There must be psychologists/ psychiatrists who know what triggers to pull to send Trump beyond what even the GOP will accept, for the sake of America and the rest of the world. This can't go on.

Will visitors to the Tower of London be able to peer in on Andrew as well as the Crown Jewels? ...just asking...

I was going to tell an Irish joke, but, you know, Australia's hate speech laws...

A friend in a recent conversation just stated: "I'm pretty sure God is using us as a beta version of creature and planet. A few design flaws that need to be resolved." If I believed in a God, I'd have to think that that's right on the money.

Since time immemorial, phrases like "social cohesion" have always meant, "the sane as me", be it colour, race, political persuasion or religion. -Never- had it meant tolerance, acceptance and revelry in the philosophies, music, cuisine, culture and being of diverse peoples. Vivre la difference!

There should be a point, say age 90, where one, while still compus mentis, is allowed to check out with dignity, whether currently in reasonable health or not. Its too late once health and mental decline overtakes the legal ability to decide to give the years of palliative care to a child's future.

A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The Aus govt’s decision to allow Alcoa to continue clearing swathes of WA jarrah forest despite its illegal clearing practices was made in part due to a critical minerals deal reached between Australia and the Trump administration last year, a new document shows. By @lisacox.bsky.social

open.substack.com/pub/jefftied... Donny Convict’s latest foreign-policy grift, the Board of Peace™ — the for-profit dime-store United Nations knock-off where Donny gets to be Board President forever, has veto power over everything, and gets to pocket each country’s billion-dollar initiation fee

This was always the plan. Israel will annihilate as many surrounding Muslim nations as it can, on behalf of the US war machine. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/...

So many lessons learned, the hard way, that I feel it's a total waste in it not being a precursor for a reincarnation.

As I was told when I was young. Literalism is a curse.

That's about as far a video clip from "times in which we live" as you can get. Looks like an add for the return to slave owner plantationists with a couple of token blacks.

Gotta love it. www.facebook.com/share/1XusiR...

The message from the DOJ is unmistakable: Justice is no longer the objective. Retribution is.

...and for something different, Zulu Spirit. African rhythms youtu.be/r8MoLCom_Zg?...

@albomp.bsky.social Just do it !

ABC news referring to ‘alleged’ stabbing in Sydney in which one person died and several were injured. Journos, PLEASE, that people were stabbed is not an allegation. It is a fact (unless you believe the victims impaled themselves on the assailant’s knife. The allegation is about who did it.

Cannibalised ???

The private foundation of Jillian Segal funds Advance Australia to “flood social media with aggressive Far Right disinformation” and racist hate. Get her off our payroll, @albomp.bsky.social @australianlabor.bsky.social. All decent Australians want Jillian Segal out of public life. #auspol

Bwahahaha! Local farmer was bragging how he's put up an Aussie Flag and a big sign saying "Make Australia Great Again" facing the main road, so I interjected, "you must mean when Gough was prime minister, because that's the best we've ever been". Killed that conversation dead as a dry dingo.

So, at the Jewish land sales, can you buy Palastinian properties and land "to order", or just the land already stolen? ...just asking...

So ISIS brides have "made their own beds and now have to lie in them", but Australian Jews who serve in the Israeli IDF are welcomed back to Australian comfort, and are to be protected from being made to feel uncomfortable by any mention of Palestine or the apartheid and genocide the IDF perpetrated

Rape, torture and murder so horrific the alledged Epstein files can't be released. Too rich, too powerful, too many, and too much of a risk to American Capitalism and confidence in the political class for the FBI and DOJ to bring the perpetrators to trial. ...and so it goes.

In keeping with the Chinese tradition of naming the new year after a creature, because each year I seem to experience a different plague, sugar ants, meat ants, earwigs, mice etc, I hereby declare this the year of the cockroach. Big black shiny La Cucaracha! youtu.be/SHYUkAthMN0?...

Australian democracy, without a viable, intelligent and active opposition, isn't a democracy. We need the options, intelligent debate and oversight of independents and smaller parties to question and reign in Labor, or any party that has a run-away majority. Even more important next election.

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Zionists know that the state if Israel is predicated on the suffering of others, however to be confronted/reminded of this makes them feel guilty and uncomfortable, so they do everything in their power to suppress all mention and reference to "the others", and hardening a defensive mental wall.

In Ursula Le Guin’s "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas," the people who leave are citizens of all ages and genders who, upon learning that their -utopian- city's happiness relies on the torture of a child, choose to reject this moral compromise, -but- they do not stay to fight and change the system

...and for something different, some Gregorian Chant to sooth the soul. youtu.be/z96qe75LOF8?...

Immigrants have done more for this country than billionaire tax dodgers ever will. Share if you agree! #auspol

It seems to me that there is a high level of background acceptance of the sexual abuse of the underage girls in the Epstein saga. Is that because they -are- girls, and not underage boys? Would the response be more visceral in the latter scenario?

Morning. ☕️

Just in case you needed to smile today.

If the United Nations countries won't apply sanctions, boycotts and ICC arrest warrants to countries like Israel and the USA, who snub their noses at and ignore the "international rules based order", then of course others will follow suite, and the whole thing becomes/is little more than a farce.

She's in for a shock when she finds out how many overstayers are from the UK. #auspol

I guess that by next December we'll know just how bad the US shit show is, but it'll be a long painful wait until then.

It’s starting to feel like the Republican Party and their pedophile leaders are holding these hearings and releasing information NOT for transparency purposes but to show the victims and the world that they are invincible and unstoppable. Like a rapist or murderer who keeps trophies. #FDT #FGOP

Just had a flashback to the pubs in Nth Melb in the early 80s. Each week night a different vendor would call around with a basket of wares. Jeans,T's and shirts, chickens and eggs, great cheeses, superb smallgoods, and on Fridays, the Sally Annes would call round selling you salvation for a dollar.

Putting Mandelson to one side, so much of what Jonathan Pie says about UK Labour applies equally to @australianlabor.bsky.social. It's enough to make one weep if only you weren't so angry. #auspol #ukpoli

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...and for something different, some traditional Cajun music. youtu.be/07jF_EVink4?...

...and not only does he have Albo's ear, but he appears to have him (and a swathe of others) by the short and curlies as well.

Vale @kudelka.bsky.social

How long do you think before the terms West Bank, Palastine and Palastinians are banned in Australia?

Proud to be a signatory. This open letter is in SMH and Age.

...and for something different, Canteloube's: Songs of the Auvergn. youtu.be/m4PjaOa-esg?...

If predictions of an El Niño and even hotter summer over 26/27 comes to pass, I may just have to roll up my swag and head to Tasmania as a climate refugee.