Two Stalks who picked the wrong perch, needed a rescue.
Believer in science, wisdom, democratic rights and Ukraine's right to be free. A foe to tyranny, hypocrisy, bigots and know nothings. We shared all this new century with a KGB-trained tyrant, Tyranny spreads. So I want our century back.
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Two Stalks who picked the wrong perch, needed a rescue.
By the sounds of it the Pope will be no fav of Vance or Trump. A new strong voice against the worse of thier policies, cannot hurt.
Trump isn’t gonna like this.
All about about the failed 50 year old Soviet Venusian probe, that is soon to return. It even has an Australian connection. youtu.be/SSceyYTppRo?...
Those Seagulls will have to find a new gig as well. Their celebrity days are over.
Two Stalks who picked the wrong perch, needed a rescue.
Something about those seagulls in the 24/7 live coverage just suits these times. A new Pontiff and the world say farewell to some avian celebrities.
Seems they made a decision. Tomorrow we get to find a lot about some name most of us i guess have never heard before. For a man with a elected to a position, that i do not envy in 2025.
How the kremlin weaponized the history of WW2. History always varies from different perspectives, our own nations role of romanticised and other things that need remembering forgotten. But The kremlin following Stalin's tradition takes it next level. youtu.be/tC07KEtwwHM?...
“Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy what has been invented or made by the forces of good.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien That says well what we fight when we fight tyranny in this age. They are those who can only raise themselves by bringing others down.
the news was a bit more delayed and remote those days. I can barely remember the legacy of the Three Popes in One Year, on these things, From in 1978 when the Pope they chose only reigned 33 days. A thing fiction authors have used for great inspiration and stuff since.
putlers party is not one to attend, Xi must not have got the memo. Even with the danger of russian air defence, it just aint a cool thing to turn up too.
Saw those 'celebrities' yesterday, the two most watched seagulls on the planet, they must be.
true, in PR bible, any publicity is good publicity these days. So as you say maybe less than a week, enough to keep the audience with the 'tense wait' but not too much they get bored. Atm the 24/7 live feed is just a few very watched seagulls and a chimney. Which is 'amusing live' coverage.
yep think in modern times a few days is the most they take. The Vatican and Catholic Church many have different views on for good reasons, but it's ritual and history is fascinating as our first ancient 'mega corporation'. This now is like a time capsule to all that.
No decision day one. Thought i read the longest conclave was three days, but it was three years. Im guessing that occasion perhaps they were not locked in for the whole time. Maybe now, that is why they are. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya #Putin doesn’t want peace—he wants control: over #Ukraine, #Belarus, and #Europe ’s borders. Peace on his terms means submission. I spoke with @ABCaustralia about the threats from Russia and Lukashenka's regime—and the urgent need for a real, lasting peace. 1/2
Can certain say the pokies did not improve Sydney.
Just a thought. WWII was a of the industrial age and fought mainly with tanks and guns and all that. In this information age those machines sure still play a part as we so tragic so often. But now in this war against tyranny that is the tip of the iceberg. Information is now the prime battlefield,
yep, that word, or maybe blackmail was going to use, but im just scared of lawyers. Now why they were announced and delayed makes sense. This time until they occur, is when the dirty deals are done. Im guessing the same is going on many places.
Tariffs are just being used as 'leverage' for these business interests. Thailand atm is considering allowing Casinos in thier land, for the same reasons, do it or cop the high tariffs. Same game just here for a different business interest. Not the best way to conduct trade and diplomacy imho.
A direct answer from that mob is rare. Especially one about putin or russia. Perhaps the mood is changing.
80 years since Victory in Europe day. The end of a terrible war in that part of the world and abroad, yet the Peace really only came for the us in the West. Others fell under another tyranny, as Stalin most certainly was. The legacy of that half peace, still troubles us to this day.
