Call the Nightingale

Honestly, I thought this whole move was supposed to make me less depressed.
I guess I'm out of bed and facing the ruins of the world head on, so...

Donald Trump’s call for Benjamin Netanyahu pardon ignites debate | The Jerusalem Post Trump's comments sparked a public storm in Israel on Thursday, with Likud echoing the call. Other figures defended sovereign immunity, saying the US shouldn't interfere,

Best idea I've heard for ending this nonsense was giving Netanyahu immunity so he'll step down and go away.

Who said that? Oh.
www.jpost.com/israel-news/...

Must be nice to believe in fairy tales.

But hey. Power to the people, right?

Anyone who's not convinced by ongoing video coverage isn't going to be convinced by Lees and his merry men.
And as much as people like to dress it up, the protests didn't move the needle one bit. Actual people with power in the halls of power reached their own conclusions without reference.

NSW supreme court rules in favour of pro-Palestine march across Sydney Harbour Bridge Palestine Action Group claims up to 50,000 people will take part in the march which is scheduled to take place on Sunday

The right to protest is upheld.
The protest itself will, of course, be much sound and fury, signifying nothing.
But if we banned things for being inconvenient and largely useless, we'd have to ban the New South Wales parliament.
Godspeed, Palestinian Action Group.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I have been, at a minimum, sick for 60% of my time here, and most of the remainder has been me being injured.
I'm not sure my luck will be better in Melbourne, but at least the infrastructure will be there.

Really not sure why this Calvinist work ethic is a thing here.

Australia risks becoming a ‘welfare state’ without spending, productivity fixes The Reserve Bank was split on a rate cut at its last meeting – now the minutes reveal why six board members voted against change.

Make Australia Denmark again!
I mean, I'm not sure I see the problem with becoming a European welfare state. The Liberals should support it. We're already at European welfare state immigration rhetoric.
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

98% finished on the novel!
The knowledge this has probably been a terrible waste of time and money and my life is omnipresent, but I'm trying to take steps forward to finish anyway.
Lose 100% of the swings you don't take and so on.

I hate dmming people, so I'd rather ask you. Sorry if it's out of line. Does she work independently or only through publishers?

I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired, and moving to Melbourne because I literally nearly died in Armidale twice and need better medical care both sucks the joy out of it and is as harsh an indictment of New South Wales' treatment of its regions as I can imagine.

The thing that sucks about the Unbound/Boundless scandal is not just that they stole a life changing amount of money from me ($15k+) They did do that. But what hurts the most is that they’ve derailed any momentum my debut novel was achieving (you only have one of those in your entire career)

I'm sure lots of people imagine some noble moment where piracy and blackmail inspires the Israelis to alter their calculus, but it won't and, frankly, shouldn't.

I'm actually impressed by how ineffective Ansar Allah is. It's difficult to fail more than a drumming circle, but here we are.
I genuinely don't see the point.

Yemen Houthis sink second Red Sea cargo ship in a week At least three of the 25 people on board the Eternity C were killed after it was attacked by the Iran-backed group.

the net effect of Houthi efforts on Israeli treatment of the Palestinians? somehow LESS than the nothing of protests, die ins, and attempts to burn down synagogues.
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It's the sort of thing that if it didn't involve zombies would probably cost five times as much.

No one told me there was a new edition of International Politics and Zombies, the best book on international politics that people will dismiss because it involves zombies.

Trump says Musk is ‘off the rails’ and calls his new political party ‘ridiculous’ US president railed against his former adviser online after tech billionaire said he will start and bankroll America party

Donald Trump is rrrrrrrrrrr...
Trump is rrrrrrriiiiii
The President is r...
The orange man is not entirely incorrect.
There. Oy, my head.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Look, this girl is having a bad day and shall take my wins where I may find them.

Hahaha seven dollars! I bet it's actually worth much less because of the yellowish pages but look at some of these names!

Robert Bloch, L Sprague de Camp, Theodore Sturgeon, and some other names.

I WIN.

But, again, buy book 2 new if you can afford it, to support her... And then just never read it. That's better for everyone.

Not seen: The Captal's tower.

I've already sung the song of waiting almost my entire life for book three of this series, but I do want to reiterate that people complaining about Martin really need their perspective checked.
Anyway, last I heard she's doing better personally, which is good.

A wall of used science books.

Not seen: books up to date with modern scientific thought or wrong in interesting ways, at least to me. Used popular science books, unless you're plundering them for references for similarly out of date science books, are always a problem.

Unknown worlds. Granted, the British edition, but still

Seven dollars. No idea if the stories are any good or not, but seven dollars.

Preach.

Where is Australia going to build thousands of new homes? To meet the government's housing target every year there will need to be infill land created about 26 times the size of Melbourne's CBD across Australia.

Where will we find the land to meet our housing targets?

No @alankohler.bsky.social its not found by taking away golf courses or parks. We 100% need those. The answer is; up, 2nd & third cities, and densification of R2 suburbs.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

I think I shall go bookshopping whilst I'm in Melbourne.

Genuine answer:
He can be VERY BAD at playing 4D chess because of the shallow gene pool
Why does everyone assume people playing 4D chess have to be good at it? It's a bad game with poorly written rules.