A garlic seller in 1930s Hebei:strings of dried bulbs, the fuel of North China’s poor. People ate mantou (steam bun) with raw garlic for warmth, strength and anti bacterial. Cheap, durable, and medicinal, garlic was survival food this man stands inside an economy built on hard soil and harder lives

Reform UK: "16/17 year old boys coming here from Syria/Sudan etc are MEN. They are not vulnerable, they are economic migrants". Also Reform UK: "Don't criticise Farage for this 'banter', he can't be responsible for things he said when he was only 16/17".

'A South African man who took part in a widely condemned neo-Nazi rally outside the NSW parliament has arrived in 🇿🇦 after being deported.' Neo-Nazis raised 30K for Gruter via Xtian nationalist crowdfunder Give Send Go, sponsor of Warren Mundine's 2023 CPAC AUS. www.news.com.au/national/nsw...

You know, Admiral Bradley AND Pete Hegseth might both be utter cunts. It doesn't have to be one or the other.

This is straight-up murder

If you thought Robodebt was bad, wait until you see Robo NDIS.

Sorry, White Nationalists, Europeans were Black until the Rise of Rome, and Rome was Multiracial www.juancole.com/2025/11/nati...

I wonder if Decathlon opened in my suburb because of the amount of shit I specifically buy from them? Second trip this week. Rain ponchos a couple of days ago. A torch today. FML.

Doesn’t seem great that all the animals are turning to booze.

Gay Ice Hockey romance. OK, maybe. Going to watch an episode of 'Heated Rivalry'.

Outstanding reporting today from the New Media at the Pentagon.

Sounds like the neighbours are cutting up Saudi journalists. Stop it with the saws.

is this good www.404media.co/chatgpt-spot...

Imagine how cool the next generation of gaming console will be once the AI bubble bursts.

One of my favourite tracks of this year: Ic3peak - Where's my Home Russian melancholy is unbeatable, and living in exile has seen a new tragically beautiful evolution from these guys. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTjj...

📢 A study has found that a lick from a dog can result in a change in the gut microbiome of teens, boosting their mental health.

I don't use spotify, but rest assured I listened to music this year. 👍

"The larger it is, the more it pollutes" - Mayor of Paris We need more local leaders prepared to speak out and take action on this literal growing threat www.bbc.com/news/article...

Hi. I transcribe child forensic interviews You know who doesn’t want kids to know the correct names for body parts? The predators that put those kids in a position to need child forensic interviews. Those kids NEVER know the right words for their body parts and it is always a hinderance.

If you're standing next to someone saying racist shit like this you have two choices: 1. Call them out. 2. Walk away. Standing there silently makes you complicit. Give us a list of every one of these useless fuckwits.

The CEOs of Ford and Stellantis, as well as senior executives from other auto manufacturers, standing beside him while Trump goes off on another vicious racist rant about African immigrants. Not one of them had the courage or the dignity to walk away. bsky.app/profile/just...

The group challenging the teen social media ban /won't/ be applying for an injunction any more, meaning it's full steam ahead for the ban's commencement date next week.

If the Americans are going to start bombing drug boats then a whole lot of Sydney Harbour cruise businesses are going to have to pay more insurance. Hey hey hey

Why it matters

SUGARS ESSENTIAL FOR LIFE WERE FOUND IN PRISTINE ASTEROID BENNU SAMPLES!! ☄️🧬 this is combined with previous amino acid and nucleobase detections, meaning the ingredients for life are widespread throughout the solar system!!!

Yesterday South Park drops an episode on the shallowness of people like Pete Hegseth. Today we learn Kash Patel wouldn't leave his private jet until he had the right FBI jacket with the special badges he wanted... FFS

Who knew increasing supply of houses makes a difference?

It's kind of amazing just how more affordable Melbourne now is, and also how expensive is Adelaide #ThePoint thepoint.com.au/news/251203-...

“Effective immediately, 100 will now be 5,100 and—I’m reading off the official statistics from my people—500 will be 25,500,” said Trump

Imagine being a goy and standing up and telling Jewish people they don’t know or understand their own fucking history. That Jews are ignorant and too uneducated to have correct opinions about the Jewish issue of our time that has broken families and communities. You absolute piece of trash.

I had the pleasure of meeting Donald Trump at a charity do once. He was surprisingly down to earth and *very* funny.

Lemon8 and Yope. FFS.

*endless vomitting*

I hate her work, and what she's done, but having internationally aware bureaucrats and politicians is pretty important. Of course, in this case they've already run the victory lap on 'fixing' social media before implementing it...

like big tobacco funding cancer research

Morton wins Walkley for “Mean Streak” www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/202...

📢 The casualty figure is set to rise as rescuers sift through mud and debris for hundreds of people still missing across multiple countries.

📢 The WHO’s announcement came hours after Australia released a safety alert over the potential risk of suicidal thoughts and behaviours for people using the medicines.

NYT: Five officials told us that Hegseth had nothing to do with the second strike Washpost (which broke the story 2 days ago): “This is ‘protect Pete’ bullshit,” and “It’s throwing us, the service members, under the bus.”

just how polluting are #diesels in Australia? Very. Pajero sport exceeding limits by double. Ford Ranger, Kia Carnival and Hilux emit over 500mg/km when the limit 280 mg/km. #health #auspol These polluting utes also get favorable tax incentives www.abc.net.au/news/science...

She seems nice

If Hegseth gave the order (of course he did) all Bradley has to do is testify to that effect to significantly reduce his own sentence when the time comes.

“So the plan is to replace all their jobs with AI” Five minutes later: “what do you mean, broke people don’t spend as much?”

Important point 👇

Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps. McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay. Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay. See the problem?

Five (this one courtesy of @seanpdailey.bsky.social)

Tomorrow Grimes will DJ a livestream of immortality influencer Bryan Johnson tripping on shrooms to determine its effect on longevity. Mr. Beast and the CEO of Salesforce will be there too.

OK. So, that's got to be the end of the wedding stories. 'They had a beer label printed and played music they like'... incredible. Now stop.

There should be an orbital laser platform that just incinerates anyone if they take a portable speaker outside the bounds of their residence