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Covid isn't over. Left with little choice. (warning: lots of reposts)
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That feeling when you pull put any graph and it’s just neoliberalism and capitalism run amuck: 😀
2025 Labor campaign poster image from Justine Elliot MP’s Facebook page. image if a smiling (or grimacing) Anthony Albanese with text reading: 6 DAYS TO GO Let's build Australia's future. Labor
November 25, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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“These resources were "very fortunate" for Britain, another Lord declared, since "they have very largely supported the standard of living of the people of this country and the sterling area ever since the war ended"”

Britain is simply not hated enough.
Malaya was described by one British Lord in 1952 as the "greatest material prize in South-East Asia", mainly due to its rubber and tin. These resources were "very fortunate" for Britain, another Lord declared, since "they have very largely supported the standard of living of the people of this country and the sterling area ever since the war ended". 1/3 screengrab text from www.declassifieduk.org/britains-forgotten-war-for-rubber/ The roots of the war lay in the failure of the British colonial authorities to guarantee the rights of the Chinese in Malaya, who made up around 40 per cent of the population. By 1948 Britain was promoting a new federal constitution that would confirm Malay privileges and consign about 90 per cent of Chinese to non-citizenship. An insurgent movement was formed out of one that had been trained and armed by Britain to resist the Japanese occupation during the Second World War. The Malayan Chinese had offered the only active resistance to the Japanese invaders.
November 23, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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was jokingly talking about this with a friend just last night/this morning and they were saying how the gold hike being like this is surely the biggest recession indicator of all rip uh oh. yay. (though they’re USA)
chart Market Summary of Gold Futures going back 1 year sitting at 4,046.10 USD +1,431.50 (54.75%) + past year, Nov 18 EST chart steadily increasing from 2,500 Nov 2024 until now current 4,000. a past month where it returned from a 4,500 high back to 4,000
November 19, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Also! I forgot to fit in earlier but 1 of the curious & fateful quirks of Japan's involvement with the (Records of) Three Kingdoms is that it's this period and work where the CN historical sources from that time record the significant written descriptions referring to the early Japanese female ruler
Romance of the Three Kingdoms XIII art for extra character Himiko ID: Woman in patterned, priestess or shaman-like robe attire holding a green leafy branch of a plant, likely the sakaki still used in Shintoism today. She has long chest-length hair, a large sun-shaped crown which is almost mirror-like in its centre. She has 3 beaded necklaces hanging about her chest which have magatamas attached.
November 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Japan's own "Warring States" Sengoku period. Parallels and comparisons which are particularly well-known and echoed in Koei's dual historic game franchises: Nobunaga's Ambition and Samurai Warriors (Sengoku Musuou) parallel to the Romance of Three Kingdoms (Rotk / Sangokushi) and Dynasty Warriors.
