And the political system is not delivering the security it used to, at least to white men in the 60s. There was full secure employment for males, housing was affordable, things were basically stable. The growth that was based on has disappeared and the system has to blame anyone but itself.

Mutual Aid request from one of our own in Aus.

HEARTBREAKING! My little boy is going blind in Gaza. His eyes are fading away. I beg you on my knees, please help me save his sight before it’s too late. I can't bear to see him in darkness forever. Please, have mercy! SAVE HIS EYES! Verivied by @mommunism.bsky.social gofund.me/5f2429cda

Frocking up before Fiona arrives

Nicholas Brendon, abusive freak who strangled & assaulted multiple women, dead at 54. he was once known for playing the proto-incel Xander Harris on Buffy the Vampire Slayer & defending Joss Whedon’s misogyny. rot in piss bozo

it’s fat femme friday but i skipped wednesday & thursday so… who wants some thighs n ass? ⏳🍑 thank you to the folks who’ve helped me get to 112/150 for my goal for food & bills this week 💙🫶 38 away from having my immediate needs met, who wants to close it out? allmylinks.com/anarchadykeism 🖤✨.

got an unsolicited dick pic (i assume, i didn’t click to view, given the words attached) in my replies. if you want to avoid that, here’s the link: bsky.app/profile/crem... (wasn’t even in direct reply to media, but rather to me posting to try to afford food, so that’s honestly extra frustrating.)

And look at how the ALP Prime Minister who defeated the right-wing Peter Dutton last year has co-opted populist bullshit. Just today he accused Muslims criticising his stance on the Israeli genocide of supporting terrorist groups. Oh, and the words above were originally on Substack. What a joke.

Australian politics doesn't have screeching culture wars, apparently. Tell that to the State Premier who made news slandering a Palestinian-Australian author in January. What does this fool think is going to happen when there's no more money to extract in inflated rents?

Omg this is a terrible analysis of Australian politics. It has all the insight of Annabel Crabb. The main thing slowing down radical reactionary populism in Australia is compulsory voting, which means governments must appeal to the centre.

I'm absolutely thrilled to have pitched and be chairing the panel Trans Femmes to the Front at the Trans Book Festival in naarm in April, and hope to see you there!

kevinbonham.blogspot.com/2026/03/sout... South Australia 2026: Final Polls Still Have Liberals Third #saparli

"This isn’t meant to be the same as a TV election night show", but honestly, now election night on the ABC is so bad, I'll be tuning into this. Election night used to be when politician guests would turn off the rhetoric for ONE night, but those days are long gone.

hey look who got home safe from their grippy sock vacation 💜 ty for helping bring Logan back home we could use some help if you can spare it, we're still disabled, unemployed, beautiful, middle age transsexuals who need to eat, get to appts, feed cats $fionasnapple vmo: ellemeff paypal.me/ellemeff

Hi! Caspia here, photographer in Melbourne, Australia. A recent pic I’m pleased with: follow the link for image description and more info. flic.kr/p/2s1PP8k

"They've barely finished their postgraduate degrees"

This will shock the Australian IT workers on here, but turns out the government's "My ID" system is a junky piece of shit with useless Level 1 support.

As someone who has experienced disability support work as both a worker & a client, it is extremely frustrating to see media outlets dismiss how important it is to be able to assist people even if it seems trivial to outsiders. Help today means less recovery tomorrow & more spoons for other tasks

I'd tell you a joke about working in a call centre, but it wouldn't contribute to my KPIs

I'm working on a photography joke, but I really need to focus on it.

For those who don't know, Chavez was a leading organiser of poor farmhands in California from the 1960s. He has been widely admired but it's now come out that he raped one of his senior co-leaders, and molested two oranisers' children. No one is unquestionable. www.npr.org/2026/03/18/n...

Anna is getting over Covid again and really needs someone to help her move out to a safe place in the Melbourne area. If you have a room or you're someone who can help find her one (she has DSP and NDIS) please contact her direct

[food] [meat] This morning's breakfast: Roast pork roll (banh mi) from Viet Tongue in Footscray. That's pieces of fresh pork crackling you can see sprinkled over the meat. The veggies were underneath. Pretty damn nice...

regular reminder that nearly all adult humans are capable of lactation with the appropriate hormones, regardless of sex or gender, but also if you're lactating without an obvious reason you should go see a doctor immediately, regardless of sex or gender

So the convicted murderer in this case had taken out life insurance on the victim without his knowledge. Now, I just *know* the answer is “because it’s not politically convenient to annoy the US life insurance industry”, but still: HOW IS THAT FUCKING LEGAL? www.huffpost.com/entry/kouri-...

