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Australia's Future Fund invests in the global arms industry. Are the returns worth it? Would the Future Fund's financial returns suffer if it stopped investing in the global arms industry?

Would the Future Fund's financial returns suffer if it stopped investing in the global arms industry?

A president who doesn't understand the basics of law enforcement and criminal justice—or who doesn't care—what could go wrong?

Soylent Green!

At Thanksgiving dinner last night, a couple family members asked me: what can RFK Jr do with vaccines? He isn't serious about changing things, is he?

Here's what I told them.

1) RFK Jr has said he doesn't want to "take away" anybody's vaccines. But there are still lots of things he can do instead.

Woow woow woow so yummy 🤤 😋

Smells nice from afar 💕

Digging Your Scene

and exiting for bed listening to The Blow Monkeys - Digging Your Scene, only a year worth of posts to sort after my Wordpress snafu

open.spotify.com/track/6hIoOs...

Map of the world with pins where indie bookshops are

Leading up to Christmas is a time that indie businesses make the majority of their income for the whole year

If you want to support indie bookshops there's a growing list/directory at www.indiebookshops.com

There are few but more each day and I’m starting to pull together a starter pack for those

go.bsky.app/DopYboe

100% cat approved. My graphic memoir FRENCH GIRL--https://www.fieldmouse.press/shop/p/french-girl

PSA ... we've upgraded the security system in the home library ...

If Lindsey Graham were a type of wine, what would it be named?

"When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace becomes a circus." Turkish Proverb

"When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace becomes a circus."
Turkish Proverb

LeBron James Denies Son Receiving Preferential Treatment When Being Lifted Up To Dunk
theonion.com/lebron-james...

A blue jay perches on a black metal shepherds hook in front of a fluffy green spruce tree. The bird is also fluffy, its crest erect and body feathers fluffed with excitement.

A blue jay perches on a black metal shepherds hook in front of a fluffy green spruce tree. Its head and body are tilted in opposite directions as the wind blows its already fluffed-up body feathers. You know that famous photo of Marilyn Monroe with her skirt billowing above a street grate? This is like that but with a blue jay.

@saskajanet.bsky.social how's this for enfloofenation? 😄 #birda

Pseudodon clamshell from Trinil showing engraved zigzag markings on the top. Naturalis Museum, Netherlands. Photo: Henk Caspers (Wikimedia)

One of the oldest objects marked by an ancient hominin is a clamshell from Trinil, Indonesia. Geometric and linear markings on objects have been found on many objects from the Middle Pleistocene period, possibly reflecting hominin manipulation of environments.

johnhawks.net/weblog/trini...

Nice 👍 nothing beats the fresh breeze from Nature.

YouTube video by ABC News 'Beyond our material science': Whistleblower testifies on government’s alleged covert alien program

For those interested in the #UFO / #UAP Congressional hearing on Wednesday, Nov. 13th, here is a short video excerpt from last year's first hearing on this topic via ABCNews.

youtu.be/0w5T2skzNI4?...

Full hearing linked in comments.