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Wow. Excellent stat.

In the news: In which we learn that our leaders find it easier to believe "AI is the future" than to believe that actual, living human beings who make art for a living have rights and deserve respect. Our consent doesn't matter to them. Only appeasing the tech bros matters.

It’s hard to overstate how dangerous this is. He’s got over 60 million monthly listeners on Spotify - he is reaching so many people with his hate and his listeners are discovering hate figures through him. Grim times.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

Tom Brown you star. #aflsky #afltigerseagles

Yep

A whole lot of truth here. And it ain't good truth, for the most part.

If you read nothing else today, read this. Naomi Klein deftly summarizes the whole ballgame. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Leopards. Faces

whoa

Government officials make a long list of possible causes of penguin deaths, including “unusually high sea temperatures”. The aversion to even mentioning climate change and global heating is astonishing and fundamentally dishonest. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

Bandt-bash enters day 3. No-one else to pile on this week, #NewsCorpse? No-one else to 𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒍𝒚 accuse of hatemongering (unlike Bandt, who merely opposed genocide) and 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒅 to divide us on the Indigenous Voice, or scary Muslims from Lakemba? Did no-one else 𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝒔𝒆𝒂𝒕? Think hard, guys. ↘️

Sussssssan Ley vs Angus 'great job' Taylor for the Liberal leadership. One changed the spelling of her name due to numbers, the other could be deemed to be pretty questionable in handling numbers. Should be a riveting contest .... #auspol #ausvotes

Geez. Maybe they couldn't. Even the commentary talked about their tendency to settle for the outside jumper - though the Knicks defence did contain them too. Interesting to see the adjustments for Game 3 - both ways.

Superb writing. www.nytimes.com/athletic/632... #nbasky

This account does not miss. Frame this post and put it in the Louvre. #knickssky

Yes.

Kevin Harlan's commentary sending chills up the spine. My word.

Brunson's point of attack defense the past two games has been very - perhaps even surprisingly - good. Opposition have gone at him and he has battled and worked and competed. Credit to him. #nbasky #knickssky #nbaplayoffs

Join the club. 30 years and feel the same.

As a longtime, cynical Knicks fan versed in so much failure and ineptitude, this is absolutely mindblowing stuff. Again, they fight, they claw and they don't give up. Their effort can't be questioned even if their results sometimes can. I top my hat. #knickssky #nbasky #nbaplayoffs

MIKAL M'FN BRIDGES

This is just extraordinary.

I feel really stupid asking again

Wilson: "Nuclear power is part of building the future industrial base of our country. If we don’t do that, then we are saying either we’re going back to coal, or we as a nation are going to end industrialisation. That is not a future I am prepared to accept." Holy shite. He can't be that dumb.

I’ve critiqued some of the elements of modern basketball before but last night gave 2 glaring issues for me Boston settling for usual 3s and Jayson Tatum not attacking more down the stretch. Terrible. OKC fouling up 3 with Jokic out. 1 of the best D teams in the league settling. Shameful.

I'm unconvinced we should be subsidising production of Hollywood films here. Better to give more support (financial and with content requirements for streaming services) to Australian productions. If Trump pushes us to break with the US industry, so much the better #auspol www.abc.net.au/liste...

Karl Stefanovic interviewing Penny Wong 3 days after the ALP wins an absolutely smashing victory: STEFANOVIC: Will the PM stay a full term?

Love watching the league’s best defense repeatedly fouling up 3 with less than 20 seconds left because the math says that’s what you do, this is a good and cool reflection of NBA skill that is fun to watch

Yep. You have to see time being run time off the clock before fouling. The more time there is, the more variables there are, the more things can happen. That said, Denver had no timeouts and Jokic was on the bench. Back your defence in. Don't foul, play it out. #NBAsky #NBAplayoffs

Media introspection? Yeah, doubt it. #ausvotes #auspol www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/e...

Love the explanation and transparency. Not great there has been an error, but the AEC coming out and explaining (yes, this is an ABC screengrab, but the AEC have proffered the explanation) is something the voting public should value. The alternative doesn't bear thinking about. #ausvotes

Excellent news.

Yes. There will be changes for sure.

This is the thing. Boston attacked what it saw (and what is) the Knicks weakness in defending the three. Failed spectacularly tonight, but the game still went to OT. Now, will Boston now chase more 2pt FGs or will they reason that they will shoot better and return to 3ptFG in Game 2. #NBAsky

People keep asking why NBA players don't play as hard during the regular season as they do during this Knicks-Celtics game and the answer is because if they did several players would die by February.

Page One must have been crowded. So NYT puts it on Page 13. 🤡 @schooley.bsky.social

Absolutely.

That is as brave as hell, Knicks. Brave as hell. Just compete guys - compete, work hard, defend, do as much as you can. Leave it on the court and let's see if it is good enough over a series. But that was very very good. #nbasky #knickssky #NBAplayoffs

END OF 3Q: Celtics 84, Knicks 75 Kudos to New York for battling. Down 20 and made a big run. Can't understate how good Josh Hart has been. Celtics still shooting like the 2024-25 Magic.

Robinson screens for Jalen Brunson, Kornet in a drop but look at the screen navigation from Derrick White. Rest of the Celtics staying at home, what I like from Brunson is him turning this into a handoff for OG. No switch, OG gets downhill and it's a foul.

I give the Knicks credit. They have no right really being this close, but they have persisted. I can't see them taking this series beyond 6 games. But they are fighting and working. For that they get credit. But I think Boston will be too good. Though happy to be proved wrong! #NBAsky #KnicksSky

This is an official plan for ethnic cleansing. If you supported Israel for the past 18 months or so under the assumption that this was about the hostages you were taken for a ride. If you still support Israel's assault on Gaza, you support ethnic cleansing. It's that simple.