Lyra
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- Reposted by LyraOh... oh no... This post on StackOverflow from 2011 may be related to why the MIME decoding is all messed up in the DOJ's released Epstein emails. stackoverflow.com/questions/79...
- Reposted by Lyra"The far-right group is gone, but the danger isn’t — Australia has just turned an organised hate group into hundreds of abandoned "lone" actors." independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...
- Reposted by Lyrathe cloud is just someone else's computer
- Reposted by LyraA (long) summary of others’ investigations into the well-funded international Islamophobia networks & Australian links, reflections. Palestinians are slaughtered because power elites have accepted the indoctrination. & Palestinians forbidden to mourn 😡 open.substack.com/pub/lucyham2... #auspol
- Reposted by LyraThe weekend might be a good time to catch up with this. The Right (formerly free speech absolutists) is crushing our speech, cultural treasures & protest rights bc they despise us. They despise Muslims even more than us “woke” irritants. Networked & funded hate. open.substack.com/pub/lucyham2...
- Reposted by LyraIn Albo's new antisemitism bill, the definition of "hate crime", which underpins the new regime to proscribe "hate groups" like the Nazis, specifically excludes "advocating genocide". That is, advocating genocide is treated as not being a racist hate crime. Now, why would that be?
- 🧪 seems like wildly irresponsible journalism at best, and wilful disinformation at worst, to post this, and not mention that all of the most strident criticism linked to is produced by "scientists" directly funded by plastics manufacturers and chemical companies.
- Like maybe the "bombshell" framing, which is repeated from a quote by Kuhlman, whose letter is linked, is bad, when the guy framing it that way is a former research chemist for Union Carbide and Dow with obvious vested interests in undermining this.
- Maybe if one of the big criticisms is funded by a chemical manufacturers lobbying organisation and you don't make the audience aware you're getting close to malpractice.
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View full threadMaybe its in good faith, maybe its just ignorance, maybe there's nothing like that happening, but when you're reporting on this stuff in an authoritative voice you *really* need to be careful. This is how these lobbies operate, and it undermines all good faith attempts at science communication.
- Reposted by LyraMAGA: "NO ONE IS LAUGHING AT US NOW!" The rest of the world:
- Reposted by LyraHey everyone, please be very careful when using odourless thinners. They lull you into a sense of non-toxicity. Thinners are usually toxic, and many oil paint pigments will seriously damage your health. I use very stinky thinners to remind me to open windows and mask
- Reposted by Lyrathere is no link between Palestinian authors, Palestinian activism, or Palestinians and the Bondi massacre, and if you believe there is you are either extremely stupid or evil or (most likely) both
- Reposted by LyraMeanwhile ... UN Human Rights report finds Israel is an apartheid state michaelwest.com.au/un-report-is...
- Reposted by LyraMany people are saying 2+2=5, and who are we to judge if they’re right?
- Reposted by LyraWhat’s the point of writers’ festivals — or, for that matter, writers — if they can’t discuss issues that matter? Australian arts administrators would rather destroy the whole sector than allow Palestinians to speak about genocide. It’s beyond shameful.
- Reposted by LyraMy heart is so heavy right now. It shouldn't take another murder to get people to wake up. The stacks of Black and brown bodies weren't enough to convince you?
- Reposted by Lyraidk what people mean when they say american industry is in decline, the US seems to be very active in manufacturing consent
- Reposted by LyraAn essay from a man in Nairobi talking about the social, psychological, and emotional toll of working as a chat companion
- Reposted by LyraA dozen former athletes call for a royal commission: the government must heed this demand 100,000 Australians march over the Sydney Harbour Bridge: the government must ignore this rabble
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- Reposted by LyraWill Stencil wrong again. American interventionism since the end of WW2 has been a rolling set of disasters, enacted upon sovereign nations with bipartisan support, causing the death and displacement of tens of millions of people. They just didn't do the key jingling part for pundits this time.
- Reposted by LyraChecking in on the TikTok knitting lady who insists the military would never follow illegal orders, and she is insisting that by the letter of the law this was legal because... well because otherwise her grift of telling liberals comforting nonsense falls apart, I guess.
- Reposted by LyraI guess what’s really despairing is that this feels like a litmus test of every part of the system, and every part of the system is failing. The media, the democrats, the army, international allies… pretty much everyone is willing to shrug their shoulders here. It will only embolden them.
- The "rules based international order" has always been a facade constructed by the most powerful nations to lend legitimacy to their conflicts of greed and power. Gaza was the nail in the coffin for what little reality there was.
- They have no need for the patient escalation other administrations have conducted to incite the conflict they desire. They've seen what the world will tolerate. They won't stop until the American order is collapsed. And there's no external force that can or will.
- Reposted by Lyra"NSW records the highest number of road deaths in eight years" A few "reasons" given: drugs, alcohol, speeding. Ofc all of those factors long before COVID arrived to infect and reinfect almost the everyone, with known cognitive impacts. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
- While far from impossible, it does take concerted effort to inure people to violence and atrocity to the point where they're comortable enacting it, and the stuff happening with grok gives me the same sickening feeling that listening to radio broadcasts from Rwanda leading up to the genocide does...
- Reposted by LyraAbout three and a half hours until this cursed year draws to a close. Good riddance, 2025. Let’s all sincerely hope for - and work to realise - a better 2026. To paraphrase an old anarchist slogan, He ao hou ka taea.
- Reposted by LyraThis entire opinion piece by Chip le Grand does not mention ISIS a single time. Not once. Instead it repeatedly suggests that the cause of the Bondi attack was Labor's failure to crack down harder on Gaza protests and related antisemitism. www.smh.com.au/national/lab...
- Reposted by LyraI don’t know man, if you earn your money through the simple act of having a lot of money to start with, and the work you do is calling people to check in on your money, that’s pretty unskilled
- Reposted by Lyra“hey leena how’s your day going?” “WAKE IN FRIGHT WAS A DOCUMENTARY”
- Reposted by LyraPoliticians and the media have seized on the Bondi tragedy to drag Australia further right, writes @amyremeikis.bsky.social. www.deepcutnews.com/p/massacre-a...
- @tashtaylor.bsky.social hey! Didn't know you were on here, but remember having a great time talking after meeting you at the 2019 equs workshop. Would love to chat and catch up sometime. Hope you've been doing well :)
- Reposted by LyraAt this point, Segal could call for the torching of mosques and Muslim homes and no one in media or power would bat an eyelid
- Reposted by LyraWestern countries gearing up to annihilate or enslave anyone darker than olive-skinned again while purporting to be the pinnacle of civilisation and inventors of human rights is astounding to watch
