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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 21h

War creates two categories of persons: those who
outlive it and those who don’t.

Both carry wounds.

-Anne Carson
#everynightapoem

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HISTORY OF WAR: LESSON 2
War creates two categories of persons: those who outlive it and those who don't.
Both carry wounds.

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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 4d

"None — repeat none — of America’s fentanyl has been found to originate from Venezuela. Yet Trump and Pete Hegseth, his compulsively strutting “secretary of war”, insist that the country is fuelling America’s opioid epidemic." Me on Trump's wag the dog script. www.ft.com/content/5b3e...

Venezuela is Trump’s useful enemy

Despite the president’s claims, the South American country is nowhere close to being the US’s biggest drug supplier

www.ft.com

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 2d

It's good that the govt is rolling out a robotax scheme to get old debts from individuals, that should fix things....

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Tables showing from 2013-14 to 2023-24 Santos Ltd had $46.7bn in revenue and paid $0 tax

Year Total income ($m) Taxable income ($m) Tax payable ($m)
2014-15 $3,389.4 $0.0 $0.0
2015-16 $3,476.0 $0.0 $0.0
2016-17 $3,715.3 $0.0 $0.0
2017-18 $3,498.0 $0.0 $0.0
2018-19 $4,360.6 $8.3 $0.0
2019-20 $5,013.9 $29.0 $0.0
2020-21 $4,070.3 $68.8 $0.0
2021-22 $4,746.0 $74.1 $0.0
2022-23 $6,257.4 $19.8 $0.0
2023-24 $8,210.3 $21.2 $0.0
Total $46,737.3 $221.2 $0.0

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Places Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social · 1d

In "The City and the City and the City," urban researcher Ayham Dalal writes about a mapping workshop he helped organize with refugees of Homs, Syria, to collectively reimagine a city destroyed by war.

Below is a thread about the essay, featuring a comic that illustrates the work they did together.

Places Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social · 2d

Sixteen refugees attended a collaborative mapping workshop in Berlin. Their goal: reconstitute the city of Homs, Syria, through overlapping memories of a place they once called home.

As music by Lebanese singer Fairuz played in the background, memories poured forth of a city leveled by war. (1/5)

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Linton Besser @lintonbesser.bsky.social · 2d

Fascinating piece on the rise of Christian fundamentalism in Trump’s America: www.spiegel.de/internationa...

Trump's Crusaders: Christian Nationalists Are Gaining a Solid Foothold in Washington

U.S. President Donald Trump has opened the doors of power to far-right Christian nationalists. Their goal: an American theocracy. The separation of church and state in America is at risk.

www.spiegel.de

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Peter Hill @peterkhill.bsky.social · 1d

Fascinating read, thank you, but also quite terrifying, a ‘bizarre carnival of credulity’.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 5d

Australia's grid operator has a clear line of sight to 100% renewables. There's nothing unknown or exotic required.

It'll be fun when the first large/major economies start hitting the goal. Too bad the US is likely to be at the rear of the pack.

As coal fades, Australia looks to realize dream of 100% renewable…

The country’s grid operator says shifting from coal to clean power is not only possible but inevitable. The work there could provide a road map for other…

www.canarymedia.com

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Nicolas Tenzer @nicolastenzer.bsky.social · 4d

Nineteen years ago, on October 7, 2006, Anna Politkovskaya was assassinated by Putin's hitmen.
She was the first to tell the truth about Russia's mass crimes in Chechnya, which foreshadowed those in Syria, Ukraine, Africa and elsewhere. They could have been prevented.
Almost no one listened to her.

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Mark Galeotti @markgaleotti.bsky.social · 4d

7 October – Putin’s 73rd birthday. I won’t wish him many happy returns, but let’s just spend a moment pondering the dilemmas that will likely face him in the coming year 1/

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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 5d

Literary Chinese for bust-ass dynasties:

鋪眉苫眼早三公
Cozen. Flatter. Ingratiate --
The Three High Offices of state.

(from 譏時 'The Times We Live In' by Zhang Mingshan 張鳴善, fl. 14th c.)

