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Sydney (but until recently Slough, UK) based architect and ultra-runner. Described by Samantha Bee as the most well informed thoughtful person to ever dress like the EU flag. @mat8iou on Twitter, Threads and Instagram
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I struggle more and more to separate parody from reality nowadays. This is apparently a joke - but feels so much like some of l actual posts I've seen.

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

At what point do people stop giving employment to these "commentators" who are consistently wrong about anything.

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

I wonder how many people were taken in by this at the time?

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

Makers of dark-colored roofing materials are waging a doubt-manufacturing lobbying campaign against policies that encourage reflective, city-cooling, energy-saving reflective rooftops. Easiest climate-saving move ever, but no. Money first for these guys. floodlightnews.org/this-little-...

submitted 12 hours ago • 3 comments

Long before billionaires were using AI to justify not phasing out fossil fuel, governments and business were using economic modelling to do the same.

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

when the AI bubble pops and corporations stop forcing AI down our throats i'll miss stuff like this

submitted 3 days ago • 107 comments

Bitcoin Style Encryption makes no sense in this concept. Is he just using tech sounding words to impress people? Does it mean weeks of compute time before you can send a new message?

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

This is like listening to an alien that has been programmed with an English dictionary, but zero understanding of even the most common idioms.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

During questioning on the House floor, Coates was asked about the chemicals involved. “Other than the nanoparticles of aluminum, what else have you found?” Newell said. “Barium. There is a few, some with long words that I can’t pronounce,” Coates said. 🙄

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Convinced my idea for Linear TV Summer Camps will avert civilisational collapse and I'm not even slightly joking

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

WTF?

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Why are they reporting it like it's a paramilitary coup?

submitted 3 days ago • 151 comments

WTF did I just watch?

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

being an academic in 2025 means setting up google alerts for your name to make sure government robots aren't hallucinating citations to nonexistent papers to legally justify their new Make Everyone Dead policy

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Did he feel this emotion before getting caught? "He gave evidence confirming he was ashamed and appalled by what he had done"

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

I tell you what, whoever that Swiss official is who made a very bold call to abandon the village a couple of weeks ago has earned a double fondue. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

This is the best team crossover video I've ever seen.

submitted 5 days ago • 596 comments

They falsified documents to avoid $30m USD in tax... Why are they being pardoned? Donald Trump says he'll pardon reality television stars Todd and Julie Chrisley, who were convicted on tax evasion and bank fraud charges in 2022. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

A remote beach in WA offers a glimpse into the severity of plastic pollution in the world's oceans.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

All the people complaining that the police have said the Liverpool driver was white British are the same people who made it necessary for the police to say he was white British.

submitted 7 days ago • 87 comments

The Egyptian god Thoth was half man, half ibis. That's right, ibis. It was a bin chicken with a human body. Possibly only Aussies will understand this - but once you have this image in your mind, you'll never see ancient Egyptian depictions of him the same way again.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Won't someone think of the poor Scots College parents... www.smh.com.au/cbd/scots-co...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

How did I never know before today that Gina Reinhart wrote poetry... Maybe if more people read it, they would revise their opinion that she is correct when she says she made her money by being uniquely talented.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

We are just one month away from Dan Hannan‘s Brexit celebration day and … he‘s having problems finding fireworks I guess? /1

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

If your product is only viable if it relies on using other people's work for free, then it is not a viable product.

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

I'm sure they'll leave a few to thrive in a new environment with minimal competition - like the ones that banned interracial dating among students until 2000. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Jon...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments