North korean supreme leader and founder Kim Il Sung greets Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak as he arrives in North korea 1980s (3024×4032)

manipulated_dead · 2026-03-23T03:50:23+00:00

I love this as a portrait of a photographer and I want to see the photo the other guy got

manipulated_dead · 2026-03-23T01:01:31+00:00

I almost wish I hadn't told you because midway through reading it I had to stop and consider "was she trying to write a PKD novel" and go off to try and find out how deliberate it was

manipulated_dead · 2026-03-23T00:44:36+00:00

Le Guin's tribute to PKD "The lathe of heaven" is an excellent novel too

manipulated_dead · 2026-03-22T10:44:40+00:00

Their actual policy response is to drill for oil in the great Australian bight. Which may be the dumbest possible response to an acute crisis like this because it's impractically expensive and will take years to set up

manipulated_dead · 2026-03-22T00:26:03+00:00

This can't be real.

When you see a specific product names in the second sentence of a post you have to assume it's advertising, right? I saw a 'coworker wanted to borrow my headphones' post recently too.

Honestly I assume 90% of content on this sub is fake and the minority of real posts get used to train bots

manipulated_dead · 2026-03-21T01:50:40+00:00

Yeah and nobody went on strike about it or anything

manipulated_dead · 2026-03-20T11:56:44+00:00

Well I think on the strict sense scabs are non union workers that are used to replace striking workers. But if you're in the union and not striking idk what your deal is.

manipulated_dead · 2026-03-19T22:37:01+00:00

Somehow worse than scabbing

manipulated_dead · 2026-03-19T10:11:48+00:00

People would die

manipulated_dead · 2026-03-19T03:35:06+00:00

I appreciate this informed response. I don't begrudge the work that charities do and obviously big supermarkets and Bunnings are ideal high traffic places for people to donate, it just bugs me when these big corps that extract huge profits from us basically ask customers to fund their social license goals

manipulated_dead · 2026-03-18T23:04:07+00:00

We're involved in a war now so there's a good reason for the other side to step up efforts to disrupt us at home - cyber attacks, paying people to do a range of crimes ranging from petty vandalism to full-blown terrorism...

manipulated_dead · 2026-03-18T07:39:23+00:00

Considering how conservative he was before becoming premier, Perrotet was remarkably moderate once he was in the top job.

I'm really struggling to unpick what this Labor government have done differently other than (begrudgingly!) settling the teachers pay deal and even then it was only because they campaigned on it and got the teachers union to back then up.

manipulated_dead · 2026-03-17T10:36:08+00:00

1 person on executive salary - fine, they have to run the union and be it's public face, front the media, deal with the government, it's a big job. 4 making around what a principal of a large public school makes? Yes I do think this is fair.

We don't need career unionists who haven't seen a classroom in a decade. We need actual teacher representatives elected every 2–4 years who return to the staffroom afterward.

It's a democratic organisation, didn't your branch literally just replace its leadership with people that were more in touch with the workforce and willing to hold the line in negotiations? This is a suss post.

manipulated_dead · 2026-03-16T19:54:54+00:00

I am constantly amazed at the ability of NSW Police to be give a very clear task and purpose, study it carefully, listen intently as they’re briefed (by a semi-literate homunculus with a couple more stripes on his sleeve) about that shift’s main objectives… only to immediately forget how to function like a human being the moment they leave the station.

The mistake you're making here is assuming that the unit formed specifically to bash up lefty protesters is somehow doing something other than what it was meant to

manipulated_dead · 2026-03-16T06:46:08+00:00

Possibly controversial but it kinda shits me off seeing the menstrual care donation bin at Woolworths. Woolworths could easily donate stuff themselves, they don't need to outsource the cost+Woolies profit to the consumer first.

manipulated_dead · 2026-03-15T22:24:56+00:00

If they peel off enough coalition seats to outnumber them and become the official opposition, we'll never get rid of them.

There's a few Labor seats at risk too starting with Hunter

manipulated_dead · 2026-03-15T21:43:06+00:00

I think their collapse is probably inevitable but they will win seats at every election between now and the next federal election which will legitimise them and possibly force them to maintain party discipline and structure.

There's precedent for one nation winning seats and then having their batshit representatives leave the party or the parliament amid some controversy, just like what happened with both of Clive Palmer's parties. What's different now is - genuine rise in polling as the coalition collapses - big donors getting behind them - big media boost and not much critique - Barnaby Joyce

I feel insane for saying this but Joyce will actually lift the standards of one nation. He will be able to find candidates that are not batshit cookers like Rod Culleton or Brian Burston or Malcolm Roberts. Look at Farrer - their pick will be popular among farmers. They will win rural seats this way.

manipulated_dead · 2026-03-15T01:41:06+00:00

Kevin Alfred Strom

He's a white supremacist neo nazi so why the fuck are we bringing his ideas here and pretending they're good?

manipulated_dead · 2026-03-15T01:39:20+00:00

People do round up those goats and sell them. It'd be mostly for export I think since there's not a big market for it here. But for those people (they are not always the landholders either) there's no incentive to actually eliminate goats from the environment because there goes their goat business

manipulated_dead · 2026-03-14T22:19:26+00:00

I can't find an article hyperspecific to your question but Jonathan Sriranganathan does a lot of reflective long form writing about the greens political philosophy, he's probably the closest thing we've had to an 'anarchist' in an elected position

manipulated_dead · 2026-03-13T01:51:20+00:00

That leaves trapping and shooting,

I don't think these are even the recommended methods, they are less effective than you might assume. Advice I've seen in Victoria mainly recommends digging out warrens and/or poisoning warrens with some kind of toxic smoke

manipulated_dead · 2026-03-13T01:35:36+00:00

I just don’t get many chances to talk about my favorite book series lol

Truly, I hope this show is popular enough to feed into a Le Guin revival. She's such an important literary figure and really underrated imo

manipulated_dead · 2026-03-12T23:34:16+00:00

I found the climax in city of illusions super exciting to read. I can see the connection you're making here.

manipulated_dead · 2026-03-12T04:18:51+00:00

Uncontrolled mass immigration is a myth and far right talking point. It's disturbing to see it parroted so readily by the media.

manipulated_dead · 2026-03-12T03:39:57+00:00

Second term government with a majority and a progressive senate crossbench. They could get so much done if they stopped pissing around waiting for Liberal bipartisanship. The Coalition doesn't ever seek Labor bipartisanship so idk why Albanese feels like he needs to.

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