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one of the worst consequences of Elon's purchase of Twitter was that it supercharged a fake OSINT community who ape the appearance of credible OSINT work while actually putting out nonsense. a lot of grifters have made money off Ukraine and Gaza this way and now one of them may have killed people

submitted 20 hours ago • 27 comments

Australians and our politics live a life of such extreme privilege, that we had a debate about who will be the next PM, hosted by some of the dumbest units ever to grace our political media, and not one of the (by my count) 7 most important issues that will eat the next PMs time were canvassed

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

Two headlines in the New York Times today.

submitted 9 days ago • 1429 comments

is any one in power willing to stand up and punish donkey kong for all the horrible noises he has made during his games

submitted 11 days ago • 89 comments

If we make it through this dark period with democracy intact, it may be because the administration's incompetence was greater than its depravity.

submitted 13 days ago • 1769 comments

Am I unusual for wanting to hear from both PM candidates about the fucking concentration camps Trump is deporting brown people to without due process? Because I know where this goes. They just talk utter shit instead. Pissy little vassal state bullshit. Painfully unserious.

submitted 13 days ago • 29 comments

If you’re an Aussie journalist and you’re not standing with Mary Kostakidis, Antoinette Lattouf, Peter Lalor & Michael West as Zionists try to silence them, well, you’re not a journalist. You’re a shill. You’re greasing the path to fascism and you can absolutely go fuck yourself.

submitted 15 days ago • 30 comments

Feels like we’re watching the endgame of a decades-long project on the right to make it uncool to understand stuff

submitted 23 days ago • 88 comments

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

submitted 22 days ago • 876 comments

The thing about living in a Paul Verhoeven movie is that those movies were fun because they weren’t actually happening

submitted 23 days ago • 22 comments

"It's your right to flip positions in response to the polls without going into the office" said Dutton Read more: chaser.com.au/national/dut...

submitted 23 days ago • 7 comments

Give this photo a Pulitzer

submitted 24 days ago • 58 comments

The Nationals leader has just said children who commit crimes should have their civil rights "put aside" if anyone was wondering how the campaign was going.

submitted 24 days ago • 123 comments

Yeah nah I think I prefer it when debates about who gets civil rights are memorialised in a museum - because we’ve been through this bollocks already.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

People need to understand that the Liberal Party has a culture where lies, misrepresentation and manipulation are just means to political power ends.

submitted 24 days ago • 30 comments

It's a good idea to not gut the public service. Our research shows the APS is not large in historical terms or by any international comparison. Cutting the public service is not 'efficient'. Service delivery suffers and/or money is spent on contractors & consultants to meet demand.

submitted 24 days ago • 11 comments

Dutton: "We no longer want to cut the public service."

submitted 25 days ago • 25 comments

submitted 26 days ago • 52 comments

1) Fox News is for real not showing stock-market ticker during this week's collapse. 2) Its economic news is "strong jobs report." 3) Every time I've checked in today, the coverage has been "illegal immigrants committing new crimes." This is state propaganda, on a par with North Korea or PRC.

submitted 27 days ago • 1279 comments

Gen Z and Millennials: In ten years when we’re still without a cure and you’re caring for your parents, remember what he did.

submitted 27 days ago • 1444 comments

Pot, meet kettle.

submitted 26 days ago • 35 comments

...And most of the history books on the bonfire outside.

submitted 27 days ago • 18 comments

it is because they want to impoverish the country! they don’t want high end manufacturing. they want americans working subsistence wages making t shirts and clothes hangers

submitted 27 days ago • 229 comments

Somehow this doesn't feel like a stock market crash because usually those are caused by a complex interplay between many players in a chaotic system and not some guy.

submitted 27 days ago • 21 comments

[To the tune of Rock The Casbah] Tax the penguins

submitted 27 days ago • 7 comments

From my article on the outrage regarding ‘influencers’ at the budget (via @theshot.net.au) Read it here theshot.net.au/uncategorize...

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

"It's reciprocal theft" Read more: chaser.com.au/general-news...

submitted 27 days ago • 4 comments

What the f is the ABC doing calling blog posts on Gina’s company website “news”? Why the f is the ABC pushing the LNP line instead of explaining how fucked it is that this billionaire has this much influence over Australian politics? www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

A report out today by Chief Economist @grogsgamut.bsky.social shows that not only do rises in minimum wages not affect inflation but award wages have lost around 4% of their real value compared to 2020 futurework.org.au/report/the-c...

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

Kim Williams is right that various news influencers who critique mainstream media rely on the journalism done there, but that doesn’t explain why the ABC itself has given up trying to reach people <40. It’s also a bit rich considering ABC radio relies heavily on newspapers often with no atrribution.

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

And there you have it - new media is still media, according to the AEC and gets the same excemptions. Everyone clutching their pearls over new voices and platforms emerging in the media space need to calm their farms www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

submitted 28 days ago • 15 comments

Hate to be millennial about it all but it is just mental that my whole working life has just been a series of recessions and “economic shocks”, underpinned by stagnant wages

submitted 28 days ago • 458 comments

"When was the last time you said 'thank you,' Mr. Penguin?"

submitted 28 days ago • 568 comments

Absolutely tired of the psychodrama of one country being the problem of the entire planet.

submitted 28 days ago • 426 comments

The quiet part out loud on why they really want to control the school curriculum. It’s all about protecting their fossil fuel donors #auspol #ausvotes25

submitted 29 days ago • 50 comments

Well just go somewhere else then

submitted 30 days ago • 41 comments

Derided by critics as a vanity project, in reality Malcolm Turnbull's gathering of defence experts was willing to grapple with the issue politicians don't want to discuss: Trump. Bernard Keane reports.

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

The Victorian Liberals haven’t tweeted once, ever, about their doomed nuclear plan. Guess what else they've never mentioned - Peter Dutton. Not once in the last year, at all. But their last five consecutive tweets? All attacking Dr Monique Ryan. What do you make of it? It's extraordinary.

submitted 30 days ago • 15 comments

Huge trust deficit from Gen Z & millennial voters in govts' capacity to act on the things they care about. Not surprising when we see the lack of political courage to tackle the root causes of the big issues we face from housing to protecting Nature. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...

submitted 31 days ago • 20 comments

"Now I'll have my own waterfront mansion to hold the soirees, with ample room for yacht parking.” Full article here: chaser.com.au/national/dut...

submitted 31 days ago • 7 comments

Utterly wild that people urging the Australian government to acknowledge the global reality of an authoritarian USA, like serious countries are doing, are met with 'that's unrealistic' critiques. This is a country of cowards that would prefer our politics to forever be in the realm of make believe.

submitted 32 days ago • 57 comments

Temu Trump wanting to be Mr Harbourside Mansion is very on brand

submitted 32 days ago • 29 comments

This is very smart www.thebulwark.com/p/how-to-thi...

submitted 32 days ago • 472 comments

Forget wearing the same suit for a whole day. I want a PM who’s so focused on delivering for Australians they never stop to change their underwear. True leaders paint a vision for our future with their very skid marks.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

In Australia we call this the politics of envy

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments