UCI chief 🇫🇷 Lappartient under scrutiny after using official account to back jailed 🇫🇷 Sarkozy 📰 domestiquecycling.com/en/news/uci-... 📸 Cor Vos

#MarkDoesJapan train number 3, Limited Express Lilac to Sapporo

Every now and then, I recall in October 2023 all the living former PMs except Keating signed a letter which included the line "Israel promises it will do all it can to avoid civilian casualties"

It wasn't anti-white to support boycotting South African teams under apartheid. It's not Russophobia to support boycotting Russian teams after the invasion of Ukraine. And it's not antisemitism to support boycotting Israeli teams after a genocide.

Lmao

It’s all downhill from here #MarkDoesJapan

And train number 2 for #MarkDoesJapan returning to Asahikawa

The Australian state, whether Labor or Liberal is in power, exists to preserve this country as a fossil fuel exporter, a base for America to project its waning military power in the Pacific and as a tipping ground for US pop culture trash. We need a left populist independence movement.

Trump is bad, but saying "I don't like you" to Kevin Rudd in front of the entire world was the funniest thing anyone has ever done.

So I was inspired by @thatjohn.bsky.social #JohnDoesJapan and so I’m starting my own #MarkDoesJapan adventure. First train of the trip Limited Express Sōya to Wakkanai from Asahikawa.

So wait… Is Tel Aviv now a no-go area for Jews? Are Maccabi Tel Aviv antisemitic for attacking Jews and Jewish police? Are Tel Aviv police antisemitic for blocking Jews from a game of football? Would I be antisemitic for criticising Israelis (and therefore all Jews globally) for rioting?

⏱️21 mins ago "The Israeli Premier League derby between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Hapoel Tel Aviv was cancelled by police after "violent riots" before kick-off." There are MANY politicians who owe West Midlands police a profound apology. List/tag them. 👇 www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

"When I use a word, Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less."

U. S. A.

Wait but all these people were telling me we had to ignore M*sk and all his labor and OSHA violations because Teslas were essential to fighting climate change

The cybertruck is a massive men's rights win. Finally a car that she won't take in the divorce.

By Refugees from Gaza

Really strong story from @newcastleherald.bsky.social about the Hunter Region’s role sending F35 jet fighter weapons parts to Israel for its genocide in Gaza. The F35 regional hub in Williamtown isn’t for Australia’s defence, it’s a US controlled global weapons hub run by the US, for the US

On the other hand, it's been a long time since someone from The Australian turned up and found themselves the smartest person in the room

Swearing in isn’t some ceremony. You aren’t a member of Congress until it happens. He knows that. No phones, no staff, nothing. I had to escort her into the Capitol on Wed bc Capitol police must treat her as a public visitor until she’s sworn in. And solo visitors aren’t allowed during shutdown!

So, Australia collects 43 cents per $100 of exported gas. Qatar collects 46 DOLLARS per $100 of exported gas And Norway collects 56 DOLLARS per $100 of exported oil This is not just a piss take ... it's the out and out theft of our natural resources. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

Last week, we opened a three year exhibit of a grain from asteroid Ryugu at the Australian Space Discovery Centre, home of the Australian Space Agency, in Adelaide 🛰️! JAXA’s Hayabusa2 returned the sample capsule to the Woomera desert (moderately) close to Adelaide, so this little grain came home! 🧪

If only we had cleaner units to describe the weight of a litre of water.

The Reserve Bank has the unemployment rate it desired. Our government will continue to shit on the unemployed, make them leap through all the hoops, make them live in poverty, despite their unemployment being a deliberate plan. And our media will keep pushing the bludger line. #AusPol

It’s been 50 years since the Balibo 5 were killed in Timor-Leste. No one’s been held accountable theconversation.com/its-been-50-...

@ihaveabluehat.bsky.social 👇🏼😁

The Tasmanian government is very versatile. So many different areas in which to be particularly bananas.

One of these countries is not like the others... www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

🚨BREAKING: Israeli Occupation Forces have kidnapped 15 Palestinians in Al-Nasr town, northeast Rafah, a clear violation of the ceasefire agreement. Imagine what would the headlines be if Hamas kidnapped 15 Israeli soldiers in Gaza today, rather than Israel kidnapping 15 Palestinian civilians.

Welcome home. My @smh @theage cartoon.

Arkéa are no more. Expected, but nonetheless very sad for all of the riders and staff affected, and for what it means on a broader scale for cycling 😢

The Israeli hostages will be received into Israel by well-stocked and highly functional hospitals with significant allied health supports. The same cannot be said of the Palestinian hostages when they return to Gaza. Allan Elliott, Northcote The Age, letters

"Israel is still limiting the number of aid trucks allowed to enter Gaza. Its only permitting 300, half the agreed number under the Trump plan" So Israel continues to starve people in Gaza because they claim Hamas hasn't done something. The definition of collective punishment

I laughed way too hard at this 🤣🤣🤣

David Pope in Canberra Times

weird how the IDF have been doing this exact thing for 2yrs and the ABC hasn't mentioned it once.

Al Jazeera is doing videos of the Palestinian releases and they're heart wrenching. One man was detained for over a year and was released to find out that Israel had killed his two kids. The youngest was three. Her birthday would've been on Saturday. He'd made a small bracelet for her in prison.

Oh hey, the "ceasefire" was total bullshit, as anyone with even a modicum of pattern recognition could have predicted

This Christian priest was asked "If the mosques in Gaza are all bombed who will issue the call to prayer?" He replied "If the mosques in Gaza are all bombed and there's no muezzin in Gaza, I will raise the call to prayer at the appropriate time for my Muslim brothers as an honour to them." #SaveGaza

okay this was funny www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2JJ...

This is what UNBEARABLE agony looks like. Who knows for what reason this poor man was taken hostage - along with 1000s of other Palestinians - but we can easily imagine how his torment is compounded on learning that his wife and CHILDREN were murdered by the same brute forces that held him captive.

It will be grimly amusing when the AU govt's new "papers please, to access the internet" legislation is a massive cluster fuck and MPs will be all "who could have known?" like folks haven't been pointing out the obvious fucking flaws since before it was rushed through.

Fairfax posting pics of every Israeli released hostage - while released Palestinians aren’t allowed to speak to the press - is very lopsided coverage

Why the hell does Trump’s Department of War keep using RUSSIAN military images? This is by no mean the first time this has happened.

#straya 😂

The lights on the hill. My @smh @theage cartoon.

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

"Israel also forbade people from celebrating the release on Monday, firing teargas at family members and journalists waiting near Ofer prison in the occupied West Bank, where detainees were kept. A flyer distributed by the Israeli military warned people that “we are surveilling you everywhere”"

Russia invades Ukraine. Banned by FIFA. Banned by Eurovision. Israel commits genocide in Gaza. NOT banned by FIFA. NOT banned by Eurovision. 😠 #SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦 #FreePalestine 🇵🇸

Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry. The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”