Death Battle mock-up image of Koei's Romance of Three Kingdoms warlord Cao Cao vs. Koei's Nobunaga's Ambition's titular warlord Oda Nobunaga who bear some essential similarities visually and historically Both bear somewhat similar facial hair, body-hiding bulky armour and dramatic mantle-capes, and Cao Cao's small guan(?) hat sticks out to mirror Nobunaga's topknot. image source: LeonScottKennedyRE4 05/01/2024 deatbattlefandom.com game promo image of Romance of the Three Kingdoms 8 Remake Bonus Scenario "Liu Bei's Three Tacticians", depicting left-to-right Pang Tong, Xu Shu, and Zhuge Liang In the novel, virtuous Liu Bei has a hard time of things until he finally meets his wings - his brilliant and cunning strategists! Xu Shu leaves almost as quickly as he arrives but he presages the long-awaited arrival of the Sleeping Dragon Zhuge Liang into the story. Pang Tong is framed as Zhuge Liang's equal and pair: a Phoenix to the Dragon. art from Pokemon Conquest, the Sengoku warlord era Nobunaga Sphere crossover game with Pokemon of Kanbei with his Lampent playing some kind of chess with Hanbei and his Pikachu. The mythologised personages of Kuroda Kanbei (Kuroda Yoshitaka) and Hanbei (Takenaka Shigeharu) are often depicted as the Sengoku version of Pang Tong and Zhuge Liang - 'twin strategists'. The two come into the service of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, assisting him in his meteoric rise from lowly sandal-bearer to the most powerful samurai in Japan - paralleling Liu Bei's story of humble origins to emperor. The similarities don't end there. Like Pang Tong, Hanbei comes to an early end and is unable to live up to his prestigious promise and fulfil his ambitions with his lord. Kanbei, like Zhuge Liang, eventually outlives his (affiliated) lord and goes on to serve in the successor regime. Perhaps more a stretch, but both are plagued by concerns over their loyalty. Zhuge Liang is depicted as faithful to his late lord's wishes to defeat the traitor and usurper Cao and despite the opportunity as Regent, chooses to dutifully serve the (inept) son Liu Shan. Ultimately, his mission is doomed and he fails to defeat Wei in his lifetime. Differently, Kanbei is (not so secretly) ambitious for himself. This climaxes at the Sekighara campaign where Kanbei's seeks to conquer the island of Kyushu for himself - his first step towards independence and perhaps, the realm itself. But his ambitions will be dashed when the unprecedented battle at Sekigahara ends suddenly and conclusively - robbing him the opportunity of a renewed period of chaos and prolonged war (ransei!) in which to build his own power.
November 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Those are perhaps the enormous '3 arrows' that made 3 Kingdoms such a continued presence attached to Japan's pop culture beyond the OG novel and historical connections to China &/or other folkloric traditions. (For example the relating & comparing of Three Kingdoms anecdotes & events to Japan's own
ID: Lu Bu in golden attire, casually holding an arrow with his bow. Arrows: Lu Bu's famous archery feat. reminiscent of Odysseus's in the finale of the Odyssey. In an usual peacemaking act (within the novel), Lu Bu makes a bet and makes his promised fantastic shot that precisely hits his iconic polearm weapon. google summary of YouTube video uploader: Three Kingdoms Lü Bu Shoots His Halberd (Romance Of The Three Kingdoms 1994) Uploaded: Aug 6, 2017 description: Lü Bu makes a deal if he is able to shoot an arrow at his halberd then troops will be withdrawn. Xiahou Dun's most iconic tale: in battle, his eye is struck by an arrow. He pulls his eye out and devours it, proclaiming the legendary line: "Essence of my father, blood of my mother, I cannot throw this away!" Illustration of Xiahou Dun swallowing his own eyeball from a Qing Dynasty edition of the ''Romance of the Three Kingdoms' from en.wiki. Wikimedia Magic the Gathering Card, 'Borrowing 100,000 Arrows' One of the most famous and succinctly summarised stratagems from the novel where Zhuge Liang tricks the Cao Wei troops into 'providing' 100,000 arrows to the besieged allied force. Now an idiom referring to having your foe provide you [missing/necessary] aid [by depleting their own strength]; using others to achieve your goal. Card details: Mana Cost: 2 colourless, 1 blue Type: Sorcery Rules Text: Draw a card for each tapped creature target opponent controls. Flavour Text: Kongming and Lu Su tricked Wei troops into shooting over 100,000 arrows at them to later use against the Wei at Red Cliffs. ID: 6 simple fishing-size boats in the fog peppered by a countless hail of arrows. In the foremost boat under its thatch cover, two men are sitting together in a glowing warm light as the arrows fall into the water, stick into the wood of the boat or the scarecrow strawmen 'crew' on the side. scene from Kurosawa Akira's Ran. A famous rendition of the famous lesson of The Three Arrows. A parable where Warring States era samurai warlord Mori Motonari teaches his 3 sons that 3 arrows together impossible/harder to break when bundled together as each 3 opposed to individually. His (surviving) sons historically go on to work together as 'supporting pillars' in taken-over outside clans; crucially supporting the Mori main clan in its successful domination of their region.
