Tom Sulston
@tom.sulston.net
Digital rights, bicycles, cats, kitchens.
Don't blame my employer for my bad choice of words.
Don't blame my employer for my bad choice of words.
Could you imagine being the President of Queensland's Police "Union", who when being asked about being denied a watering-down of domestic violence definitions say the actual words "I certainly don’t stop when I’m told no the first time. No means not right now."?
Fuck me.
Fuck me.
September 18, 2026 at 3:31 AM
Could you imagine being the President of Queensland's Police "Union", who when being asked about being denied a watering-down of domestic violence definitions say the actual words "I certainly don’t stop when I’m told no the first time. No means not right now."?
Fuck me.
Fuck me.
Dear Tanya: Have you considered trying something that works?
September 4, 2026 at 1:49 AM
Dear Tanya: Have you considered trying something that works?
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:wheezes:
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:wheezes:
Hahahahahahhahahaha!
September 3, 2026 at 7:40 AM
Hahahaha hahahaha!
Ahahahahahahaha!
:wheezes:
Hahahahahahhahahaha!
Ahahahahahahaha!
:wheezes:
Hahahahahahhahahaha!
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if I was a young person being told that the best our economic system can ever offer me is working longer and longer hours to live with more and more roommates and eat worse and worse food, I might start getting this crazy idea that we need a new economic system
August 7, 2026 at 1:09 PM
if I was a young person being told that the best our economic system can ever offer me is working longer and longer hours to live with more and more roommates and eat worse and worse food, I might start getting this crazy idea that we need a new economic system
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It takes years of studies and community debate to approve a single bike lane, but data centers are going in left and right with the footprint of a small natural disaster and almost no bureaucracy gets in the way.
August 31, 2026 at 1:42 AM
It takes years of studies and community debate to approve a single bike lane, but data centers are going in left and right with the footprint of a small natural disaster and almost no bureaucracy gets in the way.
Seeing the news of Mladic popping his clogs reminded me that there was a time, years ago, when the Leaders of the Free World thought genocide was bad and they did something about it.
What a time.
What a time.
August 28, 2026 at 12:44 AM
Seeing the news of Mladic popping his clogs reminded me that there was a time, years ago, when the Leaders of the Free World thought genocide was bad and they did something about it.
What a time.
What a time.
Delighted to see that the world's bosses have honoured the memory of Dolly Parton by continuing to make everyone work 9-5.
August 26, 2026 at 12:23 AM
Delighted to see that the world's bosses have honoured the memory of Dolly Parton by continuing to make everyone work 9-5.
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The second one should bother you a lot more.
August 19, 2026 at 11:02 PM
The second one should bother you a lot more.
Congratulations to Inspector Flint for the outstanding work he's been doing in New South Wales.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
August 12, 2026 at 6:31 AM
Congratulations to Inspector Flint for the outstanding work he's been doing in New South Wales.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Oh, no! News Corp only made a record quarter-billion-dollar profit this quarter! Only 167% revenue growth!
Why on earth would The Garundia omit these figures? Is it because they're also hoping to profit off the News Media Bargaining Code?
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/a...
Why on earth would The Garundia omit these figures? Is it because they're also hoping to profit off the News Media Bargaining Code?
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/a...
News Corp subscriptions fall in Australia as company takes aim at ‘slimy’ AI slop
Chief executive Robert Thomson says ‘crass kleptomaniac’ AI companies are ‘in possession of stolen goods’
www.theguardian.com
August 6, 2026 at 2:18 AM
Oh, no! News Corp only made a record quarter-billion-dollar profit this quarter! Only 167% revenue growth!
Why on earth would The Garundia omit these figures? Is it because they're also hoping to profit off the News Media Bargaining Code?
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/a...
Why on earth would The Garundia omit these figures? Is it because they're also hoping to profit off the News Media Bargaining Code?
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/a...
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A complete failure.
Just spitballing, but maybe the Albanese govt should have consulted with experts instead of Fitzy and Wippa
Just spitballing, but maybe the Albanese govt should have consulted with experts instead of Fitzy and Wippa
Australia’s under-16 social media ban failing, study shows: What it means
Australia's internet regulator revealed in a recent study that teenagers are continuing to use social media despite ban.
www.aljazeera.com
August 3, 2026 at 10:29 PM
A complete failure.
Just spitballing, but maybe the Albanese govt should have consulted with experts instead of Fitzy and Wippa
Just spitballing, but maybe the Albanese govt should have consulted with experts instead of Fitzy and Wippa
I hear that what with the UCI having all sorts of cheating issues, Seb Coe has offered to step in to check that all riders' bras are appropriately filled.
