Dan Smith

There comes a time in every reactionary politician's life when he must steel himself, insert a nasogastric tube for unclear reasons, put on his bravest grimace, and give the weirdest thumbs-up anyone has ever seen.

"But Mark Scott is an administrator, so it's appropriate for him to be VC" - ok: make him Chief of Army then. I'm sure he'll do a great job. Oh what's that? You can't just plunk a civilian with no military training at the head of an ADF branch? That's something you have to earn?

I seem to remember buying a new phone used to be a more exciting prospect ... now, you just get an almost identical looking black rectangle with all the same stuff on it, only slightly less broken/slow. It's become the tech equivalent of getting your house restumped

Marissa Mayer was pulling down about $60m a year as CEO at Yahoo, presumably for the type of blue-sky thinking that translates to struggling to be able name even three traits of your own child

if you ever happen to see someone post a joke you don't understand or discuss a subject you aren't familiar with, you are well within your right to complain, and perhaps even scold them if necessary. you are their customer and you have rights

Amazing, the new wonder technology is recreating the paperful office

One of my biggest *putting on the They Live glasses* moments was realizing that these firms are not trying to impress us as consumers with these products and announcements, but instead are trying to convince investors that they are a growth stock

and just let it happen *shakes head*

These morons are all like Elmore Leonard characters who got themselves transplanted into a John Le Carré novel

"average person knows 3 guitar chords" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person knows 0 guitar chords. Guitar Georg, who doesn't want to make it cry or sing and knows all the chords, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

No matter what happens in life, you'll always have your forever chemicals .. they can't take that away from you

Delightful blog. "Absolutely as much fun as you can have reading an overview of Tears For Fears' career through the lens of one of the lead guys' astrology-obsessed memoir." - David Roth

I'm old enough to remember when Pauline Hanson was so offended at being lampooned by drag artist 'Pauline Pantsdown' that she took her application for an injunction against PP all the way to the High Court. Seems the admonishment to 'have a laugh' only goes one way.

Stuff like this will continue to happen because Hanson has assembled a team of Bannonesque gutter-right dipshits for her comms ... the media can choose to "oo er" each time, or join the dots and show us who these cockroaches really are www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

is AI stealing artwork known as a six finger discount?

"Oh if you're so good why don't you have a solution to the fuckups we caused." Compelling argument 2½ weeks out from the election.

for some reason Factorio doesn't appeal to me, and the time management part of my brain is extremely grateful

"there are two and a bit Zacharias to a Scaramucci, and roughly 16 Scaramuccis to a Spicer" ... America will do anything to avoid the metric system

systemd updates and TPM configuration combining to make me feel like a linux noob ... why is this so convoluted now

not sure why he doesn't stick with the music career ... This Is America was phenomenal

Yes, enough! tvtonight.com.au/2026/10/so-t...

SNL banned Elvis Costello for 12 years for singing a song about corporate media consolidation, so

The whole of the AI economy, in one gag.

While we're at it, might as well share Tom Baker's perennial masterpiece.

Like robodebt?

My heart breaks for mathematicians whose lives and careers are being destroyed by AI — and especially this PhD student, who doesn’t even know he is a poet

one of the key factors in the souring of Silicon Valley culture is the whole "acceptance of failure" element... it's one thing to not let the failure of some enterprise SaaS startup hold you back, but when your startup causes children to self-harm at scale maybe that failure should stick with you

You don’t say. The RBA once again discovering the mysteries of the Small Business Mind. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The Age gets the twin pillars of its vision for Melbourne together at last. It's like seeing the two ends of a tunnelling job finally break through to join up. Handshakes and commemorative photos are the order of the day.

I already loathe the diesel rebate as an enormous fucking grift of a tax expenditure, it's a policy that needs to die, and it didn't occur to me that it would also apply to datacentre backup generators. Fucking hell that's absurd. au.news.yahoo.com/call-to-end-...

Can one man to be simultaneously Happy, Bouncy, Bumpy and Grumpy, but also Quiet and Strong? Why yes, if you're Simon Greenall and using your miraculous voice to give life to beloved Mr Men characters. @patrickstokes.com, have you heard of this versatile vocal phenomenon? #CaptainBarnmichaelsDay

I know writers who use subtext and they're all cowards.

American organisations Stop Emailing Me Like We're In A Messy Personal Relationship challenge

who called it Viagra and not engineered wood

This is an extraordinary example of a liberal writer laundering far right politics. The property the author drives past is notorious for far right messaging — the banner 'Centrelink is Evil' likely refers to the belief, spread by the Telegraph, that "Muslims" are rorting it to fund terrorism.

Matt Canavan's wife: oh for fuck's sake Matt, it's your daughter's wedding Matt Canavan [wearing the shirt]: what

could we just keep giving a random person the nobel peace prize every day until Trump blows an artery

Top ten most foreboding sentence I've ever read.

I will never, ever consider my audience when making art. You are a disgusting flesh piano I manipulate to make the noises that please me. That’s the Rob Delaney promise.

This is wild - somebody did a deep dive into the real stories behind this famous XKCD: sheets.works/data-viz/hol...