Lyra
@seren.monster
Experimental quantum research • photography and music • miniature painting • Au • she/they
Not controlled opposition, but autonomously controlled opposition. They made capital a god and no atrocity will be enough to make them stop willingly aiding and abetting the apocalyptic death cult that worships the same ideals. (Applies to AuLab/UKlab/dems/insert morally bankrupt cowards of choice)
January 11, 2026 at 12:07 PM
Not controlled opposition, but autonomously controlled opposition. They made capital a god and no atrocity will be enough to make them stop willingly aiding and abetting the apocalyptic death cult that worships the same ideals. (Applies to AuLab/UKlab/dems/insert morally bankrupt cowards of choice)
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there is no link between Palestinian authors, Palestinian activism, or Palestinians and the Bondi massacre, and if you believe there is you are either extremely stupid or evil or (most likely) both
January 8, 2026 at 6:31 AM
there is no link between Palestinian authors, Palestinian activism, or Palestinians and the Bondi massacre, and if you believe there is you are either extremely stupid or evil or (most likely) both
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Meanwhile ... UN Human Rights report finds Israel is an apartheid state
michaelwest.com.au/un-report-is...
michaelwest.com.au/un-report-is...
UN report: Israel practising racial segregation and apartheid - Michael West
A UN Human Rights Office has found Israel is 'asphyxiating' Palestinians in the West Bank, East Jerusalem via its policies, practices and laws
michaelwest.com.au
January 8, 2026 at 7:22 AM
Meanwhile ... UN Human Rights report finds Israel is an apartheid state
michaelwest.com.au/un-report-is...
michaelwest.com.au/un-report-is...
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Many people are saying 2+2=5, and who are we to judge if they’re right?
"Was the officer struck by the vehicle, as President Trump insists, or did the car pass by or around him?"
If we only had some trusted institution that could adjudicate between competing claims by relying on facts.
If we only had some trusted institution that could adjudicate between competing claims by relying on facts.
January 8, 2026 at 4:30 AM
Many people are saying 2+2=5, and who are we to judge if they’re right?
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What’s the point of writers’ festivals — or, for that matter, writers — if they can’t discuss issues that matter? Australian arts administrators would rather destroy the whole sector than allow Palestinians to speak about genocide. It’s beyond shameful.
January 8, 2026 at 4:57 AM
What’s the point of writers’ festivals — or, for that matter, writers — if they can’t discuss issues that matter? Australian arts administrators would rather destroy the whole sector than allow Palestinians to speak about genocide. It’s beyond shameful.
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My heart is so heavy right now. It shouldn't take another murder to get people to wake up. The stacks of Black and brown bodies weren't enough to convince you?
January 8, 2026 at 5:36 AM
My heart is so heavy right now. It shouldn't take another murder to get people to wake up. The stacks of Black and brown bodies weren't enough to convince you?
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idk what people mean when they say american industry is in decline, the US seems to be very active in manufacturing consent
January 6, 2026 at 8:34 PM
idk what people mean when they say american industry is in decline, the US seems to be very active in manufacturing consent
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An essay from a man in Nairobi talking about the social, psychological, and emotional toll of working as a chat companion
January 5, 2026 at 1:16 AM
An essay from a man in Nairobi talking about the social, psychological, and emotional toll of working as a chat companion
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A dozen former athletes call for a royal commission: the government must heed this demand
100,000 Australians march over the Sydney Harbour Bridge: the government must ignore this rabble
100,000 Australians march over the Sydney Harbour Bridge: the government must ignore this rabble
January 4, 2026 at 9:39 PM
A dozen former athletes call for a royal commission: the government must heed this demand
100,000 Australians march over the Sydney Harbour Bridge: the government must ignore this rabble
100,000 Australians march over the Sydney Harbour Bridge: the government must ignore this rabble
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Will Stencil wrong again. American interventionism since the end of WW2 has been a rolling set of disasters, enacted upon sovereign nations with bipartisan support, causing the death and displacement of tens of millions of people. They just didn't do the key jingling part for pundits this time.
I think the most straightforward framing that captures the severity of the situation is that the government of the United States has been seized by a mad authoritarian regime not meaningfully distinct from Putin or Kim or, well, Maduro, and its members must be brought to harsh justice
January 3, 2026 at 10:17 PM
Will Stencil wrong again. American interventionism since the end of WW2 has been a rolling set of disasters, enacted upon sovereign nations with bipartisan support, causing the death and displacement of tens of millions of people. They just didn't do the key jingling part for pundits this time.
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Checking in on the TikTok knitting lady who insists the military would never follow illegal orders, and she is insisting that by the letter of the law this was legal because... well because otherwise her grift of telling liberals comforting nonsense falls apart, I guess.
January 3, 2026 at 8:02 PM
Checking in on the TikTok knitting lady who insists the military would never follow illegal orders, and she is insisting that by the letter of the law this was legal because... well because otherwise her grift of telling liberals comforting nonsense falls apart, I guess.
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I guess what’s really despairing is that this feels like a litmus test of every part of the system, and every part of the system is failing. The media, the democrats, the army, international allies… pretty much everyone is willing to shrug their shoulders here.
It will only embolden them.
It will only embolden them.
January 3, 2026 at 6:23 PM
I guess what’s really despairing is that this feels like a litmus test of every part of the system, and every part of the system is failing. The media, the democrats, the army, international allies… pretty much everyone is willing to shrug their shoulders here.
It will only embolden them.
It will only embolden them.
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They have no need for the patient escalation other administrations have conducted to incite the conflict they desire. They've seen what the world will tolerate. They won't stop until the American order is collapsed. And there's no external force that can or will.
