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Parent made sweeping comment about how 🇦🇺government should ban X group who says Y thing about Z and immediately got reminded that his offspring is not only a media/arts lawyer I'm married to a politically active person

I know this is like, “eww squick” it wouldn’t hurt me, but this basically bans the first episode of Game of Thrones, a significant amount of Greek mythology, and every open fanfiction website on the planet. And I wouldn’t trust an authoritarian govt with “nuance” about what is art and what is porn.

Disney Asked Andor Team to Avoid Using the Word "Fascism," Says Creator Tony Gilroy - Reactor Now that Andor is over, Tony Gilroy is going gloves off regarding the show's political parallels

"So you get out your Fascism for Dummies book for the 15 things you do, and we tried to include as many of them as we could in the most artful way possible."

Andor creator Tony Gilroy explains the show's parallels to US politics:

#Andor

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Every billionaire in the Epstein files could drop dead tomorrow and the world would not only be fine, it would actually improve. The quality of our media would improve. Our environment. Our food. Our health care. Our technology.

*sighing, dusting off the meme*

Historian of medicine here. Yes. Yes, they did.

if you do this to me when i die ill polteigeist the shit out of your pc or phone or whatever

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马年快乐！恭喜发财！我希望朋友们大吉大利🧧❤️🎉🐎🥢🧨🎊

In recent months, Google, Reddit, Discord and Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, have received hundreds of administrative subpoenas from the Department of Homeland Security, according to four government officials and tech employees privy to the requests. They spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly. Google, Meta and Reddit complied with some of the requests, the government officials said. In the subpoenas, the department asked the companies for identifying details of accounts that do not have a real person’s name attached and that have criticized ICE or pointed to the locations of ICE agents. The New York Times saw two subpoenas that were sent to Meta over the last six months. The tech companies, which can choose whether or not to provide the information, have said they review government requests before complying. Some of the companies notified the people whom the government had requested data on and gave them 10 to 14 days to fight the subpoena in court.

And I thought leaving Google was a little bit of an overreaction... Apparently not! What's not clear to me is whether or not the US government compiling a database of ideological enemies is actually legal, or if they're just doing it anyway? (Thanks EU for GDPR!)

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼

...it's just hit me that I now need to give out 🧧 🥲

I've been getting clothes almost exclusively secondhand for several years now (including my wedding dress) and this month's Depop win is a dark red silk cheongsam with peonies, never worn as it was purchased as a tea ceremony backup outfit, and it fits me PERFECTLY that's my 🐴CNY outfit sorted

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I'm sorry

Israel pushes ahead in West Bank as Herzog visits Australia While Israeli President Isaac Herzog visited Sydney, his government was taking concrete actions in the West Bank designed to "continue to kill the idea of a Palestinian state".

While Israeli President Isaac Herzog visited Sydney, his government was taking concrete actions in the West Bank designed to "continue to kill the idea of a Palestinian state".

It’s easy to see how Twitter, Facebook, and so many other companies are contributing to how bad the world is getting, but Google’s villainy somehow keeps sliding under the radar.

I think I said this a while ago while arguing with people who said that bots can do law / medicine.

The difficulty in practice is not simply knowing the symptoms of a clinical presentation. It is understanding that you have to ask people questions to make sure you understand what is happening.

he lost the leaf when he picked up speed approaching the pet store 😂

carrying a leaf on his back this morning 🍃🐕‍🦺

Donate to Support for Washington Post international employees, organized by Michelle Lee Among the hundreds of journalists laid off by The Washington Post on … Michelle Lee needs your support for Support for Washington Post international employees

Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries.

One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.

Abolish the billionaire class:

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.

"Assuming factual accuracy, this can be published."

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The Washington Post Is No Longer Useful to Jeff Bezos In a kleptocracy, there is no reason for a billionaire to own an adversarial news outlet.

There is zero reason for a billionaire to own an adversarial news outlet in a kleptocracy. And so billionaires are gutting the media companies they own, reorienting them to better align with the regime, and spending money on bribes rather than journalists

www.404media.co/the-washingt...

This whole thing where billionaires snap up media properties so they can run them into the ground to make it harder for people to call them and their cronies to account is extremely obvious and very tiresome. It also limits our access to largr information about culture and the world, also by design.

I'm worried that the broader public isn't really understanding the Epstein Files. The problem isn't that everyone in the files is a secret pedophile, it's that all the people are corresponding with him because they *don't care that he's a pedophile*. It's a story of elite impunity.

Sydney summer = sunset ocean pool lap exercise followed by pub steak

This climate catastrophe proudly brought to you by the Murdoch Media, the LNP and the ALP.

between 🦄 getting A Thing and me doing what I do best behind the scenes, all power couple jokes are absolutely valid

i say this as someone with at least a mild background in cybersecurity — tiktok is now trump/fedgov spyware. you need to delete your account and app ASAP. just because the app isn‘t open doesn’t mean they won’t be harvesting your personal data to target you. queer folx get the fuck off that app

Even after Trump is gone, the world will remember that he threatened to forcibly seize the territory of a peaceful democratic ally, and our institutions failed to immediately remove him. That makes US dangerously unreliable, not just one senile gangster.