Soft Fruity Red (He / Him)
@comfort-zone.org
Public School Teacher. Maker. Kindness Advocate. Collector of Transformers and Masters of The Universe. Dwarf (Khuzd) Enjoyer. Profile art from Himzu Bavic. On Kaurna land. AVATAR: a stylised illustration of Daín Ironfoot sitting on top of his Battle Pig
The only idea the ALP has taken on board is that there is more electoral value in it poaching the leftmost flank of the right-wing parties than offering anything at all to the left. Ghoulish stuff.
February 13, 2026 at 11:36 AM
The only idea the ALP has taken on board is that there is more electoral value in it poaching the leftmost flank of the right-wing parties than offering anything at all to the left. Ghoulish stuff.
Thank you for the gift of reading that in Darling’s uptight constipated voice. 😄
February 12, 2026 at 12:27 PM
Thank you for the gift of reading that in Darling’s uptight constipated voice. 😄
It was overwrought on screen, but I still crave the figure.
February 12, 2026 at 12:25 PM
It was overwrought on screen, but I still crave the figure.
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What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it
February 11, 2026 at 10:03 PM
What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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The people pushing the social media moral panic the loudest genuinely believe it because it is a simple, reductive explanation for a complex, nuanced, and multifaceted problem that also allows them to blame people they don't like
February 10, 2026 at 11:47 AM
The people pushing the social media moral panic the loudest genuinely believe it because it is a simple, reductive explanation for a complex, nuanced, and multifaceted problem that also allows them to blame people they don't like
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You don't need a thousand words for this. "Social Cohesion" means someone is required to shut the fuck up, and it's never the powerful.
"Social cohesion is a scam, a strategy employed by the powerful to delegitimise and suppress the voices of the less powerful... If you are othered by powerful groups, you become the victim of cohesion, not the beneficiary; what you get from social cohesion is a punch from an armed official."
Nothing says cohesion like a punch in the head: Violence of Minns' goons exposes the lie of 'social cohesion'
NSW Police's actions against protesters in in Sydney was about the powerful dictating the terms of free speech — through state-sanctioned violence if necessary.
www.crikey.com.au
February 10, 2026 at 5:05 AM
You don't need a thousand words for this. "Social Cohesion" means someone is required to shut the fuck up, and it's never the powerful.
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people who say that all creative endeavor can be replaced with AI probably need to reckon with the fact that all televised sports events with human athletes could easily be replicated by high-definition computer-animated simulations….and yet we don’t do this and no one seems to want to.
February 8, 2026 at 7:26 PM
people who say that all creative endeavor can be replaced with AI probably need to reckon with the fact that all televised sports events with human athletes could easily be replicated by high-definition computer-animated simulations….and yet we don’t do this and no one seems to want to.
I don't doubt it. 💖
a panda bear wearing a hat and an umbrella with the words `` soon , real soon '' written on it .
ALT: a panda bear wearing a hat and an umbrella with the words `` soon , real soon '' written on it .
media.tenor.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:06 AM
I don't doubt it. 💖
Am I a bad dad for being lowkey delighted that these are your problems now? 💖
February 10, 2026 at 2:58 AM
Am I a bad dad for being lowkey delighted that these are your problems now? 💖
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You’ll hear it said that Jon Kudelka was a genuinely wonderful and generous man, this was undeniable, and the interactions I had with him bore that out, he was also a fucking punisher of hypocrites, he adored fighting bad people, and he had picked some quality enemies
February 9, 2026 at 4:42 AM
You’ll hear it said that Jon Kudelka was a genuinely wonderful and generous man, this was undeniable, and the interactions I had with him bore that out, he was also a fucking punisher of hypocrites, he adored fighting bad people, and he had picked some quality enemies
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Jon Kudelka was not just the creator of the best tea towel in Australian history, and a great cartoonist and artists, but he was a superb friend, incredible husband and dad.
Goddamn I will miss him
Goddamn I will miss him
February 9, 2026 at 1:52 AM
Jon Kudelka was not just the creator of the best tea towel in Australian history, and a great cartoonist and artists, but he was a superb friend, incredible husband and dad.
Goddamn I will miss him
Goddamn I will miss him
I’m such a sucker for pop art crochet patterns www.etsy.com/listing/4369...
February 6, 2026 at 8:58 AM
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Crime headline of the day.
February 3, 2026 at 8:57 PM
Crime headline of the day.
It was a hugely useful resource and a labour of love, and I'm grateful to him for creating and maintaining it. Sadly his site is now defunct, but you can still access it at alberbertpenello.com/mask on the Wayback Machine.
alberbertpenello.com
February 3, 2026 at 3:05 AM
It was a hugely useful resource and a labour of love, and I'm grateful to him for creating and maintaining it. Sadly his site is now defunct, but you can still access it at alberbertpenello.com/mask on the Wayback Machine.
I think the news only reached me peripherally about the passing of @albertpenello.bsky.social, because I moved in different circles, because my exposure to him was through his Kenner M.A.S.K. hobby site - I followed that page for decades!
February 3, 2026 at 3:03 AM
I think the news only reached me peripherally about the passing of @albertpenello.bsky.social, because I moved in different circles, because my exposure to him was through his Kenner M.A.S.K. hobby site - I followed that page for decades!
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Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly
February 1, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly
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1. Destroy the Internet
2. Pitch a solution you can sell to fix it
3. Use this new AI-free platform for new slop-free training data so you can continue to do #1 again
2. Pitch a solution you can sell to fix it
3. Use this new AI-free platform for new slop-free training data so you can continue to do #1 again
we’re all trying to find the guy etc etc
OpenAI Wants To Use Biometrics To Kill Bots And Create Humans Only Social Network
OpenAI is quietly building a social network and considering using biometric verification like World’s eyeball scanning orb or Apple’s Face ID to ensure its users are people, not bots.
www.forbes.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:05 AM
1. Destroy the Internet
2. Pitch a solution you can sell to fix it
3. Use this new AI-free platform for new slop-free training data so you can continue to do #1 again
2. Pitch a solution you can sell to fix it
3. Use this new AI-free platform for new slop-free training data so you can continue to do #1 again
Song is 'Die in the Middle East' by XONOR
January 27, 2026 at 3:53 AM
Being a journalist is sick: I just contacted a pre-eminent jaguar conservationist in Argentine with a question that has been weighing on me for ages and he wrote back right away with an informed answer.
January 26, 2026 at 4:19 AM
I understood that it was the LIBERAL’S 205 wash up he found defamatory, which is even funnier.
January 23, 2026 at 9:21 AM
I understood that it was the LIBERAL’S 205 wash up he found defamatory, which is even funnier.
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"Minns says ‘no silver bullet’ for shark attacks after third incident in two days".
Yeah there is - the same solution he has for every problem. Give police more powers and ban the sharks from protesting.
Yeah there is - the same solution he has for every problem. Give police more powers and ban the sharks from protesting.
January 19, 2026 at 10:13 PM
"Minns says ‘no silver bullet’ for shark attacks after third incident in two days".
Yeah there is - the same solution he has for every problem. Give police more powers and ban the sharks from protesting.
Yeah there is - the same solution he has for every problem. Give police more powers and ban the sharks from protesting.