Miss Congealed Reality
@spacebar-music.bsky.social
Recovering lawyer. Passionate about jazz music and politics (they're connected). Listening, respect and collaboration can lead to wonderful things.
Gratefully on unceded Cammeraygal land.
No uninvited DMs.
Gratefully on unceded Cammeraygal land.
No uninvited DMs.
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The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.
December 5, 2025 at 1:20 AM
The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.
"We underestimate the value of what we don’t know and take what we do know “a little too seriously” Nassim Taleb, The Black Swan.
We all have an "antilibrary." You know, the stack of yet-unread books we might never read. Here is Umberto Eco's wonderful and counterintuitive take on why that unread stack might be as essential for our inner lives as the read www.themarginalian.org/2015/03/24/u...
Umberto Eco’s Antilibrary: Why Unread Books Are More Valuable to Our Lives than Read Ones
How to become an “antischolar” in a culture that treats knowledge as “an ornament that allows us to rise in the pecking order.”
www.themarginalian.org
December 1, 2025 at 2:25 AM
"We underestimate the value of what we don’t know and take what we do know “a little too seriously” Nassim Taleb, The Black Swan.
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So many people who are otherwise so committed to good things are on Substack, which is very nice to bad people, ideas, and lies. My own newsletter was launched on Ghost because the bad news about Substack isn't new.
I am once again telling everyone to get the fuck off Substack leavesubstack.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:35 PM
So many people who are otherwise so committed to good things are on Substack, which is very nice to bad people, ideas, and lies. My own newsletter was launched on Ghost because the bad news about Substack isn't new.
I'm not saying that I endorse the Nats' policies, but the Coalition could do worse than have Littleproud as its leader.
#InsidersABC
#InsidersABC
November 29, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I'm not saying that I endorse the Nats' policies, but the Coalition could do worse than have Littleproud as its leader.
#InsidersABC
#InsidersABC
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My favourite Baldwin video:
November 28, 2025 at 7:30 PM
My favourite Baldwin video:
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Twitter implemented a new feature last night that displayed the country an account is in. So many of the ‘America First’ accounts were from foreign countries that they had to disable the feature within hours. 🙄
November 22, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Twitter implemented a new feature last night that displayed the country an account is in. So many of the ‘America First’ accounts were from foreign countries that they had to disable the feature within hours. 🙄
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🎵 “Join Ice” - @wellesmusic on Colbert
November 22, 2025 at 1:54 PM
🎵 “Join Ice” - @wellesmusic on Colbert
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Trump and Hegesth need people to be mindless zombies, only follow the orders that their given, not think more holistically about them. So literally anything that might cause someone to question: Is this order aligned with my oath? is a huge threat. To them, "treason" (which it's not) /END
November 21, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Trump and Hegesth need people to be mindless zombies, only follow the orders that their given, not think more holistically about them. So literally anything that might cause someone to question: Is this order aligned with my oath? is a huge threat. To them, "treason" (which it's not) /END
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Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
Forrest calls net zero a “con,” and he is right. Net zero has become the political class’s favourite loophole: a way to promise climate action while quietly preserving the extractive economy.
November 17, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Forrest calls net zero a “con,” and he is right. Net zero has become the political class’s favourite loophole: a way to promise climate action while quietly preserving the extractive economy.
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Zahra Shahbaz Tabari has been sentenced to death by the Revolutionary Court in Rasht, Iran after a 10-minute video trial without a lawyer, accused of supporting the PMOI.
The only “evidence”: a cloth reading “Woman, Resistance, Freedom.”
@drmaisato.bsky.social
iran-hrm.com/2025/10/25/d...
The only “evidence”: a cloth reading “Woman, Resistance, Freedom.”
@drmaisato.bsky.social
iran-hrm.com/2025/10/25/d...
Death Sentence for Zahra Shahbaz Tabari: A 10-Minute Trial Without Justice
In another case of severe repression against political prisoners, Zahra Shahbaz Tabari, a 67-year-old political prisoner from Rasht, has been
iran-hrm.com
October 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Zahra Shahbaz Tabari has been sentenced to death by the Revolutionary Court in Rasht, Iran after a 10-minute video trial without a lawyer, accused of supporting the PMOI.
The only “evidence”: a cloth reading “Woman, Resistance, Freedom.”
@drmaisato.bsky.social
iran-hrm.com/2025/10/25/d...
The only “evidence”: a cloth reading “Woman, Resistance, Freedom.”
