Sinjut

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Australian living in Germany. Chalkie. Unionist. Vegetarian. Linux user. He/him.

Mostly lurking here at present. Posts in the Fediverse @[email protected]

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"I will not send the 2,000 pound bombs [to Israel]" www.reuters.com/world/us-has...

Exclusive: US has sent Israel thousands of 2,000-pound bombs since Oct. 7www.reuters.com The totals suggest there has been no significant drop-off in U.S. military support for its ally, despite international calls to limit weapons supplies and a recent administration decision to pause a shipment of powerful bombs.

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Good title from this week’s ZEIT: “The danger of big egos”

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Labor branch in Albanese’s electorate passes motion supporting Fatima Payman

Labor branch in Albanese’s electorate passes motion supporting Fatima Paymanwww.theguardian.com Members in Leichhardt ‘express solidarity’ with the rebel senator and say they share her ‘strong support’ for Palestine

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Australia 2024: At the same time Ben Roberts-Smith gets a coronation medal by King Charles, Fatima Payman gets sidelined by Labor leadership for opposing an alleged genocide which has killed at least 40,000 people. Make of that what you will.

Fatima Payman has been "indefinitely suspended" from Labor caucus after an appearance on ABC Insiders where the Western Australian senator said she would cross the floor again if a vote on the status of Palestine came up once more.

Payman 'indefinitely suspended' from Labor Party caucuswww.abc.net.au Labor senator Fatima Payman has been "indefinitely suspended" from the Labor Party caucus by the prime minister after a series of defiant actions regarding her support for Palestine.

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Pope Francis tells priests to keep homilies short as ‘people fall asleep’

Pope Francis tells priests to keep homilies short as ‘people fall asleep’www.theguardian.com Pontiff says speaking should be limited to eight minutes because ‘attention is lost’ Priests should keep their homilies short and speak for a maximum of eight minutes to prevent members of the congregation from nodding off, Pope Francis has said. The homily, or message delivered during a church service, “must be short: an image, a thought, a feeling”, the pope said during his weekly audience on Wednesday. Continue reading...

"Dumb Phone" reports are the new "Tiny House" articles.

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In Kharkiv the Epicenter shopping mall was hit. Scum of the earth.

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Like so many of the prime minister’s gambits, this move is a product of his political weakness. It is the play of a man who has run out of ideas and run out of options. A last gamble for a prime minister who has run out of road www.ft.com/content/030a...

A last gamble for a prime minister who has run out of roadwww.ft.com With nothing on the horizon likely to dramatically improve, Sunak has decided to seize the economic moment

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I love Chinese food. patreon.com/lowqualityfa...

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Some background on #Iran: authorities have been ramping up executions at an alarming rate, murdering at least 746 people in 2023. www.hrw.org/the-day-in-h...

State Murder in Iran and the US: Daily Briefwww.hrw.org Whether in Iran or the US – or anywhere else – the death penalty is an attack on human dignity. In his Daily Brief, @astroehlein looks at several state murders this week:

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German art museum fires worker for hanging his own painting in gallery

German art museum fires worker for hanging his own painting in gallerywww.theguardian.com Staff member put work on display at Munich’s Pinakothek der Moderne ‘in hope of achieving his breakthrough’ Europe live – latest updates According to a quote commonly – if wrongly – attributed to the artist Andy Warhol, everyone will have their 15 minutes of fame. At Munich’s Pinakothek der Moderne museum earlier this year, one technician and aspiring artist got to bask in the limelight for a whole eight hours. The museum in southern Germany on Tuesday confirmed that it had fired a member of its technical services team after he was found to have hung one of his own paintings in a part of the gallery dedicated to modern and contemporary art, allowing him to share a space with works by pop art pioneer Warhol for an entire day. Continue reading...

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I haven't paid for a coffee in a Wetherspoons pub since before Covid, I simply wait till it's busy at the bar then say to the person behind the bar I've just been to the toilet and my cup has been taken, they give you another cup without question, so free coffee

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In den vergangenen Wochen haben wir die Zahlen von mehr als 1250 Demos gegen rechts gesammelt. Hier ist unser Deep Dive mit Details zu einzelnen Demos und erstmals einem Vergleich mit dem örtlichen AfD-Wahlergebnis: taz.de/Protestwelle...

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Watch: Police rescue toddler stuck inside claw machine

Watch: Police rescue toddler stuck inside claw machinewww.bbc.co.uk Three-year-old Ethan had to be saved after crawling into a toy machine in Brisbane, Australia.

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North Korea: Rare footage shows teens sentenced to hard labour over K-drama

North Korea: Rare footage shows teens sentenced to hard labour over K-dramawww.bbc.co.uk Footage obtained by BBC Korean shows two 16-year-old boys handcuffed and sentenced to hard labour.

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John Pilger: Campaigning Australian journalist dies

John Pilger: Campaigning Australian journalist dieswww.bbc.co.uk Throughout his career, the writer was a vocal critic of Western foreign policy.

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High time.

🗿 EU considers depriving Hungary of right to vote

EU considers depriving Hungary of right to votewww.pravda.com.ua The EU has been considering the possibility of applying the provisions of Article 7 of the Treaty on the European Union, which can make it possible to deprive Budapest of the right to vote due to the ...

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It doesn't get any more explicit than this. NZ's gvt axes bold tobacco control measures because of fear they would be so effective the would reduce tax revenue. Smokers lives are being farmed like they are battery hens www.theguardian.com/world/2023/n...

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ABC's Four Corners have handed over its footage to WA Police. For what it's worth, this sets a unsettling new precedent for media in Australia. ABC sets the standard. Now it can do this to everyone, it will.

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The creators of the show explained that they wanted to end the series with an emotional story that the average American can relate to. chaser.com.au/entertainmen...

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Sick. A cartoon on Gaza.

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Never change, Economist. Never change. 😂

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“This tragedy cannot go on.” Compelling read - one of the best I’ve read - about current Israel Gaza conflict, by our global affairs editor John Lyons.

Gaza is the most miserable place on Earth and in Israel, fear is everywhere. This tragedy cannot go ...www.abc.net.au If we do not understand the pain and misery on both sides of this war, then we cannot begin to think of how to help stop the never-ending cycle of pain and misery in Gaza, writes John Lyons.

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The German exodus from Twitter these days is quite remarkable. (Musk waded into German politics, half-endorsing our right-wingers, the AfD.)

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It's in the f***ing trending section, dumbass!

So, so close to an epiphany, and yet

Nothing says "dim sum" like cream cheese and almond mezzelune.

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Good luck to them, but no teacher is buying a $6.8m home. We need proper wealth transfer/inheritance taxes or we'll end up a very divided country

Teacher snaps up $6.8 million Roseville manor with one bidwww.smh.com.au The auction took less than two minutes for the winners to beat two other interested parties for the grand residence on a spacious block.

Checking the German weather radar and noticed that Victorian seniors are eligible for free hearing aids thanks to the government. Not sure the pictured old codger is appreciative, however.

Why does the government keep increasing the CPI?!