Laura Dell

Oh no. Oh, no no no. Checked my history. My last search makes me a "sexy Japan sw*stika".

I swear, someone sent me a Pokemon Go postcard from a waypoint in Japan with that symbol on it, and I wanted to read a bit about the cultural context.

My social life to this point would have been so, so much easier if there were Legos every bar, good going Portico Brewing

[cont]. multiple literary prizes, Australia continued to exclude him. He was eventually granted refugee status in NZ.

As a non-USAn tangent, have you read Behrouz Boochani's memoir No Friend But The Mountains? It was typed as Whatsapp messages on a smuggled mobile phone on Manus Island. Our nation's great shame is that we not only did this to him in the first place, but that even after he won multiple [cont]

I want to see and talk to whoever's at my door so I don't have to get up every time it rings (I'm disabled), and also who's breaking into my car or garage

they all have a slightly different vibe. Interesting how much one colour change can do that

thanks!

thanks!

Four balls of Flinders Cotton - Natural, Terracotta, Avocado, and Bark

Four balls of Flinders Cotton - Natural, Terracotta, Avocado, and Bottle

Four balls of Flinders Cotton - Natural, Terracotta, Avocado, and Grape

Four balls of Flinders Cotton - Natural, Terracotta, Avocado, and Rose

People! I'm crocheting a table centre and need colour advice.

Natural, Terracotta, and Avocado are locked in. What to use for a fourth? Bark, Bottle, Grape, or Rose?

#crochet

No she didn't. This is an AI hallucination.

Plagiarism is damaging, and so is uncritically believing the giant plagiarism machine

This quote doesn't appear in the book.

My kid’s dental appointment is actually literally at 2.30 and I feel like we are a punchline to a dad joke

I've only seen snippets of the Charlie Kirk fascist memorial rally celebration funeral gala mourning festival fireworks party

But it's really fucken weird

Republicans warn Australia of ‘punitive measures’ over recognition of Palestinian state Donald Trump allies, including Ted Cruz, pen letter warning Anthony Albanese against ‘reckless policy’ Anthony Albanese says he will push for improved global peace and security during meetings with world leaders this week, as allies of Donald Trump warn Australia’s recognition of Palestine could spark “punitive measures” from the US. Albanese arrived in New York on Sunday morning, Australian time, ahead of the UN general assembly and his possible first meeting with the US President. Continue reading...

Republicans warn Australia of ‘punitive measures’ over recognition of Palestinian state

Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...

Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban.

Here’s how we did our analysis.

(Published Feb. 2025)

So kinda like how the Epstein Files still aren't public?

It's not that we can't put a correctly punctuated sentence together or string together a series of texts carefully and conveniently outlining every single element of a crime we've just committed

It's that it would be inappropriate for the medium and the situation to do so

So did I (or the local equivalent) and I went straight into med school. A bunch of my friends have PhDs and not one of us texts like that

Following up: I just upgraded one of my iPads to 26 and still can't reproduce this.

It wasn't obvious, because you didn't say the version number (basic info when talking about bugs) or say that the behaviour was new.

Which version? I'm on iPadOS 18.7 and can't reproduce this

Alleged texts in which he allegedly confirms.

I mean there are also women who voted for Scomo, and Abbott, and Dutton, and Trump

It's not surprising that there are terrible individuals all over.

There are really large swathes of hard conservative and sexist immigrants (and children of immigrants) from the subcontinent

Fake video showing massive March for Australia crowds was created with AI A TikTok video that appears to show gigantic crowds at an Australian anti-immigration protest has signs of being an AI creation.

A TikTok video that appears to show gigantic crowds at an Australian anti-immigration protest has signs of being an AI creation.

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I sent an email this afternoon to the reporters of that Wall Street Journal article asking them to change the headline and body of the article to confirm trans people had nothing to do with the motives of the assassin. No response. Instead, WSJ posted an editor's note and kept the headline. Classy.

All of this. And by definition, a delusion is a fixed false belief that is NOT congruent with the person's culture or subculture. Religious beliefs, for example, are not considered delusions (unless you believe that you yourself are the Second Coming, or similar).

Having a young adult son, I made it my business to be aware of this crap

Elder X here, and it was obviously an alt-right brainrotter as soon as they read out the inscriptions

If you’re a journalist writing about the Kirk murder and you don’t know what the Groyper Wars are, I beg you to find someone who knows what the Groyper Wars are before you write your article