The People’s Republic of Couch

(i hate jetskis)

drones are jetskis for nerds.

PARTNERS WITH FLYTREX, AN ISRAELI DRONE COPMANY, ALL WHILE ISRAEL USES DRONES TO KILL CHILDREN

Soon you can have your sushi delivered by the same drones that shot toddlers in the head while they were scraping spilled flour off the ground

me catching a bus in any foreign country: i am basically a local now.

old enough to remember when "please clap" was a career-ending moment for a politician

Tales of love and loss: Newcastle’s baths contain an ocean’s-worth of everyday magic I asked the swimmers at my favourite local baths for stories – and ended up gathering enough for a salt-rinsed Ring Cycle

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every drop! to me, a finished laksa is an empty bowl.

an incomplete list of things i've only done once.

thepeoplesrepublicofcouch.org/once/

run out of those tiny little shampoo bottles so time to go travelling again.

so good.

fancy pooh meme where the first panel says 'i am in a pub' and the second says 'i am in a third place' which in sociology refers to social environments that are not home (first place) or work (second place)

chemistry, you fucken snitch.

stay weird parramatta rd.

After four decades of stalled attempts, there’s a new plan to ‘transform’ Sydney’s ugliest road NSW government to rezone Parramatta Road corridor and make room for 8,000 new homes – but plan omits mooted light rail

if i had a dollar every time a government planned to transform parramatta road i could probably buy several kilos of beads from one of those weird little bead shops on parramatta road.
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the sounds of stretching cotton and groans you hear in sydney's inner west right now is from a bunch of middle aged punters seeing if they can still fit into their 90s band tees for the drop city gig tonight.

Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn't a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division

I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

was ahead of his time, given morrison essentially had a crack at the same thing a few years later

ruddock's tweet

ruddock's fantasy cabinet where every position is him

saw phillip ruddock on the street the other day, and it reminded me of the fantasy cabinet @nickevershed.bsky.social and i made almost 10 years ago for the guardian, where this was his selection: x.com/philipruddoc...

the bloke that i assume was trying to do an australian accent in 'Honey Don't!' confirms my belief that caleb landry jones is the only seppo who should be allowed to.

News live: Australian government condemns Israel’s Qatar strikes; breakthrough vaccine to protect koalas from chlamydia Follow live

and australia, predictably, has reached for the wet lettuce.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

preparing for a wave of thinkpieces along the lines of "is bombing the people you're negotiating for peace with, in the country that's hosting the talks, bad? hard to say"

what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.

Slightly diminish a book

Off-white Teeth

Revealed: the huge growth of Myanmar scam centres that may hold 100,000 trafficked people Operated by crime syndicates and fostered by the country’s military junta, the number of vast complexes such as KK Park on the Thai-Myanmar border has doubled since 2021

the scale of this is bonkers.
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Conway's Game of Life vs Scissors, Paper, Stone.

my game of life vs scissors, paper, stone mashup
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i hate vodafone (australia) like i hate putting on wet swimmers
i hate vodafone (australia) like i hate those who dont use headphones on public transport
i hate vodafone (australia) like i hate those who talk during films
i hate vodafone (australia) like i hate those who dont pick up after their dog

Police announce $1m reward for information on Dezi Freeman and warn public not to go looking for ‘high-risk’ Porepunkah fugitive Victoria’s largest reward ever offered for arrest as alpine hunt for alleged killer of two police enters 12th day

Australian first home buyers using this one weird trick to get ahead
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couplesfightinginikea.com

drawings of australian animals that are incorrectly labelled

if your interests include australian animals, and messing with AI image recognition training data, these are the tshirts for you.

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this review i once gave of a local cat is still probably the thing i've done online that the most people have seen.