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📚Avid reader | 🏳️‍🌈 Even more avid homosexual | 🐕 Dachshund owner | 🏃🏼Runner “I’m not so sure he’s mad, Father. Just a little devious in his sanity.”
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Further: any left-wing project is going to have a far higher chance of success if it's actually enjoyable for those participating in it.

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Such diversity. Really reflecting Australia in 2025.

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

This is like Pravda celebrating the technical achievements of the No. 3 Agricultural Machines Factory. So much better than the West, comrade! And no, it's not your job to ask questions.

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Fascinated by these commercials for AI where some young ambitious things gets AI to slop out a presentation or something mere minutes before rocking up to a meeting. Are there actually businesses where it wouldn't be immediately apparent to all competent people?

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I’m not sure forcing China to accelerate developing those technological capabilities it currently doesn’t have is the geopolitical masterstroke some seem to think.

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“Find what you love, and let it kill you.” -- Charles Bukowski (allegedly)

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As always, the EU works for European capital, and couldn't give a fuck about European citizens.

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*sad trombone noise*

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Humiliating for NATO secretary-general Mark Rutte, who just yesterday was telling us that the US is "completely committed" to NATO.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

One of the best games ever.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

THIS. Where is the standard for health funding as a per cent of GDP? Or education funding? Or welfare?

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“Traylor! Put on your shacket so you don’t catch cold!”

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One might also say BA passengers are being treated to a lovely view of Pratt's Bottom.

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I guess that’s one way to move yourself six hours closer to your inevitable, looming death.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

California NIMBYs oppose a bill that legalizes denser housing near transit because it “discriminates against disabled people”… I wish I was making this up if you live in California, call or email your state senator in support of SB79 because building more housing near transit is good, actually

submitted 10 days ago • 19 comments

Liberals love to sneer at poor people, then wonder why they don’t vote Democrat. Those stupid poors, getting what they deserve, eh?

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My Apple Watch informs me I’m “smashing” my exercise ring this week.

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One of my current distractions is the YouTube channel of a NZ guy who’s outsourced his entire life to ChatGPT. Yes, really.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Dachshund with patterned tiles, 2025.

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Christmas in July just gets worse.

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Hang this in the Louvre.

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As a heads up for the political left, people can probably be persuaded by some (many, even) left-coded answers to reducing crime. But if you make it a choice between "crime is fine, actually, get over it" and right-wing solutions, well, even Duterte would win.

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The best thing about this is that he fought so hard to get here, and he’s got another 4 years of it to suffer through.

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Considering how much of the online left is defending the stupid “you should let strangers use your bank account to funnel money to people in a foreign country because vibes” discourse, perhaps it’s understandable why we so rarely win.

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"I'd do it myself but.....you know."

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

I have pinkeye, which has obviously been caused by reading your skeets.

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Apropos my screen name, the Functional Melancholic has released a new video, in his inimitable style, discussing why we yearn for the asteroid. "We want the game to end, so we can stop pretending we understood the rules in the first place."

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You have to almost admire someone who can make the unhinged prison ranting in Mein Kampf look erudite and intellectual.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

I always point to Vivid any time someone tells me “Australia doesn’t have culture.”

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

This. If your post gets any attention, you’ll get arrogant, unwanted replies from serious know-it-alls. It feels so tedious sometimes.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Went to the Technikmuseum Sinnsheim today, the only place outside Russia where you can see a Tu-144. Nifty.

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Social media is like if you massively scaled up those experiments where people will self-administer electric shocks instead of sitting alone with their thoughts.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Under communism, when you paste something into a word document, it will paste without formatting by default.

submitted 19 days ago • 16 comments