November 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Then Koei's development of their RotK franchise (and art & character database assets!) intertwining with their more famous Dynasty Warriors ('Shin Sangokumusou' in JP) franchise (1997-) that *literally* became its own genre, 'Musou'.
PS2 art cover of Dynasty Warriors 2 Dynasty Warriors 8 artwork by Suwahara Hiroyuki depicting the icon among men "do NOT pursue Lu Bu" of memetic fame Menacing red hued image of Lu Bu holding his enormous pole & axe weapon in hand, giving an eyeball-bursting glare.
November 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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And lastly, the interactive phenomena of the Koei Romance of the Three Kingdoms strategy game franchise (also titled Sangokushi!?) from 1985 onwards that draws on both historical Record and the Romance - extensively depicting probably all iirc ~1000+ characters.
game cover art of Romance of the Three Kingdoms 1 (1985) visible text label reads: BEST SELLER IN JAPAN An East Asian dragon snakes up out of the dramatic white clouds as if towards another image which has three Chinese men in a dynamic and dark red. I am uncertain if these 3 are to represent the rulers of the 3 kingdoms or the famed 3 brothers. simplistic? 58-sectioned boardgame-like map from a Nintendo Entertainment System era Romance of the Three Kingdoms game PS4 cover of Romance of the Three Kingdoms XIV art depicts a dark-clouded sky with two ephemeral dragons in them. dramatic lightning strikes fork towards the ground into the flowing banners and dust-raising cavalry in the distance. In the centre surrounded by the chaos are five large figures each facing in dramatically different directions away away from this middle point. Cao Cao at the bottom and frontmost, his arm outstretched as if about to grasp something; looks off leftwards (his right), his eyes looking afar at something unseen - his expression stoic and concentrating or enthralled. Behind him is a man staring at the viewer, body facing rightwards. He is wearing the iconic emperor's ceremonial headdress with its many stringed threads hanging beads. He is probably Sun Quan. Aligned and behind him is a noble lady, likely his sister, also directed to the right. Her glance at the viewer is more full-faced, giving a sympathetic interest compared with the shadowed and somewhat hunched pose of her brother that feels guarded and suspicious. Behind these others and perhaps coming out from them, larger, must be Liu Bei looking slightly upwards and into the distance to the left. His chin somewhat raised - he gives a poised appearance. And next to his face, larger and in somewhat parallel is the somewhat faded out Zhuge Liang - head only as he cerebrally and most directly perpendicular to our view - looks into the future-distance; head in the clouds and forehead touching the heavens of the gold emblazoned game title. Behind all these major figures, far off in the distance is the discernable Dong Zhuo and Lu Bu. The latter with his Heavenly Halberd and two red antennae plumes streaking from his hat. story event cutscene from game RotK13 of the episode of Zhuge Liang debating the scholars of Wu and exhorting Sun Quan to do battle with Cao Cao. Zhuge Liang: Cao Cao has conquered both Zhongyuan and Jing. He has a million soldiers. Though you gather all of Wu, you would still find it difficult to resist him. ID: Zhuge Liang in his popularised green hat, taoist white robes, beard and moustache with feathered fan dynamically in hand. Sun Quan wears layers of red with his large hand confidently at his waist.
November 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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the major point for modern reference is the wombo combo of Yoshikawa Eiji's popular retelling of the RotK novel, 'Sangokushi' (1939-43) which is then adapted into a popular manga, also titled Sangokushi (1971-87), by a fellow prolific goliath in his respective medium, Yokoyama Mitsuteru.
