zulumuster

Archaeology, Politics, CT, Security. Zulumuster: a Light Horse term still used today ie. holding the horses for rest of the troop while they go into action.

[SCARECROW @drChrisSyn]

I'm old enough to remember the English eccentric/astronomer, Sir Patrick Moore, who I'd always assumed to be homosexual.

Touring his autobiography, not long before he died, he'd revealed (as he was getting lifetime injuries, flying for the RAF) he had lost his sweetheart in the Blitz.

The idea of love expired in his mind, with her own death — under the bombs of the Luftwaffe — and that of the future together, which they had planned.

It was not that, as so many like me had assumed, he was a "confirmed" bachelor. Moore had chosen the path of embracing an aching loss in his heart instead.

No one compared, or ever could compare with the love that World War 2 had killed, and robbed from him. Which his subsequent life never wanted to besmirch with the tawdry, or dishonour.

This meant he had likely been celibate for seven decades up to his death.

The wheelchair seen here, even as Moore eventually fronted the longest continual programme on British television, in "The Sky at Night," I think it was called: being not unrelated to the irrepressible, workaholic, and energetic nature for which Sir Patrick became famous.

As basically the last publicly-noted monocle wearer in Britain, shrapnel, caught near the spine, while he flew Spitfires, would for the rest of his days creep closer to his spinal cord gradually paralysing him, the doctors had said.

Discovering the fact of this gentleman's dead love — which I almost felt to be an horrific intrusion, to learn of; as Moore plainly sought with this brief chapter, to settle a lifetime's worth of speculation on — was the day that I stopped judging, any public figure on their chastity.

Because, what idea could anyone else truly have as to why.

[Matthew Camenzuli @Matt_Camenzuli]

Remember when @JNampijinpa said the exact same thing...

That Albanese is importing voters from India...

And Alex Hawke and his band of merry morons belted her?

Well now the ABC is gushing about it

Whilst ever Hawke is in the Liberal Party it is not a serious threat.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Again: Fred was free to wear whatever he wanted to that filmed debate. Curiously, I've never yet seen any middle-aged women participating in debates on gender donning fishnets and leather miniskirts to do it, or boasting onstage about how fuckable they are, but I'm sure you'd draw a discreet veil over such behaviour if they did.

Many, many trans-identified men delight in wearing their paraphilia in public. Fred Wallace is one of them.

[Dave Hughes @DHughesy]

Mate I’m hearing so many stories of corruption in Govt it’s blowing my fucken mind.

[John Macgowan @john_macgowan]

12 months ago they were saying this wasn't true and anyone who thought otherwise was racist...

[Nick Wallis @nickwallis]

I am sure that Olivia Coleman, Deborah Frances White, Anish Kapoor and Kaiser Chiefs, as @AmnestyUK ambassadors, fully support Amnesty’s desire to close down a rape crisis centre and smear its staff as bigots.

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

Meanwhile at a local oil refinery in Russia’s Syzran:

[Rational Aussie @rationalaussie]

Australian salaries are all equally useless now.

Whether you make $120k or $180k is effectively immaterial.

Unless you have rich parents you're on your own (aka fucked).

Meanwhile you've got employers on LinkedIn trying to convince people to switch jobs for an inflation adjusted negative 10k.

They're paying 2016 wages for executive level, complex jobs. Whole thing is a joke.

No one good is gonna try hard in this country. They've corrupted the entire system of effort for commensurate reward.

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

Sorry, but anyone who seriously believes that a sanctioned Russian oligarch from the Kremlin’s inner circle, and one of the biggest beneficiaries of Russia’s war against Ukraine, decided on his own, without the Kremlin’s approval, to publish an article in a Western outlet because he’s some courageous free thinker who genuinely just wants “change” and “respect” for Russia simply does not understand Russia.

The desire to find a hero who will “come and fix everything” is extraordinarily naïve.

[that stock chick @ausstockchick]

I don't get why anyone would want to throw in more money to their super...

The government will just take it in the end.

People keep saying super is an effective way to store money now.

I am not going to sit around and wait for the next rug pull.

#ausbiz

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

Lindsey Graham has suddenly died???

He was literally in Kyiv the other day and seemed looking quite okay… “On the evening of Saturday, July 11, U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham passed away from a brief and sudden illness.”

[Nick Wallis @nickwallis]

I understand @JournalismSEEN has been denounced by @AmnestyUK as “anti-rights”. This is going to end very badly. I seriously hope some of my former editors will start asking Amnesty how they went from being a respected human rights charity to denunciations so quickly.

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

@NickKristof @dan_azzi They get raped by dogs, apparently.

Oh, wait, no they don’t, you absolute fucking idiot.

Nothing you say on Israel/Palestine has any value.

[Dave Hughes @DHughesy]

Hey Scott, haven’t communicated with you since our Project days. So you’re cool with constant, blatant lying to the electorate, pre the vote, to ensure a Govt reelected? Even if it destroys incentive to innovate and pushes many straight over the edge into bankruptcy?

[Dave Hughes @DHughesy]

Couldn’t care less about Albo on the podcast, but it’s his years and years of smearing opponents as misogynistic that has led to this reaction. Labor win elections through so many blatant lies. I’ve just woken up to this. They had sucked me in forever.

[Sky News Australia @SkyNewsAust]

The way in which the Prime Minister has chosen to duck proper accountability over his ‘shag, marry, date’ howler says a lot about his paper-thin principles, writes Louise Roberts.
https://t.co/BOeanjfBij

[Visioner @visionergeo]

‼️‼️‼️🇪🇪 BIG | Estonia is moving forward with a high-stakes infrastructure project in Narva, directly on the border with Russia.

Following the approval of a land swap deal by the Narva City Council, the Estonian Defense Forces (EDF) have officially begun preparations to establish a permanent military presence in the city, which is predominantly Russian-speaking and separated from Russia by the Narva River.

This base is more than a tactical asset; it is a profound symbolic shift in Estonian defense doctrine. For decades, the EDF has had a limited visible presence in Narva. By placing soldiers directly on the border, the Estonian government—led by Defense Minister Hanno Pevkur—aims to demonstrate that Estonia is prepared to defend its territory "from the very first meter."

[Arsen Ostrovsky @Ostrov_A]

OTD in 1995, over 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were slaughtered over 5 days in Srebrenica, in the worst mass killing on European soil since the Holocaust.

You want to see real genocide? Then look at Srebrenica, not what some political activists claim is happening in Gaza.

As @SpencerGuard and I have written previously, the analogy to Gaza is not just inaccurate, it is a gross distortion of truth and perversion of justice. Words matter. So does the law. Genocide is not a political football. It is the gravest of crimes, and when maliciously weaponized against Israel, it demeans the memory of the victims of real genocides - like in Srebrenica - and endangers the integrity of international law itself.

[zulumuster @ZuluMuster]

Refs doing all they can to keep the "handball" team from south america in the world cup. Feel sorry for the Swiss