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Bill Standen
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Apple Music be trolling
Apple Music notification for a new single by The Sisters of Mercy, but not those Sisters of Mercy
November 10, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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Baked into every iPhone with the upcoming iOS version
The iOS 26 on device model responding with “Yes, I am an AI chatbot. I can help answer questions, provide information, and assist with a variety of topics. How can I help you now?” With a disclaimer “On-Device - Check important info for mistakes.”
August 4, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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Wasn’t half the point of that recommendation to get it out of Home Affairs because of the securitisation of multiculturalism in Australia?

www.homeaffairs.gov.au/multicultura...
Recommendation 11: Establish a Multicultural Affairs Commission and Commissioner, and standalone Department of Multicultural Affairs, Immigration and Citizenship, with a dedicated minister Full text in PDF linked in post under 5.1.1. Recommendation 11
June 3, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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Weirder things happen.
A listing for Portuguese tarts sold at Woolworths. Made in Portugal packed in Australia.
March 27, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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"If some cunt can fuck something up..."
The prime minister, sir keir starmer, says “there’s a famous slogan in the United Kingdom”
February 28, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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There is no such firewall here. Mainstream and bipartisan Australian abuses have been seen as a model for the German far right for years
An official Australian government anti-asylum seeker campaign poster declaring in red “NO WAY You will not make Australia home”. The slogan imposed over a photo of a small boat navigating heavy seas. A German far right sticker mimicking the official Australian campaign displayed in an exhibition. The plaque below reads, in German and English: “No way” Right-wing extremist sticker Germany, 2015; Berlin, Anti-fascist Press Archive and Education Center
February 24, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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She showed us who she was over 6 years ago
Screen shot of tweet by Sarah Ferguson reading "What's wrong with this photo? NOTHING", along with a photo of her standing shoulder to shoulder with Steve Bannon
February 6, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Jean-Luc Picard rocking a long sleeve t-skirt
December 11, 2024 at 1:52 AM
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They’re very Postman Pat to the Commonwealth audience.
A still from the stop motion animated Postman Pat. The eponymous Pat stands in front of a red Royal Mail van with a tall windscreen and cabin, his cat leaning out the window.
September 15, 2024 at 4:36 AM
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Larry from the Three Stooges, receding hair more disheveled than usual, with soot smeared across face and an exploded cigar in his mouth
August 23, 2024 at 2:02 AM
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Possibly showing my age here but it looks, specifically, like it was lifted from Stunts.
Title screen from Brøderbund Sotfware’s 1990 racing game Stunts. A pixel art yellow sports car leaps the title as a red one departs stage left below, a thread of flame behind the tyres
August 5, 2024 at 1:22 PM
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He was kind of a big deal in Papua
A Papuan highland war shield adorned with The Phantom’s face below the Good Mark protection symbol, and on a background of two columns of skulls.
April 29, 2024 at 2:43 PM
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Curious that the Open Arms, en route to Gaza with World Central Kitchen's food aid delivery, appears to have taken a sudden detour to the apron of Beirut International Airport on publicly available tracking.
March 13, 2024 at 10:53 AM
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Is your issue with the tweet or with the Secretary-General’s answer?

The transcript is here: https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/sg/press-encounter/2023-11-20/secretary-generals-press-conference-unep-emissions-gap-report-launch
A screenshot of the UN Secretary-General’s response to the last question in the linked transcript
November 21, 2023 at 3:58 PM
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Victoria’s entire portion of the federal housing fund will deal with just 1.4% of our extant wait list.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

We’re really not taking this seriously yet.
Text: Andrews said all 769 dwellings would be delivered using $500m from the federal government, which is the state's share of the $2bn fund.
September 19, 2023 at 1:50 AM