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Banner: The unexamined life is not worth living. Socrates
Phaemon's dog was right.
Old fart suffering from various chronic, incurable illnesses including a predilection for satire.
Australian world citizen.
Phaemon's dog was right.
Old fart suffering from various chronic, incurable illnesses including a predilection for satire.
Australian world citizen.
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Ötzi (=>÷)
@abhoth.bsky.social
· Mar 8
Luxurious living and base cruelty are not mutually exclusive.
Quintus Curtius Rufus.
Quintus Curtius Rufus.
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Gaza Health Ministry:
Over the past 48 hours, 29 deaths and 8 injured people arrived at hospitals across the Gaza Strip, including four newly killed martyrs and 25 deaths whose bodies were recovered.
Over the past 48 hours, 29 deaths and 8 injured people arrived at hospitals across the Gaza Strip, including four newly killed martyrs and 25 deaths whose bodies were recovered.
December 27, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Gaza Health Ministry:
Over the past 48 hours, 29 deaths and 8 injured people arrived at hospitals across the Gaza Strip, including four newly killed martyrs and 25 deaths whose bodies were recovered.
Over the past 48 hours, 29 deaths and 8 injured people arrived at hospitals across the Gaza Strip, including four newly killed martyrs and 25 deaths whose bodies were recovered.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
Despite expectations wealthy, elite, yacht owners and sailors are subject to normal human limitations.
Despite expectations wealthy, elite, yacht owners and sailors are subject to normal human limitations.
Sea sickness, equipment failure, hits Sydney to Hobart racers
Master Lock Comanche and rival LawConnect are battling for line honours in the 80th Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, with a growing list of teams pulling out because of equipment failure.
www.abc.net.au
December 27, 2025 at 8:36 AM
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
Despite expectations wealthy, elite, yacht owners and sailors are subject to normal human limitations.
Despite expectations wealthy, elite, yacht owners and sailors are subject to normal human limitations.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
I'm not even a christian but I know that bit in the bible where you are commanded to kill strangers because they are different to you.
Whatever we are told we know that the main victims will be women and children because that's what *always* happens.
#FuckWar
I'm not even a christian but I know that bit in the bible where you are commanded to kill strangers because they are different to you.
Whatever we are told we know that the main victims will be women and children because that's what *always* happens.
#FuckWar
Why has Trump ordered strikes in Nigeria and what has it got to do with the persecution of Christians?
Parts of the US right have for years been amplifying claims that Christians face violence in Nigeria, a notion the US president has helped to encourage
www.theguardian.com
December 27, 2025 at 1:29 AM
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
I'm not even a christian but I know that bit in the bible where you are commanded to kill strangers because they are different to you.
Whatever we are told we know that the main victims will be women and children because that's what *always* happens.
#FuckWar
I'm not even a christian but I know that bit in the bible where you are commanded to kill strangers because they are different to you.
Whatever we are told we know that the main victims will be women and children because that's what *always* happens.
#FuckWar
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As drought stalks Victoria - WHAT political honesty?
Where are voters demanding honesty and protection from corporate greed/water use?
Who'll be the victims in the face on non-action, silence from institutions, "leaders" and passive voters?
𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐖𝐄 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐘 𝐘𝐄𝐓 𝐓𝐎 𝐇𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍?
Where are voters demanding honesty and protection from corporate greed/water use?
Who'll be the victims in the face on non-action, silence from institutions, "leaders" and passive voters?
𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐖𝐄 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐘 𝐘𝐄𝐓 𝐓𝐎 𝐇𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍?
December 26, 2025 at 10:13 PM
As drought stalks Victoria - WHAT political honesty?
Where are voters demanding honesty and protection from corporate greed/water use?
Who'll be the victims in the face on non-action, silence from institutions, "leaders" and passive voters?
𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐖𝐄 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐘 𝐘𝐄𝐓 𝐓𝐎 𝐇𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍?
Where are voters demanding honesty and protection from corporate greed/water use?
Who'll be the victims in the face on non-action, silence from institutions, "leaders" and passive voters?
𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐖𝐄 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐘 𝐘𝐄𝐓 𝐓𝐎 𝐇𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍?
