@heardislandgov.bsky.social Stay safe little penguins!

"On one hand I'm glad we didn't get Zelenskied, but at the same time... I wish we got Zelenskied," said one Australian, who had to call in sick from work after seeing the news this morning. theshovel.com.au/2025/10/21/a...

I would laugh if this wasn't so true 😭

Next year they should give the frog the Nobel Peace Prize

Cartoonists telling the truth in three words.

Female appointee to the Trump administration / Male appointee to the Trump administration

Genocidal war criminal nominates his weapons dealer for the Nobel Peace Prize and our Foreign Minister fawns over it. Embarrassing.

hello! i am taking a survey of where people want me to tour to outside of australia! if you want montaigne to play a gig in your city please let me know where here, only takes 3 minutes!

I am starting a new service where I slash the tires of expensive cars in Silicon Valley unless their owners specifically opt-out.

Mass walkout at the UN General Assembly during war criminal Netanyahu’s speech.

If they're going to try and retcon Charlie Kirk, then we should try to retcon him too.

The Paris Paloma song that Emma Thompson intros with my headline is out! i genuinely like it thank god youtu.be/5NfyIpE4zaw?...

Every now and then I see a photo of Trump smiling a genuine smile, and it just reminds me of what a miserable, hateful c**t he is the rest of the time.

Disney learned nothing from Andor.

I had some thoughts about people saying that "debate me bro" trolling is somehow the height of democratic discourse.

A few decades ago when I was in Jordan I bought a book about pre-1948 Palestine, Before Their Diaspora. It mistakenly ended up in a box of books that went to Hawthorn Salvos. (If anyone bought it, I’d love to have it back.🤞) I would also love it if someone who has a copy can post some of the photos.

Somewhere along the line we let the damn fool notion take hold that our society is a corporation and everything it does must generate profit for a group of shareholders, and I think this fool notion needs to be demolished forever.

Somewhere along the line the idea took hold that every part of public life needs to be efficient, an efficiency exclusively expressed in terms of whether or not it makes money. "Makes money for who, exactly?" is a question that is never asked.

You’d think at least one of them would call out Nazis

The lie that if oppressed people are simply nice and well-behaved and humbly accept their oppression, their oppressors will reward them with peace and justice, is not how anything has ever worked in the history of humankind. And yet it’s a lie that we keep telling.

they are murdering the people who tell the truth.

All the cowards in the West pretending to be journalists while covering up this depravity for the last two years need to meet justice. RIP

The only scientific research left will be the search for a new element, Trumpium. The densest material known to science. So incredibly fucking dense.

Israel destroyed a Palestinian seed bank today. This is such a specific kind of evil, targeting literal hope for the future. Attempting to further alienate Palestinians from their home and land. So much destroyed just for the sake of destroying. It's awful.

📣 PLEASE READ Over the last two years, many creators, performers, writers and other people with public platforms have been shadowbanned on Meta for speaking up about a genocide. Paradoxically, these same people have had to invest time and money into the platform in order to sustain their careers.

Why I 🧡 the web. drawafish.com Just draw the fish. Trust me. 🐟

If there's one thing you watch today, make it this Bob Geldof criticises Israel for what they're doing in Gaza Then criticises Trevor Philips for making excuses for what Israel is doing in Gaza Part 1/3

Yes Gaza is now "beyond the world's worst fears" and Australia still refuses to impose consequences on Israel. Do something. Cancel billion dollar Israeli weapons contracts, stop sending F35 weapons parts, sanction the extremist Netanyahu cabinet.

Our government must stop all exports to & from Israel & recognise Palestine. Israel is deliberately starving to death babies & children. May those babies forever haunt the dreams of powerful, indifferent, useless, shrugging politicians, every time they close their eyes.

Perfect tribute

UN reports say “as of 13 July, we have recorded 875 people killed in Gaza while trying to get food; 674 of them were killed in the vicinity of GHF sites". This is mass killing of desperately hungry people trying to feed their families. It's time for the international community to step up.

There is no longer any doubt that Israel has set up a fake humanitarian organisation so it can kettle Gazans into a kill box and murder them en masse It is evil beyond description and in a decent world it would result in immediate, massive, global action to stop them and prosecute those responsible

“A scorched door outrages them, but the slaughter of tens of thousands of Palestinians does not. “A protest against genocide outrages them but the genocide itself does not. “There is hypocrisy and a moral sickness here that desperately needs a cure.”

I wrote a thesis more than 30 years ago on how Israel used archaeology to justify its foundation from the beginning. (I mean, Yadin was an archaeologist.) Still doing it, I see.

Ed Husic on #AfternoonBriefing says if Israel wants to be “arguing others shouldn’t get Nuclear Weapons as well” then they should be “a party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty”💯 Finally someone said it. #Abc

The bombing of Iran was to support a nation conducting genocide. The Australian government supports the bombing and thus the genocide.

“This is an illegal attack by the United States on top of another illegal attack by Israel. This is not self-defence and our government needs to clearly distance ourselves from these US attacks.”

And the US just bombed Iran at the behest of Israel, which has been claiming its at immediate risk of a nuclear strike for 30 years and we’ll all be told Israel has a right to defend itself, but anything Iran does is an act of war and in another 30 years we’ll be told there was no need for any of it

So, the history of Australia starts from its colonisation. Not surprising from Mr Rabbit.

Every step towards war with Iran is a step towards madness. While I have no love for the Iranian regime, it did not provoke this conflict. As with so many prior cases, no good will come from Israeli and/or US aggression.

And still, STILL, I’m mostly seeing and hearing ‘Israel says’ or ‘the IOF says’ when it’s obvious to anyone with a shred of integrity that the Israeli regime IS NOT KNOWN FOR TELLING THE TRUTH ON ANYTHING AND IS NOT EVEN HIDING ITS CRIMES ANYMORE.

Every bit of AI advocacy is building a world indistinguishable from WallE except we didnt excape earth and the robots are dumb as shit.

I refuse to give the NYT my eyeballs, so I can't speak to the specifics of this article. But any historians attempting to use AI for either writing or research should be run out of the field. AI is inherently unable to do anything we need it to do to understand and communicate history.

Flagging it. Today’s @theage cartoon.

Is that a little Murderbot sticking out of Skarsgard's pocket??

These guys who want companies to purchase "AI" to embed in every service we have are no different from the circus men who want you to pay money to see a talking horse. They are relying on your credulity and the human capacity to *imbue patterns with meaning*.

Inspiring. Worth a read.