yeah, nah

This last 24 hours have been wretched. The attack in Manchester is horrific antisemitic violence. My heart goes out to the community, the victims and their family and friends. No Jewish person should face or risk violence going to synagogue or participating in Jewish life. Thank you to everyone who reached out and checked in.

The worst outcome of this attack would be for it to be used as justification for further divide and rule politics: increased surveillance and policing of muslim communities, further attacks on the Palestine movement, increased police powers et al. Acknowledging this likely scenario (Tommy Robinson is already in full swing) does not take away from the grief and fear so many Jews are feeling today.

Rather, we must understand how our grief is politicised by those who care very little about our actual wellbeing, to degrade and target others. We must say loudly and clearly that this is unacceptable. The only way we defeat racialised violence is by fighting for a world we look out for each other, where our safety and wellbeing is seen as intertwined.

The UK is increasingly a hostile place to minorities and marginalised communities. Muslim communities, asylum seekers, trans folks, and Jewish communities are all at risk from the far-right resurgence, extremism and a Government that prefers fuelling culture wars than building a clear alternative to this racist and violent politics. We are in dire straits.

My comrade + Jewish sister Em Hilton has shared these words. I wholeheartedly agree with everything she has to say, including (in the next set of posts) her advice to log off and interrogate your own prejudices. I've seen some of the comments she describes on my own posts. (1/2)

Very poor likeness. They forgot to straighten out the arm and open the hand.

Bit of an odd mix but really enjoying them all. Cobalt Red should be required reading imo.

So exhausting..

The Sumud flotilla receiving Spanish, Italian, and Greek naval support is the only piece of news out of the UN, out of anywhere, really, the last little while, that feels at all hopeful. Anglosphere leaders were predictably horrid this week, but serious countries are starting to do more than talk.

ANU is just ‘unlucky’ enough to be beholden to Senate estimates. We are certainly not unique in our poor governance, unfortunately.

Best of humans. You can’t change my mind.

Show of hands, who wishes the “retirement age” was enforceable. 🙋🏼‍♀️

Italy has moved me to tears for 3 days straight. Bravo ❤️

The Yanks are cooked (and cooking the rest of us) - The Shot American authoritarianism is an echo of tyrants’ past and its own unique perversion: shrouded in goldleaf, ski masks, and utter bullshit.

"The American Forever War wages on, dumber, deadlier and merchandised to a depraved degree.

American authoritarianism is both an eerie echo of tyrants past and its own unique perversion."

@davemilbo.bsky.social knocking it for a six

theshot.net.au/uncategorize...

It's just really funny that they trained their LLMs on the entire corpus of human knowledge and they're consistently annoyed with each fresh discovery that reality has a left-wing bias.

Anyone who thinks this man is sane, I also have some bad news for you.

The same prick who gives me a headache every day now wants to outlaw Tylenol.

if they’re gonna treat this like a WWE event then someone really should’ve whacked him with a folding chair

Reporter: “Is mainstream media complicit in the genocide in Gaza?”

Francesca Albanese: “What is most striking here is that Western media has effectively placed itself at the service of this genocidal enterprise.”

Holy F’ING shit is an understatement. I seriously hate everything about this techbro overlord timeline we’re living in.

When authoritarianism is on the rise, you can count on the richest, least vulnerable men on the planet to be the biggest cowards.

Post now deleted, more or less confirming it was a DM. Great opsec!

According to Tom Homan, for the crime Tom Homan allegedly committed, Tom Homan should have his citizenship stripped away and be renditioned to a foreign prison without receiving due process in the courts.

Sorry, Tom Homan, but those are Tom Homan's rules.

Y’all this is like CRAZY crazy.

The one good thing about this “run America like a business” nightmare is that more people are beginning to realize how corrupt and craven many businesses truly are.

Take notes.

Never forget how they abandoned us.

Don’t forgive their complicity.

That’s because — lacking any sense of humour — they have nothing in common with comedians. On the other hand….

👌👌👌👌👌👌👌

Haha again better than ANU. Half the “current state” org charts in our recent change mgmt plan proposals were wrong. One left out the entire admissions office of >30 people. 🤡

Built in the 13th century. So that mosque stood for 800 years with every sort of person from every place and every religion in the world passing through Gaza century after century, only for it to be blown up by some shithead loser sitting behind a computer that we probably paid for.

it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."

One pretty foolproof way to know your government is fascist is when your government tries to punish you for calling it fascist.

I also have serious doubts about the data that universities feed INTO uniforum in the first place. I only have experience at ANU, but knowing how poor all of our back end systems are… We have struggled to even calculate our *actual* student load in recent years. 🙄

This is def making the rounds over here in Australia. We are all so embarrassed for America.