'the left has nowhere to go'

happy weekly bsky bubble discourse day to all who celebrate

aykroyd playing against type and singing 'i'll be blowin' yer fuckin' head off when i come' has stayed with me lo these many years

The Teals re-form the Liberal Party along Menzian, c.1944 lines, with professional women at their core, and One Nation re-form the Country Party along anti-urban anti-cosmopolitan, c.1920 lines with weird patriarchy at theirs. Labor goes out for a large Chinese meal and the Greens get 12% nationally

All this bullshit about needing to foster start ups like productivity will die without them. When you scratch them, so many are "we propose to use AI to shine sunlight up your rectum for wellbeing. We are targeting high net worth individuals who are looking for a way to balance their cocaine habit"

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I feel like making it a bit easier for families to travel isn’t a very good argument for tens of thousands of previously long term rentals now staying empty for 80% of the year during a housing crisis

"At first contact with re-entry into national politics, the great hope of the soft left has capitulated across the board"

hey @albomp.bsky.social let's ban this government yeah? they didn't just torture these people they also kidnapped them

Joe Rogan now has the favorability distribution of a Fox News host. Remember all the 2024-2025 hot takes lmaoooo via @carlbeijer.bsky.social

"Pivot to video. Pivot to AI." Nope. We're pivoting back to zines.

in college in the 80s for some reason i spent years drinking bud talls, which were cheap and cheerful but if not ice cold had a weird banana aftertaste. anyway as soon as i could afford it i drank anchor steam. these days i drink mostly white wine or negronis. what is 'virtue signaling'?

Hey now let’s be fair they’re just using the concept of infinite future humans to excuse themselves from confronting present day right wing eugenic and genocidal projects

if only kissinger were still alive

"The 21 May edition of The Wire’s weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured music by Scott Walker, Marvin Tate, Fire-Toolz, Rosa Pistola and more …" Lucy Thraves hosts Adventures In Sound And Music:

Like TAH, I also grew up in predominantly white central Pennsylvania, and I think the distinctive nature of Western PA/Eastern Ohio's racialized populism explains a lot about his approach to the discourse. This is the same regional culture that produced Fetterman, DeSantis, JD Vance, and Ron Paul.

sometimes I wonder if people in other fields have any clue what we go through as women in computational fields... (graph from: www.npr.org/sections/mon...)

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yep 'Labor’s NDIS overhaul will leave participants more ‘isolated’ and ‘segregated’, former royal commissioner warns' www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

'i asked you for a napkin dave' justinribeiro.com/chronicle/20...

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ChatGPT was never Google’s biggest threat; it was always its own hubris. With Search now being sacrificed on the altar of AI dominance, the time has come for users to get serious about moving off Google services. It’s not only destroying its products; it’s trying to further degrade the web itself.

I’ve seen diversity presented as an existential threat to white people as long as I’ve been alive. Including billboards since at least the 2000s. But that’s just when I started traveling. But the truth is percentage-wise there are zero minorities who want to do to white people what they do to us.

utterly utterly fucked

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People will point out that Trump is doing this with a fraction of the GOP which is a fraction of the electorate but it’s also the fraction we privilege above all others in our politics by design and culture.

Madness were my first band, and remain one of my favourites, and I always find the circumstances of their first split, in 1986, very poignant. Barson had left. They'd struggled with Mad Not Mad (which most of the band still hate, despite it being one of NME's albums-of-the-year that year; Suggs

Clown Roma's 'Fun Time' Show (1970) Ref S.736-1984, V & A Museum.

SPECIALIST REPORTS THAT THE CHINESE HAVE A COMPLETELY ACCURATE READ ON CURRENT STATE OF US POLITICS When asked how this is possible, CIA veteran Greg Glubbsy theorizes "It could be that the Chinese have eyes & ears. Or perhaps the death throes of US Empire are particularly loud"

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blah blah no true scotsman whatever - if you're thinking of voting for tucker carlson for any reason you are not 'on the left'

Oh, the attacks on mainline Protestants are definitely coming and have been percolating under the surface in the form of ubiquitous online snark aimed at churches that fly pride flags or support BLM.

It's going to be a mess reverting back to state based systems. The Tasmanian government couldn't run a chook raffle. When my daughter gets kicked off the #NDIS as I expect she will, I don't hold out much hope for a replacement program. #auspol #politas

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We still have ours in Baltimore! Love it. 🐋🩵

i dimly recall joyce answering the question, 'what were you thinking when this photograph was taken?' with, 'would he lend me a pound?'

i played this on a mf teletype don't verbal me

i was in high school when this came out and somebody got braces so we would sing 'burn rubber on my TEETH' and it still makes me laugh

you: please act normal you need these people to like you me: ok! people: hi me: most know that the horn riff on james brown's 'cold sweat' was inspired by miles davis's 'so what', but few know that the bass line in 'so what' was inspired by ellington's 'concerto for cootie', which was lifted from

happy fishbowl discourse again day to all who celebrate

From Suicide's Martin Rev to Merzbow, Shaun Cohen's 'Power to Consume' series traces the long, crooked line between Lou Reed's 'Metal Machine Music' and the noise artists it inspired. The Tonearm's Jon Buckland bathes in the feedback. 'Power to Consume' and Lou Reed's Metal Machine Afterlife:

It's surprising how quickly Sanders has been taken the existential risk bait. It took less than a year for him to start doing events with Hinton and Tegmark. He should perhaps pause to consider how groups like FLI are so well-resourced, and what political function x-risk narratives serve.

No one in govt is talking about before the budget, but just FYI, the level of Jobseeker is now 42% below the poverty line - worse than it was during the Howard years... live.thepoint.com.au

australia's 'most overlooked album'? sure i know it www.discogs.com/release/3165...

nice new mug! (J. Morrison/ @homocats.bsky.social)

'talking about climate ... [is] not going to help democrats win working class voters' ignores (among other things) a) the benefits of renewables for energy prices in times like these, and b) the employment opportunities the renewables industry offers

Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such.