In 2024 when the PLO decided to pursue full status membership at the UN for the State of Palestine, Biden asked Abbas to rescind the ask in exchange for an invitation to visit the WH. Problem: Biden made the same promise in 2022 if Abbas dropped the demand for the consulate. Invitation never came.

In an article about small business Our ABC chose a nostalgia shop as an example. Of course this decrepit corner store failed. There’s a fundamental misunderstanding of what journalism is at Our ABC, down to how an example works.

Happy horrible air quality index day to all who celebrate

Truly a joke of a country

Watching this while fireworks are going off in my neighborhood and drinking a Hamm’s, this rules @bencollins.bsky.social youtu.be/_cTi_vTwwmU?...

Trans rights are human rights always and forever.

"The ALP no longer represents the people who vote for it. It is controlled by an unrepresentative coterie of factional heavies and officials. Party members have little influence. Internal politics is conducted almost entirely within an elite class." #auspol johnmenadue.com/post/2026/07...

Or it just shows that nationalism always had this brain rotting core and it was never a "normal thing"

It’s like there’s a government secrecy culture sweeping the nation, with our governors forgetting they govern for us and that the information they have belongs to us. Shame on you Premier Crisafulli. #qldpol 👉 www.smh.com.au/national/que...

WHAT ARE ‘AUSTRALIAN VALUES’ Dan? We all wanna know? Is it Hoges and Bradman? 😏 #insiders

After Egypt's historic knockout win over Australia, head coach Hossam Hassan walked onto the pitch carrying a PALESTINE flag. The Pharaohs advance, and their coach made sure the celebration carried a message the whole world saw.

America:

Happy Independence Day, from the god Jack Handey.

they know these are their people. we all know.

Right-wing politicians around the world are attacking minorities. This is the time to support all of them, to come together, shoulder to shoulder, and show those political forces that will divide us that an attack on one of us is an attack on all of us. We are united around our mutual support. 💚

Almost everything got unusable these days, I think the whole AI slop should lead to more books being sold, more boardgames being sold and more people actually doing social things in real life.

Love how the rectangular shower is 113 x 95 cm. And on the other wall, half the length of the shower is suddenly 133 cm. Pinterest is unusable due to AI slop these days.

Jesus wept.

Pretty bloody urgent for the GVT scam to be shut down NOW, before it's too late

Just shows what the money from some truly malevolent billionaires, plus the relentless pushing of the billionaire media and the utterly useless ABC, can do to smash up a state. We're looking at a Maga hellscape

That's the *state of Victoria* staring at a disastrous result. We'd get a mob of malevolent vandals smashing up the state worse than under Kennett

"Using 'AI' to take [creators] jobs, their livelihood, their creative expression away is exactly why using 'AI' to create an image is so enjoyable by right wingers: It’s a vulgar display of power."

this is a bummer, I was hoping it would get a few of the older members of the admin to collapse

It'd be good if this finally got the gamebros to realise how destructive AI is, but it probably won't www.theguardian.com/games/2026/j...

Well played, The Onion

Wait what — *this* is his Arc de Trump? ”The centerpiece of Trump's fair is already showing signs of structural failure — the vinyl covering, stapled over a wood frame, emblazoned with "One Nation Under God," began "buckling" under the combined assault of high temperatures, humidity, and rain.”

There's something incredibly dystopian about the country celebrating its 250th birthday as the people whose lives we're destroying, from Palestinians in Occupied Palestine to Black, Indigenous, Brown, and trans people here, beg for money to survive the night.

Oh gross. Kids watching Do Not Watch This Show and out comes the voice of Dave bloody Hughes. It's oddly appropriate he's playing a malevolent goblin, but a troll would have been better casting.

Nothing these liars say should be given any weight whatsoever.

News outlets should cease using euphemisims like "hardline" to describe the Trump regime's immigration policies and practices. More accurate descriptions include white supremacist, cruel, dehumanizing, state terrorist, and in breach of international law.

simultaneous crash of all gaming consoles (because AAAA & AI), mobile gaming (because of age laws), and PC gaming (AI again) means the only surviving gaming platform is in-browser emulation of old games on the internet archive a second generation grows up on oregon trail and commander keen

Just here to post this again like I do every year, not only because Douglass was one of the founding philosophers of American liberty but because I am so moved by the kids Frederick Douglass’ descendants deliver “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July”

Great illustration of how the parts of America who insist on having the freedom to drive a Hummer unencumbered by emissions rules and at cut-rate gas prices reduce freedom for all the rest of us.

A shocking and desperately sad reminder of what we have lost in just 50 years When will we ever effing learn? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

To wit @albomp.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

This was a phenomenal game, it's a real shame there's no longer any players online. But there could be! Anyone up for a game of Frozen Synapse?

Merz government wants to change that you need a sick note on the first day so I'm gonna have to sit in a doctor's waiting room whenever I get my vertigo attacks instead of resting

*cough cough* "Sorry Herr Merz" *Cough* "I wasn't able to get a sick note" *Vomits on the chancellor* "Sorry... This will undo a decade of the auto industry dragging their feet on EVs though?" *Last bit of vomit comes*

"People are sick too much and it's hurting profits, what do we do?" "Just don't let people call in sick lol" We do this until Merz gets bothered by folks predictably being sick for a week via doc order instead of a few days via call, and decides to cap that too til we all get the plague at work. 👍

Utterly moronic

German Chancellor Merz has said that no one can take sick leave without getting a note from a Doctor. Which requires either paying a 17.1% tax a year on your salary to get Public Healthcare, or paying about €80. Now sick people will be going to work making other people sick.

Excellent way for a country to waste medical resources (unnecessary dr appointments to be told to go home and rest) and spread disease. Right wing brain is a threat to everyone.

With this anti-worker brain fart from Merz, Germans are going to find wait times escalating at the doctors, with people who just have a short cold now required to go in (spreading the cold) and waste medical resources to be told to go home and rest.

US rep took 4 months of paid sick leave. "...during his two decades in the New Jersey Senate, [Tom] Kean consistently opposed paid sick leave for his constituents. He voted against [its]... Earned Sick Leave Act, which mandates 5 paid sick leave days per year..." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I haven’t seen *any* coverage of this and worry people have just become numb (or are too distracted by the World Cup, Knicks, etc.)

What's the way to find decent local restaurants now, since google, Menulog, TripAdvisor etc are all utter garbage now

If all of America's fossil-fuelled data centre power plants go ahead, it'll be the same climate impact as adding another Australia to the world. environmentalintegrity.org/news/74-gas-... www.reuters.com/business/ene...