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The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 5d

“We should celebrate when the Bill becomes an Act,” writes Marcia Langton. “It will transform the bitterness of more than 200 years of history into a new and exciting era of becoming more than a postcolonial province with a ‘regrettable’ history.” satpa.pe/3a2C6Hi

How Victoria’s Treaty could change Australia

satpa.pe

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Melissa Sweet @melissasweetdr.bsky.social · 5d

A recommended #LongRead by Dr Louis Peachey: On cultural protocols, longevity, the inevitability of death, and the critical importance of conversations

www.croakey.org/on-cultural-...

On cultural protocols, longevity, the inevitability of death, and the critical importance of conversations

Senior Indigenous medico Dr Louis Peachey was a keynote speaker at the ninth Advance Care Planning International Conference, held recently

www.croakey.org

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Lottie @sellottie.bsky.social · 5d

It’s happened again

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Cole Wehrle @colewehrle.bsky.social · 5d

Alright, let's do it. Here's a little prospective reader's guide to every Thomas Pynchon novel. We'll take them in order of publication. This might be a long thread. Buckle up! 1/x

Image from the Simpsons of Pynchon with a bag over his head on a cell phone. He's standing in front of a house with a neon sign advertising it as his home.

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Well May We Say @wellmaywesay.bsky.social · 12d

Never let it be said that refugees and immigrants are a drain on the public purse. Rather, it is the people who hate them who set fire to public money. $790m. To torment 100 people. $7.9m to torment each one. It's absurd and obscene and everyone behind this decision should resign in disgrace.

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 13d

US private prisons operator to be paid $790m to hold 100 people on Nauru in quiet expansion of contract

A sixteenfold increase in the original contract without public notification raises allegations of ‘gross mismanagement’ and a process ‘run out of control’ * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast A US private prisons operator will receive $157m a year to run Australia’s offshore processing regime in Nauru – currently holding just over 100 people – after the government quietly expanded its contract by more than $350m to three-quarters-of-a-billion dollars. The two-year extension without prior public notification, or scrutiny of the contract, has raised allegations of “gross mismanagement” and a process “run out of control” from parliamentarians and government integrity experts. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 5d

Theory of Memory by Louise Glück
www.divasofverse.com/2025/10/theo...

Theory of Memory by Louise Glück

Theory of Memory Long, long ago, before I was a tormented artist, afflicted with longing yet incapable of forming durable attachments, lon...

www.divasofverse.com

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 6d

It's increasingly clear that the president lives in a constructed bubble of unreality designed by aides who are manipulating him in order to take control of US policy. Seems like an important story - wish media would cover it.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 7d

🔴NEW🔴

Thread 🧵

@bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12

‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem

Far from being distant from the Reform UK Leader, insiders told Byline Times that the former MEP convicted of bribery was one of Farage’s closest aides, while we reveal how Gill worked on the Kremlin’...

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Municipal Dreams @municipaldreams.bsky.social · 6d

'60,000 so far. 80,000 are planned' A poster celebrating the enormous house building programme of Red Vienna in the 1920s.

Poster with slogan (in German) of text and images of new homes

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Dr Delyth Badder @folklorewales.com · 6d

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 7d

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 7d

$200k to hang out with dogs. amazing

IG gabriel.desanti, barkandburn

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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 7d

If Hastie becomes leader you could have some fun as a journalist.

"Mr Hastie - what's your advice to people with SMSFs regarding The Rapture. Would the policy under a government you lead be focused on enabling short term or long term gains in this regard?"

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kimdorman.bsky.social @kimdorman.bsky.social · 7d

ANTIFA artists:
Pablo Picasso
Charlie Chaplin
Berthold Brecht
John Heartfield
George Orwell
Käthe Kollwitz
Erwin Blumenfeld
Stuart Davis
Otto Dix
George Grosz
Thomas Mann
Woody Guthrie
Albert Camus
Ernest Hemingway
Arthur Koestler
Virginia Woolf
Sinclair Lewis

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Peter Hill @peterkhill.bsky.social · 7d

It looks wonderful, and it will be a lot of fun, but it is disappointing that the Tank won’t be available for any other work for an entire year. The AGNSW budget problems are real.

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