August 5, 2026 at 12:04 AM
I hear that what with the UCI having all sorts of cheating issues, Seb Coe has offered to step in to check that all riders' bras are appropriately filled.
Australian politicians would look at this and immediately think "We must do something about Snapchat".
A Republican member of the West Virginia House has just been charged with enticing a 15-year-old minor through Roblox and Snapchat.
July 23, 2026 at 12:27 AM
Australian politicians would look at this and immediately think "We must do something about Snapchat".
I don't even like dogs yet am somehow able to treat them better than Barnaby Joyce does.
July 22, 2026 at 2:39 AM
I don't even like dogs yet am somehow able to treat them better than Barnaby Joyce does.
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I love the shameless projection by politicians at international far right conferences, organised and funded by transnational billionaire networks like Atlas, accusing left-wing resistance of being nefarious "globalists". Sorry, Bridget and Pauline, which country are you saying this in exactly?
July 19, 2026 at 11:50 PM
I love the shameless projection by politicians at international far right conferences, organised and funded by transnational billionaire networks like Atlas, accusing left-wing resistance of being nefarious "globalists". Sorry, Bridget and Pauline, which country are you saying this in exactly?
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Good pedestrian and cycling infrastructure should mean nobody has to play frogger.
If there isn't enough space to do that and also have cars on the roads, then the cars need to go.
If there isn't enough space to do that and also have cars on the roads, then the cars need to go.
July 17, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Good pedestrian and cycling infrastructure should mean nobody has to play frogger.
If there isn't enough space to do that and also have cars on the roads, then the cars need to go.
If there isn't enough space to do that and also have cars on the roads, then the cars need to go.
Dolly totally carried you, mate.
July 11, 2026 at 6:02 AM
Dolly totally carried you, mate.
Having done The Worst Thing In British Politics Ever, the good people of Clacton now have a golden opportunity to do The Best Thing In British Politics Ever.
metro.co.uk/2026/07/07/c...
metro.co.uk/2026/07/07/c...
Only Count Binface willing to take on Farage's 'fake and pathetic' by-election
As it stands, only Count Binface will run against Farage
metro.co.uk
July 8, 2026 at 12:40 AM
Having done The Worst Thing In British Politics Ever, the good people of Clacton now have a golden opportunity to do The Best Thing In British Politics Ever.
metro.co.uk/2026/07/07/c...
metro.co.uk/2026/07/07/c...
What's the difference between FIFA and the UCI?
One of them is craven, corrupt, and morally bankrupt. The other is also all of those things but also comically incompetent.
One of them is craven, corrupt, and morally bankrupt. The other is also all of those things but also comically incompetent.
One thing I like about FIFA is it makes me hate the UCI less.
July 6, 2026 at 1:39 AM
What's the difference between FIFA and the UCI?
One of them is craven, corrupt, and morally bankrupt. The other is also all of those things but also comically incompetent.
One of them is craven, corrupt, and morally bankrupt. The other is also all of those things but also comically incompetent.
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As a follow-up, have you, by any chance, met the Union Cycliste Internationale?
No sport hates its players and its fans as much as soccer
July 3, 2026 at 1:24 AM
As a follow-up, have you, by any chance, met the Union Cycliste Internationale?
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Fanatical pro-Israel advocates and Neo Nazis are stoking anti semitism and undermining social cohesion
Jewish lawyer called 'Hitler's Jew' over Gaza war stance
The Jewish Council of Australia's executive director has been labelled a "Hitler's Jew" in what she describes to a royal commission as an online harassment campaign by pro-Israel and neo-Nazi groups.
www.abc.net.au
July 2, 2026 at 6:24 AM
Fanatical pro-Israel advocates and Neo Nazis are stoking anti semitism and undermining social cohesion
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The AI rollout is an incredible test case for the power of capital to overrule everything in its way. An overwhelmingly stupid, obscenely polluting, and wildly dangerous set of technologies are being brute-forced into every part of our lives because money says so.
April 17, 2026 at 11:11 AM
The AI rollout is an incredible test case for the power of capital to overrule everything in its way. An overwhelmingly stupid, obscenely polluting, and wildly dangerous set of technologies are being brute-forced into every part of our lives because money says so.
Replacing Starmer with Streeting is a bit like that time I bought a CD I forgot I already owned.
May 14, 2026 at 11:41 AM
Replacing Starmer with Streeting is a bit like that time I bought a CD I forgot I already owned.
Elevator prices. Going up!
May 1, 2026 at 5:19 AM
Elevator prices. Going up!
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Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.
April 23, 2026 at 6:37 AM
Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.