Human Livestock: On the Path

 

Negotiating that period of turbulence had been beyond difficult for the time lords; and the streams of turbulence that swarmed past the house and around the world, that, too, in this difficult epoch was something hard to fathom. That we were here, these biological weapons brought to life, but how it could be, that something they did now would alter the future, but that future hadn't yet happened, so how could we be here. All those old time paradoxes.

Not that it mattered much, in the comparatively brief history of this species.

The cities rained fire down upon the last remaining humans, in those villages which had been protected, at that point, in their environmental domes, for generations, indeed for centuries.

It was a classic time skip, this time across two sections of two centuries each, to a point 400 years in the future when a distressed priest in a temple next to the last preserved stand of ancient forest anywhere on this section of the coast, where the ancients could still echo through the trees and gather force and relay messages from a far greater entity beyond; those invisible cities of millions which moved with purpose across the planet, and which actively played a role when it suited them. Call them gods if you will.

So it was, then, that these fantastical things came to play a role in the Australia of today, of 2026, when the country was disintegrating before our very eyes, when the level of frustration and despondency in the population became visible in the fluidic air, when a worship of something invisible to almost all humans led to a direct change in the course of history.

When they talked of the End of Days and could not even grasp the cataclysm before them; something they could almost grasp. 

When he knew, and they knew, and everything was on the turn. 


NEWS


Australian politics in September 2026 remains a noisy three-way contest. Labor under Prime Minister Anthony Albanese holds a comfortable majority after the 2025 election, yet it faces a Coalition led by Angus Taylor that is struggling to contain the rapid rise of Pauline Hanson’s One Nation. Cost-of-living pressures, housing shortages, immigration and energy policy dominate the agenda, while the next federal poll is not due until 2028. The atmosphere is already coarse; personal attacks have become a daily feature rather than an exception. 

en.wikipedia.org

The latest eruption of name-calling began when One Nation posted a satirical cartoon that labelled Liberal MP and former SAS captain Andrew Hastie a “traitor” and “gutless maggot” for giving evidence in the Ben Roberts-Smith defamation trial. Hastie demanded Hanson and Barnaby Joyce either own the slur or delete it; when they denied the wording he called them “lying cowards.” Independent senator and fellow veteran Jacqui Lambie then piled in, branding Hanson a “bloody maggot,” a “coward” and an “angry little woman.” The RSL even felt obliged to intervene. The spectacle of elected officials trading insults about courage and patriotism while a cartoon does the heavy lifting has become one of the more farcical chapters in recent parliamentary life. 

thenightly.com.au

Albanese himself has spent months defending his property portfolio. He still owns a Marrickville house bought in 2006 for just under $1 million and now valued at around $2.6 million; he also purchased a $4.3 million cliff-top home at Copacabana in 2024, a move widely criticised as tone-deaf during a housing crisis. Opposition questions about negative gearing, capital-gains discounts and rental income from both properties have repeatedly drawn angry replies from the Prime Minister, who insists he “knows what it is like to struggle.” The optics of a leader living rent-free at The Lodge while collecting tens of thousands in rent from two investment properties have not helped. 

news24.com.au

The same Marrickville suburb supplied the latest embarrassment: a $6 million grant from an invitation-only infrastructure program for upgrades at Marrickville Golf Club, which sits 200 metres from Albanese’s remaining house. The Prime Minister holds an undeclared honorary membership dating back more than a decade; he claims he never knew about it and does not play golf. Critics call the grant pork-barrelling; Albanese retorts that he is simply “a good local member” fixing a sewerage problem that floods the Cooks River. In a political culture already reduced to cartoon slurs and property ledgers, the image of the Prime Minister’s backyard golf club receiving millions while he and his opponents trade “maggot” and “coward” has become an almost perfect illustration of the current absurdity. 

smh.com.au

Australian Senate Passes Expanded Online Safety Powers Amid Free Speech Concerns

The Online Safety Amendment Bill cleared both houses on September 10, building on the under-16 social media ban by letting the Commissioner summon individuals for sworn questioning, with fines up to $364,000 or jail for refusal. Penalties for platforms rise to $99 million, while a related Digital Duty of Care draft would force services to prevent 'serious harms' defined by the Communications Minister. Opponents like the Coalition and commentators warn it risks suppressing criticism on topics like climate policy or migration, but the government insists the focus remains on child safety and illegal content.

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