Powerful, intelligent, articulate condemnation of Western news media and US influence by an Egyptian woman in convo with CNN's Clarissa Ward, at the border with #Gaza. Superb. #USPolitics #EndTheOccupation #FreePalestine #JournalismMatters

Such disturbing behaviour from the NZ police, I hope they won’t be allowed to forget this for a long time…. (side point: Jevon McSKimming?!! Apologies to the decent McSkimmingses but that’s quite the dodgy cop name! Dickens would be proud.)

“It's now nearly two-and-half years since the late Labor MP Peta Murphy called on the Albanese government to ban gambling advertising, saying that it was ‘grooming children and young people to gamble’.” Thank you, Peta. Thank you, @andrewwilkiemp.bsky.social. The rest of you, do better. #auspol

Most of the American media and political establishment and all the generals can learn a lesson here.

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

Tasmania once criminalised people for being gay or for cross-dressing. Yesterday Tasmania's Parliament finally passed laws to erase those convictions and offer redress for the harm caused. This is justice decades overdue.

Under new head of Paramount David Ellison, the studio has drawn up a list of actors who opposed the Gaza genocide and will not allow them to appear in its films and TV shows. Does this sound familiar? Also, "Ellison is reportedly aiming to take over Warner Bros. next."

Yes. Those last messages are deeply malevolent. Not because they are from a real or sentient being… but because real people designed this product to adopt fake warmth and a poetic tone to engineer user addiction. Fake empathy, fake help…. all fake and mercenary and completely meaningless.

A true delight to see James Findlay's brilliant new book "Caught on Screen: Australia’s Convict History in Film and Television" launched with the fanfare it deserves at Sydney Uni last night, with ringing endorsements from Michelle Arrow and Mike McDonnell. Congratulations James!

The world would be a better place if we had access to Cary Grant's Instagram & Kathy Acker's Twitter. No question.

You’ve gotta love the Golden Age stars and filmmakers who kept daily records of social and work engagements. So helpful for future film scholars, unlike others who would only come out of their cave to say “I made a film!” but otherwise kept it on the down low. #filmsky

Fire his fucking arse and press charges for corruption. You m done with this fucking shit.

“The extent to which Israel can claim to be a democracy is well & truly well past its use-by date when it proposes a law that ‘seeks to establish that the death penalty may be imposed by a majority of the judges, & that a final death sentence may not be commuted’.” #auspol

🇺🇸🎬 “Much like Liz’s efforts to engage the audience in a discussion of the play after the curtain falls, The Girls can be read as Zetterling’s attempt to create a space for reflection on women’s roles.” medium.com/cinesuffrage...

She's absolutely right. As a producer with several films in development with female directors, I can say it is an absolute uphill battle to get execs to fund their projects. Great scripts are sitting on shelves while a generation of our most talented women sit idle. www.avclub.com/kristen-stew...

Zohran Mamdani polled +40% on men under 30. So we wasted all that time on all those think pieces about how we need a Joe Rogan for the left, when what we actually needed were *policies* for the left.

here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol

Do people realise that Nia DaCosta has made a new film based on Ibsen’s HEDDA GABLER? Thank you, that is all.

on this day in 1930, writer Sinclair Lewis becomes first American to win Nobel Prize in Lit. “Call me a socialist or any blame thing you want to, as long as you grab hold of the other end of the cross-cut saw with me and help slash the big logs of Poverty and Intolerance to pieces.”

As many have pointed out, Mamdani didn't stand apart from our trans brothers and sisters. He didn't play the "Gee, gosh, it sure is complicated," milquetoast moderate card. And he crushed. The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.

“If anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him." – Zohran Mamdani

Good question. Is there a Greco-Roman wrestling element of American mayoral races that I’ve not heard about? Or is it just that someone realised that they could use AI to make nude pics of candidates, and figured they might as well?

OpenAI pirated large numbers of books and used them to train models. OpenAI then deleted the dataset with the pirated books, and employees sent each other messages about doing so. A lawsuit could now force the company to pay $150,000 per book, adding up to billions in damages.

As the media tries to whitewash the death of Dick Cheney today, with headlines reading ‘Influential Vice President’ rather than ‘War Criminal,’ it’s a good time to remind everyone of the legacy he left behind and the damage still unfolding because of him.

