Matthew Stavros

Sydney

#teslatakedown

@wise-bank.bsky.social Is it my imagination or does the Wise app change quite a lot? AutoConversions seem to move around.

To say that diversity is the problem is to say white supremacy is the solution.

Gazan going home.

Has no one read Edward Snowden's book, Permanent Record?

Donald Trump to cancel student visas of pro-Palestinian protesters The US president said resident aliens who took part in what he called "pro-jihadist" pro-Palestinian rallies will be deported, in an executive order dismissed as "dishonest" and "unenforceable" by cri...

Full fascism.

As long as people don't engage in collective action, they're safe

[insert random public interest headline], so you should go out and buy more stuff.

They're privatizing essential services, thereby providing more federal welfare for corporations

It's just privatization

Is anyone else old enough to remember when in-flight magazines carried ads for fighter jets?

Heard on the train: "I don't make the rules, I just play the game."

If birthright citizens can be stripped of their citizenship, maybe naturalized citizens can given the right to become president. Is that where we're headed?

A few weeks without Americans on TikTok? I could think of much worse things.

Melaka, day 2.

Melaka, day 1.

Welcome. The water seems warm.

"Australia is the greatest, the greatest, the only adventurous country left in the corrupt, stagnating, militant, greedy, freedom-hating, mean-minded, strait-jacketed, rotting, polluted world." --from Dick Francis' novel _In the Frame_.

Totalitarianism is the erasure of the boundary between public and private life.

Home is where you can most be yourself. I love my sunburnt country.

京都 最古の建造物。

Meanwhile, your sister gets dozens of likes for every post on this platform.

University of Sydney review proposes ‘civility rule’ that requires ‘meaning of contested words’ to be made clear Lecturer questions if academics will have to explain context of every phrase they use, saying those who speak up on Palestine would be affected

Exhortations to civility for the sake of social cohesion is the language of the oppressor. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

International Criminal Court issues arrest warrant for Israeli PM The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant.

www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...

Bali memories.

Broadcaster Alan Jones charged with historical indecent assault and sexual touching offences spanning two decades Child Abuse Squad detectives have charged veteran broadcaster Alan Jones following an investigation into alleged indecent assault and sexual touching offences spanning two decades.

Scumbag right winger arrested for sexual assault. www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...