Nick Miller

Here's what the Kyle and Jackie O split means for house prices in YOUR suburb.

Inbox Dero where you feed all emails to a tiny sea worm.

Woolworths shoppers concerned new anti-theft gates may trap them and hit their children At one store trialling the gates, a customer said ‘if you wanted to enter without hitting your child, you’d have to go in backwards’

“It’s just quite annoying,” said Susan.
- evergreen vox pop. Every story needs a Susan. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

“You’re absolutely right! Sun Tzu would have some great insights!”

News Corp is essentially an AI ‘input company’, chief executive says, after US$150m deal with Meta Chief executive Robert Thomson says he often speaks to both OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg

What a cheery way of thinking about journalism. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/m...

Yep since Reagan - huge jump from him (b 1911) to Clinton (b 1946) - the boomers took charge and never let go. Obviously it is Gen X's fault we're just not convincing replacements.

to be fair, two of them are Trump. Though interestingly Clinton is a month younger than George W, who is a month younger than Trump.

There should be a corollary to Betteridge's Law of Headlines
- If a headline says someone has 'broken their silence', they had absolutely nothing of interest to say.

I like the sound of this 'Smallzy', who definitely is here to replace both Kyle and Jackie O, in the literal sense, but has a deeper sense of his place in the world. They really nailed his nickname, God knows how they came up with it, people can be so creative.

I know I say this fairly often: people are right to complain concerts are too expensive, but they got that way because a lot of artists started to make almost no money out of their actual records. We have to look really hard at how we pay for music.

had a death in the family and was almost completely off the internet for a few days & my observation is that there is too much happening too fast such that basic facts abt the world are difficult to ascertain unless you are mainlining info all the time & doing that seems to drive people insane

Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion and The Terror, dies aged 77 Award-winning science fiction and horror writer died in Colorado on 21 February with family at his side Dan Simmons, the author of more than 30 novels and short story collections spanning horror, political thrillers and science fiction such as Hyperion and The Terror, has died at age 77. Simmons died in Longmont, Colorado on 21 February, with his wife and daughter at his side, his obituary announced. Continue reading...

Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion and The Terror, dies aged 77

Bold new editorial direction from the SMH today

Colander-wearing Pastafarian strains the rules with Queensland driver’s licence photo Syaban Shadikillah told to get new driver’s licence after being issued one using photo of him with colander on his head * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast A “Pastafarian” in rural Queensland has vowed to fight to keep his driver’s licence featuring a photo of him wearing a colander on his head, arguing it’s a matter of freedom of religion. But the state government has told him he must hand it in and get a new one, as it was issued “in error”. Continue reading...

Colander-wearing Pastafarian strains the rules with Queensland driver’s licence photo

Good Morning Australia

Australia’s most costly anti-climate policy hits taxpayers for $30m a day as calls mount to wind back fuel tax credits | Adam Morton The government will hand over $10.8bn this financial year under the scheme that makes it cheaper for miners and other industries to use diesel and petrol

Column today - the fuel tax credit scheme for miners, farmers, industry is one of the 20 biggest budget costs. It's also a fossil fuel subsidy. Why are multinationals still being refunded these huge sums?

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Totally on board with news.com.au's move to brand itself as the voice of the Millennial generation, desperately disappointed that Gen Z aren't really into heavy drinking, and are terrible at major crime.

New York has disappeared completely, and here is a photo showing it.

As Claude would say, "you're absolutely right!"

Reckless YouTuber Threatens Fabric of Reality by Wiring Together 400 Car Batteries "Mom, the guy next door is doing nuclear fusion again!"

Reckless YouTuber Threatens Fabric of Reality by Wiring Together 400 Car Batteries https://gizmodo.com/reckless-youtuber-threatens-fabric-of-reality-by-wiring-together-400-car-batteries-2000725469

what even is the fucking point

Putting it like this, really sounds like King Charles and Anthony Albanese had a super awkward argument

🚨 sound the on the nose metaphor klaxon for 'newspaper printing plant demolished for ai data centres' 🚨

‘A reminder of how careless I was’: from cringe cartoons to cancelled rockstars, the tattoos fans regret What happens when you’re sporting signs of your devotion long after your idol has fallen from grace? Meet the fans whose tattoos have become embarrassing – even problematic

Our story on unfortunate tattoos is hilarious, my favourite is the guy who got 3:04 tattooed as a cool obscure reference to a Frank Ocean song, only to realise that it says "hoe" upside down
www.theguardian.com/fashion/2026...

The shell script everyone is talking about.

NFTs are hip and cool again

The disturbing rise of Clavicular: how a looksmaxxer turned his ‘horror story’ into fame His gonzo argot of ‘mogging’ and ‘jestermaxxing’ masks a malign chauvinist philosophy, and his audience keeps growing

Until now I've been broadly in support of limiting social media exposure for young people, but this story has moved me to the more considered opinion that we should dismantle the entire internet with an axe. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Find me one person ever who said 'no please don't raise my salary to a really high level, as unfortunately I will be forced to work less hard out of pique at losing a bit of the raise in tax'

First Dog knows www.theguardian.com/society/comm...

Death tax? Property tax? Four ideas that could offset inheritance inequality in Australia How do we solve the predicted entrenched disparity arising out of the great wealth transfer? We ask economists for their suggestions

There are four ways to fix increasing inequality in the property market (as per our Age of Inheritance series). But they're all taxes, so opposition and media would shout them down, while at the same time blaming the government for the problems they would fix. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...