Quote

The Second Coming - William Butler Yeats

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/the-second-coming

Follow Up

MH370 https://www.popularmechanics.com/flight/airlines/a71923663/mh370-missing-plane-search-new-clue/

Straya

2021

• Coal-ition committed to Net Zero by 2050, but not by reducing fossil fuel use. Apparently magic technology is going to save us. With the benefit of hindsight, technology just turned around and upped its consumption.
• Jenkins report revealed misogyny and toxic workplace issues in Parly

2022

• Coal-ition lost in a landslide, Teal wave?
• Dutton becomes Opposition leader
• We learned about Scummo’s secret ministries
• NACC established in the most milquetoast way possible

2023

• AUKUS expansion by The Endlessly Disappointing™ ALP. Formal announcement of nuclear subs plan with Biden and Rishi Sunak
• Voice referendum defeated
• High Court declares indefinite detention regime unlawful

2024

• Stage 3 tax cuts restructured
• Scummo out of parliament

2025

• Fed election … ALP expanded majority

Failed States (and Canada)

2021

• Bipartisan Infrastructure stuff pushed by Biden … all the good stuff stripped out

2022

• Roe v Wade overturned by Supreme Court

2023

• Trump indictments and felony convictions

2024

• Republicans take Prez, House and Senate
• (Canada) Justin Trudeau resignation and 2025 election

2025

• DoGE and the rest
• Aggressive deregulation and destruction of US state
• ICE deployments and murders

Middle East

2021-2022

• Blah blah blah

2023

• Hamas, Oct 7 attack
• Escalation … always escalation
• Houthis attacking shipping

2024

• Direct exchange of strikes Israel, Iran, Hezbollah
• Assad dictatorship collapse (Dec)

2025-2026

• Cuntz being cuntz

Europe

2022

• Russia invades Ukraine (energy companies profit)

2023

• Far right makes gains (including Meloni in Italy, Wilders in the Netherlands, the AfD in Germany, and RN in France)

2022

• Liz Truss
• QE2 dead

Things

The weather here and there

Betting on bushfires https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/senators-demand-crackdown-on-wildfire-prediction-markets/

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/a-journalist-reported-a-missile-strike-then-came-the-death-threats/ar-AA1YOoDi

Body in a suitcase near the Shoalhaven river https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/aug/09/body-woman-found-suitcase-regional-nsw-road-ntwnfb

Enclave of the week https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceuta

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