PANEL 1: The IMPORTANT PUNDIT is standing on a soapbox with a megaphone on the street. One or two people are watching. He motions with his thumb behind himself. PUNDIT: Hello! WHAT IF Mattie had all of "her" skin ripped off in one big piece like a clementine? PUNDIT: This is "its" house by the way! PANEL 2: MATTIE, sitting on her couch with a book. The voice from the megaphone comes from outside. VO: What if someone did that. Just if anyone has a big knife, for doing the thing I talked about. I'm just wondering aloud! PANEL 3: MATTIE leans out the window, yelling. MATTIE: Get bent, asshole! PANEL 4: Back on the PUNDIT. everyone is raising a knife of some sort. PUNDIT: Can you believe that language? PERSON IN CROWD: SO uncivil. PERSON IN CROWD: Let's go up there with our blades

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Screenshot reads: Human Rights Research Center Sep 5, 2023 11 min read Author: Aalia Garrett September 5, 2023 Modern Day Slavery in the UAE Migrant labor workers performing manual labor on a construction site in Dubai, UAE. Laborers around the Arabian Gulf are coerced to endure and work in extreme heat conditions. [Image source: National Geographic]

oh, are we concerned with people stranded in the region now

Not like that, heavens!

The things some people are willing to put their names to astounds me, honestly.

They even whistle in a way that sounds like a summons. So of course we rush to treat them to a few almonds when they deign to visit.

[They also eat acacia seeds off our trees, when not bludging almonds]

King parrots sitting on a verandah railing with foliage in the background The female parrot has its leg raised and is clutching an almond in one claw.

These guys show up periodically and I’m not sure quite how to describe it, but they have the most entitled air about them. Like they know how good looking they are and expect to be waited on.

It’s not just them, mind. There is chronically a lot of bird poo on the verandah railing 👀 🫣

#brislife

IDK about you, but it would take a hell of a lot for me to leave my ‘comparative wealth’ and embark on a long journey completed on a shitty boat with a high chance of death.

And let me just underscore the fact that we have also been deporting *recognised refugees* to third countries.

Oh 😂🤮🤮🤮

That’s a hard way to learn a lesson 😭

English translation:

“Israel kills Iranian soldiers as they work to defend their country against joint US-Israeli attacks.”

Imagine running your entire political campaign on the fact your mum depended on public housing and welfare and then you win. You become the leader of a country and you do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to raise the rate or address a housing crisis.
That should have been a red flag for every Aussie voter

Would he say the same about ppl mourning George Pell?

The people celebrating the bombing of Iran know nothing of the horrors of war. They've never watched a friend ripped apart by explosives.

They tell us that these sacrifices are just what happens. But it's never what happens to them.

It's what happens to us.

IIRC Australia has been decrying the ‘tyrannical’ Iranian government while simultaneously deporting Iranian asylum-seekers back there because it’s ’safe’ for ages. Under both ALP and LNP governments. Deporting to 3rd countries so govt can claim it doesn’t let refugees settle here is cowardly 💩

Also, I reckon if they’d asked the question, it’s entirely possible the Greens’ Larissa Waters would have a preferred PM rating of around 10% too.

WTF, millennials? As an ‘elder millennial’*, a Greens vote that low is nothing short of disgraceful. We’ll be indistinguishable from Boomers by 45 at this rate 🤯😖😠

* my 11yo informed me some time ago that this is the correct term; she used it in the derisive sense 🥲

Why did ABC730 not ask the Israeli ambassador about the safety of Israel's nuclear arsenal under Iranian attack? Is that not a matter of interest, perhaps even directly to Australia?

What, they are actually including Pauline Hanson in a ‘preferred PM’ poll?

new Australian government support for genocide just dropped. Thistlethwaite telling RN that we support illegal US-Israel murder of Iranians because Iranian “proxies like Hamas” started the Israeli genocide in Gaza on 7 October, a lie [paraphrased].

Worried about freedom of speech? Then what’s happening at the Open University should terrify you | Owen Jones The OU has capitulated to a pro-Israel lobby group about the use of the term ‘ancient Palestine’. The wider context is impossible to ignore, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

“This has meant lawfare, directed not only at pro-Palestinian activism, but at the public existence of Palestinian identity itself.

The offence this time? The Open University’s use of the term “ancient Palestine” to describe the birthplace of the Virgin Mary”

So pleased to be invited by Spain to give this lecture.

#OtD 2 Mar 1997 revolutionary @IWW environmentalist Judi Bari died aged 47. She rioted against Vietnam war then organised wildcat strike in postal service & built links between loggers & environmentalists leading to her car being bombed in 1990 stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9211...

No shame at all
He actually thinks we're all stupid

The ceasefire as a weapon: the genocide in Gaza continues in silence Killings, arrests, displacement and aid restrictions have continued under the ceasefire. The violence has not ended – it has been reorganised and made less visible.

The ceasefire as a weapon: the genocide in Gaza continues in silence https://johnmenadue.com/post/2026/02/the-ceasefire-as-a-weapon-how-the-genocide-in-gaza-continues-in-silence #Auspol

Has Murray Watt done a single things to ensure ecological integrity?
#capturedstate
#fossilcriminals
#auspol
#wapol

Wow what a fucking cheeky take. Not out of character, but definitely on the nose 💩

That’s such an excellent description that I feel I was able to imagine the taste quite adequately, thank you 🤣 Q: did your nose give any warning as to just how bad it would be?

Why MAGA suddenly loves solar power The Trump-led attack on solar eases as the right reckons with its crucial role in powering AI and keeping utility bills in check. March 2, 2026 at 5:00 a.m. EST25 minutes ago 10 min Summary

In an interview, Miller said solar is crucial to delivering on the right’s energy and AI dominance agenda. “Look at what Australia did,” she said. “Solar solved their rolling blackout issues. President Trump has prioritized lowering the cost of energy for the American people … I am simply advocating that solar can and should be a driver of the solution.” Asked if she is getting paid for her advocacy, like some other MAGA heavyweights promoting solar, Miller would not comment. Regardless, these full-throated endorsements of a renewable energy source that has been much maligned by Trump and his advisers represents a departure from what had been a pillar of the MAGA energy agenda. It reflects a realization taking hold more broadly among Republicans that solar power — long embraced by liberals — is increasingly indispensable to America’s bid to dominate AI, close a yawning “electron gap” with China and contain runaway residential electricity costs. These conservatives describe it as crucial to U.S. competitiveness, the grid’s reliability and their own movement’s political survival. Climate change rarely enters the conversation. The United States is in the midst of the largest increase in electricity demand in decades, driven by the explosive growth of data centers, giant warehouses of computers built to power AI tools and other software. Tech companies have warned that their ability to expand is increasingly constrained by a lack of available power.

In no way is this a good thing.

This type of stuff gets welcomed by centrists with a guilty conscience, but the seizure of solar and its diversion towards powering tools of hate, disinformation, fascism and epistemic collapse is bad for everyone but the most blunt, simplistic energy bro

The US know this is funny, right?
“Iran’s reckless attacks”… in a war the US started and Iran do everything it could to avoid? And we are to understand that Iran is… causing some problems for them?

Australians who need care because of age or disability shouldn’t be reduced to an algorithm | Georgia Van Toorn When we relinquish care to a computer, we put lives at the mercy of a flawed system

Australians who need care because of age or disability shouldn’t be reduced to an algorithm, writes Georgia van Toorn. But it’s already happening and the harms are difficult to calculate: loss of access, loss of care, loss of QoL, loss of life www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...