80 years ago today, it was the morning after the night before and the people of Britain and Europe were waking up to Victory in Europe day. Here is our coverage of that day in real time www.thetimes.com/article/ac4b... #veday80
In Kherson, emergency services rescued a man from under the rubble: they worked despite difficult conditions and the threat of re-fire. (double tap attack) Seen many similar photos before, but this time they lived. Photos and word from ДСНС України (State Emergency Service of Ukraine)
Indian and Pakistan news channel are very numerous and often real dodgy. Huge population with many English speakers and an un regulated news media, makes it a wild west for the truth russia often liked to seed stories in that part of the world and let them spread. That Ammo story could even be one
That man is one of the least talked about but most interesting Presidents. He seemed to have a unique perspective with his life experience. Believe it was Eisenhower who once warned about risks of the military industrial complex ahead. He had seen war as numbers as Generals must, so knew them well.
Labor took out the leaders of its two main rivals this election. Perhaps for me a moral of this contest, is populism does not work here in Australia atm. A nice thing to know. The world is complicated and nuanced, and populism is never that. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
yea, and Pakistan have long accused India of collaborating with the Kabul mob. These sort of things most us cannot know for sure, so they are theories rather than what happened accusations. But putin loves to start wars. Its the ultimate arson, a long fav of the kremlin.
Kissinger's dream, and not talking Noble Peace Prizes. www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
The news there can be nuts. This conflict seems its being pushed along by some force. Before the Kashmir attack, earlier this years, Pakistan was attacked on the border of Afghanistan. So i wonder if it involves that as well, and all the possibilities there. Moscow and Kabul are rather close now.
Maybe they can convince Iran to give up its nuclear program for 'security guarantees', Like Ukraine was stitched up with in 94. But this time maybe a constructive stich up. We have some bad baggage from last century still. Putin, Kim and the radical Mullahs lot in Tehran. to name just a few.
Pure vandalism. trump reminds me at times of the tale of Samson bringing done the temple. But the man i think is just a puppet to the fanatics around him. Atm im reading how Thailand are debating to make Casino legal, so they dont get tariffed. Pure Murdock driven blackmail. Grim as well.
The word devolution come to mind for these changes. I guess things like the health star rating of food, if you have that there, are also now under threat. Now the Know nothings Lincoln warned us about, are in charge.
From childhoods of PBS Sesame street, to that of only Disney's. Trump's and musk's brave new world. Some folks only get higher, by pulling others down.
Disney by dumbing down folks tales and other stories that were far more complicated and so stimulated and challenged kids brains far more, than the new versions. Did damage that is hard to calculate. Those formative years are the most important, They deserve better. medium.com/@olachianya/...
What lead to trump. Disney did. "Disneyfication" refers to the process of transforming stories, especially fairy tales and classic literature, into versions that align with Disney's aesthetic and values, often simplifying complex narratives and moral lessons.
May 9h is important russia's for maintaining tyranny Ive mentioned Stalin twice this last week,. Both threads ended up as the usual social media train wreck from visit of folks ive never interacted with before. What a coincidence @moderation.bsky.app
the only knee jerk was yours to my post. Its about Stalin's myth and how others have and misuse it Some like the kremlin would like to make Stalin another T shirt Che. He is not. The idealistic 'Young Stalin' is dangerously in that territory for some. he was always thug and a killer
Romanians living abroad are poised to help usher the far right into power back home. A potent cocktail of ultranationalist rhetoric, anti-establishment messaging and relentless TikTok campaigning helped Simion clean up abroad. www.politico.eu/article/roma...
Seems the kremlin targets national who still vote but live abroad, often. Its's always easier warp reality for those about a thing, who are not actually there.
Remember reading In Roman times folks needed a thing called Dignitas to be listened to and get places. Usually acquired back then by knocking some neighbouring tribe on the head, like Caesar did. Political Capital we may call it today. Whatever u name it, I think Tony is running low on that stuff.
a few months ago russia blew two of them up prematurely in botched attack in Ukraine. One lived, one did not. Cant remember their ages but it was terribly young. The SBU reported that incident and others similar.
the dark no un expected Irony, is hear from the Ukraine Centre for Fighting Disinformation. Russia is atm pushing as one of its propaganda talking points, all thier journalist lost in the war. Pretty typical and low of them with this news now current. Two totally different things they want to blur.
