Israel caught lying again. @albomp.bsky.social and @senatorwong.bsky.social you need to send the Ambassador from Israel home and really need to cut ties with Israel.

Elon Musk is a mass murderer.

oh that's very sage advice, guy who stumbled ass first into an ad monopoly and has failed at every subsequent attempt to make the company useful and interesting

“It was a political prosecution, if it wasn't me, if it wasn't NDN...the reality is those charges would have never have been brought.” That’s what Nick Tilsen told Drilled in an interview published this wk about the prosecution brought against him by Rapid City police.

The only correct response to fascists remains: Fuck you. Make me. #TACOThursday

So, Anthropic's "chief compute officer" says they're now buying capacity on Colossus 2, which is not only bigger than Colossus 1 but as @mollytaft.com reported, is adding a massive amount of NEW additional unpermitted gas capacity bsky.app/profile/did:...

“The Freeport LNG project is poisoning people in my community,” Manning Rollerson, founder and director of the Freeport Haven Project, said. Japan must stop funding polluting, climate-wrecking liquified natural gas projects in the US Gulf South and around the world. bit.ly/4uIGL0h

Pleased to see that after all these years, millennials have finally stepped up to shoulder the burden of complaining about these damn kids.

Paul Williams was on photography duty this evening and filmed this shot of mine. It was definitely in the area 😁👌👍🏻

Seems the Albanese that *isn't* a quisling has come through her difficulties with the Trump administration unscathed. Makes me wonder why any other Albanese would *be* a quisling. I can see know moral or intellectual reason for it, but what would I know? I'm an old man wrapped in an ethical blanket.

The worst thing this government can do is deliver more of the same www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

NEW: Summoning Israel's ambassador in response to Itamar Ben-Gvir's sadistic tormenting of Gaza aid flotilla members is not enough. Mark Carney should call for Ben-Gvir's immediate prosecution by the International Criminal Court, human rights experts say. www.readthemaple.com/mark-carney-...

New OBW: Beloved writer George Saunders on Willie Nelson's "Pancho and Lefty." If you can imagine the most thoughtful/gracious college prof you ever had exploring the mysteries of Townes Van Zandt's masterpiece, that's what George brings. Hear here: bit.ly/435tL8N

In 2020, I came up with a suite of different ways to illustrate just how wealthy Jeff Bezos is. Some of my favourites are collected below. Six years later, he is $100 billion richer but I refuse to redo all the sums. bsky.app/profile/seam...

A favourite variation was one I contrived for @thefence.bsky.social in 2020, re: Jeff Bezos' then wealth of $177bn. "Iago first said 'Put money in thy purse’ at the premiere of Othello on Nov 1st 1604. You'd only need to put $1.1 million in said purse every single day since to match Bezos’ total".

These can be some depressing times as the fascists wield power. But this sentence cheered me up and I agree with it. "It is, as Lincoln would’ve said, a house divided that cannot stand, and I would not put my money on the elites here."

Australia not mentioned here, not among those recalling diplomatic staff from Israel, nor summoning Israeli envoys for a fucking talking to... nor even among those denouncing this cunt's behaviour, and the morally bankrupt behaviour of the state of Israel. @albomp.bsky.social Albanese? Wong?

What the fuck would this clown know about *paying* taxes

They’re trying to normalize the idea of a national sales tax to end progressive taxation, and I’m already sick about the number of people who are going to fall for it because they hate the idea of other people enjoying anything.

As forças israelenses abriram fogo contra um barco da Global Sumud Flotilla, mirando a embarcação com balas de borracha. Já haviam interceptado barcos de uma frota que transportava ajuda para Gaza na segunda-feira. Agora mandam nas águas internacionais? Uma vergonha tudo isso.

The most Australian headline ever

Telek and Not Drowning, Waving, Street Theatre Canberra

Oh the goal wasn’t to free to Iranian people? We are very shocked

Far-right finance minister Bezalel Smotrich says ICC is seeking his arrest on war crimes charges. He's probably right, and there is plenty of evidence linking him directly to war crimes. www.ft.com/content/57e7...

Australia is the only country with climate modelling focused on the southern hemisphere. “These cuts will make us suboptimal in core climate science capability in atmospheric and oceanographic modelling, and in understanding the concepts that really drive our weather and climate.”

Well surely that's the whole point of the cuts, @australia.theguardian.com? #auspol #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Today is the day we have always celebrated my mother's birthday. She told me that she chose the date herself as a little girl, when she encountered her little playmates' celebrations. I think about that a lot. I have never wished to know the actual date of her birth. The date she chose is best.

You could build a whole sitcom around this.

A fine victory in the SBA Midweek Cup this evening. Clyne Valley 42 Bonymaen 83 Some rather unseasonable weather, fair play to all 24 players for getting through the game. We progress to the next round 👍🏻 ❤️🖤❤️🖤❤️🖤

@rhodri.biz someone has turned it on itself (to no productive avail, but some small triumph).

Impossible to meet the methane rules because the US oil and gas industry releases huge amounts of methane. This is them admitting that fact.

"U.S. gas exporters are asking Europe to delay the enforcement of a new methane emissions law until 2028, a top official of the national suppliers' lobby said on May 19, warning the regulatory risk is already holding back long‑term contracts with European customers."

I’m sure this is a really stupid question, but: even if they sign this epically corrupt deal, could President AOC or whoever comes next just reinstate these investigations?

"Officers have taunted them, shined bright lights at them, and followed them in their cars. One community member was assaulted and jailed for trying to film. Now, they’re suing, with help from the ACLU"

Yeah, but it's scary foreign tech that they might have to import from exotic places like…Tasmania.

The story would be true if it was about cuts to the NDIS... oddly not a thing The Australian is concerned about at all.

At least six oil and gas companies kicked in $1m each to a fund operated by Australian Energy Producers (AEP) to fight a proposal for a new gas tax. The Prime Minister flew across the country to tell the resources sector in person it was dead. Here's me in @deepcutnews.bsky.social looking at why.

Sunday afternoon May 31st Dave Graney and the mistLY play the Young St Tavern in Frankston.

Big protest and march at Brooklyn Criminal Court and outside Brooklyn DA Gonzales's office in protest of this woman's treatment today. Organized by the Association of Legal Advocates and Attorneys, UAW Local 2325.

I promise you none of the people who manage your local bookstores would say the same. www.nbcnews.com/business/ceo...

This guy gets along ok with the current US administration. It's like they understand each other *completely*. I wonder how his troubles in Australia played out..

I say without hyperbole that this is the most brazenly corrupt action in US Presidential history. That it does not immediately lead to impeachment is a dangerous sign of how far the rule of law has declined.

That's absolutely spot on. If you set up a testamentary trust that fixes how your estate is to be split up there's no change. But if you do so in a way that enables it to be used to minimise tax, then yeah you're not going to be able get away with that. That's not a death tax you lying pricks.

If you have to utilise s discretionary testamentary trust to manage your estate after death, one of 3 things happened 1. Wanting to evade tax, long term, for recipients 2. Raised shithead, untrustworthy children 3. Recipients legally owe other people large amounts of money. A Stiff Shit Tax

this is such a great encapsulation of what the various factions of the reactionary right want. i might add that they envision themselves as slave masters and the rest of us, in one way or another, as their slaves. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...

In underfunded fields, people tend to do their own work. In overfunded fields, people pay others to do everything, including “their” research and writing. It’s not an accident that AI is an overfunded field that grew out of other overfunded fields.