covers of the English translations of Yoshikawa Eiji's historical novels, 'Musashi' and 'Taiko'. ID: 1. Musashi: An orange red sun backdrop with a messy-haired unarmoured samurai man holding one sword straightly upright and in his left, another sword pointedforward. 2. Taiko: a classical style Japanese painting of various armoured samurai, two galloping on horses and crossing blades, while some on foot are brandishing their swords or running about. A somewhat chaotic scene evoking battle. image sourced: Facebook post Daniel Yong 18 May 2024 https://www.facebook.com/groups/205316262926151/posts/6071004173023968/ photo of Yoshikawa Eiji from his EN Wikipedia page Sangokushi volume 52 manga cover showing Zhuge Liang, courtesy name Kongming (rendered as 'Shokatsuryou Koumei' in romanised Japanese) holding outstretched his iconic feathered fan, giant-sized standing out of clouds, mist, or dust that billows above the streak of dozens of galloping cavalry who are mere black shadows - as puppets to his command. photo of Yokoyama Mitsuteru as he smokes sourced: https://en.namu.wiki/w/%EC%9A%94%EC%BD%94%EC%95%BC%EB%A7%88%20%EB%AF%B8%EC%B8%A0%ED%85%8C%EB%A3%A8
November 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Rough explanation on the intersections here regarding Japan:

1. 3 Kingdoms (history & Romance tradition) has/had a significant popularity historically. I forget many details but afaik & iirc
19th century painting: 'Operating on Guan Yu's Arm', by Japanese artist Katsushika Ōi (daughter of Katsushika Hokusai, still iconic for his ubiquitous 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' and octopus erotica 'The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife' ID: scroll painting depicting magnificently bearded Guan Yu undergoing bone scraping surgery to remove poison from an arrow wound. Holding out his right arm to his side, blood streams like a waterfall from the old surgeon’s lengthy incision. The blood falls down into a large dish held by an attendant kneeling and arched in posture - reeling from the scene and echoed by another appalled onlooker. Centre to this, Guan Yu is unshaken, playing a march of Go. Balancing this gathering in the top-background is a lavish, awaiting feast.
November 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Correspondingly.
Koei Tecmo Games "Three Kingdoms Day" Anniversary Celebration "Cao Cao" Series Designs showing portrait art from 1 through to 9. The designs range from 8-bit era head-portraits with a stylised "cartoon/anime look to more photorealistic and detailed - to the newer 3 games having dramatic, larger art spreads that expand up to a full waist-up medium shot with Cao Cao dynamically holding out his hand or sword. The early game designs appear inspired by either the 1994 Romance of Three Kingdoms TV series depiction and/or Yokoyama Mitsuteru's manga depicting a ruler or ranking bureacrat's attire. Then from VI-VIII turning into a heavily armoured design with a helmet before settling on a specific deep rich blue mantle-cape on yellow robe/tunic, specific facial hair and angled furrowed brows. crop of a panel from manga, Kingdom Three people in stylised armour standing dynamically together with a menacing aura. One of the men seems extraordinarily huge compared to the two others - who are correspondingly composed and laid-back - the giant man positioned behind them's closed (or glazed over) eyes, confident smile, massive glaive over his shoulder and a hand held up as if holding a chalice in his palm, creates a domineering and powerful energy Gao Changgong, Prince of Lan Ling from mobile game & franchise Fate Grand Order Prince of Lan Ling The Heroic Masked One, Prince of Ling with the Beautiful Face and Voice. A song said to have been created by the soldiers who praised the gallant battles fought by the masked Prince of Lan Ling. The music piece traveled to Japan as imperial court music during the Tang dynasty. It is performed even to this day. This composition, praising his bravery and beauty, rouses the morale of allies while causing enemies to shrink away. Additionally, Prince of Lan Ling was lauded to have both a beautiful voice and face, so he himself inflicts immense pressure and a kind of beautiful terror that the enemy cannot take their eyes from. ID: person wearing an ornate upper-face (almost-helmet-like) horned mask with a drawn sword in one hand and sheath in the other, arms spread in a poised and gracefully controlled almost dance-like pose.
