Geoff Lemon 🍋
@geofflemon
Writer. Australian. Probably somewhere else. Essays at Sport at @finalwordcricket.bsky.social
Trump has had 23 golf days at his resorts this year, and now says he’s too busy at work for his son’s wedding
Man, I edited lit anthologies for 10 years, and I would have rejected this after two paragraphs just for being fucking annoying
In Portugal it is important to regularly sun your grotesque distended gourd
Like, who is not stealing these cold sweet plums from an icebox? Find me that claimant and I’ll find you a liar
This is truly hilarious. “People say I shouldn’t befriend notorious mass murderers, then I tell them that the mass murderer is socially pleasant to me, a person he is not incentivised to murder.”
Well then, we all look forward to the conservatives ending: - Negative gearing - Franking credits - Corporate subsidies - Mining fuel rebates
Fucking begging media outlets to stop using the phrase “testing the limits of power” The Professor in Money Heist is not “testing the limits” of the Royal Mint of Spain
Allegedly this came from a bank but I have a feeling it's about the apocalypse
How is the US this deep into authoritarianism and still getting such passivity of reporting? This caption is from the top of an NPR report, the org whose funding Trump has just ended, and it still offers his administration’s plainly obvious lying as fact.
I know Matt Canavan is a space cadet, but like… showering before work is a great idea for any job. Showering after work is as well. This guy wants to lead a country but hasn’t fully grasped washing
Far-right media dipshits who lost their minds over a Democrat politician's Eucharist impersonation have a strangely different slant on a Republican politician's Pope impersonation
It’s on. To “assist” here means to invade states and cities that resist federal overreach, and arrest their leaders. It still sounds crazy to say it, but obeying the two EOs issued today means either civil war or formal dictatorship.
This is a power outage in Lisbon. The subway is closed, and all the supermarkets. Delivery riders can’t take orders. Schools have shut. Office workers in shirt sleeves are slamming beers at the bakery, paying in cash. The ice cream kiosk is having a sale.
Even if AI doesn’t give us the murder-robot future or the meteoric market crash, the electricity drain alone is gonna kill us in a corporate world still fighting against renewable energy
“The thread is a demonstration of the deep and thoughtful policy coordination between senior officials."
Great to know that Meta, with a market cap in the trillions, trained its AI by stealing books that I got paid about 0.00000001 (?) of that amount to write
If someone defeats you in battle and then puts up one of these they’re your arch enemy