Melbourne on my Mind

One of the best costumes I saw this year was literally just a white t-shirt and a paper mask made of the cartoon face of Greg from Diary of a Wimpy Kid. Just FYI for next year

meme of a blobby orange cartoon character high-kicking in a supermarket aisle, while wearing heels and smiling brightly, and holding a sign that reads "Die Mad"

Australians, hearing Trump whine that the Aus government won't negotiate on PBS medicine prices:

there is not a single teacher alive who is surprised by this information.

It's important for authoritarian regimes to crush both imagination/creativity and workers' rights, if you were wondering why AI exists.

If you want to lose all hope in the future of society, allow me to recommend four classes of Year 7s back to back on a Friday, asking you endless questions about using AI to write their assignments for them 🫠

Book cover for Miss Caroline Bingley Private Investigator by Kelly Gardiner and Sharmini Kumar. Features three women in Regency clothing, standing in front of a historic building.

Here she is! The North American cover for Miss Caroline Bingley, Private Investigator, in all her glory. The novel is due out in the US and Canada on July 8, published by HarperVia.

Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first. One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish. Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points. We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are. Anelise Feldman Freshman, Yarmouth High School Yarmouth

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

Canada walked so Australia could Nutbush

Antony Green showing a swing of 9.2% against Peter Dutton in Dickson

chef's kiss, perfect, no notes #AusVotes

Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching.

Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.

RIGHT?!

Ohhhhhh that actually makes a lot of sense. The Cornish convicts and miners brought it with them, clearly.

Things I have learnt today: fossicking is a uniquely Australian (possibly Antipodean?? Pls weigh in, Kiwis) word. This is wild to me.

Counter argument: Bozza

If nothing else, you've missed a lot of the online discourse around the media if you're consuming it years after the fact

And, like, you CAN. But you can't EXCLUSIVELY have 90s references 🤦‍♀️

Honestly also applies to Gen X writing new adult/adult romances. What do you mean your 24 year old character's only pop culture references are Bon Jovi and Jurassic Park?? That would have been weird for ME as a 24 year old in 2007, let alone now.

Hey, did you know there's an alternative to ChatGPT that makes sense economically and doesn't destroy the environment?
It's called English majors and they will happily fix all of your documents for the low price of health insurance and a living wage.

photo of a red shopping basket filled with turnips, under the headline: If you’re worried about food tariffs, adopt a frugal mindset and cook smarter Learn to shop for groceries like a thrifter and work on eliminating waste By Sheryl Julian Globe Correspondent,Updated April 7, 2025, 7:21 a.m. caption: The big question is, writes Sheryl Julian, are we expected to remove all the pleasures from the table and turn the nightly dinner into a feast of locally grown turnips (above) and leafy greens?Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff

you know things are going well when they break out the turnip photos

I cannot think of a more bizarre group to go after than asexuals. All they want is for people to be nice to them and Joanne is like, 'hmm, no thanks'

In the movie Psycho, Janet Leigh stands directly under the shower head and then turns the water on. That is why the movie is called Psycho, one assumes. I turned it off. Stupid.

Please stop using ChatGPT in general, but also, please, please stop using it and then taking what it says to you as fact. It's usually wrong! It doesn't fact check itself. It just creates approximations of information based on other text! It's basically magnetic poetry that sets the world ablaze.

A week later and this is EVEN TRUER THAN BEFORE #911onABC

HOW MUCH?!?!

one of my favourite quirks of Australian and NZ English is the distinction between mate (friend) and mate in italics (person who has five seconds to live)

My child just asked if the x in SpaceX stands for explode. 😭

A man is not dead while his name is still spoken. It's been a decade. GNU, Sir Terry.

Eh, everyone sucks to a certain extent.

Your trauma impacts our economy too, so........