‪Cell Block 69. Making the best use of narrow stage thrusts since two thousand and nineteen eighty five!‬

There's a hashtag for this! #AltHallelujah and @ellenkushner.bsky.social may be to blame.

I heard there was a secret ooze It turned four turtles into dudes But you don't really care for pizza, do ya? They fought like this, Two swords, a stick A couple sai Some nunchuck tricks Those Ninja boys-a callin Cowabunga

TONIGHT SYDDERNEY! Cell Block 69 make our triumphant FINAL* return! TONIGHT 7:30pm OXFORD ART FACTORY ARENA Where it's always warm, dry, and 1985. Tickets here or at the door m.moshtix.com.au/v2/event/cel... *final until we make our next triumphant return.

No verse. No chorus. BridgeFM. 5pm tonight on Double J. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

“The Pell legacy lives on: no free kicks, don’t back down, be not afraid.” @milliganreports.bsky.social on how children who were sexually abused by the Catholic Church are still denied justice. A very hard read. www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2025/f...

Protect Trans Youth - National Day of Action across Australia Sat Feb 8. See the events and ways to participate here (via @transjusticeau.bsky.social) - transjustice.org.au/youth/

From 3pm this Sunday, Jay & The Doctor are BACK on Double J!* Choosing tunes and telling stories. And the first show has got some real clangers. (Both the tunes and probably stories. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr... *briefly. One month only.

I was so happy to see the return of some creatures with the rain. In the process of repairing our suburban block from all grass to native habitat. Frog zone in the plans. 🥹

Jen caught this mate on the trail cam.

Went to clean the wheelbarrow. Discovered it was otherwise occupied!

Vale Simon Townsend. Thank you Mikky, this is just as I remember him…. And is that Woodrow?

@ournewhomecoach.bsky.social might appreciate this from the letter-app by the Frenzals

Here’s Amy Shark & some giggling fool a few years ago. We chatted again before Xmas, this time about her solo acoustic “Songs & Stories” tour which starts tomorrow, & stories like how the FBI almost stopped the song she made with Tom from Blink happening! on.soundcloud.com/V3bs8V44V3YV...

Just horsing around.

Am I having a stroke?

I showed our 9yo nephew this video taken about an hour before he got to our new place and all he said was “you had nuggets and you didn’t tell me?!”

New band name

@sellingamirror.bsky.social moved to a new place, so new marketplace and new mirrors!

This close to the border, you gotta hedge your bets.

It’s like graaaaavox, on gravy day…

www.bbc.com/news/article... so sad…

We love music! www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...

Seems like the correct setting to restring this guitar. Come see me play the world’s best songs on it (and several more) this weekend at The Baso Stadium Canberra! www.oztix.com.au/search?q=cel...

The ‘JD Vance drank a beer where cameras could see him’ discourse is so weird as an Aussie Does America not have the tradition of ‘extremely staged and focus grouped photo op of a politician having a schooner of mid-strength local beer’?

🚨 breaking: PM Albanese announces the 5 members of the Bali Nine who were still in Indonesian prison have now returned to Australia

Many people don’t know what it looks like when a powerful psychedelic starts to take hold, but everyone recognises the look in a man’s eye when he has fucked up his scheduling.

Whilst maybe it was true that I’d been in the public toilet on the highway just out of Canberra too long, I don’t think it’s fair that the janitor should be allowed to come running under the door like that, and towards where I was sitting.

IIIIIIIIIIT’S TUUUUUUURTLE TIIIIIIIIIIME!!! Is how this interview should have begun. Alas, it’s just a very interesting update on Lake Alexandra and Turtle Month citizen science with @profturtle.bsky.social; without a big musical introduction.

I was speaking to @doctormcdougall.bsky.social from the @salmonmornay.bsky.social #TurtleIsland yesterday. #LakeAlexandra at #Mittagong is pioneering how we do #CitizenScience around the world!! Listen in soundcloud.com/doctormcdoug...

Really excited to hear that the master of music journalism - Richard Kingsmill - is back. He's about to launch a 3 part podcast on the making if this classic Australian album. Can't wait!

After we played the ARIAS, some creepy record shop bloke, seemingly unperturbed by the blood, asked our record label if frenzal could do an instore, “especially that attractive young girl playing the guitar”…

Frenzal Rhomb - Never had so much fun (featuring the one and only @doctormcdougall.bsky.social in a lovely nurse's uniform. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u0e8MYQxNU

Cool. Cool cool. Cool.

Well there goes my theory that Tom Ballard is in TISM. Here they are on Spicks & Specks yesterday, (Tom Ballad on the left, no balaclava). iview.abc.net.au/show/spicks-... (TISM are also on my radio show this week, once I’ve edited out all the swearing and defamation)

Children aged 10-13 years in NSW lock-ups were put in isolation on 172 occasions in 23/24. 70% of these kids were First Nations. 60% of all the kids this age in lock-up are First Nations and 40% of kids who have formal contact with police at First Nations.

"a murder of crows" - "an unkindness of ravens" - pretty big severity downgrade there. murder to unkindness. it's basically the same bird

Spicy.

This is a very important and interesting read about Australian climate change policy: “The Australian Public Servant Who Helped The Oil Industry Convince The World That Stopping Climate Change Was Too Expensive” drilled.media/news/Ipieca3

Once again weeping that I can never create something as funny as "1 day blinding stew"

I’m spiralling here! 8-10 minutes or 6 minutes? (I know it doesn’t matter but I wanna know what changed back at San Remo HQ)

Here’s your friendly reminder to plow through the labyrinth of menus in Microsoft Word to turn off all “connected experiences”. That’s their euphemism for scraping every letter you write to train their AI. Here’s how you do it. 🧵

Whether it's Tim Walz expanding his state's school lunch program or Matt Gaetz giving cocaine and Ecstasy to underage sex workers, both sides have taken controversial approaches to feeding children.

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Back in 2012, a bunch of us decided we'd had enough of the way Alan Jones talked about women. We decided to #destroythejoint. Much love to all those women and men who helped. www.smh.com.au/national/i-t...

Jenna is what you’d call a legend.

Just incase you missed it. It’s today.