"But due process-" Shut up. No process is due for granting or withholding political support. Not being elected isn't a prison sentence.

Heyyy everybodyyyy FUCK SUBSTACK

Stakes are raised: Name a film you've seen on VHS taped off the TV with recording clumsily paused to skip the ads. (Return of the Jedi)

Monty Python's The Final Rip Off (it came out around 1988 and was my first big exposure to Monty Python sketches etc)

Listening to a podcast on a new book on the history of the Jewish Bund and the ads inserted by the network are to be a fucking prison officer in Victoria *sigh*. (I do not blame the podcast host. They have no idea what ads get inserted in every region. But capitalism's reach is sickening)

Hmmmm. I mean I wouldn't say I'm *a* submissive but that sounds like a nice holiday. And I am quite well over six feet tall.

This came up in a FB convo, so a quick reminder that Australia's health star ratings for food are a scam designed to make shit food look better than it is. The main scam is that the ratings only apply *between similar foods* www.healthstarrating.gov.au/shoppers

He looks like if The Matrix was about being cis.

Here’s your timeline cleanse for the weekend. From CTV News Vancouver Island TikTok account. I to would like to be an emotional support person for an elderly flamingo.

Strawberry earring frim www.absurdlittlebird.com.au

"You'll think you were blocked because people are too sensitive to handle you, or because they disagreed with what you said and can't open their minds to other opinions, or because they couldn't beat you in debate. And I want you to know, from the bottom of my heart, that that won't be true."

Apart from the obvious personal safety and electronic security risks of keeping a Mossad pager on your belt right next to your balls, what the fuck is it actually good for nowadays? Who in the USA provides service for a BYO pager in 2026 anyway?

Debris Mobil Altona Refinery, Millers Road and Kororoit Creek Road, Altona North, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Land of the Yalukit-willam clan of the Boon Wurrung tribe of the Kulin nation. alhs.com.au/local-histor... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boonwur... www.bunuronglc.org

Young Men and Tern Altona Beach Pier, near Pier Street and Esplanade, Altona, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Land and water of the Yalukit-willam clan of the Boon Wurrung tribe of the Kulin nation. alhs.com.au/local-histor... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boonwur... www.bunuronglc.org

If you’ve ever enjoyed Robert Graves’ work, such as I Claudius or Goodbye To All That, you might like this short documentary biography of him, about the “White Goddess” who demanded the price of great emotional risk in return for poetic inspiration youtu.be/NBpjQitx6n8

throw our way, god it would mean so much to us both - my paypal is paypal.me/smolkibbi and if you can't afford to help, a retweet would also be incredibly appreciated.

and i am trying hard to think of anything i can do to help @mathletesfoot.bsky.social who has a $400 medical debt for me outstanding that is causing us considerable stress - i know everyone is in the worst financial situation atm thanks to trump but i have to ask if anyone has a few dollars to...

*deep stressed breath in* we are really struggling financially and have been for awhile, and both my husband and i have just been hoping by some miracle that things will improve - but feeding and keeping housed three of us on one income is hard enough let alone getting hit by medical bills or...

Please help smols if you can <3

[food] [meat] Crispy Pork banh mi from To's in Footscray. A little damp inside, a bit too much sauce for my taste (I like them dry). It had croutons in the salad which was a surprise but I enjoyed them. The tiger tummy roll was a bonus.

Good news today…got an email from the state Births Deaths and Marriages people saying my name change and gender marker change have gone through. Should be getting my official new birth certificate soon.

Tern and Seagull Altona Beach Pier, near Pier Street and Esplanade, Altona, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Land and water of the Yalukit-willam clan of the Boon Wurrung tribe in the Kulin Nation alhs.com.au/local-histor... www.bunuronglc.org en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boonwur...

If you don’t believe this, read any military history about the top generals in a war, from Alexander’s time to our own. Petty, whiny little bitches trying to put each other down to claim glory and fame.

“In this Ohio diner…”

Get ready for a take the likes of which you've never seen