug

You’re welcome - I hadn’t clocked the link between Gordy and JJ, so that adds a lot to the story. It’s interesting how familiar the trope is about ‘tame’ animals flipping out, like the Simpsons bit with Gentle Ben eating everyone.

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I spent the last month working in the Caribbean - here's a new piece about the islands with some fun bits and some less fun bits.

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“Face ID cannot recognise you while eating a giant peanut-butter sandwich” oh right, I thought technology was supposed to improve the future

Today I was not expecting a memory of seeing Lash at the Hallam Hotel in the year 2000

I’m actually fucken amped than an Aus hip-hop track scored No.2 on the list. Nosebleed Section was a moment of cultural change.

DEAD CAT THREE TIMES

Hard to believe Hulk Hogan has gone, when only months ago he was screaming incoherently at a Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden to elect a mob of criminals. So vital, so alive

Loved this essay, about the variety of natures in movie monsters, and how humans relate so poorly to animals.

My friend Louis brought back a bag of Shaq brand gummies shaped like Shaquille O’Neal’s head

Good spot, Rachel. Especially the frequency of commas - he’s never given a shit about the pacing of speech. Or the grandiose phrasing: “Let these weaklings continue…”

I am once again forced to clarify that I am not related to the custard man

The detail is *stunning*

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Is there a nuanced distinction in the two styles?

There are great restaurants in my home town that I haven’t been to as often as the Subway at Barbados airport

I just reckon there’s a huge amount of nuance in how dogs bite anything, like the difference from play chomping to real fighting to grooming to carrying pups. Teeth are their primary manipulative instrument, so they’ve developed range. It’s remarkable.

Life has spared me from learning about the Peppa Pig universe but I know for a fact that Mr Potato is guilty of many crimes

Would love to read that. Interested in your review!