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Monday, 25 September 2023 - 2:39pm
Candy Jar Books has announced the third title in its final series of Lethbridge-Stewart novels.
United Nations
Written by Jonathan Blum
It was impossible that the public could ever have missed seeing the giant alien spaceship. But somehow, everyone did.
Monday, 25 September 2023 - 10:26am
Monday, 25 September 2023 - 10:16am
By guest columnist Tess Lawrence It may be premature to write Emeritus Chairman Rupert Murdoch’s epitaph now that he’s ostensibly handed the keys of his media empire to his favoured scion and heir, Lachlan. Bubba Lachie, you will recall, is the infantile drongo recently forced to payout on a rather silly defamation action against our…
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Monday, 25 September 2023 - 9:35am
“Beer?” “Thanks” “So what you been up to this week?” “I went on a march to support the No Campaign.” “Really, why?” “Look there’s no need to attack me just because I don’t support apartheid in Australia and I want to stop aboriginals being given my house.” “I wasn’t attacking you, I just wondered why…
Monday, 25 September 2023 - 9:30am
And it will probably work…
Monday, 25 September 2023 - 9:20am
Broke the dog
I just took Winnie for a run down 9 mile single track. It is actually only about 8km but leads to 9 mile road. Winnie managed 6.47km before collapsing (I hung my Garmin off her collar). I put her in the ute and took her home for a dunk in the pool. She was a bit over-heated.
Poor Winnie, I think I’ll keep her runs below 3km from now on.
On another note, I want to build a slideshow thing for the site using just HTML and CSS.
Monday, 25 September 2023 - 9:09am
Reading Nikki Savva’s The Road to Ruin is a depressing read, because it validates what many of us believed before Tony Abbott became Prime Minister. Tony Abbott and his road to irrelevance Many believed he was unelectable. He lacked seriousness. He lacked grace. He, like so many other ‘Rhodes Scholars’, appeared to have gotten his degrees out…
Monday, 25 September 2023 - 8:30am
It looks like he’s thinking about it
Monday, 25 September 2023 - 8:00am
Monday, 25 September 2023 - 7:59am
Although I’m not a great fan of HS2, a new railway to supplement the West Coast mainline, which is generally considered to be the most intensively used mainline railway in Europe, is, I think, necessary, simply in order to increase resilience and provide extra freight capacity. But why it needs to be designed for such... Read more
Monday, 25 September 2023 - 7:45am
Monday, 25 September 2023 - 7:18am
Geopolitical Economy Hour, September 23, 2023.
BRICS or NATO? G20 or G77? Summits debate changing world order
RADHIKA DESAI: Hello and welcome to the 17th Geopolitical Economy Hour, the show that examines the fast-changing political and geopolitical economy of our times. I’m Radhika Desai.
MICHAEL HUDSON: And I’m Michael Hudson.
RADHIKA DESAI: And today we are joined once again by the incomparable Pepe Escobar. Welcome back, Pepe.
PEPE ESCOBAR: Hi, everybody. Great pleasure to be with you both.
Monday, 25 September 2023 - 7:00am
Oh please let them do this. Please.
Mike Lee on Fox News is talking about Republicans continuing the impeachment inquiry of Biden *even if the government is shut down*. The optics of that would be interesting! pic.twitter.com/BhdfAOvYKU
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 24, 2023
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Monday, 25 September 2023 - 6:20am
This is sort of what my attempt at making the <dfn> title appear on mobile looks like
In a previous post (pictured above) I wrote how I would like to enable mobile users to read the title text in the <dfn> tags. I didn’t mention that I also thought I could also use it on the <abbr> tags.
Anyhoo… This is what I did.
Monday, 25 September 2023 - 5:42am
A new sandpit for long side discussions, conspiracy theories, idees fixes and so on.
To be clear, the sandpit is for regular commenters to pursue points that distract from regular discussion, including conspiracy-theoretic takes on the issues at hand. It’s not meant as a forum for visiting conspiracy theorists, or trolls posing as such.
Monday, 25 September 2023 - 5:40am
Post comments on any topic. Civil discussion and no coarse language please. Side discussions and idees fixes to the sandpits, please.
I’m now using Substack as a blogging platform, and for my monthly email newsletter. For the moment, I’ll post both at this blog and on Substack. You can also follow me on Mastodon here.
Monday, 25 September 2023 - 5:00am
I'm sure there's an explanation - perhaps one I could google if google still worked that way - but why is it that slow walking, as one does, say, in a grocery store or walking through a museum, is so much more tiring than actually taking a stroll?
