Every Emperor has their own coins minted.

Oh dear, I missed a whole hour somehow.

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

If I could talk to two people, I could probably forget about my book.

I don’t want to die, but I’m not making any progress finding anything to live for.

Oh dear.

The guy who posted Israel’s support for far right figure “Tommy Robinson” (real name Stephen Yaxley-Lemon) is the minister for the diaspora

The breadth of Jewish disapproval of Netanyahu is significantly under-reported in UK media. Views are never monolithic but the median British Jew feels an attachment to Israel and feels Netanyahu has been a disaster for Israel (Institute for Jewish Policy Research) www.jpr.org.uk/reports/what...

30 years! One of the first things I looked up on the internet!

Have a nice weekend everyone.

How many times should you message someone without getting a reply before giving up trying to keep in touch with, or catch up with, someone? Obviously this is a hypothetical scenario. I’m too widely liked to ever have issues like that.

Petite bourgeoisie = owns the means of production but is less than 6 ft for men / 5'7 for women / 5'10 for enbies. I don't make the rules, Lenin did

Six years ago, almost to the day, Apple removing a similar app from the Hong Kong App Store was seen as such a breach that Tim Cook wrote an all staff email to defend it www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I can only speak for Australia but if we’re just thinking of our current political context, studies into the 2022 election are instructive imo. The primary economic cleavage between left and right became asset ownership — specifically housing.

BREAKING: Mario Guevara, the Atlanta-based Spanish-language journalist who was arrested covering an anti-Trump protest, has been transported to a Louisiana immigration facility, from where his family said he will be deported to El Salvador tomorrow at 11 a.m. www.wabe.org/family-says-...

Basically there's no way out of this through the restoration of American Exceptionalism you see through the gross Liberal Currents people on this website. The way out will involve the US becoming Just Another Country, which also means ratifying all those treaties that every other country ratified

Complaining about cancel culture in Riyadh is one of the best examples I've seen of how "free speech culture" rots the brain.

The Trump regime wanted to give King Charles one of President Eisenhower’s swords. The head of the Eisenhower Library objected and suggested a replica, since the swords are owned by the American people now. The Trump regime got pissed and the head of the Eisenhower Library has now resigned.

On March 20, 2003, Anthony Albanese stood up in Australia’s parliament to oppose the invasion of Iraq, calling it an “unjust war”. Now, he's all in on another Middle East intervention.

I need a plan to meet or catch up with more people.

The Australia arm of the Wikimedia Foundation fears Wikipedia may be "in scope" of the teen social media ban, meaning it would have to age check users and restrict access to <16s. In the uncertainty, Wikimedia Australia has been unable to get official assurances otherwise. www.crikey.com.au/20...

That’s a lot of negative sentiment for a nation of immigrants.

“Older generation who grew up with The Simpsons”

Fascinating how discussion of social media age verification is focused on how kids might bypass it rather than how over-16s might have their rights to access impacted.

At least 29 Americans have sought asylum in Australia since Trump’s second presidency began www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

He wants what?!

*insert random scold here. We know it’s the best way to implement behaviour change*

From this week's newspaper research.

I know we're desensitized, but it's important to note, again, that today's events would have led to the immediate impeachment & removal of any president from at least Truman to at least Obama. We're hundreds of miles on the interstate past Richard Nixon's high school prank-level crimes compared to 👇

In most countries where a President announces this they're usually out of office not long afterwards.

The diver, identified as Volodymyr Z, held for 2022 explosions that largely severed Russian gas supplies to Europe.

From this week's newspaper research.

This is awesome. I’m repairing the timeline - in my photo album.

For some reason the time stamps on all the photos from my first digital camera had been altered, and I thought the correct times were lost, but they’re still there. It looks like I have to manually readjust all 712 photos though!

Something is 'ambitious' for Labor if the Opposition might criticise them for it, which, given the inherent objective of opposition parties is to discredit the government so that they might one day replace them, means pretty much anything.

how long are we off a raybans exploding midflight type story

TBF they’re applying a similar principle to what’s behind social media bans in various countries, tho obviously more ridiculously over the top

Getting into the January 2000 mindset is going well. I was feeling happy writing about the nice thing that happened, now I’m feeling angry about the first thing that made me angry.

Should the people of Gaza enjoy the right to self-determination, or was that a quaint 1990s fad?

I started on January 2000. This has to be a bad idea.

Just when you thought there was some good news...

With nothing and no one to live for, it'd be nice to be doing things to try and make a difference to other people's lives. I've tried that before though, and without security of my own life it's impossible to make the necessary commitments to do much of that.

Implying that young men are socially regressive bigots is certainly a choice.

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Now this is an interesting story. Medals and potentially promotions for refusing to carry out “illegal or unjust orders”. Defence ministry statement: “We will do our best to become a military trusted by the public...” Interesting tense in that sentence too.

Is the Australian media really going to cover every single mobile tower outage now? Pretty sure they’re not uncommon!

Xenophobia is expensive!

ABC News has two headlines this morning on China as a military threat.

Remembering that my watch fell victim to the ‘other’ Y2K bug. The date feature skipped Feb 29 2000.