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The legendary cat meme that started an era

The difference in time between now and I can has cheezburger

Is the same between I can has Cheezburger and the Berlin Wall falling

in retrospect it seems like a fundamental flaw of the Internet that everything is centralized in a single company's data centers. it's a real shame nobody considered that when inventing the thing.

Tawny frogmouth named 2025 Australian bird of the year winner Perennial runner up finally claims the crown in the biennial Guardian/BirdLife Australia poll, ahead of Baudin’s black cockatoo and gang-gang cockatoo * More Australian bird of the year content * Download your free official 2025 bird of the year poster * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The tawny frogmouth has been named Australia’s 2025 bird of the year, after taking second place in the biennial Guardian/BirdLife Australia poll three times running. More than 310,000 votes were cast after polling opened on 6 October and the tawny led the charge from the start, despite being hotly and persistently pursued by two cockatoos: the Baudin’s black cockatoo and the ever-popular gang-gang. Get Guardian Australia environment editor Adam Morton’s Clear Air column as an email Continue reading...

Tawny frogmouth named 2025 Australian bird of the year winner

The front cover of The Chaser Annual 2025, stylised like cookbooks from the 90s and early 2000s, it says "erin at home" with illustrations of mushrooms surrounding a photoshopped image of Erin Patterson outside with baskets full of various mushrooms. Text that says "101 Mushroom Recipes to Die for"

The Chaser Annual 2025 is now available to pre-orders!
Part cookbook and part wrap up of the year's news; this book is full of killer jokes and recipes. chasershop.com/products/the...

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

Migrant community marches in favour of making themselves leave Australia

A group of white people from immigrant backgrounds have demanded that people like them should "go back to where they came from" chaser.com.au/general-news...

Maybe the real Ship of Theseus was the Ship of Theseus we made along the way

Barnaby Joyce vows to wind back ‘lunatic crusade’ of net zero with private member’s bill Coalition’s decades-long brawl over climate change and energy policy laid bare as former deputy prime minister sends out clarion call on Facebook

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How. Many. Times. Do. We. Have . To. Go. Through. This.

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers.

The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

Liberal Party data collection site hidden beneath unsubscribe link When voter Peter Magor received an unsolicited campaign email from the Liberal Party, he assumed he could unsubscribe. But the link to do so directed him to a Liberal Party website with no option to d...

My Fair and Transparent Elections Bill would make this dodgy practice illegal by removing political party exemptions to the Spam Act and the Privacy Act. But the parties blocked it. How can we rebuild trust in politicians when they do this? #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...

Sky News debate: Both leaders frustrated at the other's 'factually incorrect assertions', host left wondering if maybe there was some sort of action he could do to bring facts into it.

Man who says public servants shouldn’t work from home, announces plan to work from Sydney home

"Only a lazy person wouldn't show up to work in Canberra" said Dutton

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Peter Dutton’s work from home policy has many in Coalition ranks worried Insiders fear battle to reclaim teal seats in areas with high rates of working professional women could be hampered

Dutton wants to unwind Work From Home arrangements for public servants-a blatant attack on working parents!

Like so many mums in Curtin, I’ve spent 19 years juggling kids and work.

How does WFH allow you to be a better employee and a better mum? #auspol

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1️⃣ NEW DATA: “The Antarctic Ice Sheet is thicker than we originally realised and has a larger volume of ice that is grounded on a rock bed sitting below sea-level. This puts the ice at greater risk of melting due to the incursion of warm ocean water that’s occurring at the fringes of the continent."

Do you also think the government should legislate away maximum sentences and put corporal and capital punishment back under the courts discretion to sentence offenders? We shouldn't pretend the courts have unfettered remit to punish or to not punish offenders. Separation of powers isn't at play.

As Jesus famously said, Love thy neighbor a bit less than thyself

I am resigned to the fact that the D&D alignment that best describes me is Lawful Good, nevertheless from time to time I will indulge in some Chaotic Good, as a treat