Profile avatar
d1kastell.bsky.social
285 posts 101 followers 203 following
Getting Started
Active Commenter
Posts 9 Comments 41

Anyone who has read Paul Lynch’s’ “Prophet Song” will recognise the deadly pattern playing out in real time in the USA.

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

I see the Australian shadow Home Affairs minister is suggesting we follow the US example and round up asylum seekers who are alleged to have committed crimes and deport them without due legal process. What could possibly go wrong ?

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

The repression of expression of outrage for the ongoing ethnic cleansing and mass murder in Gaza by western institutions is disturbing . It undoubtedly reflects the fact that the west regards Israel as an outpost of empire. That in turn bodes ill for the population of Israel when the tide turns.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

If you ever wondered how people living near Auschwitz-Birkenau seemed oblivious to what was being perpetrated just down the road : looked at the TV news from Gaza lately????

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

I see that the Algerian boxer needs to prove she is biologically female. If as I suspect she is androgen R (-) or 17 beta-HSD 3 (-), then a genetic test will show she’s female. However, it is likely that many elite athletes have performance enhancing mutations, so does this open Pandora’s box ?

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Worth recalling that as soon as it was clear Trump had won the White House Russian TV ran nude pictures of Melania at prime time . But those who assume that it means that Putin must have serious Kompromat on Trump might be wrong. Trump would sell the US down the river for something fairly minor.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

So at a time when China is threatening to overtake the US in the tech race across a range of fields , USGov decides to hit the US R&D sector with a hammer blow. Insane.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

So I had to join the conspiracy, and, for what my word was worth, assured the men of their reward. In our two years' partnership under fire they grew accustomed to believing me and to think my Government, like myself, sincere. In this hope they performed some fine things, .... 1/

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

Opposing the Netanyahu regimes assault on Gaza is no different from opposing the Putin regimes assault on Ukraine. Both are expansionists and won’t stop until defeated. It will be the West Bank next, then lebensraum , sorry , ever expanding buffer zones which will be settled once garrisoned.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments