Manic Intent

volunteers had to show up on saturday morning to restore it, but it'd prob get defaced again. ideally the city gives it a permanent home somewhere amp.abc.net.au/article/1052...

somebody defaced the public art memorial for missing/murdered women. lol. got to be real fragile to feel threatened by a bunch of pics of dead or worse women www.reddit.com/r/melbourne/...

I was a political prisoner for over six years in Egypt. Last week, I fled the US to escape the possibility of the same fate. After Columbia graduate Mahmoud Khalil was abducted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in front of his university apartment in New York City, I locked myself inside my home for a month. As an Egyptian international student whose name had appeared on one of the Zionist doxxing sites being used by the Trump administration to help pick its deportation targets, I knew to expect the worst. When the administration revoked the first F-1 visa at my university, my lawyers gently but unequivocally told me that the question had likely become no longer if I would be arrested but when.

“After Mahmoud Khalil was abducted by ICE agents in front of his university apartment in NYC, I locked myself inside my home for a month… my lawyers gently but unequivocally told me that the question had likely become no longer if I would be arrested but when.”

So, Abdelrahman ElGendy fled the US.

Temu trump lost his own seat of 24 years too. Beautiful weekend. Nice weather too

Can't claim to have thought it up 😂 but the term was everywhere even on normal news

tbh I think Australia reacted better than Canada even. their centre left party (also confusing called the Liberal party, which is the name of Australia's right wing party) won the election but no majority. Australian Labor p much had a landslide victory

Live: Coalition confronts worst-ever result as Dutton defeat leaves leadership vacuum The Coalition is set for its worst result at a federal election after a crushing loss. Anthony Albanese last night claimed victory after swings across the country.

Laugh all weekend www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

Personally I prefer the Greens, despite their infighting, disorganisation, and random scandals, but welp :/ like Canada, where it became a fight between two parties and people voting to reject the trumpy one, the smaller parties got marginalised this time

Center-left party in Australia crushed the right wing party yesterday at the polls. Had my doubts, glad I was wrong. Voters rejected the Liberal party, which was moving towards trumpy policies (its leader, an ex policeman Dutton, is often referred to as "Temu Trump"). Great weekend

seems there's a black-owned twitter alternative out there called spill ... curious but also, how many socmed can I handle

granted its not all good news I guess, there's a possibility that we will vote in our own trumpy person this week (dutton, also known as "temu trump" here lol) so praying aussie replicates canada this weekend

world news: tromp trade war "admission", signs terrible one sided deal with ukraine, yolo lol
australian news: mushroom murder! case! continues 1!1!

used to laugh at aussie news but now I find it restful

mysteriouseggsbenedict Follow I love Matilda because it's a story about a child who sees injustice around her and gets mad about it and questions why things aren't fair, and instead of the ending being that she learns how the world works and that life isn't fair, she catapults one of the adults who abused her out of a building with her mind •••

Shoutout to everyone who grew up with Matilda <3

in other words it's entirely possible i've spent $400 for the final result to be that russ just didn't feel like peeing that day, haha. I hope so anyway, as it'd be the least worst scenario. he did wee a bit more today, but not as much as usual

rushed russ to the vet this morning as he hadn't peed properly in 24 hours, which can be p dangerous for an elderly male cat. his pee test initially normal, has been sent for further analysis, but he doesn't have other symptoms so the vet was puzzled

looks good! great colours. reminded me a little of a textile sculpture i've seen before in a museum here during the biennual 😆by sheila hicks

Every so often I'm reminded that during high school I was a fan of the then-blogger/columnist Andrew Sullivan, lol. His writing used to be thoughtful and funny. He was one of the reasons I even got interested in reading about global news, growing up with state-owned media. Now, sigh

Screenshot of a post from instagram accounts filipino_bc and lapulapuday. "To our community, We are still finding the words to express the deep heartbreak brought on by this senseless tragedy. We are devastated for the families and victims. We encourage everyone to check in, support and hold each other. Do not hesitate to access resources available. You are not alone. Victim Services are available 24/7 for those who witnessed or experienced trauma - call or text 1-800-563-0808 or email 211-victimlinkbc@uwbc.ca 310 Mental Health Line at 310-6789 Crisis Line at 1-800-784-2433 We will not be taking any media requests, as we are focused on supporting our community right now, in addition to experiencing this trauma. We also want to make it clear that we discourage the viewing and sharing of the videos that are currently circulating of the tragedy. In the coming days, we will be sharing more resources. More details will be made available by the VPD as the investigation unfolds. Filipino BC"

Please stop sharing the videos of the attack also. It only serves to further harm those affected by the tragedy.

