Wanderfound
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Rural hermit, Lutruwita.
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“To initiate a war of aggression is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime, differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.”
–Justice Robert Jackson, Nuremberg, 1945
–Justice Robert Jackson, Nuremberg, 1945
The Israeli Home Front Command has been instructed to prepare for all-out war with Iran and that an attack on Iran may be imminent, N12 News reports. Security agencies have been placed on high alert.
February 18, 2026 at 8:46 PM
“To initiate a war of aggression is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime, differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.”
–Justice Robert Jackson, Nuremberg, 1945
–Justice Robert Jackson, Nuremberg, 1945
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Right - the IEA should just kick them out and sort out their funding from elsewhere.
The US will just keep on bullying until the IEA becomes a drooling brain dead cheerleader for fossil fuels. It won't ever stop. Anything less than saying NO the first time is just compounding loss
The US will just keep on bullying until the IEA becomes a drooling brain dead cheerleader for fossil fuels. It won't ever stop. Anything less than saying NO the first time is just compounding loss
US 🇺🇸 Energy Secretary Chris Wright 𝘁̶𝗵̶𝗿̶𝗲̶𝗮̶𝘁̶𝗲̶𝗻̶𝘀̶ offers to leave International Energy Agency (IEA) if the work is "infused with climate stuff".
Let's take him by his word.
The IEA will be stronger without this U.S. administration.
Let's take him by his word.
The IEA will be stronger without this U.S. administration.
February 18, 2026 at 11:05 AM
Right - the IEA should just kick them out and sort out their funding from elsewhere.
The US will just keep on bullying until the IEA becomes a drooling brain dead cheerleader for fossil fuels. It won't ever stop. Anything less than saying NO the first time is just compounding loss
The US will just keep on bullying until the IEA becomes a drooling brain dead cheerleader for fossil fuels. It won't ever stop. Anything less than saying NO the first time is just compounding loss
Quarantine the USA.
US 🇺🇸 Energy Secretary Chris Wright 𝘁̶𝗵̶𝗿̶𝗲̶𝗮̶𝘁̶𝗲̶𝗻̶𝘀̶ offers to leave International Energy Agency (IEA) if the work is "infused with climate stuff".
Let's take him by his word.
The IEA will be stronger without this U.S. administration.
Let's take him by his word.
The IEA will be stronger without this U.S. administration.
February 18, 2026 at 11:20 AM
Quarantine the USA.
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OCEANS ARE NOW BATTLEFIELDS
February 18, 2026 at 2:49 AM
OCEANS ARE NOW BATTLEFIELDS
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A tournament that can afford to pay its winners millions of dollars in prize money can afford to pay people to steward its matches.
Volunteering is good, but it should be about building community and helping those in need, not saving some already very rich people a few more dollars in ops costs.
Volunteering is good, but it should be about building community and helping those in need, not saving some already very rich people a few more dollars in ops costs.
Volunteer at the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2026 | Apply Now
Apply to volunteer at the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2026 in England & Wales. Explore roles, benefits, venues and how to sign up.
www.ecb.co.uk
February 18, 2026 at 10:31 AM
A tournament that can afford to pay its winners millions of dollars in prize money can afford to pay people to steward its matches.
Volunteering is good, but it should be about building community and helping those in need, not saving some already very rich people a few more dollars in ops costs.
Volunteering is good, but it should be about building community and helping those in need, not saving some already very rich people a few more dollars in ops costs.
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Everything Max Chandler Mather said would happen with Labors ( non) housing bill is happening including this.
Labor delivers real wage fall alongside housing price spike.
Rents thro the roof. 🏠 prices at record levels, delivered by the Ministry for House Price Increases. Disaster for so many super-stressed households. Despair for so many young people.
Rents thro the roof. 🏠 prices at record levels, delivered by the Ministry for House Price Increases. Disaster for so many super-stressed households. Despair for so many young people.
February 18, 2026 at 9:01 AM
Everything Max Chandler Mather said would happen with Labors ( non) housing bill is happening including this.
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"Record fine", but Watt says they can still keep doing some "limited" land clearing.
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
Alcoa hit with record fine for clearing world's only jarrah forests
US mining giant Alcoa is forced to pay $55 million after unlawfully clearing parts of a Western Australian native forest to mine bauxite.
www.abc.net.au
February 18, 2026 at 6:51 AM
"Record fine", but Watt says they can still keep doing some "limited" land clearing.
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
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Victoria loses the rights to host the Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix, ending a three-decade association with the event.
