to say nothing of the extraordinary staying power of Starcraft, a game people still play en masse nearly 30 years after release

Not all Jewish Australians welcome Herzog here The Israeli President’s visit has exposed a widening chasm within Australian Jewry and a persistent failure by our leaders to acknowledge it.

A great op-ed from Sarah Schwartz in AFR today www.afr.com/policy/forei...

Love when the medical advice to deal with something includes “avoid caffeine”, as if that wouldn’t create a whole other thing to deal with

Love being jet lagged. Having a little nap and waking up to feel a hundred times worse.

People get so annoyed when they ask you about astrology and you point out it’s nonsense. Like I never bring it up unless people directly ask me and still I’m the bad guy for being like “it’s not real though?”

Nah it’s more like “buy more scotch” “where’s my dry cleaning?” “Top up the Brazil nuts” things of that nature. It was actually a pretty chill job. I got to spend a lot of time just walking around the city.

A friendly reindeer eating lichen in the snow

Here’s a friendly reindeer I met last week

Five jobs I’ve had:
- Grass waterer (calling me a gardener would have been overdoing it)
- checkout chick
- errand boy for barristers
- political staffer
- lobbyist (sorry)

Good thread on One Nation

@boontan.bsky.social lead pipe! Lead pipe! Lead pipe!

Stay strong brother. I’m going fourteen years and still get the cravings but it does get easier

@british-airways.bsky.social shout out to the team at Heathrow customer service who came to my rescue after I (stupidly) left my passport on the plane.

A kangaroo doing the Paint me Like your french girls pose while covered in snow

Did you finish that frozen kangaroo statue?
Sure boss, real fucking sexy just like you asked.
What?

One nation is constitutionally incapable of functioning as a normal party. The only way it resolves disputes is by the person whose name is not Pauline Hanson leaving or the entire party imploding only to be reborn again

Went to a Swedish hockey game. Won a watch. May have appeased on Swedish television. It was an odd experience

Or…. He could… not?

We’re not sending our best (ideas)

In all seriousness I’d pay for one that just makes sure if that aneurism comes (fingers crossed) someone feeds my dog

This might be the one time my country has actually influenced its hegemon (derogatory)

Episode 12 - Bill Leak - Twilight of the Boomers Podcast Episode · Dead Bunyip Society · 23/06/2025 · 1h 44m

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My whole life it’s been just ten years away

Watching the Phantom Menace for the first time in about twenty years and … was it always this … racist?

The notion that barristers produce good public policy could be easily countered by meeting a single barrister, once

Hayne royal commission into the banks decided mortgage brokers were the problem. Aged care royal commission had a commissioner die and the two left couldn’t decide on recommendations.

But what a novel though!

So I guess we're just ... not going to have writers festivals now? What a world.

Despite everything we’ve seen over the past two years, this is probably the most shameful episode in Australian media history/ political collusion.

The lead story on the SMH is Albanese’s political opponent, who lost his seat, trying to force the government to back his own pick for a RC. Madness.

Improbably named man calls for nuclear power in Australia

Come on now brother.

I think we can all agree this would be the funniest possible outcome

So what happens if/when a US court orders Maduro’s release?