The military presence in West Papua has been growing exponentially since the October 2024 inauguration of President Prabowo Subianto, who is implicated in historic massacres in Papua from his time as commander of Indonesia’s special forces

Indonesia has laid claim to the western half of New Guinea since the 1960s with the backing of the U.S. Things are still going badly For the past year, the Indonesian military has ramped up its indiscriminate attacks on subsistence farming villages, especially those that deny Indonesian rule

W.C.Fields is a favourite 💙

Nice woods

Harry S. Truman - who doesn't love Harry?! He didn't lose a moment of sleep over dropping atomic bombs on Japanese civilians. Started the CIA - the whole military-industrial complex ... cool! The whole defence establishment

And, yeah, I wouldn't recommend LSD use for anyone without proper oversight - like on a psychiatrist's couch the way they did in the mid-sixties Cary Grant used to swear by the stuff

This is a good one, even if the video is a bit rubbery www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDed...

Diane Abbott is an excellent politician and should be respected. 'Labour wants me out' – Diane Abbott suspended for second time for repeating racism claim on Jewish, Irish and Traveller communities - and she's right to say so!

The Iranian regime cannot be toppled by air and sea alone and a ground invasion is not on America’s agenda - it would be suicidal! (Americans don't seem to appreciate what a huge country Iran is) An anti-US billboard at the Enqelab Square in Tehran on 27 January, 2026. (EPA - Abedin Taherkenareh)

The Iranian regime cannot be toppled by air and sea alone - a man walks past an anti-U.S. mural in Tehran. (TIMA - Nazanin Tabatabaee Yazdi)

The Iranian regime cannot be toppled by air and sea alone - a Sea Hawk helicopter above the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in the Indian Ocean on 21 January, 2026, on its way to the Persian Gulf to threaten war with Iran. (US Navy - Seaman Daniel Kimmelman)

The Iranian regime cannot be toppled by air and sea alone - Hezbollah supporters waving portraits of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei during a rally to voice support for Iran and denounce U.S. threats. Beirut, Lebanon This all suggests a greater regional war. And U.S. boots on the ground

The Iranian regime cannot be toppled by air and sea alone. Massive military buildup points to new U.S. strikes on Iran. If, when and how is unclear, but the clock appears to be ticking Thanks, Uncle Scam for your ongoing crimes against humanity - they're certainly not in this for the Iranian people

Microsoft stock plunges - the stock is set to finish the day down 12 percent from the market open, its biggest intraday drop since March 2020 as OpenAI investments are questioned. (Reuters - Fabian Bimmer)

Donald Pleasence - Ernst Stavro Blofeld had a piranha pond (here he is trying to shoot the bad guy - his cat thinks Sean Connery is an arsehole)

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has told Xi Jinping the UK wants to build a 'sophisticated relationship' with China. Here they are meeting in Beijing, China, on Thursday. (AP - Carl Court) ... Remember when Britain used to be tough guys? When's Gladstone coming back?

A bushfire broke out just before 3pm local time in a small pocket of bushland in Ellenbrook in suburban Perth. Two helicopters took to the skies at emergency services looked to protect more than 100 homes. (ABC News - Bridget McArthur)

A bushfire broke out just before 3pm local time in a small pocket of bushland in Ellenbrook in suburban Perth. The fire impacted a residential neighbourhood in Ellenbrook. My Auntie lives there!

'- We are the storm,' said Stephen Miller at the funeral of the murdered MAGA broadcaster Charlie Kirk last September. 'Our enemies cannot comprehend our strength, our determination, our resolve ... You are nothing. You are wickedness!'

Who doesn't love Neil Young? www.youtube.com/watch?v=UO3v...

Idiocracy was prophecy

I haven't played this one for a while 💙 www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVNA...

This is a good point 💙 - and why can't that guy be more fun?!

I like Wesley Crusher - he's so cool 💙 And a genius greater than Mozart - nice!

