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Just bums me out when I get an update from someone I admire saying, "Great news! I'm going to Substack!" I mean, why. I get that some people joined a few years ago and are now trapped. But why join Substack now when there are way better alternatives?

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Hey A16Z, I've found a great candidate for you: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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I know it’s not the point but this kerning situation has ended me

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Strange that significant elements of Australia’s artistic and political elite were more vociferous in defending Bill Henson’s photos of naked children than Khaled Sabsabi’s art.

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

Real Frontline shit

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

Tea tree #treeoftheday (thanks to @virginia.alertbutnotalarmed.com for the photo)

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

This by Jacquelin Magnay on Sam Kerr is just disgusting shit.

submitted 13 days ago • 59 comments

the major parties have seen their primary votes fall from 96% in 1975 to 68% in 2022. they had two options to arrest the decline: 1. win back trust with good governance & good policy 2. rig the system tonight they chose to rig the system. a dark day for australian democracy.

submitted 13 days ago • 57 comments

(Don’t react don’t react don’t react) Who cares about straws, are you fucking three.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Shopify executives are vocally opposing the Canadian government — and now they’re being openly praised by the Conservative Party leader. They’re trying to extend Silicon Valley’s right-wing project to Canada — and need to be stopped.

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My first and definitely last time working with the Los Angeles Times. Editing out the most urgent point of an OpEd in the minutes before sending to press while then also assigning a title and image that suggest an argument entirely opposite to the author’s clear intent is pretty shitty.

submitted 24 days ago • 510 comments

Making a nice birthday card for my dad.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Never Substack. read.substack.com/p/the-fight-...

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Warms the cockles, it really does.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Le Pupille is a perfect film - a jewel. 39 minutes! More films should be 39 minutes. youtu.be/yxZ_xOx3-ow?...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

This goes so fucking hard dude

submitted 29 days ago • 23 comments

This is what not having a job looks like (today). It’s nice.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

🙄🤮

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Gotta get me one of these tees www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

Shout out to fine people of Brunswick for finally ridding the suburb of this thing. What a difference a few days can make

submitted 32 days ago • 15 comments

"Aust’s superannuation is a broken system that works to give the richest 10% over $20bn a year in tax breaks, while nearly 1 in 4 retirees live in poverty due to the miserable level of the age pension." "It is beyond absurd." - @grogsgamut.bsky.social #auspol www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

submitted 33 days ago • 10 comments

Fairfax has done three stories this week about Melbourne’s elite private clubs. What is happening over there.

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

Mark Zuckerberg— 2012: $44 billion 2025: $217 billion Jeff Bezos— 2012: $18 billion 2025: $245 billion Elon Musk— 2012: $2 billion 2025: $449 billion Federal Minimum Wage— 2009: $7.25/hr 2025: $7.25/hr Welcome to the United States of Oligarchy, folks.

submitted 35 days ago • 45 comments

Martin Luther King Jr. waits for a pitch from his daughter Yolanda in the backyard of their home in Atlanta (1964) #History #Baseball #MLKDay

submitted 35 days ago • 4 comments

Hey, couple notes on your post. Personally I think it's fine. Totally get it. But someone I imagined, in my head, might not like it. They haven't seen it yet but I'm just saying, if they did. They might freak out a little bit. Anyway take it down or I'm calling the cops

submitted 36 days ago • 32 comments

as the rollercoaster crests the top of the initial incline, the ratcheting noise slows and stops, and you can, right before the plunge, observe the entire amusement park

submitted 36 days ago • 154 comments

A few things that are characterized as insanely woke which I think are also sort of obvious and entirely supported by basic examination of factual evidence: * that women deserve to be treated with respect, to have equal rights and those rights include rights over their bodies

submitted 38 days ago • 2 comments

Drone wars but it’s me, remotely operating my parents’ robovac from the coffee shop

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Siri notification summaries are the most dogshit feature Apple has ever released. I’ve received two different messages where it’s got the meaning of “positive” wrong in the context of a cancer diagnosis (one in each direction).

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment