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2025 · 31 video placements. Select an item to return to its complete historical post.
▶28 December · 19:20 UTCRicky and the Culture of the Influencer, of the performative Feels. Oh, and i’m doing a gig, lol.▶12 November · 07:37 UTCCombustion engines are so appalling that we only tolerate them by hiding them away out of sight and hearing. Genius, Nissan, genius.▶20 November · 18:15 UTCTwo short videos out of the UK to share. The first, a breakfast TV host telling viewers and colleagues that he’s just had Covid. Took 2 days off. Now back at the desk, spreading…▶20 November · 18:18 UTCAnd video 2 out of the UK. You can play make-believe and ignore serious threats to your life, so you can go to gigs and restaurants and pubs, and on OS holidays. And then realit…▶1 October · 19:11 UTCThis week Trump, and one of his clown car monkey idiots, Defense Secretary Hesgeth (ex Fox News), gathered all of the top brass of the US Defense forces in a single room. What f…▶13 October · 19:14 UTCWell at least it makes a broom broom noise.▶14 October · 19:43 UTCThis happened in Lithgow on Friday. Cut water to much of the town for the weekend. I know people resent the idea of kidult culture, but it was another classic example of it. Wha…▶17 October · 19:21 UTC“We need to stop trusting the experts.” RFK Jr spelling out here the toxic stupidity of American culture, the belief that ‘the people’ not only run societies, but also know thin…▶20 October · 19:34 UTCTwo experiences yesterday that give a flavour of working in local government. One was trying to think of a way to rescue ducklings trapped in a fountain. The other a long phone…▶21 October · 18:12 UTCThe power of semi-autonomous driving. This footage from a guy letting his Tesla drive for him just outside Dubbo in the middle of the night, pitch black. Suddenly the car slowed…▶28 September · 02:49 UTCIf you still think social media is just a happy and fun place to share updates about your friends and families, use this video by Benjamin Netanyahu as lube to extract your head…▶6 July · 19:29 UTCFalls are one of the greatest causes of injury and death in the elderly. Ringo Starr here.▶9 July · 19:17 UTCMany say to me that people flock to gigs as a mass social event because of the music. But I think this video shows well that big gigs appeal to many people because they like bei…▶10 May · 10:54 UTCLike being at a Council meeting.▶13 May · 18:56 UTCTrump and many people I know used to call Joe Biden 'Sleepy Joe', because he's old and seemed sleepy. Here's Trump 'signing' an agreement with Saudi Arabia yesterday.▶14 May · 20:42 UTCTom Cruise is an interesting cultural thing. Currently marketing his latest movie, and genuinely charming and professional and gracious with his time. And yet he’s a global lead…▶24 May · 21:35 UTCAnother aspect of kidult culture is the explosion of influencers and their idiot podcasts. I suggest Joe Rogan get tetanus, which will permanently shut him up. Look at the inked…▶25 May · 21:38 UTCBuy a car designed to maximise aerodynamic efficiency, something with a really low drag coefficient. You can see why, here. This is why we used to drive sedans, until utes and S…▶3 April · 19:30 UTCIf you want to see how social media allows the widespread manipulation of public opinion, this is a bot farm. Automatically searching for particular topics, like climate change,…▶8 April · 19:11 UTCMichel Serres once pointed out that the text we read is really just the play of light and shadow. We say text ‘represents’ things, but Serres pointed out that it is the literal…▶9 April · 19:30 UTCTrump isn’t trying to create a fascist State in the US. He’s doing what he’s always done. He even wrote a book about it long before he entered politics. He’s being a conman. Try…▶21 April · 10:13 UTCYou can’t really notice it from ground level, but human movement is the alternating rotation of the whole body, which is wrapped in spiral muscle and fascia sheets from head to…▶13 March · 18:28 UTCA whole street, yesterday afternoon, people sitting in their stationary petrol and diesel clunkers with the windows up, engines and air con running. That’s the stupid of old ene…▶15 March · 21:40 UTCListen to this very short clip of the chief vehicle engineer and chief designer at Tesla explaining how they design cars. The genius of what they’ve done, and why I ignore the p…▶21 March · 21:09 UTCIt’s so important to remember the magnitude of both the ambition and the material achievement of this organisation. The Chinese have copied it, Tesla was the trailblazer. You ca…▶2 February · 18:50 UTCA privatised government is an oxymoron. (Morons might have to Google what an oxymoron is.) Again, to make public servants - people who SERVE the public - the enemy is the obviou…▶7 February · 04:58 UTCKyle maybe it was just a bad night.▶14 February · 23:34 UTCThe top level of the Tesla app showing the solar, house battery and car all currently being charged for free by the sun. The app has many more layers and functionality, the best…▶25 February · 08:36 UTCElectric off-roaders with an engine on each wheel. Try doing this with a petrol or diesel.▶26 February · 18:48 UTCTrump’s video posted today of his vision for Gaza as a new Trump resort is as batshit fucking crazy as anything you will ever see.▶18 January · 08:13 UTCChina already has fully self-driving electric buses, that operate 24/7.