The UAE is one of the biggest trading partners with the US & Canada - & these govs must be pressured to put an arms & trading embargo on the UAE for its genocidal actions in Sudan. Don't holiday in Dubai. Don't buy their gold or produce. Do your research - update your Boycott list. Free Sudan!

The people of Sudan are enduring unimaginable suffering - and the world is watching. I have written to the Foreign Secretary demanding the suspension of arms sales to the UAE.

NYC voters finding out only at the last minute that there has been aloofism involved in the Mamdani campaign. Blatant female aloofism. And never declared! They must be feeling so betrayed.

Welfare payments should never be used as a mechanism of control or surveillance

this is very cool: Kodak quietly relisted Kodak Gold and Ultramax on its website and confirmed to me it is selling the films directly to photography stores again. this is a big deal because for the last decade, Kodak has not controlled distribution of its own film www.404media.co/kodak-quietl...

Okay let’s email those 5! You can even if you’re not a Tasmanian because this is absurd project is going to affect the whole country when we go bankrupt. I’m not happy about the process either, not should anyone be if they believe in democracy and government for the people. #politas #auspol

this is awful. teen vogue has done such important work

Zohran is stone cold man. Putting out an ad in Arabic after all the Islamophobic shit that’s been thrown his way? Pure swag. Dems don’t need to copy his politics or even necessarily his campaign strategy, they need to learn how to grow a fucking spine.

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion. Read that back. When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

This isn't going to win votes, save $$, give them leverage anywhere. So why do it? I'm gonna go with a sadism the Oz ruling class often resorts to, an involuntary itch to police & punish which they have to keep scratching. Sure the ruling class are banal, dumb etc. But they also like hurting people.

Another historic achievement in transparency by the Albanese govt: cratering the FOI system. thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...

Loving this red carpet choice from a former supermodel. It also seems like the right kind of creative energy for the moment…. Practical FX and women turning people to stone with their eyes.

HBD Lee Grant, who turns either 98 or 100 today! She's not just an Oscar winning actor, but also a prolific director, including the feature "Tell Me A Riddle" (1980). Grant was blacklisted for 12 yrs by HUAC starting in the '50s for refusing to testify against her then-husband

UN expert urged to investigate Lebanon over alleged torture of Egyptian-Turkish poet Abdulrahman al-Qaradawi has been imprisoned in the UAE for almost a year for criticising Emirati, Egyptian and Saudi governments www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Capitalism is a system which exhausts people and planet. If you feel exhausted, you feel capitalism.

Just sharing the most terrifying image in horror game history

David and Larry Ellisons’ sloptastic vision for Hollywood is coming into focus: “Paramount has reportedly signed a $200M+ multiyear deal for Higgsfield AI to use mass-use Popcorn AI model that ingests dailies and script notes, then outputs regional cuts: new leads, alternate jokes, revised endings”

It's genocide. That's all it has ever been.

Can't think of a most deserving choice than Ms. Rachel www.glamour.com/story/ms-rac...

I’m exhausted from all of this. A major attack on Gaza is happening right now.

The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.

Richard Gere— "The entire planet has fallen off a cliff into the stupid zone." "Do we really think these refugees are different than us?" "Do you really believe what these clowns like Trump, Orban, Netanyahu, Putin, what these guys say?"

I saw somebody on tiktok say “I asked chat gpt if my kitchen floors were linoleum or stone” and I nearly had an aneurysm. ASK THE PERSON WHO LAID YOUR FLOORS OR IDK TOUCH IT WITH YOUR HUMAN HAND AND KNOW FOR YOURSELF I WANT TO SCREAM

Teachers, health workers and firefighters have walked off the job in Tasmania's north-west, with further stop-work action planned in other parts of the state over the next two days.

I love that @realgdt.bsky.social has interpreted FRANKENSTEIN in his own way and has done so with such intensity and pathos. Thematically, there is a strikingly different emphasis but the screenplay respects Mary Shelley’s core intentions within that. Its sense of urgency honours her too, I think.

I think about this quite a bit. Capitalism is so hostile to a creative life right from infancy & becoming more so. I wonder how many writers just give up writing because it's become so difficult to be heard & find others to talk with. And don't get me started on creative life in Australia.