@drmaisato.bsky.social
iran-hrm.com/2025/10/25/d...
#insidersABC finishes with a senior moment...
November 15, 2025 at 11:02 PM
#insidersABC finishes with a senior moment...
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Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year.
That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.
Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.
Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
November 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year.
That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.
Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.
Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
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A series of reports published last week by Climate Analytics — and commissioned by Fortescue — set out to support this view by demonstrating that pathways exist to eliminate fossil fuels in key global sectors like power, shipping and transport. #auspol #forrest #fossilfuels
Andrew Forrest says real zero is already the 'winning business case' in three key fossil fuel guzzling industries
As the federal Coalition continues its interminable internal debate over whether net zero emissions is even a thing, let alone a thing it can get behind, new reports have found that “real zero” is both technically feasible and economically preferable to its carbon-lite alternative in numerous hard-to-abate sectors.
johnmenadue.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:01 PM
A series of reports published last week by Climate Analytics — and commissioned by Fortescue — set out to support this view by demonstrating that pathways exist to eliminate fossil fuels in key global sectors like power, shipping and transport. #auspol #forrest #fossilfuels
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Afforable housing: it's the least they could do.
(I despise that monument to corruption and misery.)
(I despise that monument to corruption and misery.)
November 11, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Afforable housing: it's the least they could do.
(I despise that monument to corruption and misery.)
(I despise that monument to corruption and misery.)
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"7. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric."
Nobel laureate Bertrand Russell 10 tenets of critical thinking
www.themarginalian.org/2012/05/02/a...
Nobel laureate Bertrand Russell 10 tenets of critical thinking
www.themarginalian.org/2012/05/02/a...
A Liberal Decalogue: Bertrand Russell’s Ten Commandments of Critical Thinking and Democratic Decency
‘Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.’
www.themarginalian.org
November 8, 2025 at 1:01 PM
"7. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric."
Nobel laureate Bertrand Russell 10 tenets of critical thinking
www.themarginalian.org/2012/05/02/a...
Nobel laureate Bertrand Russell 10 tenets of critical thinking
www.themarginalian.org/2012/05/02/a...
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November 8, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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"People read Foucault,” the redoubtable David Brooks once wrote, “and develop an alienated view of the world.” God, did I love this. An “alienated view of the world”! Not by, like, trying to pay rent or having an insurance claim denied—no, no, it was probably the Foucault you read in 2003."
The extent to which shitty centrist journalism rests on the same thing as Trump, the never-identified "some people say, everyone says" etc. including "critics say" here is a zombie move, lifeless yet vengeful.
November 8, 2025 at 12:07 AM
"People read Foucault,” the redoubtable David Brooks once wrote, “and develop an alienated view of the world.” God, did I love this. An “alienated view of the world”! Not by, like, trying to pay rent or having an insurance claim denied—no, no, it was probably the Foucault you read in 2003."
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Incredibly funny to watch the right wing going Oh so just because I love money and hate poor people I'm a bad Christian according to "the pope"???
November 4, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Incredibly funny to watch the right wing going Oh so just because I love money and hate poor people I'm a bad Christian according to "the pope"???
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Listen the apertheid Israel from this American woman who literally lives in there 🎯
November 3, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Listen the apertheid Israel from this American woman who literally lives in there 🎯
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I've just started my second children's book.
Set in Balmain in 1870 three 10 year old girls; one a Scottish west highland immigrant, one a first generation of Irish stock and one indigenous, First Nations.
thoughts?
Ideas?
escapades?
as historically accurate as possible but mostly made up
Set in Balmain in 1870 three 10 year old girls; one a Scottish west highland immigrant, one a first generation of Irish stock and one indigenous, First Nations.
thoughts?
Ideas?
escapades?
as historically accurate as possible but mostly made up
October 29, 2025 at 4:46 AM
I've just started my second children's book.
Set in Balmain in 1870 three 10 year old girls; one a Scottish west highland immigrant, one a first generation of Irish stock and one indigenous, First Nations.
thoughts?
Ideas?
escapades?
as historically accurate as possible but mostly made up
Set in Balmain in 1870 three 10 year old girls; one a Scottish west highland immigrant, one a first generation of Irish stock and one indigenous, First Nations.
thoughts?
Ideas?
escapades?
as historically accurate as possible but mostly made up
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🎃:"Wait, did I just get married again?"
October 28, 2025 at 1:04 AM
🎃:"Wait, did I just get married again?"