I run a reasonable amount, walk a lot, and hike regularly, but just shuffling through a shopping mall makes me absolutely exhausted in a way those other activities don't.
Monday, 25 September 2023 - 4:57am
Australia’s existing relationships and collaborations with China give Australian Industry and consumers a head start in the cost-effective use of some of the most important technologies of the future, including those vital to achieving net zero emissions. Most countries would give anything to be at the forefront of such developments, but Australian University researchers are Continue reading »
Monday, 25 September 2023 - 4:56am
There’s little doubt that the American government has decided to slow China’s economic rise, most notably in the fields of technological development. To be sure, the Biden administration denies that these are its goals. Janet Yellen said on April 20, 2023, “China’s economic growth need not be incompatible with U.S. economic leadership. The United States remains the Continue reading »
Monday, 25 September 2023 - 4:56am
In the lead up to the high-level UN meeting on universal health coverage (UHC) Australia has joined the US, UK and the EU in blocking any acknowledgement that ‘unilateral coercive measures’ (sanctions) can have negative impacts on the achievement of universal health coverage. The health consequences of sanctions include avoidable morbidity arising from increased barriers Continue reading »
Monday, 25 September 2023 - 4:55am
Australia’s main Active Labor Market Program, the Duttonesque sounding “Workforce Australia”, is the latest iteration of a long line of models for Employment Services inflicted on the unemployed since the demise of the CES 25 years ago. It’s yet another Morrison government turd that the Albanese government should have flushed away the minute the ink Continue reading »
Monday, 25 September 2023 - 4:54am
Former Liberal party leader John Hewson, in a letter to the Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, enquired why the United Nations was not acting on proposals to deal with a series of well documented and interacting catastrophic threats. Three recent books, two of them by Australians, have highlighted the predicament our human Continue reading »
Monday, 25 September 2023 - 4:53am
Avid readers each day of Pearls and Irritations (of which I am one) hopefully enjoyed Paddy Gourley’s review of Martin Flanagan’s new memoir ‘The Empty Honour Board: A School Memoir’. Stimulated by that review I have now read Flanagan’s remarkably honest and painful memoir. His story is consistent with repeated accounts of sexual abuse and Continue reading »
Monday, 25 September 2023 - 4:50am
Okinawa governor Denny Tamaki has implored the UN for international backing in his opposition to the prefecture being overrun with US military bases. The Japan Times reports: “I am here today to ask the world to witness the situation in Okinawa,” Tamaki told a session of the world body’s Human Rights Council, arguing that the Continue reading »
Monday, 25 September 2023 - 4:38am
Welcome to part 2 of a 7-part series spotlighting the excellent talks we were fortunate enough to host during the Science of Community track at FOSSY 23!
Matt Gaughan delivered a rapid introduction to his dataset highlighting the numerous places where the Linux Kernel is using unsafe memory practices.
Monday, 25 September 2023 - 4:01am
God, I admire Penny Wong. I honestly do.
If you have heard her speaking before the UN General Assembly recently you know why. If you haven’t, just look at her. Listen to her.
The climate threat … Kiribati, Tuvalu and Marshall Islands are only a few metres above sea level … Many developing countries are rightly frustrated … Approaching climate tipping points … We must demand more from permanent members [of the UN’s Security Council], including constraints on the use of the veto …
Powerful words.
Monday, 25 September 2023 - 4:00am
Sick, sick, sick
Monday, 25 September 2023 - 3:16am
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Monday, 25 September 2023 - 2:00am
We had decade of "trying to achieve liberal goals through conservative means." You know, like Jack Kemp and Newt Gingrich were going to end urban poverty, but The Conservative Way (tax cuts). Liberals got suckered (or agreed with) that, and now I fear we're having a round of liberals getting sucked into attempting to convince conservatives that THEIR goals can be achieved by liberal means. Like this well-meaning Alyssa Rosenberg piece:
Monday, 25 September 2023 - 1:12am
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
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I wasn't gonna do this, but enough weirdos on mastodon liked it that here we are.
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Monday, 25 September 2023 - 12:57am
Councillors ‘summoned’ by Labour council to attend meeting despite union protest
Monday, 25 September 2023 - 12:28am
Calling on media in other countries not to keep silence on this story!
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Submitted by Thunderbird on September 24, 2023
Monday, 25 September 2023 - 12:00am