Patrick O'Duffy

Truly seems the most appropriate way to acknowledge the 30th anniversary of Australia being the US’s ‘deputy sheriff’ - whole heartedly supporting the US bombing another country, despite not being clued in, even as it kills scores of children

willingly using LLMs is the same as still being on twitter, you can try and fool yourself that you're not contributing to the spread of a fascist tech but you know that you are

Sup chat this is Slouching Towards Bethlehem with your boy The Rough Beast, and it looks like today’s stream could be a big one, as some of you might’ve already seen there are rumors going around social media that the hour has come round at last, so we’re gonna get right into it

If Reform had won this, it would be all over our media as an ‘unstoppable force’ and Hanson would be platformed as saying it was inevitable here. But no one ever treats a progressive win in the same way. That’s an ‘outlier’

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t George W. Bush may think that a war against Iraq is the solution to our problems, but the reality is, it will only serve to create far more.

This turns 23 next month theonion.com/this-war-wil...

Sam Altman, who I do not support, was right to step in to help Donald Trump, who I do not support, when the drone-loving shitlibs at Anthropic refused to supply fully autonomous death drones, which I also do not support.

by Glenn Greenwald

This is all of us right now. Marge Gunderson, experiencing a sort of existential confusion when confronted with the pointless barbarity of others. It's funny how similar this moment is to the one experienced by Ed Tom Bell in NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN

Oh look. We’re willingly backing war crimes again. Good on ya, Albertese.

You can understand the Iranian regime is oppressive and murderous and also understand that this war of aggression against it is illegal and immoral and that those who will suffer the most from it are the people of Iran.

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

I’m starting to think none of these billionaire guys should have any money or power. seems bad.

I mean, it's better than the alternative

ehh

ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

vale sane Dan Simmons who didn't have really fucked up ideas about Islam, Black people and Greta Thunberg (died 10 Sept 2001)

The secret hero of Moore's Swamp Thing run.

Dan Simmons was a good writer for a while. Later in life he decided it was okay to hurt people.

I am tired of pretending that racist, bigoted artists aren’t hurting people. He wrote what he wrote and he did what he did.

And that’s all I have to say about his death.

You don't beat far-right racists by trying to just be a gentle kind of racist.

You need to stomp on those fuckers and then salt the earth on which they were grown.

reminder for "allies" that the canary dies in the metaphor

if you have the numbers and power, and we don't, who do you think has to take charge and stop all of this from happening?

don't let us die

"bluesky is dying" nobody cares. true posters will write "my dog a chonky boi" or "fuck Matt Yglesias" on a torn rag, stuff it in a bottle, and throw it into the ocean

Again: trans people are a very small minority. If your *KNEEJERK* reaction when you encounter these rare & beautiful butterflies is *ANYTHING* other than “What can I do to make your life a little brighter?” you need to interrogate yourself. Impede the life of trans ppl & you’re in danger, from me. ❤️

This was our wedding song as well!

(along with a soft acoustic cover of 'Too Drunk to Fuck')

Poem in the Shape of the Poet Beating Henry Kissinger to Death with Their Bare Hands by Felix

well wrap me in a flag and smear some vegemite on my face, i'm feeling bloody patriotic seeing global investors pouring money into Australian bonds because our economy is less vulnerable to AI disruption because we're dummies who can only dig things out of the ground and sign up for mortages

One word unravels Albanese's week The prime minister was this week evacuated from the Lodge over a bomb threat and later got stuck in a tit-for-tat with a former Australian of the Year.

Very true - but that’s what happens when you ain’t doing anything else worth talking about.
Labor’s complete lack of meaningful activity is why we spend every week talking about immigration, Hanson and whatever dumb shit Albanese also said to Karl Stefanovic

I wish the New York Times hated rich pedophiles as much as they hate trans kids.

many actual studies on youth trans medicine exist, but because they don’t come to the conclusion bigots want, they’re “ideological.” writing a litany of stories clearly biased towards the elimination of trans people that are then cited in transphobic lawmaking? somehow not ideological

I mean, Tuesday night is never much to write home about...

(girls get mad at me)
Sorry. Im sorry. Im trying to remove it.

You do not want the guy who makes cars that lock you inside when they’re on fire in charge of the Kessler Syndrome odds. You just don’t.

“The guy obsessed with us leaving the planet ironically was such a dipshit he made sure we could never leave the planet” is heavy handed but tonally appropriate.

How far back in time can you understand English? An experiment in language change

If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle.

It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get.

www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...

2026 is the year of the horse but the horse is Artax