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Day 26 cont 🥷🥷🥷📸🤳🤳

#Kooyong MP #MoniqueRyan had just remarked that the national broadcaster’s annual budget was “about as much as we spend on keeping 100 refugees on #Nauru and #PNG” when a man’s voice suddenly bellowed from the back of the room.

“We’re just here to ask about immigration and crime,” he said.

A meeting of Kooyong candidates led to a heated confrontation between agitators and other attendees.
In a room at the #KewLibrary filled with #CivicMinded locals waiting to hear from the Kooyong candidates about the state of the media, the arrival of the three unexpected men disrupted the calm.

Leading them was a bald man with a #goatee, wearing a black T-shirt emblazoned with the logo of the “#AustralianWorkersAlliance” – a self-described nationalist organisation whose mission includes the “preservation of #WesternCulture and identity”. One of the other men wore a leather jacket and filmed the room with his #phone – a dead giveaway that the goal was to capture a viral “gotcha” moment. The third man, dressed in a grey hoodie and sneakers, loitered nearby with his hands in his pockets as back-up.”

The old LNP, Advance create scene, capture distribute trick.

#AusPol / #Independent / #Kooyong / #FarRight / #extremism / #Advance / #SandraBourke / #LNP / #Liberal / #Nationals <archive.md/V3knV> / <theage.au/politics/federal/vic> (paywall)

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Day eleven cont: 🌊💨🌀🌡️

The #LNP have a candidate problem continued…

“Speaking at a #RenewableEnergy conference in #Sydney on Wednesday, #SurangelWhipps Jr described seeing two-thirds of an island in his archipelago country disappear under water in his lifetime. “For those of us in the #Pacific who have lived through storm surges, #rising #ocean levels and increasingly high tides, the phrase ‘water lapping at our door’ is not a metaphor or a punchline. It’s our fear and reality,” he said.

The comment was an apparent reference to a 2015 incident in which #PeterDutton, while #ImmigrationMinister, was overheard on a hot mic joking with then-prime minister #TonyAbbott (#dickhead) about delays during a visit to Papua New Guinea (#PNG) , saying “time doesn’t mean anything when you’re about to have water lapping at your door”.

Rules are applied only when needed.

#AusPol / #Politics / #tact / #Machiavellian / #Liberal <theguardian.com/world/2025/apr>

The Guardian · Palau president delivers barb at Peter Dutton over ‘water lapping your door’ hot mic jokeBy Adam Morton

6.9-magnitude earthquake has struck off Papua New Guinea's coast, according to the United States Geological Survey.

The quake struck at a depth of 10km near the southern coast of New Britain at about 7.04am, it said.

The US Tsunami Warning Center said there is a threat of a tsunami.

#tsunami #PNG #Earthquake

Souce ABC News Australia.

@samlitzinger Complaining about NYT distracts from the way more important news they may have missed.

theguardian.com/world/2025/mar

JD Vance tells US troops in Greenland, stationed in that part of the Kingdom of Denmark under an agreement with Denmark, that the US has to gain control of Greenland.

About as aggressive as it gets.

The Guardian · JD Vance says US needs control of Greenland to fend off China and RussiaBy Miranda Bryant

No obvious results from web searches, so:

I'm creating an image gallery on a static HTML website. I take full resolution images (#webp, #png) from users and generate thumbnails and index pages with <figure> and <figcaption>. I am struggling with a good way to have users provide a caption of each image, because EXIF / XMP in modern formats has terrible tool support.

My current thinking is a csv file with filename and figcaption.

Have you implemented a better solution? If not, please boost.