There are guardrails & checks on our democracy (compared to the US or UK) which have so far held mostly ok. But we can't be complacent. It *can* happen here, and One Nation wants to inject Australia with full-blooded Trumpism.

Happy Pride! A few facts: 1) on average, trans men and non-binary people make 70% of what the average cis person does, and trans women make 60% 2) the trans unemployment rate is 2-3x that of cis people, with higher rates of underemployment & disability give money to trans people today!

Was thinking about 'Power of the Daleks' - a 60 year old piece of (mostly missing) television - and was struck by how Lesterson is 100% an AI bro, Daleks the AI he imposes on the people of Vulcan without even considering the consequences, and the end result is slaughter. He also loses his mind.

By the time I was 12, I was reading Michael Crichton books. I had already read some Wells & had a copy of The Iliad (which I think I read? I might have started it & struggled tho). If kids want to read they will read something they can really sink their teeth into

It is always worth remembering that after they were defeated in the same-sex marriage plebiscite, one of the biggest Australian organisations pushing against same-sex marriage rebranded & relaunched as an anti-trans outfit.

What the government is doing to trans people is a society-wide version of Section 28. It is a level of bureaucratic cruelty that utterly decimates a whole group of people’s rights and puts anyone who doesn’t ‘look’ right in the eyes of others under constant surveillance. It’s a horrific thing.

This is evil. There is no other word for it except for evil. Yes, it's an obvious point but still: the point of this is to make existing in public as a trans person so hostile & difficult that it forces people back into the closet. This will impact non-conforming cis people too. This is evil.

This drive to rehabilitate the foul racist pig Enoch Powell has been going on literally my entire life. It's ironic because the 'rivers of blood' speech was clearly recognised as racist, and widely condemned as such, including by Tories, at the time. We're being asked to misremember clear history.

Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.

Absolutely insane. Also, if anyone still had any doubt, further evidence that 'terrorist' is a label used politically. like come on some people are acting like palestine action is the second coming of the red brigades or something.

Almost like employees generate value for companies !

This is why the British Labour party must be wiped out, root and stem. When faced with the prospect of socialism or barbarism, they wage war on socialism and open the gates for barbarism. A party no longer fit for purpose, destined for oblivion.

so did he

Delia Derbyshire, born on this day 87 years ago.

You're not longing for the 90s, you just want to solve mysteries while having sexual tension with Gillian Andersen. It's a universal feeling.

Multiracial democracy in the American South has briefly existed twice in American history, both times enforced from outside, and both times has lapsed the instant the rest of the country lost interest.

I know Dick is mentioned here, and usually Orwell is brought up a lot when discussing disturbing trends in society, but my mind? My mind goes to Huxley. Like this - a customised, AI-generated 'movie' - all feels very Brave New World. There is no art, merely content that keeps you sedated

Happy Upside Down Mussolini Day everyone!

That booing on ANZAC day was terrible says the RSL - so we are going to give in to it and let local RSLs cut the welcome to country. The worst response to ugly racist meanness. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

When billionaires take control of vital communication platforms, it’s not a win for free speech. It’s a win for oligarchy. And when those billionaires justify their business motives by citing “freedom,” what they actually seek is freedom from accountability. Don't be fooled.

It's not hyperbole in the least to say Musk purchased a six-month shadow presidency for $280 million and used the power of that shadow presidency to 1. Steal the government’s data, 2. Permanently damage the state’s ability to regulate his businesses, and 3, kill non-white people.

Small pet peeve about mid/bad movies: when people in the comments of less-than-enthusiastic reviews insist that audience reviews are more reliable, as if reviews from people with extreme enough feelings about the movie to post about it online are going to be a reliable metric for 'is film good'

After Lamestream broke the news that the University of Queensland Press had cancelled the publication of a children’s book, award-winning writer Evelyn Araluen has terminated her relationship with UQP.

god it seems like we talk a lot about how disappointing albo-as-pm is but minns feels so much slimier and worse. blue tie really says it all honestly

absolute absurdity to claim that purchasing the rights to a brand is equivalent to identity theft. but then again i guess america is the country where corporations have more rights than people so

torn between "we need to soften IP law to stop the calcification of the culture" and "we need to give the Tolkien estate the right to extrajudicially execute these clowns at will"

Please don't tell me again how woke and great the Chicago pope is. There are reasons I have expressly requested to never be taken to a Catholic hospital for any reason whatsoever. This piece touches on some of them.

Just because Caitlyn Jenner is an objectively horrible person doesn’t mean it’s okay to deadname her. Please don’t.

i mean what is amazon going to do, say that their upcoming james bond film is dogshit & an affront to the bond legacy lmao obviously they're going to tell the press that they're happy with the film they're bankrolling

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“What’s the solution other than banning teens from the internet?” Build a world where a little gay kid maybe doesn’t think it’d be better to kill themselves rather than come out to their irl community. Might be a start but what do I know

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

I don't know if I can really put into words just what this whole war is making me feel. It terrifies me, it makes me furious, I feel tired and exhausted and I feel so deeply sad that so many people have died, are dying, and will continue to die because of Trump.

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Have accidentally found myself going back down a CHVRCHES rabbit hole lately, and in the process have also wound up listening to some Hayley Williams & Last Dinner Party. idk i just think that they’re neat

Australia's Labour party has bright people (Wong, Albanese etc) but in government they are unable to show any spine to US-Israel bloc, no matter how much it hurts ordinary australians. Here the foreign minister Penny Wong has forgotten that the Strait was open before US+Israel's bombing of Iran.

And there it is.

Kanye already apologised for his antisemitism in 2023 (because he was about to put an album out) and then last year he sold swastika t-shirts and released a single called H**l H***r. He already got given another chance and he did the same thing again, even worse.

Israel’s holocaust of Palestinians reached a horrific new low today. No different than trains heading to gas chambers. Shame on everyone silent about this.

National borders kill people on either side at exorbitant rates; they are a cruel luxury of kings and tycoons that the human beings of earth can no longer afford.

Yet here we are.

please just let this fucking show die an embarrassing death.

A kid-friendly fantasy series about an English boy who does magic that I do find myself remembering fondly is the Bartimaeus Trilogy by Stroud. MC isn't born special - he's basically sold by his parents to be trained as a magician & join the elite - and the series is very critical of the magicians

Fines have to hurt before they become effective, so putting ceilings on them makes no sense. They should be calculated on annual income, be they lawsuit payouts or speeding tickets.

who named these horses, bob mortimer?