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I forgot that piece of Knott lore! so I google it and of course he turned it into a story 🤪

Matthew Knott started at Crikey lol

SMH headline: Australia faces the threat of war with China within three years – and we’re not ready Are we prepared for full-scale conflict? Our panel of national security experts says no. March 7, 2023 | Peter Hartcher and Matthew Knott

Happy final day before Australia's full-blown war with China kicks off day to those who celebrate

Canadian backpacker Piper James died ‘as a result of drowning’ following dingo attack at K’gari, coroner says Cause of death of 19-year-old in January was drowning ‘in the setting of multiple injuries, due to, or as a consequence of a dingo attack’

So the dingo cull was unnecessary, then

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

to be clear, these are not truckies, but grown-ass men in houses with plumbing who are just too fucken lazy to walk to the toilet

not to mention, as an adult, I am extremely bored with high school as a setting

Out of all the people I have met personally, Americans have the highest ratio of blokes who use piss bottles

the cast of Star Trek Voyager in street clothes awkwardly posing with late-90s computer hardware and consumer electronics

this is what it feels like to post on bluesky

hope springs eternal until we actually see a race!

Shift+F1 guys seem pretty excited about the cars ... the war in host countries, not so much

[We see a close up of a young white male, tanned, white teeth, coiffed hair clearly an influencer on social media. It is an image such as you see when social media posts are shown on the news. In the corner of the screen is named a location: DUBAI. He is staring slightly off-camera for several silent panels of the comic strip. His eyes move slightly. He is having a thought.] From off-screen a newsreader’s commentary comes: NEWSREADER: Extraordinary images here of an expat in Dubai [The influencer’s eybrows raise slightly] …Having their first ever geopolitical thought. [CUT TO a BBC news scene. The BBC newsreader CLIVE MYRIE is talking to an interviewee next to the screen showing the social media influencer’s face. The interviewee’s name is David Jones]. CLIVE MYRIE: To explain the significance of this moment we’re joined by David Jones, our Expat Thoughts correspondent DAVID JONES: Clive, this is momentous It was caught on film at the end of an Instagram post titled: ‘Dubai Is Brilliant’. [Pointing at the screen, the influencer’s expression still the same] You can clearly see in the eyebrows here, the dawning realisation that there *might* be something in the world beyond his dickhead self. It marks a *huge* departure from all the Dubai Expat’s previous thoughts. CLIVE MYRIE: Which are…? DAVID JONES: You've Got To Get Yourself Out Here Mate, Everything Is So Clean, I Don't Have To Pay Taxes, I Am Incurious As To Why I Do Not Have To Pay Taxes, and Spa. CLIVE MYRIE: And might we see an expansion of these new Thoughts in coming days? DAVID JONES: I think we can expect to see: “I Deserve To Be Airlifted By A Country I Pay No Tax To” CLIVE MYRIE: Mmm. [Ends]

People doing important work like this deserve the protection of large institutions. While independent media is cool & exciting I get really nervous about the risk we’re asking individual journalists to take on.

We have to think of sustainable ways to support this work, beyond keeping the lights on.

need a legal aid / pro bono scheme for independent media

lawyers who want to 'give back' could do worse

Username in Latin 🚩
Statue pfp 🚩
Likes to put a line gap after every sentence 🚩
Quotes the bad guys from movies 🚩🚩🚩

Related, this incredible essay from @iris-meredith.bsky.social

Excerpt from NYT magazine interview with Michael Pollan

Nothing. We're exhausted. Trump is consuming us all

so many people do not understand that the US was kicked out of Iraq by Iran.

a collage of these three tweets https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3lzrkcsk3xc24 https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3lzsgnvof4c2n https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3lzubxv6q722o

i for one am shocked that the "i go in the pool to cool down, why can't my phone?" guy is bad at programming and offloading his job to the anthropic api

a man in a sun shirt squatting down on the grass Alt: Suns midfielder and Brownlow medallist Matt Rowell picking a handful of grass from the footy field and eating it. Apparently he does it before every game

my AFL fantasy draft is on Sunday and I have no idea -- the only sport I paid any attention to since the 2025 GF was cricket

YouTube video by MOS 【MOS】JOJO'S BIZARRE ADVENTURE Part6 Stone Ocean "Theme of Stone Ocean"ジョジョ６部処刑用BGM

Even if you don’t watch JJBA, you should watch this anyway

Also poisonous is the mantra of school "choice". It implies that the choice would *always* be to go private and so devalues public ed. A well-funded, well-supported state school system is never one of the "choices" on offer.

Public ed is good for social cohesion. Public funding for religious private schools divides us.
It's extremely depressing how our system & pol leaders encourage a belief that sending your kids to private, esp "Christian" schools gives them a better future. We need pride & investment in public ed

if they're the best thing on radio, no wonder I have been listening to podcasts instead for 15 years

So if UK politicians are chasing the readers of British tabloids, they reach positions which appeal to the US right. Those positions are very unpopular in the UK, but profitable for UK tabloids.

As you say, twitter brain is losing them popularity

The thing is, stories that pander to the far right also do really well on twitter and Facebook and get loads of engagement, so the UK press are incentivised to keep pushing those stories. But they are reaching a US and international audience, not just the UK. So they are not representative of the UK

Shadow Treasurers with poor attention to detail who can't number good: you love to see it

You cannot really run a university like a business because our most valuable product is failure.

YouTube video by AFL The VERY BEST of Dennis Cometti's commentary career 🎤

Vale Dennis Cometti. Often imitated, never equalled

youtu.be/CiTdWWLNqgA?...

we should have squashed GamerGaters so much harder

Anakin’s live action record:
1.) arm chopped off
2.) wins a 2v1 while coached
3.) chopped to bits and set on fire
4.) gets beat up by Kenobi
5.) fails so hard at killing Obi-Wan that Ben becomes immortal
6.) fails to turn his own son
7.) loses, switches sides, then fails to kill Palpatine for real