If your antisemitism envoy can’t be arsed saying anything about the actual Nazis parading around Melbourne and bashing dark people, it does kind of beg the question of why exactly you have an antisemitism envoy.
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If your antisemitism envoy can’t be arsed saying anything about the actual Nazis parading around Melbourne and bashing dark people, it does kind of beg the question of why exactly you have an antisemitism envoy.
Emboldened, work-shy Nazi thugs. They attack defenceless women in our parks. They deliberately commit affray, assault, and issue violent threats. Revoke their bail. Use police, media and bystander footage to lay new charges. Yesterday would have been a good time. www.theage.com.au/national/vic...
Film director wants more AI: the only quote you need to know in this story is that he says 'filmmakers ...who are the only people I really care about'. Not writers, crew, actors, artists ...
Is she still alive?
This is breathtakingly bad journalism from the national broadcaster. Probably caused by not having enough time, not enough editing, not enough ... god knows what I give up good lord. 'Undertone'. Wowww.
The Norwegian Government has made a new tourism ad, and it's surprsingly honest and informative! 🇳🇴
This is the most accurate and Australian criticism of a cooking show ever. And the answer is either, 'Yeah, nah' or 'Nah, yeah'.
WOW.
ABC RN journo just now 'neo-Nazis had a minor role in the rallies' and honestly she should be taken off air for that - that is clearly untrue even if you only looked at the ABC's own reporting.
These drivelling cowards, attacking brave First Nations women. Australians want them arrested and prosecuted with common-criminal charges, not just 'tracked and surveilled'. Consequences. They must be recorded on St Kilda Road or nearby CCTV.
A beautiful 20-minute film about Icelandic teenagers, pufflings (baby/adolescent #puffins) and working out where to go. I do love young people. They should be in charge of nearly everything, including puffin assistance. aeon.co/videos/the-u...
Mainstream publishers persist in bringing out books full of 'what I reckon' and 'my friend sells spirulina in fancy bottles' pretendy-cure wellness influencer/celeb nonsense for everything from menopause to cancer to immune disorders to endometriosis.
Nazis bashed 4 people in unprovoked attack at Camp Sovereignty "Camp Sovereignty organisers said police arrived at the site after the men had left and made no arrests."
Independent Senator Lidia Thorpe, whose uncle Robbie Thorpe established the camp, wants the attack investigated as a hate crime. “The aim of this attack was to cause fear and terror in the hearts and minds of our people.” www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/nationa...
Yikes!
Substack getting out the handcuffs for writers, cartoonists, boutique sellers ...
Beautiful 1860s Victorian butterfly, which was used to store small packets of sewing needles on the underside of the wings. This was a collaboration between a London-based drapers company and a sewing needle manufacturer. On exhibit at Tatter Blue, a Brooklyn textile museum. IG tatterbluelibrary
I got a message from my electricity company warning me what the winter quarter bill is going to be.
Astrid Johnson
Never a clearer example of the uselessness of Bernie Sanders & the other old, ineffectual Democrats. They comment, instead of trying to make anything happen. RFK Jnr will stay until he's entirely ruined the US health system, or the stupid supplements & steroids kill him, or he is removed.
The sublime writer Sebastian Smee on an exhibish of remarkable works by brilliant and often overlooked UK women artists 1920s-1940s. (Of 25 artists only 7 had kids, ie the time.) Possible paywall. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Racy video? Slutty strumpet! Tame video? Vanilla vixen! If you're a woman, you're doing it wrong.
A pinnacle. If only it was arranged in the shape of a cheese ball-shaped jar of cheese balls.
Now you're talking.
You mean they're bits stamped out of the middle of Cheezels before they were Cheezels? So, not even actual cheese? Or balls? But flavoured sort of extruded polystereney coin bits? In a JAR. This is all very discombobulating, Josh.
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Thank you Margo, love the leaves.
So happy the dog is OK but finding out that Americans have something called 'cheese ball jars' in their homes has been unsettling. Why balls? Why a jar? (I know why cheese.)
We all grow up in families that shape us and that we think are 'normal', until we realise they're not. To hear Robbie Katter jnr say years of his father's instant mood changes, rage & threats of violence (the public ones) are 'not a big deal' made me sad for him.
#BogongMoths are a crucial spring food source for #MountainPygmypossums - declines in Moth numbers are an urgent threat to the possums’ survival. Help scientists track the Bogong Moths via #ZoosVictoria Moth Tracker: www.zoo.org.au/moth-tracker/ Image - Zoos Victoria. #citizenscience #wildoz
I mean, why publish an author's book to be translated in the first place? Why not just get AI to extrude what an algorithm hawks up instead of what an author might write with heart & brain & imagination & life experience? Why rely on talent & expertise & exquisite nuance? Why not eat a bath mat?
You absolute darling for sending me this! xx to you and your girls.
This week a neighbour and a stranger have been extraordinarily kind & generous with their professional expertise & help for a family problem. I'm so grateful for good folk.
This is beyond farcical. I thought the ALP said they were going to stop this sort of outsourcing?
