Plus the super-rich tend to have pretty bad taste.

Can Pauline Hanson fuck off already? She's the physical embodiment of a crazy aunt facebook post with all the credentials of "I don't understand this topic therefore it's bad" and linguistic prowess of a bowl of fruit loops. #auspol

It time to say again:

THE ONLY DANGEROUS MINORITY ARE THE RICH

#politics #inequality

Hey Australian friends, please sign this petition, I'd hate to loose my legal identity because of some bigots.

https://track.equalityaustralia.org.au/-/m/view-online?k=EWVxdWFsaXR5YXVzdHJhbGlhAGbWph4bYxzNzc0AEGoVLDSihm1sN3t6NxGtDGbfxrnhOuCfk1bWUA&rg=au

Edit: if you want the exact link it is: https://equalityaustralia.org.au/hands-off-our-protections/

It is a petition by Equality Australia, writing or calling your MPs directly is also totally fine and encouraged!

#LGBTQ #transRightsAreHumanRights #australia

RE: https://mastodon.social/@babadookspinoza/116642309541686781

This is barbaric and inexcusable.
This is immoral.
This is criminal.
This is inhumane.

This is #genocide.

#Israel #Gaza #UN #ICJ #ICC #CrimesAgainstHumanity #CrimesAgainstChildren #WarCrimes #Terrorists #Netanyahu

Everyone needs to see my dog, cos he's cute. #dog #dogsofmastodon #malteseDog

There's a character in Galápagos, the 1985 novel by Kurt Vonnegut, who has created a computer called the Mandarax that can understand natural language, translate languages, and answer questions on many topics -- it's basically an LLM. His wife does ikebana (Japanese flower arrangements) and she discovers that his machine can do it as well as her because he's tape recorded her classes and fed the data into the computer. She says to him,

"You, Doctor Hiroguchi, think that everybody but yourself is just taking up space on this planet, and we make too much noise and waste valuable natural resources and have too many children and leave garbage around. So it would be a much nicer place if the few stupid services we are able to perform for the the likes of you were taken over by machinery. That wonderful Mandarax you're scratching your ear with now: what is that but an excuse for a mean-spirited egomaniac never to pay or even thank any human being with a knowledge of languages or mathematics or history or medicine or literature or ikebana or anything?"

I read that on the bus this afternoon.

#Books #Tech #AI

They blame migrants so you don’t blame billionaires
#tax #billionaires #taxtherich #australia #auspol

ALARM!
How on earth is possible that Israel is allowed to assault and seize vessels in international waters just off Greece/Europe? Besides what you can think of Apartheid Israel and its genocidal leaders, this should send shock waves across Europe.

Apartheid without borders.

ALP: "Times are hard and we need more money"
People: "Tax the Billionaires! Stop wasting money on AUKUS! Tax gas exports! Stop subsidising oil companies! Get rid of tax breaks for rich property investors!, cut Superannuation breaks for multi-millionaires!"
ALP: "We hear you, and we are going to cut services for disabilities"

#auspol #NDIS

Pre-dawn sky is looking good in Sydney these days. This is taken on the Silverwater Bridge, looking east down the Parramatta River. #sydney #BikeCommuting #Photography

Thanks to the brave journalists from L’Espresso for publishing this picture.

What you see pictured is an Israeli settler armed with an automatic rifle mocking an unarmed Palestinian woman, as he settles her land and eradicates her family’s olive trees.

This picture is so powerful that the Israeli ambassador immediately accused L’Espresso for publishing an AI fake.

When it turned out that it was authentic, he switched his line of attack to the much more predictable (and easy to neutralize) “it’s antisemitic”.

Pictures like these are worth a thousand words.

They are the embodiment of the banality of evil that permeates every single cell of the illegal Zionist entity.

We should all stop calling it “war”. The word “war” involves a clash between armies. The one between Ukraine and Russia is a war.

This is not a war.

This is just barbaric eviction and genocide against unarmed civilians.

I’m not trans. As far as I know, my kids aren’t at the moment. Nobody in my family is. None of my good friends are. I don’t prescribe medication for gender affirming care. I don’t specifically treat folks for gender dysphoria. So why do I give a fuck?

You don’t punch down. There’s no transgender machine producing trans judiciary and trans politicians and trans PACs to come for my cisgender. There are trans folks being discriminated against, outed, beaten, jailed, and killed. I hate bullies.

“Above the streets of Tehran, the weapons bay of an F-35 fighter jet opens and a missile streaks groundward, raining death and destruction on the city below.

The mechanism that allows the jet to rapidly open its bay doors and fire is made in only one place in the world: a factory in suburban Melbourne. More than 700 of the fighter jet’s “critical pieces” are manufactured in Victoria alone.” Ben Doherty, Guardian, 140326. We are complicit in an illegal war. #Auspol

hey remember that ELON letter to EPSTEIN
being all DESPERATE about the GIRLS
and the ISLAND

that shit was crazy, right?

#epstein #elon

@h2onolan
Lost Albini Fugazi
https://fugazi.bandcamp.com/album/albini-sessions-benefit-for-letters-charity
Beg pardon if you were already aware

“Using AI is not worse for the environment than eating burgers or driving”

Guess what, I don't do either, and the environment is not improving.

Focusing on personal responsibility is a false narrative — don't spread it. We need systemic solutions such as industry regulations and worker protections.

If you're #trans and feeling lonely, repost this.

If you are an ally and care about trans people, repost this.

You may be feeling lonely. But, you're not alone.

Trans women are women! Happy Women's Day!

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

what do you mean #elonmusk did a #nazi salute on live tv at the #unitedstates presidential inauguration twice and is now erasing the evidence off the internet by replacing the footage with the crowd cheering instead?

would be a shame if people reblogged this, wouldn’t it?