The USA saved us from speaking Japanese so that we could become weebs

you can see it bursting from ppl who consider themselves idealistic, justice seeking, highminded, 'progressive' 'left' etc hence impervious to agitprop ppl who disdain the "stupidity" [sic] of falling for agitprop as they WRITE the narratives that sell it to one another

In mitoni, a Javanese ceremony on the 7th month of pregnancy, two coconuts are etched with love deities Kamajaya and Kamaratih or other wayang couples so the baby would inherit their illustrious traits. The part of splitting a coconut here is an old ritual to predict the baby's sex. #WyrdWednesday

please think about what you say online. 'funko' will not take into account what you think about their products but your friends who *are* "soulless little dolls" will believe that's how you really feel about them

Leftist: The rules-based international order is fake. Liberal supporter: Nuh-uh. It's how the world works! Mark Carney: The rules-based international order is a lie. Liberal supporter: What a great speech! Finally someone willing to say what needed to be said.

BOOOO.... OOST AMERICA'S ENERGY INDEPEDENCE

VERY SLIGHTLY DEFUND AMERICA

"IMPROVED TRAINING to America!"

I love that Australian politicians and media are basically all in on pretending everything in this country will continue on the course of "as before but slightly worse" forever, and yet the Coalition's teetering has not yet been relieved

Labor's entire electoral strategy is now - voter apathy & the utter ineptitude of the other conservative party. #auspol

BRO why is your hand on the scales you should take your hand off the csales bro ong

how advanced is your nation's sinophobia? very? extremely? you are like baby, we are inventing sinophobia the likes of which cannot be dreamt of www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Fully ready to accept that it is one of THE cuisines of the world and I was wrong to doubt the superiority of Turkish culture

It's important to note that the US, UK, and Belgium dissolved his body in acid after killing him. His vision and message were so powerful, and so dangerous to colonialism, that they literally tried to physically erase him from history.

Theoryslop, the online practice of arranging words you found in literature in a way that validates the mainstream culture of suburban americans who use the internet, often directly at odds with what the theory actually says

Take your hand off the scales your hand shouldn'tn be on the scales bro

These are pretty solid words. Let’s see if the middle powers act in line with it tho

if New Zealand's election seems too far away here are some others you can watch while you wait On a more serious note, some of these likely will have significant global impact; Hungary, Israel, U.S midterms, even Denmark given the Greenland kerfuffle aje.io/4methl

As they go, the anti-genocide pro-Palestine movement in Australia has been one of the most serious, large, direct, sustained, energetic and clear & achievable in its mission & goals. Yet even then, Labor has opposed it to its full ability —treated it with the utmost contempt: returns to status quo

Your Labor government welcomes the Israeli president, despite masses of evidence of war crimes, torture & systematic genocide against Palestinian people by his regime. #auspol

fib kings in this economy

thibking in this economy

If elected officials aren’t going to do anything to stop fascism, what’s the point in having elected officials?

maybe something’s wrong with me i mean, what do you see When you’re trapped in the dark? Looking inside a pitch black box in the night without the cover of sleep

explain to me how more people voting for Biden would have made him stop committing genocide explain to me how more people voting for Obama would have made him not give away government to McConnell or make the drone war permanent or expand Trump's wall or brutalize innocent student protestors ??

According to every civilized written code of medical ethics, withholding treatments that have been proved to work is a big no-no. It provides no scientific benefit, and even if it did, the harm inflicted would far outweigh it

“the voters could have prevented this” You do not live in a democracy of the people you live in a gamed school captain’s pick of the litter born of corporate interests & concentrated power masquerading as 2parties who play pretend holding-each-other-to account playing cards for barely 200yo regalia

Anthony Albanese should pragmatically act as a doorstop and let others do his job. He would get a lot more useful ‘real things done’ that way and save us all from his parsimonious, bitter centrist Tory spittle.

Canada is an unconvincing front for several resource extraction firms. : |

Australians may profess and have an actual understanding of the systematic horrors and politics of the USA, thus validating their critiques—but it is also worth noting the viciousness with which same Aussies are critiquing & demanding US citizens step up: is not at all paralleled towards ourselves.

"We have reports of ICE agents bringing in their patients with injuries that are completely inconsistent with the stories that they are telling, and they are not allowing the patient to tell their side of the story of what happened."

Every now and then I’ll post something as a response to liberal idiocy. Usually, it’s designed to refute the post I saw, while still being lib-coded enough to get them to agree and question some of their basic assumptions. And like clockwork, someone always jumps on my ass about it.

some history around this: in the US, a lot of standards around double blind trials changed in the 1990's because of the advocacy of queer and trans AIDS activists who thought double blind trials for life saving medications were unethical. It's sad to see medicine reverting to harmful practices.

genuinely love how many people who ride the bus with me are wearing k/n95s these days thank you friends

The only reason sycophantic landlord enablers can't the housing crisis is because they refuse to understand that housing prices need to drop significantly and stay there to make that possible. And honestly, like, even in the intentionally absurd scenario that means 10 years of houses hosting...

Maybe the next few years won't be the nightmare we expect it to be? Maybe enough people will actually wake up to the fact the parasites they're so afraid of are the billionaires and rentiers, not immigrants, poor people, or disabled people. That we could redistribute their wealth equitably...

My little Bipp Kitty having a nap next to me on my bed. Purring away on and off. He's a sweetie. Very in tune with my needs for comfort at difficult times. #Cats #Pets #CatsOfBlueSky #TabbyCats

It's also making fascism more likely to come back harder and stronger next time after a brief rest period too. We have ample evidence of all of this by now. If everybody wasn't being lied to about it constantly they'd be able to see it too. Stop pacifying them. It's all or nothing if we want to win.

but more importantly, it leaves the door open for future degradation of our civil rights by refusing to acknowledge both the active lies and careless ignorance that puts our civil rights into the crosshairs of our fascist governments to start with. We can never be safe in a world like that and...

The thing is, letting centrist left types make concessions to transphobia, allowing young trans girls or trans athletes to be disadvantaged to protect the rights of the larger whole, still ends up encouraging that same transphobia by normalizing it. It also totally ignores the deeper and more...

So I just found out that someone made a claymore into a plush toy. It is a cute little thing

It’s been a while since i’ve seen an odious rusty Labor stan so it’s almost refreshing to know we still have a cohort here who are determined to help Labor pursue the US into its deathspiral.

The Office of the Inspector of Custodial Services has released a damning report into a prison in WA's far north, saying it is unfit for purpose. The 2025 inspection of the Broome regional prison cites cockroach infestations, unhygienic conditions and women forced to share units with men.

Absolutely shameful @albomp.bsky.social . Your government has been an overwhelming disgrace on Covid. There’s a lack of vaccines, minimal data & a complete lack of education leading to total ignorance in society & the medical fraternity of the long term repercussions of Covid. How pathetic.

Australia continuing our predictable eugenicist march under Labor :)

"The Australian Government has made a decision to no longer publish data about COVID-19 cases in Australian residential aged care facilities on a weekly basis." @healthgovau.bsky.social @markbutlermp.bsky.social

Bad move for our democracy and sovereignty. I never want to hear shit about how the Greens are wreckers who work with the Libs again I never want to hear ALP voters delusional claims that they're playing a long game again. This is who they are

This seems to allow the Australian government to follow the UK example on groups like Palestine Action, but could probably applied to groups like Extinction Rebellion or Rising Tide.

the famous quote is from the end of his reply to Young. from the middle: "...we live in a failed system. Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level."