WSJ - Iran is rebuilding its infrastructure and restoring access to missile bases much more quickly than expected amid its secret plan to escalate the war. www.wsj.com/world/middle-east...

Iran’s Secret Plan to Escalate the War

Intercepted communications and other intelligence suggest a strategic shift by hard-line leaders to raise the costs for the U.S. and its regional allies.

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I talked to a young woman in Wyoming whose stepdad uploaded a photo he took when she was 11-yrs-old into Grok. Then allegedly used the AI tool to generate 7,000 graphic child sexual abuse images, which he traded online www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Her childhood photo. Thousands of explicit images. One woman’s nightmare.

A Wyoming woman alleges in a federal lawsuit that her stepfather used the Grok chatbot to transform a childhood photo into child sexual abuse material.

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Page One in Arizona: the shrinking Colorado River 😞

16 Drink Drivers Caught During Overnight Northbridge Police Operation Western Australia Police detected 16 drink drivers during an overnight operation in the Northbridge entertainment precinct early… https://waincidentalerts.com/16-drink-drivers-caught-during-overnight-northbridge-police-operation/

😡😡😡😡😡😡 This is the sort of shit Professor Jason Arday was seeing day after day. Allison Pearson is employed by @telegraph.co.uk She is an utterly evil witch. (It also has blood on its hands!) She is trying to delete her X messages, but they seem to have been ‘archived’. Shame eh?

The only reason this was ever suggested is that the deregistered English ex-gastroenterologist & fraud, Andrew Wakefield, took out a patent on single MMR jabs before releasing his bullshit autism 'research' (late 90s). Follow the money. There's NO medical reason or justification for single MMR jabs.

Mississippi Free Press@mississippifreepress.org · yesterday

The order will recommend separating the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine into three different shots administered in separate visits, and direct the nation's health department to improve vaccine research. Separate measles, mumps and rubella vaccines are not available in the U.S.

A cartoon by Steph Lawson.

Transperth. Piss up. Brewery. IYKYK. “There was some garbled nonsense about technical issues on the Armadale line that would apparently force passengers to alight at East Perth and – hang on I thought, is this the ‘Taking of Pelham 123’ all over again – …” #FreoDockers

After The Game With Snaps Truly - Rd 23 2026 v Adelaide - Fremantle Shipping News

Packed tight as anchovies in a good olive oil,  we were chugging our way from Freo to the city, when suddenly the lights went out. The train was plunged into darkness. Plunged I tell you, because that...

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These Meta Rayban pervert glasses are already being used to abuse women. No f*cking thank you. Tell billionaire loser Mark Zuckerberg he CANNOT use your image to train his AI. Join loads of others sending LEGAL NOTICE withdrawing your consent for Meta to record you: ehe.movement-action.org/p/meta

Awesome Freo Dockers 💜 #AFLFreoCrows

Retro round tix are 🔥 #AFLFreoCrows

Amen, Betoota www.betootaadvocate.com/6-news-stori...

6 Significant News Stories The Australian Media Could Cover Instead Of Spending A Month Fixated On A Podcast Nobody's Heard Of

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT As the nation enters its fourth, arguably fifth week of carrying on about a stupid fucking podcast appearance where the Prime Minister said some dumb shit, many are s...

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Melissa from Montreal (Hole/Pumpkins bassist) with a magnificent rock memoir of an iconic era in music. Who doesn’t appreciate a good soul phuck with Billy Corgan. Get the audio book for her narration.

“… a case where a scribe recorded the wrong breast in a diagnosis of breast cancer and said someone had epilepsy, when they did not.” www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...

Doctor forced to apologise after AI makes 'scary' error about illegal drugs

Artificial Intelligence is listening to many people's medical appointments, but it is not always hearing things correctly.

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> @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/2198...

The sports stars, both former drug addicts and convicted criminals, are now on a press tour spruiking a program described as “repaying the debt” to society. Ette can reveal the organisation is charging more than $10K for a half-day session. A detail every media outlet left out. tinyurl.com/22zzvy2t

Disgraced sports stars Ben Cousins and Scott Miller are on a media tour, pledging to ‘pay back’ society. One question the media isn't asking: who is paying them?

Ette Media can reveal the organisation they’re collaborating with is charging more than $10,000 for a half-day session – a detail all media outlets left out.

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The Government™ has made an ad about Ai Data Centres, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.

Honest Government Ad | Ai Data Centres

YouTube video by thejuicemedia

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via Greens MLC, Sophie McNeill … “Social cohesion” education (propaganda) in WA schools.

Absolutely heartbreaking in Lebanon: ‘the FT saw entire villages with barely a building left standing: historic markets, squares and winding streets reduced to a sea of concrete. The sound of blasts, apparently from building demolitions, continued through the day.’ as.ft.com/r/153a7c25-e...

How Israel is making southern Lebanon ‘unliveable’

Israeli forces have systematically destroyed homes, roads, farmland and forests despite ceasefire with Hizbollah

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If you have enough money that you can blow $100,000,000 on avoiding taxes, you have enough money to pay $100,000,000 *on* taxes that will help your fellow citizens, you self-centered prick.

Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star

We’re celebrating 40 years of “Fall On Me” today (the first single from the band’s fourth album Lifes Rich Pageant was released on this day in 1986). The video was filmed & directed by @michaelstipe.bsky.social

🇫🇷 Tour de France Femmes prize money: 🇸🇮 Pogacar’s €500,000 dwarfs entire women’s payout Demi Vollering earned €50,000 for winning the yellow jersey. Two weeks earlier, Tadej Pogačar received €500,000 for winning the men’s Tour de France. 📰 www.domestiquecycling.com/en/news/tour... 📸 Cor Vos

Novel way to publicly express pride in your profession

Fresh walk this morning

Best stage race of 2026? My wrap story from Nice 👇 www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/a...

Tour de France Femmes steps out of Pogacar’s shadow to showcase truly compelling racing | Jeremy Whittle

Overall winner of Tour de France Femmes was uncertain until final climb – a world away from Tadej Pogacar’s dominance of men’s event

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We just got interviewed today on RNZ about the bulk buying of books for AI training. In April we got several large orders and then just last week more: 180 books in 10 orders in one day, all going to a US warehouse. It really must be another version of #ProjectPanama www.rnz.co.nz/life/books/w...

Wellington second-hand bookstore’s mysterious orders

Book Haven in Wellington's Newtown started to receive more orders than it could possibly handle.

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Laughs in Stephen Merchant