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There is a certain naïveté as regards to Epstein files. The people who are threatened by the revelations that could come from releasing these files or people are guilty of the most horrific crimes from genocide to making war for profit, as if they couldn’t get away with fucking teenage girls.
December 27, 2025 at 12:32 AM
There is a certain naïveté as regards to Epstein files. The people who are threatened by the revelations that could come from releasing these files or people are guilty of the most horrific crimes from genocide to making war for profit, as if they couldn’t get away with fucking teenage girls.
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UN’s Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese:
“I truly hope that people will stay calm, will not panic, and will remember that the international community is made of 193 states, and this is the time to give the US what it has been looking for – isolation!”
“I truly hope that people will stay calm, will not panic, and will remember that the international community is made of 193 states, and this is the time to give the US what it has been looking for – isolation!”
December 26, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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Are NSW Police the most politicised force in Australia, or is it the AFP? This sort of nonsense, like the Friendly Jordies prosecution, keeps happening.
Police quietly drop all charges against Bondi F*** Israel t-shirt man, Andrew Brown after a year of legal hell
#auspol
michaelwest.com.au/charges-drop...
#auspol
michaelwest.com.au/charges-drop...
Prosecution or persecution? Charges dropped against Bondi 'F*** Israel tee-shirt man - Michael West
Police have quietly dropped all charges against Andrew Brown, the man arrested for wearing a Fuck Israel tee-shirt. Michael West reports.
michaelwest.com.au
December 26, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Are NSW Police the most politicised force in Australia, or is it the AFP? This sort of nonsense, like the Friendly Jordies prosecution, keeps happening.
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Good morning rebels...
Boxing Day began as a day to give money and food to workers and the poor.
Now it’s a ritual where the poor trample each other for discounts, to celebrate surviving another year of being exploited.
Progress...
Boxing Day began as a day to give money and food to workers and the poor.
Now it’s a ritual where the poor trample each other for discounts, to celebrate surviving another year of being exploited.
Progress...
December 25, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Good morning rebels...
Boxing Day began as a day to give money and food to workers and the poor.
Now it’s a ritual where the poor trample each other for discounts, to celebrate surviving another year of being exploited.
Progress...
Boxing Day began as a day to give money and food to workers and the poor.
Now it’s a ritual where the poor trample each other for discounts, to celebrate surviving another year of being exploited.
Progress...
www.smh.com.au/world/king-c...
Charles delivers his Christmas message and celebrates his three manifest blessings.
He's white, royal and very, very wealthy indeed.
#NotMyKing
Charles delivers his Christmas message and celebrates his three manifest blessings.
He's white, royal and very, very wealthy indeed.
#NotMyKing
December 26, 2025 at 12:39 AM
www.smh.com.au/world/king-c...
Charles delivers his Christmas message and celebrates his three manifest blessings.
He's white, royal and very, very wealthy indeed.
#NotMyKing
Charles delivers his Christmas message and celebrates his three manifest blessings.
He's white, royal and very, very wealthy indeed.
#NotMyKing
The ABC reports this deluded fantasy as though it were received wisdom.
Modern Ashkenazi Jews have no historical, biblical or genetic connection to the people who prayed here 3,500 years ago but the Palestinians do.
Our media endlessly repeats these lies .
Anything else is called anti Semitism.
Modern Ashkenazi Jews have no historical, biblical or genetic connection to the people who prayed here 3,500 years ago but the Palestinians do.
Our media endlessly repeats these lies .
Anything else is called anti Semitism.
December 25, 2025 at 8:54 AM
The ABC reports this deluded fantasy as though it were received wisdom.
Modern Ashkenazi Jews have no historical, biblical or genetic connection to the people who prayed here 3,500 years ago but the Palestinians do.
Our media endlessly repeats these lies .
Anything else is called anti Semitism.
Modern Ashkenazi Jews have no historical, biblical or genetic connection to the people who prayed here 3,500 years ago but the Palestinians do.
Our media endlessly repeats these lies .
Anything else is called anti Semitism.
