Mischief Brew - Coffee, God and Cigarettes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qhu2L9MHoj0

Coffee, God and cigarettes are all that you need
It's all that you need just to be
as free as me

More evidence that the #Libs’ strategy is not about policies but about pictures, sountbites & vibes. We should be used to this by now.

They do this because it works. Same as circus Donald: it’s not about economics or governance, it’s about #distraction as cover for accelerating #plunder in times of crisis. #AusPol

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-12/coalition-policy-lack-of-detail-anthony-albanese-fall/105165142?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other

“How Israel uses seductive imagery to hide its military transgressions”

by David Miller, Paul Salvatori and Marion Fernando in Tracking Power Update on Substack

@palestine
@israel
@UKLabour

“Marketing female sexuality & establishing a ‘hip’ social media presence are just some strategies Israel employs to distract from the violent crimes it’s committing vs Palestinians”

https://open.substack.com/pub/trackingpower/p/how-israel-uses-seductive-imagery-305?r=27oltk&utm_medium=ios

The Bad-Faith Interrogator - a troll who attempts to distract attention from substantive discourse and waste your time and energy by demanding simple answers to complex questions.
#disinformation #distraction #manipulation

https://custode.org/2023/10/08/the-bad-faith-interrogator/

A quotation from Bertrand Russell

A man may feel so completely thwarted that he seeks no form of satisfaction, but only distraction and oblivion. He then becomes a devotee of “pleasure.” That is to say, he seeks to make life bearable by becoming less alive. Drunkenness, for example, is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 1 “What Makes People Unhappy?” (1930)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/russell-bertrand/760…

THINK OUTSIDE THE CAGE

#smartphones #distraction #HumanBehavior

'Limited smartphone accessibility led to reduced smartphone use, but instead of becoming less distracted, participants shifted their attention to their laptops. '

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-03-constantly-distracted-ways-procrastinate-isnt.html

TechXplore: Those constantly distracted by their phone will just find other ways to procrastinate if it isn’t nearby, study suggests. “Limited smartphone accessibility led to reduced smartphone use, but instead of becoming less distracted, participants shifted their attention to their laptops. Across conditions, participants did not spend different amounts of time on work or leisure […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/28/techxplore-those-constantly-distracted-by-their-phone-will-just-find-other-ways-to-procrastinate-if-it-isnt-nearby-study-suggests/

“The #Signal #leak was never about an #app. It was a diagnostic stain, exposing the rot festering beneath the Mythic US’s #veneer of #democracy and #law. The fleeting obsession with #encryption #protocols and personnel errors encapsulated the farce: a society expertly trained by its #distraction #machine to fixate on trivialities while the Operational US – the militarist-oligarchic core – wages #illegal #wars with #psychopathic #impunity”

https://open.substack.com/pub/hailyb/p/beyond-the-app-americas-willing-acceptance?r=27oltk&utm_medium=ios

“Beyond the App: America's Willing Acceptance of Imperial Crime”

by Raja Sohail Bashir in The Geopolitical Compass on Substack

“This article wields the Signal leak as a diagnostic tool. The disproportionate attention to process over substance exemplifies how the distraction machine operates: trivialities amplified, atrocities obscured, and publics anesthetized to the crimes committed in their name”

https://open.substack.com/pub/hailyb/p/beyond-the-app-americas-willing-acceptance?r=27oltk&utm_medium=ios

The reason why I don't like open-plan offices and love working from home. The DnD mode is much more effective.

Absurd blame game: If - hypothetically- someone would have been able to sneak into a newly created chat group of high level officials that no one could have known existed -, this would be an even more severe breach. #distraction

Panel 5 of this https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/evm is

(comic by @ZachWeinersmith )

The biggest distraction when trying to write

Headline: Trump officials mistakenly texted war plans to reporter

Actual news: Trump officials intentionally use(d) unclassified systems to share classified information

Former Ranger Says Be Afraid For ALL Public Lands

https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2025/03/op-ed-former-ranger-says-be-afraid-all-public-lands

they expect to force upon us their awful agenda of selling off what is ours…