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The faint…faint shot drug

Screenshot of lyrics “They don’t care about us” by Michael Jackson

Perfect track for a troubled time

Because he’s the son of a monarch. Explained in the article :)

The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.

CNN World article excerpt reads: “The hostages who are believed to be alive are all men and all but one are in their 20s and 30s. Women, children and men over the age of 50 were released under previous ceasefire agreements.”

Lots of people spreading disinformation today that there’s some nefarious reason no female hostages were released.

It’s literally just because women, child n and men over 50 were released under a previous ceasefire deal.

last week, I wrote about how the rushed/bizarre teen social media ban policy process could lead to bad outcomes for Australians.

One scenario? Platforms forced to check users ages leak private data. Anyway, there's now a leak of some Discord user's passports

www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/30/a...

Fascinating. My eldest was diagnosed in August, and we are reminded daily x4 about the impact of these generous and brilliant researchers

Feel like banning this rogue state from Eurovision and int'l football should be an extremely low bar to clear at this point.

Ta-nehisi Coates, bemused

Ezra Klein, lost. “I don’t know what my role is anymore”

Ezra Klein: There's a Rick & Morty quote I really like.

Ezra Klein: It goes like this, "Why would a pop-tart want to live inside a toaster? That would be like the scariest place for them to live."

Ta-Nehisi Coates not saying anything

Ezra Klein: Because in the episode they go to a neighborhood where everyone is a pop-tart and they live in toaster-houses.

"some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily execute civilians" says today's New York Times, continuing their long tradition of whitewashing fascism

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

Laughed and screamed when Coates discussed MLK’s murder, and Klein immediately quotes a Buddhist meditation at him.

Hilyn Brollyhand

One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison

I too am the local crazy magpie person. Love them so much!

Incredible that they have gotten in and are doing this but they are in great danger and the least the Australian Government can do is listen to every damn word. And take action. Now.

@albomp.bsky.social

#auspol

This is a ten minute video broken up into parts for Bluesky from two australian doctors who made it into Gaza. The video starts with them saying the baby formula they brought with them was taken away and that Israel bombing the hospital in front of them and lying about giving warnings

If you have an extra $10 a month to spare, here's a list of worker-owned cooperative news sites you might want to support:

• 404 Media
• Defector
• The Flytrap
• Flaming Hydra
• The Appeal
• Aftermath
• Racket
• Hell Gate
• The 51st
• The Colorado Sun
• Range Media
• Discourse Blog
• Pop Heist

A reply saying, "Edit: I just discovered Malcolm X was a member of the Nation of Islam rather than a Christian. Will keep this in mind in future."

The follow-up post is the best part.

incredible work. become uncarryable.

Neo-Nazis have occupied the steps of Victoria’s parliament twice in two years. Are protest laws to blame? Calls for tougher ‘move-on’ laws overlook the fact that police already have considerable powers in Victoria

'As neo-Nazis occupied the steps of Victoria’s parliament for the second time in as many years, many are asking the question: how has this happened again – and what can be done to prevent it?'

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Very fine people

Anthony Albanese did the line. Headline from the Age.

“And you also had very fine people. On both sides”

Far-right demonstrators stormed Indigenous gathering place after Melbourne rally Camp Sovereignty organisers say dozens of men dressed in black attacked the site at King's Domain, leaving several people injured. The Victorian government has condemned the attack.

“A statement provided by Camp Sovereignty quoted an unnamed witness who said she was attacked at the site.

"I had what looked like a 15-year-old boy rip my hair, throw me to the ground and smash into my face with his fists. He did it with a smile on his face. I couldn't believe it,"…”

That made me froth with bemused rage. Guess my child will outgrow it any day now?

returning NDIS to its purpose and making it sustainable are what Butler says are the two key issues #NPC

[translation = cuts]

ever since i was a little kid
when i would walk through libraries
imagining that the air around me was imbued
with the wisdom of all the books and their authors
i always dreamed that
one day
i would grow up
and write something
that people bung into ChatGPT to get a 1 paragraph summary

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Yasmeen. Yasmeen is the mother of four Alaa, 14, Mohammed, 13, Ahmed, 10 and Habeeba, 9. Her family has been displaced 10 times and both her and her husband suffer from health issues (he has asthma and she has several chronic issues).

"Instead of being worried about the fingers he was missing, 16 years old, he kept pointing to his mouth & telling me to feed him. He had no fingers left on his hands, that had been blown away."

A US doctor talked to me from Gaza City about starvation. Shocking testimony.
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