I was assured when I spent $4 million on a house that the adjacent stadium would stand eternal and silent sentinel as a monument to man's hubris. Now I'm cross
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i’m entitled to a quiet idyll in my autumn years living directly next to Allianz Stadium
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me when tilda swinton and idris elba are walking around Sydney Park at the end of three thousand years of longing
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Exiting the focus group and throwing my hood up like I’m Morbius
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Vapes banned. Phones in schools banned. Dole raised only for seniors. TikTok surely next. We have unleashed the political id of the focus group attendee
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if you want to cross the river styx (achieve social reform) you must pay the boatman (bribe the boomers)
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7NEWS can exclusively reveal the biggest change to the dole in years, with older jobseekers to receive higher welfare payments than their younger counterparts. 7NEWS.com.au #7NEWS
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big news for Lord Peach heads
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Air Chief Marshal the Lord Peach has been appointed to carry the Sword of Mercy.
#Coronation
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I take this as confirmation there's a bikie boss somewhere on the continent who loves listening to business podcasts and saying "they just like me fr"
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it's funny reading a tweet and then your eyes glazing over as you scroll past 20 twitter blue replies all saying some variation on "Huh...?" or "The data for the moon landing being fake is actually pretty compelling"
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AI has changed the PR game.
If you're a marketer or PR rep and you're not using generative AI, you're about to be wiped out.
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correlation is not causation
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Bright blue crayon marks were found on a statue that is more than two centuries old at a conservation site in England after crayons were handed out to children at the property, officials said. nyti.ms/3H78Nvq
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The most powerful AI in commercial use is the one they use to figure out which Asics you should get at Athlete’s Foot
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checking out Chinese EV maker BYD… beginning to suspect the entire global automotive industry is a makework scheme for this particular type of European guy
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now nobody will know i worked in digital media circa 2017. that’s so messed up
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I think it’s nice the leading manosphere guy has strong views on the Mariah vs Whitney debate… shows how far we’ve come as a society
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Don’t need to see anything more about the elite pronatalist couple thank you
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Loved Brisbane! If I may quote the great writer Mishima, “Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.”
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possibly the first time in history someone has reached for a Mishima quote to describe the Adelaide hinterland
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Flying from Adelaide to Darwin. Final opportunity to bid farewell to this wide brown land.
If I may borrow the vocabulary of the great writer Mishima Yukio, this is truly the Land of Fertility!
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(steam powered drill is invented) it's so over for steel drivers
(john henry races the steam drill and wins) we're so back. we are so fucking back
(but he dies in the process) it's so fucking over. it's never been more over
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retiring to the countryside in my autumn years... my remaining apes by my side... we had a good life, didn't we?
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"focus on my private life with my remaining apes" -- a new phrase to bounce around my head for the next week twitter.com/franklinisbore
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Mr Beast video idea: a 26 week (!!!) tournament where 17 teams of 13 men play on a rectangular field, attempting to advance a ball to the try line in sets of five possessions - but they are unable to pass the ball forwards - this would get lots of viewers
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historically unprecedented density of old guy fedoras at Buddy Guy at the State Theatre last night. breathtaking
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tired: join kochie and millions of aussie investors in investing in bitcoin. 100x returns GUARANTEED
wired: kochie is dead. RIP
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Ah Twitter.
So committed to combatting impersonation, misinformation and scams that we now receive news of Kochie’s untimely passing from Kitchens and Countertops Direct ads.
Truly a platform I trust for quality information.
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Biden asking if they still need RPG-7s these days
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we are so back
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One of the most disturbing revelations of TikTok and instagram reels for me is that millions of people live their lives with a smoke detecter in their home that beeps every 30 seconds due to low battery. And these people think this is normal, it doesn't bother them whatsoever
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this is one of the funniest things I've read in a long time, it's worth reading up to paragraph 18 and 19, an incredible story here austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdo
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either contrarian gamer rage is the new worldspirit in the hegelian sense, or it’s the perfect vessel for psyops and influence operations. both funny
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not clicking the article but i assume this quote is the plot in its entirety
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