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Neither of the people in this photograph are qualified for an academic job (see also "Professor" Bill Shorten). I like Ardern a lot, and creating a role using her experience for mentoring is great, but hospitals don't say "we've hired Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman to do heart surgeries this month."

Adding my two cents to the DON’T SILENCE JOURNALISTS campaign by @withmeaa.bsky.social The ABC is Australia’s public broadcaster and it has no business hauling the president of the union in for disciplinary chats for the heinous misdemeanour of … [checks notes] wanting to report on corporations

Primary Artist : David Morrow (1955–) Country of context : Australia Title : Change of rulers is the joy of fools (1980 Federal Election). Date made : 1980 Technique : screenprint, printed in black ink, from one stencil

I meet so many people who are so quick to paint Alan Moore as an angry crank but his anger is always vindicated

You call him a Minotaur, I call him Half Man, Half Brisket x

Thanks for painting my many local potholes in different colours. So, can I now have them filled, please? I assume different colours do not mean different repair crews at different times. Tony Danino, Wheelers Hill @theageaustralia.bsky.social letters

My posts have no influence or outreach beyond attracting the attention of pornbots or Christian zealots, but they should absolutely check out Swan Boy and donate generously to Branson.

I think it should behoove everyone on this site that had comics and animation in their formative years to go to swanboy.com and sign up for the Patreon, or else swanboy has to start selling his band shirts

1.5 yrs since I started listening to @andrewhickey.500songs.com and his amazing 500 Songs podcast, I am finally caught up to the present. I can't recommend heartily enough giving a listen to the 186 songs so far over at 500songs.com

Please read Swan Boy and tell people about Swan Boy and join my patreon to see more/early Swan Boy

MORECROFT > COMFORTER A dear mate, a quiet mentor, a bloody wonderful human.

Calypso legend Mighty Sparrow has died at 91. Ona of the Trinidadian’s best-known songs was 1967’s “Congo Man” which touched on topics such as racial inequality, interracial sex and political strife. Sparrow performing the song live in 1995. #RIPMightySparrow m.youtube.com/watch?v=SDV2...

That nasty canary dead. RIP Mighty Sparrow.

For real, the darkest joke I've heard in I can't even say how long. I gasp-laughed.

I saw a post earlier saying I need to integrate AI into my workflow as an artist or I'll be left behind. Sure I've seen dozens of posts like this before, but I'm really seriously thinking about it now and I am at a total loss as to what it would possibly do to improve my work.

@dontattempt.bsky.social

“Look at the real person behind those decisions.”🔥 NDIS participant Eric speaks with passion, tired of endless reviews for a permanent disability, a system under the axe targeting his vital support network, says he just wants to ‘work and contribute.’ Watch & share. TY Eric.

After 30 years of being able to send an invoice for work carried out and have it paid into my bank account, you're telling me I now need to sign up to some shitty app so start-up bros get paid for taking other people's jobs? Nope.

I am a technician with 30 years worth of experience repairing electronic equipment. I studied, apprenticed and worked in the field. Now my life is suffused with people bringing in machines they've mangled asking for help after Youtube/ChatGPT idiocy. Dumb machines ruining works of art.

While it is not a 1:1 correspondence, each time I am asked by an "AI-creator" to provide a service, a short background check will yield a phrase like "under investigation", "elder abuse", "alleged puppy mill mogul", or "banned from watching under 11s football".

Pauline Hanson flees her own custom-curated presser. With ABC & Guardian banned, & far-right criminal Avi Yemini running interference, still can’t handle questions, even from Sky “Shouldn't all media have access...?"💥 Not even sidekick Avi could save her from total humiliation.

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7 likes. From 5 accounts. All with the same pinned skeet. Christ alive.

Exquisite. 11/10. Baggio '94 levels of missing the mark. Please enjoy another episode of Why the Rest of the World is Wrong by a (snigger) bio-cultural anthropologist.

A new game in town - Catfishing. Where Wikipedia categories point to a mystery entry. Great brain stretch

Autofill: here, let me complete something you have type before Algorithm: here, let me guess what you might want to type based on what you typed before AI: here, eat sawdust to meet your dietary fibre requirements

IT'S NOT EVEN A REAL FIGURE! THE CLAIM THAT 7.5 MILLION AUSTRALIANS TOOK SICK LEAVE IN 2023/24 IS AN ASSUMPTION PLUCKED FROM FUCKEN THIN AIR! THEY TOOK THE TOTAL NUMBER OF PEOPLE THAT THEY THOUGHT WERE ELIGIBLE FOR SICK LEAVE AND MULTIPLIED IT BY 0.8! WHERE DOES 0.8 COME FROM? IT'S A FUCKEN GUESS!

Think private credit’s lack of liquidity is bad? Guess again. It’s actually good because the inability to access your money means that private credit funds can lend it to companies that are far more risky, too risky in fact for anyone else to lend to

I remember seeing an article in a guitar magazine with the headline "How Did Jimmy Page Approach the Blues?" and my first thought was "From behind, on tiptoe, with a pillowcase and a crowbar"

Not so hot take - the middle class was only made possible through socialist economic programmes in capitalist countries and vice versa. Slightly hotter take - at least those in socialist countries are rarely afforded an opportunity to vote against their own existence.

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"We're having the wrong conversation about unemployment" by Anglicare's Kasy Chambers #ThePoint thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...

If I got paid $1,000,000 every day since I was born, I still wouldn't be a good investment.

Joe McCarthy Joe McCarthy Joe McCarthy Joe McCarthy Joe McCarthy's Ghost.

Says something about the power of positive thinking that people can watch a fickle tyrant dismantle the US government, transfer the people's wealth to venal billionaires, and create a private army of jackboot thugs within 9 months of taking office and say, "Just wait till the mid-terms."

"He slapped a 29% tariff on our exports? Why??" "Hooters is going under and he heard we have boobies."

If you lack insight, curiosity, perseverance, and the courage to accept you're incorrect, you might want to consider a "lucrative" future in the bullshit industry. Not only are education and experience unnecessary, they're discouraged. Have an LLM mail your application for your lazy ass today!!