- From October 13, 2024:
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King Charles won’t stand in the way if ‘Australia wants to become a republic’
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↳ It’s never going to happen, and it’s also one of the furthest possible things from land back. — - From October 12, 2024:
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Dramatic images show the first floods in the Sahara in half a century
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Gina Rinehart is building a solar farm (to help power an iron ore mine)
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↳ Capitalist oligarchs doing capitalist things. — -
Wikipedia is under assault: rogue users keep posting AI generated nonsense
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↳ Between endlessly shittier hallucinations and the already extreme centrist political denial that happens there, the world’s largest knowledge source is already alight like the libraries of history. — -
Making meaning at the end of time
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I have been necessarily pondering “end times” – conceptually a troubling thought...
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‘It’s mindblowing’: US meteorologists face death threats as hurricane conspiracies surge
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↳ Horrifying. — - From October 11, 2024:
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Major papers are giving Trump’s Jan. 6 indictment dramatically less attention than they did Clinton’s server
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↳ This is unsurprising. The media gains from trumps absurdism. The media is also deeply entrenched in accelerated capitalist reproduction. — -
eSafety commissioner ends heated fight with Elon Musk’s X over Sydney church stabbing posts
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Florida criminalized homelessness. Then came hurricanes Helene and Milton.
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↳ The anti-human, utter bullshit, and disgustingly capitalist nature of “criminalising” homelessness is unparalleled. Humans are already the only species stupid enough to let the 1% force us to enter endless servitude to live – now it’s killing us more. — -
The Internet Archive is under attack, with a breach revealing info for 31 million accounts
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↳ The internet archive is one of very few contemporary cultural preservation platforms, not to mention useful for bypassing censorship and doing research. This site needs our support, fuck the assholes making their lives harder. — -
Alicia thinks she will be killed by her controlling ex. She says police won’t listen until ‘there’s a dead body’
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↳ The cops ain’t making money off it, and their buddies and them are perpetrating it, they’re only here to guard capitalism, not the people. This is a very sick and very real problem particularly in this country where an abhorrent number of women are killed by men — and Albanese does absolutely nothing. — -
Why are Democrats tarred as elites when the world’s richest man funds Trump?
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↳ The ole switcharoo. — -
U.S. Foreign Policy Has Created a Genocidal Israel
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↳ The empire going strong. — -
Russia cut off its troops from Discord, the video gaming comms tool they use to coordinate attacks in Ukraine
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↳ Stupidity and stupid people, too, reinforce the hegemony. — - From October 10, 2024:
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Badenoch to face Jenrick in Tory leadership race
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↳ Equally terrible choices for a terrible party. The Tories, Liberals, Republicans and their ilk must go. —