as the kids say, nightmare blunt rotation, but literally this time

Group chat is called "Start Me Up"

Palantir's Peculiar Sales-Pitch A Republic...if you can creep it

John Ganz on the Palantir manifesto is good "Businessmen routinely write stupid books, that’s not surprising, but Mr. Karp is a little bit of a different case. He’s a highly educated man" www.unpopularfront.news/p/palantirs-...

Price-shopping online is like negotiating with smoke.

He's spent 2 hours trying to get Candle In The Wind to play using the goggles.

"the strait of hormuz is open"
"the strait of hormuz is closed"
"wait they're opening it again"
"the strait of hormuz is actually closed this time"

europeans having no idea just enjoying the weekend:
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Legit question in the Australian today, how can Simon Benson kill the 30-50 feral hogs that run into his yard within 3-5 mins while small kids play?

Snapchat glasses + Mark Andreessen =

In China battery electric trucks and hybrid trucks now outsell diesel trucks for the first time.

Jim’s Palantir

Press cutting Lancashire Telegraph, 20 April 2008: Shepherd's pie recipe rumpus. Subhead: Petrol bomb threat in tomato topping row. By ANDREW BELLARD A dispute over the contents of a shepherd's pie proved to be a recipe for brotherly disharmony. Blackburn magistrates heard that John Garvin thought that the pie his brother Michael made should have been topped with tomatoes but Michael disagreed. The upshot was that John, who was hit over the head with a shovel, reacted by threatening to petrol bomb his brother's flat. And he ended up spending a night in custody to allow tempers to cool. John Garvin, 47, of Montague Street, admitted a breach of the peace and was bound over in £100 to keep the peace for 12 months. Catherine Allan, prosecuting, said the brothers lived in separate flats next to each other. On the day of the culinary dispute they had been drinking together since 7am. "The argument started because there were no tomatoes on the shepherds pie that Michael made for tea and John thought this was wrong," said Miss Allan. John called his brother an offensive name and then said he was going to petrol bomb his flat. "Michael was concerned by this threat because on a previous occasion John had started a fire in his own flat," said Miss Allan. Liz Parker, defending, said her client did not accept making a remark about petrol bombing his brother's flat. "He does say that his brother hit him over the head with a shovel and it is very clear there was a lot of trouble over nothing," she added. (The article has a pullout quote which says “It is very clear there was a lot of trouble over nothing” - LIZ PARKER in large letters) District Judge Peter Ward, who imposed the bind over, asked in court: "You can make shepherd's pie without tomatoes can't you?" But 'legal' opinion at Blackburn magistrates, where the issue became quite a talking point, was divided. A female defence solicitor said it should be made with lamb and topped with sliced tomatoes and that a pie made with b…

And lo, it came to pass that the 18th anniversary of the greatest local news story ever told came upon us, and we were sore amazed

(Subway Australia is owned by a US PE firm.)

Just in time for drinks on the 25th?

"...the minute I jump in the EV for the first time, I'm confused. It's too clever by half. There's no handbrake, and the gear stick is so small it looks like it belongs to a child's toy." Is the journo a moron? Tune in at 7.30 to find out.

Fatal flaw: Keir Starmer’s leadership vacuum threatens to swallow him up The PM’s current and former colleagues say the Mandelson scandal has exposed the hollowness of his hands-off style.

[I know I'm from Australian Labor, but *he's shit AND not even a good bloke* is pretty much the end.]

“Lots of people think Keir Starmer is a good man who is out of his depth,” said one Labour insider. “Wrong. He’s an asshole who’s out of his depth.” www.politico.eu/article/keir...

Get in the Q buddy

Broome Blue Light Disco.

Side Bvrns

New gas-powered Multi-Function Polis With No Jobs just dropped.

You young people don't know, but when we Gen X were kids there were TV presenters who looked like this.

I don't believe you.

I see that old m8 Chris U has pivoted from toilets, renewable energy and cancel-culture and is now an expert on USN sea mine clearance capability. The Pundit Braine contains magnitudes.

at my opinions factory, where dreams are made

A 10-Year-Old Girl Wrote to NASA Asking Them to ‘Restore Pluto to a Planet,’ and NASA’s chief Replied with Four Words No One Expected

"No way. Fuck off."

Whoever did Warnie's mural should hit up the Trump-appointed Fine Arts Commission for work, let it be known they can do dogs playing poker, art of that nature.

We have never been so owned.

"Honey, your pop culture fandom delivery just arrived."

Do not @ me

"The payload was placed into an off-nominal orbit" is corporate space-speak for "we put the satellite in the wrong place" I guess. (Maybe it is an aerospace term but it's ghastly.)