January 3, 2026 at 11:16 AM
They have no need for the patient escalation other administrations have conducted to incite the conflict they desire. They've seen what the world will tolerate. They won't stop until the American order is collapsed. And there's no external force that can or will.
The "rules based international order" has always been a facade constructed by the most powerful nations to lend legitimacy to their conflicts of greed and power. Gaza was the nail in the coffin for what little reality there was.
January 3, 2026 at 11:16 AM
The "rules based international order" has always been a facade constructed by the most powerful nations to lend legitimacy to their conflicts of greed and power. Gaza was the nail in the coffin for what little reality there was.
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"NSW records the highest number of road deaths in eight years"
A few "reasons" given: drugs, alcohol, speeding. Ofc all of those factors long before COVID arrived to infect and reinfect almost the everyone, with known cognitive impacts.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
A few "reasons" given: drugs, alcohol, speeding. Ofc all of those factors long before COVID arrived to infect and reinfect almost the everyone, with known cognitive impacts.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
January 3, 2026 at 8:34 AM
"NSW records the highest number of road deaths in eight years"
A few "reasons" given: drugs, alcohol, speeding. Ofc all of those factors long before COVID arrived to infect and reinfect almost the everyone, with known cognitive impacts.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
A few "reasons" given: drugs, alcohol, speeding. Ofc all of those factors long before COVID arrived to infect and reinfect almost the everyone, with known cognitive impacts.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
While far from impossible, it does take concerted effort to inure people to violence and atrocity to the point where they're comortable enacting it, and the stuff happening with grok gives me the same sickening feeling that listening to radio broadcasts from Rwanda leading up to the genocide does...
January 3, 2026 at 4:23 AM
While far from impossible, it does take concerted effort to inure people to violence and atrocity to the point where they're comortable enacting it, and the stuff happening with grok gives me the same sickening feeling that listening to radio broadcasts from Rwanda leading up to the genocide does...
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About three and a half hours until this cursed year draws to a close. Good riddance, 2025.
Let’s all sincerely hope for - and work to realise - a better 2026.
To paraphrase an old anarchist slogan, He ao hou ka taea.
Let’s all sincerely hope for - and work to realise - a better 2026.
To paraphrase an old anarchist slogan, He ao hou ka taea.
December 31, 2025 at 7:28 AM
About three and a half hours until this cursed year draws to a close. Good riddance, 2025.
Let’s all sincerely hope for - and work to realise - a better 2026.
To paraphrase an old anarchist slogan, He ao hou ka taea.
Let’s all sincerely hope for - and work to realise - a better 2026.
To paraphrase an old anarchist slogan, He ao hou ka taea.
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This entire opinion piece by Chip le Grand does not mention ISIS a single time. Not once. Instead it repeatedly suggests that the cause of the Bondi attack was Labor's failure to crack down harder on Gaza protests and related antisemitism. www.smh.com.au/national/lab...
December 20, 2025 at 9:08 PM
This entire opinion piece by Chip le Grand does not mention ISIS a single time. Not once. Instead it repeatedly suggests that the cause of the Bondi attack was Labor's failure to crack down harder on Gaza protests and related antisemitism. www.smh.com.au/national/lab...
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I don’t know man, if you earn your money through the simple act of having a lot of money to start with, and the work you do is calling people to check in on your money, that’s pretty unskilled
your semi regular reminder that "unskilled labor" is a phrase made up by rich assholes to devalue whatever YOU are good at for the sole purpose of extracting more profit
December 29, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I don’t know man, if you earn your money through the simple act of having a lot of money to start with, and the work you do is calling people to check in on your money, that’s pretty unskilled
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“hey leena how’s your day going?”
“WAKE IN FRIGHT WAS A DOCUMENTARY”
“WAKE IN FRIGHT WAS A DOCUMENTARY”
December 24, 2025 at 1:46 AM
“hey leena how’s your day going?”
“WAKE IN FRIGHT WAS A DOCUMENTARY”
“WAKE IN FRIGHT WAS A DOCUMENTARY”
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Politicians and the media have seized on the Bondi tragedy to drag Australia further right, writes @amyremeikis.bsky.social.
www.deepcutnews.com/p/massacre-a...
www.deepcutnews.com/p/massacre-a...
Massacre as political theatre: our shameful national response to Bondi
Politicians and the media have seized on the Bondi tragedy to drag Australia further right
www.deepcutnews.com
December 21, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Politicians and the media have seized on the Bondi tragedy to drag Australia further right, writes @amyremeikis.bsky.social.
www.deepcutnews.com/p/massacre-a...
www.deepcutnews.com/p/massacre-a...
@tashtaylor.bsky.social hey! Didn't know you were on here, but remember having a great time talking after meeting you at the 2019 equs workshop. Would love to chat and catch up sometime. Hope you've been doing well :)
December 21, 2025 at 10:10 AM
@tashtaylor.bsky.social hey! Didn't know you were on here, but remember having a great time talking after meeting you at the 2019 equs workshop. Would love to chat and catch up sometime. Hope you've been doing well :)
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At this point, Segal could call for the torching of mosques and Muslim homes and no one in media or power would bat an eyelid
December 19, 2025 at 12:25 PM
At this point, Segal could call for the torching of mosques and Muslim homes and no one in media or power would bat an eyelid
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Western countries gearing up to annihilate or enslave anyone darker than olive-skinned again while purporting to be the pinnacle of civilisation and inventors of human rights is astounding to watch
December 19, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Western countries gearing up to annihilate or enslave anyone darker than olive-skinned again while purporting to be the pinnacle of civilisation and inventors of human rights is astounding to watch