@lrlr.bsky.social is that a little nod to @crackingthecryptic.bsky.social in today’s SMH?

Well that episode of One Piece was completely fucked up

A screenshot of a headline reading “Bob Carr, ‘a masterpiece’ and a horny queer fantasy: the best Australian books out in March

I am begging the @australia.theguardian.com to use an Oxford comma

An excerpt from the Liberal party review of the 2025 election, warning that minority governments might lead “parties to form often fragile coalitions”

Prescient of them to warn us about the hazards of fragile coalitions

Screenshot from Guardian live blog quoting Albanese on Australian women and children in a Syrian detention camp

Albanese’s comments yesterday were unambiguous. No help for the wives, and the children are unfortunate collateral damage if not enemy combatants themselves.

It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this

Who’s this calling the dual moguls for Stan? Why won’t she name the skiers, or even their countries? Just “red course/blue course” like she hasn’t even read the schedule

It was transforming the biggest NFL stage in the world into a sugar cane plantation that did it for me.

Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?

Scene is Julia Gillard and Chris Bowen (then Min for Immigration) in a lighthouse with "Light on the Hill: written under the bulb. Gillard is turning the light off, saying 'It was attracting the boats"

I have many, many favourite Kudelka cartoons but this, from 2011, is possibly one of the best Aus pol cartoons ever drawn.

Wait hold up...
Did Bad Bunny just give his Grammy to Liam Conejo Ramos the poor kid who was kidnapped by ICE? If so amazing

The sign beforehand said "Conejo" on it too

Washington’s Corruption Has Created Another Humanitarian Crisis in Puerto Rico The island’s earthquakes are its latest man-made disaster.

If you didn’t catch the significance of the exploding transformers in Bad Bunny’s halftime show, I gotcha. Here’s one of a bunch of pieces I wrote from/on Puerto Rico about the crisis—and Trump’s role in it. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Devastating news. We are poorer for losing his joy and his righteous anger in equal measure.

Speaking of this can we do something about the way Australian political journalists talk about ON, which is basically a long-con scam on rightwing voters, not an actual political party

Peasant and Nestrobber, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1568

Dump Truck, by Mikhail Evdokimovich Tkachev, 1956

Also killing it: whoever designed this set. Spectacular.

By doing nothing but unapologetically celebrating his (*American*) home

Don’t have much to add, just to say Bad Bunny and friends are absolutely killing it in every way.

They sang “American Idiot”

Eli Bosnick updated his status. odtnospeSr8 p mta8 , u3h S 1cg80391 b 6 aa r e 0 t 8 0 0 21 1 e 2 2010 e 2 tua m t8 l · "If I gave you a bowl of skittles and three of them were poison would you still eat them?" "Are the other skittles human lives?" "What?" "Like. Is there a good chance. A really good chance. I would be saving someone from a war zone and probably their life if I ate a skittle?" "Well sure. But the point-" "I would eat the skittles." "Ok-well the point is-"

"I would GORGE myself on skittles. I would eat every single fucking skittle I could find. I would STUFF myself with skittles. And when I found the poison skittle and died I would make sure to leave behind a legacy of children and of friends who also ate skittle after skittle until there were no skittles to be eaten. And each person who found the poison skittle we would weep for. We would weep for their loss, for their sacrifice, and for the fact that they did not let themselves succumb to fear but made the world a better place by eating skittles. Because your REAL question...the one you hid behind a shitty little inaccurate, insensitive, dehumanizing racist little candy metaphor is, IS MY LIFE MORE IMPORTANT THAN THOUSANDS UPON THOUSANDS OF MEN, WOMEN, AND TERRIFIED CHILDREN... ... and what kind of monster would think the answer to that question... is yes?"

Do y'all remember this from 2016? I think about this a lot. ❤️

"The term has been overused to the point of meaningless" is code for "The people sounding the alarm are not the kinds of people I think should be taken seriously and I've done no work to understand the situation"

I think we’ve got better and more culturally-varied street food than I could have imagined, cool jackets galore, and drugs that make us think we’re really fast and strong before they kill us.

They had the audacity to claim Bluesky didn't have the juice, but not since peak Twitter have I logged off for an evening and come back to my entire feed speaking in a new language of rapid-fire in-jokes that I have to reverse-engineer to figure out what's happening. That, my friends, is The Juice.

One of the reasons it’s a problem that Democrats keep ceding ground to transphobes is that it actually just helps conservatives get more votes by not contesting any of the transphobic shit that conservatives are using as a gateway message

Here's how WaPo and the Times
handled this.

The Times didn't mention the anti-Somali racism. WaPo simply said Trump "revealed his thoughts about Somalia."

WaPo cited Trump praising Hell's Angels without noting he did it while attacking "vicious people" from "the Congo."

An alternate universe

wow just woke up from a nap, i guess everyone else on Air Force One realized we aren't going to the right place

Do you really need that, though? Sure, it’s not the height of luxury, but if you can keep the fridge and wifi on and run a couple of pedestal fans, you’re still way better off than being in full blackout.

"To date, 757,314 people – the majority children – have died from the funding cuts, according to ImpactCounter, which tracks the effect of USAID cuts via sophisticated modelling tools. That is 88 deaths every hour."

I don't know how to explain to politicians that their jobs are not fucking posting

It's doing stuff, then having an intern post about how the stuff they're doing is materially helping people

Like, this is also the answer to Gertz's dumbass disingenuous question about Mamdani vs Schumer.