Slugged! At the Bowser

disco bike

Listening to a report about Google chopping down a quarter of a million trees in Finland to build a data centre while washing out yoghurt pots for the recycling

Lula won in part by banning online gambling

Sculpture by John Morris.

This is obscene. It's always the people most marginalised & in need of support who government seeks to claw back budget savings from. How about cut defence spending fewer people need to flee their homes in the first place & provide meaningful support so refugees can feel safe & live a decent life.

Digger was pretty good

One of the great voice actors of our time, gone far too soon.

every fawning profile of an AI innovator in the NYT is just a future essay in The Cut about why kids no longer talk to their parents

David Shoebridge calls out Michaelia Cash & puts her nonsense into context, recognising Floyd for his achievements & human rights activism.

Michaelia Cash tries to smear young First Nations leader Ethan Floyd over his Young People's Award nomination—for daring to challenge NSW’s proposal to ban phrase globalise the intifada & trying to provide aid to Gaza from a flotilla. Blatant political bullying. Shameful.

Rather than recalculate these, Labor passed new legislation to retrospectively validate debts they had already conceded were illegal. Now people are having to go back decades to find evidence with which to defend themselves. This is beyond indefensible. Spitting in the faces of Robodebt victims.

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

So I went to a flea market and found a stack of - playing cards? Collectible cards? You can see some little kid’s eyes going wide when he unwraps the bubblegum. ‘’Woah, I got a Booth Tarkington Monsieur Bocaire.” And the other kid is like, “No way that’s super rare …

The American mind cannot process a vehicle that is not designed to kill as many pedestrian children as possible

A fiery sunrise over Big Bend's dramatic Chisos Mountains. #Photography

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

We are thrilled to present Australian Cinema's Lost Holy Grail, the first Umbrella behind-the-scenes video that takes you inside the restoration of the iconic thriller ROADGAMES. Check out the full video now on YouTube! 🚚 Watch now at bit.ly/3U9nwQ8

This was in a shop in hay on wye

If our public broadcaster really believes they have a role to "turn down the temperature", why do they so often platform hate-mongers who turn it up?

If you drive like this, I don't really care what happens to you! I don't think drivers like this have the capacity to think of other people as living beings. The only decent function of prison is to keep people like this out from behind the wheel of their cars

More than 10,000 people have signed a @getup.org.au petition calling on Basketball Australia to scrap its deal with Israeli AI firm Pixellot. Basketball Australia will rollout AI-powered cameras nationwide, recording thousands of Australian children. www.deepcutnews.com/p/basketball...

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

Insomnia by Vincenzo Lamolinara

Greeks: sculpture is about the ideal body, perfect proportions, beauty through which we can experience th— Etruscans, over in the corner:

The Abduction of Persephone, by Nicola Maria Rossi, early 18th c

RIP Richard Riehle. Thanks for the memories. #startrek

Ahh the productivity benefits... www.afr.com/companies/fi...

“Authorities report 1,200 arrests and 150 injured police officers as unrest erupts in multiple French cities.” How cool that we only get injured police officers numbers. Those same officers who have been beating up literal children

I had forgotten about this one. It was quite special.

1. let's get private sector build toll roads and earn money via the tolls collected 2. tolls on the toll roads are too expensive 3. let's cap the tolls and make driving cheaper 4. let's compensate the private sector for the revenue foregone 5. ... 6. trains are expensive

I can tell if someone is judgemental just by looking at them

One time I was at a wine tasting listening to the server describe this newest wine, and I cut in to ask “I’m sorry, I’ve heard of stone fruits before, but what are boulder fruits?” Her: “uh, well, they’re fruits that uh, have a richer, stronger taste than others…” Me: 🫥 oh Me: “BOLDER FRUITS”

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

it seems to shock the New Zealand government that Peter Jackson, Taika Waititi, and the Conchords etc all emerged from the same city in the same span, which coincidentally is when Wellington rent was dirt-cheap and there were heaps of empty industrial buildings around

there's nothing like the real thing. streetartutopia.com/2025/03/16/c...

Not so sure I’d use the severed head of Lady Liberty to advertise my AI slop service, but okay.

Woman arrested after blocking delivery robot in Philadelphia confrontation

Don't follow me if you're into ai

When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.

It’s almost here!