Julien

The Fortuneteller Despite Labor's commanding majority, they’re choosing to act like they’re on the edge of electoral oblivion, and we’re all worse off for it.

Another lil' #auspol political essay from me.
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RIP Dick Cheney, you would’ve loved Democratic Socialist Mayor of New York Zohran Mamdani

Gottem.

Ey, you! Go watch Jess!
Only YOU can support non-dudebro podcasting!

My partner is just now getting to the end for the first time, and I stand by that the payoff of this game is one of the best I've experienced in 20+ (yikes) years of gaming.

The Boar and the Magpies The magpies had lived in their sheltered valley for generations.

Another little substack post from me. It's about us and about how the government has left us behind as they feed the pigs.
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EA's AI Game Development Tools Are Apparently So Bad That It's Costing More Money To Fix Their Mistakes A new report suggests that EA's pivot to AI is just causing costly mistakes, and the developers hate it.

If only everyone could have predicted this

www.thegamer.com/ea-generativ...

Guillermo del Toro says “I’d rather die” than use generative AI

“My concern is not artificial intelligence, but natural stupidity. I think that's what drives most of the world's worst features”

(Source: www.npr.org/2025/10/23/n...)

End all funding every single private employment services provider.

Salt the earth so those in change of them never get any public money ever again - run them out of the country.

Get rid of mutual obligations

Bring back the CES

Raise the fricken rate

Ain’t hard.

They’re doing this because it’s so successful

Time to Up the Rent The thin paper bag crinkles as Annie clutches it to her chest with one hand while unlocking the door to her apartment with the other.

Started a lil’ Australian politics substack, if anyone fancies some parables with their daily shot of depresso.

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The only risk is catching strays from the Murdoch monopoly, but NO ONE UNDER 50 LISTENS TO THAT DROSS.
Foisting false importance on a media empire whose star is fast burning out.

Certainly seems like it’s not politically risky at all for Labor to do more.
In a party obsessed with electoral calculus, it seems strange to ignore a majority as strong as this one.

The Greens NEED to bring Max Chandler-Mather back as a spokesperson because losing vote share while One Nation gains is a recipe for a racist LNP-One Nation parliament.
The Greens need to aggressively remind people there’s another economic option - one that targets the wealthy, not immigrants.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Really, truly amazing that OpenAI wants us to believe that they are worth a trillion dollars but also they are so desperate for revenue that they created an infinite SlopTok app that opens them up to a billion lawsuits just so that they can maybe someday make it even worse by filling it with ads.

Zambreros absolutely rules

ANSW Police officer has been charged with assault over the arrest of Greens candidate Hannah Thomas

Reminder that Tony Burke went on Sky News and defended the officer’s actions

Ludwig Göransson's theme does so much heavy lifting for The Mandalorian and Grogu trailer that I briefly forgot I will not be going to see it.
Whatever he's getting paid, it's not enough.

Hell yeah! Congrats Mark!

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."

www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

between this and the Peacemaker S2 intro sequence, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say it's the biggest month for Juliens in pop culture ever.

Image of Critical Role's announcement post for Matt Mercer's campaign 4 character, Sir Julien

I'm really flattered, but Matt Mercer could've just sent me fan mail rather than play me in a livestreamed TTRPG.

I've seen ABC refer to the Nazi rallies as "anti mass immigration rallies" over and over, exactly what Nazis want labelled as, legitimising them.

In contrast, not once have I heard the Palestine rallies called anti-genocide or anti-colonial. I wonder what that's about 🙄

Image of a headline showing Albo says ‘some people’ marching with Nazis are good people.

Get absolutely fucked @albomp.bsky.social

#breaking Greens just set up an inquiry into Labor's secret climate risk report.

People have leaked that this report is "dire”, “diabolical” & “extremely confronting”.

We deserve to know the truth about what climate change will do to Australia.

Live: Former senator Linda Reynolds wins defamation battle against Brittany Higgins Former West Australian senator Linda Reynolds wins her high-profile defamation case against her former staffer Brittany Higgins, whom she had accused of conducting an orchestrated campaign to end her ...

We should probs reform Aussie defamation laws, hey?
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

Labor getting outflanked on the left by the Liberal party and choosing NOT to use it as a moment of self-reflection is insane.

"You can't strike, you're too important" from a judge or government should instantly make you side with the people striking. They're *that* important but they get treated like shit? Nah. Naaaah. Let the government force better conditions.