Erin Cook

A flagrant disregard for the Oxford comma so suckers like me engage

They know what they're doing and I don't like it

Haha good on them!

What a choice for a nice Thursday night in!

I love them 🥹

this is so good. some of the writers mentioned who were shipped across the archipelago to Boven Digul could well have ended up in Cowra!

I love that the local news immediately took the piss

Angus Taylor and friends wanted to check out the cost of living crisis via the poshest minimart in Canberra's poshest area. He's on it 🫡

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Yakuza Leader Sentenced to 20 Years for Trafficking Nuclear Material Prosecutors said Takeshi Ebisawa tried to sell uranium and plutonium from Myanmar in a plot tied to Iran’s nuclear program.

A man described by federal prosecutors as a leader in Japan’s Yakuza organized crime syndicate was sentenced on Wednesday to 20 years in prison for trafficking uranium and plutonium from Myanmar in a plot meant to supply Iran’s nuclear weapons program.

No photo - but here's an approximation of how I looked getting Ross's lowdown on 2028

There must be a lot of 'told ya so' going around Jakarta today!

Great reporting from Stanley Widianto here

I noticed this about myself the other day! But then got in a fight with someone at a cafe 😞maybe the internet just doesn't cut it anymore and you need to take on people being nasty to baristas

Fitch Ratings Downgrades Indonesia's Debt Outlook to Negative Fitch also highlighted government social programs, such as the free nutritious Meal (MBG), as requiring large funds.

Fitch Ratings Downgrades Indonesia's Debt Outlook to Negative - https://en.tempo.co/read/2090605/fitch-ratings-downgrades-indonesias-debt-outlook-to-negative

Like people been getting deported to Myanmar and basically getting conscripted into the Jubta forces & forced to fight against their own people. THIS IS WELL DOCUMENTED.

Yet this gov't think they abusing the asylum system. Fuck off.

'The announcement of the student visa ban adds to a string of betrayals by the British government, which cut aid after the 2021 military coup in Burma despite a growing humanitarian crisis, and has not brought in any new sanctions against the Burmese military since 2024.'

News Corp is essentially an AI ‘input company’, chief executive says, after US$150m deal with Meta Chief executive Robert Thomson says he often speaks to both OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg

What a cheery way of thinking about journalism. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/m...

I had lunch with my octogenarian friend and the bread was so tough I was sawing it. She was telling me all about moving to Australia - being plopped to Darwin from Lucknow days before Cyclone Tracey hit! - and I'm like mmhmm oh yeah? While shaking the table, cursing my useless serrated knife

She's a beauty, great snap

Happy birthday!!

Atrocious from the UK, which should be a world leader in assisting the people of Myanmar NOT demonising them. It's so dark that Myanmar is often included in these sorts of things lately because of the bad form of the class holding most of the country down. Rotten.

“Britain said on Tuesday ​the government would end study visas from ‌Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar, and Sudan, and work visas for Afghans, in a major crackdown as anti-immigration sentiment ​rises in the country.” 😢

I'm not sure yelling about who does and doesn't to 'deserve' Australian diplomatic support is helpful in the long run!

only some Australians, not all of them. Those others can go fuck themselves.

Family of Nurul Shah Alam speaks publicly for first time since death Fatimah Abdul Roshid and her son Faisel spoke to reporters for the first time on Saturday after the death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam.

The story of Nurul Amin Shah Alam, the blind Rohingya refugee who was allowed to die by US authorities. From Myanmar to Malaysia to the USA, he barely tasted freedom at all www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/28/s...

your ability to bring anything back to nrl is truly an art

IN BED ahahah

i am learning so much this evening