Filipino BC(the organization that made the festival) has asked for the videos to not be shared or viewed.

I'm really fed up with TikTok Refugees asking about the current situation of the LGBTQ in China, and then hundreds & thousands of cishet men & women rushing up to say "We don't care about sexual orientation", "We treat everyone equally", "no discrimination no promotion", "We're inclusive as long as you don't promote [LGBTQ ideology]." Who says [we queer Chinese] belong to the same "we" as you guys? If you really cared about the rights of sexual minorities, you wouldn’t say lightly such things as "Sexual minorities are not discriminated against here, we‘re all ordinary folks." Saying such words shows that the plight and suffering of sexual minorities are completely invisible to you. You think that "neither support or oppose" is a charity to minorities, and you even add "don’t [display your queerness] in public places" and "don't affect children." You‘re even proud of yourself for how tolerant you are. "We don't care", the world is now at peace [invoking Confucian term sarcastically].

Yes, you don't care at all. You don’t care about the bullying sexual minority teenagers face at school; you don’t care about the difficulties transgender people face when job hunting; you don’t care about all those [LGBTQ] public welfare [social media] accounts that have been nuked; you don’t care about all those [LGBTQ] clubs that have been cancelled; you don’t care about all those [queer] characters on screen that have disappeared; you don’t care about the [queer-themed] books that have been removed from the shelves overnight; you don’t care about the rampant internet violence of [anti-LGBTQ] hate groups; you don’t care about the marginalization, fetishization, and stigmatization of sexual minorities; you don’t care about all the [queer] voices that have been silenced; and you don’t care at all about all the [queer] lives that have passed away. You are the principal who [temporarily] changes [his students' grueling] class schedule and greets his superiors with an [ingratiating] smile when they come to inspect [the school]; the domestic abuser who pretends to be affectionate [to his wife] in front of colleagues, relatives and friends; the "loving"[read: abusive] parents who put on another face when guests come over. All you care about is your mianzi [face]. “No discrimination no promotion” is a complete joke. I've seen how forcefully “no promotion” is enforced, but where is the enforcement of “no discrimination”? Cishets saying that LGBTQ people are already treated equally is like a man saying that we've long achieved gender equality, or an able-bodied person saying that people with disabilities already enjoy very convenient lives in China. Let the sexual minorities themselves determine whether or not they're discriminated against. You are a fish in the mainstream; you don't realize that you live in water. [yes, pun intended]

Translated this now censored post by a queer Chinese netizen calling out their non-queer counterparts for whitewashing the #LGBTQ situation in #China in front Western #tiktokrefugees (see alt text)

People outside China should see this scathing post too imo, so please share!

... lol the end of the game .... kasuga really should run his proposals past everyone in the party

he did briefly become the chairman of tojo clan but he didnt want to be and p much ran away asap

why must kiryu be the one to apologise for all the yakuza tbh he was barely in the actual yakuza at all. just from before 0 and 0-1. from then on how many games has it been my gods

wao mcs have done so much random stupid shiets that an NPC has taken over the plot to move it along

thanks to infinite wealth I have learned useless trivia such as:
1. when eating a strawberry shortcake it's best to leave the strawberry on top of the slice for last
2. the word poke in poke bowl means to slice, aka the fish is in cubes

seonhee is in their party:??? -_- the supposed underworld queen of information??? how can they still waltz into one trap after another??

how many traps must all the chars blunder into in every single chapter in this game, I don't even. already chapter 11 and I'm actually frustrated #infinitewealth

saw a cute pulling carrot pet enrichment game. but then before I spent $30 I was like... ...
1. russ wouldn't care
2. pascal... probably would just treat it as a bed if at all

me in my 20s and early 30s: making new stuff from new recipes is fun
me in my late 30s and now 40s: honestly alot of these western recipes are boring and need the spices doubled and meh maybe I'll just cook my own asian stuff

sigh why the protags got to walk into a trap every time

every time I complain about a game reusing a map I have to admit that yakuza has been reusing map for years and I play the games each time