consumers: i want a laptop that doesn't degrade in six months and doesn't cost $2000 silicon valley: have you considered giving us all the money in existence to build sex dens on mars
Andrew Elder
@awelder.bsky.social
Media criticism and other things. Highest Klout score: 67. Yeah but why
What once would have been a pitch in a writers’ room for tastelessly edgy joke in a comedic satire of a deranged country full of greedy sociopaths is now our reality.
I think people who find out truly horrible shit about a politician but doesn't tell anyone so they can hold out for a book deal are shitty humans.
A new Bond actor to be announced by Christmas, reportedly, and even with a concentrated giddy-up you'd have to think a finished 007 film is at least another three years away; almost a full decade on from Craig's last outing. I haven't missed Bond. Has anyone?
Hey Jude is way too long at 7 mins 11 seconds. I Want You (She's So Heavy) at 7 mins 47 seconds is far too short.
If you show up to Bluesky without following anyone, you'll be treated to a series of posts about art, music, and dogs. If you show up to X without following anyone, you'll be bombarded with right-wing conspiracies and white supremacist slop. It's weird which one is seen as a "political bubble"
🚨 Croatian virologist Beata Halassy used viruses from her own lab to shrink her recurrent breast cancer by over 60% The result: Her tumor shrank by over 60%, was successfully removed, and she has remained in long-term remission
I see One Nation are opposed to the 15 Minute City. Makes sense, I prefer the old-fashioned 540 minute city you get on Punt Road
All of Marx and Milton Friedman can be dismissed in the same way though :p
Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 2d agoYeah, for days people have been citing “boots theory” at me and I want to shout DO YOU REALIZE THIS IS A RANDOM IDEA TOSSED OUT BY A FANTASY WRITER AND MAY NOT ACCURATELY DESCRIBE REALITY
In Townsville, about to head to the Seaview for a quiet schooner
We can hardly wait. Our Congress passed a bill demanding that this happen, but they seem too corrupt/intimidated to follow up on it. We're hoping to replace most of them soon, but whatever you can do will be helpful & much appreciated. #ProudBlue
Was there sex trafficking at the Playboy Mansion? Several women have now claimed there was. The parallels to Epstein are extraordinary, but in this case, the crimes were glamorized on tv’s The Girls Next Door. Watch this clip of Karissa Shannon from Lisa Guerrero Unleashed youtu.be/rbCW4poBhXM?...
RFKJr claims Lyme disease was created by scientists,which is the closest he’s come to admitting that science exists. Meanwhile, Ötzi the Iceman, who died more than 5.3K years ago, had Lyme disease. Apparently prehistoric humans are part of the conspiracy. Get me off this timeline
Thank you to Mexico & Australia for sending your fire fighters to aid us when our closest physical ally threatens to fine or tariff Canada even as smoke from Washington & Oregon blow into BC. We send fire crews & our Super Soaker water bombers when the USA is on fire. TACO issues threats. Sad...
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Disdain for major parties is part of the same movement with disdain for traditional media. You don't get to complain about the lack of civility when your first reaction to any criticism is shrieky accusations of bad faith
Mark Kenny@markgkenny.bsky.social · 2d agoConservatives once railed against the permissive society. As defenders of faith, family and flag, they lamented falling social standards and feared the loss of Judeo-Christian values. Now, their vulgar champions lead the descent
The reality is that Pochin and her mates would have welcomed the Nazis if the country had lost the Battle of Britain. She'd have been waiting excitedly in Runcorn with a list of useful names and their addresses.
Ok, so you're worried about printing costs. People have nominated to run for parliament under the laws governing elections, love to hear your ideas for cutting printing costs without also cutting democracy. And yes, Rod Liddle is dead, but you really can say it these days, go on
Lady Bee Middlemast-Neal@mistyswoman.bsky.social · 2d agoThe Clacton by-election ballot paper is 90cm long & costing four times as much to print than usual. Fucking insanity. Vote Binface, btw. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
This is one journalistic convention that must die. Only when editors run the sort of coverage they devote to, say, Barnaby Joyce yelling at his dog, will this absurd ploy cease
Ben Schwarz@benschwarz.bsky.social · 3d agoAustralia’s eSafety commissioner buried a report (released Friday afternoon) that shows the under 16 social media ban didn’t tangibly reduce teen social media use, and also resulted in parents tuning out of kids usage. We traded our privacy for no reason. theconversation.com/more-than-80...
Chelsea clearly couldn’t resist Henderson’s outstanding performances at the World Cup where he played for 6 minutes in total and broke his arm after celebrating and falling over a hoarding.
The political right in Australia used the same talking points after the Black Summer Bushfires, with two additions: the fires were the work of arsonists and/or the Greens for curbing forestry activities, and "Australia is a land of extremes, it has always burned. What of it?"
Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they)@doctorvive.bsky.social · 3d agoThis (from the @wsj.com Editorial Board) distills every denialist trope there is: It implies climate change isn’t exacerbating extreme weather. It calls solutions “costly … nostrums.” It fosters doomerism. And it suggests we can just adapt to or “manage” climate impacts. How is this journalism?
There has been a greater percentage of children reported murdered by Israel in Gaza than in WWII's Nazi holocaust. And still Western and European "leaders" defend and enable the indefensible. #GazaGenocide #GazaHolocaust
I love Star Trek, but I've become concerned that no one ever thought of adding seatbelts to the command room chairs. Just folks constantly skittering about the room in every battle and turbulence event.
Trump doesn’t know the difference between “perimeter” and “parameter.” And I just saw a news outlet just switch it for him. This is a statement(lie) from the president about the end of a war. It’s not a journalists place to gloss over him being an idiot
German courts have decided it is not against the law to call Israel a Nazi state. I want you to take a minute and consider to what degree you need to get German courts to agree to that, in a country where the Nazi salute gets you arrested. Israel is a Nazi state. It is committing genocide.