PlsUseYourBrain

@useyourbrain

humanism, secularism, realism, anti-theism, anti-superstition, anti-irrationalism, anti-supernaturalism, anti-fucking-stupidism.

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PlsUseYourBrain@useyourbrain· 18d

Thankfully there are still dogs.

Dark brindle greyhound, reclining on a blanket covered in penguins, looking happy about something. It might be the toys he got for his birthday, or perhaps it's the compliments he's getting for the snazzy tie he's wearing.

PlsUseYourBrain@useyourbrain· 21d

Oh wow. The LNP government lied?? Shocked.

PlsUseYourBrain@useyourbrain· 22d

I expect poor old Barny isn't even top ten.

PlsUseYourBrain@useyourbrain· 22d

Image of Pauline Hanson and Gina Rinehart

PlsUseYourBrain@useyourbrain· Jul 9

That Drought Envoy report was finally released under FOI.

The Drought Envoy Report consisting of a text message conversation between Barnaby Joyce (B) and ScoMo (S). Complete with drunken typos.

{begin transcript}

B: G'day ScoMo. Jst reporting in from longreach. It's bloody dry out here.

S: Righto

B: Me again. Just been to Bedourie. That was dry too. Now I'm here in St George and bugger me if it's not dry.

S: [sad face emoji]

B: Dry as a dead dingos donga out here in Charleville Scomo. Just really dry.

S: Thanks mate

B: He is a hypocrite and a liar from my observations. Never trusted him.

S: wot??

B: Ah Nah. Ignore that. Meant for someone else LOL. You wouln't belive how dry it is here in gumpie. I'm parched.

S: Bummer

B: I tell ya wot. were racking up the expences ha ha whaddya reckn?

S: No worries. She'll be right

B: Righto well I teel you wat its bludy dry here in tasssie. but not were i am haha

{end transcript}

PlsUseYourBrain@useyourbrain· Jun 27

073 – #SmallJoys Happiness is a new toy. Happy 7th birthday Boofa. #greyhound #birthday

Dark brindle greyhound with his head resting on two new fluffy toys - a banana and a caterpillar.

He will be super-protective of these new toys for the next 24 hours 🙂

PlsUseYourBrain@useyourbrain· Jun 14

071 – #SmallJoys #BigJoys The Socceroos smashed their opening game for #WorldCup2026 Big Ups to new keeper – Pat Beach What a great start. GO.

Screegrab showing full time score of Australia 2 – Türkiye 0.

Goals scored by Irankunda and Metcalfe

PlsUseYourBrain@useyourbrain· Jun 13

As well as basing their entire existence on theft, Anthropic ALSO stole Kurt Vonnegut's drawing of an asshole. #ironic

Kurt Vonnegut's drawing of an asshole. From his novel Breakfast of Champions.

PlsUseYourBrain@useyourbrain· Jun 10

#FuckAI

Text portion of cartoon by First Dog on the Moon.

Reads:
Contemptuous anti-nature billions spent to run a vast network of sociopathic algorithms to melt people's brains and take their jobs (until they are rehired to clean up the mess AI has made)

PlsUseYourBrain@useyourbrain· Jun 7

He played along with the narrative and milked it as much as he could.

David McBride cosplaying as a boxer for a magazine photo shoot ahead of his sentencing. (Credit: Four Corners: Nick Wiggins)

PlsUseYourBrain@useyourbrain· Jun 5

"We have built a system that amplifies the voices of the selfish and undermines the voices of the brave. Our national debate reflects the fears of the powerful, not the hopes of the courageous." @richarddenniss.bsky.social #bravery @australiainstitute.org.au

Cropped front cover of the book "A time for BRAVERY : What happens when Australians choose courage?" from The Australia Institute.

https://australiainstitute.org.au/store/a-time-for-bravery

Contributors: Yanis Varoufakis, Hon Ralph Regenvanu, Mike Rann AC, Senator Fatima Payman, Dr Sophie Scamps MP, John Hewson AM, Michele O’Neil, Sisonke Msimang, Professor Georgina Long AO, Ben Quilty, Rodney Croome AM, Tim Costello AO, Dr Amy Coopes, Professor Frank Bongiorno AM, Josh Bornstein, Fr Frank Brennan AO, Leanne Minshull, Polly Hemming, Bill Browne, Stephen Long, Greg Jericho, Eloise Carr Amy Remeikis, Richard Denniss, Naomi Hodgson, Jim Casey, Barrie Cassidy, Dr Amy Thunig-McGregor, Craig Foster AM

Edited by Anna Chang and Alice Grundy.

PlsUseYourBrain@useyourbrain· May 31

Australia's alleged allies doing their very best impressions of people not laughing their tits off. #AUKUS #AusPol

Photo from Guardian news with the caption:
Richard Marles speaks in Singapore as British defence secretary John Healey (left) and US secretary of defence Pete Hegseth look on.
Photograph: Edgar Su/Reuters

PlsUseYourBrain@useyourbrain· May 30

Sorry. The numbering in my PDF viewer told me 30. It's numbered 22 in the doc itself.

