Andrew Hedge

These leaked Taylor swift lyrics go crazy

Imagine being a journalist in 2025, where you've spent your entire life witnessing <points around at pretty much everything in the information space> and you fall for an Israeli foreign influence operation. At this point, it's not about being a mark, it's about being a willing participant.

This is ghoulish nonsense from the Bendigo Writers Festival

Sometimes it's nice to think of Trump just dropping dead overnight, from an embolism or something.

the crisis over, his wars won, cincinnatus returns to plow flight attendants in exchange for horses

It's Zoever

24-year-old disabled Indigenous man dies after police restraint inside Alice Springs supermarket Witnesses say he stopped breathing while still on the ground. Despite emergency efforts from paramedics, he was pronounced dead at the scene.

“He was disabled and on the NDIS. He was hungry. He was under state guardianship - under the care and protection of the Minister. And it was the state that killed him,” said Debbie Kilroy, a leading prison abolition advocate with the National Network.

www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article...

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Looks like Labor is about to approve the North West shelf gas expansion, which among bad news for the planet and WA energy costs is terrible for the nearby Murujuga rock art - which is so old, it has one of the first known depictions of the human face
australiainstitute.org.au/post/woodsid...

To address a recent post of mine about the Nationals: I was wrong

Huge step forward for AI as a computer-driven Tesla masters the famous 'Turning Test'.

"Nationals consider split from Liberal coalition for exactly the 5 seconds it takes for the nats on the coalition front bench to realise they will lose $60k+ in salary entitlements"

Keir Starmer: I've already returned over 24,000 people with no right to be here. And I won't stop there. twitter user: @grok Is this post misleading? Grok: The claim of white genocide in South Africa is highly debated. Some evidence, like reports of farm attacks and political rhetoric, suggests violence against white farmers...

a user asks Grok to translate Chinese text on a photo, and it responds with a translation of "Kill the Boer" into Urdu

a user asks if something shown in a video is an effective way to clear sinuses, and Grok says the query is unrelated to "the provided analysis on white genocide in South Africa"

apparently Elon's gotten so mad about Grok not answering questions about Afrikaners the way he wants, xAI's now somehow managed to put it into some kind of hyper-Afriforum mode where it thinks every question is about farm murders or the song "Kill the Boer"

I'm taking a screenshot for the next time I talk about hyphens!

(This reminds me of all the great #whyhyphensmatter posts by @madamgrammar.bsky.social on Twitter in days of yore.)

An image of a lace gloved hand holding a luxury leather handbag, with two stuffed toys accessorising. Over the image is a headline for a Van Badham column at The Guardian: "A fluff ball with a monster face: what explains the luxury appeal of Labubu dolls?"

Another exhibit for a key plank in my policy platform: "Ban all regular op-ed columns"

Photo of text: "Speaking to British newspaper the Mail, Russell revealed that his father Steve spent around £1.5m to fund his early career – selling his seed and pulse business in the process – with the Mercedes driver paying back the debt."

George Russell's father sold what

We see this article after every single election and nothing changes

Everyone reporting that the federal labor party can get things through the senate with only greens support is missing that they can also get things through (probably with less electoral pain, mostly) with Coalition support.

Yeah I think it's just a solid campaign. Signs were everywhere and while I don't know him at all I think he and his family are well known.

If I could control the Secret, I would manifest a fatal myocardial infarction for Rupert Murdoch this very day.

Alas.

Just so you know: the last two times Port has played on election day, they've predicted the winner. If they win, the coalition does.

They just got smashed by the mighty bulldogs by 91 points

...they didn't really grapple all that well with it in the end, suddenly the thing happens and a switch flicks in Yelena. Marvel didn't have a good script/plan there.

Random assortment of thoughts about Thunderbolts*:
-Florence Pugh and David Harbour accents good enough but still distracting
- finale was a bit Eternal Sunshine
- where did they spend the money because it wasn't the a-list cast, lighting or CGI
- casting depression/trauma as a villain is novel, but

Mark Carney should launch a surprise attack on the USA

"Can't park there, mate"

An election campaign that started in part with a focus around fighting antisemitism ending with "were the neo-nazis right in their heckling at Anzac Day?"

‘Sad indictment’: shockingly small blocks of electrical substation land selling north of $1m in Sydney Sites attracting hot competition from first-home buyers, builders and neighbours looking to expand their landholding

Ausgrid are selling small plots with active electricity substations to would-be homeowners in Sydney. Prices are predictably absurd, but you wouldn't catch me living here. These are the things that explode in sparks when the EMP gets activated www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Flattered, but unavailable for the papacy at this time

Photo of text of the gather rule, introduced in 2019 by NBA officials, found at the link in the post

Turns out I am just six years behind the times, they added a third step, the gather step, in 2019. official.nba.com/new-language...

Whenever I watch the NBA I see the world's most celebrated players travel like it's not even a rule. Is that a thing people talk about like AFL fans talk about throws, inconsistent 15m estimates, or has the travel rule changed since I played?

I watched Slow Horses S1 over the past few days and am finding it more difficult than usual to ignore the gigantic plot holes and implausible scenarios. Good premise, characters, Kristin Scott-Thomas, there's a lot to like.