Victoria loses MotoGP after refusing to move event from Phillip Island
Victoria loses the rights to host the Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix, ending a three-decade association with the event.
www.abc.net.au
February 18, 2026 at 6:58 AM
Victoria loses the rights to host the Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix, ending a three-decade association with the event.
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“Our transition to EVs is aimed at ensuring our energy sovereignty,” said Ethiopia’s state minister for transport and logistics. “As a net importer of fuel, we are affected by global supply and price fluctuations. In contrast, EVs use electricity, which we produce locally and can price ourselves.”
Electric Vehicle Sales Boom as Ethiopia Bans Fossil-Fuel Car Imports
The East African country is making use of cheap hydropower and Chinese electric vehicles to ditch the internal combustion engine.
www.bloomberg.com
February 18, 2026 at 1:31 AM
“Our transition to EVs is aimed at ensuring our energy sovereignty,” said Ethiopia’s state minister for transport and logistics. “As a net importer of fuel, we are affected by global supply and price fluctuations. In contrast, EVs use electricity, which we produce locally and can price ourselves.”
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Alcoa laughing their tits off after being 'fined' lunch money for catastrophic environmental destruction.
Our 'legal system' is not fit for purpose.
This is obscene.
#AusPol
Our 'legal system' is not fit for purpose.
This is obscene.
#AusPol
US mining company Alcoa hit with ‘unprecedented’ $55m penalty for illegal clearing of WA jarrah forests
US mining company Alcoa hit with ‘unprecedented’ $55m penalty for illegal clearing of WA jarrah forests
Environment minister says Alcoa cleared known habitat of protected species to enable bauxite mining
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The environment minister, Murray Watt, has handed a $55m penalty to the US mining giant Alcoa for unlawful land clearing for bauxite mining in Western Australia’s northern jarrah forests, south of Perth.
As Watt announced the “unprecedented” remediation order, he said he had also granted the company an exemption to clear further habitat for 18 months while the government considered a proposal for an extension of the company’s mining operations to 2045. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
February 18, 2026 at 7:51 AM
Alcoa laughing their tits off after being 'fined' lunch money for catastrophic environmental destruction.
Our 'legal system' is not fit for purpose.
This is obscene.
#AusPol
Our 'legal system' is not fit for purpose.
This is obscene.
#AusPol
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This headline sucks . Should be.
Traditional owners won't accept big hole stuffed full of forever chemicals as rehabilitated site
Traditional owners won't accept big hole stuffed full of forever chemicals as rehabilitated site
February 18, 2026 at 6:41 AM
This headline sucks . Should be.
Traditional owners won't accept big hole stuffed full of forever chemicals as rehabilitated site
Traditional owners won't accept big hole stuffed full of forever chemicals as rehabilitated site
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Despite Alcoa's appalling breach of law, Environment Minister Watt has "granted Alcoa a national‑interest exemption to allow the company to continue land clearing for its mining operations for 18 months", while a strategic assessment mining at its Huntly & Willowdale mining operations is completed🤯
minister.dcceew.gov.au
February 18, 2026 at 6:13 AM
Despite Alcoa's appalling breach of law, Environment Minister Watt has "granted Alcoa a national‑interest exemption to allow the company to continue land clearing for its mining operations for 18 months", while a strategic assessment mining at its Huntly & Willowdale mining operations is completed🤯
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Again, when she says "what Australians are thinking" it's very much "what Australians have been told they should be thinking".
Even as a demagogue she's derivative.
Even as a demagogue she's derivative.
Pauline Hanson is a ███ing ███ who deserves to ███ but she isn't saying anything about Lakemba we didn't already hear from Tim Blair and the Daily Telegraph a decade ago - our racist media doesn't just pump her tyres they are in complete goosestep the entire way
Mayor responds to Hanson's 'unwelcoming' western Sydney suburb claim
It comes as Pauline Hanson faces a backlash over anti-Muslim remarks.
www.sbs.com.au
February 18, 2026 at 6:03 AM
Again, when she says "what Australians are thinking" it's very much "what Australians have been told they should be thinking".
Even as a demagogue she's derivative.
Even as a demagogue she's derivative.
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The government denied these detainees access to counsel and tried to whisk them out-of-state as quickly as possible to make it more difficult for their lawyers to assist them. As this court explains, ICE effectively suspended the Fifth Amendment in Minneapolis. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...
February 17, 2026 at 8:23 PM
The government denied these detainees access to counsel and tried to whisk them out-of-state as quickly as possible to make it more difficult for their lawyers to assist them. As this court explains, ICE effectively suspended the Fifth Amendment in Minneapolis. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...
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ICE agents crashed directly into a 19-year-old refugee's car, pulled him out from the wreck, threw him on the ground, then rushed him off to detention before he could locate the immigration papers in his car that proved he's here lawfully. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...
