I refuse to succumb. Friends are starting to use it with the excuse everyone is doing. I will not even acknowledge their post.

It annoys me that AI slop, specifically, has ruined the niche of the quick photoshop joke.
Just an utter flood of garbage unleashed by removing the barrier of "spend a couple hours learning how a piece of software works".

I am beginning to think the US regime has turned to piracy ebay Caibean, Indian Ocean. Perhaps the tanned Mango watched an Errol Flynn movie recently.

Wish Doug was still in government. Grow a spine @albomp.bsky.social

📌MEDIA: Stop calling Jared Kushner a "high-level negotiator." He's a damn thief operating in his repulsive family's best interests not ours.

How will history regard the Albanese government? On turning a blind eye to war crimes in Iran, Gaza and Lebanon

#auspol

Carney says Canada's US ties have become a weakness As well ​as imposing tariffs on Canadian ​exports, Trump has repeatedly mused about annexing Canada.

'Australia's close ties to the United States were once a strength but have become a weakness' Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said.

Oh wait - that was Canada's PM Mark Carney.
For a moment there I was fantasizing that Australia had a real leader. #auspol
www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Happy 80th Tim

Cassini peered through Titan's thick atmosphere and captured its surface. The darker areas are vast hydrocarbon sand dunes and seas. Up north, some of Titan's lakes and seas are visible. Down below, a portion of Titan's hydrocarbon sand dunes can be seen. This view was taken by Cassini's camera system, the Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS) on June 08, 2014 and received on Earth June 10, 2014. The camera was pointing toward TITAN at approximately 981,809 miles (1,580,069 kilometers) away, and the images were taken using the continuum band filter. Credit: NASA / JPL / SSI / Val Klavans about.me/valerieklavans

Titan's Surface Unveiled - From Val Klavans (valklavans.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/nHBHWb

And that right there is the crux of the matter

Why does Trump complain Europeans aren't helping the US in an illegal war pushed by Israel when Trump refuses to aid Ukraine and Europe against an illegal Russian invasion and war?

Sekhmet Sunday

Even if it was just something small, this is very significant.

Definitely a good news story

Fantastic

Stop praising Orbán for not attempting a coup.

He only stepped down because Magyar's win was too massive to steal.

He rigged the constitution, captured the institutions, and used state media to his advantage.

He did everything he could to destroy democracy, and he failed

I believe we. I have thought so for some time

The impossible promise: are we witnessing the return of fascism? Some of today’s far right is openly violent and undemocratic – and even in its less extreme forms, far-right populism is a profound threat. But that doesn’t mean it is just a re-run of history

"The changes that far-right populism seeks to make are ones that threaten our freedom. And the longer we fail to properly challenge this movement, the greater the risk we run of something even more extreme following in its wake."

www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ap...

It’s so important to know your bollard history.
#WorldBollardAssociaton

#OtD 19 Apr 1943 the Warsaw ghetto uprising broke out in earnest when Jews fought back against Nazi attempts to deport them to the Treblinka extermination camp. Although defeated after 27 days it was the biggest armed Jewish rebellion of the Holocaust stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9062...

Every village in the US is missing an idiot.

Well said Dougie.

Solidarity to the protesters and everyone in Qld who isn’t bowing to authoritarianism ✊

The madness of AUKUS led to support for Trump’s doomed attack on Iran.
Appeasing a madman is not diplomacy it is cowardly capitulation.
Diplomatically distancing the govt from Trump is too little too late. We are paying a huge price for this grave miscalculation

Scratch Lobster. Another toy bites the dust.

Carson - Moonshine (live) YouTube video by Laneway Music

Any Aossie's on here remember Carson? Great blues rock outfit. I never saw them live but had their albums Blown and Live at Sunbury. Sadly Broderick Smith passed a couple of years back
youtu.be/92IcEbih0u8?...

Memorial to the ~3000 German International Brigaders who fought against Franco in Spain.
El Fossar de la Pedera, the mass grave of the victims of the Franco regime in Barcelona.

Photo of a young girl on a solid background. She can be seen from the waist up. The girl is wearing a dress with buff short sleeves. Her hair is neatly styled - the curls fall to the right side of her head and almost reach her shoulders. She is smiling tightly, exposing her upper teeth.

18 April 1932 | A Czech Jewish girl, Doris Kindlerová, was born in Prague.

In #Theresienstadt Ghetto from 17 December 1942.
Deported to #Auschwitz on 18 May 1944. Registered in the Theresienstadt family camp in Birkenau. She did not survive.

I Completely Support This Petition….

Big takeaway. I court system with a clear demarcation from the Legislative and Executive Branches.

We may not always agree with the decisions, but we should all be glad it works so well.