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Australian who talks, writes & thinks (and sometimes gets paid for the privilege). Delighted by shiny things, travel, family and cryptic crosswords.
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Can I suggest that if the next two weeks are not hell on earth for congress that the US will be back here within three months? You don’t have to march on Washington. 500 people can peacefully clog the roads where they live. A mariachi band can peacefully ensure they never sleep again.

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Eight people in South Sudan, including five children, died on a three-hour walk to seek medical treatment for cholera after US aid cuts forced local health services to close, the UK-based charity Save the Children said reut.rs/3E9kB27

submitted 4 days ago • 517 comments

I hate that I’m back waking up and checking the stupidest man say the stupidest things while his even stupider outriders out-stupid each other to be named stupid sycophant of the day. It’s a global mushroom cloud of dumb.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

This is brutal. The big question is, will they advertise or just leave this simmering on social. Would make a hell of a Fox News split screen.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

A true heater 48 hours for The Onion, in my unbiased opinion.

submitted 8 days ago • 227 comments

Norfolk Island independence movement the big winner of the trade war

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold

submitted 9 days ago • 563 comments

There is nothing good that comes from having a President of the United States who is gobsmackingly stupid, surrounded by obsequious courtiers and fellow morons. But the sooner we collectively acknowledge that truth, the sooner we can fix it.

submitted 10 days ago • 65 comments

This is literally the thinking at play. Utter moronity.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

I was going to get the train today. But I am increasingly concerned at the deficit I’m running with Great Northern Rail. I buy a lot from them and they purchase nothing from me. Tempted to apply a 20% tariff. Sure my tickets will cost 20% more but it might mean I buy fewer and reduce the deficit.

submitted 10 days ago • 62 comments

It looks like they just fed their 'model' into a standard dataset to get the tariffs - hence they have ended up 'recognising' Taiwan and tariffing uninhabited islands. It looks like this is the dataset they used www.census.gov/foreign-trad.... And it's certainly the one ChatGPT links to ;)

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

The list of tariffs Trump is imposing includes the uninhabitable Heard and McDonald islands, where penguins and beetles have been hit with a 10% "reciprocal" tariff for their non-existent exports to the US. Stop helping insane people manufacture consent by using their language

submitted 10 days ago • 27 comments

One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.

submitted 14 days ago • 123 comments

Not to be a wide-eyed naïf about such things but... am I right in thinking that they levelled an entire building to get to one guy and *that* is not controversial to anyone in the American media or political class, only that this information was recklessly shared in an unsecured chat?

submitted 17 days ago • 1720 comments

the speed at which these guys have broken everything has given a lot of folks who should know better the impression that they are an unstoppable force and the only option is to negotiate the terms of surrender just because the clown car goes very fast does not mean it isn’t full of clowns

submitted 18 days ago • 99 comments

The most obvious lesson to draw from the leaked Signal chat is that these people really are morons. It's not a public act, it's not a schtick, there's not some secret back room where they drop the facade. They are genuinely stupid, incompetent people.

submitted 18 days ago • 1147 comments

These images really are something, aren't they? They remind me of that scene in the last Matrix film (of the three) when the streets are lined with many Agent Smith's and Neo is walking in the centre as a central figure. More of Ümit's work here: www.instagram.com/umitbektas/

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Surprising to hear that a government formed exclusively of a country’s most stupid people isn’t really working out.

submitted 19 days ago • 279 comments

The NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER added the EDITOR OF THE ATLANTIC to a PRINCIPALS COMMITTEE TEXT CHAIN set up for the DEFENSE SECRETARY about PLANNED MILITARY STRIKES. Here's a thread of involved parties talking about the need for secure communications (when Dems are involved):

submitted 19 days ago • 370 comments

First he makes you cower, then he makes you crawl.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

"On October 8, 1931, a law went into effect requiring every Italian university professor to sign an oath pledging their loyalty to the government of Benito Mussolini. Out of over 1,200 professors in the country, only 12 refused. All of them were immediately fired." www.chronicle.com/article/what...

submitted 22 days ago • 338 comments

GDPR has some questions

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Imagine calling yourself the master race and have to resort to erasing the achievements of minorities to make yourself feel better.

submitted 24 days ago • 966 comments