Eve 2 weeks ago: wow @ israel extremely rude of you not to pay me, a professional storyteller, to tell your story
Eve, day 2 in israel: so here i am at the spot where we friendly fired a civilian,
This is the house of Yotam Haim, a hostage in Gaza, accidentally killed by the IDF. One of the only remaining things in this house is a poster of the band
@gorillaz
@Damonalbarn
- and I wondered standing here in his bedroom in Kibbutz Kfar Aza what it would take for Damon or
@HeyThatsMyLeg
I think we just picture graphic tees as a lot newer phenomenon and because he's not in like overalls or a sailor suit he's not what our brain expects for "kid in the 50s"
PM Albanese has named Zomi Frankcom as the Australian aid worker killed in Gaza by an Israeli strike - says the Aus government is calling in Israel's ambassador
PM: "We want full accountability for this, this is a tragedy that should never have occurred"
@jacktrial_
@evilvillain1231
Ok well the way things are headed, can you just give us a heads up when the body count is high enough for it to be a fair comparison
This girl thought an exam question was about her two years ago and she’s going to somehow end up a prominent political figure for the rest of our lives
@probablyalissa
“Laziness isn’t real you’re just stressed and overstimulated bc of late stage capitalism~~~” feels so much more steeped in capitalist grindset ideology than just calling someone lazy
@thomas_violence
They had some ok "background noise in a coffee shop circa 2012" pop rock early on but they really obviously made a choice after an album or two that the video part was way more important than the song part
@offbeatorbit
Feels a whole new level of insane seeing everyone go "welp, it could happen to any of us!!" like it wasn't a) extremely obvious and b) fifty thousand united states dollars
These people cut funding to UNRWA in a millisecond based on obvious lies, but they still have to equivocate and dance around the confirmed death of a citizen
@JulieSzego
@LeeHatherell
Human shields serve no purpose against an enemy demonstrably willing to bomb hospitals, ambulances, refugee camps. Regular people aren't dying in gaza because hamas is using them as shields, it's because israel sees them as acceptable targets
@nise_yoshimi
So disturbing to read about the virtual monopoly those evangelical groups have on social support for northern defectors. Insanely predatory stuff
Biggest gap between how smart a person thinks they are and how stupid they actually look is when an american learns “america bad” and just reflexively self flagellates instead of developing a coherent worldview
@jesawyer
At least in the hays code era movies still got horny, they just had to be clever about hiding it and winking at it. Now every movie star is a perfectly smooth sexless ken doll
@bobjcarr
You all have such clear precise memories of the CPRS vote but then weirdly forget the better, actually effective policy that your party negotiated with the greens a year later
@allen_hunter
@drjennings
Enforcement exists entirely in the imagination of the people opposed to it. “15 minute city” was invented as a snappy shorthand to say “more stuff close to where more people live”, nobody has ever actually proposed “jail if you go 16 minutes away”
@AlboMP
@salvos
@JessRowe
@natalie_barr
My man you are literally in charge of the government, you should be helping people with food, accommodation and services before they ever need charity
28 years ago, almost to the week, I arrived in the Canberra press gallery. I am deeply grateful to so many people for the opportunities I've had and for the generosity that has been extended to me by mentors, colleagues and readers.
This is like the polar opposite of the worst person you know made a good point pic. Guy you theoretically agree with is being a massive asshole about it
SVB failing is something to joke about because working people suffering is *the default*. The economy operating at peak performance is still a death by a thousand cuts to the people at the bottom
There is materialist history and there is conspiratorial flattening to fit square pegs in round holes. They don’t want gaza for its resources, they want an ethnonationalist conquest of their holy land
Gaza has gas. Sudan has gold. Congo has cobalt. Haiti has limestone. Afghanistan has copper. West Papua has crude oil. Every nation suffering from some form of genocide or intense suffering is attractive in the eyes of the western imperial machine of consumer capitalism.
@CarineKnapen
@business
"He bought twitter to do [thing]" there is a long public paper trail showing his offer to buy was a bluff that the previous owners called in order to maximise shareholder return; he then spent months trying to back out. He does not have a plan bc he *did not want* to buy twitter
Ok ok we'll stop calling it genocide. Israel just wants to create some "living space" in the occupied territories. Is there a way to translate that into german that would be palatable
If I had carefully crafted a progressive atheist skeptic persona over the years I would simply not sell that out in defense of a fascist theocratic ethnostate, and I definitely wouldn't do it in a way that recalls my performance as fucking ***judas***
@TheVampireRobot
@thomas_violence
If if wasn't for the videos being the whole point you could close your eyes and practically see the silhouette ipod ad their music was designed in a lab to play over
Massive win for the left: one of the most evil people of the last century dies after living for six hundred years and getting basically everything he wanted the entirr time
See, when people smugly go “why don’t they teach us useful stuff in school” this is what I think of. I have very clear memories of learning about marginal tax rates and yet people think earning $1 over your bracket means you suddenly pay thousands more
@JulianHillMP
Yeah mate we know why you said it we just think it sucks that your party has an insanely low bar to clear for being the lesser of two evils and you are cheering on the prospect of the bar getting even lower
Being a serial womaniser on aus twitter is so funny man there’s like max 3 degrees of separation from everyone in the country that ever looks at this app
@allahliker
He’s gotta have by far the worst hitrate of even his supporters going “uhh actually they have a point” out of all this kind of guy. Elon reply guys would rather die than disagree with him
@FoldableHuman
Feels like there have already been like half a dozen "no seriously, it's over, there isn't even a next step it's just over" points and yet they keep finding a new angle to dig from
You can say you want full accountability but we are going to get at best "whoopsy daisy" and at worst "they were secretly hamas and deserved it" and you are going to do nothing either way
It is so ideologically rotten that these AI cunts are forcing upon the rest of us the complete automation of creativity and spontaneity instead of automating mundane necessary work that gives everyone more time to be creative and spontaneous
the svb collapse isn't something to joke about. tons of startups bank with svb and now won't have access to their money. employees at those companies could lose their jobs, not get paid. it's not about the vcs or the "rich" -- it's about the people who *indirectly* rely on svb.
@rooteruditorum
@AntiFashAK
Ok,if they go that route then they quickly lose control of their own country via birthrates and the ballot box. Can you see why they might not be too enthusiastic about what to them looks like conquest via democracy? You may see this as morally right,but their reticence is human.
Not to be alarmist but…this is what’s called a six-sigma event, now unfolding in Antarctica.
Otherwise known as a once-in-7.5-million-year event.
Hang onto your hats.
HT
@EliotJacobson
@GaddyReal
@batshit_auspol
Barnaby joyce (former national party leader/deputy prime minister) who already has a reputation for hitting the sauce was filmed literally falling over drunk and calling someone a cunt on the phone
70% of australian media is fluff interviews with investors, property developers, bosses and small business owners about how tough they have it and somehow every single one shows that they drown puppies for sexual pleasure in the first google result