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[The Meow Cats @TheMeowCats]

An upstairs baby fell, but the cat that happened to be below caught it with its insane animal-like reflexes, dispersing and reducing the impact energy.

The baby wasn't seriously hurt.
That cat must be an angel!

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

This is a statue of the only man in Troy who saw the trap. He tried to warn everyone, and this is what the gods did to him because of it...

His name was Laocoön, a Trojan priest. When the Greek army vanished and left a giant wooden horse outside the city gates, all of Troy celebrated. Only Laocoön refused to believe it. He warned his people the horse was a trick and, to prove it was hollow, hurled his spear into its side.

In Virgil's telling, he spoke a line that has outlasted almost everything else about Troy: "I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts."

He was right. The horse was packed with soldiers, and Troy was hours from destruction.

This sculpture shows what he got for it. Two enormous sea serpents rise out of the sea and coil around him and his young sons, dragging all three down together. The father's whole body is knotted in the struggle, every muscle straining, his face locked in a scream. The gods wanted Troy to fall, and Laocoön was in the way.

The Trojans watched him die in agony and drew exactly the wrong conclusion: they decided the gods were punishing him for attacking a holy gift. So they pulled the horse inside their own walls, and that night, Troy burned...

The statue is called Laocoön and His Sons. It is the work of three Greek sculptors from the island of Rhodes, Agesander, Athenodoros, and Polydorus, and dates to the Hellenistic period, making it well over two thousand years old.

Buried for more than a thousand years, it was dug out of a Roman vineyard in 1506, and Michelangelo rushed across Rome to see it the day it was found.

It has been called the single greatest depiction of human suffering in the history of art, but it endures because of what it is really about: the man who sees the truth, says it out loud, and is destroyed for being right while the crowd watches...

It is one of the oldest patterns there is, and it has never stopped repeating.

There is nothing new under the sun.

[the Juice Media @thejuicemedia]

The Government™ has made an ad about #Palantir, and it's surprsingly honest and informative.

[Australia Institute @TheAusInstitute]

At the end of June, the halving of the fuel excise ends. It costs the government $212 million a week.

You know what raises $350 million a week in revenue? A 25% tax on gas exports!

Join the call for national plebiscite: https://t.co/WpUqbp10vI

[Peter Cronau @PeterCronau]

One Nation’s billionaire financier, Gina Reinhardt, wants more, many more, Israeli immigrants to come to Australia.

Her unhinged plan is for an Israeli enclave to settle on the “prairies” of Townsville for the manufacture of drones and weapons.

In a normal world, this should sink One Nation.

[cika @jzlanan]

learning rope knots

[Craig Kelly:🇦🇺Foundation for Economic Education @craigkellyAFEE]

Albanese is lying again.

"Free healthcare" ?

Try getting to see a specialist for free.

[Ben Norton @BenjaminNorton]

The world's richest centi-billionaire oligarch used his power to change the rules, so he could dump his garbage company (which is cartoonishly overvalued, unprofitable, and incinerating cash) on retail investors, using trillions of dollars in retirement funds as exit liquidity, all in order to become the first trillionaire.

This is the perfect metaphor for the US economy as a whole, which is entirely based on bubbles and scams.

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

“In a free society, people can believe whatever they want. If you want to believe men can be women or you’re a man who wants to call himself a woman, that is your business. What you cannot do in a free society is force anyone else to accept it. What is at stake here is the ability to lawfully acknowledge reality.

If you care so much about “trans rights” you can work out a way to get them without destroying the category of women in law, female spaces, sport, services, the entire reality of lesbianism, and punishing citizens for acknowledging reality. The fact that you haven’t even tried makes it appear that destroying the rights of women is the goal.

Any politician who will look an Australian citizen in the eye and tell them that a man can be a woman is admitting that they will lie about anything and everything because the most obvious lie has already been told.

If no one in this room can acknowledge reality and fix an obvious problem you are either malicious or incompetent. The days of dismissing this issue are over. This is not a culture war. It’s reality.”

- my words, read by Alison Penfold MP, in parliament today.

Contact politicians are tell them to BACK THE BILL - “Sex Discrimination Amendment- sex based rights bill 2026”

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

Absolute bombshell. Prominent economist Richard Werner confirms the 1997 Asian financial crisis was completely engineered.

He reveals the IMF deliberately bankrupted Thailand to force them into selling off their national industries to foreign elites for pennies!

[موسكو | 🇷🇺 MOSCOW NEWS @M0SC0W0]

تكنولوجيا الصين سوف تسحق العالم الذي نعرفة بشكل كامل وتفتح عالم جديد بأساليب جديدة كلياً

مشهد لجهاز لحام حديدي جديد يعمل بطريقة ذكية والنتيجة اكثر من مذهله .

[M 🍹d n i g h tD r i v e🚦 @ch1llwinter]

@XueJia24682 Not only charging, it also protect the seat from heat 👍 Brilliant idea 💡

[David Pocock @DavidPocock]

Shell, whose Australian CEO couldn't tell me what their revenue was or how much 🇦🇺 gas they export during a senate inquiry, make huge $ by exporting gas through Singapore.

Of course gas companies + countries like Singapore don't want us to get a fair return for our gas - they're making a killing out of it. But why do the major parties want this to continue?

It's time to get a fair return for our gas exports.

https://t.co/Tp80QGEiec

Go to https://t.co/Q2DISHjCHC and write to your MP to call on them to support a 25% tax on gas exports.

[Peter Cronau @PeterCronau]

The ‘Big American’, BHP, is now 72% majority owned by American corporate shareholders.

So the illegitimate profits they take — by massively underpaying its Australian mine workers — flow right out the door into foreign pockets.

[Australia Institute @TheAusInstitute]

New Australia Institute polling shows 59% of Australian voters believe Trump is a greater threat to global security than Putin or Xi.

A year ago, it was just 31%.

"Most Australians are ready to break up with Donald Trump's version of America."
@EmmaShortis #auspol

[Robert Barwick @RobbieBarwick]

Today Australia cancelled its Inland Rail project, saying it was "too expensive".

Yet we're spending $368 billion on AUKUS submarines because the US convinced us that China - which has paid us trillions $ for our iron ore to turn into steel to build these railways - is a threat.

[Dr Monique Ryan MP @Mon4Kooyong]

The Japan PM is in town to twist the government's arm just as the campaign to fairly tax our gas exports gains real momentum. Coincidence? I don't think so. There’s plenty of hot air in the debate about gas exports, particularly where Japan is concerned. Let’s set the record straight.

[RT @RT_com]

Rainbow blaze in Indonesia's sky

A rare 'iridescence' cloud painted the heavens with vibrant colors, leaving locals stunned

[ᴀʀᴛ ᴏꜰ ᴘʜʏꜱɪQᴜᴇ @Artofphysique_]

The most relaxing movement before sleep to wring out your spine like a towel for instant relief 🧘‍♂️ 😮‍💨

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[Robert Cettl @RobertCettl]

"The only country in our own region that is not a partner of BRICS is Australia. And I think that is significant because it is the extent to which Australia is deliberately isolating itself from the countries of its own region..." (John Lander, former AU Deputy Ambassador to China 1974-1978 l former 1st AU Ambassador to Islamic Republic of Iran 1985-1988)

- quoted from the forthcoming @OpalSkyMedia volume Willful Blindness: Inside Australian Diplomacy - John Lander: Oral History / Commentary https://t.co/3VETsXPxWv