Congratulations to Inspector Flint for the outstanding work he's been doing in New South Wales. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Oh, no! News Corp only made a record quarter-billion-dollar profit this quarter! Only 167% revenue growth! Why on earth would The Garundia omit these figures? Is it because they're also hoping to profit off the News Media Bargaining Code? www.theguardian.com/media/2026/a...

News Corp subscriptions fall in Australia as company takes aim at ‘slimy’ AI slop

Chief executive Robert Thomson says ‘crass kleptomaniac’ AI companies are ‘in possession of stolen goods’

theguardian.com

A complete failure. Just spitballing, but maybe the Albanese govt should have consulted with experts instead of Fitzy and Wippa

Australia’s under-16 social media ban failing, study shows: What it means

Australia's internet regulator revealed in a recent study that teenagers are continuing to use social media despite ban.

aljazeera.com

I hear that what with the UCI having all sorts of cheating issues, Seb Coe has offered to step in to check that all riders' bras are appropriately filled.

Australian politicians would look at this and immediately think "We must do something about Snapchat".

Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social · 4w ago

A Republican member of the West Virginia House has just been charged with enticing a 15-year-old minor through Roblox and Snapchat.

I don't even like dogs yet am somehow able to treat them better than Barnaby Joyce does.

I love the shameless projection by politicians at international far right conferences, organised and funded by transnational billionaire networks like Atlas, accusing left-wing resistance of being nefarious "globalists". Sorry, Bridget and Pauline, which country are you saying this in exactly?

Good pedestrian and cycling infrastructure should mean nobody has to play frogger. If there isn't enough space to do that and also have cars on the roads, then the cars need to go.

Dolly totally carried you, mate.

Having done The Worst Thing In British Politics Ever, the good people of Clacton now have a golden opportunity to do The Best Thing In British Politics Ever. metro.co.uk/2026/07/07/c...

Only Count Binface willing to take on Farage's 'fake and pathetic' by-election

As it stands, only Count Binface will run against Farage

metro.co.uk

What's the difference between FIFA and the UCI? One of them is craven, corrupt, and morally bankrupt. The other is also all of those things but also comically incompetent.

Peter Flax@pflax1.bsky.social · last mo.

One thing I like about FIFA is it makes me hate the UCI less.

As a follow-up, have you, by any chance, met the Union Cycliste Internationale?

Jeremiah Cushman@jdcushman45.bsky.social · 2mo ago

No sport hates its players and its fans as much as soccer

Fanatical pro-Israel advocates and Neo Nazis are stoking anti semitism and undermining social cohesion

Jewish lawyer called 'Hitler's Jew' over Gaza war stance

The Jewish Council of Australia's executive director has been labelled a "Hitler's Jew" in what she describes to a royal commission as an online harassment campaign by pro-Israel and neo-Nazi groups.

abc.net.au

The AI rollout is an incredible test case for the power of capital to overrule everything in its way. An overwhelmingly stupid, obscenely polluting, and wildly dangerous set of technologies are being brute-forced into every part of our lives because money says so.

Replacing Starmer with Streeting is a bit like that time I bought a CD I forgot I already owned.

Elevator prices. Going up!

Spokane Rising@spokanerising.com · 4mo ago

Seems bad!

Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.

If Iran is allowed to enrich its Uranium, a powerful nuclear bomb could fall into the hands of an unstable, fanatical government. by Pete Hegseth

I can't think of anything _more_ Australian than people panic-buying petrol because they've moved to a dormitory exurb and are completely dependant on their enormous tax-deductable twin-cab ute.

I really do feel for Iranians, coming from a region that is harmed by both the "anti imperialist left" and the right. The former teams up with our genocidal governments as long as they say they're against the US, the latter wants us bombed into oblivion and prevented from immigrating.

Congratulations to Angus Taylor on being selected by the Liberal party to not become Prime Minster.

you don't know your neighbors because of cars your city doesn't make enough in taxes because of cars busses are slow because of cars they won't build light rail because of cars your city's air is awful because of cars one of the leading causes of death and injury from accident: cars

it’s genuinely reassuring to me that this is the most miserable and paranoid person in the entire world

Not sure anyone's noticed, but it's a bit warm out there today.

Good job Tiktok was forcibly acquired from its censorious Chinese owners by a free-speech loving American corporation.

Chris Murphy@chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I know it's hard to track all the threats to democracy out there right now, but this is at the top of the list.

I'd bet big money, that in 90% of "the cyclist came out of nowhere!" incidents, the cyclist was actually there the whole time, the driver just couldn't be bothered to move their eyes or their heads to actually look around their vehicle.

It's not that complicated @albomp.bsky.social

Ban them. Crush their toys. Throw the whinging lot in jail. But enough about golf.

‘E-bike cowboys’ swarm Sydney northern beaches golf club

Mass rideouts of young riders on e-bikes have taken over public roads and golf courses as the government grapples with how to respond.

smh.com.au

So has Craig Silvey been uninvited from Adelaide Writers Week yet?

"If Weiss is exceptional, it's only in her knack for making a spectacle of the sort of things that slicker operators in media say and do all the time without causing too much of a fuss." @tcraggs22.bsky.social on Bari Weiss and all the Bari Weisses: defector.com/bari-weiss-i...

Bari Weiss Is The Symptom | Defector

Who says Bari Weiss doesn’t know how to run a newsroom? “My general view here,” the CBS News editor-in-chief wrote in a memo before shelving the now-infamous 60 Minutes report on El Salvador’s CECOT c...

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