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Revealed today: NACC Commissioner Paul Brereton has attended 18 formal Defence functions as Major General since July 2023 - all while supposedly independently investigating Defence corruption. He even asked the Chief of Army for a favour to keep his rank. Conflict of interest?

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BREAKING: We're now describing the Liverpool driver as a "lovely man" with a "nice family" after discovering he is white British ♥️

submitted 8 days ago • 98 comments

From DOGE to SEAGULL en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seagull... "flew in, made a lot of noise, [shat on everyone], then flew out again, leaving others to deal with the consequences"

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Can not wait for AI personal assistants.

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Big knives are now illegaler than ever before.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

I probably have to declare a conflict of interest when reposting articles like this.

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This bespoke exception for the Fed is one of the most brazenly made-up things I've ever seen the Supreme Court do (which is saying something). There is no principled basis to distinguish the Fed from other independent agencies. The conservative justices just don't want Trump to crash the market!

submitted 14 days ago • 178 comments

imagine waking up and thinking it's a bit cloudy today and looking out of the window and---

submitted 15 days ago • 25 comments

The amazing detail in this story is this lad's neighbour frantically whistling to try and draw the ship's attention to the dangerous local hazard known as [checks notes] Norway. If it hadn't noticed houses are generally stand on vessels a bit of whistling probably ain't going to do it, fella.

submitted 15 days ago • 58 comments

Looks like Labor is about to approve the North West shelf gas expansion, which among bad news for the planet and WA energy costs is terrible for the nearby Murujuga rock art - which is so old, it has one of the first known depictions of the human face australiainstitute.org.au/post/woodsid...

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We know ketamine can have an amazing effect on depression. What I didn't realise: they've made very strong progress on why. At an actual cellular level. 1/2

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Six months from now the Nats are going to lean into Family Court Dad Energy so hard

submitted 17 days ago • 12 comments

I can think of two reasons why this terrible business name was selected and I hope I'm wrong about vampire erotica.

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Nationals leaving Coalition as David Littleproud announces split with Liberal party after election defeat

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Someone has kidnapped Oscar the grouch.

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fun fact: for almost a year, Apple + Android users have finally been able to join the same group chat, send images that don't get shrunk and see "typing" indicator (thanks to the RCS protocol) Except not in Australia because our telcos haven't turned it on! @thesizzle.com.au thesizzle.com.au/p/a...

submitted 23 days ago • 10 comments

The post about extreme wealth being the cognitive equivalent to a daily kick in the head from a mule comes, unbidden, to mind.

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Billionaires enjoy the same social interactions as one might have with an eight-year-old holding a handgun. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Cleansed. My @smh @theage cartoon.

submitted 28 days ago • 19 comments

I mean honestly considering the outcome this could be very good news?

submitted 29 days ago • 62 comments

The best part of this is the number of people who felt they needed to post the solution.

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she's a 10 but one of her legs is a 6. assuming that she's the hypotenuse, solve for her other leg.

submitted 31 days ago • 35 comments

Turns out the F/A doesn't stand for floating airplane.

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

I feel really stupid asking again

submitted 30 days ago • 228 comments

The return of Wilson.... #auspol

submitted 31 days ago • 17 comments

We released Wolfenstein 3D on this day (May 5th) in 1992. Here's a local television news report about it. What an amazing time that was. #wolfenstein #gamedev #retrogames

submitted 31 days ago • 87 comments

Facebook tracked when adolescent girls deleted selfies so it can serve a beauty ad to them at that moment. 😳

submitted 32 days ago • 37 comments

When @AlboMP acknowledged country last night….. that was the fucking best.

submitted 33 days ago • 26 comments

Hardcoded credentials in the Signal archiving tool used by the White House is a five-alarm security dumpster fire.

submitted 33 days ago • 48 comments