The Viktoriia project launches today- our first story. Our deep dive into Russian detention centres, with @shaunwalker7.bsky.social and @forbidden-stories.bsky.social consortium to follow tomorrow. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
So that is why reportage of the historical inspiration of Andor needs to careful. "A young man from nowhere with a revolutionary ideology, and a fight against a huge empire." Sounds like the description of a hero not Stalin. He was no mere bank robber, a terrorist we would call his carnage then.
Never said it was and dont think it is. History is a great source of inspiration for writers. And using it is not endorsing it. Stalin is not only a historical monster or whatever u wish to call him, he is also a mythic figure part of Putins power base. The great mythmaker of our age.
im talking about the reporting of the Director inspiration. Being taken the wrong way. Not blaming Andor or tis maker. "A young man from nowhere with a revolutionary ideology, and a fight against a huge empire." could be for some taken the wrong way.
"A young man from nowhere with a revolutionary ideology, and a fight against a huge empire. I did think there was something interesting about the secret life of someone in that situation" – Simon Sebag Montefiore that description of Stalin as a plot inspiration could however by some be taken wrong.
The post was about the article and how that could lead some to see Stalin in the wrong light As you need to read thru it and more to see how violent his early career was. Not a mere bank robber. But seems somehow that was a problem for you. For some' random' reason
My comment was the risk of romanticisation of stalin. Why connect the two different issues? I do know Hollywood uses many things to shape history i studied mass media and propaganda at Uni. So why do i need a lecture about the founding fathers now? One of the text books from the old Uni Days.
The "patriot" was close to that. But not Sci Fi. Stalin was one man, and a man Putin disguises as someone he was not. So extreme caution over any cultural references to him is advised. Putin is a manipulator not a general.
So why is that your sense. I can talk about Stalin's sins and that has nothing to do with the founding fathers. Why do people always involve topics irrelevant to the post? Btw im not American either. So is see not reason behind your post.
When you read a bit of History, seems trucking and similar unions have a few times been the target of foreign powers to push agendas. Amazing the trick still works.
🇷🇺 A man in central #Moscow staged a rare protest against #Putin before jumping from a bridge into the Moscow River, the independent news outlet SOTAvision reported Tuesday. www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/05/06/m... #russia
The conflict for the silver screen.
Trump wants to 'save Hollywood'. Here in Aus in the 1980's we had a tax deductible thing for our industry, called 10BA. Trump want to use tariffs. 10BA started ok but then went bad, so will see how this idea goes. www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
A few had a similar idea. Operation Unthinkable, which i dont think ever could have realistically politically happened in 1945, folks were just well over that war. But is sure is a thing to consider, if russia was also somehow freed of tyranny. What the world may have been.
German efficiency for a soviet invented horror. Is a grim but accurate way to see it.
A thing that russias another history forget, is the horror of Hitler was just doing things as Stalin and others in the Civil War and after did. They normalised the unthinkable in russia. We lost one tyrant by 1945 but not the other. Now putin just uses recruitment for the same ends.
Things that need to be remembered this May 9th. WW2 began with two monsters, it ended with one. A legacy we all still suffer from. Russia needs to be liberated.
Ukraine FUR outline Moscow's victory day plans outside russia. The one sided view of ww2 is fundamental to putins illusion he has woven. WW2 began with two tyrants, and ended with only one. gur.gov.ua/content/moto...
Stalin robbed banks with grenades. Finding the man a romantic figure seems nuts. www.noiser.com/real-dictato...
Andor and Stalin - Curious and a bit dangerous. Any 'romantic' association of Stalin is sorta nuts. He was a violent thug, thief and tyrant, Just like Putin. Any notion the man was some nobel rebel is a dangerous illusion. WW2 began with two monsters, it ended with one. bbc.com/culture/arti...
Stalin's very violent early days as a thief. Nothing romantic about this mans story. www.noiser.com/real-dictato...
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Almost have to tag them these days, not an AI photo. Just a good one. In these Pachakuti times.
