Somewhat Michael

Amy from Australian punk rock band, 'Amyl and the Sniffers' flipping off Anthony, the blue wiggle from The Wiggles.

This is the most Australian thing I have seen all week and it's a mood

That mug dates you!

Exactly what it says on the label: The Pope in 1982. He's wearing a black hat, dark RayBans, and looks like he's a member of the Blues Brothers.

What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?

It's the Pope in 1982.

#Auspol rather hypocritical since Sussssan was probably into the Dead Kennedys

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

*cracks knuckles*

okay so you know how the media has a problem with taking snippets of scientific studies out of context and writing articles which mislead the public?

now imagine a computer program is doing that when you ask it questions about scientific literature but also it makes stuff up.

That's three of your "five a day", surely.

It's true. I was *sure* everyone would realise when we introduced the platypus, but no. We're just that convincing.

Study: The ozone hole is healing, thanks to global reduction of CFCs An MIT-led study confirms the Antarctic ozone layer is healing as a direct result of global efforts to reduce ozone-depleting substances.

Time for some good news! The human world can work together to solve environmental challenges, just like the Montreal Protocol & elimination of CFCs started in the 1980s. By 2035, the ozone “hole” may be completely closed all year long! This Government thanks you all!

news.mit.edu/2025/study-h...

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

Putting aside how wonderful that looks, what I really want to know is what was the small leaping animal at about the 3 second mark? (Not asking for an actual answer!)

The deeply shitty people running the country now are nothing new; there have always been deeply shitty people like them in America. Although in the past the media, academia, and even Congress were slower to surrender to them.

Photo of Tom Lehrer

My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.

It's the Brummie accent that gives it away. It screams SoCal.

Great advice! Self-deprecation is fine in some contexts, but it can come with collateral damage.

Bright orange and pink peony flowers with green leaves over blue in the background. Beige box with black text in center “May life treat you exactly the same way you treat servers, store clerks, senior citizens, children, and farm workers.”

Funding threats for unis, school curriculum changes in bid to change ‘dangerous trajectory’ Australia has faced rising antisemitism since Hamas’ October 7, 2023 attack on Israel and the resulting conflict in the region. Not everyone is happy with the plan released to combat it.

Jillian Segal and hubby John Roth fund the far-right "Advance" group, who opposed the Aboriginal voice on grounds it’s divisive to treat one group differently.
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

This could actually be the Express lolz

How does the right tear down progressive societies? It starts with a joke | George Monbiot Whether it’s bloodshed at Glastonbury or starving people on benefits, their ‘irony poisoning’ seeps obscene ideas into the range of the possible, says Guasrdian columnist George Monbiot

Obscene ideas are injected into public life with "humour" ... and then enacted. My column this week is pegged to the recent calls in the Spectator to murder people at Glastonbury, and on GB News to starve and shoot disabled people.
You could call it wink murder.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Inequality has meant Australia collects less GST.

There are better ways to collect more revenue than just raising the GST, which would hurt poorer people more.

✅ Apply GST to private school fees and private health insurance
✅Tax the gas industry properly

@grogsgamut.bsky.social #auspol

My only gripe - it's so good that the 25 min episodes go by so quickly, I feel like it's barely begun before each episode ends. The whole cast just *owns* their respective roles.

Tesla Robotaxi Keeps Changing Subject To White Genocide

Tesla Robotaxi Keeps Changing Subject To White Genocide

Australia collects more revenue from HECS than from the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax.

It’s time to increase the PRRT so that gas companies pay their fair share. Sign and share > theaus.in/increasePRRT

Must confess I saw “The husband is sick. I foraged” and wondered which way the causality ran. It must be a product of these Beef Wellington-suspicious days.

Evolution made us cheats – now free-riders run the world If we accept that we all have this ancient flaw, we can change our societies for the better

What links tax cheats, climate denial and political strongmen? In this interview, Cambridge’s Dr Jonathan Goodman talks about why evolution gave humans a talent for hiding selfishness – and how we can fight back.

@eastangliabylines.co.uk

YouTube video by xkcd's What If? What if you funneled Niagara Falls through a straw?

What if you funneled Niagara Falls through a straw?

Watch the latest What If? video collaboration with
@minuteearth.bsky.social!

youtu.be/pfbzrrcQZjs

1950’s-ish illustration of a family, where the child is pretending to be in jail and stating “look at me guys, I’m Foucault “