“This can’t be real” I mutter to myself as flubber does the Macarena

Albanese says his mother would have been eligible for trimmed-down NDIS Anthony Albanese has provided a bit of detail on who would be eligible for the reformed NDIS: people like his late mother, who he described as “crippled up with rheumatoid arthritis”.

ah ok, all good then

AI is never going to break your heart and most of these dunce geniuses aren’t human enough to even understand why that’s something you should want.

Mount St Helens

Going through some old photos. Mount St. Helens.

A graph showing increasing defence spending over the decade from 2026-27. Rising from just over $60 billion to close to $120 billion.

The NDIS is far from perfect. But there's something particularly inhuman about the Labor Party pushing through changes that will see 160,000 people kicked off disability support in the same week they proudly announced an increase in military spending of $53 billion over 10 years.

A dog stands on a table, posing next a basted peak lapel sport coat. The jacket is being displayed on a dress form.

A dog sitting on the floor, posting next to a basted blue tweed sport coat with notch lapels. The jacket is being displayed on a dress form.

A dog sitting on the floor, posing in front of a wall where three tailored jackets are hanging.

A dog poses on a table. He's surrounded by a tailor's measuring tape.

Every time this tailor posts a photo of their workspace, it looks like their dog is a tailor and he's showing off the garments he made.

IG z.o.e.y.a.t.e.s

How Email Open Tracking Quietly Took Over the Web You give up more privacy than you might think each time you open an email.

In honor of Tim Cook's stepping down, here is the story of how I emailed him, not once but twice, with open email tracking enabled, only to discover that, not once but twice, my emails to the CEO of Apple were opened on a computer running Windows.

I’ve had the same editor since 1967. Many times he has said to me over the years or asked me, Why would you use a semicolon instead of a colon? And many times over the years I have said to him things like: I will never speak to you again. Forever. Goodbye. That is it. Thank you very much. And I leave. Then I read the piece and I think of his suggestions. I send him a telegram that says, OK, so you’re right. So what? Don’t ever mention this to me again. If you do, I will never speak to you again

Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited

“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.

“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”

Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

I'm always trying to smell like masculine grandma.

it just lifts my heart to feel heard. thanks, ICE lawyer. 💜

They spent a decade complaining about safe spaces and then made a robot to give you compliments and tell you your mp3 of farting noises is Brian Eno

Skyward Sword is the worst LoZ game but it has the best sky whale.

It’s disgusting and so disturbing. You really don’t have to watch this. It reminds me of snuff forums I (unfortunately) have scrolled through. Because it is indistinguishable from what gets posted by the edgiest internet edgelords.

Except from the Wikipedia page for the "House on the Rock" with starts with the sentence: The House on the Rock's website disputes the legitimacy of Boyum's story,[9] refuting his claims on a page titled "Wikipedia is wrong! There is no connection between Alex Jordan and Frank Lloyd Wright":[5]

It's little things like this that make me fall in love with @wikipedia.org a little more every day

Absolute feast of sentences that have never been written before

This is Molly. She has her best outfit on and the DJ is playing the classics. Doesn't get better than this. 13/10 (TT: fraank_dsm)

"Steve, what would you do if they let you make a Star Trek show?"

I would do an episode of SNW where Spock enters the bridge wearing a skant uniform and knee-high boots, stops dead center in the frame, turns directly to camera, puts up his middle finger and holds it for a full minute.

Unionized ProPublica staff are on strike over AI, layoffs, and wages A key issue is protections against layoffs from AI

New: 150 unionized ProPublica workers are on strike TODAY over AI, layoff protections, wages, and more.

They're asking readers to not visit ProPublica or engage with content on other platforms. It's the first work stoppage of its kind at the newsroom.

www.theverge.com/news/908401/...

Some hopeful studies featured in @sciam.bsky.social suggest that today's children and young people are more empathetic and accepting of others' differences than previous generations. We love to see it. 💙

I can't understand how anyone could have ever looked at Jimmy Saville and not thought "now, that's DEFINITELY a wrong 'un"

Incoming wave of people who have never served in the army defending Ben Roberts-Smith going ‘none of these people know what it’s like over there’ referring to the soldiers and army whistleblowers who have been testifying against him

Mamdani is not just filling the potholes with the crew. He's creating a visual and personal reminder of the dignity inherent in all of these anonymous government jobs.

#BREAKING 🚨 Ben Roberts-Smith has been arrested over war crimes allegations

The arrest relates to ‘multiple counts of murdering unarmed Afghan civilians and prisoners’, Nine reports

@cheekface.bsky.social shoutout in the latest @garbageday.email . Congrats on the mention, sorry it's because people can't just be chill about your music.

Maybe they took "Growth Sux" too literally

When I say I'm feeling homesick, this is quite literally the home I'm referring to

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