November 18, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Like, it’s probably time to log off, (Mr. Real notanAnon Activist!!) when you’ve reached the “geographic denomination, not a race! and =/= racism” part of the endless quote-replies obfuscation & counter-accusations. lol 🫩
screencap of skeet with OP username cut off: @katespeace.bsky.social @queererthing.bsky.social @mistersludge.bsky.social Kamala Harris is a Black woman. Black people cannot be racist. Stop whitesplaining. You don't know what you're talking about and you're being racist. embedded truthout article: No, Black People Can't Be "Racists" The term "racism" must be understood within the context of an anti-Black American polity. quoted skeet: Kate says SUPPOR... @katespeace 5h ago This is about Kamala Harris?!! She's a racist, genocidal and xenophobic clown!! Also, I am a Guatemalan American womam and want to know what you think of the audacity she fucking had to come to my home country and tell my people they shouldn't seek safety and refuge here: 1/2 relevant excerpt from previously linked truthout article https://truthout.org/articles/no-black-people-cant-be-racists/ It is important to note, however, that Tatum does argue that if we were to define racism narrowly as consisting of racial prejudices alone, then, yes, people of color, which includes Black people, can be said to be racist. I'm sure that there are Black people and people of color who don't like white people, and that have racist prejudices against them. I would ask, however, about the basis of those "racial prejudices." The aim is not to justify them by making such an inquiry, but to try to understand them within the context of centuries of anti-Black racism. I would also argue that 2/2 continuation of excerpt with 2 highlighted text parts: 1) “a system of anti-white racism. White racist prejudices in the U.S.” 2) “So, even if Black people have racial prejudices, they cannot be racist oppressors in relationship to whites” full text: within the context of centuries of anti-Black racism. I would also argue that even if we grant that there are Black people who hold racial prejudices, we will need to examine and be truthful about how those prejudices are not linked systemically to a system of anti-white racism. White racist prejudices in the U.S. are fundamentally linked to white suprem cist systems that oppress Black people. So, even if Black people have racial prejudices, they cannot be racist oppressors in relationship to whites unless we are prepared to denude racism of its structural and systemic oppressive logics, which is how we understand the use of the term "racism" within the context of an anti-Black American polity. screencap of skeet with same OP with username cut off: @legndofphoenix.bsky.social Central America is a place. Not a race. And plenty of racist white people are from there. Stop whitesplaining, Karen. Black people are not your slaves. I don't have to listen to anything you or your racist friends say. Ever. image: WHITESPLAINING v. White person explaining to a person of color in a patronizing or oversimplified way, particularly in regards to race or other things they have no firsthand experience with. quoted skeet: Sarah @legndofpho... 1h ago Maybe you should go back to trying to listen to the central American woman who was explaining it to you if you don't wanna hear it from a white woman.
November 18, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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The 3Kingdoms fan mere moments after Jin unification: this is getting out of hand, now there are two of them!?
map showing Northern and Southern Dynasties China divided into 3: Northern Zhou, Northern Qi, and Chen, 572 AD wikimedia Map of administrative divisions (zhou, the prefectures) of China during the later phase of Southern and Northern Dynasties (Northern Qi, Northern Zhou and Chen), as of 572 AD. Author: Seasonsinthesun Map showing Northern and Southern Dynasties China divided into 3: Western Wei, Eastern Wei, and Liang circa 541 AD wikimedia Map showing Eastern Wei, Western Wei and Liang Author: Seasonsinthesun
November 18, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Me and the Maomao Apothecary Diaries fans appreciating the deep Jinshi origin story.
