And how much will end up in the purses of Kushner et al?

I replied to another post yesterday suggesting Maccas could be encouraged to install charging stations at highway rest stop restaurants for intercity drives, but inner city Maccas would work as well. Most seem to have under-utilised parking.

The Australian Greens are calling on the government to audit every Palantir contract across Government and particularly in Defence, Home Affairs and intelligence agencies and table the findings in Parliament. The public has a right to know the full scale of the risks and the sell out.

Palantir is known to have provided technology that facilitated the Gaza genocide. They are facilitating mass ICE kidnappings in the US. These actions alone should trigger a review of Australian contracts. This latest manifesto only adds to the concern.

So much for the theory. Iran should allow fertiliser to pass through the Strait of Hormuz; America should not blockade urea shipments from Iran. Tragically, neither shows any inclination to do so. High petrol prices make biofuel more attractive to farmers, not less. And rich countries are in a selfish mood. Failure to act thus looks baked in. In the face of an avoidable disaster, that is shameful.

Fair but depressing conclusion from @economist.com - we could avoid some of the worst of the hunger, but we won’t
economist.com/leaders/2026...

The coming global food crisis Hunger and even famine are foreseeable consequences of the war on Iran. Now the world must act to shield the poorest from effects that will continue long after the fighting stops

‘Famine and widening food insecurity are the foreseeable consequences of military aggression in the Gulf. That reality ought to weigh heavily on a world that has largely understood this war through the narrow lens of oil-price instability’
www.ft.com/content/3634...

The vic govt could partner w Maccas to get a couple of chargers in every highway restaurant.

I think the pope is perhaps the only world leader right now who has the profile, reach, legitimacy in the ‘west’, who can speak out w/o fear of consequences- economic retaliation, status of defence alliances or electoral pushback. I’m not religious at all but admire him for not holding back.

The first Twilight movie. Still stupid, but it at least had some style. The book was abysmal.

Hopefully future presidents won’t profit from the office because whoever comes next prosecutes the profiteers & slams that door shut. Hope I live to see it.

Roses are red,
Eels have slime.
Pontifex Maximus:
So weak on crime.

I tell the huntsmen they’re welcome to half the house - as long as it’s the top half. Will chase them back up to the ceiling if they come too far down the wall.

She offed someone to get that job, didn’t she? There’s a freshly planted garden bed in her back yard & everyone in her office is saying how odd it was that the previous incumbent decided to suddenly move to the other side of the country without saying goodbye.

Ha! That’s who I thought of as well.

He’s not ignorant - he wants people to die. I think it’s some twisted ‘survival of the fittest’ idea that all those people dying from preventable diseases will somehow make the surviving population stronger. He’s a monster.

A starfield filled with thousands of stars and shining clouds of dust. The Milky Way\u2019s elegant spiral structure is dominated by just two arms wrapping off the ends of a central bar of stars. Spanning more than 100,000 light-years, Earth is located along one of the galaxy\u2019s spiral arms, about halfway from the center. Credit: NASA

OH. MY. GOD.

THIS IS THE MILKY WAY SHOT BY THE ARTEMIS II CREW. LOOK AT ALL THOSE STARS!!!!

When did it happen that every child need their own bedroom AND their own bathroom AND a separate lounge room?

In the meantime, it looks like Netanyahu & Israel’s hard right got what they wanted out of this - occupation of territory in sth Lebanon (& West Bank).

California’s GDP milestone is real, but so are its contradictions. High output alongside visible inequality raises valid questions on housing, healthcare, and access. Economic scale alone doesn’t guarantee shared prosperity; policy choices determine who actually benefits.

Oooh - tough one. All early ones.
3pts: Temptation
2pts: Ceremony
1pt: Age of consent

Temptation is in 1st place ‘cause nostalgia, but I could put these 3 in any order.

It wants cake.

I Am Not a Number A memorial for the 60,199 Palestinian victims of the Israeli genocide in Gaza. Each dot is a name. Each name was a life.

An Egyptian programmer has created a page dedicated to each victim of the Palestinian genocide. So far, he has recorded 72,000 names. Each light point represents a victim and, by clicking on it, you will see their name and date of birth. You can filter by age.
bkhmsi.github.io/i-am-not-a-n...

Thank goodness she’s gone. I no longer have to struggle with trying to read Bondi as ‘Bondy’ instead of ‘Bond-eye’.

And he’s nuzzling it to know it with his face!

a retro-style illustration of prime minister anthony albanese sitting calmly on a chair while surrounded by flames. he smiles while delivering a speech bubble that reads “happy easter! please catch the bus.” beside him is a table with a mug that says “sit down, boofhead.” the scene references the “this is fine” meme, contrasting calm messaging with a chaotic, burning environment.

Everything is fine.

Drawing of character from Muriel’s Wedding shouting ‘I’m married. I’m beautiful’ https://www.redbubble.com/i/greeting-card/I-m-Married-I-m-Beautiful-Tania-Degano-Muriel-s-Wedding-1994-Film-by-PopShopDesignFR/159142923.5MT14

In Lebanon, they are committing double tap strikes to kill medics and rescue workers, just as they did in Gaza. Medics are forced to delay their responses.

These monsters are normalizing war crimes that were once unthinkable.

so now that they openly admit to providing false evidence of things, will the media finally stop treating them as a trustworthy source?

Just very big boobs