Lubna Marsawa's beautiful tribute to her dear friend and the people of Gaza, as Israel's terrible genocide continues, millions protest worldwide & governments dither. The heartbreak of loss for Palestinians. @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/ahme...
Here's a black and white 1926 photo of lovely big ham Harry Houdini listening at the bigger end of séance medium Anne Benninghofen's spirit trumpet, after they announced together that she'd been a fraud for 30 years.
Person who posted crossly that I must follow rules about how to use socials - Rule 1 and Rule 2, no less - now even crosser that I said I wouldn't follow their rules (how dare I say there were rules). Choosing to ignore truculent questions doesn't mean I'm scared; it means I'm imperious.
Might have been my guess too, but it wasn't. See original thread!
Karin you've made me scurry up a ladder! The book is A Royal Commission Into The Australian Economy by John Clarke and Ross Stevenson. (1991) Here is the errata slip. The book is still pretty bang on: you could change some of the politicians' names without messing much with the general thrust.
Again, you can use a search engine to see which Australian synagogues have been subject to two well-reported arson attempts this year, and which attack was cited by the government when expelling the Iran diplomats. That's my hometown. I'm not your search engine, nor am I subject to your 'rules'.
Guilty!
Any reputable search engine will tell you in which Australian city there have been recent arson attacks on synagogues. I don't know why you're @ing me about this.
It's so good.
That too.
Australian satirist & excellent human John Clarke once colluded with his publisher to release a book with an errata slip inside each copy, on which all the errors were fake and hilarious. The sort of thing that you wistfully wish you'd thought of, while standing & applauding.
One very big, extra reason for not wanting the stupidly-named AI to steal our work: it's killing children with its built-in depraved indifference & excreted cruelty. TRIGGER warning: suicide, child endangerment. @tonyburkemp.bsky.social
I call on the Australian government to #RaiseTheRate of all support payments to a living wage. This would be the single most effective way to lift the productivity, quality of life, and well-being of the whole country. #CommitToALivingWage
In my hometown a paid arsonist criminal burned a synagogue.
If you're referring to yesterday's murder of police, you might like to read previous court reports about the man who shot them. A lot of facts are already in. If he's caught and charged, nobody can comment until after a new verdict.
Yep.
The attack on the Melbourne synagogue was not against Zionists, or Israelis. Hundreds of thousands of Australians who rally for and support Gaza's people and Palestinians, including many Jewish people, are doing it without being anti-semitic.
No country should tolerate attacks inside it that were organised or funded by agents of a foreign country. The strongest diplomatic sanction is understood to be the expulsion of the representative office: ambassador and embassy staff.
I agree. Australia should already have instituted maximum sanctions against Israel's government, financially and politically.
'Grievance politics' was a clear reference to the 'sovereign citizen' who murdered police in Northern Victoria on the same day the Iranian arson-for-hire story broke.
Where the synagogue was burned by hired arsonists.
You coward; you can't even use your real name or bother to check the non-political status of Australians targeted in an arson attack paid for by Iranian govt thugs. Israel's actions are an abomination; that's not an excuse to attack Jewish people. Blockity, block.
If you @ me with thuggish anti-Semitism or bullshit Israeli government propaganda you get blocked, quicksticks. I will not read the rest of your rantypants tanty.
Iranian terrorists targeting Jewish people in my local area. Enraging and awful. People doing their job murdered by an unhinged grievance-addict influenced by American conspiracies. Desperately sad. What a terrible day. Love to everyone who needs some.
Absolutely thrilled for my client Mardathoonera woman and Murujuga Traditional Custodian Raelene Cooper who today won her Federal Court case against the Environment Minister. All that remains is for Murray Watt to make his s10 declaration protecting Murujuga. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Problem is, if you know a placebo is a placebo then you don't get the placebo effect. And you shouldn't sell something as a remedy if it's a placebo, especially to people who are not stupidly-rich like these guys.
The UK has proclaimed Palestine Action 'terrorists'. The group doesn't advocate violence & the most they've done is trespass & spray-paint slogans like 'Free Gaza'. People being arrested for wearing Tshirts & holding placards. UK folk now defiantly wearing Tshirts that say Plasticine Action, etc.
there are lots of exceptions of course but Substack and the like always seemed to hype up the "who needs bosses?" aspect, omitting the part where authors have to do marketing, social media, customer service, engagement analytics, etc. on top of putting out stuff worthy of expendable income.
The wannabe billionaire bros can't age backwards. All this nonsense with sciencey names. Drinking meth blue is contraindicated with lots of things (medications, common sense). It's all an unhelpful response to severe anxiety. Try donating, volunteering, going home. www.theage.com.au/lifestyle/he...
Video shows a blanket knitted by Irish activists as a tribute to Palestinian children killed in Gaza. Each square of the blanket represents 10 of the nearly 19,000 children killed by Israeli forces in the besieged enclave.
Mariam Abu-Dagga, one of the most prominent photojournalists in Gaza, has also been murdered in the attacks. Three colleagues in a single strike. We will never recover from this. What an unbearable reality Palestinian Journalist Abubaker Abed reports
If you want to see a posh-bonkers idea of Melbourne in 1953, have a gander at this.
