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Margins become irrelevant when the whole system is dangerously unstable, with demonstrated form in swinging alternation between the extremes of the allowable range. Like the climate, or my psyche. -Gobberabung

F.U.

LibSpill

Things

Venezuela, Turkey

Earthquakes and sea ice

RIP Charles Blackman https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/the-last-of-the-antipodeans-charles-blackman-s-legacy-lives-on-20180820-p4zync.html https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/aug/22/my-father-charles-blackman-taught-me-to-be-fearless-and-that-poetry-is-everywhere

RIP Aretha

Jordan Peterson: is he actually a cnt, or is he just a feckless git? He thinks we are ants, feckless git.

NZ rocks - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/21/jacinda-ardern-freezes-new-zealand-mps-pay-tackle-rich-poor-divide - Also the pokies thing - The heavily pregnant member taking herself to hospital on her bicycle to have her baby ...

Good news item: Oz uni students getting less stupid http://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2018-08-22/god-or-evolution:-what-australian-biology-students-think/10148330

Another good news item (!) http://abc.net.au/news/2018-08-19/victorians-to-get-half-price-solar-panels-in-government-scheme/10137484

Canada accepts political refugee fleeing from Australia https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/aug/20/bandidos-informant-granted-refugee-status-by-canada-after-cover-blown-in-australia

#barnabyisacnt https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/aug/17/barnaby-joyce-accused-of-tilting-murray-darling-authority-towards-irrigators

Take the rich off welfare! https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-pentagon-cant-account-for-21-trillion/

Sports and Games (specifically excluding chess)

Go the fcking Bentleigh Greens

Go the Sunny Coast Lightning

Overwatch League Incheon https://overwatchleague.com/en-us/news/22312194/fond-farwell-from-incheon https://overwatchleague.com/en-us/news/22312193/world-cup-incheon-s-standout-players