Ukrainian air defense operators watching other countries struggling to take down Iranian Shaheds

what's special about video games is they show us new diverse worlds unconstrained by real world prejudice the entire female cast of the latest blockbuster video game:

So let’s take a look at Australian weather in February and across the summer…with some BoM charts. Here’s how February stacked up for maximum temperatures…with the blue region coinciding with the unusually heavy rains)…

Same. It's all kind of overwhelming at the moment, but if tiny birds can carry on then so can we. #birds

Who's seen the latest Canturf signs? Spotted these while heading southbound past the airport this morning: "Canberra's most satisfying lay" and "I see you baby, raking that grass" 🤣👍

The size of the catchment area is massive and all that water is heading to just one place. It’d be an amazing sight to see and chances are you’ll never see it again.

Prabowo's offer to help hasn't exactly been taken seriously by the meme makers of Indonesia

🚨AUSTRALIANS AFFECTED 🚨

🇦🇺 🇺🇸 notice here that only *american* lives count in their calculus, even on the supposedly liberal end of the US political spectrum the many orders of magnitude of others they’ve killed or maimed over the years barely rise to the status of a footnote #auspol

Looking forward to the Bahrain Grand Prix on 12 April. Should add a new twist to the Netflix series 'Formula 1: Drive to Survive'.

Remember when prediction markets became big in Australia in 2007 for things other than sports? Very Serious People opined on the wisdom of crowds, miles of ink was spilled talking about their predictive insights. Then everyone got fleeced betting against insider info, and it just disappeared.

The honest opinion of everyone in the world who hasn't been driven insane by negative polarisation, really

Follow me for extremely obvious climate-but-realpolitik takes.

🍿 Of course the suppressed Liberal Party election fail review has been leaked already. thenightly.com.au/politics/aus...

Maybe I should reread Delanda’s War In The Age Of Intelligent Machines

Rather than regime change, Iran becoming a failed state & potentially breaking into a civil war & multiple weaker states is a common discussion among Iranians of all political leanings in Iran & leftist Iranians in diaspora. Yet it doesn't get much air elsewhere, esp on English MSM, I find.

That + 6 accounts on polymarket made around $1 million in profit by betting on the US to strike Iran by Feb. 28. Accounts were all freshly created in Feb and had only ever placed bets on this bloom.bg/3ORPnBo

Female #kakapo Kohengi on her nest with a newly-hatched chick and an egg (unseen). We removed the egg from underneath her and gave it to another female (Phoenix) who had infertile eggs. We're trying to ensure each female on Anchor Island has 1-2 fertile eggs to hatch. #kakapo2026 #conservation

Trump keeps those Epstein connections tight huh. Funny for a guy who said he has zero to do with him. He could easily not do this. And yet

this is art

Heavy rain and thunderstorms extending across northern VIC and southern NSW, as an upper trough interacts with the tropical air mass over central Australia.

There it is. Blew up a school. Claude Code at work.

I know there are a lot here who want Australia to be the mouse that roared But in a world increasingly populated by sharks, sometimes the best survival strategy is to mooch like a remora

On Friday night we got to see the male Powerful Owl sit on the edge of the nesting hollow and "purr" for several minutes, before entering the hollow as the female looked on. Purring seems to be how the males say, "hey, check out this hollow!" [Photo of a female at the same hollow from 2 years ago]

I saw some folks asking what the difference was between what OpenAI signed with the DoD and what Anthropic said they wanted, and Sam more or less admits here the key point: OpenAI's deal requires them to trust the NSA. Anthropic's contract had real safeguards.

lmao people worrying about an apple watch in a SCIF when these guys are drawing up war plans in claude and placing side bets with online bookies

Meanwhile

4/9. The Iranian operation in 2020 was designed to help Donald Trump get elected.

here's the RAND report on it: www.rand.org/pubs/perspec...

Here's the moment a tearful host on Iranian state TV confirms that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in US and Israeli air strikes. The Iranian government has announced 40 days of mourning and a week-long holiday to mark Khamenei's death.

I'd like everyone to be careful about the "U.S. is a pariah state now" takes. The world can't afford for the U.S. to be a pariah state. Smartest thing American hegemony accomplished. No one is rebuilding those structures in a year or two and U.S. centrality remains the path of least resistance

"See history - as it happens: The Gold Mar-A-Lago membership includes unique access to the invasion peep-show"

Baron Harkonnen spent years planning every moment of the invasion of Arrakis to guarantee just the right balance of deniability and threat, when he could've just gone for it on a whim because of Twitter memes and prediction market bets.

THREAD: Verified videos of the Iran/US/Israel war - 28 February Smoke rises in the air near Tehran's City Theatre metro station following air strikes by the US and Israel. Location: 35.7011766,51.4054869

The number of conflicts America has lost in the last half century despite having the most expensive military at the cost of aid for citizens will soon only be surpassed by the number of governments we've overthrown only to realize we don't like it after all, and then overthrow the one we installed.

Was going to escape the news by doing some woodwork in the shed, but an unwelcome visitor is having a meal there.

"Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman made multiple private phone calls to Trump over the past month advocating a U.S. attack, despite his public support for a diplomatic solution, the four people said." MBS is as predictable as Bret Stephens.

The details in this story are shocking, and I hope people will spend some time with it, despite the *gestures* EVERYTHING ELSE HAPPENING. Some of these details have been previously reported. Other big ones have not. Gift link:

> @jimlaporta.bsky.social

Insider trading on war.

One of the best things about not being on Twitter today is watching the “Hillary will bomb Iran” crew wriggling out of this one.

Autumn is there

So, afaict: 1: ships still traversing Hormuz but have fallen away (ie “closed” seems unverified; I’m unclear how it would be confirmed but pretty sure it would splash everywhere if/when) 2: unusually for weekend, ship insurers are cutting coverage to renegotiate and/or hike rates 50% …

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One of the deadliest things you can do it seems is sit around and do nothing while people lobby the president into obliterating you for basically no reason.

what's gonna happen is that, after thousands of people die, trump is gonna let the revolutionary guard run Iran directly, with no change to the country's political situation, in exchange for some sort of barely disguised bribe

Please for the love of god listen to me when I say that this is horrendously dangerous & Trump has virtually unrestricted nuclear launch authority.

As I have been screaming: There is no national security, no public health, no policy so long as we leave the Trump et al Regime in power.

On top of all the reporting that this war of aggression was planned well in advance, it seems that the reporting also indicates that the US political leadership are quite literally too stupid to understand basic diplomacy. I mean literally not smart enough.