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Or maybe it could be work work work, rot rot rot, work work work, then rot rot rot rot…

Rot rot rot

David Pocock’s beer vs gas tax question was also very good 🍺

That’s awful. But importantly, Boy George and Culture Club.

From the train, I saw some bats flying low over Collingwood with the last glow of the sunset over the city behind them. It was really lovely.

Great, were the humans having problems perceiving reality? Even more than the usual problems humans have perceiving reality?

One disadvantage in wearing the armor is that I get used to opaquing the faceplate. I’m out of practice at controlling my expression.

Thursday. A foolish reporter generates a book. A critical lifestyle adjustment. A conspiracy. A glimpse of honour. Thursday.

And so I had to go looking for it! Bountiful and beautiful 🍅❤️

Beautiful 🍅❤️

Grace Mixed Media, A5 $250au In the center of a dense green,yellow and black background there is a female figure with two heads. The first head is tipped backwards and the second head is peering forward

Shoulders for mountain Mixed media drawing A5 $300 An abstract drawing of a face with a dark bob and lots of line work and collage textured detail The portrait sits on a blue wash background

Night smoker Pen on paper and vinyl, A5 $300 Aud A dense drawing of a dark city with lurid yellow mountains baring over it. In the foreground a relaxed figure is smoking

Chevy and Amelia The dog and his artist Mixed media drawing with embroidery, A5 $300 This cluttered messy drawing has a brown haired woman looking on the right of the page to the left Near here on the banks of the river is an old stuff dog. They are threaded together with cotton

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Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

Press gallery having orgasms at not having to worry at all about policy and being able to talk about “cut through” “conviction” “a good look” “win back the centre” all without one iota of supporting evidence

Ireland’s basic income for the arts scheme becomes permanent When piloted, initiative that provided €325 a week to eligible artists recouped more than its net cost, study shows

Government Shocks Nation With Good Decision

sometimes, if you’re up early enough, you can hear them turn the birds on

Single frame. Chris Minns stands beside a massive tonne weight marked NSW POLICE being lowered by a crane. Visible sticking out from under the weight are hands, legs, a woman’s face, a keffiyeh and placards saying “NO TO GENOCIDE”, “FREE PALESTINE”, “HERZOG OUT”, “NO TO VIOLENCE” Minns says, “Thst should socially cohere them nicely.”

Cohesion.
My @smh cartoon.

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Heaving on a Jet Plane
All the Shingle Ladies
The Sound of Mucus
Monster Rash
Sneeze Frame
My Corona
Born to Runs
Love & Infection
Three Times a Malady
Lipstick on your Cholera

The footage of Australian police acting like ICE agents is pretty shocking, but the media broadly stepping up to downplay, deny and mis-describe their violence in ambiguous terms is completely unsurprising.

It's an industry fundamentally incapable of ever assigning any blame to the police: ever

Trying to shame the Government by pointing out its hypocrisy re: social cohesion isn't going to achieve anything. They do not have any shame. They respond only to the masses, to force, to power, and material rebellion. To be openly hypocritical is just another enjoyable powerplay

We knew from the moment we heard it that “social cohesion” would be one of those Orwellian terms which would be used to cover all manner of state sanctioned abuse and deprivation of civic freedoms.
It fuels the very unrest it pretends to seek to quell.

NSW Police used pepper spray, helicopters, horses and blockades as part of a new program designed to bring the community together.
Read more: theshovel.com.au/2026/02/10/s...

When yr hand-picked envoy turns against you, you've rlly stuffed up.

It wasn’t impossible - the cops where there to incite violence. And Albanese (and everyone else) knew this would happen and he let it.

‘Frustrated’ by slow pace of gambling ads reform, Labor caucus wants Wells to act Documents released under FoI show Wells’ department worried about how gambling reforms would affect sporting codes and media companies

Gutless wonders.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

What a shitshow.

🙏🏽🙏🏽

I just watered my plants so of course it’s started to rain 🌧️

Meals!!!!

so much clothing is marketed as "conversation starters" but as an introvert, i want "conversation enders." no more talking. let me go home.