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Not A Getaway Driver
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Automotive product development has a long lead time, which explains them being a little late to the party, but I think it’s great that Toyota will soon sell you a full size version of the family car from ‘Bluey’
The new Toyota Land Cruiser FJ, with its short overhangs, and rather tall but narrow body. The Heeler family wagon from ‘Bluey’. Prior to the new FJ it reminded me most of a Jeep Renegade, but they’ve always been a relatively uncommon sight on Australian roads.
November 10, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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I mean showing my age sure, but also I discovered it via the Windows 95 installation disc.
Weezer’s Blue Album.
October 29, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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I’m not saying heavy metal poisoning is an issue in the products approved for sale in Australia, but I am saying that of my colleagues the same ones who champion using Copilot to write their SQL are also the same ones that talk a lot about their protein and preworkout powder regimens.
A screenshot from a Forbes piece about protein powder poisoning (that’s fun to say!): • Consumer Reports tested 23 popular protein powders and ready-to-drink shakes, finding more than two-thirds of the products had more lead in a single serving than Consumer Reports' experts have said is safe to consume in one day. • Some of the products contained 10 times more lead than is safe to consume in a day, according to the report. • Nearly all the plant-based products tested contained elevated levels of lead, with two having so much lead that Consumer Reports cautions against using them at all.
October 18, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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Murray the dog from ‘Mad About You’ standing on the dining table for unexplained reasons.
October 5, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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I’m so sorry. Here’s Brian, trying to out why the people sit on the sofa like that.
A cat reclining on a sofa like a person.
October 3, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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So you’re saying the ideal superhero costume looks more or less like The Captain? I don’t exactly disagree.
Two early frames from Nextwave where The Captain (not actually captain of anything) starts to explain where he got his name. His cargo pants, Chuck Taylors, and trench coat seem far more practical than spandex and a cape.
September 23, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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I got this out of CoPilot, which - amongst other things - insists Canberra is up near Lithgow and simultaneously an exclave of the ACT.
Victoria is named Tasmania and Tasmania is named Hobart, and the islands off the Northern Territory are rendered as a stray line, suggesting that if you want to destroy my country hold this thread as I walk away, so I guess it got that bit right?
August 8, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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Those are the strangest zeroes I’ve seen in a hot minute.
It’s from the Special Envoy’s report into Antisemitism. And the typeface is distracting.
July 25, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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Telling my kids this was the Coldplay Jumbotron couple.
Epstein and Maxwell in a similar pose to the CEO/HR affair couple, but with the exposure and brightness cranked to make the image similarly shitty.
July 23, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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FISK!!!
An office building in North Melbourne ostensibly housing “Gruber & Gruber Solicitors.”
July 14, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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The car chase from Raid 2: The Redemption.
July 6, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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What do you imagine this cake is supposed to resemble?

There are no wrong answers.
A small pink cake with a pink hemispherical dome on the top; the dome has a narrow wedge cut out of it revealing the cakey insides.
June 6, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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I mean do antisemites deserve to have their point of view shown up on screen? I’m not a monster; I’ll give you one instance where that’s okay.
The point of view camera shot from the end of Inglorious Basterds where Brad Pitt is about to joyously carve a cruder-than-usual swastika into the forehead of the damned Nazi through whose eyes we are supposedly viewing the scene.
June 3, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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I don’t know about ‘the most’ but I think about this book *a lot*
‘Leviathan’ by John Birmingham.
May 22, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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“I’m a people.”
Brian the cat, sitting on the couch like a person would, his tail stretched straight out in the gap between cushions.
May 9, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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Bet you aren’t.
A Guardian article titled “I’ve realised I am too contrarian. How do I change this?”
May 9, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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May 3, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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May 3, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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James McGrath the most fun watch of the night.
May 3, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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I received a copy of this from my godparents when I was about one, which in retrospect may have age inappropriate. Between this and a books on tape version of Derek Jacobi reading 1984 I had some weird influences growing up.
The folded open cover of Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War of the Worlds.
April 30, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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I did not have Jon Arbuckle pegged as a someone who would daily a classic Mazda Cosmo.
A screengrab from the Netflix Garfield series showing what is clearly a cartoon ‘67-‘72 Mazda Cosmo.
April 21, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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He’s a weird little guy sometimes, our Brian.
Brian the cat contorted at a weird angle with one eye wider than the other, one ear folded back against his head, and a funny little crooked grin that’s the result of losing an incisor in an altercation with a car about 14 months ago.
April 17, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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A film that takes place where you’re from:
A screenshot of the pop up book from The Babadook
April 17, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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That’s a good endgame for 7yo #1 considering it’s only his, like, 6th game ever, and he wasn’t mirroring my moves.
A game of chequers where two players are in deadlock and neither side has lost a piece.
March 11, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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I picked the wrong day to listen to John Carpenter’s film scores while I work.
This is a Guardian news post that is essentially the prologue to John Carpenter’s Escape From LA (or - if you prefer - the ol’ ‘Reverse Scarface’). ‘US secretary of state Marco Rubio says El Salvador's president has offered to accept deportees from the U.S. of any nationality as well as violent American criminals now imprisoned in the United States. President Nayib Bukele, "has agreed to the most unprecedented, extraordinary, extraordinary migratory agreement anywhere in the world," Rubio said. “He's also offered to do the same for dangerous criminals currently in custody and serving their sentence in the United States even though they're US citizens or legal residents."’
February 4, 2025 at 3:54 AM