A nice Piranha

Donald Pleasence - the coolest James Bond. Sean Connery played the evil Ernst Blofeld pretending to be the good guy In You Only Live Twice James Bond had a nice pond full of piranhas for dealing with lesser good guys

Sadeq Hedayat circa 1928. 'The one thing that made me feel better was the annihilation after death. The thought of another life after death made me feel afraid and tired' - so he was fun! One of Iran's great literary lights of the 20th century

Rain from ex-Tropical Cyclone Luana has fallen in Western Australia's remote interior region, bringing relief to pastoralists after a dry 2025. Carnegie Station recorded 76mm in 24 hours. (Supplied by Naomi McCooke)

Rain from ex-Tropical Cyclone Luana has fallen in Western Australia's remote interior region. The rain will generate some feed for cattle, but will also allow cattle to graze further away from water points. (Supplied by Naomi McCooke)

Rain from ex-Tropical Cyclone Luana has fallen in Western Australia's remote interior region. The rain will also draw feral camels off pastoral properties back out into the desert. (ABC Goldfields-Esperance - Andy Tyndall)

The fourth quarter of 2025 saw a big jump in the output of wind farms across the country. It came as renewable energy supplied more power than fossil fuels across Australia for the first time in a three-month period. (ABC News - Nathan Morris)

The fourth quarter of 2025 saw a big jump in the output of wind farms across the country. Australia's main grids still needs big spinning machines like coal turbines for security purposes. (ABC News - Ben Millington)

The fourth quarter of 2025 saw a big jump in the output of wind farms across the country. Batteries, both big and small, are increasingly reshaping Australia's power systems. (ABC News - Glyn Jones)

The fourth quarter of 2025 saw a big jump in the output of wind farms across the country. At times, rooftop solar can provide almost two-thirds of Australia's power needs. (ABC News - Glyn Jones)

David Byrne playing 'Life During Wartime' live, Washington DC, 28 September, 2025

Peter O'Toole as Petrucio and Peggy Ashcroft as Katherina in the 1960 production of The Taming of the Shrew

Katherina and Bianca in the 1954 production of The Taming of the Shrew

The markets on Mulberry Street in New York City’s Little Italy, circa 1900

A man has been tackled to the ground after he attacked Representative Ilhan Omar. Ilhan Omar was speaking during a town hall meeting in Minneapolis before she was attacked. (Reuters - Maria Alejandra Cardona)

A man has been tackled to the ground after he attacked Representative Ilhan Omar by spraying an unknown substance on her. The man was shouting at Ilhan Omar before he sprayed her. (Reuters - Maria Alejandra Cardona) This is the sort of hatred MAGA have been trading in, stirring up misfits like that

A man has been tackled to the ground after he attacked Representative Ilhan Omar by spraying an unknown substance on her. The man was then tackled to the ground. (AP - Richard Tsong Taatarii)

A man has been tackled to the ground after he attacked Representative Ilhan Omar. The Minnesota congresswoman fought off the assailant and said 'I survived a war' - and she stood her ground! She's VERY brave, a real national hero America should be proud to be represented by people like her 💙

Former Australian (QAnon-light) prime minister Scott Morrison - and Trumpie fanboy - wants a national register for Islamic preachers and a recognised accreditation system for imams. (ABC News - Nick Haggarty) Presumably the accreditation system would be controlled by people like him

Former Australian (QAnon-light) prime minister Scott Morrison shot his criminal mouth off about Islam (yet again) - Bilal Rauf from the Imams Council of Australia said the comments were 'misguided'. (ABC News - Sean Tarek Goodwin)

A court has found Kim Keon Hee, the wife of jailed former South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol, took bribes in exchange for political favours. She gets a year in the pokey. (AFP - Anthony Wallace)

A court has found Kim Keon Hee took bribes in exchange for political favours. Supporters of Yon Suk Yeol and Kim Keon Hee have rallied against their prosecution. (ABC News - Haidarr Jones) It's Korea: there's always somebody angry about something

A court has found Kim Keon Hee took bribes in exchange for political favours. Kim Keon Hee has been an outspoken opponent of South Korea's dog meat industry. (AP - Ahn Young-joon) So as bad as she is, SHE'S the politician who DOESN'T want to eat little puppies

A court has found Kim Keon Hee, the wife of jailed former South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol, took bribes in exchange for political favours. Both Kim Keon Hee and Yoon Suk Yeol have received prison sentences. (Reuters - Hannah McKay) And what a lovely couple!

The Trumpie administration is simply accelerating the decoupling of the Real World from American hegemony which doesn't serve anyone's interests Americans might notice a before and after in all of this www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Drq...

This segment is really good - and cutting close enough to the bone People walking out and everything www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbdR...