We’ve lost a genuinely kind, compassionate and thoughtful person who was truly curious and interested about people.

Probably not suspicious that Trump fired his Navy Secretary in the middle of a naval blockade.

Horrible news 😢

Oh so sad, used to listen to him at work when I lived in Sydney.

All I want is a humble castle on the Irish coast, a crackling fire, a vintage mystery novel, an emotional support raven, a raging thunderstorm, a few purring cats, endless cups of tea, and a scandalous amount of freshly-baked pastries.

Data centers have contaminated ground water in Oregon.

They've released smog into the air in Memphis.

And they've contributed to electricity bill spikes — all while receiving millions of dollars in tax breaks.

Is it any wonder why a nationwide backlash against AI data centers is brewing?

You can thank your lucky stars we don’t live in Paraguay!

I have to admit I was already aged out of watching SpongeBob SquarePants when this episode originally aired.

But my younger colleagues told me to watch this clip.

No matter who is in power, there's never enough money for all the basic social supports working-class people depend on (along with disability support: healthcare, education, aged care etc). But there's somehow ALWAYS more than enough to spend on weapons and war.

A graph showing increasing defence spending over the decade from 2026-27. Rising from just over $60 billion to close to $120 billion.

The NDIS is far from perfect. But there's something particularly inhuman about the Labor Party pushing through changes that will see 160,000 people kicked off disability support in the same week they proudly announced an increase in military spending of $53 billion over 10 years.

Honest Government Ad | The Ensh*ttenment YouTube video by thejuicemedia

The Government™ has made an ad about the era we're living through, and it's surpsingly honest and informative.

What the

Are Aussies being fleeced over gas profits?! Yes! What should we be doing instead? | First Dog on the Moon Even considering our usual slavish enthusiasm for giving all our shit to billionaires for free this is bad * Sign up here to get an email whenever First Dog cartoons are published * Get all your needs met at the First Dog shop if what you need is First Dog merchandise and prints Continue reading...

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Artworks: Marshal from Animal Crossing pop art style, cartoon pig and Mothman walking in the forest.

Will be sending my 3 artworks in the post tomorrow

Artworks for the Incognito Art Show are starting to be dropped on the site. All artworks anonymous and $100 each, all artworks are donated and proceeds go support programmes for artists with disabilities.

www.incognitoartshow.com

Pollen Zombie
But it’s autumn here now

Many Americans can’t find any motivation to vote for the Democratic Party in their lifetime. I literally can’t think of any significant accomplishment they’ve made since I’ve been born. They are the party of big business, empty slogans, soulless centrism and corporate welfare.

Justice for Palestine announces High Court challenge to laws as more than 20 are arrested Justice for Palestine Magan-djin organised a weekend of action to protest draconian new laws which target the Palestine solidarity movement. Alex Bainbridge reports.

The laws ban the Palestine freedom slogans “From the River to the Sea” and “globalise the Intifada”, except in some circumstances. www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1452/ne...

Make it make sense.

What I Mean When I Say I'm Tired I don't mean I want to sleep. I mean I want to disappear for a while. To be rain on a stranger's roof. To be smoke rising from someone else's fire. I don't want to die. But I do want to rest in a way the world has never allowed me. I don't want comfort. I want quiet. I want the mercy of being unseen without being unloved.

What I Mean When I Say I'm Tired ~ K.E. Sermonté

"I want quiet.
I want the mercy of being unseen
without being unloved."

News paper clipping: 'There is no ethical way to use the major Al image generators. All of them are trained on stolen images, and all of them are built for the purpose of deskilling, disempowering and replacing real, human artists. - MOLLY CRABAPPLE, artist and activist

To quote (ish) a person who's name I don't recall - 'you can't budget your way out of poverty.'.

How they treat fraud.

$3,000,000,000 - 40 months
$100 - 180 months

Crime is only crime for the poor, can't be sending the rich to jail.

Or they might end up there themselves

Yikes — “Military advisers intentionally excluded Trump from the command room during the recent high-stakes extraction of a downed American airman in Iran, fearing his erratic temper would jeopardize the mission, WSJ reported…” www.jpost.com/internationa...

Palantir posts mini-manifesto denouncing inclusivity and ‘regressive’ cultures | TechCrunch Palantir's ideological bent has come under more scrutiny as it's worked with ICE and positioned itself as a defender of "the West."

Any candidate that takes money from Palantir should not receive your vote.

Co-founder Joe Lonsdale is pouring millions into a PAC to buy off Democrats, especially in California.

techcrunch.com/2026/04/19/p...

21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures ... have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful. 22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what?

⚠️ Palantir released what it describes as a vision for “The Technological Republic” in which it argues AGAINST democratic and cultural pluralism and FOR militaristic supremacy enforced by a technocratic elite who produce AI weaponry.

These points stand out:

I think I want what we all want - peace, love, warmth, and an enchanted cottage that floats through the night, trading used books and black market rum with the wild folk of the wood.

Weird. But then people do coffee enemas now so…

T0 A CAPITALIST ANY CRIME IS ACCEPTABLE IF YOU CALL IT BUISNESS

Is the pen truly mightier than the sword?