Kyle just finished printing out the form he needed to send to a client, an elderly woman who had just lost her husband. He felt empathy for her and really wanted to get it done as fast as possible. Searching the nearby desk, he could not find the stapler. He looked over and saw it sitting out in the open, on a distant desk. He reached out to grab it but was stopped by a voice. “Have you had your operators course updated?” the performance and adjustments teams communication and awareness support officer asked. “No, I didn’t know that I had to,” Kyle was unsure if she was joking or not, but he...

“From the river to the sea,” is an expression that has become illegal in Australia. An insecure nation with government often desperate to placate foreign interests and those who keep the politicians rich. And, in 2026 any thing that has been determined as ‘antisemetic’ is forbidden. Read, anything that is anti-Israel. Not, necessarily Jewish. Bonnie Carter, who was taken by the police and has not been charged at this time. Upset them enough to wear a shirt. What she wore, ensured that armed, mostly men could force her to go with them. Her fate in their hands, and the hands of their masters....

The special alliance of Israel and the United States have attacked Iran, again. How severe and protracted this war shall become, we do not know. The lapdogs of empire likely will support their masters, the usual coalition such as America’s Ghurkas, or Australia, what remains of the arthritic UK and the Gulf States built on slavery and bribery. The Coalition of the Killing. Iran has it’s friend as well, China, Russia, the Houthi’s and other members of the ascending BRICS. The war is almost a symbolic deathroe of the 20th century order, of Western might and exceptionalism at the expense of the...

I want to stay up late, drinking coffee while the moon stands high. Talking with friends or, strangers, why not both? Discussing philosophy, the stars, literature and art. Hearing and sharing thoughts of of our own. Not talking points framed by others or references to safe culture, pop themed entertainment lollies. I want to sit across from another mind, or minds, see their eyes warm with thought, feeling, passion. To feel their words, to know they mean it. I want to be there when dangerous things are said, when threads of humanity linger between sorrow, regret, to be puled back by joy and...

“(redacted) said that she felt gods presence next to her when she was in bed.. she knows that jesus watches over her. And he helped save her life. Whoops” “You should dress up as him (Jesus) when you see her.” The humour of rapists. Men close to power. Men of power. Government and the wealthy class. Those in academia. The elites of society. Those who are powerful because millions of armed agents of government make them so. Millions of ordinary people, citizens, who believe in the hierarchies of coercion and ensured through gatekeeping, believe in the church of government so long as their...

“Down this road on a summer day in 1944, the soldiers came. Nobody lives here now. They stayed only a few hours. When they had gone, a community, which had lived for a thousand years, was dead. This is Oradour-sur-Glane, in France. The day the soldiers came, the people were gathered together. The men were taken to garages and barns, the women and children were led down this road, and they were driven into this church. Here, they heard the firing as their men were shot. Then they were killed too. A few weeks later, many of those who had done the killing were themselves dead, in battle. They...