We abandoned the Olympian gods

#MakeZeusGreatAgain ⚡️😤🏛️

Left unity is a beautiful thing

Newly discovered papyrus scroll reveals what Plato did in his final hours.
theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…

No estate is so useless as that of the man of learning in his natural innocence, and none so necessary in conditions of oppression by superstition or by force.

–Kant, Posthumous works

“In your death, your spirit and your virtue should still glow like a sunset glow around the earth: otherwise yours is a bad death.”

— Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Excellent interview with Max Kaiser, cofounder of the Jewish Council of Australia, on the attempt to smear critics of Israel as antisemites. The Jewish Council of Australia is doing important work, and we should all stand alongside it.

Relevant for other industries where casualisation, precariousness and under-payment are rife — academia, for example.

the fact that the 40 beheaded babies lie received global news coverage for days on end, while the mass graves of handcuffed people in hospital grounds has received next to nothing, should teach you a very important lesson.

The diggers fought for my freedom to call it Twitter not X, lest we forget 😤😤😤