You’re on mute Leo

A ★★★★ review of Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) Thankfully, we’d never in a million years allow this many incompetent, unqualified, psychotic, unquestioning boobs to be in command of our world powers and their nuclear arsenals for this to happen in...

"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here, this is the War Room!" #DrStrangelove #Filmsky

Released OTD--29 Jan.--in 1964, Stanley Kubrick's DR. STRONGELOVE, OR HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB.
#filmsky #moviesky #StanleyKurbrick #DrStrangelove

this will always be one of my favorite moments in all of cinema. #TCMParty #DrStrangelove #31DaysOfOscar

Most bizarre irl #DrStrangelove

“Mr President, we’ve moved back your tee time, but also do you still want that order of cheeseburgers?”

The US far right features Nick Fuentes, vomiting out streams of babbling paranoia, and Peter Thiel, who believes in a literal antichrist (possibly Greta Thunberg, apparently), among a cast of similarly deluded psychopaths.

In a normal world, they'd be getting psychiatric treatment.

My friend Jon has died | First Dog on the Moon Jon Kudelka loved his beautiful family and was fiercely intolerant of greed and hypocrisy

Superb by @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social

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But this is the sickness of the whole moment, a classic example of moral kettling: not only is any concern about Herzog’s visit simply ignored, it is used as evidence to corral anyone expressing disquiet as failing to properly “socially cohere”. Tim Dunlop We will decide who gets beaten by police and the manner in which they are beaten https://tdunlop.substack.com/p/we-will-decide-who-gets-beaten-by

Tim Dunlop on the responses of politicians to the NSW police violence against protesters against Herzog's visit, from Albanese's deflecting "more in sorrow than anger" reaction, to the Trumpesque comments of Joyce and Abbott.

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The undisputed Aussie prison 'law' that may be a myth Ex-prisoner Damien Linnane spent a decade trying to fix the system, only to find out everyone, even the au...

The 50-year Medicare 'myth': How an ex-prisoner is turning healthcare in Aussie jails on its head www.9news.com.au/national/the...

Yes Amy, something very wrong here

Yes, my condolences to you, family and other friends. Huge loss.

So brilliant

DM from Kudelka with a draft of his cartoon of Dutton looking like Uluru with eh line "They're still looking for it" "His statement?" "His heart" Below has his question "Is this awful?"

Been going back through my many Twitter DMs with Jon Kudelka. He used to send me draft cartoons, generally expressing dismay that they were any good despite their absolute brilliance

Vale job Kudelka

Jon Kudelka, much-loved Australian political cartoonist, dies aged 53 Award-winning Tasmanian artist’s work was published by The Australian, The Saturday Paper and The Hobart Mercury Jon Kudelka, the Australian political cartoonist, has died at the age of 53. His wife Margaret Kudelka announced the news in a statement on Tuesday: “We are sad to tell you that our beloved, brilliant Jon Kudelka died peacefully in South Hobart on Sunday afternoon, surrounded by his family and friends.” Continue reading...

Jon Kudelka, much-loved Australian political cartoonist, dies aged 53

The world is so much poorer for not having Jon Kudelka in it

Vale, Jon Kudelka.

And as always, Fuck Cancer.

I am so distressed about the govt sanctioned activities I am reading about in USA today. Who would have thought!

Israeli president's planned post-Bondi-attack visit to Australia draws mixed reaction While mainstream Jewish organisations have welcomed Isaac Herzog's recently announced visit to Australia, others have expressed dismay.

If Albo is serious about social cohesion, inviting the head of a genocidal apartheid rogue state is an odd move.

As @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social said:
"The far-right Israeli government does not speak for Jewish people in Australia and is not interested in our safety."
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The images of destruction in Gaza were a mirror. What they reflected back were glimpses of destruction in Europe and the United States: images not of physical rubble but of destroyed democracies. How were the horrors of Gaza possible? Quite simply, because those who tried to stop or expose them quickly discovered that our political systems were committed to the genocide and there simply was no way to give voice or power to a different politics. Often, one person would be ritually punished for their dissent in order to intimidate everyone else. In my visits to American universities during the genocide, I discovered that almost everyone was too afraid to mount a decisive opposition. Those who were not afraid were quickly punished or silenced. Today, in Western societies, democracy stops when an issue becomes too central to the political regime. Unconditional support for Israel just happens to be one of those issues.

Yes: politicians and commentators fully understood that their job was to hammer the public with an avalanche of hatred, blame and fear, because they needed to sell appalling, World War II levels of destruction and massacre. So they did that, as hard as they could.

#notetoself

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YouTube video by Open Future Learning THE DISABILITY SERVICELAND SONG

The disability serviceland song m.youtube.com/watch?v=Zkz1...

@hacsu pretty quiet since MH EBA where #AlliedHealth were well and truly screwed by Vic state gov. As I reflect on this I realise AH are the low hanging fruit - corporations/ #government will tackle the larger #Nursing workforce whenever they can get away w it #voteNO

Elephants aren’t just emotionally intelligent—they’re biologically built for it. 🧠 Their hippocampus, which drives memory and emotion, is even larger (proportionally) than ours. They feel deeply and connect in ways we may never fully understand. More: globalelephants.org/elefact-frid...

#notetoself

Teachers' guide to the social media age restrictions Learn how the upcoming social media age restrictions may impact your students and the role you can play in supporting them to cope with change.

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“The ideas dismissed as “undeliverable” are the very ones we most require.”

World gone mad #worldgonemad

ROSALÍA - Reliquia (Live at LOS40 Music Awards)