It really says something that an official in Israel, where they deny the genocide in Gaza, can use the phrase "Look like Gaza" in this way.
www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...
Getting reports now that the majority of people who call certain Workforce Australia lines are now abandoning their calls, because of the enormous wait times.
If you don't get through to these lines, there's no other way to overturn payment suspensions from your job provider
Labor has wasted $53 billion on tax concessions for wealthy property investors since 2022. A further $190 billion will be wasted if Labor fails to wind back the capital gains tax discount & negative gearing. This foregone revenue should have built public & affordable housing.
A tabby/tortoiseshell cat curled up on a bed.
I don’t think it’s related to weather so much as her finally getting used to the new dog (who we’ve had for 13 months) but Regan has in the last couple of months started curling up on our bed in between us and it’s very sweet (if occasionally bitey)
Photo shows young white woman in a white tan top with from the river to the sea in black all caps text. She’s flanked by security or police Text of X screenshot: An 18-year-old woman in Queensland faces two years in jail for wearing a shirt that says "from the river to the sea." In Australia, you can bankroll mass murder and sleep fine. But wear a shirt that says "from the river to the sea"?Two years in prison.
I was told that a bombing campaign is needed to free her from a fascist government that controls what women can wear.
Whether in the US, the UK, or here in Australia, it is constantly and utterly enraging to see people like this guy continue to say “just keep voting for [Democrats/Labour/the ALP] and they’ll get better policies, promise.” This shit’s been going on for decades! We’re not stupid!! We’ve had enough!!!
Oh @editorialboard.bsky.social did you notice they fired us? beat up our students? deported them?? blacklisted us? i hadn’t in front of students for two years until this week, and it’s in another country. The protesters were purged by Biden, so the bravest student organizers are gone for Trump.
CSIRO have now lost more jobs under the Albanese Governmet than under the Abbott Government.
We have to do better on research funding and backing our scientists.
www.smh.com.au/environment/...
What if these straight men, one of whom was a prolific abuser of girls and one of whom is accused of sexually harassing multiple women, were gay?
Thats satire, baby!
For my 40th birthday I asked all my friends to send me their address if they’d like me to write them a card and then I spent weeks buying and writing and posting cards to all of those friends and it was one of the best birthday things I’ve ever done (I should do it again)
Possibly, the thinking would be that Ms Campbell thought the result would find such favour with Minister Morrison as to lead to her advancement. But quite apart from the speculation inherent in that kind of reasoning, it is objectively a most unlikely proposition that an already very senior, career public servant with a long and unblemished record of achievement and recognition in both the APS and ADF would so much desire further advancement as to premeditatedly commit the serious criminal offence of deceiving ERC
NACC concludes that Kathryn Campbell didn't lie because she had no motive to
They say she had no motive because she was already successful, & wouldn't risk lying for further career advancement. I love it when people with no understanding of greed or hubris run corruption investigations
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Thinking about the Iranian soccer players. This was correct then and its correct now @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social. How small we made ourselves.
You’ve included one in this list (the try vs Melbourne), but I’m curious how many of AJ’s tries have involved him touching the corner post? It’s an argument sometimes used to downplay his achievement compared to Irvine’s but my suspicion is that it’s not actually relevant to very many of his tries.
In Australia, you risk your job if you point out the obvious parallels between Zionism and other forms of violent ethnonationalism. Tablet just comes out and says, yes, Zionism is volkisch and that’s good!
www.tabletmag.com/feature/zion...
I don't understand the idea 'to suffer for your art'
Art has never asked me to suffer
It has kept me alive when everything else had me suffering in the pits of hell
Art never ever did that to me I mean this literally art has kept me alive
Despite everything there has been at least one piece of good news today:
More views of SA Liberal candidate emerge saying Islam 'poisonous, wrong', trans agenda 'insanity' Exclusive by Evelyn Leckie Topic:State and Territory Elections 35m ago
dude is clearly a fuckhead but why is abc running 'trans agenda' headlines without quote marks?
I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.
I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.
1/ Here's what I can share:
Dubai was built with slave Labor and the blood of thousands of South Asians, Asians and Africans. They can’t escape. I’m sick of hearing about how fucking f “developed” it is. Skyscrapers and wealth are not markers of civilisation if they’re built on destitution and death
Regrettably, I have had to start a facebook profile to counteract the 10+ fake profiles impersonating me on there! Thanks, I hate the internet! Follow my real facebook!
www.facebook.com/sophiebeerdr...
Nasty stuff, this.
Transgender folk exist. They always have & always will. Their existence harms nothing & nobody.
We ought to support them to live with pride & dignity.
Jonathan I’m so sorry to hear it. My deepest condolences x
"Human writing often includes some clunky phrases, like this passage from Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, caused by the author's aversion to punctuation: 'As well ask men what they think of stone.'"
This is the stupidest g.d. thing I have read all day.
“A.I. chatbots contain the sum of all human knowledge” is so egregiously wrong that I don’t know what to say.
Chatbots have been trained on corpus of digital(ised) text - ABSOLUTELY NOT the sum of all human knowledge. Paper, experience, embodiment, oral tales all missing.
These people are fools!
What a message to resign with:
“Obviously [these Iranian soccer players are] coming from a region where there was tyranny and we want to make sure that they don't bring any of those values to Australia….”
Good riddance, mate.
Should be David Moreashamed IMO
And Littleproud has just resigned. Good
Not that the Nats have any talent, but Littleproud has been a terrible leader.
The far right’s bullshitting heroes: Before there was Trump, there was Bo Gritz
One of the central figures of the 1990s Patriot/militia movement passed away last week, but his toxic legacy lives on in MAGA and Trump
If they wanted just desserts to be bad they shouldn’t have given them such a delicious-sounding name IMO
