ZOHRAN MAMDANI: "It is sad that for too many Americans when they want to look for ambition in the Democratic Party, they have to turn to a history book."

What's behind it? Paying rent on everything we "own" and having any of it taken away or bricked at any time on some billionaire's whim if he thinks it'll make him another dollar. People rightfully want to OWN things again. No subscriptions, no DRM, no 'internet connection or it doesn't work'. *OWN*.

I want to own the music I buy. I don't want it to be stored somewhere in the cloud, where it might be available when I want to listen to it, unless it got removed from the library randomly. I don't want to pay a subscription fee. I just want to own the music I buy.

Way to miss the point. I'm tired of having to constantly pay again and again for things I purchased. Even my 4th gen iPod is better than the crappy experience of Apple Music or tidal or any of that. I ripped my cds and I owned my music and no MP3 was gonna demand I pay to unlock it repeatedly.

Pretty sure even the old 8-track player in the attic would work better than Spotify.

This is heartbreaking.

Just a reminder that Angus Taylor slipped the term “genocidal protesters” into his anti-immigration racist rant last week. Does anyone here know anyone who is protesting FOR genocide?

Is the success in the room with us now?

This. Plus ~40% of those on Jobseeker cannot work fulltime due to illness/disability.

After three decades of advocacy, and for the first time in my life, I was able to donate blood today. Thank you to everyone who helped make this possible. More here: ymlp.com/zcgz8Z

It should be illegal for billionaires to own and benefit from companies that don’t pay their employees a living wage. #classwar #fdt

So tired of Labor's weakness on the environment. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Hear hear, Nick!

Israeli soldiers have damaged other mosques & historical religious sites as part of their invasion of south Lebanon, but Israeli officials made no statements about the destruction of these places of worship. soldiers have filmed themselves...wearing the intimate clothing of women while mocking them.

If only they knew how angry we truly are

DO NOT USE THIS SUGAR FOR GLUTEN FREE BAKING. It's a good trick but if you use it to bake/cook a gluten-free recipe it will not be safe. I only recently learned from a friend w celiac that this is a possible source of gluten contamination.

"Every Republican vote represents a voter saying 'I’m pretty happy with how things are going.' That anyone at all could say that right now is depressing, but Trump almost seems determined to make sure as few people as possible will say it in November." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social

Beyond tacky.

‘Simply stop giving millionaires water for literally free’ is one of the most insane sounding but actually serious policy solutions out there

Today's winner of the Internet. Congratulations!

a lot of the quote posts of this are in the "don't get your hopes up/don't be delusional" genre which, I think, miss the point. the GOP is gonna be losing a lot more sleep at night if it's starting to look like they might have to fight to keep Mississippi. we don't have to win there to fuck 'em up

You can help here www.catefaehrmann.org/gwydir_turtles or here (NSW only residents) www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/la/Pages/ePe...

Yes, Israel is destroying Lebanon's breadbasket. This is why I have been saying that Israel's goal is to destroy Lebanon itself.

This is ethnic cleansing and genocide in southern Lebanon. Yet still, @albomp.bsky.social does nothing.

When I was young this was called "insider trading", and it was illegal ...

So disgusting people are betting on it.

Idiot

The average person doesn’t give a fuck if AI has some niche use where it actually excels if used properly. In fact, that is what a tool is *supposed* to do and none of us will have a problem if it is used like that. What we see is AI fucking up real life in a massive way.

It turn out she has a name, which is weird. Thank you, Connie Ballmer.

NEW: Clive Palmer's United Australia Party won't face any penalties for a data breach that exposed every document and email it held because of the Privacy Act's exemption for political parties... despite it not being registered as a political party at the time. www.crikey.com.au/20...

#RapeAcademy #WeSeeYou #TooManyMen #CallItOut #StopMVAF

Say one word about turtle eggs being eaten by foxes and there is tons of support for fixing the problem. But you can lose even a whole year's worth (maybe a decade) of eggs, and not come close to the impact that losing a few females has on a population's stability, let alone a whole wetland.

The ignorance, conspiracy fantasies, and plain bigotry, on social media posts about gay & bisexual men, and transgender people finally being able to donate blood in Australia... So tired of it. Why do so many people suck?

WOW: A stunning new report in the WSJ reveals that military advisers intentionally excluded Donald Trump from the command room during the recent high-stakes operation to extract a downed U.S. airman in Iran, because they feared his erratic behavior could jeopardize the mission. 1/

I mean, if Biden had MISSED four terrorist attacks, and they happened, that would be a valid comparison. But that's not what happened.

“The liability issue is intimately tied to the question on whether the chatbot encourages acts of violence by concretizing an action plan.”

This is what Israel has done to Bint Jbeil, my hometown in southern Lebanon

Bush 08 two years early

Good. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

Interesting. www.abc.net.au/news/science...

Dad died from prostate cancer. 20 yrs later, my 2 sisters identified as BRCA carriers. What sucks is the very limited genetic testing offered to my older sister after cancer diagnosis *didn’t identify BRCA genes* - it wasn’t even looked for til my younger sister was diagnosed as being a carrier

Bullshit. Stop wasting time and do it. You are affecting people's lives and well-being every day you stall. 'the framework was no longer the best policy pathway.' #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Australia is a racist country. 'The avalanche of hate speech waiting for you online can scarcely be believed, except perhaps by other minorities. Since the voice to parliament referendum emboldened the right, racists and bots swarm like flies on a turd to any Indigenous topic.'

I will never understand people from minority backgrounds, who have suffered discrimination, turning around and supporting bigots. She is entrenching discrimination and upholding white supremacy. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Who is responsible for duty of care when the algorithm says no to adequate support funding levels? www.tiktok.com/@gaynor.lown... Cc. @pennyallmanpayne.com

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

Excellent piece

If you’re not an Army meeting with Ukraine to ask about how they use drones, you are very stupid and probably think AUKUS will save you.