Australia: Sends a Wedgetail to track Iranian missiles and drones, and supplies some air to air missiles for others to shoot them down to protect civilian lives in Gulf States.
Greens: "Let them die"
We finally figured out what's the go is with the au pair. "Grassroots campaign" for taxpayer funded nannies and au pairs is astro-turfed by ex-staffers and a Liberal consultancy. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
There's an entire group of people whose minds were completely broken by Covid, that just roll on from one barking mad idea to the next as some sort of therapeutic contrarianism
Figurines of Brady Bunch and Partridge Family fighting each other
I have created a diorama of the Partridge family attacking the Brady Bunch family. My life is very boring.
Like most brilliant shows, we stumbled upon it late one Saturday or Friday (?) night on the ABC. But cannot understand why it never got the same traction as other programs. At least we were able to find the dvd copy at JB HiFi a few years later
Step 1: Install above-ground pool in backyard
Step 2: Hire a ute, fill tray up with diesel, take the diesel home and empty the tray into the pool
Step 3: Repeat until pool is full
Step 4: Wait 1 month
Step 5: Profit
Like early episodes of Dr Who, there may be copies somewhere in someone’s storage unit
I wonder whether it’s (conspiracy theory voice) to ensure it’s cult classic status:)
Look, I don't know if Australia *should* take any action we're contemplating in terms of providing assistance to the UAE, Qatar et al, but the people acting as if anything we do is "joining the US" are extremely annoying.
A dvd cover of a short lived UK tv program called Ultraviolet
The piss tank on the ISS is now 71% full.
Seems relevant - all news organisations, including public broadcasters, don't care what you think about their programs. They only care about your eyeballs. Hatewatching a program is identical to being a fanboi of it. They die when eyeballs stop.
Anyone got any recommendations for how to do family history interviews? My mum wants to get her life story down & I’ve volunteered to interview/tape/transcribe/assemble it. Had our first go yesterday and what emerged was not 6000 words of publishable, coherent, emotionally precise reflection.
So Taco tacoed
celegraph Trump calls Iran war 'complete' after call with Putin
“Mission accomplished” - the (even more of an) idiot’s version.
And he didn’t just call it complete - it’s “very complete”.
Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi says several countries, including China, Russia and France, have contacted Iran about a possible ceasefire.
Lindsey’s diplomacy working wonders in UAE.
NATO shoots down an Iranian ballistic missile that entered Turkish airspace TODAY, Turkish Defense Ministry says.
He also said that a “large tanker” went through the Strait of Hormuz “about 24 hours ago.” He did not identify the tanker, and a spokesman for the Department of Energy did not respond to requests for more details on the ship. A small tanker apparently carrying fuel oil went through the strait in the last 24 hours, said Dimitris Ampatzidis, a senior risk and compliance analyst at Kpler, a global ship tracking firm. Its transponder, a device that transmits a ship’s location, was on, which is why it could be tracked. Vessels sometimes turn off their transponders to avoid being spotted in the strait. Mr. Ampatzidis said the vessel, the Parimal, appeared to have connections to Iran. “I don’t believe this vessel can be used as an indication that traffic through the Strait of Hormuz is returning to normal,” he said.
This confirmation that Energy Sec Chris Wright was boasting that IRAN was able to get a tanker thru the Strait raises an interesting possibility: That China resume shipping oil, but no one else can.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/b...
I know someone in Fitzroy with three wheelie bins full of diesel. Nothing to do with me but he says good price for you cash.
Using Shoebridge’s logic, aus shouldn’t have sent Bushmasters to Ukraine, which I am sure some of his most ardent supporters would have issue with
the profits have spoken
Musk isn't putting a server farm in space and he isn't launching a million rockets. Don't say "it will be v bad for the environment if Musk launches a million rockets", say "this man is a fraud, his pyramid scheme will collapse at about the time his crony [redacted], and all of this shit is pretend"
Matt is one of the truly good ones of the film critic community, and is always thoughtful and kind in both his online dealings and his writing.
Now's a good time to strongly consider purchasing some of his stuff.
You won't regret it.
When talking about the enshittification of something, we need to work out a scale of bad to really bad and call it the enshittifactor.
Former New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern has criticised the dominance of “strongman” leadership in global politics, arguing the model has failed to deliver the stability and unity many voters once hoped it would.
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Get the facts on fuel supply.
All these people whining about a entry fee to the new Twelve Apostles visitor centre better not visit Cradle Mountain then. Victoria really is full of whingers. 🙄🙄🙄
To try and shore up public support Charles X invaded Algeria in the hope a quick victory would be popular. He didn't see out the year but France was still fighting there 130 years later
They don’t think they are intelligent, they think that they are right
