It's already starting btw: "New users in the Philippines and New Zealand are the first to be asked for an annual payment in the latest change to the platform."

Real glad I've been off Twitter for over a year now.

Precisely 12 hours before a teenage boy attempted to take his life in a WA youth detention unit last week, he was told his bid to be given bail had been delayed again.

Key points:

• The teen had his bail hearing adjourned 12 hours before self-harming
• He had been due to have his next bail hearing tomorrow
• The boy is now on life support in Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital

WARNING: This story discusses incidents of self-harm.

It was at least the third time his bail had been adjourned since he allegedly broke into a caravan park and committed aggravated burglaries in July.

The boy, simply known as "V" in the Children's Court transcript obtained by the ABC, had been on remand since then.

He was detained at Unit 18 – a controversial youth detention facility within the maximum-security Casuarina adult prison – where he spent his 16th birthday in September.

V's Aboriginal Legal Services lawyer and Judge Wendy Hughes both expressed concerns about his wellbeing there.

But there were several issues holding up the bail hearing. Administrative delays

On October 3, the Children's Court heard the state prosecutors were yet to view the evidence and information relevant to the case tendered by police.

"The state advised, as they say today, that they hadn't received any disclosure – although we had," V's lawyer Georgia Keysers said.

"And that they were seeking an adjournment to consider the state case in relation to those. So, it's a month later. V is still in custody."

The court was told V was charged with other offences, including breaching bail and assaulting a public officer – which complicated things further.

Then there was finding someplace else the boy could stay.

"It is difficult to find somewhere suitable for V to put him in the best place for bail," a Youth Justice officer told the court on October 11.

Grandmother willing to house teen

Several options were proposed, including his grandmother's house.

"He has spoken to grandma, she's willing to have him," Ms Keysers, said.

"He's obviously good to have bail."

But the state argued that a bail report was necessary, and Judge Hughes agreed.

She reassured V that she was not denying him bail, she just needed a plan.

"V, your lawyer has done the right thing," she told him.

"She has told me that she's worried about you being in Unit 18. I, last time when I spoke to you, said likewise.

"I've got concerns about you being there. I just need a plan, okay?

"So you don't need to persuade me that being locked up in Unit 18 is bad. I already agree with you, okay?"

V responded with: "Yes."

Judge ordered bail report

The ABC understands the teenager has a developmental language disorder, having trouble with communication and processing linguistic information.

"I haven't said no, I'm just saying I'm going to see you next week on Thursday," Judge Hughes reiterated. If you or anyone you know needs help:

• Lifeline on 13 11 14
• Kids Helpline on 1800 551 800
• MensLine Australia on 1300 789 978
• Suicide Call Back Service on 1300 659 467
• Beyond Blue on 1300 224 636
• Headspace on 1800 650 890
• ReachOut at au.reachout.com
• Care Leavers Australasia Network (CLAN) on 1800 008 774

"I'm going to talk about it more, okay?"

V again simply replied: "Yes."

Judge Hughes ordered a bail report, and told V to tell his family that Youth Justice officers were going to come around for a home visit and that she would see him again next week.

But V did not get the chance to speak to his family again.

In the early hours of Thursday morning, the boy was involved in what the government described as an "incident" in Unit 18.

Corrective Services Minister Paul Papalia said that just minutes after V was heard speaking on an intercom – which left officers "concerned" – guards conducting a routine check found him unconscious in his cell.

The teenager remains on life support in Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital.

Western and Israeli embassies in Jordan, Turkey, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran have all been swarmed with protesters. Some lit on fire or pelted with fireworks.

This started only hours after the hospital bombing at like 3 AM. Sun is rising now, shit's gonna get wild.

🇵🇸

Xi Jinping spoke.

Putin spoke.

Kassym-Jomart Tokayev spoke (the Soviet-trained new leader of Kazakhstan as of I think last year or something).

Joko Widodo spoke.

Alberto Fernández spoke.

Abiy Ahmed spoke.

Antonio Gutierrez spoke. Kinda crazy that the UN guy is speaking at something that is explicitly run by China. Pretty cool. He's talking about Israel-Palestine now. I feel like he didn't get the memo that this is supposed to be mostly just about Belt and Road lmao. It's like it's just a UN general secretary speech hour lol.

Other world leaders there. Including VIktor Orban 🤢 🤮

Dilma Rouseff is there. 😍

It's such a powerful image to see all the flags along the wall of so many different countries.

in light of the current narrative warfare, this seems pretty relevant

RIP to everyone. The sad thing is that even these really obvious big crimes that should provide disproportional amounts of media outrage probably will be brushed past like the weather report.

Link - https://twitter.com/MaramGaza/status/1714324984137486468

Minneapolis probably has the most corrupt police force in the entire country. Jesus Christ.

Insane fact I learned from this article: Derek Chauvin and George Floyd were "coworkers" at the same club and almost certainly knew each other personally. Derek Chauvin being the police designated security the club owner was forced to hire and George Floyd being a bouncer.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/858961

I am convinced god has chosen to abandon reason and choose to create the dumbest, most absurd timeline ever

“He could come back,” Sherman said. “Obviously, I’m not a real fan of how the Iraq War went

but

More 👏 queer 👏 female 👏 minority 👏 tech 👏 billionaires

Of all the fucking things Newsom decides to not veto this last month

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/6-year-old-boy-killed-anti-muslim-attack-illinois-police-say-rcna120543

Poor ole Canadian pilots bullied by the aggressive Chinese.... Off the coast of China. They were just allegedly helping to blockade out a Chinese ally. Nothing aggressive about that.

Nobody wants to be the mindless foot soldiers of global capitalism, who woulda thunk it