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idle vapourings of a mind diseased

[Scott @scottxbee]

Purple tin for Australia, the guy knows ball

[Gus @ballstothis]

A beer from all 48 countries playing at the 2026 World Cup in Canada, Mexico and the USA. Here we go!

[Shane @McClellandShane]

“There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.”

[senator penny wrong @tomorrowsashes]

now more than ever

["Da Capo di Capi" of the Circle K @bobo_circus]

the roko's basilisk guys are so funny bc they correctly intuit that our lives will be controlled by a psychotic, amoral algorithm that hates humanity but they think some nerd in SF is going to build it on his macbook. it was already built, in 1602, by the Dutch

[Tehran Tadhg @TadhgHickey]

Before the false flag, ask yourself: why would Iran do this? They've the majority of the US & global public on their side, this USraeli war of aggression is deeply unpopular. Why would they turn people against their completely justified resistance against an illegal war by carrying out a terrorist attack?

[Will 🦥 Menaker @willmenaker]

There is no "Claude" there is only the will of the people who own and operate it. All AI just exists to outsource the preferences, decisions and choices of a small group of people to a vaguely defined "tool" that can sold as some kind of perfectly objective third party.

[bro @scrungeonmaster]

can’t even knock on wood these days. that’s why it’s all going bad. “knock on laminated particle board”. go fuck yourself. that’s insane

[Scott @scottxbee]

@verynormalman The only question is whether they blow it worse than UK Labour.

[kim jong deux… @fabiodeuxbeer]

> left wing party in shaky first term
> poll poorly six months before election
> keep iffy leader
> surprise everyone, win election with huge mandate
> don't do anything to change structural issues
> get smashed by resurgent Right at next election
> be Albanese
> pic unrelated

[verynormalman @verynormalman]

I love how the settled bipartisan position on housing now is “housing should be more affordable but prices should also continue to rise”

[Tas Gunner @GunnerTas]

- looking for new housing policy
- ask politician if their policy is good or just subsidising demand
- they don't understand
- pull out illustrated diagram of housing economics
- they laugh and say "it's good policy, sir"
- look inside
- it's subsidising demand

[LBark @franzsherbert]

In record time, "tariffs," for right wingers, has already ceased to refer to any real-world economic policy and become yet another locus of free-floating psychosexual resentment

[November @postoctobrist]

having fun imagining how any theoretical future Democratic president might try rebuilding any of the hegemony Trump’s throwing onto the bonfire

[High Yield Harry @HighyieldHarry]

20% ON THE EU, 34% ON CHINA, 46% ON VIETNAM, 24% ON JAPAN, 49% ON CAMBODIA, 25% ON SOUTH KOREA, 36% ON THAILAND, 47% ON MADAGASCAR, 38% ON GUYANA

[Bharat Sundaresan @beastieboy07]

Wondered how much this #SheffieldShield victory means to South Australia?

[will kelly @_wkelly_]

Universal tax cuts are lowkey goated when eroding public confidence in the tax and transfer system to lay the groundwork for austerity is the vibe

[BuccoCapital Bloke @buccocapital]

Why stop here? Hear me out. A single BNPL contract for a burrito is incredibly risky. Anyone willing to pay for a burrito in installments can't be trusted to pay their debt. But what if...we pooled the payments together? The risk would go away.