The DILETTANTE
@demwar.bsky.social
Once described in HuffPost as “one of the brightest minds on the planet”… (true) but I’m pretty sure that journo was high. (also true). Democracy | Speaker | Poet | Author | Archer | Dilettante Polymath 📍Bunurong, Turrbal and Yuggera Country.
Hey, remember when trump utilized our military to illegally invade a sovereign country, without cause, kidnap their leader and disappear his ass, took over the country's oil, and the whole-ass Congress let out a collective "meh"??? I do. It's still happening. No one's doing shit.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 18h agoTrump on Venezuela: "We're taking out hundreds of billions of dollars"
Extreme right having their genocide profits terrorised. abc.net.au/news/2026-08-05/terrorism-police-investigate-arson-at-melbourne-defence-company/106997004
Police investigate arson on Victorian defence company as 'far-left terror'
It is the first time Australian authorities have investigated what they consider to be a potential far-left terror attack, motivated by anarchist and revolutionary ideology.
abc.net.au
Wealthy fascists & wannabes hate critical thought. It makes the lower classes all uppity.
Yep. The news ALL reporting a left wing group behind stopping innocent people being killed, as a terrorist organisation.
Australia has reached the “lets label anti fascist and anti genocide activism as terrorism” in case you are wondering how fucked we are.
You would have to go a long way to find someone more obnoxious than Jess Wilson
There’s people out there that if we suddenly had a liveable UBI, free housing healthcare, and education, they would be lost for a while not knowing their worth without capitalism. They’d have free time and would have to figure out their interests for themselves. Therapists would have so much fun.
A civilian medical plane went down after an experimental US military GPS jamming test reportedly disrupted its radar. Every person aboard lost their life. www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...
‘…also probed Ms. Doe’s childhood, asking if she had felt abandoned by her father or degraded by her mother. She pushed Ms. Doe for details about consensual sex & asked whether she had previously been sexually abused or had sex in exchange for money. That is when her lawyer ended the deposition.’
Gift Article + Very Important Read My last Uber ride was now my last ever Uber ride. Reading this article, sitting in one of these vehicles will feel like enabling rape & abusing survivor. I feel sick… #uspolitics #auspol #feministsky #uber #capitalism
Uber’s Strategy for Fighting Sexual Assault Suits: ‘What Were You Wearing?’ (Gift Article)
The ride-hailing giant promised to handle legal claims “in a way that is best for the survivor.” Its lawyers are pursuing a far more aggressive strategy.
nytimes.com
Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.
RFKJr claims Lyme disease was created by scientists,which is the closest he’s come to admitting that science exists. Meanwhile, Ötzi the Iceman, who died more than 5.3K years ago, had Lyme disease. Apparently prehistoric humans are part of the conspiracy. Get me off this timeline
Actually disgusting that nurses were treated like utter shit, overworked and dying during the pandemic and now RFK is on TV telling everyone that didn't happen. I can't even imagine a more thankless, hostile job right now.
Brown University has a widget that tracks the cost of the Iran war to American consumers (as contrasted to whatever the Pentagon is spending). Per-household cost now exceeds $600. iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu
I can just see Coles and Woolies doing that in Australia right after upping the prices of all products by 15% while blaming 'supply chain/fuel cost' issues.
Dude: generalizes women Also dude: don't generalize an entire gender!!!!
This century-old tradition dates back to the 1850s when a bishop's daughter first trained the birds to pull a hanging rope for lunch. IG: @maddy.lee.98 Bishop's Palace in Wells, Somerset, England
Funny how they will cave to things PHON wants but will ignore the massed voices of the populace on things like AUKUS Israeli genocide Gas tax
The DILETTANTE@demwar.bsky.social · yesterdayToday the ALP will finalise its transformation into a fully fledged Conservative Party by being bullied by One Nation into reducing migration numbers.
Three months of workshops comes to a close. Fuck I’m tired. Now for the analytics…
I'd just like to see a serious discussion about our holding capacity based on fresh water supply. I know the approx numbers, but I'd like to see an honest reaction to an official version. We have a serious sustainability problem, hidden in a political shitstorm of racism, slavery, and RW fuckery.
BREAKING: Jetstar soon launch ‘Bring your own pilot’ program. The airlines are shameless
Microsoft: $101 BILLION in profits. $12.5 BILLION in tax breaks. $176 BILLION in stock buybacks. 4,800 workers fired this week. 9,000 workers fired last year. Please don't tell me trickle-down economics works. It never did. Nothing trickles down.
