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photograph from the 80's of the wrestler Sting wearing a Gold's Gym shirt and sunglasses, leaning against a shelf in a bookstore and positively cheesing at an open copy of The Far Side Gallery 2, a collection of Far Side Cartoons.

what if i told you, through the power of forensic analysis, we are closer than ever to knowing the exact Far Side cartoon that is making Sting smile in this iconic photo. 🧵 👇

On a related note, the Dutch are openly talking about jail-breaking the F35. Can you do this with a submarine we will not get? Asking for a friendly middle-power.

US nuclear umbrella will no longer shelter us from the rising threat of war Many countries are breaking a long-standing taboo to say the “n” word. Australia must confront the challenge of a new nuclear age.

Just a column in the SMH casually dropping that Australia needs nukes. What are we gonna do with one - drag a Canberra or an F-111 off a plinth and try and get it going again? This is madness. www.smh.com.au/national/us-...

Price, Wilson & Hastie sounds like the sort of accountancy firm whose client list is exclusively 'colourful nightclub identities'.

Wow.

"The small size of the Liberal Party room, at 51 MPs, means more MPs have frontbench roles than those who do not. There are about 35 frontbench positions."

Man who allegedly threw homemade bomb into Invasion Day rally crowd named The man accused of throwing a bomb at Invasion Day protesters in an alleged terrorism act attack in Perth can be named as Liam Alexander Hall.

40% of WA's prison population being indigenous is a massive failure of policing, racism, lazy politics and a reliance on the carceral state. There are hundreds of cascading consequences we should care about. Liam Alexander Hall's life from now on is not one of them
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

Updates: Jesse Jackson, Civil Rights Leader, Dies at 84

Jesse Jackson, whose impassioned oratory and vision of a “rainbow coalition” of the poor and forgotten made him the nation's most influential Black figure in the years between the civil rights crusades of Martin Luther King Jr. and the election of Barack Obama, died on Tuesday at 84. Follow live.

A brief history of crazy leadership ideas

Tim Wilson supports the leader because “loyalty”. But if Angus Taylor challenges then lulz he won’t say.

Coward.

Good job Angus. Well done.

Fwiw: Expect Hastie to come through the middle. What odds?

Proud to be a signatory.
This open letter is in SMH and Age.

"Tell me you know nothing about the Muppets without telling me you know nothing about the Muppets."

Iconic quote.

Thats the problem right there. The absolute morbid obsession Australia has with property. The fact that they said that just clearly shows how uneducated they r but will probably win because everyone else with that mentality will keep buying as FOMO continues 4 speculative gains at the expense of young people and future generations. Imagine bragging about only needing 4% growth just to break even while holding a 3% yield in a 6.5% interest rate environment. This is peak property-brain logic. Ur essentially paying the bank a 3.5% stupid tax every year for the privilege of hoping the next person pays more for your house than you did. Thats not an investment, it’s a speculative subsidy for the big four banks. The idea that inflation will double the rent ignores the fact that renters r already at their breaking point. Unless ur planning on inflation magically doubling everyone's wages too, ur 10-year plan is just a bet that the Property Ponzi can continue to outpace the actual productive economy. The reason this whole thing is a house of cards, Aus Private Debt-to-GDP is currently sitting around 180% making us one of the most indebted populations on the planet. While other countries deleveraged after 2008, we just kept piling on debt to bid up the price of existing fibro shacks. Renting is actually cheaper than buying right now because the unearned equity has completely decoupled from what the asset actually produces. U arent getting money in the bank, ur just the unpaid manager of a debt-trap that only works if the treadmill never stops and the government keeps printing firsthome buyer grants to bail u out. & comparing it to a margin loan, at least with shares, one is not responsible for the plumbing, insurance, rates, other maintenance hassles and one doesnt have to pay a real estate agent 3% of my total net worth just to exit the position. You arent getting money in the bank, youre just the unpaid manager of a debt-trap that only works if the treadmill never stops.

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My fav comment as alt-text

While the Liberals and Nationals are busy rolling each other, we're busy rolling out cheaper home batteries that bring down household bills.

