Dave Versace

sorry to ruin your fun but his whole stoner nice guy routine is an act. Scooby's not even his real name, it's Gideon, and the only reason he can doss about in a mystery van is because his family, the D'Oubay-Doux, made a fortune in the East India Company in the 1700s. educate yourself.

The global pro-democracy, anti-fascist movement just notched two major wins today, after Students List in Serbia ousted strongman Aleksandar Vučić and Brazilian President Lula defeated the son of the man behind Brazil’s Jan 6 to win reelection! In 9 days, U.S. next!

Currently, Hasbro’s guidelines keep us from having total ownership over the work we make in our free time. Our union aims to change that and ensure we own what we make in our free time. actionnetwork.org/forms/uwotcp...

A masterpiece

we gotta bring back shame, man society doesn’t work real well without consequences for being an enormous piece of shit in public

The kickstarter for the new Microscope is live! I can't wait to see what you make with the new edition www.kickstarter.com/projects/lam...

People in the grinding hell known as "selling short stories," please keep yourself apprised of what's going on with Must Read Magazines (Asimov's, Analog, F&SF). Think carefully before you submit to them, & if you make a sale, read the contract the way you would read a contract to sell your soul.

A book about how a mutant variant of Scientology came to magically reshape the end of the 20th century, and also comic books.

Apropos of nothing, we used to use lead in pipes, asbestos in construction, CFCs in fridges, radium in...way too much, and now for some reason, we don't. It's almost like we can discover something, find out we're using it in terribly unhealthy ways, and then stop using it.

A solid cooking rule to follow is to remember that when recipes say "add two cloves of garlic" is is always a misprint and what they actually mean is six.

They don't actually believe this bullshit, they're just laying the tracks to limit their legal liability when someone uses their products to do something heinous. They should burn for that alone.

So Danny Trejo was manipulated and tricked into being in Ben Shapiro's newest film. Holy shit.

"Eight days before that deal was announced, on 26 June, Amazon disclosed a $33,000 payment to Labor, according to Australian Electoral Commission filings. Less than six weeks later, another $33,000 payment was disclosed." www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

In the last 48 hours, Trump has invented an energy ceasefire deal between Russia and Ukraine, pretended that much of this year’s energy price surge is not because of his reckless war on Iran and cut a side deal to funnel billions to Russia for sanctioned diesel. Not a friend. End AUKUS.

"how were people writing 10 page papers before AI???" we were smarter than you. you could've been smart, too. but you sold your brain for nothing

"The key to keeping Australians safe is... AI companies, like other companies, need to pay for the harm that they cause." Sign the petition now to tell the government to stand firm and make Big Tech pay for the harms it inflicts on Australians: https://nb.australiainstitute.org.au/big-tech

Ukrainian strikes hit several Russian data centers, knocking millions of suspected bot accounts offline.

Blimey.

Here are some ... things I saw at CPAC in Brisbane www.canberratimes.com.au/story/936599...

The same company that doesn't pay artists seems to always find the money to pay this jackass. If you're still using Spotify... why? Pretty much every alternative is better in every way.

Crow became accidentally important at work when all he wanted was to play with garbage.

The new Assassin’s Creed is going to sell like a BILLION copies.

This is cool as hell. Must be nerve-shredding for those aboard with nothing to do.

You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Children overboard was not simply a “miscommunication”. A Senate inquiry found Peter Reith deceived Australians and Cabinet blocked key staff from giving evidence, Marianne Van Galen Dickie and Andrew Bartlett write. #auspol #Refugees Parliament of Australia

Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow

"The important question is not which faction supplies the next PM. It is what substantially different Australia any of the factions proposes to create. ...the problems confronting government are becoming larger as its political imagination becomes smaller." pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/10...

In one week I click the button and let slip the dogs of fractal history… Tuesday October 6 www.kickstarter.com/projects/lam...

Slow Roads is a game for drivers, not racers: aftermath.site/slow-roads-imp...

Luke Plunkett nails it. So glad I subscribe to aftermath.site You should too.

Din't think the better team won on the day, but then again that's not really how this works #aflgf

This week has seen a sweaty little fascist livestream knifing a dinghy with an RNLI volunteer still in it because FOREIGN PEOPLE and a lot of the media being very scared to call a sweaty little fascist a sweaty little fascist. So seeing Captain Art Crimes step the fuck up is an absolute joy:)