@abstractcode is.... is it... ironic?

Me, shooting missiles at my neighbours: "I have a right to self defence!"

Me, trying to dodge the missiles when a neighbour shoots back: "Well this fucking sucks"

The people whose job it is to do something refuse to do anything https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2025/jun/16/these-things-happen-all-the-time-to-people-struggling-nobody-cares

Family's horror after seeing tourists eat

I'm 🤣🤣🤣 at this complaint that spoiled a day out. Apparently there were large groups of people sitting in the grass.

"Many were openly picnicking, eating food they had brought from home "

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/familys-horror-after-seeing-tourists-31859165

@luciedigitalni it could help get us off the US teat for equipment and technology

@shlee @stilgherrian @fixatedpersonsunit @Su_G when did it stop?

@knutson_brain spent some time in Tonga myself and can't imagine why you wouldn't want those people in your country. Amazing people

@Kels_316 @camwilson I'm like a fuckboy, but for franked dividends

This will do wonders for China's incursion into the Pacific

Three Pacific nations in Trump's expanded travel ban list | RNZ News
https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/564249/three-pacific-nations-in-trump-s-expanded-travel-ban-list

@NewtonMark you're on your way to an absolute pardon then

@oldladyplays as an ex Warrant Officer it looked to me like a shower of sh*t. It was as if they had replaced the Sergeant Major who should have organised it with some political party good-idea fairy. I've seen better drill in a Ringling Brothers parade

#NeverAgain but probably...

@Taco_lad I defer to their predictive powers

@Taco_lad ooooh, had seen their condemnation but not that bit. I noticed they still don't recognise Israel's right to exist

@Taco_lad yeah, the non-admission thing is a ridiculous joke, but they think it gets them out of having to make assurances like 'no first use' etc.

Pakistan is a threat I hadn't thought of. Not sure they would go all out for Iran though. They lean more Saudi

Israel, as a nuclear armed state, is saying things like "Tehran will burn" and "the residents of Tehran will pay a heavy price." Western countries siding with Israel should at least be asking for guarantees of no nuclear weapon use

Someone needs to invent IceMagic but for gravy and Mash Potato

@AuntyRed genius move

via Alistair on Bluesky June 14, 2025 at 11:27 AM:

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Hi everyone

I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests

I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing

[QANTAS] held onto the phone for the duration of the flight at the request of the Trump administration

15 hour flight + 12 hour detention + 15 hour flight = one of the harder experiences of my life

I had it easy, one woman had been in that detention room 4 days when I arrived, she’s still there

- They were waiting for me when I got off the plane
- They knew (or it felt like they knew) everything about me
- I had cleaned up my online presence expecting ad hoc digital sweeps; I was not prepared for their sophistication
- Sophistication almost certainly facilitated by Palantir

If you are deleting social media ~48 before your flight to the US, *it is already too late.*

- My phone contents were immediately downloaded, on threat of deportation
- In retrospect I should have denied search and accepted immediate deportation; in general I was too compliant, too trusting, too hopeful

They just came out and said it:

“We both know why you’ve been detained…it’s because of what you wrote about the protests at Columbia”

I'll be writing all this up with more detail shortly. For now I'll just say---I believe what I say and say what I believe. The offending posts are all online. Find out for yourself if my words post a danger to the US and *subscribe to my substack*

https://www.kitchencounter.blog

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TIL that the highest ranking Generals in the Iranian forces are only two stars. Somehow thought they would have loaded themselves up a bit more