Wertheim v. Haddad

"The conclusion that it is not antisemitic to criticise Israel is the corollary of the conclusion that to blame Jews for the actions of Israel is antisemitic; the one flows from the other."

Obvious

Spell it out. It’s absurd. There’s this freaky little Nazified genocidal colony swallowing Palestine, 82% of Israeli residents are in favour of ethnically cleansing Gaza, 47% of them want to murder every man, woman and child still cursed with being alive inside the concentration camp, and if you speak out about it anywhere, even in fucking Australia, you might lose your job...

It all makes it rather obvious you live inside a subservient (and embarrassingly eager) military vassal state to a rotting fascist empire eternally fueled by white supremacy and the blood of the Global South, doesn’t it?

Tentacles

That's weird. I thought octopuses were an anti-Semitic trope.

Joe Don Baker 1936-2025

One of the greats. RIP.

Wave

Obviously I approve of the result, but was there any reason to crush seals?

Typical

This triangle is going to help us explain how Australian politics has fundamentally changed.

Like typical triangles, it has three sides, and three corners.

,,, whoa, whoa, slow down, poindexter.

Great Television

Apropos the previous post, if you're a fan of those performances where a musical artist appears live on television to mime to a recording of their signature hit, you will be hard-pressed to find a finer specimen than this utterly demented example of the genre.

Now I Can't Unsee It

I don't know who, if anyone, needs to know this, but if you play the Parallax Corporation recruitment montage at 1.5 times its original speed, it's the same length as Mason Williams' "Classical Gas".

Close

In this case, Evatt’s gaffe mattered...

Following a closely fought election in 1954, it provided an opening for Robert Menzies to call an early election in 1955, which he won in a landslide. It paved the way for another 17 years of Coalition rule.

"Closely fought election" is an amusingly undetailed way to describe an election where the Evatt led Labor Party won not only the plurality and two-party preferred vote, but in fact won more than 50% of the first preference votes, clearly demonstrating who the majority of Australians wanted in power. The Senate election the previous year had produced the same result. In 1954 our idiotic region-based electoral system handed the Tories an illegitimate five seat majority and gave Menzies' infant Liberal party their second term in government, because democracy. Just to be clear.

Sand

Today I discovered that techbros, usually as a rejoinder to scepticism about the unlimited potential of innovation in computing or the notion, say, that humankind will terraform Mars, like to use the phrase "we taught sand to think". Now, I'm not saying they really don't understand that the only function of the silicon in silicon chips is as an insulator, just: stupid people use stupid slogans. (Mind you, more common on the internet is the T-shirt inscription "Teaching sand to think was a mistake" which only avoids being dumb by virtue of being facetious.)

Dry

A middle-aged British man who became an unlikely sensation on Chinese social media and added a new item to the Chinese vocabulary for his lunch sandwiches passed away on Wednesday, his family said.

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Keith rose to fame through videos posted by his wife, a native of northeast China. These videos featured him cutting whole-wheat bread as he made avocado toast or a tomato sandwich and garnered millions of likes across platforms.

These meals became known as "dry lunch" or 干巴 in Chinese and Keith himself as the "dry old uncle." The videos have become a source of both amusement and disbelief for Chinese viewers.

"One bite of this after work, and I'll be scarred for life" was one comment, which was liked 127,000 times.

All the English language news sources reporting this story insist on referring tp this gentleman as "Old Dry Keith" thereby proving that Western media can't get the simplest things right.

Colección

You worry me, duolingo.