• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AP_Stylebook
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chicago_Manual_of_Style

Also, there’s three three-way time-offset junctions in Europe (at this time of year), but they all have ‘hard’ international borders. If the junctions were in the Schengen Area, then it’d be like Cameron Corner, but I don’t think you can legally walk freely between countries (and time zones) at these three points, without using an official point of entry (I might be wrong about that, though).

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Europe

I got curious about whether this was possible in the U.S., and it looks like it isn’t!

See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_time_offsets_by_U.S._state_and_territory

… he isn’t himself a war criminal any more than Sam Mostyn could be considered a war criminal if Australia were committing an ongoing genocide.

Herzog isn’t subject to an arrest warrant by the ICC (Netanyahu and Gallant are), but it’s at least arguable he’s a criminal under international law for incitement to genocide. Remarks by him form part of the evidence in the ICJ case: https://www.icj-cij.org/node/203447

I think even in the absence of such remarks you could make the argument it’s Herzog’s responsibility (or Mostyn’s, hypothetically) under international law to use the powers available to him to remove the government to prevent genocide.

But yeah, as you say, the statement “the UN has declared him a War Criminal” is factually incorrect in that there’s been no finding or warrant against him as an individual.

Some analysis from Anne Twomey, professor emerita of constitutional law at the University of Sydney (you may have seen her on YouTube): https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/23/nsw-parliament-rushing-anti-protest-laws

Coverage by the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/dec/23/activist-groups-to-challenge-nsw-protest-laws-on-right-to-free-speech-grounds-ntwnfb

Those are all different accounts, the number at the end of each is different

A key piece of information some people may not be aware of is that James Packer and Mariah Carey were engaged in 2016. So the idea is that Packer suffers even more than the rest of us for having to hear that song a hundred times in December, as each time he is also reminded of his ex.

That it’s dIcTaToR dAn making a menacing phone call from Tiananmen Square, is, as far as I know, just a template and a bit of surreal flair. I suppose it makes some sense for an ALP politician to have a hostile orientation towards an Australian billionaire, especially one who has owned news media.

Do organisations like that generally use platforms like Lemmy? Do they have a presence on Reddit for example?

I’d have thought that platforms like Mastodon (or Twitter) were more suited to things like making announcements.

I suppose forum-like platforms (like Lemmy) could be used for discussion and coordination of initiatives, I just haven’t seen it used like that myself. I would think they’d mostly want at least a semi-private space for that (e.g. an old-school dedicated forum, or a private Facebook group), not just on the open internet like Lemmy.

I’m not sure, but I think it might be. I think in previous years the port has just not scheduled any coal ships during the event.

Rising Tide’s media release doesn’t seem to give any clues either way: https://www.risingtide.org.au/media/nbspcoal-ship-turned-around-by-newcastle-coal-port-blockade-19-people-arrestednbsp

Aussie DT?

That would be Clive Palmer.

Not sure if it would have prevented her running for office again, but in any case the conviction was overturned on appeal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Hanson#Fraud_conviction_and_reversal

Amazing stuff 😆

For future reference, this is what Tony Abbott looks like in speed-dealer sunnies:

If the alcohol is the problem, there’s a lot of non-alcoholic beers available in Australia these days.

Possibly a nitro cold brew? I don’t know if you’d consider that a good pairing with a burger, though!

Maybe a switchel, if you make it yourself and don’t sweeten it too much, leaving it mostly tart.

The game is listed as ‘Platinum’ on ProtonDB: https://www.protondb.com/app/1808500

Anyone else find it odd that this article doesn’t contain the word ‘Trump’ even once?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2onuBxhafg

Full text, to save you giving Murdoch the clicks.

I appreciate it! Archive link as another option: https://archive.is/vRG0P

formally unknown

Whether Epstein was “well” or not in October 2011 is not known but what is is that the world knew who he was a sex offender.

Good grief! I guess news.com.au fired all the sub-editors?

Nobody should ever apologise for taking down X and ChatGPT 😆

That sucks, especially when it was cancelled about 10 minutes before they were due to play.

Can’t really blame the organisers for making a decision on the basis of safety at the time, although maybe they need to invest in better security barriers.

I hope you at least scored a free drink (https://aussie.zone/post/26700589).