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Nepo baby Hugo Lennon cosplays as a “concerned centrist” online, but when he wanted to know which version of Mein Kampf to buy there was only one group he turned to. Today we reveal Auspill’s neo-Nazi connections. www.theage.com.au/politics/vic...

LMAO this thread

I don't recall in my reading about 1930s era fascism that they were such whiny little bitches. Fascist clowns only do press releases like this when they're *very* distressed. www.dhs.gov/news/2025/09...

Ritalin LA and Concerta all strengths are apparently out of stock across NSW atm

Overheard a woman saying, “…and she took this greyhound…” she was almost certainly talking about a dog, but I’m so Murricated that I thought she meant a bus

God I hate the term ‘townhome’, a monstrous coinage of the property industry “It’s not a townHOUSE; it’s a townHOME”

Every single brain fart here is horrendous theconversation.com/bill-shorten...

Australia's universities are blighted by a "culture of consequence-free, rotten failure", according to the former chair of a senate inquiry examining governance at public universities. ... "There's no other sector in the country where failure is rewarded so handsomely and with so little scrutiny."

This is more ironic than any of the scenarios Alanis Morissette came up with...

Fastest way to get government to act is not to target politicians but to target capital - this is one of many reasons there are so many anti-BDS laws in the US and continued attempts by Zionists to institute them everywhere.

The fatal problem facing America and the West is that most people still seem to think they can op-ed their way out of this white supremacist fascist hell. You cannot commentate your way out of structural oppression. For the billionth time: organise, strike, and take action. Now

I’ve wasted the first hour of my working day reading the relevant Wikipedia entries for the Beastie Boys’ entire career, plus some irrelevant ones It began when I idly wondered what Ad-Rock and Mike D are up to now

Glad I wrote my silly little anti-AI newsletter rant before I read n+1’s comprehensive slab of hateration

I had another Flash, everyone

There goes another late-night US talk show host (Jimmy Fallon, that guffawing toady, will probably thrive in this moral vacuum)

if we didn't have such a supine arse-licking loser government they would refuse to meet or deal with Donald Trump

maybe one day I won't go "AWWWW YEEEEEEEEEAH!!!" when I get an email with the subject line "Remittance Advice" but today's not that day

I can’t believe there’s a movie about how Ravel wrote Bolero, the most boring and repetitive piece of classical music

Simply astonishing. Maybe Lecturer A should not have to mark over 100 essays in a two-week window in the first place? Invest in qualified staff and reduce impossible workloads FFS www.kcl.ac.uk/about/strate...

‘A Big Bold Beautiful Journey’ really left me cold. Something undergraduate, Fringe Festival-y, about how pleased it is with itself Even the long title annoys me, like it’s trying to evoke ‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’ or ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’

“I think anyone who has looked at the actual sums involved can see that the financial arguments just don’t add up. It’s hard not to surmise that Meanjin was killed at least in part because it was too problematic politically and culturally for the University of Melbourne." | @nickfeik.bsky.social

Wake up babe, new Times euphemism for blatant corruption just dropped www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...

Looking at Boxell et al. (2024) on trends in affective political polarisation across 12 countries, I was struck that in AU it has remained pretty stable (-0.5) compared to Germany’s growing affective consensus (-0.37) & the growing polarisation in the US (+0.56) direct.mit.edu/rest/article...

The tagline has a particular bittersweet quality now doesn't it? It also has a ring of truth for movie superstars... "Some say he's dead...some say he never will be..."

Speaking of the world’s most handsome man rankings

not an exaggeration to say I am WEEPING with laughter at this reply from someone who hadn't seen that Robert Redford died today

I go to a lot of film screenings where they give out free 600ml soft drinks, & sometimes I take a Pepsi or Coke that I do not drink, but keep in my fridge for medicinal purposes dunno if it's the caffeine, sugar or the sheer volume of liquid, but nothing stops a headache like it

Writing this here so I don't waste time actually making a playlist of editing and proofreading songs Baby Animals – One Word

I guess the only way to get Australians to care about climate change is to say it will reduce property values. But also: – climate disasters kill tourism – 'uninsurability' kills infrastructure investment – heatwaves too dangerous to work in lose 0.5% GDP – people can't relocate for work

When I wrote my first book 'Out of Shape' (on the histories & discontents of clothing size & fit) I was innocent & arrogant enough to believe I'd stop foolish media stories on 'vanity sizing' I still have my old Google alert: the dumb stories keep coming. I was but a twig in a mighty torrent

Eurovision? You mean the musical contest set up in the aftermath of the Second World War explicitly to foster peace between European nations by cooperating on a shared broadcast? That Eurovision? It’s totally about politics. Peace is a political stance. As is war. As is doing a genocide.

Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74

To journalists various: the issue is not whether the coalition tears itself apart over climate denialism… the issue is whether we do what we can to save our home. Stop reporting the goddam horse race.

Fascinated by the utterly savage undercurrent of superficially mild ideological slurs reading about how the Exclusive Brethren called a whistleblower 'unbrotherly' in union & socialist circles, the worst thing you can call someone is 'uncomradely' woe betide any 'counter-revolutionary' Maoist

Latest Cheaper Buy Miles winner: some Finnish rye crackers. The size of my hand, thin & crispy as hell. It's listed nowhere on the box but they have a delicious umami taste, faintly like preserved tomatoes. I've been eating them with slices of vintage cheddar cheese

I wrote about the groypers and the Fuentes-Kirk fight years ago, in Hate in the Homeland. Cautioning here that there is still a lot to know about the shooter’s motivation, I’m sharing these two paragraphs here to set the history of this fight in context:

Anyone in the Darebin Parklands region got a spare few minutes and a pressure washer? Some area pests have graffitied The Nest with nazi shit (not sharing a photo), which someone else has valiantly tried to cover up. I'd say the position of Nest near the Healing Trail is intentional.

This basic facility with Internet and pop culture and its impact on political life is only going to get more crucial to understand, from here on out

I know exactly how mediatised feelgood moments manipulate us YET I'm so thrilled to watch someone meet their hero, live their dream or reunite with a long-lost person or object or a celebrity taking the piss out of whatever they're famous for or a celebrity revealing a hitherto unknown talent

Thank god for experts like Joan Donovan to explain these memes reading about far-right meme lore makes me feel like

I think my neighbour who loves to sing is currently warbling away on 'Poor Fool, He Makes Me Laugh', the aria from the Mozart pastiche 'Il Muto' in 'The Phantom of the Opera'

I can't believe John Laws is still alive

I'm currently editing a PhD about talkback radio practice and it's making me reflect on my pathetic parasocial attachments to my favourite ABC Classic presenters

omg Hoyts Cinemas is celebrating 116 years what a very specific milestone to go ham with discount movie tickets over oh no, am I about to go down a rabbit hole about the history of Hoyts Cinemas?

Having just RSVPed to a screening of 'Him' made me glad I don't use Letterboxd because if I did, I'd waste time making a list of films with pronoun titles Him (Justin Tipping, 2025) Her (Spike Jonze, 2013) Us (Jordan Peele, 2019) etc

It could be worse. Meanjin could be going to ANU

How tf does a press photographer become a full prof at ANU in cybernetics with no industry background, no PhD (any degree?) where have I gone wrong where do I apply

Cackling to myself at this thought: ‘Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale’ As Perimenopause Allegory

Big turnout at this morning’s rally against @mupublishing.bsky.social vandalism of Meanjin. @beneltham.bsky.social called for Meanjin’s name and archive to be surrendered so the magazine can be published by someone who deserves to and appreciates the honour