fucking hell my brain just exploded. I had this exact toy. I had not thought about it for probably 40 yrs until I saw this picture and I can hear the sounds and see the red flashing light in the end. Nostalgia is real, am I a boomer now?

Macquarie Group company's private ATMs are helping fuel the illegal tobacco trade https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-18/macquarie-group-next-atm-illegal-tobacco-trade/105399234 #auslaw #auspol

Optus to face $100 million penalty for unconscionable conduct selling products to vulnerable customers https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-18/accc-optus-admit-unconscionable-conduct-100m-penalty/105430714 #consumerlaw #auslaw #auspol

@drrimmer climate hate-speech? Not sure that is quite the way to go.

Would prefer tarring and feathering

Behold, a perfect circle-jerk of Liberal venality and corruption:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-19/liberal-party-victoria-loan-agreement-john-pesutto-moira-deeming/105438020

Ain't #auspol grand

Cripes, Mark Colvin died over eight years ago.

He was a good 'un.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-05-11/abc-journalist-mark-colvin-dies-aged-65/8509740

@NewtonMark our cat butts her head into our chin like that.

Maybe the plane just wanted some affection.

As it turns out, I *did* actually have 4 SpaceX rockets exploding on my 2025 bingo card.

@Kels_316 freedom: tastes like choccy milk

@Kels_316 we thank you for your service

Current #schadenfreude levels over #spacex could power small regional Australian town

Mars by 2021

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c1k87l7nre4o

JSON implies the existence of JDÓTTIR

SpaceX - it’s not rocket science

@StefanThinks

DOGE = Destroyed On Ground, Explosively.

Fun fact, Stephen Pinker blocked me on twitter years ago when I tweeted his photo with Epstein at him in a conversation.

He’s very touchy about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein!

Haha remember when Stephen Pinker was hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein and telling everybody that the world was getting more peaceful and that we’re living in the most people time humanity has ever lived through, those were fun times.

As a general rule, in every election everywhere, we really might want to consider not supporting the candidates that billionaires like best.

Scientific study finds that #adtech IS using browser #fingerprinting to track people and so it no longer matters so much how good you are at blocking #cookies and #trackers 😒

https://engineering.tamu.edu/news/2025/06/websites-are-tracking-you-via-browser-fingerprinting.html

They call on browser makers to do more. @jon is your team putting effort into this area?

@johnnyryan I suggest this area is added to your investigations since it is linked to the #RTB system and #databrokers 🙏

#browserfingerprinting #surveillancecapitalism
#privacy