“Super Mario was based on an Italian man I saw die in an accident on a construction site. I thought to myself, ‘What if that man had been killed by a gorilla, rather than negligence?’ - Shigeru Miyamoto
Happy Mario day!
Dept of Veterans Affairs confirms that despite having a report with details & images of Australian war graves desecrated & bulldozed by Israel — they have not referred it to the AFP for investigation or sought any legal advice on if it amounts to a potential war crime. #auspol
I immediately thought of this pic when I saw yours, and was still struck by the similarities.
Some kind of studied insouciance, is all I can think.
#auspol
For anyone surprised by a VC being interim CEO of bsky, may I remind you of BlockChain Capital, the VC that poured $15m into bluesky, also invests in Sam Altman's eye-scanning orb company
Yet again @sarahkendzior.blsky.social lays it all for us. “The same families appear, again and again, in a transnational crime network that profits off war. …the Iran War can only remind one of Epstein and Maxwell, for many of the same people tied to them are also tied to this war.”
I would like to live in a country where if you Google the president's name and "13 year-old girl" nothing comes up.
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The Israeli press are contemplating Trump “chickening out”. It’s about time our govt showed the courage to put Australia’s interests before those of US/ Israeli hegemony and their psychopathic leaders.
Sacrificing our sovereignty and economy to warmongering fools is unacceptable
not to make everything about data centres lol but this is very much like when a data centre adds 1 gigawatt of demand and then once a month they'll reduce their demand by 0.01 gigawatts and get paid for it like it's an act of raw social altruism
You caused the problem! You could just not cause it!
JFC these people are idiots.
11 days till our premiere on Shudder!
This puts me at 10 people released. I filed my 1st habeas petition 29 days ago. I am an incredibly small-time, nobody lawyer who knew nothing about immigration law the day I submitted that case. I barely know any more today. I had never sued the federal government and now I've beaten them 10 times.
"Israeli settlers, backed by the army, are seizing the opportunity to try to expel more rural" Palestinians.
"[O]ne of the soldiers threatened his mother, saying: 'If your son does not come, I will burn your house and send you to Gaza.'"
#WestBank #Palestine #Israel #EthnicCleansing #Military
are we already at the 'carbon management' stage with geoengineering?
I went on NPR this weekend to talk about Trump's suggestion that tech companies build their own power plants to power AI data centers. I had just published a 12,000 word report on the topic, so it was hard to distill everything into a 4 minute segment. The "bring your own capacity" (BYOC) idea that Trump mentioned in his State of the Union speech isn't a new one. It's been discussed at virtually every utility commission over the last year. In the broadest terms, BYOC is good policy. The US hasn't been expanding its power grid for the last 10-20 years because electricity demand has been flat. Now data centers are changing the equation triggering huge demand increases. The question is who should pay for the new transmission lines and power generation capacity. Virtually everyone—including many tech companies—agree data centers should foot the bill, not everyday utility bill payers. But electricity policy is complex. There's a federal regulator (FERC), 50 different state regulators, and grid operators that span multiple states. One version of this policy that's become popular is to force data centers off the grid entirely. The idea is tempting, if anything for its simplicity. But it would have some negative consequences. Consider OpenAI's Stargate project in New Mexico. The 2 GW data center will run on its own "microgrid" powered by inefficient gas turbines. That means it will be powered by 100% fossil fuels, which results in far more pollution than a power grid, which can make use of nuclear, hydro, solar, wind, etc. This Stargate project will emit 14 million tons of CO2 per year, according to permit documents we found at Cleanview for our latest report. To put that number in perspective: New Mexico has spent 20 years decarbonizing its economy and in that time has cut emissions by 14 million tons. So in this case "build your own power plant" means wiping out 20 years of climate progress—in a location with more land and solar potential than nearly anywh…
Hhhoollly moly. 14 MTCO2-e for OpenAI's fossil-fuelled Stargate data centre
As @michael-thomas.bsky.social says: "wiping out 20 years of climate progress—in a location with more land and solar potential than nearly anywhere on Earth"
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"United States opened a new front in its world wars, launching joint military operations against what the Trump administration calls 'designated terrorist organizations' in Ecuador."
"It wasn't going to be just boat strikes forever."
#USA #Ecuador #Military #Drugs
⛏️ Miner donations to minor parties
The Minerals Council of Australia broke with its practice of funding only major political parties in the 2025 federal election, donating $125,000 to the Jacqui Lambie Network and $6,000 to One Nation. #politas #auspol
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Would it have been so much worse if it had been a nuke? Consider the fact that birth deficiencies and rates of leukemia and cancer in Iraq, post 2003- invasion, are worse than what was observed in Hiroshima. In Japan, rates of leukemia rose by 660% in the years following the bomb. In Falluja, it increased by 2,200%. The toxicity of war has never been greater, and we are in no way reckoning with the scope of the horror that's been unleashed.
The real damage comes years later, with elevated cancer rates, leukemia clusters, respiratory disease, cardiovascular failure, neurological damage, reproductive issues.
This is chemical warfare, with delayed carnage. Worse than radiation sickness.
I am ashamed to be American today.
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a picture of a huge, low, heavy cloud of black oil over Tehran
This is the cloud of oil currently hovering over Tehran, released when the US bombed the city's oil depots. A stew of particulate matter, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, benzene, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, heavy metals & volatile organic compounds is raining down into the city right now. 1/2
Tareq Baconi talking with Simone Zimmerman - a snippet of the conversation and small description for non subscribers.
I found it worth my time.
Peter Milne took that one, so it wasn't breakfast time. Early afternoon by the look of the sunlight, if I have the pub right.
Exclusive | For the first time, the nature and conditions of Palantir's work with Australia has been made public in a Defence Department contract obtained by Crikey. www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/09/p...
Let me briefly distract you from rising fuel prices.
Electricity prices will rise too with the gas cartel now super-profiting from selling OUR gas in a disrupted Intl market. @albomp.bsky.social’s dud gas policy changes announced in December mean the cartel laughs as we suffer. #auspol
Belgium MP Paul Magnette: “Not one of our soldiers, not one of our weapons, should go for Trump’s war in Iran. We must say no to Trump, like Spain did”
maybe I'm focusing on the wrong thing here but this is the wildest shit I've ever heard a white South African say and I study racism for a living
You in another decade