excerpt from Southern Integration: The Sui-Tang (581-907) Reach South, Chearles W. Holcombe borders. To foster identification with the empire, the birth and death anniversaries of Tang emperors became empire-wide holidays. An effort was also made to circumscribe religion within the borders of the state. Thus on four occasions in the Tang, and once in the Sui, empire-wide Buddhist temple building projects were initiated. The summons of famous monks to the capital contributed to a blending together of regional variations of Chinese Buddhism, while the progressive domestication of Buddhism led to a fading of interest in foreign Buddhist sources. In the South, the pacification commissioner of Jiangnan, Di Renjie (607–700), demolished hundreds of local non-Buddhist temples. A “watershed” in native Chinese religious history was crossed as what had previously been only a patchwork of different local beliefs was consolidated, in the period beginning in the Tang and culminating in the Song dynasty (960–1279), into a smaller number of new “national deity cults.” Thus, across multiple dimensions,a once diverse and multicultural empire was beginning to acquire a more uniform identity. The growing prestige of the civil service examination system—by the seventh century, the lure of attaining the Jinshi degree was already a powerful cultural magnet—attracted ambitious men from throughout the empire to the capital, and thereby weakened once strong regional affiliations. Paradoxically, then, decentralization,in the aftermath of a great rebellion that rocked the dynasty in the mid-eighth century, may have resulted in the spread across China of “a greatly enlarged class of educated landowners” whose sense of local difference was less pronounced. Similarly, the court-centered Buddhism of the early Tang was
November 17, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Deadly & socially awkward murder-witch lady and deadly & broken child soldier merc swordguy punch veryhard duo is a fun-healing vibe
manga page from Witch and Mercenary 1) woman with vicious and menacing, unhinged expression talking to a concerned man Woman: …it’s infuriating “Zig…?” man [Zig]: y-yeah, what is it? 2) woman with excited and gleeful expression, hands expressive and poised near mouth as if feasting Woman: “I need to go kill some… errands. Would you mind helping me?” 3) Zig replies cooly like a guardian beside two bystanders who look frightened Zig: “just don’t overdo it… all right?” manga page 1) menacing horror pov of woman bending over into a small cave-like rock openinng. her long hair falling across and covering much of the opening like veil, a single eye of hers visible - staring at the viewer as she holds a finger to her lips in the gesture of silence Woman: “…you will stop the buzzing, right?” 2) “You went too far.” intermediary panel of the back of indiscernible people running through a forest 3) Same woman anxious with both arms held up in an anxious, but slightly dainty and anticipatory pose *slump* Woman: “but…” reply: “No buts.” 4) Man closing his eyes in thought Zig: “I guess the fact that she’s moved on to threats is… an… improvement?” 5) Zig: “still, you did well to hold back.” *good girl* a visual depiction of patting a contented dog’s head. Woman: “tee-hee! I know, right?” Zig smiling and the woman now cartoonishly expressing happy joy from the same pose as previous echoed and emphasised by expression flowers manga page 1) *glooow*! Woman joyous, fork and knife in hand, about to tuck into an extravagant slab of meat in front of her. visual emphases of the panel creating a tadaa~ aura and excitement impact. 2) Woman chewing happily, piece of meat held up mid-feasting as Zig looks on from her side Zig thought-bubble: “Am I going too easy on her…?” 3) Zig with hand raised mid-thought: *gasp*[subtle] 4) Zig eyes forward in deeper thought, hand now at his mouth & chin 5) Sig’s thoughts continue: “I really… have changed too…” Sig’s pov of the Woman as she continues to devour her meal at a table bench, a(nother?) piece of meat on her fork as she prepares to bite without a care in the world, her other hand raised up, displaying her full body focus and rapt attention. She is centred in a wide shot panel amidst the room and furniture that subtly emphasises his corresponding full attention on her.
November 16, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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People are different!
person 1: I SEE. I GUESS HUMANS ARE JUST CUT OUT FOR SOME THINGS AND NOT FOR OTHERS. person 2: ?
