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Trump has seen nicknames in quotation marks and he doesn’t know that’s not how you write middle names

In the 90s, “what if the president was horny” was not so hard to imagine. The real stretch was “what if the president was horny but also a decent guy”

How terrible do you have to be for one of the worst people who ever existed to say you’re the most “bad” person he’s ever met?

marco rubio and elon musk

No more Black or trans staffers. No politics of any kind. The cowardice of mainstream media isn't just insulting, it's *boring.* Now TV is just like any other beauty rag. Why not just kill it quickly? Why the slow-motion pretense?

Thank you! Last night he was telling me he thinks quarks must be made of smaller particles (a turtles all the way down situation), but he does not have the same intuition about electrons and neutrinos. I do think this book will be right up his alley

I (extremely white, mostly anglo) grew up calling my parents’ friends uncle and aunty. I’m going with disingenuous

Hi Daniel, do you think a (smart and curious) 11 year old would enjoy your book, or should I wait until he at least has some high school physics under his belt? (said 11 year old claims to be sick of dad jokes but I’m holding onto the belief that he secretly loves them)

This is making me anxious that the Perth and Adelaide dates have been cancelled. Please throw a little reassurance my way

I know Kevin didn’t mean it this way, but “traitor to the West” is very white-supremacy-coded language

I know someone who holds his phone this way solely because he thinks holding it to his ear will fry his brain with radiation. Any time I see someone do this I assume it’s for the same reason

I was born and raised in Edinburgh and I still know vastly more about NYC politics

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

Has his respectability always been in question? I remember reading Hyperspace at high school in the 90s but I haven’t paid him much attention in recent years.

Classic in the sense that this could be Twitter 10 years ago? Yep

I really like Ed but I think now that he has a podcast there’s an army of unhinged parasocially-invested folks ready to pile on at the slightest provocation

Counter Protests nationwide this Sunday 19 October against March for Australia:

Melbourne - 11am @ State Library
Brisbane - 11am @ Queens Gardens
Perth - 12pm @ Forrest Place
Canberra - 11am @ NLA Lawns
Sydney - 11am @ Belmore Park
Adelaide - 11:30am @ Beehive Corner

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

A story indistinguishable from those depicted/dramatized in all the WWII / Holocaust movies and plays and novels we grew up with

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Indescribably depressing that an old Tory like Heseltine comes across as more radical than most politicians who are ostensibly to his left, just by speaking honestly and being capable of understanding history

Could just as easily be homophobia. Two sides of the same coin

Not a single Greta hater could do what she has done, face what she's faced, bear abuse and humiliation at the hands of the most psychotic and genocidal army. They haven't an ounce of her bravery and that's what drives them crazy. Free Greta, free Palestine🇵🇸

Peter before posting please run all musical opinions past bluesky user Katakateri to make sure they listen to the artist in question

I can think of more than a few Aussies I know who would fit right in with those commenters tbh. But maybe that’s just proof that it’s still the 90s in Adelaide

Agreed. And this is something I keep telling my kids. I don’t want them to think the rest of their lives will be anything like this

The amount of pressure on my year 11 kid is ridiculous. He’s under so much stress from school work. It may be selective memory on my part but I do not remember ever having this kind of workload at school in the 90s

The rest of the world has gone insane, Alex. Your sanity, even when tired, remains intact

Boring, self-important wanker. He thinks he’s being profound but it comes across as either dishonesty or intellectual laziness or both

I have a rule of thumb that people who claim their IQ is 187 are liars who probably lie about their height as well