So Murdoch wants his casinos where they are not allowed. Let them in or cop tarrifs. Wonder who else denies Rupert that. Trumps payment to the man for the wizard of oz reality he conjured for November. This is how corruption spreads these days. igamingbusiness.com/casino/forme...
The guy who is alleged to have organised the caravan fake terror attack. Was like Avon in the Wire, a crime they organised just for then to inform on, to give leverage for other charges they were facing. Unfortunately of course many compounded the fake threat worse. youtu.be/B-Z5MTIUy5k?...
This in Australia is our Fox news. Murdoch's conduit of hate. Democracy is not built to with stand such money and manipulation, as America found out. But fortunately the playbook of the lowest s wearing thin. Hate has no stamina compared to more noble virtues. A Sky News segment they ran
3 years of opposing thos mob and your feel it. They play dirty. Putins playbook of denouncement division that they rinse and repeat. Defund the ABC, legacy Media is evil. Or Its all Bidens and Albo's Fault. When i called that out i was attacked, by a SM lynch mob. Asked for help Got none
We kept in Maga dutton out But the price of 3 years being trolled by his minions was high I asked from help from many against them I got not help Fellas L Because they smear their enemies and to many joined in That's sucks SM is thier playground
What a surprise the Trumpets unsolicited spam campaign, didn't pay off. Yet he probably took some votes from the LNP, so that may have had some effect. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Yep when your read some of what he says, you see where these crazy ideas get to. Musk and Vance seem to have signed up to a lot of it.
Heard on SBS News Rubio sent a message, maybe a bit after this was published. Seems they have him doing everything now.
President Zelensky's call to the victorious Albo
‘We Need to Recognize Russia’s Colonial Violence’: says Buryat Illustrator Seseg Jigjitova Seseg Jigjitova has emerged as a prominent critic of Russian colonialism and advocate for the rights of Buryats amid the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. - M.T. www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/05/01/w...
NIAID's Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s department.
The surrealism of having some of the smartest people around having their work controlled and stopped by some of stupidest, is hard to grasp. Science, media, and more. It's the same pattern. The 'know nothings' are attacking the best of America.
'A few days ago, President Trump issued an executive order seeking to block all federal funding to NPR,'
the industrial age transformed war and us in some scary way, this new tech age will be the same. We dont really discuss the pro on cons of a thing like the industrial revolution much. Which think is a problem for new tech when it arrives.
im trying to find more reports of it, so who knows but its sounds right 😅 Odds are he would send a body double anyway.
"May 4, we celebrate the International Day of Firefighters The day was born out of mourning - in memory of five firefighters who died in the Australian wildfires. Since then, May 4 became a day of honor to all who without fear goes where everyone runs from." - Ukraine DSNS On Saint Florian's Day.
For them without zoom in abilities or dodgy eye sight like me. From two years ago or so.
May the 4th be with us.
May the Force be with Ukraine ❤️🇺🇦. Слава Україні, героям слава! #StarWarsDay #StandWithUkraine #TheTerroristStateMustBeDefeated
Can i suggest 'Animal Farm' as well. It's lighter than 1984 but tells a real serious story.
"cannot never" is a double negative, oops. Day after the election is my excuse for such grammatical vandalism.
"putin to participate in the Red Square parade only via video link," Reuters.
PBS NASA NOAA to name just a few, Trump is trying to remove all that is good in America. He is unknowing or not, playing out Putins revenge for what happened to the USSR. Folks need to stop that. Some things lost cannot never be recovered.
May the 4th be with you all.
We did not elect the party of this guy again yesterday. That was a good move #Auspol
Today could have been a very good day or a bd one, lucky we got the good result. The mini maga agenda harms everyone including Ukraine. So much relief.
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The right result at the right time.
yep can be the Pope or the Emperor, but cant be both. We saw the ruckus for centuries. It is not like in Britain where the Crown is also the boss of God stuff.
We bend the knee to no tyrants here.
Me too. And with Canada it is a trend. So happy for us all.
russia declares war on Ancient Greece
Dutton got his wish.