Bird noises

Maybe don't do Dahiya doctrine against a country that can pay it forward

We are already involved, even if we pretend otherwise. If we can save some lives, why not?

What

For real this is an unspeakable crime

The not a war will still not be happening when the submarines aren't even built

Platypus are just weird enough to transmigrate

Forget about deserving to die. Why does the right to kill expand so precipitously when those being killed live in a different country, speak a different language, and worship a different god?

Aussie urged to claim $475 million payout with deadline days away Hundreds of thousands of Aussies will lose out on compensation of between $1,000 and $50,000 if they miss this deadline.

Australians impacted by Robodebt have until 4pm on Friday, March 6, to register for a new class action settlement with payouts between $1,000 and $50,000 au.finance.yahoo.com/news/centrel...

Stigmata!?

Nile?

Being wrong about something makes it that much easier for someone else to be right

Do you think it will become an old mural?

Tuba is the most romantic musical instrument

Slightly related, I got an ad for the AFP on a site with shoelace tying instructions (I was only there because I forgot how to tie my shoes)

That is a crown

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

Gaza and the Conduct of Urban War: Civilian Harm, Risk, and Responsibility Urban warfare is often invoked as an alibi: dense terrain, an embedded enemy, human shields, imperfect intelligence. These conditions are real but they do

A US colonel who fought in Falluja and Mosul, rejects comparisons to Israel's conduct in Gaza

"In Gaza, risk was routinely transferred from Israeli forces onto civilians. The resulting toll ... [was] the product of deliberate decisions".

warontherocks.com/2026/01/gaza...

Something like a few billion tankers of oil per tanker of photons.

Too on the nose

There's nothing like sitting in a class full of dummies to dissolve that solidarity

Why White Supremacy Is Never Named in the Venezuela Crisis Explanations of Venezuela that avoid white supremacy are faithful to the world that made this outcome ordinary. Across the current debate, there is no

My latest in @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social on how explanations of Venezuela that avoids white supremacy are faithful to the world that made this outcome ordinary

#whitesupremacy#empire#venezuela#power#decolonizeeverything

It’s going to be an interesting few weeks when the royal commission examines, as I suspect it will, the defraying of social cohesion caused by the organised censorship of writers, artists and employees across the country for daring to speak against an unfolding genocide

The purpose of a light switch is to control the flow of electricity. The switch is on when it is stopping the flow of electricity.

Let’s be clear: if the Palestine Action hunger strikers die, the government will bear moral responsibility | George Monbiot The three remaining hunger strikers have been convicted of nothing. Yet with astonishing cruelty, ministers refuse to listen to their reasonable demands, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Petition: We will not be divided after Bondi.

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So, they're not bothered about the type of speech they would associate with the Christchurch shooting

the good that you do persists in this world

Time magazine AI architects cover except they’re all Lyle Lanley

Stealworkers

Mechanical Turk - Wikipedia

Today's featured article from Wikipedia. Disguising human labour as machine intelligence isn't so new. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechani...