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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.

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.

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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

    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

    jpm, (edited ) to random
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    Avocado:

    bencourtice,
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    @jpm I quite like a (tree-ripened) avocado - cut in half, eat with a spoon. If its properly ripened, the flavour is mild and subtle but excellent. Fuerte variety is my favourite. Supermarket bought avocados rarely match up - usually Hass variety, picked too early and stored too long.

    flawed, to Palestine

    What would you call a society this genocidal whose blood thirst is still at this, after massacring 30,000 Palestinians & still continue to massacre them?

    Most protests we hear about removing Nethanyahu are largely about internal power struggle, but not against genocide itself.

    https://mondoweiss.net/2024/02/over-2-3-of-jewish-israelis-oppose-humanitarian-aid-to-palestinians-starving-in-gaza

    @palestine #palestine #israel #gaza

    bencourtice,
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    @flawed @palestine As we remember Rhodesia, so shall the world remember Israel

    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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    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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    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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    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/

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

    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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    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.

    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.

    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

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

    bencourtice, to random
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    Maybe that's why they call it a Tree Violet? Has been living here (not growing much) for a few years now.

    with a garnish on it!

    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?

    decryption, to random
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    bencourtice,
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    @decryption Caltex schmaltex. The BP at the other end of town has the best toasties and salad rolls. Not changing.

    bencourtice,
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    @decryption yeah I am just near there too. Salad rolls with ham, corn beef, salami etc are excellent, made fresh on the day, plenty of salad. Chicken not so good, probably it's out of a can. Maybe the toasties aren't amazing but reasonably good. Don't bother if you're vegetarian though!

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

    bencourtice,
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    Elsewhere I see roadside signs opposing solar farms (!) and in the Kiewa Valley, opposing a big grid-connected battery.
    /5

    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

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