Possums broke into my house (through an open window) and ate my avocados.

War always involves risk. The question is who is made to carry it.

The most deranged wave of Islamophobia is about to hit Australia (it didn’t really let up post 9/11 tbh) and it will be perpetrated by the same people who never shut the fuck up about social cohesion.

This thread. Heroes like gangsters and spies and cops are fun in films and novels but as a worldview are actually kinda fashy shit. Fight me, I'm several beers deep.

Australia is the hottest place on Earth right now. We’re paying the price while big coal, oil & gas corporations make billions destroying our climate and environment. Billions in profit, billions in public subsidies, and yet many of these polluters pay less tax than a nurse or a teacher.

It can end badly or it can end worse than badly. Those are the realities we're barreling towards

Invasion Day in Perth was targeted with a homemade explosive device yesterday. Aboriginal communities are under threat from neo-Nazis, racists and white supremacists. Yet politicians don't write special laws to combat hatred and violence against them. thewest.com.au/news/perth/i...

This hit so fucking hard today.

I predict that Australia Day will be moved in 10 years time, not because Australians suddenly grow a conscience but because it will be too hot to hold any events at the end of January. #Auspol

Still trying to work out what kind of person would donate money to Drew Pavlou.

nazis go 'undercover' at the nazi rally they helped organise

Finally they get it.

1000% this. People's lack of faith in institutions is not exactly misguided at all is the elephant in the room. And you won't get your beloved social cohesion without addressing that.

If babies are so innocent why do they all look like Richard Nixon riddle me that

Because of some particular colours and the word Palestine. It's insane to me that the passing of supposed anti-hate-speech laws is likely to lead to more, not less, occasions like this. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Little note in the new Bill on Hate Speech Good thing there will never be a Minister who acts in bad faith when they go about banning groups.

Albanese has the nerve to talk about fires and floods, while his government runs headlong to open as many new gas fields and coal extensions as possible.

Lol. A “peace board” where the only thing missing is anyone who might disturb the whole vibe by being affected. No women. No Palestinians. No Arabs. No Muslims. Peace, apparently. Just very conveniently and selectively distributed.

Submission from Anne Twomey on the Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Bill now up - it’s a must read for journalists and policy makers Quite the burn here too 🔥 www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...

how anyone can put “more than 100 children killed” and ceasefire into the same headline has me fucking enraged. Use your senses. Christ.

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01... Yeah that'll happen...

What we can do about Israeli President Isaac Herzog's visit to Australia. (South Australians, you can't put the posters in public places)

Once again my firm conviction is that ordinary people are meeting the moment in a way that the upper echelons of the media, judiciary, and capital (albeit I probably didn't expect any better from them) are not. People, in fact, are typically not so evil as fascists want and need us to be.

Must be nice.

Dr Gary Foley, Melbourne/Naarm, Jan 11 "A small group of Zionists demanding a royal commission are the same people cheering on the genocide of Palestine." "Aboriginal people had our own royal commission 30 years ago. Nothing was done. 600 of us have died in prison since"

I think it was @geogvma.bsky.social who pointed out that every single leftwing 9/11 truther of the 2010s, was a full on neo nazi by 2019. I am willing to bet that every communist dabbling in antisemitism right now, will be a full on neo nazi by the end of this decade.

i don't know what a president is, sounds illegal

Well... I guess I'm glad Zionists murdered a writer's festival and not hundred of thousands of children this time

So do we have social cohesion yet or nah?

100%. We’ve seen the dossiers on individual targets that get compiled and sent to institutions in coordinated assaults. They’re incredibly detailed. The intended effect is overwhelm, and most institutions are not equipped to understand or resist it.

Kind of hoping the Adelaide Festival invites me to pinch hit so I can laugh out loud when I say, “No.”

Insanity has ensued after the Bondi attacks and none of it is in good faith. Everyone one with an ounce of power seems very intent on Making Everything Worse.

sufficiently advanced postmodernism is indistinguishable from the effects of getting kicked in the head by a horse

finally, we're living through precedented times

This is peak Anthony Albanese.

also for reference if you're in a western country that isn't the US this is probably the time to start looking for/organising solidarity action with Venezuela to show your gvmt it's politically unviable to side with the states in this

OH FFS.

Having killed hundreds of aid workers, Israel is now completely banning 37 aid orgs from entering Gaza, including Doctors Without Borders, Save the Children, Oxfam, Caritas, and World Vision. This is an obvious war crime and thousands will die. Any comment from our government?

Today in the city I saw a grown man in a sailors cap and jar jar Binks tshirt. Life.

We should be deeply alarmed that the Premier is talking about permanently arming the “Community Security Group”, a Mossad-linked Zionist organisation that runs paramilitary training camps in Israel. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

a man said it in a forcibly angry way so it must be true

First world problems but I feel like fascists stole irony and nihilism from us just when we needed it most...

1. It is important to have a named concept of 'awful but lawful' groups and the recognition that they actually do harm. 2. You need to be extremely careful, or it plays directly into their victimhood narrative. Often this care is not taken. www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

Ah yes, that's where a recently unemployed 24-year-old bricklayer, who spent years hanging around Australia's pro-IS network, and his 50-year-old migrant father were radicalised: university anti-genocide protests 🙄 Be fucking serious for a moment.

Centrist/Moderate is great branding because it implies reasonableness but there's nothing reasonable about stubbornly clinging to pro-business and pro-upper class politics when the country is falling apart. This is an ideology like any other, and it's a bad one

to add to the Jake Paul schadenfreude, Andrew Tate also lost a fight to some reality TV influencer. most analysis of the fight I've read described his opponent as deeply untalented but Andrew lost anyway. Tate's endurance was awful and he was gassed after the first round.

yeah but have you considered that jake paul deserves to have his jaw broken so who can really say if boxing is good or bad

Bro Memri TV brings me such unspeakable joy

Albanese's response has been very good. The only people shouting for urgent knee-jerk responses are those pushing for criticism of Israel's genocide to be labelled antisemitic, and those using the massacre for grubby politics. Be measured, be calm, be a leader.

My latest in @lawfaremedia.org: Nihilistic Violent Extremists (NVE) closely resemble two other forms of mass violence that have evaded simple characterization: incels and school shooters. Ambitious efforts to better classify such violence should be applauded. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/a-te...