Some of my colleagues use the term 'stone botherer' as slur. I refuse this. We might not view portal tombs as 'ley line hubs' or 'ghost-containment units', but we archaeologists are also stone botherers and I for one am proud of it. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday

Everything from make-believe dreams of Mars colonization to mind uploading to whatever the hell people think AI is going to do as a supplantation of humanity are not meant to be a widely available future for humanity. They are an escape pod for the elite from the burning wreckage of the Earth.

One of the ugliest and most corrupt property deals in history. Genocide, ethnic cleansing, war crime after war crime. The world has had years to respond to this. All our governments are complicit.

So he's in the files too?

Why is this just so crazy to read from him. Explaining how the robots are not human. Just spelling it out

DISARM THE ROBOTS

I hate to be the churlish one saying 'but what about ...', but seriously, where on earth are The Saints?

Pauline Hanson: for “everyday Australians...” 🎣

While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.

On this day in 1984, we released the album Ocean Rain. A masterpiece. 🐰🛶

Plaything. My @smh cartoon.

The Australian Greens are calling on the government to audit every Palantir contract across Government and particularly in Defence, Home Affairs and intelligence agencies and table the findings in Parliament. The public has a right to know the full scale of the risks and the sell out.

Palantir is known to have provided technology that facilitated the Gaza genocide. They are facilitating mass ICE kidnappings in the US. These actions alone should trigger a review of Australian contracts. This latest manifesto only adds to the concern.

Fair but depressing conclusion from @economist.com - we could avoid some of the worst of the hunger, but we won’t economist.com/leaders/2026...

‘Famine and widening food insecurity are the foreseeable consequences of military aggression in the Gulf. That reality ought to weigh heavily on a world that has largely understood this war through the narrow lens of oil-price instability’ www.ft.com/content/3634...

Roses are red, Eels have slime. Pontifex Maximus: So weak on crime.

OH. MY. GOD. THIS IS THE MILKY WAY SHOT BY THE ARTEMIS II CREW. LOOK AT ALL THOSE STARS!!!!

California’s GDP milestone is real, but so are its contradictions. High output alongside visible inequality raises valid questions on housing, healthcare, and access. Economic scale alone doesn’t guarantee shared prosperity; policy choices determine who actually benefits.

An Egyptian programmer has created a page dedicated to each victim of the Palestinian genocide. So far, he has recorded 72,000 names. Each light point represents a victim and, by clicking on it, you will see their name and date of birth. You can filter by age. bkhmsi.github.io/i-am-not-a-n...

Everything is fine.

In Lebanon, they are committing double tap strikes to kill medics and rescue workers, just as they did in Gaza. Medics are forced to delay their responses. These monsters are normalizing war crimes that were once unthinkable.

so now that they openly admit to providing false evidence of things, will the media finally stop treating them as a trustworthy source?

Trump: "[Iran] gave us a present, and the present arrived today. It was a very big present, worth a tremendous amount of money, and I'm not going to tell you what that present is, but it was a very significant prize" Is it a giant wooden horse?

the fact that it’s a strategic and tactical disaster has really distracted from the fact that this war is a criminal and immoral act of aggression that must be opposed

NACC lets Morrison off the hook, believing Ministers shouldn't be expected to "examine or interrogate" new proposals like Robodebt. They say Ministers also don't have the time or ability (??) to ensure programs are compliant with the law. What...do they think we're paying these people to do?

It will be historically significant that the Albanese government decided to spend its enormous political capital not on addressing systemic inequality but on mindless fealty to the demands of the United States and Israel. That is how it'll be remembered.

Why are our owls dying?? It’s all about which rat bait that you, your neighbours, your council, and pest controllers are using. Read this excellent article by @andrewstafford.bsky.social , with expert comment from myself among others. www.canberratimes.com.au/story/919290...

To restore democracy and create a fairer, safer, greener world, we need massive taxes on the ultra-rich. As in the 1940s. People get confused about this. The main purpose of such taxes is *not* to raise revenue. The point is to stop the few dominating the many. It's an essential democratic measure.

Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran. No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles. Worth a watch. (🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)

"I had to punch that guy because I could tell he was going to hit me back once we jumped him" is just a description of jumping a guy

America first. Today’s Age cartoon

my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

And the Anti-Semitism Royal Commission’s terms of reference must be expanded to explicity address all forms of racist hate and white supremacist violence.

Words of concern are not enough. Where is the concrete action? Where is the coordinated response to white supremacist extremism?

We’ve seen neo-Nazis attack Camp Sovereignty, white supremacist terrorism unleashed against Aboriginal people on Invasion Day in Boorloo, and now our Muslim brothers and sisters being targeted during Ramadan. The Albanese Government must treat this as the national security threat it is.

If you care about heritage in space, you might have heard of For All Moonkind, run by Ole Miss law professor Michelle Hanlon. She's just published a blog saying that archaeologists have no contribution to make regarding heritage in space. spacelawandethics.substack.com/p/who-actual...

We'll say it again: "social cohesion", to those who chant it, means maintenance of the status quo which privileges them, and silencing of everyone else. In the mouth of a Labor MP, it is an expression of the deepest hypocrisy.

"Social cohesion is a scam, a strategy employed by the powerful to delegitimise and suppress the voices of the less powerful... If you are othered by powerful groups, you become the victim of cohesion, not the beneficiary; what you get from social cohesion is a punch from an armed official."

Yes, Mister Bunny’s performance was obviously political. But I think everything short of gargling a meth addicted klansman’s truck nuts comes across as an implicit denunciation of the president nowadays.

TODAY. Be there if you can - share endlessly if you can’t to fight the algo.

The origin story of our current moment in American fascism is the creation of white fraternities—which exempted a piece of campus from race and gender integration and allowed the most powerful students to bond over their hateful ideologies and group violence.

If archaeologists with aerial surveying tech can find details of long lost civilizations that have been hidden under dense rainforest for thousands of years, they can send those drones over the back nine and see if anything is buried in that golf course.

If the government just 'did better', there wouldn't be this problem. There is no need to balance the interests of grifters against the well-being of the public because the grifters might wage war on you. The public will support a war on grifters any day.

Arising from Carney's speech, middle powers, including Australia, should issue coordinated statements of concern about rule-of-law breaches and the need to respect alliances. They should defend international institutions like WHO & the UN and accelerate strategic diversification away from the US.

They actually can’t lie more than they already do and video evidence is entirely meaningless, as the past few years of atrocities filmed in Gaza have shown.

9. We’ve become so used to all this that we hardly notice it. But isn’t it extraordinary? Almost everyone wants one thing, and almost everyone who represents us – whether in politics or the media – wants the opposite. Yet we tell ourselves we live in a democracy.

8. You cannot have both a free market in media ownership and a free market in information and ideas. The oligarchs who dominate the sector stifle inconvenient thoughts and promote the policies that protect their fortunes.