Did…the Trump regime lowkey threaten to kill the pope?

What was interesting about this, if you click the hyperlink for 'poverty brain', it takes you through to a different article about the research. It says the researchers are arguing for structural changes. They use their research to say that services for poor people should be easier to access.

When I got my first job, the very first things I bought were a matching set of glasses and a new pair of kitchen tongs sans rust. Even when I’m tossing up between medication and groceries, it still feels like success knowing my kitchen things match and remain rust free.

Top four Canberra cryptids:

The pre-conflict daily average number of ships through the Strait of Hormuz was 138. Passage used to be free, will now cost $2m each. Half goes to Iran, so that’s approx $50 billion per annum in new revenue. He did, in fact, make Iran great again.

The famous Andor line is that "tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle." Here is a perfect example of that through malicious compliance: Idaho forced the city of Boise to remove its Pride flags. So the city painted rainbows everywhere else.

This doesn’t seem hyperbolic now

So the US spent billions blowing shit up in Iran, now the rest of the world will spend billions on tolls to move stuff through the straits to rebuild the shit that the US and Israel blew up. Got it. We have to subsidise stupidity

When this was doing the rounds I wondered how many sheep are #asexual. There's a tendency to assume that any male uninterested in females is gay. Today I happened across an answer. How We Do It: How The Science of Sex Can Make You a Better Lover by Judy Dutton (2009). archive.org/details/howw...

It’s called the Cycle of Abuse or the Walker Wheel: calm followed by rising tension, the explosion of violence, the reconciliation, the incremental intensification of violence over time.

this is the most desperate for approval he's sounded imo

The rainfall of Namibia, 🇳🇦 where millions of water lilies bloom all at once

I AM GOING TO BURN DOWN THE SHED UNLESS WE HAVE PIZZA ROLLS FOR DINNER TONIGHT [mom sighs, rolls her eyes, writes "pizza rolls" on the grocery list for next week] I HAVE DECIDED NOT TO BURN DOWN THE SHED

NOW: B52 bombers are literally in the air on their way to Iran and hundreds of thousands of Iranians are in the streets waving flags and surrounding bridges & power plants. Difficult to imagine this has any precedent in modern warfare. (🎥 Al Jazeera)

The US military has 22 sites in the UK. Every day long range US bombers are taking off here to drop bombs on Iran. This is a rogue state carrying out war crimes, and threatening more. The UK Government must grow a spine - and stop our bases being used for this war.

ABC cowers to the transphobes. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

i think if you tweet "a whole civilization will die tonight" you shouldn't go to the hague, the hague should get to come to you

🧵Congress 202-224-3121 Find your Senators www.senate.gov Find your Rep www.house.gov "I'm [NAME] from [PLACE, ZIP]. I'm calling to urge the Senator/Rep to contact Adm. Correll & remind him that he has the same legal obligation as any soldier to refuse an illegal order from this Commander in Chief."

Australia needs to exit AUKUS. No unity with mass murder

be the corgi you want to see in the world

Astonishing story here from noted investigative journos Dan Nolan and Peter Geoghegan: Russian oil and the Hungarian government directly fund a vast network of right wing populist writers and thinkers democracyforsale.substack.com/p/orbans-bri...

I predicted someone like Trump many years ago, in THE DEAD ZONE. So now I'm saying this--in the next 12-16 months, we're going to find out if the two machines for the removal of a man unable to fulfill his duties actually work. They are impeachment and the 25th amendment. He is deeply unwell .

