This may be the most trashily gaudy thing trying to masquerade as classy in the history of the universe.

I’m feeling more than a little naive for believing the pandemic would see care thrive and selfishness crumble. I also believed it would bring long sightedness and collectivism to the fore.

So, Donald Trump. If we look at empires crumbling, is he a Nero or a Caligula?

The USA should immediately be excluded from all international organisations, treaties and agreements and heavily sanctioned until it removes its current leaders from power, and not readmitted until they agree irrevocably for Americans to be subject to international justice as the rest of the world.

Hey @albomp.bsky.social, so, this is our ally, you say? The threats to commit a war crime and destroy an entire civilisation doesn't sound like a country that I want as as ally. @australianlabor.bsky.social where the hell are you?

Countries know to have nukes, in order of dementedness of current leaders: 1. Israel =2. Russia =2. USA 4. Pakistan 5. India 6. China (concerning that they're this low) =7. UK (for now, but Farage) =7. France (for now, but LePen)

The world looking away from Israel's actions in Gaza - doing exactly this sort of thing - has normalised it to the point where I doubt anyone even notices a threat to commit war crimes.

Hey @albomp.bsky.social, isn't Israel the country who's President you just feted here? What do you have to say @senatorwong.bsky.social ? These people are not our friends, they're violent psychopaths.

Sure, there's a country starting with "I" that's happy to attack and take over the entire Middle East. It's just not Iran*. (*look, they'd probably be fine with it too, but they're not the ones ^actually doing it^)

@support.bsky.team - this is an utterly ridiculous suspension - Marie is a trailblazer in Australia and suspending her is utterly mystifying.

#AFL mourning the loss of the sport's greatest commentator with the loss of Dennis Commetti. No one has come close to his humour, skill and all round brilliance calling the game www.afl.com.au/news/1265615...

Yeah, well perhaps you should have a long hard look at the cops @chrisminnsmp.bsky.social, after they beat up people who were peacefully protesting. But hey, you've got a better job holding an umbrella up to keep the rain off the president of a genocidal state. Aren't you fucking disappointing?

Yeah, they didn't vote for leopards to eat their faces, even though the leopards kept telling you how good it is to eat faces.

@albomp.bsky.social DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES JOIN THIS TRAVESTY CALLED THE “BOARD OF PEACE” #auspol

@profanity.accountant - checking in, still swearing?

So the new AWW event is going to be a panel discussion where Bob Carr can't get a word in edgewise while Greg Sheridan slams all the people who walked away as anti-semites? ( I wonder if and when this whole thing will leak out into the main Adelaide Festival )

If Israel has the right to issue (or deny) "permits" to work in Gaza, then they control Gaza. Which means that a large swathe of people under Israeli rule are not even considered citizens, let alone have a say in running the country ruling them. Israel is NOT a democracy (unless an apartheid one)

c.org/6shjczXC6c This needs about 200,000 more signatures...

Microsoft in the latest update I've got has mapped the Alt-Spacebar keystroke THAT HAS BEEN THERE SINCE WINDOWS 3 to open Copilot. None of the instructions to undo the change work. I've used this shortcut for 30 years, but no, now it's Cofuckingpilot instead STOP FUCKING DOING THIS SHIT MICROSOFT

@profanity.accountant - do I swear much?

Nesting offences. My @smh @theage cartoon.

The #AFL would have to be the most tone-deaf sporting league in in the universe No one wants or needs "wildcard round". We already have eight out of 18 teams playing finals, there's no need for more The team finishing 10th is NEVER going to be competitive in finals, what's even the point in this?

Here's me. '“People aren’t buying their shit anymore”: They think they can make you forget what you’ve seen'

AI is not about making things easier for people, it's about breaking people's ability to think for themselves, allowing the companies running it to force feed opinions, which will be treated as facts by a compliant society. Show me that I'm wrong....

A lotta' talk about Trump and that Time Magazine cover. Sonething about a Neckgina. I just dont see it... I may go swim a dewlaps - may help.

No Kings? But Denmark has a king, and so does Norway, and Sweden and Spain. And the UK for that matter, as well as technically Australia, Canada and New Zealand. Japan Trump doesn't want to be king - he wants to be ruler for life of the Democratic Peoples Republic of America. Kim Don Un.

Just deleted a bunch of posts arguing with Zionists because it's just polluting my timeline. They're not worth my time. If you're a Zionist, feel free to block me, mute me. You can be supportive of Jewish people while saying that Israel is committing a genocide. It's not antisemitic to say so/

The problem is that we continue to fail at eating the rich.

I would have thought the biggest problem with this would be keeping up with the additional lies Trump adds continuously. Show would never finish.

Basil Zempilas continuing to show he is totally unfit to lead anything more challenging than a conga line. What's the correlation between public holidays and the state of the health system? Nothing, yeah Baz, you're utterly out of your depth. www.watoday.com.au/perth-news/w...

Here's my question of the day: How fascist or nazi does someone have to be before it's OK to say "you know something, this guy being dead is a net benefit to society"? When can you ask "why are people saying nice things about this guy" but feel somewhat OK about it because it's in their obituary?

One of my kids made me this for Father's Day Whatever else, at least the Dad Jokes are going well :)

Enshittification: noun: the act of carelessly and deliberately making something worse. Who did it had to be about digital platforms?

The only person we should be deporting today is the Israeli Ambassador. The Government's priorities are pretty fucked.

Yeah, Outlook is being real helpful here....

What's this? It looks like Trump has blown up the USA and is walking away.... if so, surprisingly accurate.

Should test that. The first two for instance, I'd happily see an obituary for.

Pavlich to Sydney as CEO: that's one that came out of leftfield. #AFL

I don't want to install a fu**ing app to order something for lunch when I'm already online in the browser on my computer. Hell, I don't want to install an app even if I'm using my phone. It has a perfectly good browser.

Basil Z clarifying that he does not want to improve the WA Libs position in the near future.

@pivot-to-ai.com.web.brid.gy @edzitron.com Here's an interesting one - I clicked on a link on the Windows notfications to "See entire forecast" to look at the seven day forecast. This is where I ended up. This is not selling me AI, it's infuriating me with AI.

But Israel does....

Right now, I think that "regime" are both the least fanatical and least evil of the lot. Which is saying something.

How did the world get to a point where I'd actually be less scared of a nuclear weapon in the hands of an Iranian Ayatollah than I am of one in the hands of the President of the USA?

The most ironic thing about this whole "No Kings" thing the USA has going on right now is all the countries that actually have a King (or Queen) and aren't suffering a bunch of political convulsions despite that. The fact is Trump is being more like North Korea's presidents than any king out there/

Anyone who wants a bit of an antidote to the dark side of the world should follow George Penney for his special heartwarming anecdotes on life in Aotearoa NZ.

I saw this on the ABC. Is this not a very, very simple case of phoenixing? And if so, does that not mean the laws around that are really weak?

Unfortunately for Elon Musk, when you buy an American President™, they come with a no refunds policy, even if shown to be defective.