Jon Piccini

Word in MacOS9. ‘There is no ethical word processing under capitalism, but this was the best version’

A reminder of a key point of Liam Hogan Thought doctrine, that all aspiring cadres should consider, and strive to implement in life

Hell yeah

Somebody (@jonpiccini.bsky.social) *did* commission an expert on the history of invasive species in Australia (me) to write about this! Read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

this is the best movie i've ever seen

Don't dispute any of this but I am not going to let the name Randy Manner go un-snickered-at.

A lot of people have learnt something new about world war 2 this week so that's a plus.

so this month i’m supposed to buy a pumpkin, then next month a turkey, and december a tree? can anyone explain what the fuck is going on?

Incredible - Sussan Ley’s first car was a VW Beetle, which she celebrated in May 2024 with this social media post.

Is someone going to tell her?

Imagine being the one Queensland school that taught Cesar Chavez?

Sussan Ley goes after Anthony Albanese’s Joy Division T-shirt as the Coalition tears itself apart, again While the opposition leader criticised the prime minister’s clothing as a ‘profound failure of judgment’, Albanese posted he was ‘getting things done’

Dead Kennedys next, please www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Ireland should have nuclear weapons

At the same time as the Soviet Union was trying to turn itself into the champion of the developing countries, though of course not the Third World, since that was an imperialist invention, a series of foreign policy issues damaged China’s own candidacy for the post. China’s veto on the entry of Bangladesh into the UN in the fall of 1972, aft er the latter declared its in de pen dence from the government in Islamabad, a long- time Chinese ally, following a very bloody confl ict, went against overwhelming global sentiment and was seen as distinctly hypocritical, coming from a country that itself had been kept out of the UN for so long. China’s maintenance of relations with Chile after the overthrow of Allende hurt its image in Latin America and the refusal of the PRC to vote for the UN resolution condemning Israel in the wake of the October 1973 war further isolated it from the vast majority of the Third World. The Soviet press agency Novosti deci ded to capitalize on the anger at China in Latin Ame rica in the wake of the Chilean coup by publishing a series of brochures titled “Why Maoism Is Dangerous for You."

"The Soviet press agency Novosti decided to capitalize on the anger at China in Latin America in the wake of the Chilean coup by publishing a series of brochures titled “Why Maoism Is Dangerous for You.""

lmao

Screenshot of a Wikipedia page for James Price. The text says he was an English chemist and alchemist who claimed to be able to turn mercury into silver or gold. One challenge to perform the conversion a second time in front of credible witnesses, he instead killed himself by drinking prussic acid.

icon behavior

Deep entryism

Indeed..other benefit of being an entryist formation is you aren't technically a grouplet!

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Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa handback a symbol of land rights 40 years on When you drive towards Uluṟu and see the stark, red monolith on the horizon, or stand at its base and look up at its striking, powerful enormity, time stands still.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

40 years ago today. ✊🏾🖤💛❤️

i made this one like five years ago on housing twitter and i hate how often it comes up

PCS union poster showing the calendar for the pickets and rallies at the upcoming strike for decent wages by library workers at the British Library.

The risible wages are well-known in the wider field of the library, museum, gallery and archive world. I’d like to think public opinion is with the people who make the place click day-in-day-out; they deserve better.
Knowledge may be free but labour isn’t: spread the wealth and pay the workers!

DOS archaeology ain't much, but it's honest work.

Big GWOT vibes

applying for any welfare payment is basically this now

“I’ve stopped killing old people and hoarding their bones”

Local man knows deep down that Healthy Harold would be disappointed in him

Experts tell us that ‘Harold Anxiety’ has risen in many Australians. chaser.com.au/general-news...

A Melbourne real estate agency just casually putting a job out on Airtasker for a lawyer to write a cease and desist for a fkn Google review. Incredible.

For a moment there I thought the Mail was going to stop hounding Meghan!

Historical images made with AI recycle colonial stereotypes and bias – new research Generative AI is known to mirror sexist and racist stereotypes, but it also carries a colonial bias that is reinforcing outdated ideas about the past.

Help, the bot I fed on racism has turned out to be a racist. theconversation.com/historical-i...

The greens vote here says a lot.

As described, autumnal scene.

Silk painting depicting a squirrel on a branch, Tao Cheng, China, c.1500 AD.