Anon editor who probably works from home

ah yes because australia famously has SO MANY BANKS how could a simple bureaucrat be expected to keep up to date

Imagining you going on a tour of the Collosseum, shaking your head at the appalling state of the 1st century drop toilets

Omg Jordan you’ve spent too long with your brain in “inspecting a crappy rental property” mode, and now it’s your permanent state of mind.

That’s a corker! Never heard of Ted Fio Rito. Where do you find this stuff?

🤣🤣🤣 perfect. Time and attention and political capital well spent.

lol Google says it’s not any worse than borders, the fundamental violence and most crucial unfreedom of the modern age.

Protagonist (to the villain): “No. I won’t kill you, you’re not worth it”

Me: what!!? fucking kill him! What are you waiting for? Crush his skull! crissakes.

I once had a string of gigs outside Cole’s (launching the jazz apple) with a jazz band and the actual con the fruiterer. He was surely earning more than us, but I can’t imagine he cost Cole’s more than two grand, which, think about it, is an achievable appearance fee for the average birthday party.

Was explaining to a black American friend how every single Australian knows a dance to a Tina turner song and she gave me a look that was part disbelief and part something that I have never seen before and couldn’t quite decode

Isn’t this a scene in confederacy of dunces?

Why is Crikey doing stenography on the governments line that the Miznon attack was antisemitic. It was targeted for protest because it is funding war crimes.

Sorry to be the bearer of milkshake duck.

Anita is also one of Australia’s most deranged Zionist propagandists.

Big incomes for politicians are there as a carrot-bulwark against corruption, and ensure that it’s not only the rich who can afford to be politicians. They’re an important part of our democracy, but big business moneykeeps the poor out, and there are otherwise no consequences for corruption, so…

Like, obviously the lot we got there at the moment don’t deserve that much money, but like, if we replaced them with people that weren’t pricks I would be only too happy to know they’re getting paid well.

Honestly who cares. Can we talk about how our democracy is effected by political donations (and how big political donors get government contracts - looking at you Sabrina Russo among others), jobs for the boys after they get voted out and billionaire media and their capture of the ABC.

Ah merit! The thing that led to the success of Tony Abbot and Peter Dutton and Barnaby Joyce.

I went to some support sessions for partners and family of people with BPD and literally every person that got talked about was obviously an autistic with (C)PTSD. Borderline traits are honestly just a rational response to the way people get treated.

This has been deliberate state policy worldwide since Napoleon made a point of hiring “savants”. It seems, for some of us, that “strong sense of justice” is more judicial than it is radical.

I’ve been to the Louvre 3 times and by far the most fun was the time we went straight to the Mona Lisa, took a selfie and then left. <10minutes from door to door.

Fuck Vimes. Pratchett is such a lib. It’s so awkward in The Night Watch where Vimes, now powerful and hegemonic, tries to justify his violence in long meandering tracts: “the difference is, it’s me doing it”. Like Pratchett can’t understand why Vimes seems evil when he’s supposed to be the good guy

“How are we meant to know what’s true or not”

Just completely unable to stay away from Micheal Sullivan because his quanit Irish charm gives her that tiny hit of dopamine

Pfft. Amateurs. Everyone knows you boil eggs in the hotel kettle with the on button taped down

I can totally see this happening; without the Libs to unite against, a very probable outcome is an entropy-of-victory schism of the Labor party

that groove is incredible.

corker.

That farm had been in the family for generations, but the mortgage was overdue and the bank would foreclose any day. After the cameras stopped rolling he was overcome with shame and grief. He had failed. The mirage of rain was nothing but a false hope born of desperation. Those stupid bloody kids.

Poor babies.