Epstein's friends are so cosmopolitan ...
Random is fine! For example here is a photo of my mother and her sisters, from left to right: Wanda, Linda and Glenda, maybe 1950-52. They had a dolly called Brenda.
Yeah, 'twas a wow moment.
Thanks. Especially support those who don’t have regular salaried gigs like I do. Thinking of my patreoned/substacked colleagues like @lelievre.bsky.social @meganjherbert.bsky.social, Alan Moir, Peter Broelman…
And once when a sub-editor kept using my column punchline as the headline I rang & asked him why he was sabotaging me and he said people like me didn’t belong on the op-ed page. An editor who doesn’t like you is the stuff of terror!
An editor (blessings upon Lesley Dunt) once asked me ‘is this bit supposed to be real French or comedy French?’ so clearly it was neither. (Now I alway ask P.Hawker.) I have been saved so many times by editors and love them fervently for it.
I saw multiple organisers videoing with ipads at set points to estimate the crown using data as they passed on the Brisbane march. What data are the media and others using to estimate numbers?
It is absurd for police to say a crowd is 10,000 strong when organisers say 100,000. Well, which is it? It's the media's job to get a proper estimation. (My late grandad, a shearer, said sheep & cattle drovers were the best estimators; now I s'pose it might be an algorithm).
Proud of you Brisbane 👏🏼👏🏼💪🏼
I'm convinced that some book and media editors deliberately let a bad writer - who's also awful - become hoist on their own petardy sentences. In the same way as a stylist allows their celebrity client to choose a Calamine-pink plastic baby-doll dress with bosom propellers to the Oscars.
More signs from #MarchForHumanity in nipaluna/Hobart today - massive turnout - #MarchForPalestine #CeasefireNow #EndFamine
Clear message from everyone at the Canberra rally. #SanctionIsraelNow
I hope the people of Gaza somehow know so many people are thinking of them and trying to influence change. I can't believe the world's governments are letting another genocide go on. And all those ex-Ministers in weapons industry jobs: if there's a hell, you're going.
I love this bandage from c.1900 featuring illustrations on how to wrap wounds resulting from accidents involving a soldier, a sailor, a miner, and a woman whose clothes have caught fire. This amazing object is part of the Wellcome Collection in London.
Deloitte? The one just given a giant federal govt contract to report on childcare? Using AI bullshit? If true, maybe govt can cut out the middle trough & just get AI to extrude a scramble of previous outsourced reports, a 1997 Texan romance novel, Daily Mail articles & some imaginary statistics.
What a bunch of snouters.
I did the fruit-bread toast version and I will fight anyone who dares to remonstrate. With a butter knife.
@RonniSalt so often wipes the insects off the national windscreen and tells us exactly what's going on.
I read somewhere, if marriage benefited women, it would have been taken away from us by now.
Hey, what's the vibe about the nationwide white supremacy cowardly dickhead anti-immigration marches on 31 August? Are we ignoring? Are we turning up with signs, silently? Heckling? What would be most useful? @whiterosesociety.bsky.social
Age & SMH running a story on summer fruit from the UK Telegraph - in winter - with an overblown 'protects against disease' headline. So lazy. (The independent Media Bias/Fact Check monitor puts the UK Telegraph bias at extreme right & other credibility: medium). www.theage.com.au/lifestyle/he...
Oh good, don't worry about AI helping to take away human rights & driving us into a dystopia in a careering Corolla with a brick on the accelerator. The moral delinquency is totally supervised!
There's a lovely bit of you in there.
For your own sake, please do not comment on the merits of any individual case. The legal time for that is coming, after verdicts.
Tangent: women, children & others have tried for decades to get better laws & judges to realise that powerful and non-powerful men harass and rape, they do it without witnesses & all rapes are awful. Regardless of any individual cases, more judicial understanding of these things gives us hope.
We are all very tired when we write the caption ... x
Verified for Gaza: Medical Aid 4 Palestinians www.map.org.uk Restless Beings restlessbeings.org Fund for wounded Gaza kids gascf.org My Insta, Facebook for other deets. An art prints sale for Palestinian Red Crescent is zawyeh.store/posters/ This 1 by Jafar Dijani.
oh my beverly! as an author for younger readers it does not get any better than this - look at the little library card!!
Oops I meant to write 'her party caused' ...
The Age & SMH running more syndicated faff from the right wing UK Telegraph, while shoving in references to 'Macca's', Rockhampton & Geelong & leaving in some dismissive colonial ugliness. (Not grasping that UK 'middle class' in the title translates to 'rich' here.) www.smh.com.au/traveller/re...
having thought about this for three days, my current status is: what the FUCK are we doing trying to ban social media for kids and not banning AI use? we are literally telling them not to use the computer to talk to their real friends but instead to the imaginary technology monetisable 'friends'.
Canberra's Australia National University paid 3/4 of a million bucks for a luxury renovation of Julie Bishop's office 3000 miles away? And the rest of this snouty business! After her caused massive new student debts = forced drop-outs, struggles with jobs & rent & family decisions. Cold as.
I needed this today, MH x
