Sir Ian McKellen and Elijah Wood will return in Lord Of The Rings II: Kings Of Mykonos

Me, the wisest man: Funiculì, Funiculà, Funiculì, Funiculà!!!!

You, an idiot: pivot to Australian Switzerland because dependence on a Pacific hegemon means complicity in whatever ludicrous imperial policy they come up with Me, a wise man: Australian Switzerland but for cool trains

What the fuck is a submarine going to actually do here, between ‘watch through the periscope’ and ‘start a shooting war’

✋ deterritorialising (laudatory) 👉 deterritorialising (derogatory)

When I say I don’t think the Americans are a reliable treaty partner or ally, I don’t mean ‘under this government’, I mean the American people as a whole who elected it, twice. I like Americans! I have met many! Americans are usually pretty cool, but as voters I fundamentally distrust them

Statues of historical people, which are not religious (i.e. of the Buddha or the Virgin Mary or Hindu deities) or part of a memorial (cemetery, war memorial) only exist under sufferance of the people who pass them by and should be torn down or replaced as their historical significance changes

I’m beginning to think the United States isn’t a reliable treaty partner or ally

Stephen Miller in another age would have absolutely been one of those White generals in the Russian Civil War who set themselves up as a central Asian khan and developed an elaborate self-mythology of destiny before being discreetly shot by his own soldiers

Time for disco m.youtube.com/watch?v=16y1...

If you told me Laura Loomer had frequent contact with a mystical holy man who never washed, made oracular prophecies, and was reputed to have hypnotic powers, and one testicle: I’d believe you

A lot of people have made the comparison of Trump to Wilhelm II, both impulsive, ignorant, unfit, bullying until the prospect of violence then fearful. But maybe Nicholas II’s court is a better comparison: intellectually and morally vacant, drunk all the time, corrupt, and fixated on conspiracy

How about this glorious Sydney afternoon, with such beautiful light #GloriousSydney #Ashes

Or as they say in Serbo-Panamanian, ‘yanquis fuera’

[reads article describing the likelihood of American forcible annexation of Greenland and the catastrophe of international relations that would ensue] Hmmm, seems a bit alarmist, who’s reposted this into my feed, are they known for credible ideas about the future? [it’s Francis Fukuyama] Aah fuck

🤚 even shitposting about American imperialist territorial ambition is to legitimise it, since the current manifestation of it hides between sincerity and trolling 👉 Greenland is, always was, and always will be part of Greater Serbia

Unless the exceptionalism is to do with a nation’s specific differences to any other nation contesting for dominance in a realist paradigm, it’s just sparkling Sonderweg

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

@mnurkic.online ‘Такси’

I helped assess a chainsaw course late last year, and took my film camera out with me flic.kr/p/2rQms1J 🎞️

One of the weird things about rural NSW is that there is absolutely no consistency to which towns and places are lovely and which are just hellmouths. There is absolutely no way to tell before you go to one, some towns just have good and bad auras

Used to be that it was an exciting, rare experience to date a ramblin' gamblin' man Unfortunately, today, given young men's aversions to commitment and addictions to online betting, the supply of ramblin' gamblin' men has exploded, and demand has decreased Thus: the Male Loneliness Epidemic

[raves]

When I said last year that the average American MAGA supporter closely resembles a Russian vatnik in both mindset and ideology, I meant it seriously.

The nineteenth century in Australian politics was the kind of place that leaves the phrase ‘Aldermanic fisticuffs’ in bios

Basing one’s politics on compassion, which is good of course, does not rule out a desire for Consequences, and really demands them

Sometimes you can find remnants of what the Internet used to be like: mini-essays, albeit often quite idiosyncratic and quirky, on random topics by well-informed amateurs. This page is from 1996 and talks about the PRC's character simplification. zhongwen.com

We believe in nothing, Lebowski

The lack of even a fig leaf of populist language behind their invasion seems to me the greatest error the Americans are making. Lots of invasions and coups are cynical but a gesture towards ‘freedom’ always allows face-saving negotiation. Even Teddy Roosevelt knew that!

JOHN BOLTON: well well well, guess it’s not easy to draw up a regime changing strikes package that doesn’t suck shit, is it

I would think within Venezuela there are now a number of generals (and irregular violent leaders), some of whom have been talking to the Americans and some of whom haven’t, all playing the prisoner’s dilemma game from the textbook. Good situation to be in

It’s sobering to look back on the run-up to the Iraq war—a period of unceasing chattering-class debate, elaborate official lies, media complicity, unavailing global protest, in the end a giant stitch-up—and have it seem like some sort of paradise of public deliberation compared to these gangsters.

One of the really weird features of this administration is it took crude tankie/undergraduate left beliefs (every war is about oil, every coup/movement is created by the CIA etc), assumed they were true but also normatively how one /should/ do foreign policy

I wonder what Paul Bremer is up to these days

I’m starting to see special operations forces the way the Founders saw standing armies: having them & investing so much in them makes it entirely too tempting for a tyrant to use them

The Australian government must unequivocally condemn the lawless aggression of the US if its position in the international community is to be taken seriously.

Everyone also remembers, after the defeats in Syria and Iran, that Russia does not really help its "partners." The only thing it can offer is asylum for those fleeing.

This from 2024, we could just re-issue without a change. “An expansion of the already troubled AUKUS deal is yet another example of how Australia’s alliance with the United States makes our country less safe, the Australia Institute has said.” australiainstitute.org.au/post/aukus-e...

The Hague doesn’t have a dock big enough for this. Yet.

"It is a sad fact that no court since the Nuremberg Trials has held an individual accountable for the crime of aggression." fellowtravelersblog.com/2018/03/29/m...

In the lead up to their very stupid and infinitely illegal war with Venezuela it’s shocking how much the American manufacturing consent industry has declined

There no requirement for you to post screencaps of the horror on X. No one asked for it and I didn’t ask to see it. Stop it. Fuck off

I can’t verify what’s in this confession, but it certainly seems plausible. “I'm a developer for a major food delivery app. The 'Priority Fee' and 'Driver Benefit Fee' go 100% to the company. The driver sees $0 of it.” Loathsome manipulation and exploitation.

I am proud to announce that I have decided to leave the company that chose to employ me but I will continue to work in this existing role regardless

I genuinely support standing orders against Party defection, especially in upper houses where there’s ticket voting. This kind of thing is undemocratic and really is a betrayal of the voters. If you don’t like the duty of being in a Party, you need to resign the seat! www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

NYC’s Mamdani follows that great democratic socialist Chris Minns and the famously revolutionary NSW ALP

‘Business leaders unite to back a Bondi Royal commission’ What odds they demand action on penalty rates, company tax, EBAs in the mining sector

Spies don’t like to be accountable for failures, bears suspected of defecating in forests, Pope considers Catholicism a worthy religion

You may not like it. But this is what peak male performance looks like

used to be just Pinterest that fucked up looking for old images on computer but its solidifed to be 100% instagram and facebook. mark zuckerberg wrecked online, whipped up genocides and made stupid people even more obnoxious but on top of that i cant find old photographs in decent resolution