Wilma

Curious and hopeful 🤝

[Murray Rothbard @MurraySuggests]

The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, has apparently closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States, for the seventh time, won the war that wasn’t a war, so now the United States has to open the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the not-war began.

The not-war began because Iran had uranium that was totally, completely, beautifully obliterated, so they can’t build the nuclear bomb they weren’t building, which is why the United States had to start the not-war it definitely didn’t start.

Now the United States, which has nuclear weapons, is threatening to use nuclear weapons to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, because nuclear weapons are far too dangerous for countries with nuclear weapons to allow other countries to have.

If the United States saw the United States doing what the United States does in other countries, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

“I want to kill someone today & it might be you"

"They wrenched my trousers & underwear down & I was raped by one of the soldiers"

"Other people had guns inserted inside them"

"My daughter was syringed with an unknown substance"

Juliet Lamont's Gaza Flotilla testimony:

[💧 Johny Miller ([email protected]) @jmil400]

#TonyAbbott currently receives a $500,000 salary for sitting on the board of US-based FOX NEWS which pushed Trump into office. Abbott is also an adviser for the right-wing advocacy group, ADVANCE. This group is bankrolled by GINA RINEHART.
Join the dots…..🤔
#auspol

[MFWitches @MFWitches]

How the fuck do we live in a country where David Pocock and David Shoebridge are now almost single-handedly doing the crucial humanitarian and anti-corruption work Australia needs because @AlboMP and his merry band of genocidal toe-rags point-blank refuse to?

#NewsCorpse

[cmdibley @cmdibley]

For those of you who say voting Independent & Greens is a wasted vote, spend some time watching these guys in Senate Estimates saving our democracy & holding Ministers & public servants to account. Two of our hardest working, most effective Senators ever.

[BK @26MoreLives]

Compare the pair.

One of these guys is in prison, for revealing the truth of war crimes.

The other is about to retire on a BIG FAT pension, because he protected his mates from accountability for the biggest failure of the public sector in Australia’s history.

No justice.

[stranger @strangerous10]

David Pocock left gobsmacked after asking why a contract - no tender - no minister sign off - has gone to a co founded by Scott Morrison’s fmr priv sec Yaron Finkelstein
Home Affairs Sec Stephanie Foster has the answer, a decision by the unelected Antisemitism envoy. FFS #auspol

[Ronni🧂Salt-WhoWroteGunnawahYeahThatOne @RonniSalt]

@jommy_tee @strangerous10 Wow. I'm so glad Yaron Finkelstein is the only person in Australia that knows how to perform 'strategic communication' services

I mean, it's such a highly specialised area 🙄

It's almost on par with the anaesthetist cave-diving doctor

[John Delmenico @thebigjohnnyd]

The NACC Commissioner accidentally emailing his resignation to the wrong person is inspiring. Even as he ended his run, his dedication to being completely incompetent held strong.

[Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman]

German Woman:

"You keep claiming that Iran will build an atomic bomb within two weeks, so why do you never mention Israel’s possession of 200 nuclear warheads?"

[Phillip Adams @PhillipAdams_1]

Another unforgettable guest on the little wireless program. I can still see this brilliant, beautiful and inspiring woman sitting opposite me in the studio.

[💧Michael West @MichaelWestBiz]

Dear @SenatorWong, citizen sexually assaulted in abduction and torture of flotilla activists. What is Australia's position?
#auspol

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

And just like that, it’s completely VANISHED from the media.

A sitting congressman, Ted Lieu, said on the record the Epstein files are being blocked because they show Trump raped and threatened to kill children.

Lets make this viral again 👇

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

🚨NEW: Kerry Kennedy has announced Late Show Host Stephen Colbert is the recipient of the 2025 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award for his advocacy for free speech and speaking truth to power.

RETWEET to congratulate Colbert on this honor!

[David Shoebridge @DavidShoebridge]

The day before he was due to appear at Senate Estimates for the first time ever following a successful Greens motion in the Senate. TIMING.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Erin Brockovich has launched a website and has begun tracking all data centers in America and logging resident complaints

In just 1 week it’s already logged 1,690 resident complaints

For this who don’t remember

Erin Brockovich was the paralegal responsible for winning out a case against PG&E, Hinckley in California, because their wastewater runoff was seeping into rural areas and creating a lot of health issues for, for the surrounding neighborhoods

That case brought in a $333 million settlement that went to the families affected by the situation because a lot of them either had staggering medical bills due to their tap water was no longer safe

So why is this important, well residents all over America are reporting their tap water and river water is being heavily polluted by data centers

Her map of data centers is new, she just launched it

The website features an interactive US map showing operational, under-construction, and proposed AI data centers, overlaid with community-reported complaints

Residents can submit reports with details, photos, and locations. Within days of launch, it received a surge of submissions over 1,600 in the first week, and reports of 1,800+ from 47 states shortly after

Common Resident Complaints Being Logged

- Water usage
- Raising utility bills for residents
- Noise pollution: Constant 24/7 humming from fans, generators, and cooling systems disrupting sleep, daily life, and wildlife.
- E-waste from frequent hardware upgrades, pollution including PFAS concerns

[Ronni🧂Salt-WhoWroteGunnawahYeahThatOne @RonniSalt]

If you're wondering how the recently resigned #NACC Commissioner, Paul Brereton, spent his time in his $800,000 p.a job, at least some of it was dedicated to writing to the Inspector General about some individual called, Ronni Salt's, twitter activities.

After the first #robodebt decision failure, we encouraged people to exercise their democratic right to complain about that decision to the Inspector General of the NACC.

Commissioner Brereton tried to head these many hundreds of incoming complaints off at the pass, by writing to the Inspector General and attempting to categorise this factual information dissemination as "spam" (one assumes in an attempt to weaken the validity of incoming complaints)

(foi credit and thanks: Kangaroo Court)

[David Pocock @DavidPocock]

I don't think it's fair for the government to change the tax rules for Australians and Australian small businesses but rule out changing the tax settings for major multinational companies from data centres to the gas industry.

Australians deserve a fair return.

Go to https://t.co/dcjuwV1Hkk and join the call for a 25% tax on gas exports.

[stranger @strangerous10]

🔥 Israeli Ambassador Hillel Newman in desperate damage control defending the indefensible says despite Ben Gvir’s horrific tormenting of detainees inc Aussies, he’ll face zero consequences & a verbal condemnation is punishment enough.😳
This man is a disgrace & must be expelled

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper.

Her name is Audrey van der Meer.

She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth.

The experiment was simple. She recruited 36 university students and put each one in a cap with 256 sensors pressed against their scalp to record brain activity. Words flashed on a screen one at a time.

Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen.

Then her team looked at the part of the data most researchers had ignored for years, which is how different parts of the brain were communicating with each other during the task.

When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once.

The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected.

When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely.

Most of the brain went quiet, and the connections between regions that had been alive seconds earlier were nowhere to be found on the EEG.

Same word, same brain, same person, and two completely different neurological events.

The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem.

Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next.

Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve.

Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews.

Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad.

Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page.

A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched.

The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall.

The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down.

The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page.

That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it.

Two studies. Two countries. Same answer.

Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast.

Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth.

You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick.

The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew.

Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.