@thehellmaxxerFU one of my local record stores has little descriptions placed on stickers for each record. the one for earth 2 just says it's by the guy who gave Kurt the gun. feels a bit shitty
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ian chappell roan
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It’s funny that amidst all the speculation over who killed Kurt cobain no one ever talks about the guy who gave him the shotgun he used to shoot himself, the guitarist for the band Earth
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@clairlemon @australian this would have more weight if you hadn't previously published white supremacists and neo- phrenology
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I've got a piece up at the @australian about Grace Tame's rape denialism & how it is the inevitable result of seeing people as either "oppressors" or "oppressed" regardless of their individual conduct
theaustralian.com.au/inquirer/when-…
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@Paul_Karp ooooooh nooooo first the accountancy firm with a laundry list of controversies & now the law firm that represented christian porter?
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MinterEllison pulls logo from Sydney Biennale after DJ storm
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@cosmicjester support it obviously but hard not to be cynical given both major parties are bending over backwards to prevent any other iranians from claiming asylum
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Guardian Australia podcast complained that giving visas to Iranian soccer players reeked of ‘white saviour complex’ and for the love of god shut the fuck up
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The should invent like a baby monitor but for your cafetiere so you don't have to wait around in the kitchen for it to bubble
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@Bedeapk their "we're not political" bit rings a bit hollow when they've advocated for an independent tibet for the majority of their existence
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@intl_weeds my work did this on monday. which is a bit over the top but also means that 'war criminal herzog' was posted in one of the main, office-wide work chats
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Why did RMIT send out a student wide scare mongering email about the completely peaceful protest yesterday
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ian chappell roan@edpity
@JulieSzego julie i know that feeling like you lost your platform because of woke must be comforting but at some point you need to face the reality that you're just a bad writer with unoriginal ideas, a lacking moral compass and an incapability of not writing (badly) about one of two topics
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I just watched this Jacinta Allan press conference again. Her performative contempt in the face of legitimate questions. Her demanding "respect" from others while refusing to show respect herself. Her citing "evidence" while refusing to engage with evidence. Damning.
youtube.com/watch?v=s9shlG…
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@xXpyonpyonXx99 mixes well with omar souleyman's remix of crystalline by bjork
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some of u are pretty concerningly unfamiliar with Australian pop duo “the Veronicas”’ 2007 international crossover hit “untouched”
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@babushkayay i took a 3 month break last year and thought i was having no withdrawal symptoms then my friends pointed out that i was incessantly complaining about how bored i was
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you know police recruitment is in trouble when you see multiple coppers who would require a stool to reach items from the middle shelf
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@simonmontefiore @clairlemon @australian remember when a group started a campaign in which they wrote to the employers, clients, institutions, orgs, festivals, etc of those with significant involvement in the palestine protests to try and have them fired/dropped/reprimanded
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Essential and superb account of how: Adelaide Writers Festival Collapsed under the Weight of its own Hipocrisy & Placed Ideological Intolerance and self Righteous Conformity above Free Speech, Literature and Openmindedness @clairlemon @australian
Claire Lehmann@clairlemon
My article on the Adelaide Writer’s Festival (gift link) theaustralian.com.au/inquirer/how-a…
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@michaelkoziol @mbachelard that's fair i wouldn't want to be included in an article breathlessly repeating words from genocide denialists either
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“Abdel-Fattah would not speak to this masthead for this story. Through intermediaries, she said she would not be quoted in a story that also quoted Zionists.” @mbachelard theage.com.au/national/creat…
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@michaelkoziol @mrjoeaston @ViscountBrooky i wish i was a bad rightwing writer must be nice to be able to scream cancellation (and have that uncritically amplified by most media outlets) and avoid having to face the fact that, in actual fact, my writing Just Isn't Very Good
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NYT columnist Thomas Friedman says he didn’t withdraw from Adelaide Festival in 2024 but was told by organisers that the “timing would not work out”, lending weight to accounts that he was cancelled @ViscountBrooky smh.com.au/national/ameri…
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@JulieSzego julie i know that feeling like you lost your platform because of woke must be comforting but at some point you need to face the reality that you're just a bad writer with unoriginal ideas, a lacking moral compass and an incapability of not writing (badly) about one of two topics
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Watching Australia's cultural sector trying to convince the public that they're warriors for free speech is nothing short of hilarious.
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It’s not funny to get your animals high or even make them ingest smoke at all
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hotboxed my room then looked up and seen my cat doing this wtf 😭
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@intl_weeds hey a couple of his songs from 2013 were pretty decent
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Everyone who thinks Helen garner is emblematic of what a stagnant cesspool Aus culture is needs to take a look at NICK CAVE
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