SNL UK is absolutely putting its American counterpart to shame dear lord

so my cousin was anxious enough at her 1st colonoscopy to get the Special Meds in her IV - as she emphasized at great length just now, when she told me she woke up hollering in a nurse’s face TO WHOM MUST I SPEAK TO BE CLEARED FOR SEXUAL ACTIVITY?! for what turned out to be the 3rd time

Australia Institute research shows the theft of legally owned guns is the cause behind the high number of illegal firearms. More than 2000 guns are stolen every year in Australia. That’s one every four hours. @rodcampbell.bsky.social #auspol

🎵 Ground Control to Dementia Don Ground Control to Dementia Don Take your Adderall pills and put your make up on Ground Control to Dementia Don (ten, nine, eight, seven, six) Commencing countdown, Armageddon on (five, four, three, two)….🎵

Yes!!!! www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

We found the winner of this meme

Disgraceful! The US/Israel just bombed Sharif University in Tehran. This is not only Iran's best university, but also a top 100 global university in the field of Civil Engineering. It has also been a center of student opposition to the Iranian gov And Trump just bombed it...

The risk when simultaneously consuming cocaine and operating a social media account is one may type some things that are difficult to back away from the next day and tens of thousands of people may die.

[The Apollo 11 plaque] reads: "We came in peace for all Mankind." As the United States was dropping 7 ½ megatons of conventional explosives on small nations in Southeast Asia, we congratulated ourselves on our humanity. We would harm no one on a lifeless rock. - Carl Sagan

To those still complaining about Artemis 2: We spend 100× more on killing people for oil profits, but yeah, NASA’s the problem. 🤦🏽‍♀️ NASA: $25B Defense: $901B That’s 36 NASAs. Space programs have driven major advancements in science, medicine, and technology, real benefits for humanity.

Jeff Bezos has $222 billion. If he paid my wealth tax this year, we could fund insulin in America for everyone who needs it plus free school lunch for every kid in Texas—and have plenty of money left over. And Bezos would still have $215 billion dollars to spare.

my entire timeline on x is now just iranian embassies demonstrating a facility with the english language that puts everything i've ever read from the trump administration to shame

It’s always good to schedule your war crimes. Be specific!

The first national poll putting @greenparty.org.uk in first place (just) is an utterly extraordinary moment in British politics.

Antarctica's 12-month running average temperature is the highest on record. That seems bad. 😟

The price of public holiday homecare under Australia’s new aged care system is $337.50 p/hr. There’s a lot of elderly people out there who missed out on a shower this weekend because they couldn’t afford it

Israel killed 3 Indonesian UN peacekeepers in South Lebanon. They were wearing blue helmets. They were in UN uniforms. They were peacekeepers. Israel bombed them anyway. Not a peep in Western media. Not a word from the international community. Kick Israel out of the UN.

Easter Sunday

On the 58th anniversary of Dr. King's assassination, it's time to reckon with the media's troubling role in the civil rights struggle. (I pitched this to @nytimes.com who found it "fascinating..[but] the news is making deeper & certainly more historical pieces very hard." But they're the news.) A 🧵

I'm someone who was there at the midnight releases of the Harry Potter books and movies. Watching this show puts money in the pockets of J.K. Rowling. And if you do that, you're helping fund a deadly worldwide campaign of hate against trans people. Consult your conscience.

"I accuse Israel of crossing the red line, I condemn the massacre of Palestinian civilians, and I announce that Italy will support European sanctions against Israel." - Italian Prime Minister Meloni #cdnpoli

A literal plot point in the latest season of The Diplomat

Born this day in 1979, Heath Ledger tragically passed away in 2008. He always understood the assignment.

we should put whoever makes broccoli rubber bands in charge of more stuff

I have mentioned this before, but recently a friend who knows nothing about plants, was asked by a friend, who also knows nothing about plants... "Which plants would look good in my bare front yard?" My friend replied "Triffids". Old mate returned from Bunnings and called my friend "Bastard".

Anyone posted this yet ... thought I'd get in early. From the always hilarious (and much missed) @kudelka.bsky.social

👇The misogyny that delays research into Endometriosis or misuses Endo funding for studies about how men are coping with their partners having Endo!!!🤬 I shit you not! FFS🤬 🐝 #auspol Medical misogyny and endometriosis: Beyond the Simon Gordon scandal independentaustralia.net/life/life-di...