One Nation & the Atlas Network-linked Advance have flagged that they’re going in hard to import UK/EU’s level of Islamophobic fearmongering to Australia. The Israeli Ambassado’s speech exposed the nonsense for its hollowness. Inoculate your friends: lucyham29.substack.com/p/the-israel... #auspol

I know that we've all been through this hundreds of times in various iterations, but: It's really kinda nuts that the president of the United States is a deeply stupid, and deeply deranged, bucket of barely sentient sludge from Queens, and it just keeps...happening.

Given some of the discourse on this here microblogging site... not a bad listen. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

David Pope: Trump's illegal war - domestic impacts. #auspol

Worth noting that Donald Trump just announced the end of NATO and the Special Relationship in one tweet.

Israel is an apartheid state. That apartheid now officially includes the death penalty. Israel has long engaged in mass extrajudicial executions of Palestinians. It's now official state policy.

Settler attacks, East Jerusalem evictions, shuttering of sacred sites, as Israeli authorities assert control.

Officially occupying southern Lebanon. Israel's defense minister says the military is planning to establish a security zone in Lebanon up to the Litani river www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Yet somehow the Israeli ambassador gets a free ride? “The invitations were issued at a different stage in the conflict in Ukraine before allegations of war crimes and bombing of civilian targets and the Board now considers it inappropriate to continue with the invitation to the Russian Ambassador.”

A disgraceful move by the National Press Club to platform Israel’s ambassador to Australia today after Israel overnight introduced an apartheid death penalty regime for Palestinians.

The National Press Club needs to explain why they think it's appropriate to invite the Israeli ambassador to speak - a man representing a country that has murdered 300 journalists since it started is genocide in Gaza. Hillel Newman should be expelled, not honoured by the media.

Needed a shower after I made the unfortunate decision to witness that befouled National Press Club gaslighting session #auspol cpj.org/2023/10/jour...

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As both a historian and as someone who traveled through the city to get to our home in rural Iran when we lived there as Indian immigrants, I don’t have the words. Just this empty ache.

Expel the Israeli ambassador

The ambassador is currently claiming this was probably an accident #npc

Absolute shit being uttered by the Israeli Ambassador at the National Press Club. Disgusting lies and filth. Every journalist there should walk out.

Israeli ambassador straight up gaslighting the Australian public. Courtesy of the National Press Club. Great job guys! Who could’ve predicted this? #auspol

Ben Gvir's equivalent in US politics would be literally if the leader of the Aryan Nations splinter group The Order were elected to Congress and given a cabinet position instead of dying in a shootout with the FBI. It's difficult to explain how much of a supremacist extremist Ben Gvir is.

treasury road..

The Press Club cancelled Pulitzer winner Chris Hedges after he submitted a speech on the killing of Palestinian journalists, then booked Israel's ambassador instead. If you wonder why media reporting on Gaza genocide has been so disappointing this is what they think is normal.

“Squid” is used as an antisemitic slur in China because the words for squid and Jew sound similar. In case you didn’t know.

A statement regarding recent contact from Queensland Police about my work.

Just checking in again on how Woodside and Santos are going

We are facing a full annexation of the West Bank, it’s no longer an issue of occupation.

it’s amazing how misunderstood the phrase “abolish private property” is among critics of communism and socialism when we are rapidly transforming into a capital-controlled economy that explicitly prevents ownership of actual personal property via perpetual licenses and everything-as-a-service

Actually existing AI is making people's lives measurably worse: www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

Holy shit i love this song "Meta and YouTube Found Negligent in Landmark Social Media Addiction Case" www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/t... bsky.app/profile/wolv...

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

“'There are too many ways for it to fail for it not to fail,' Kedrosky said of the AI industry’s web of risk. 'All you can say for sure is this is a fragile and overdetermined system that must break, so it will.'" www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

“Clearly the best option left is to slowly eradicate all 8 billion people on earth so that nobody is left to oppose you,” said the large language model

He’s been trying this whole time to devalue the dollar. This might actually do it.

Wild tale with a wonderfully named cast of characters. Oskar Kokoschka, Alma Mahler, Walter Gropius, Hermine Moos & the Alma Mahler doll publicdomainreview.org/collection/a...

How it’s going. My @smh @theage cartoon.

Suburban bank clerks in 1970s Melbourne undergo pistol training in response to a spike in armed robberies

With US media increasingly dominated by ketamine-addicted MAGA billionaires, many Americans are turning to Iranian sources for accurate information about the war in Iran.

keep smiling

This is a Rorschach post. Handled properly, it’s a useful diagnostic tool for analysing a poster’s emotional and cognitive functioning.

Deploring Israel's actions as a state isn't antisemitic. Attacking Jews and symbols of Jewish culture in supposed retaliation for Israel's actions is however *textbook* antisemitism and these are not complicated thoughts to simultaneously hold in one's head.

Still oddly relevant

This is an excellent summary of the US War on Iran current situation. I’m an existentialist and borderline absurdist and even I struggle with the current moment. This summary is just fantastic.

on fume

“When Peter Thiel took his Antichrist lecture series from San Francisco to Rome last week, he probably expected to ruffle a few Vatican feathers. What he may not have anticipated was the pope's AI adviser asking…whether he should be burned at the stake.” www.themonastery.org/blog/why-som...

fools crisis

Demented sociopath threatens nation with war crimes if they don’t stop making him look bad.

Zvonimir Ivisic poster slam, as called on Croatian TV:

welcome to bluesky,

oil check