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It’s important to be the human here
Global media is awash with the ongoing GENOCIDE in Gaza and the West Bank
As a human, I’m not going to be silent and condone GENOCIDE
Global media is awash with the ongoing GENOCIDE in Gaza and the West Bank
As a human, I’m not going to be silent and condone GENOCIDE
December 24, 2025 at 10:32 AM
It’s important to be the human here
Global media is awash with the ongoing GENOCIDE in Gaza and the West Bank
As a human, I’m not going to be silent and condone GENOCIDE
Global media is awash with the ongoing GENOCIDE in Gaza and the West Bank
As a human, I’m not going to be silent and condone GENOCIDE
NSW has passed legislation that positions anti-genocide protesters to blame for the Bondi attack.
This unexamined, deceptive, ambiguous groupthink is completely without evidence.
Mass, indiscriminate, blatant murder is driving hate.
This is why Netanyahu and Ley immediately blamed Albanese.
This unexamined, deceptive, ambiguous groupthink is completely without evidence.
Mass, indiscriminate, blatant murder is driving hate.
This is why Netanyahu and Ley immediately blamed Albanese.
December 24, 2025 at 9:38 AM
NSW has passed legislation that positions anti-genocide protesters to blame for the Bondi attack.
This unexamined, deceptive, ambiguous groupthink is completely without evidence.
Mass, indiscriminate, blatant murder is driving hate.
This is why Netanyahu and Ley immediately blamed Albanese.
This unexamined, deceptive, ambiguous groupthink is completely without evidence.
Mass, indiscriminate, blatant murder is driving hate.
This is why Netanyahu and Ley immediately blamed Albanese.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
Let's all show a little bit of compassion and understanding here especially since it's Christmas time.
Who amongst us can honestly say that they have never wanted to bite a cop on the leg?
#ACAB
Let's all show a little bit of compassion and understanding here especially since it's Christmas time.
Who amongst us can honestly say that they have never wanted to bite a cop on the leg?
#ACAB
Woman fails to 'keep the King's Peace' before biting police officer's leg
A failure to 'keep the King's Peace' and biting a police officer has almost landed a Canberra woman in jail for Christmas.
www.abc.net.au
December 24, 2025 at 12:36 AM
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
Let's all show a little bit of compassion and understanding here especially since it's Christmas time.
Who amongst us can honestly say that they have never wanted to bite a cop on the leg?
#ACAB
Let's all show a little bit of compassion and understanding here especially since it's Christmas time.
Who amongst us can honestly say that they have never wanted to bite a cop on the leg?
#ACAB
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Bondi Beach resident here...
Irrespective of which side of Australian politics any of us sit, weaponizing such a heinous tragedy to blame the PM and score political points is irrational, inflammatory, opportunistic and potentially defamatory.
Irrespective of which side of Australian politics any of us sit, weaponizing such a heinous tragedy to blame the PM and score political points is irrational, inflammatory, opportunistic and potentially defamatory.
December 21, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Bondi Beach resident here...
Irrespective of which side of Australian politics any of us sit, weaponizing such a heinous tragedy to blame the PM and score political points is irrational, inflammatory, opportunistic and potentially defamatory.
Irrespective of which side of Australian politics any of us sit, weaponizing such a heinous tragedy to blame the PM and score political points is irrational, inflammatory, opportunistic and potentially defamatory.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
Turns out that banks are not the benevolent charities we all thought they were.
#buckfanks
Turns out that banks are not the benevolent charities we all thought they were.
#buckfanks
What are you really paying when using a card this Christmas?
Cashless payments make up about three-quarters of all transactions in Australia but come at a cost to both merchants and consumers, leaving some asking if it is time to consider it essential infrastru...
www.abc.net.au
December 23, 2025 at 5:28 AM
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
Turns out that banks are not the benevolent charities we all thought they were.
#buckfanks
Turns out that banks are not the benevolent charities we all thought they were.
#buckfanks
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
So there's a group of people who identify all Jews as Zionists and want to kill them.
There's another group who identify all Palestinians as terrorists and want to kill them.
Is there some sense in which these two delusions are feeding into each other?
So there's a group of people who identify all Jews as Zionists and want to kill them.
There's another group who identify all Palestinians as terrorists and want to kill them.
