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Phaemons dog was right.

“We know this much is true, and it’s true for all souls: each of us will one day find the feast finished and, fattened or famished, step slowly backward into their own dark hall for that final night of sleep.” Beowulf

Last Notes

2024-09-20 21:29:04

Three Mile Island nuclear power plant will reopen for Microsoft https://www.npr.org/2024/09/20/nx-s1-5120581/three-mile-island-nuclear-power-plant-microsoft-ai
How singularly appropriate.
The world's worst IT powered by the most dangerous and unreliable technology known.
#nonukes
#microsoft

2024-09-08 01:05:41

There's *another* active shooter situation in the US. Local residents are being advised to pray.
Here's a pic of a religious leader showing how much he trusts in prayer as regards shooters.
#guns
#guncontrolnow
#guncontrol
https://mediacdn.aus.social/media_attachments/files/113/099/225/129/822/760/original/bd62b139baf36ac0.jpg

2024-08-17 09:20:18

The most obnoxious aspect of the highly obnoxious Australian politics is that that Gaza gets framed as a “political” issue.
If you saw a man dismembering a child, would your reaction be “political”?
We are gaslit into thinking that basic human empathy is controversial.
#auspol
#gaza

2024-08-16 09:34:58

Yes ABC there is an increasing military presence in the Pacific.
The aggressor is the US - as usual.
https://mediacdn.aus.social/media_attachments/files/112/971/012/821/488/086/original/0d9c4b7cea2f7140.jpg

2024-08-14 12:23:39

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@npub1ru7…lr6s
It's almost as though he wants to keep it up until there's no-one left to kill.
Pretty inhuman and brutal but it keeps him out of gaol.

2024-08-09 12:35:29

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@npub1q9m…zgdu
I hear you.
Me too.

2024-08-09 12:35:29

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@npub1q9m…zgdu
I hear you.
Me too.

2024-08-09 11:49:37

Why are these right wing extremists so terrified that they might become a minority in their own country?
Is there some sense in which minorities are badly treated?
#racism
#fascism
#minority

2024-08-09 08:45:36

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@npub1ru7…lr6s
Surely if the aim really was to "mitigate the possibility of regional escalation” they might try discouraging Israel from increasing tensions. That is, they could stop committing genocide and murder.

2024-08-09 02:31:21

Nothing in the local media about the thousands of people in Britain standing up to right wing terrorism.
No-one calling the right wing terrorism right wing terrorism either.
Could this be something to do with right wing media dominance?
#rightwing
#terror

2024-08-01 22:00:55

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/aug/02/queensland-police-data-shows-youth-at-near-record-lows-so-why-the-tough-on-election-talk?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
It's so much easier to solve problems if they don't really exist and if your scapegoats are already powerless and dehumanised.
#auspol
#kidsingaol

2024-07-18 02:55:35

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/18/cfmeu-union-corruption-claims-administration-victoria-nsw-ntwnfb?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
When energy policy, cost of living, poverty and the environment all seem to be letting you down, there's nothing like a good old bit of union bashing to clear the decks.
Look over there ....
#auspol

2024-06-23 09:18:07

Remember that time when the ABC news led four nights in a row with an uncosted, no detail, transparent distraction by Labor when they were in opposition?
No?
Neither do I.
#auspol
#nuclercrap

2024-05-28 04:41:57

Some arsehole in the Australian parliament is standing on their hind legs supporting Israel burning people alive because of the holocaust.
In a willful display of terrifying ignorance they think that this conflict started in October last year.
We must remember the holocaust but not the Nakba.
#gaza
#genocide
#headlessinfants
#burntalive

2024-05-18 01:22:33

Don't be fooled by the bullshit in the budget.
Our government spends more money propping up fossil fuels than it does on housing.
Subsidies for fossil fuel producers are at $14.5 billion per year.
Social housing gets a little over $6 billion per year.
It's all about choices, and in this case we are choosing to increase homelessness and to pay to fry the planet.

2024-05-11 04:10:49

I don't know what Albanese and King are smoking but whichever way you look at it burning more fossil fuel to help us give up fossil fuel is pure, unadulterated bullshit.
#auspol
#fossilfuels