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Word of the day is Zugzwang [tzoog-tzwung]: a situation in chess (and life) in which a move must be made, but each possible one will make the situation worse.
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Liz Truss got 47% of eligible Tory members
She wouldn't meet the threshold that ministers set for union members voting on strike action
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Dead in their nests or washed ashore: why thousands of seabirds are dying en masse
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Buster Keaton said that the cameramen were so terrified they turned their backs to the shot.
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The military choir of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea perform “Killing in the Name” by Rage against the Machine 🤩🤩🤩
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🇮🇹 One hundred years after he took power, the cult of Benito Mussolini persists in the small Italian town of Predappio, where his tomb draws tens of thousands of visitors each year.
➡️ u.afp.com/wvkW by for
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Trivia is BACK baby! Done By Law's legendary trivia night returns on Friday 21 October 2022 to light up the social calendars of the best and brightest minds in Melbourne.
We're raising much needed funds for the incredible Community Radio 855AM.
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Robert Menzies after touring Germany in 1938
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Orcas go through short-lived fads. For instance, they recently started breaking rudders off sailboats along the European coast; and for a few weeks in the 1980s, some took to swimming with dead fish on their heads.
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lmao Avi Yemini gets absolutely bodied in this
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Avi Yemini has admitted that his donation page for being denied entry to New Zealand was in fact set up the day before he was denied entry. But he says it was his “Canadian team” that did it, & the only reason they did so was because Avi knew he’d probably get denied entry. LOL.
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The president of YARDing in America
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Friendly reminder:
I made #PATRIOTFRONT run away by just shouting “RUN AWAY, COWARDS!”
You can, too.
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I’ll get over this soon, but there are now more than 10,000 videos of people lip-synching to our sketch on TikTok.
This is my legacy now. 5 seconds of audio.
vt.tiktok.com/ZSRfYA81k/
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has claimed he's "back in public housing", in reference to his current living situation at The Lodge and Kirribilli, while answering a question about support for struggling homeowners and renters. #auspol #qt
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Basia Rendall (nee Bonkowski), an enduring icon of the music, TV and television industries and an acknowledged academic has peacefully passed away in Sydney.
Remembering Australia's first lady of music: 9Soci.al/iQFP50KzWVO
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Seeing a kickearse woman with a Polish surname on TV in the 80s was incredible for lots of teenagers from ethnic backgrounds. RIP Basia Bonkowski
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While I've already read Priyamvada Gopal's () excellent 'Insurgent Empire', I gained so much from this interview/podcast with and Yeah Nah Pasaran!
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"More than half the books you publish either lose money or don’t make money," Henry Rosenbloom of told for Katie Day's article on Australian publishing. She also spoke to , , and others.
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In their biggest game of the year and this is what the Magpies do ❤️
Steele’s kindness, and that of his teammates and Liz (shoutout to Liz!), is just so, so good.
This is what footy and is about 🥹
#AFLFinals
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50 years ago this month, a meteorologist named John Sawyer published a research paper entitled 'Man-made carbon dioxide and the greenhouse effect', predicting global C02 and temperature rises with startling accuracy.
The oil industry knew.
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#LaborDay is an official holiday established to divert attention from May Day—the traditional day celebrating workers' resistance.
Bosses and politicians want us to celebrate our labor and productivity. Better we celebrate our collective power to revolt.
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?Rage Outweighs Fatigue’: notes on a third careful strike
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Chile resoundingly rejects new progressive constitution
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According to a leaked private White Lives Matter California chat, a neo-Nazi going by "Hungarian Erika" attended yesterday's Babies Lives Matter and QAnon march in Hollywood— saying that they were searching for me. They brought up 's disinformation campaign against me.
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This paragraph by Will Hutton is striking in two ways:
1) that’s a very limited yardstick for measuring success of social movements
2) you can’t blame Thatcherism on trade union activism - that just buys into narrative that unions needed to be dealt with
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Direct action is stirring the popular imagination. It might also reshape leftwing politics | Will Hutton theguardian.com/commentisfree/
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#OtD 4 Sep 1906 Arizona rangers and immigration officers raided the homes of members of the anarchist Partido Liberal Mexicano in several towns. They confiscated radical newspapers, as well as dynamite, pistols and banners and made several arrests.
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TOMORROW: presents preliminary findings of our Centre's ARC Discovery Project on democratic resilience. All welcome. Please register here: eventbrite.com.au/e/democracy-an
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No beach milk for Western Australians today. Not only is the weather not great for chugging milk at the beach, but workers at WA’s biggest dairy, Bega, are also striking for better wages. #ausunions #beachmilk #auspol
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This “protest” was literally called the “Czechia first rally” and was organized by far right parties where they espoused highly nationalist, anti-immigrant, and anti-“globalist” rhetoric
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Massive protest in Prague,Czech Republic against Nato & EU policy!!!
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Our article on the simplicity of language used by right-wing populist leaders compared to their mainstream rivals has come out in the latest print edition of :
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I imagine that public criticism for failing to increase the rate while simultaneously reducing taxes on the rich has something to do with it.
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Not sure why Labor is even attempting to crow about this "record" indexation increase.
It's not something they chose to do, it's not actually keeping up with non-discretionary inflation, and it only highlights the fact that they won't raise the rate.
abc.net.au/news/2022-09-0
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