Is there some sense in which these two delusions are feeding into each other?
What is the status of Islamic State, the group linked to the Bondi attacks?
Al-Qaida offshoot has lost 95% of the territory it gained in 2014 but remains a force to be reckoned with online
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:10 AM
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
So there's a group of people who identify all Jews as Zionists and want to kill them.
There's another group who identify all Palestinians as terrorists and want to kill them.
Is there some sense in which these two delusions are feeding into each other?
So there's a group of people who identify all Jews as Zionists and want to kill them.
There's another group who identify all Palestinians as terrorists and want to kill them.
Is there some sense in which these two delusions are feeding into each other?
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ICYMI, interview with drafter of IHRA definition, Kenneth Stern.
Says the Segal plan for a 'university report card' on antisemitism is "a horrible place to go";
worries that the definition would be "used to try and stigmatize pro-Palestinian speech". #nswpol #auspol
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Says the Segal plan for a 'university report card' on antisemitism is "a horrible place to go";
worries that the definition would be "used to try and stigmatize pro-Palestinian speech". #nswpol #auspol
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Lead drafter of IHRA antisemitism definition pushes back on proposed laws - ABC listen
The New South Wales parliament will be recalled this week as the Minns government moves to rush through new laws after the Bondi terror attack.
www.abc.net.au
December 22, 2025 at 10:56 AM
ICYMI, interview with drafter of IHRA definition, Kenneth Stern.
Says the Segal plan for a 'university report card' on antisemitism is "a horrible place to go";
worries that the definition would be "used to try and stigmatize pro-Palestinian speech". #nswpol #auspol
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Says the Segal plan for a 'university report card' on antisemitism is "a horrible place to go";
worries that the definition would be "used to try and stigmatize pro-Palestinian speech". #nswpol #auspol
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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A leopard's spots are never gonna change ... They are terrorists; marauding, thieving, raping & pillaging ... they're just not labelled as such. Unthinkable, given what they went through in Germany. Unthinkable that that they'd become the perpetrators. Unthinkable that they justify it.
December 22, 2025 at 11:50 AM
A leopard's spots are never gonna change ... They are terrorists; marauding, thieving, raping & pillaging ... they're just not labelled as such. Unthinkable, given what they went through in Germany. Unthinkable that that they'd become the perpetrators. Unthinkable that they justify it.
www.smh.com.au/world/middle...
Iran is not my enemy. Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis are not my enemies. My enemies are the western imperialists and their Israeli partners who are inflicting a waking nightmare upon the middle east and working to start a massive new war of unfathomable horror.
Iran is not my enemy. Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis are not my enemies. My enemies are the western imperialists and their Israeli partners who are inflicting a waking nightmare upon the middle east and working to start a massive new war of unfathomable horror.
Israel approves 19 new Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank
The move further threatens the possibility of a Palestinian state, and brings the total number of new settlements over the past few years to a record level.
www.smh.com.au
December 22, 2025 at 7:58 AM
www.smh.com.au/world/middle...
Iran is not my enemy. Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis are not my enemies. My enemies are the western imperialists and their Israeli partners who are inflicting a waking nightmare upon the middle east and working to start a massive new war of unfathomable horror.
Iran is not my enemy. Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis are not my enemies. My enemies are the western imperialists and their Israeli partners who are inflicting a waking nightmare upon the middle east and working to start a massive new war of unfathomable horror.
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Spending money with the Enemy gets us this...
December 22, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Spending money with the Enemy gets us this...
The suggestion that Australia's recognition of Palestinian statehood is the cause of the Bondi horror is a most egregious and grotesque example of the PsyOp bullshit that fills our twisted political hellscape.
December 22, 2025 at 4:12 AM
The suggestion that Australia's recognition of Palestinian statehood is the cause of the Bondi horror is a most egregious and grotesque example of the PsyOp bullshit that fills our twisted political hellscape.
On Bluesky we have been reviewing 'Federal Intelligence' or rather the lack thereof, for some time now.
December 21, 2025 at 11:07 PM
On Bluesky we have been reviewing 'Federal Intelligence' or rather the lack thereof, for some time now.