November 14, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Smile, and let me scan your happiness quotient. 😀
two cartoonishly wide-mouthed vacant-eyed smiling robotish police mascots with twi red siren alarm strobe lights sticking out on their heads from dystopian anime Psycho Pass gloomy scene of some kind of venue building covered in commercialised lit-up advertisement signs. four cartoonish static police mascot robots smiling as they do crowd control at a crime scene as evidenced by a holographic do-not-cross line. from dystopian anime Psycho Pass
November 9, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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The story of Australia’s “incredible” democratic system: (intentional poverty, “democratic” invasions, colonialism, and of course genocide)
GRATTAN Institute graph of ‘The unemployment benefit has fallen further and further below the poverty line’ 3 lines: Poverty lines and unemployment benefits per week, inflation-adjusted 2021 dollars going back to 1990 Henderson poverty line and Relative poverty line move in parallel, increasing steeply at a constant rate up to $200 at 2010, whilst Unemployment Benefit line does not move at all , creating a large gap until a dramatic spike at 2020 when ‘Coronavirus Supplement in place’, which finally brings the benefit line to meet the Henderson poverty line. Notes: Unemployment benefit includes Energy Supplement. Poverty lines indexed to March 2021 using household disposable income per capita. Adjusted for intlation using the Consumer Price Index. Unemployment benefits have at various times been called the unemployment benefit, the Job Search allowance, the Newstart Allowance, and the JobSeeker payment. Sources: Grattan analysis of Melbourne Institute 'Poverty Lines: Australia', ABS 6523.0, ABS 6401.0, ABS 5206.0, and DSS Social Security Guide. 2 .gov.au web search results: Anzac Portal https://anzacportal.dva.gov.au Australia's involvement in the Iraq War 2003 to 2013 - Anzac Portal - DVA 24 June 2025 — Australia's involvement. The Iraq War had its origins in the First Gulf War of 1990 and 1991. During that conflict, Iraqi forces invaded Kuwait ... Australian War Memorial https://www.awm.gov.au Iraq, 2003-09 - Australians at war 4 Apr 2025 — ... invaded Iraq in what was termed "the Second Gulf War". Their object ... Australia... Stolen Generation, Australian Museum web article highlighted text: 1)under government policy and direction. 2)and arguably still continues today under the banner of child protection. 3)rationalised by various governments The phrase Stolen Generation refers to the countless number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children who were forcibly removed from their families under government policy and direction. This was active policy during the period from the 1910s into the 1970s, and arguably still continues today under the banner of child protection. It is estimated that during the active period of the policy, between 1 in 10 and 1 in 3 Indigenous children were removed from their families and communities. The removal of Indigenous children wa: rationalised by various governments by claiming that it was for their protection https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/stolen-generation/ Controversial Israeli weapons company awarded $917 million Australian army contract Posted Tue 27 Feb 2024 at 6:52pm, updated Tue 27 Feb 2024 at 8:25pm Elbit Systems says it will provide "advanced protection, fighting capabilities and sensors" for new Korean-designed Infantry Fighting Vehicles. (source: ADF) Photo of armoured tank-like vehicle firing its gun ABC news article
November 9, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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lol lmao. and if so, what does this say about Australia’s “incredible” democratic choices
The story behind Australia's incredible democratic system Analysis by Annabel Crabb, ABC NEWS
November 9, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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In this degenerate age of decline, we yearn for the elegant Dao of the Tang
Reunification brought expanded educational opportunities. According to a Tang edict of 624: Since the degenerate age of decline, the elegant Dao has sunk into oblivion. For endless years the Confucian breeze has not been fanned. . . . Cherished words and books are all ashes. . . . The customs of the schools have been destroyed. . . . [But] now, since China has been clarified, and shields and weapons are gradually being put away, the profession of civil officials can flourish.
November 3, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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They do not let women learn the sword because they are too powerful together.
manga panel of a Japanese samurai girl ending a dismembered opponent with a casual cut of an energy blade extending from her two fingertips panel 1: “You had so many chances to get away.” Warrior girl in an unreasonably fashionable traditional-inspired Japanese outfit in mid-step as she strides past and suddenly beheads a up a fallen foe with her pointed fingers projecting an energy blade. The violence is stylistically and subtly censored with use of shadow, image focus, and understated but striking arrangement of the girl’s fingers creating a visual vector towards the defeated’s flying and darkened and almost misshapen by blood & shadow, but unmistakably - their head. panel 2: “If I let you go now, you’re the type who’d hold a grudge and come back for revenge.” Close-up of girl’s face, her bangs casting a light shadow over her, emphasising the unfeeling, dispassionate or contemptuous callousness in her eyes.
