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As well as being straightforwardly true, the only real evidence that Mamdani is trying to tie affordability to race is that he's releasing reports which he is legally obligated to produce.

“Ministers justified reducing support for people too disabled or ill to work by arguing it would remove the “perverse incentives” that discourage employment… as if a twentysomething bedbound with ME just needs “incentivising” to get back to the building site” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.” ― Elmore Leonard, Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing

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British Bluesky up to 2m sign-ups with roughly 40k users now posting each day [of 625k globally] twice that number 'liking' a post daily A medium-sized network reach political, professional, academic media or other influencer elite groups, not route to mass reach(UK estimated 4.5-7.5% of userbase)

Youth clubs to open in bid to tackle anti-social behaviour

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Little guardian of Merri Creek this morning.

Chinese satellite images enhanced by artificial intelligence could help Iran target US and allied forces to within a third of a square metre, military analysts say.

North ⁠Korea appears to be distancing itself from Iran and carefully managing its public messaging to preserve the possibility of a new relationship with the U.S. after the Iran war, according to Seoul's spy agency.

Thousands rally in Iraq against ‘senseless’ US-Israel war on Iran https://aje.news/4ex5mt

"The difficulty is that incubation can feel exactly like delay, especially when a deadline is approaching. But writers who have learned to trust the process often report that the paragraph they couldn’t write at 10 pm appeared almost fully formed the following morning."

"How the fuck do you tell if an egg is halal?" #temperaturecheck 🍳 www.reddit.com/r/SipsTea/co...

Oof. "A massive seven-year project exploring 3,900 social-science papers has ended with a disturbing finding: researchers could replicate the results of only half of the studies that they tested." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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unlike a parliamentary democracy where he would have lost the confidence of parliament, the only remedy we have before we can vote is impeachment that'd require both the House to pass Articles of Impeachment and 2/3 Senate to convict which, if they wouldn't after the 1/6 insurrection, unlikely now

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View from the Docks is a free exhibition of works by Naarm/Melbourne-based graphic artist Sam Wallman at the Australian National Maritime Museum in Gadigal/Sydney. www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1450/cu...

The replies to this show how many people think the minority party in the Senate has magical powers.

Trump advisers think the age of imperialism ended because of wokeness, not because 1) colonized peoples made colonialism untenable 2) technology made territorial empire unnecessary. They thought mere brutality and perceived genetic superiority would make wars against countries like Iran easy.

5/ Asia accounts for a third of global refined products demand but relies on the Persian Gulf for roughly half its supply. Western nations face far more manageable disruptions, with the notable exception of fuel oil for the US and jet fuel for the UK.

"My patient is refusing a drug studied in 170,000 people because of side effects that a 124,000-person analysis just confirmed do not exist — while injecting a compound studied in 14 humans, from unregulated sources, based on the recommendation of someone who profits from selling it."

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Looks like Orban’s Russia-backed false flag operation could be underway to lead to the cancelling of the Hungarian elections. Predicted recently. Serbian president Aleksandar Vučić has informed Orban of “explosives of devastating power” found at the gas pipeline connecting the two countries. 1/2

"That’s what war is, what it does. It’s a thief of choice. It’s a trap. It’s a pit where freedom and creativity and choice go are swallowed." well said.

immediate and complete #uglylaughter 🚞

about coanda effect, here's the long and short of it. the way fanfic authors are being treated in fandom right now is horrendous. it creates an environment where we feel unsafe making ourselves vulnerable by sharing stories we've poured our hearts into, only for those hearts to be trampled on 1/4

Speaking as a Melbourne Jew, the ECAJ is the umbrella “org of orgs” but the fact that it doesn’t accept the JCA is removing its authority. Especially that now it embraces disgusting filth like the so called “Australian Jewish association” which is a racist Advance front group.

"The treasurer makes the point that Australia goes into this crisis in better economic shape than most, with stronger growth and a robust labour market," writes John Hewson. “But the longer the war drags on, the harder the challenge he will face.” satpa.pe/Ho3ocRP

Today I learned I can read German

To err is human. To EXTERMINATE is Dalek.

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Alert alert the astronauts are doing a livestream rn answering questions from kids and it is extremely wholesome and informational!

Today in Shanghai… Incredible to get a sense of living in a city which has a population larger than Australia. -People are very friendly - curious (blonde hair curious too). -Next to no obesity -A lot of Eastern European accents (Russian maybe?🤔) #auspol #DeniseTravels

"In her school exercise book Marylyn Minett had been writing about the big events of the 1960s: a rocket launch, a volcano erupting and a shopping trip to Merthyr Tydfil with her auntie Pam. "This is not news," her teacher noted in the margin of her book."

tell me without telling me that donald trump jr. has never watched grand designs as presented by kevin mccloud

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Saying the increases violated Italy's consumer code, the court ordered Netflix to give back as much as several hundred dollars to its longest-subscribing Italian customers.

With more proposed cuts to NASA science funding (which was already a tiny amount on the scale of the U.S. federal budget), now's a good time to write about why NASA science matters to you.

“During the Yom Kippur War in 1973, major Arab oil nations refused to sell to countries supporting Israel. Oil prices almost quadrupled, inflation reached 18 per cent and unemployment 10 per cent. The current crisis is likely to be worse.” satpa.pe/iAm27ZF

My number one favorite iPhone feature is when you want to put an app in the folder and the folder plays keep away with you and you have to chase it back and forth around your screen until you manage to magically catch it and drop the app in.

"Israel colonel Gabi Siboni wrote that Israel "should target economic interests and the centers of civilian power that support the organization". The logic is to [force] the enemy to sue for peace."

it’s true that overall likes are way down on bluesky over the past year. however, if you look closely at the data, that’s mostly an anomaly resulting from the fact that your posts specifically have gotten worse and are dragging the vibe down.

China tightens border controls, culls cattle amid foot-and-mouth outbreak reut.rs/4v7eXTA

This is so, so well-articulated.