Mark Knopfler
Nancy Wilson
Prince

This list is subject to change in the next five seconds, except for #1

Whomst the fuck is this dickhead?

Headline from the AFR "Time to end welfare for the wealthy, says big business"

You mean the superannuation tax breaks? No?
You mean the CGT discount? No?
You mean the fossil fuel subsidies? No?
You mean the free gas for multinationals? No?
You mean the failure of the PRRT? No?
You mean the tax dodging trusts? No?
You mean the lack of a wealth tax? No?

No you mean the NDIS FFS

Notwithstanding that I mostly like both movies and shows, even I am struggling to muster enthusiasm for Doomsday. I don't know what Marvel needs to do to get me hype, but they aren't doing it.

(Obviously they could start by not firing people who materially contributed to their success).

Photo of Kathleen Jennings, a woman with short brown hair. She wears a patterned blue shirt and a blue necklace. She stands in front of some trees.

Kathleen Jennings (@tanaudel.bsky.social) is an Australian writer and artist – and GoH at Swancon this year...

Where are you based? Brisbane!
Your work in brief: Gothic, Australian Gothic, fairy tales, and fairy-tale Gothic fiction and illustration.

Apparently the newest thing from AI book scammers is trying to line me up for a podcast to discuss a book I didn't write, under a name I don't recognise and that does not - as far as I could be bothered to determine - exist.

Exactly. As a class, the very wealthy had nearly 40 years of chances to contribute to improving society, and they instead chose more wealth and control for themselves.

Whatever comes next is on them.

The First WORLD FENCING LEAGUE is happening April 25th!!! I'M GEEKING!!!

Japanese engineers developed this "Sword Tip Visualisation" tracking technology specifically for this event that will make it so much easier for the average person to see what's going on!

I MUST WATCH THIS ENTIRE TOURNAMENT

They did it. They’ve really finally recreated the experience of trying to enjoy superhero comics. This is the most expensive “[Ish #215 -Ed.]” ever brought to pass

Gonna be honest, I'm a sucker for the franchise, but even I don't need to rewatch a movie I've seen three times for an extra ten minutes of "story". I'm just gonna watch the isolated clips when they're inevitably leaked to the internet.

This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

In the era of "we must exclude trans people from playing sport, for Fairness" it's actually quite sickening for various media outlets to be all "check out out, a ROBOT won a marathon!"

Great health tips from ChatPOD

An AI slop image showing the '12 steps to masterful game directing", including 'Connectiarg' and 'Porkon Cows'

People over on Facebook/YouTube/elsewhere on bluesky/reality have been mocking this, but these are all totally genuine and highly advanced GMing techniques pioneered in obscure corners of indie rpg design in the early 2000s.

Let's go through them one by one and learn together.

I'll happily give myself over to supernatural flimflammery for a sufficiently spectacular reordering of world affairs

Gosford Park (2001)

Gosford World (2015)

Gosford World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)

Love the musical build to that gag too

Accurate

Even within journalistic legal constraints, @theguardian.com I am pretty sure you are allowed to point out how indistinguishable this is from organised fraud and corruption

A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity Great swathes of rock music since the nineteen-sixties would never have existed, we're sometimes told, were it not for the recordings of Robert Johnson. Certainly the likes of Keith Richards, Eric Cla...

Holy SHIT someone found the test pressing of Robert Johnson's Cross Road Blues and it is clear as a PIN www.openculture.com/2026/04/reco...

Are you drunk right now?

That last bit is an especially egregious example of how fucking stupid they think we are.

I"ll have you know that dried giraffe tongue is a delicacy.

Not everything that breaks is technically the fault of vibe coding but the kind of culture that would foster vibe coding is the kind that produces a lot of shit that breaks.

When they said "AI will increase productivity" I didn't realize they meant "AI code will crash the social media networks on which I procrastinate, forcing me to actually do my job"

Obvious answer belatedly occurs to me: bartender knows who it's for and knows exactly what they were doing

Unrelated, but did he pull that beer himself? Because no self-respecting bartender did.

I dropped. My sales are negligible, so though I appreciate that ir's an anti-AI measure,which I sympathise with, it's not worth it to me to stay on board.

This hits fucking hard

ChatGPT: you’re right you’re so much smarter than him. He’s so schlubby and you’re so suave. Columbo will never catch you.