November 1, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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And what will you do once you learn the sword?

🤔🤔🤔🤔…😦?
three manga panels of a young girl quickly grow in puzzlement when posed a question as to a future point they has not considered panel 1. small girl sitting beside a woman looking over at her. Adult: And what will you do once you learn swordsmanship, Lutecia? Young girl: Huh? panel 2. Girl raises a pointed finger in concentrated thought: Um… panel 3. Girl: Umm?? Girl in exact same position but head jolted into a tilt in sudden consideration and surprised confusion at the unforthcoming answer while the questioner woman smiles kindly, watching over her.
November 1, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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"This was way into the 1800s, three centuries after Europeans first took the knowledge that vanilla could be used. It took them 300 years to solve how to obtain fruits from the plant."

Boy Age 12, dunking on the experts of the colonial world.

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1841 Edmond Albius, a 12-year-old slave who lived on the French island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean, discovered that vanilla Te could be hand-pollinated. Hand-pollination allowed global cultivation of the plant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_food highlighted text: Albius died in poverty in St. Suzanne in 1880. Edmond Albius wikipedia page Later life In gratitude for - and in recognition of - his discovery, locals on Réunion attempted (unsuccessfully) to obtain a reward or a government stipend for Albius. In 1848, France outlawed slavery in its colonies, and Albius left the plantation for St. Denis, where he worked as a kitchen servant. He adopted Albius as his new surname from alba "white" in reference to the vanilla orchid's colour. He was convicted of stealing jewelry and sentenced to ten years in prison, but the sentence was commuted after five years when the governor granted him clemency in light of his enormous contribution to vanilla production in Réunion. Albius died in poverty in St. Suzanne in 1880. text from https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20240118-the-little-known-truth-about-vanilla Edmond did not share in this bonanza. Although he was freed along with all French slaves in 1848, in the coming years he was blamed for a robbery and sentenced to five years' imprisonment with hard labour in 1852. A French botanist tried to take credit for Edmond's invention, claiming he had visited Réunion in 1838 and had showed a group of planters the technique to pollinate vanilla. While Edmond was eventually freed and his discovery was acknowledged (thanks partly to the vigorous support of his former enslaver), he died impoverished at 51. "The very man who at great profit to this colony, discovered how to pollinate vanilla flowers, has died in the public hospital in Sainte-Suzanne," was how the local paper Moniteurrecorded his death in 1852, according to Ecott's book. "It was a destitute and miserable end."
October 28, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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How long have you known Platner, Debs?
Bsky comment thread: Debs @laborsideart.bsky.social • 5h He is a great guy. ThemBOO! @thembo.bs... • 5h how would you know? Debs Not from an article in Jewish Insider. ThemBOO! yeah everyone here knows why you're pretending to care about palestinians, but that doesn't change that you never knew this guy existed Debs @laborsideart.bsky.social • 4h I've marched for Palestinian liberation since Rachel Corrie was murdered. I've known of Platner for 10 years. Max's Dad @djwyszynski.bsky.social So you knew him when he went back to Iraq as a mercenary in 2018?
October 25, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Shots where we see the audience watching the big screen are so good. It's obviously cliche, but: it's us! the perceivers. The reactions. The shared spectacle. Does it show our sameness? our difference? The stranglehold the movie holds over us? or perhaps it draws our attention to the protagonists
Scene from TV series Ultraseven. ID: close-up shot showing around 6 people seated in movie theatre. A 60's audience. A couple are snacking on giant-sized rice crackers. Though in the middle of the frame, they somewhat blend-in to the wider audience by being un-centred and are in contended attention to the viewer by a more-focused man seated in front, below them, who has a stand-out light shining on his hair and a woman who sits behind them but wears a bright red that pulls from a largely plain-coloured palette.
October 20, 2025 at 4:16 AM