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bencourtice

@bencourtice@aus.social

bush regeneration. botany. banjo. beer. books. bolshevik. Bacchus Marshian. boy (he/him/hey you).

Occasional blog:
https://astherivergoesby.wordpress.com

Sometimes I review books:
https://www.goodreads.com/bencc

In a previous life I wrote for Green Left Weekly:
https://www.greenleft.org.au/taxonomy/term/482/about

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mcnado, to random
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I’m just gonna say it — this “Genocide Joe” thing is the dumbest fucking liberal shit I have seen in years.

Joe Biden can do more to try to rein in Israel, but Biden doesn’t run Israel. He isn’t CIC for IDF. He isn’t deciding what hospital to bomb. He isn’t deciding what border crossings to close.

You know who is pushing the Genocide Joe narrative? The fucking Russians and the Israelis. Why is that? Well, it’s an election year, and Trump is a hard right, pro-Israel puppet.

bencourtice,
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@mcnado I'm sure Trump will be worse. But Biden could actually stop Israel. Arms sales, monetary aid etc. It would probably even make him more popular. But he won't because Israel is a strategic US military asset for dominating the region. So I think the epithet is fair. Maybe less useful inside the US, during an election year. But building a movement against US imperialism will be more productive than building a movement against Trump, narrowly.

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    bencourtice,
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    @DrALJONES "We got water..cups..supplies..this is very, very organized... There is definitely a mastermind behind this.”
    Thankyou, Mayor Quimby

    bencourtice, to Palestine
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    Sticker seen at shopping centre carpark in Deer Park. Without more context it could be interpreted as anti-semitic, although the website doesn't otherwise appear to be. Does anyone know the specific context of this meme?

    jpm, to random
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    Tonight I’m cooking with one of the most expensive ingredients in the world

    bencourtice,
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    @jpm ambergris?

    DrALJONES, to random
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    bencourtice,
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    @DrALJONES previously, psychopaths had to go to prison or private schools to network!

    bencourtice, to random
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    O noes! Tha landscape has been iNdUsTrIaLiZeD!!!!
    /1

    bencourtice,
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    This is on the north-western outskirts of Melbourne. I don't know what project it is responding to or the arguments behind it, but anti-solar farm campains are mostly either suffering from terminal NIMBYism or ideologically driven. Often both.
    /6

    RickiTarr, to random
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    HE FLIPPED THE SCRIPT!

    bencourtice,
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    @passenger @AdrianRiskin @BernardSheppard @MacropodCare @michaelgemar @RickiTarr that's en passant. Pedant is the vocalisation used when singing the Pink Panther theme music.

    historyofpunkrock, to punk
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    44 years ago today
    Mick Jones and Paul Simonon with The Clash at Friars Aylesbury, January 05, 1980.

    Photo by Marc Jordan

    It was the first gig on their tour, and the band were supported by Ian Drury and the Blockheads

    image/jpeg

    bencourtice,
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    @historyofpunkrock love that hand drawn poster! a lost art form.

    Adam_Cadmon1, to random
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    We hear about thousands--tens of thousands--of people being killed daily and we just carry on. That's gotta be conditioning. Gotta be.

    bencourtice,
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    @SrRochardBunson @Adam_Cadmon1 the billionaires are unsustainable, far more so than the billions

    bencourtice, to random
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    Whose uglier, me or Phlebopus marginatus?

    bencourtice, to random
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    bencourtice, to Bloomscrolling
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    It's that time of year!

    bencourtice, to random
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    The two wars on . Or, as the saying goes, in war the first casualty is truth.
    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-10/israel-gaza-media-watching-a-sanitised-war/103206528
    The young Israelis who go travelling after their military service are going to be surprised as they increasingly find themselves shunned and unwelcome around the world.

    bencourtice, to random
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    An impressive Manna Gum I saw on this at Barringo Reserve, Vic. ( viminalis). Not the biggest I've seen but the taper is unusually pronounced.

    bencourtice, to random
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    So my pen-friend in Gaza has not only lost his home (his family escaped unscathed, thankfully) but now he and his infant son have serious diarrhea most likely because there is no longer safe water to drink in Gaza. I have no words but anger and helplessness.

    bencourtice, to random
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    MSM coverage of today's rallies in Australia (subtext): "thousands of Palestine supporters rallied for HOURS, frustratingly without providing us with even ONE bit of violence to take out of context and blow out of proportion"

    bencourtice, to random
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    What's the value of setting posts to auto-delete after a certain time? Apart from personal things like privacy, I'm guessing it might reduce instance hardware costs for storage?

    I have no problem setting posts to delete. If I want to pontificate self-importantly enough that it deserves to be kept for posterity (or the day the internet crashes) then I'll put it on my blog.

    bencourtice, to wildflowers
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    Rainy day in the #grasslands - native bees sheltering in a Podolepis linearifolia capitula
    #Wildflowers #EndangeredSpecies

    bencourtice, to Bulgaria
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    As death toll is expected to reach 20 000, a couple if salient points need to be made.

    1. Yes, it was that delivered the catastrophic storm
    2. We can be pretty sure that the US/ destruction of the legitimate, stable government of Libya in 2011 played a large role in the dams that burst having missed maintenance for 20 years

    Climate change and imperialism. Two things we have to stop.

    bencourtice, to random
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    Well, this explains why I have started seeing posts again from someone I blocked. And other problems. Mastodon appears to be a bit underdeveloped. Shame because it has so much potential.
    https://www.jwz.org/blog/2023/08/mastodons-mastodonts/

    bohemianchic, (edited ) to random

    Just thought I should pin something as I engage with more people here.

    Before you follow me, I want you to know of my critical stance towards identity politics, at least in its current form. IP is a tool of the elite to further divide the working class, complicating our collective fight against capitalist exploitation. This division makes it increasingly challenging to reforge unity within the working class and redirect our focus towards the overarching structures of class oppression. This is not to say that we should look the other way when certain identities are being attacked. But if we get caught up in endless debates about what terminologies to use, we're only helping those who truly oppress us.

    We often get sidetracked by virtue signaling. While we're preoccupied with checking if a company has LGBTQ+ members or women on their board of directors or in C-suite positions, we often overlook the fact that these same companies might be contributing significantly to the severe climate crisis impacting millions in less affluent nations or their child labour practices or even underpaying workers (men, women and queer alike) in the developing world. That's why engaging in IP is a losing game for us, the working class.

    NO WAR BUT CLASS WAR.

    If this doesn't sit well in your politics, it's probably better to unfollow.

    bencourtice,
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    @bohemianchic in theory IDpol should be a useful tool to examine non class based oppression and I'm fine with that. Sometimes in practice it looks a bit like building heirarchies of oppression, oppression olympics etc. And equally, making an identity out of "being an ally" and a certain amount of self-aggrandisement that goes with that.

    bencourtice, to random
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    I get CWs on traumatic topics, but WTF is with the "food" CWs on this site? like isn't food one of the integral elements of a culture of sharing and welcoming and exchange? What's to hide?

    bencourtice, to random
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    Good news! Logging native forests to end by Jan 2024. Well I'll be interested to hear what's in the fine print, but on the face of it this is a long overdue acknowledgement of reality by the Vic government.

    https://theaimn.com/conservationists-celebrate-reports-that-state-government-will-end-native-forest-logging-by-the-end-of-the-year/

    bencourtice, to random
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    No, you can't "re-use" old tyres as guards. What are you going to cut them off with? Have you ever tried cutting off a tyre? This one may have come off too late for the tree - time will tell

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