Dave

dpdiver.bsky.social

24 April 2026 07:55

I usually post this on Anzac Day, but my access to the internet will be limited tomorrow, so here it is today. WWI soldier and casualty Wilfred Owen's words are as relevant as ever this year (The old lie Dulce et Decorum est, Pro patria mori (How sweet and becoming it is to die for one's country))

James O’Brien

mrjamesob.bsky.social

20 April 2026 09:09

Anyone know whether today is a ‘ceasefire’ day or a ‘destroy your civilisation’ day yet?

Ward Q. Normal (he/him)

wardqnormal.bsky.social

02 April 2026 20:04

According to the Wikipedia, it was developed after interviews with terminally ill patients, and I can perhaps see it applying more to that situation. But for all grief and loss? I think she got a little over her skis, as they say.

Greg Jericho

grogsgamut.bsky.social

28 March 2026 04:44

It's such a sad, pathetic & often wrong & dimly ignorant piece that I can only credit her with demonstrating on the day ABC staff were on strike just how absolutely vital are those journalists who were on strike. Because she showed comprehensively that the ABC cannot do without them. 14/14

Dr Ingrid M🪁

ingridm.bsky.social

27 January 2026 02:59

yes, it is a nazi rally. For any reporters out there, if you are covering an “anti-immigration” rally and the crowd starts chanting heil Australia, you are now at a nazi rally. This is not complex, it is very straightforward, it is nazism 101.