February 17, 2026 at 8:15 PM
ICE agents crashed directly into a 19-year-old refugee's car, pulled him out from the wreck, threw him on the ground, then rushed him off to detention before he could locate the immigration papers in his car that proved he's here lawfully. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...
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A different 20-year-old refugee in Minneapolis got abducted by ICE then jailed in a cell 5x over capacity with an overflowing toilet and no beds or blankets. Fellow detainees were denied life-saving medication and forced to sleep standing in excrement. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...
February 17, 2026 at 8:10 PM
A different 20-year-old refugee in Minneapolis got abducted by ICE then jailed in a cell 5x over capacity with an overflowing toilet and no beds or blankets. Fellow detainees were denied life-saving medication and forced to sleep standing in excrement. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...
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The horror stories rolling in from Minnesota are just the tip of the iceberg. This 20-year-old, who's lawfully present in the country, was arrested for being Latino, then jailed in a filthy cell where he couldn't even sit down. 18 days of illegal detention. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...
February 17, 2026 at 8:06 PM
The horror stories rolling in from Minnesota are just the tip of the iceberg. This 20-year-old, who's lawfully present in the country, was arrested for being Latino, then jailed in a filthy cell where he couldn't even sit down. 18 days of illegal detention. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...
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you can really blow some minds with “actually there was an entire library and research institute for queer / trans history, science and medicine founded by a Jewish sexologist but the Nazis destroyed it in the hopes of exactly this outcome, ie future generations not believing trans people are real”
every time someone says something like "there weren't trans people when I was a kid" or some shit about trans people being a new thing because WOKE all I can think is "motherfucker Dog Day Afternoon was made in 1975"
February 17, 2026 at 3:36 AM
you can really blow some minds with “actually there was an entire library and research institute for queer / trans history, science and medicine founded by a Jewish sexologist but the Nazis destroyed it in the hopes of exactly this outcome, ie future generations not believing trans people are real”
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The world is watching.
In a letter drafted by Greg Chappell, fourteen former cricket captains have written to Shehbaz Sharif to ensure that Imran Khan “receives immediate, adequate and ongoing medical attention from qualified specialists of his choosing ..., humane…
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In a letter drafted by Greg Chappell, fourteen former cricket captains have written to Shehbaz Sharif to ensure that Imran Khan “receives immediate, adequate and ongoing medical attention from qualified specialists of his choosing ..., humane…
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February 17, 2026 at 8:52 PM
The world is watching.
In a letter drafted by Greg Chappell, fourteen former cricket captains have written to Shehbaz Sharif to ensure that Imran Khan “receives immediate, adequate and ongoing medical attention from qualified specialists of his choosing ..., humane…
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In a letter drafted by Greg Chappell, fourteen former cricket captains have written to Shehbaz Sharif to ensure that Imran Khan “receives immediate, adequate and ongoing medical attention from qualified specialists of his choosing ..., humane…
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Canada's Yuvraj Samra is the first player from an Associate nation to score a century at the #T20WorldCup 🙌
Stats - Samra smashes records on his way to 65-ball 110
Glenn Phillips got to his half-century in 22 balls, the fastest for New Zealand at the men's T20 World Cup
www.espncricinfo.com
February 17, 2026 at 11:00 PM
Canada's Yuvraj Samra is the first player from an Associate nation to score a century at the #T20WorldCup 🙌
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Yeah A.I.'s impacts on labor, education, and the environment bug me politically, but independent of that I also find the public facing generative stuff to be Dumb Shit That Sucks Actually
February 18, 2026 at 1:02 AM
Yeah A.I.'s impacts on labor, education, and the environment bug me politically, but independent of that I also find the public facing generative stuff to be Dumb Shit That Sucks Actually
🎵 They hang the man and flog the woman
Who steals the goose from off the Common
But leave the greater villain loose
Who steals the Common from the goose 🎵
Who steals the goose from off the Common
But leave the greater villain loose
Who steals the Common from the goose 🎵
So the rest of us drone users are shoved aside to accommodate private delivery service in Cork City. It stinks. #cork www.irishexaminer.com/business/com...
Manna to explore drone deliveries in Cork
A temporary no-fly zone has been in place since February 14 covering Douglas, Cork city centre, the Docklands, Mayfield, and Ballyvolane
www.irishexaminer.com
February 18, 2026 at 2:03 AM
🎵 They hang the man and flog the woman
Who steals the goose from off the Common
But leave the greater villain loose
Who steals the Common from the goose 🎵
Who steals the goose from off the Common
But leave the greater villain loose
Who steals the Common from the goose 🎵