james hennessy

the black skivvies. wiggles inc. the wetwork specialists. the big red car — why does it have no doors, no visible engine?

I'd heard this place was nasty but I'm still taken aback

That's the country club of Labubu discussion and I'm below their contempt

Looking to connect with Labubu collectors and the Labubu community on Bluesky. To discuss Labubu and related matters

I was incredibly ill lol, with Covid no less it turned out

Oh hang on no I was thinking of something else. Sorry.

Yeah there's something in there about them.

Before reconciliation, truth.

Q+A was built for another era of media, and died with it Once a cornerstone of the national political conversation, Q+A ultimately couldn’t survive an increasingly fractured media landscape.

for my myriad sins, i wrote about Q+A www.capitalbrief.com/article/qa-w...

ABC to axe Q+A after nearly two decades on air The ABC is set to pull the plug on its late-night panel program, ending years of speculation over its future.

Scoop: ABC to axe Q+A after nearly two decades on air via @capitalbrief.com www.capitalbrief.com/article/abc-...

wrote about canva www.capitalbrief.com/newsletter/c...

OK well I feel like THIS time the proletarianised middle class will respond normally to their new station

US: late imperial psychosis, hegemonic drift, decadent technocracy, elite panic, managed decline, post-legitimacy politics
australia:

cool feature of the economy now is that a huge number of voters are now retail traders with a line go up/line go down dashboard in their pocket at all times

probably underrated in aus politics in particular, where market performance and politics isn't usually very correlated

Wrote this a month ago about the coming clash on the tech right over tariffs. some might say eerily prescient. disturbing evidence of precognition? www.capitalbrief.com/article/from...

wrote about tariffs. for the ol newsletter www.capitalbrief.com/newsletter/c...

Waddup Bluesky

Based Mark Zuckerberg (ft. Mike Isaac) - Down Round Over the last couple of weeks, Mark Zuckerberg and Meta have signalled a shift in the way the company is run — eliminating factcheckers, rolling back internal DEI policies and bringing politics conten...

Today we're joined by New York Times tech correspondent @mikeisaac.bsky.social to talk Meta:
- The about face on politics, fact checking and DEI
- Mark Zuckerberg's based turn
- Meta's increasingly confused vision of what it wants to be

omny.fm/shows/down-r...

Logging into your boyfriend’s YouTube on the big TV:

For You:

Medieval historian ranks stews in cinema

Building a catapult with dirt from my yard

Programming a robot to unwrap KIND Bars

Petite woman can eat the hottest sauce in the world

The real John Wick was an Irish milkman

A new era of free speech is upon us

Excuse me, that is equivalent. Read the policy.

Each resident of Greenland to receive an Xbox 360 or equivalent console in exchange for joining the US

New drip

deeply disturbing

had an absolutely brutal moment of self awareness as I realized that when I listen to ambient music called like Aleaeris 7: the Adonis Tapes by Hørst it's fulfilling the same purpose as my grandparents buying records called The Jimmy Cresp Orchestra Presents Tahitian Melodies

Nosferatu good. Nicholas Hoult gets cucked by his consumptive goth wife and her Romanian forums boyfriend. Tale as old as time. 4 stars.

poster for a missing cockatiel in Marrickville which stipulates that it "unfortunately might be hard to catch"

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