He's back, in ALIEN³ (1992) form

ALIEN³ (1992)

ICE getting rocked in LA.

Serious American electoral analysts are living their best life circa 1962. As an outsider looking in, it's like watching a sort of historical LARPing thing, but not as a doco, but the daily news on that beat.

RFK Jr. Demonstrates How To Remove Tapeworm By Scooting Ass Across Carpet WASHINGTON—In an address touting the practice as a completely drug-free method to relieve the common affliction, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. demonstrated Thursday how ...

“Doctors won’t tell you this, but you don’t need medication for a tapeworm—all you need is the natural power of friction,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said as he dropped to the floor, lifted his legs high, and dragged his ass along the White House carpet during a press conference.

I literally heard a very famous silicon valley guy list housing among the things that AI will make cheap and I was like "Wow. You literally have no idea how anything works, huh."

I know this is the wrong crowd for this but, I have an important test that I apply to new technologies that people think are going to fix everything. I ask "how does this help with the housing crisis?"

Invariably (so far) it does not.

Btw, a fun part of politics is people on Illinois subreddits keep referring to me as "Kat's husband, the millionaire owner of a big media company," because of my newspaper's 4.3 trillion daily readers and 500,000-person staff. I want to make this clear: I am no lowly millionaire. I have trillions.

I am not a body language expert but I would generally characterize this stance as, “come at me, mother fucker”

vance has to stay on the good sign of the teen nazis that are his primary constituency

REP. OMAR after being attacked with liquid: “We will continue! These fucking assholes are not gonna get away with this! Here is the reality people like this ugly man don’t understand — we are Minnesota Strong. We’ll stay resilient in the face of whatever they might throw at us.”

jaderemedy • 4h ago And now comes the most nauseating part of this whole goddamn mess: the hypocrisy. The same loud-mouthed idiots who spent years screaming about tyranny are suddenly dead fucking silent, or worse, cheering, now that it's their side doing it. "ThEy'Re cOminG fOr OuR gUnS!" "GoVerNMenT oVerReAch!" "ShAll nOt bE inFrinGeD!" All that chest-thumping bullshit evaporated the second armed federal agents started terrorizing people they don't like. Let me get this straight: a civilian gets shot dead by federal agents, and the only thing you brainless cunts can muster is "well, DHS says he had a gun"? THAT'S your red line? Guns are sacred when they're strapped to your waist, but magically become a death sentence when they're used as a post-hoc excuse by the government? Either the Second Amendment applies to everyone, or you never believed in it at all. Fucking pick one and own it. This is exactly what tyranny looks like, by the way. Not jackboots marching in formation, but armed agents roaming neighborhoods, stopping people, killing civilians, and then daring the public to question it. Tyranny is execution followed by a press release. Tyranny is labeling the dead a "threat" so the state doesn't have to explain why someone's life just ended in the street. Tyranny is demanding obedience while shredding due process and calling it order. And all you so-called "freedom lovers" are fucking fine with it, as long as it's brown people, immigrants, protesters, or anyone you've already dehumanized. Turns out "don't tread on me" actually meant "tread on them." You weren't afraid of tyranny. You were afraid of losing dominance. There's a difference, and this moment exposes it completely. "Just comply" isn't a principle. It's cowardice dressed up as common sense. It's the language of people who have already accepted that the state gets to decide who deserves rights and who doesn't. And once you make that deal, don't act shocked when the line moves, because it always fuckin…

Absolute banger of a comment on r/military:

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“And all you so-called “freedom lovers” are fucking fine with it, as long as it’s brown people, immigrants, protesters, or anyone you’ve already dehumanized. Turns out “don’t tread on me” actually meant “tread on them.” You weren’t afraid of tyranny. You were afraid of losing dominance. There’s a difference, and this moment exposes it completely.”

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A discreet intellectual network has been reshaping the world for 70 years. Here's how A constant battle of ideas reshapes the world we live in, and few groups have been more successful in winning the war than the little-known Atlas Network.

Excellent primer on the Atlas Network and it’s impact on Australia

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...