Screen grab of data from https://www.aic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2026-02/sr58_homicide_in_australia_2024-25.pdf

Showing, among other stats, that in 2024-2025 there were 14 male victims of intimate partner homicide. In all cases the perpetrator was female.

PlsUseYourBrain@useyourbrain· May 18

069 – #SmallJoys Our anniversary gift to ourselves ... The Waterboys

PlsUseYourBrain@useyourbrain· May 18

068 – #SmallJoys Out for pre-concert dinner with my beautiful lady - 21 years. Xin Chào for the win. maps.app.goo.gl/KUgPNqBQs9JN...

Chef's Special : Saigon Steamed Rice Rolls

PlsUseYourBrain@useyourbrain· Apr 30

Hey Nice & Natural Go fuck yourself #Enshittification

Image showing a tiny chocolate nut bar next to its deceptively oversized packaging.

The actual bar is barely longer than my index finger.

PlsUseYourBrain@useyourbrain· Apr 29

But Rob is definitely a Dentist, right?

Rob the alleged Dentist from the Oral B ads.

PlsUseYourBrain@useyourbrain· Apr 24

SNAP! I'm about halfway through. Going to have another Pratchett binge this year – for sanity's sake. #TerryPratchett

Cover of the 1993 Corgi Books printing of Terry Pratchett's book, Equal Rites.

PlsUseYourBrain@useyourbrain· Apr 22

064 – #SmallJoys Well, bugger me. I made the ‘honourable mentions’ list on my second crack at #FuriousFiction www.writerscentre.com.au/blog/furious...

My short story – After The Cataclysm – made the longlist for the April round of Furious Fiction.

This, and its prequel in March, make up the entirety of my writing over the past 30 years.

PlsUseYourBrain@useyourbrain· Apr 15

061 – #SmallJoys It's been 3 months since this shy fella visited. We had proper seed this time, so he stayed a little longer. #KingParrot #AusWildlife

Adult male Australian King Parrot sitting on deck railing and having a snack from a metal bowl.

Males have a vibrant red head, chest and belly, with green wings, back and tail. The wings have a raggedy strip in a lighter green.

Not as large as a cockatoo, but bugger than the rosellas and lorikeets.

PlsUseYourBrain@useyourbrain· Apr 11

Cop a gander at how compromised your online activity could be if you use something as dodgy as Google Chrome. This excludes all the ads and popups and other shitfuckery that DuckDuckGo deals with for me. #FuckGoogle

Screengrab from DuckDuckGo stating that the browser has blocked 2,418 trackers in the past 7 days.

PlsUseYourBrain@useyourbrain· Apr 11

Promotional image for the horror movie : The Nun ll.

Frontal portrait of an evil looking nun with glowing yellow eyes.

PlsUseYourBrain@useyourbrain· Apr 8

Absolutely not. The narrative that McBride is a war crimes whistleblower is incorrect. The exposure of war crimes was inadvertent on his part. McBride is no hero. www.bbc.com/news/world-a...

Portion of report from BBC news website.

Text reads:
"McBride, 60, admits he gave troves of document to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), saying he was concerned about the attitudes of commanders and what he then thought was the "over-investigation" of troops, the court heard.

But instead the information he provided underpinned a series of reports in 2017 called The Afghan Files, which gave unprecedented insight into the operations of Australia's elite special forces in Afghanistan, and contained allegations of war crimes."

PlsUseYourBrain@useyourbrain· Apr 6

This shit-for-brains reckons there's no real evidence the holocaust occurred. Thinks that holocaust denial is just a different point of view, and that rejecting holocaust denial is 'intolerant'. Off you fuck dickhead.

Just a screengrab of a dickhead response.

Believes that being factually incorrect is actually just a different point of view.

No dickhead, you don't get to have a "point of view" about demonstrable facts.

Off to the shit-for-brains list with you.

PlsUseYourBrain@useyourbrain· Apr 5

The crows are going to LOVE this. #HumansAreStupid

An overfull kerbside bin.
The lid is ajar.
The crows will have a field day.

PlsUseYourBrain@useyourbrain· Apr 5

060 – #SmallJoys Bugger the bleugh #EasterEggs The second-best chocolate in Australia is far more preferable to that crap.

Two blocks of Lindt Excellence 70% cocoa dark chocolate.

Second only to Aldi's Moser Roth.

PlsUseYourBrain@useyourbrain· Apr 4

Image of psycho Musk's stupid space Tesla with our precious planet in the background.

PlsUseYourBrain@useyourbrain· Apr 3

059 – #SmallJoys I'm in charge of #AppleCrumble Nailed it tonight. 👍

Perfect apple crumble in a rectangular glass baking dish.

PlsUseYourBrain@useyourbrain· Mar 31

PlsUseYourBrain@useyourbrain· Mar 21

056 – #SmallJoys At over 1350m elevation, #MtBarney is a formidable edifice. On the weekend we were camping nearby, half a dozen teenagers were stuck on the mountain overnight. Thankfully, they were safely airlifted out the next morning. Don't underestimate the #AustralianLandscape