It doesn't feel good, in times like these, to drop my kids off at school when right next door is an army reserve barracks.

GALADRIEL (selectively editing the backstory): and three rings were given to the elves, who were barely involved

I was at the count in Gorton and Denton last night and we all saw Matt Goodwin eat ballot papers. His girlfriend and team begged him to stop but he kept stuffing it into his mouth and making grunting sounds like the Cookie Monster

Some times you get a Horst Wessel sometimes you get a Sergei Kirov I guess.

An awful symmetry here a few years ago we had virtue signalling EU libs closing their borders to Russian men fleeing mobilisation now perfectly vice signalling pro Russia chuds deporting this guy back to be immediately conscripted. No one thinks of how to achieve victory, just how to hurt people.

www.news.com.au/travel/trave... has anyone told @trashfuture.bsky.social that the hoons have gone green.

Somthing that strikes me about the modern American right is how the levels of cop and influencer brain leaves them impotent even when in power to actually deploy violence against there enemies. Demoralising your opponents political networks through terrorism is the job of the klan not the police.

Look is 22% PHON primary vote good? no. Am I looking forward to the four corners episode after Pauline alienate this generation of PHON cadre with increasingly petty authoritarianism and ludicrous scams? Absolutely.

I've been a postie for 13 years and i can't stress enough the punters love it when you sing to your self it's great pr Bezos is an idiot.

This is why I'm a first worldist like the French 3rd estate In the 1780's it's up to the masses inside the United States to move history forward, and that is going to suck for them.

time until listening to "this year" by the mountain goats this year: 73 hours 54 minutes

The key fact is that the US has been trying with more or less focus to overthrow PSUV for two decades they basically set the rules of the game in 2002 when they backed the coup against the overwhelming popular Chavez. And under that circumstance it's deranged to talk about unfair elections in 2024.

How would you develop a legal framework to arm one ethno-religious communities amature paramilitary force that didn't leave the door open to a whole class of suburban lunatics who's folks got pulled out of displaced persons camps in late 40's Europe, to insist on one of their own.

Rather than trying to drive teens of the internet have we considered for even a moment drowning Sam Altman and co in charges child porn charges related to the inevitable consequences of generative AI.

I would be willing to back banning the teen social media ban on the condition that the kids get a publicly owned teen only site just for them and it functioned like a late aughts social network. Get the ABC or Australia Post to run it

I'm not sure you could pick a funnier aristo family to be from as an influencer.

The year is 2025. Everybody in the world, including the United States, is eagerly awaiting the collapse of the United States. Except, for a variety of reasons, the People's Republic of China

I read this on the bus an hour ago and it has been an act of will to not stop random strangers on the street and tell them about it. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

If The Federations treatment of Bajor was at all representative of how they treat their candidate states I would be on one about imperialism.

I'm trying to imagine a more perfect Centre Unity brain worm than this, just a ringing the dinner bell for every nonce in Australia in order to cut down on the number of teachers fed members you have to deal with in a suburban ALP meeting, outstanding stuff.

I feel for Paul Thomas Anderson and everyone who worked on One Battle After Another, they tried so hard to do the absurdist dystopian extrapolation from the current horrors, and ended up so close to the actual political environment of the release window it hit the uncanny valley. Great movie though.

i subscribe to the new yorker primarily because it's still amazingly good at digging up Guys. "Revolutionary Socialism-Curious Landlord" is an inner circle hall of fame type of guy to uncover

Developing a new Marxist analysis i'm calling Cliffite-Losurdoism it has one text that is nothing but a madlibs version of the The Eighteenth Brumaire and it's sure to upset everyone.

Now I'm as much of as much of a hyper polarised doom scrolling political obsessive as the rest of you, I too love schadenfreude but might I suggest rather than thinking about Charlie Kirk ever again, you listen to a couple songs by Toots and the Maytals.

Drew why are you freaking out about older professional women drew, did your mum ask you to get a real job again?

I'm seeing a bit of Niemöller criticism, but we shouldn't forget that post war Niemöller wasn't trying to minimize his complicity, he was doing self-criticism. And god I wish all the liberals who helped midwife the horrors in the middle east felt compelled to do this level of self-criticism.

If albo dosn't get this message I suppose we'll pay for tracking next time.

I will believe it when at minimum we supply the Lebanese with working air defences.

Letter of the day (in the Times)

It seems a bit optimistic to think we are at the seelow heights part of American fascism.

The Tudors fucked up Ireland because they were just two stylish.

Chris Minns could have kept his gob shut and a bunch of people would have checked BoM and gone to the demo next weekend. Free Palestine.

No one in the feminist movement has the courage to hijack the conversation and reframe it as a very real crisis in the supply of fuckable let alone marriageable men. Let alone advocate the totalitarian policies nessesary to solve the problem.

I guess this is the GOP's version of Swan Lake

Screaming the words "Long Service Leave" at the top of my lungs every time I see the an article about micro retirement.

@raaleh.bsky.social huge orb news

Impossible discuss the crisis of social reproduction, when a focus on fertility serves as a cover for either a Eugenics program or improving the dating prospects of STEM grads. No one suggests that we reorient the culture to praise men for doing housework.

Bomb Cyclone or not I and every other postie are sworn to a sacred calling. We will laugh in the face of all peril to get your complementary monthly magazine from your car insurer! We will die for your Temu order! Nothing will stay this messanger about his duty!!

Id be interested to find out what sort of deranged footage from overseas is being shared in NSW Police group chats.

I know I'm a sicko for living in the last remotely normal outpost of "the west" and still following the goings on of terf island, but gaze upon these fresks

@nogodsnomayors.com, I thought I was in the grips of a hallucination, I'm such a happy hog.

Punk rock kid buskers (‘The Whops’, tiktok) near the Edgware Rd. They run into Paul Simonon, play Death or Glory for him. He asks if they know The Guns of Brixton. They do -

Pilot of the helicopter filming focusing instead on his failing marriage

we need to show Americans were In the tech tree how to vote cards are so they can stop this nonsense

An issues Americans have is they read their history parochialy, part of the reason civil rights broke through in the 50's and 60's was the dynamics of the cold war, with africa decolonising and able to play the US and USSR of each other suddenly American racism was an international liability.

Even as I have grown increasingly disillusioned with the bloke I have to admire his willingness to trash talk.

There is nothing I want to see more than an actual navy test Isreals blockade.

I'm haunted by the vinnettes of the potential show trail of Elon Musk, his Harem being wheeled out to denounce him, Big Balls tearful forced confession the bruises still showing, his drug intake painstakingly cataloged all delivered as Trumps prefered medium 90's day time TV.

Is it a good idea to do this in a city that opened the decade burning down police station?

@ciaran.operationglad.io I'm just trying to find my daughter a kids history book, and apparently they are really worried primary school kids in Australia aren't conscious enough of Operation Gladio.