> i attend our local tongan community's language class because i want to improve my high beginner/low intermediate level tongan > it starts at absolute basics so i'm cruising > second lesson i go to everyone thinks i speak really well and am way ahead > i'm co-running the next lesson

reading about the American folklorist Stith Thompson and i can't get over the name Stith. we don't have guys called Stith anymore

explaining gas export taxes to an australian: imagine a beer

getting back into sim racing... the lonelyspeck racing team is live

new song out today as the premiere track for katharsis' new compilation, 'changes' Lonelyspeck - Each Other compilation out may 11 🦋 katharsis-label.bandcamp.com/album/changes

i was thinking of starting a page/site to make socialist politics relatable to a Pacific context but then was happy to discover there's a new Pacific socialist publication. but after some observation they're giving white stupol trots so i'm back to wanting to make my own

i've been a long time hater of spotted doves because their sound pmo in a misophonia way but i've begun to think they are cute... also my baseline mild dislike/indifference to dogs has been shifting toward positive bc i love my friend's housemate's dog so much. and i'm nice to all spiders now

sydney added! lonelyspeck.neocities.org

if anyone is going to ability fest in melb next weekend i will be there playing guitar for daine :p

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This is off northern 'New Britain' 🇵🇬 where Polynesians' ancient Papuan ancestors may have came from. We always cite the Lapita people as Polynesian ancestors - which they are - but I feel like it gets overlooked that the Polynesian culture didn't emerge until Lapita & Papuan peoples mixed

mythical street view drop in

found an 1890 Tongan-French-English dictionary with a lot of impractical but cool-looking page scans. also really into the chunky font

proceeding as expected

And yet no one used that process in the past 2.5 years while our prime minister materially supported a holocaust just to keep his govt in the good books of that same unpopular ageing insane American leader. So it's kind of like it doesn't even fkn matter isn't it

someone name dropped me for tdov... it's special and meaningful to hear that although i'm not really sure where i am with labels these days. genderfluid has felt more fitting than others. i'm wary of denying my own feelings but equally wary of appearing to claim an experience that isn't mine

media mainly but i really think a major factor is that they don't have a david pocock type "regular aussie" personality to translate their policies into truly mainstream aus sensibilities like beer prices or whatever. pocock is basically greens lite and he's insanely popular so it's not the policies

adl + mel on sale 💜 supports announced not expecting any traction here but is australian electronic music/hyperpop bsky a thing lonelyspeck.neocities.org

they'll just have to accept that they're going to be replaced

australia is on course to have a 2 party system comprised of a spineless nominally progressive party that's desperate to crush the true left, and a fascist party that's riding the global economic crises of imperialism. now i dont know anything about history but i think this will probably be fine

Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee (1997) Developed by Oddworld Inhabitants.

the world is frankly in a better place than i imagined like 5 years ago because i expected it to take like 10-15 excruciating years for the empire to fall this far. a world free from the US & israel feels conceivably close. which is a type of political hope i've never felt before lol

liberal zionism is still genocidal

AUS TOUR

latest euphemism for neocolonialism: "interoperability"

i've been considering making my music streamable/downloadable for free from my website in this format as a truly independent, no strings attached alternative like old times

remix dropping this friday that's the heaviest track i've ever made

so basically - Mossad arranged the firebombings on australian jewish buildings - then got Albo to blame Iran as pretext for cutting ties and setting up hostile relations - then Herzog made a "pastoral" visit to Aus that was really to brief the govt/ASIO on Israel's war plans am i missing anything

this but unironically

The government that sucks is still the only power actively fighting the global nazi pedo empire that wants to turn the entire global south into an enslaved wasteland. This kind of self-congratulatory soft both-sidesism is unhelpful and irrelevant

If, after two years of the Gaza Holocaust, you still think America and Israel bombing schools in Iran is about anything other than the Greater Israel project, colonial slaughter for evil pedophiles, then you're a baby clinging onto bedtime stories. Fuck @albomp.bsky.social, he's a monster.

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The goal of the western ruling class is to rescue their dying empire by enslaving everyone in the world and genociding all who resist. Any political analysis that doesn't fully accept this is fatally naive

there was a span of like two days the other week where no major utilities in my house were broken it was awesome

The US does not care about the people of Iran. It does not care about democracy, or political freedom, or human rights, at all. Zero. It is pure propaganda.

we live in extremely precedented times.. i would really prefer it if they were much less precedented

this One Nation surge feels insanely astroturfed and where tf is the opposition

using this music industry-less space to get off my chest that geese and the dare make some of my least favourite music i have ever heard and every attempt i've made to appreciate it has made me hate it more, they are like artists created in a lab to enrage me. nothing personal though

I think a lot about this 2019 essay by Arnold Schroder (topical after Jesse Jackson's passing & as we near 10 yrs since the Standing Rock protests) on how we live in inherently mythic times and our ability to experience religious awe is our only means to fathom it dark-mountain.net/do-not-worsh...

I love making a geocentric universe in blender instead of scrolling on social media

we've seen all the most despicable demons in human history consistently name communism as their most hated enemy. everything is corruptible to them except the communists. it's really past time for western lefties to hang up the anti-communist handwringing and ask why that might be

started watching The Chair Company on the plane home and i have to thank it for putting me onto this unbelievable indonesian band called Kuntari. instant fav www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vDe...

My short film 'Picking Crew' will be screened as part of Māoriland Film Festival next month. Tickets now available. www.iticket.co.nz/go-to/maoril...

let's be real this is clearly a premeditated dogwhistle. based on the videos these guys look like an organised group/clique within NSW police. this is their way of displaying who they are. at minimum there needs to be an independent investigation but really NSW police needs to be purged

18 Jan 2026: Australian National Socialist Network officially disbands, according to leader Thomas Sewell 9 Feb 2026: every cop bashing people at the rally in Sydney looks exactly like Thomas Sewell

The US cutting off oil to Cuba is truly one of the most depraved acts it is possible to imagine. Hospitals will close, food production will collapse, people will starve. It is urgent for US citizens, and every sane person, to oppose this barbarism with all their might.

the soviet-japanese penguin cartoon i watched as a child > godard

not mutually exclusive... woowoo is a craft too