Louis Simoneau

Sparkie would make so much sense if it wasn't taken

That is not accurate, the higher tax still starts at 3 mil

Is this Klaes Ashford?

Writers’ festival requires ‘complete self-censorship’ over Gaza war, academic claims, as speakers withdraw in protest Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah among those to boycott Bendigo writers’ festival, arguing she cannot appear ‘as a Palestinian’ due to speaker code

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This was my first thought as well

I strongly suspect all the LLM providers hard-coded the r's-in-strawberry test case so now we need to try new test cases.

Jillian Segal and husband funding far-right group "Advance" - The Klaxon Antisemitism envoy Jillian Segal and her husband are among the biggest funders of far-right group "Advance”, which spreads hateful propaganda and racist tropes.

🚨Antisemitism boss Jillian Segal and her husband are the second biggest funders of far-right group "Advance". The extremist lobby group spreads online racism and xenophobia, including directly targeting Palestinians...
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Childcare is just the latest failure of Australia’s privatisation push. It’s time for an ideology overhaul | John Quiggin Even the Productivity Commission is backing away from the for-profit model. We need to ensure that our human services serve humans

Last month it was NDIS scams. Last week a Sydney hospital going broke. This week it’s childcare centres in strife. If you outsource community services you need stringent external monitoring and oversight processes. Better still, don’t outsource.
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Opened the thread to look for this joke, was not disappointed

Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first. One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish. Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points. We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are. Anelise Feldman Freshman, Yarmouth High School Yarmouth

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read.

He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords

Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:

Walter Groggins. That's all I have to say.

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A “TRADE DEFICIT”—IT’S JUST CALLED “BUYING THINGS.” YOU DO NOT HAVE A TRADE DEFICIT WITH YOUR DENTIST JUST BECAUSE HE NEVER BUYS ANYTHING FROM YOU.

surely Homeland still has the unbeaten record

👏 flipping.rocks/@mush/113901...

Have you tried Kagi? I also need to use search extensively for work so am willing to pay for it (plus I can claim it on tax) and it's been really really good. Probably better than Google was even when it wasn't totally shit.

I made it nine (9) business hours into 2025 before broken data ruined my day.

One more lane. Just one more lane bro, that’s all I need. No cmon man, just one more lane.

lexi aka newlynova silly goofy books for silly goofy people inquiries: newlynova@sparkmedia.la

www.youtube.com/@newlynova is a book channel, pretty varied genres, the vibe and the style are A+

I feel like I'm always a day out from you, everybody in your comments seems to be discussing yesterday's connections? Did you mean the picture one?

I just started book 3 in this series and this was a godsend. Book 2 is awesome, you're in for a ride

A table at a craft fair-type event shows ceramic items for sale, including earrings, a smiley face spoon, and other knickknacks. There are ceramic letters on the table spelling out “deny depend depose”. The artist is a white woman in glasses standing proudly with her work.

I went to a pop-up holiday market and this white lady selling hand made ceramic earrings was proudly displaying the political message left by an assassin on bullet casings after a successful murder so that’s a bit of a data point for Where Things Are

on “Wonderful Christmastime,” Sir Paul McCartney set out to make a timeless christmas classic and also to figure out what every button on his synthesizer did, and he absolutely succeeded at one of those things

A [FAKE] tweet from South Korea's soon-to-be-ex-President Yoon Su, reading "The haters said we couldn't do it. And they were correct. Honestly great call from the haters"