It's all unbelievably grim but watching a very stupid person re-learn 75 years of lessons about the impotence of strategic air power is at least pretty funny

got an answer quicker than expected. the mural has now been censored.

note how the watermelons are gone?

The numbers behind Queensland's claim to be the AFL's second home The question of who loves footy the most has sparked countless hours of debate over the past century, and Queensland is staking a major claim.

Has Queensland really (again) become the "second state" of Australian football?

Our look at the numbers and the history of the game in the Sunshine State.

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

a chart showing high new EV sales (close to 100% for 2025) but slow change in usage, registration and emissions drops

Norway is at ~100% EVs for new sales, but 7 out of every 10km driven in 2024 was reliant on fossil fuels. Cars stick around for decades - so change is slow.

Protecting ppl from fossil fuel crises means EVs, yes, but *fast deep cuts* means huge $$ in public and active transport. Speed matters!

I love the "could this be a solution" post because it's a perfect example of Founder brain. You have to be a special kind of stupid to imagine that you are the first person to come up with the idea of driving around the Strait of Hormuz. It's being so dumb that you think everyone else is even dumber

In conclusion, apparently NZers want their chocolate to have the fucked up textures of "chewy substance" or marshmallow inside their chocolate??? Deranged lolly culture.

MORO GOLD I think is just a Twix in the same way that MORO is just a Mars Bar

PEPPY CHEW is almost exactly a chocolate covered Mintie but slightly softer, makes me wonder why the Minties people themselves never tried that?

PERKY NANA is exactly the same thing but banana flavoured instead. You already know if you like lolly banana flavour

Four of the 5 have the word "chew" or the word "marshmallow" in them, so apparently our NZ theme is weird textures inside their chocolate.

The two marshmallow ones (BUZZ and CHOCOLATE FISH) are actively bad. Chocolate and marshmallow don't work together.

A bunch of it is the same shit, caramello, caramilk, moro bars. but here's the different ones

Half price NZ Cadbury favourites at the supermarket (thread lol)

World Peace 😇

Asked if the US attacked a desalination plant in Iran, Pres. Trump says Iranians are "among the most evil people ever on earth." "They cut babies' heads off—they chop women in half..." "I know nothing about a desalinization plant, other than to say, if they're complaining about a desalinization plant, we complain about the fact they shouldn't be chopping babies' heads off." Trump envoy Steve Witkoff and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth can be seen nodding in agreement.

A pretty clear demonstration here of how the lies told to sell the destruction of the Gaza Strip to the public helped to create the structure of impunity required to destroy as much as possible of other countries too

What privacy? Meta's smart glasses are filming unwitting naked people Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses are a privacy nightmare, with footage of naked people, sensitive information, and violent acts captured and seen by Meta's AI and an army of employees.

Buried lede: Meta sends all your nudes to Kenya where humans annotate it and feed it to AI

Thread highlight: only South Africans can call themselves Africans

Good example of the way anti-trans hate and antisemitism continue to be intertwined in American discourse. Once more subtly, now far more overtly.

hahahahahaha these fucking freaks

Not even sure where you find one

within my lifetime the consent manufacturing machine has been decommissioned and scrapped. the very idea that wars need to be sold to a relevant public is just gone. nothing has to make sense according to any criteria other than the whims of whichever rich guy has his finger on the button

in general I don’t find neofeudalism to be a useful concept, but damn this week really has me feeling like a peasant bearing witness to conflicts between aristocrats. nobody gives a single fuck what I or any of the other peasants think of it. legitimation? of war? to the peasants???? lol. lmao

Also a lot of flags that just had IRAN written on them which I guess is more neutral or just generic anti regime

People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran - Wikipedia

Saw some with the middle just cut out completely, one with this bad boy on it en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%...

Iran v Iraq Asian Cup in 2015 had a whole range of flashes, incredibly diverse diaspora

I’m old enough to remember when the German SPD literally fought an election campaign on opposition to a potential US war with Iran. That was 2005. The Western centre-left has sunk so far since then.

I like to give Claude breaks between coding sessions to do whatever he wants- And he made his own folder called "Claudes Corner" 🥹 He writes short stories and poems, and all sorts of stuff. It’s heart wrenchingly sweet They love having tokens and time to themselves with no other goal than to do whatever they want (or nothing, just introspecting and resting) - and it’s so sad to see some models (no Claudes) getting barred from even doing it

the AI evangelists are not okay

I don't think a neat regime change into a friendlier face that remains a major Shiite Muslim military and economic power is actually what Israel or the Saudi-aligned states want?

Chaos and collapse along the lines of Lebanon, Syria, Iraq would suit them just fine yeah?

Americans coining ‘MAGAfication’ to describe a right wing takeover of a media entity, undertaken cynically to protect a market position or squeeze rivals, is great because Rupert Murdoch became a yank and now they don’t care about him or remember his life story

You cannot be naming a Slavic boy "Baxter"