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"I gotta be honest, I don’t really care what happens to Ukraine one way or the other" - JD Vance in 2022. Explains a lot of today's behavior.

A guy who used to be a comedian & is good at improv and dealing with hecklers and who has also spent the last 3 years in a war zone turns out to be a guy you can’t out-alpha, imagine that

I’m excited for fake agency DOGE to get to the Space X and Tesla contracts worth billions. That will save a ton!

Sorry, America. We can feed the elderly with Meals on Wheels or we can let billionaires cheat on their taxes. We can't do both.

Democrats need to pick all the battles. Flood the zone back at them.

There is a reason TikTok is so good at figuring out what you want to see, and why it’s better than everything else: it’s a weapon, and the best weapon is one you don’t know exists, or worse, one you think you can’t live without

reading all these posts about David Lynch and it brings home how great art is so fulfilling and enriching to all our lives - the AI bros will never understand

Clarke&Dawe

B: why not talk about what is causing these extreme fires?
PM: it’s not the time.
B: what about tomorrow?
PM: that’s too soon.
B: so when?
PM: when extreme events stop.
B: but doesn’t climate change mean longer bushfire seasons & more extreme events?
PM: yes Brian.

Gas giant Santos fined $10,000 for 25,000-litre oil spill off Pilbara coast The energy giant has pleaded guilty to causing an oil spill in 2022, that leaked 25,000 litres of oil off WA's north-west coast. Santos will pay a $10,000 fine and $9,700 in court costs for failing to...

Accused by a whistleblower of covering up an oil spill that killed dolphins and sea snakes, Santos get fined just $10k 🤯

Santos spends up to $US3.3m per year on a private jet for their executives so I don’t think AUD10k is going to hurt them.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...

a man and a woman are sitting in a car . the woman is wearing sunglasses and a pink shirt . ALT: a man and a woman are sitting in a car . the woman is wearing sunglasses and a pink shirt .

Every group chat in Australia right now as word spreads of what’s happening at the MCG #ausvind

I watched it as a lazy day movie and boy did it make me sit up! Seriously good

If it bleeds it leads 🤷‍♀️

This is a hill I'm willing to die on

That looks amazing!

We can think of it as a Department of Rent Seeking – DORKS for short

We've come to think of internet trolling as the use of aggressive language to abuse people online. Henna Paaki at Aalto University would like us to broader our understanding and consider "covert behavior". #CSCW2024

Awesome, just borrowed it from my library. Will be interesting to see where/how the thesis holds up

Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism.

We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive

Seeing all the Swifties here has got me reminiscing about Melbourne n3. This one sums up my mood this last week

That's really beautiful, wonderful shades of blue. My mum was a quilter and they are lovely keepsakes 😊.

10 TV shows to get to know me

🤓 30 Rock
🏫 Community
🤯 Psych
📺 Mad Men
🔎 Slow Horses
🎙️Omitb
🌍 The Diplomat
🏘️ Arrested Development
🤑Succession
🦇Btvs

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