benjamin
@benjamino.bsky.social
Life is thundering blissful towards death
It was a tragedy Chan joined the 27 club that fateful night in 1999 but also surprising she made it that far and at least she left a perfect unblemished legacy of four excellent recordings and zero highly odd things to say
kate bush’s husband@airbagged.bsky.social · yesterdayCat Power is antivax
à la the Charlie Kirk frothing, I love this genre where the "torrents of hate" are literally just people sharing snippets of stuff these execrable bigots wrote or said.
Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 9h agoI was wondering why I’d got 19 clickthroughs from The Daily Telegraph…
I was trying to think of a non-defamatory way to indicate Alex Ryvchin is a dead-eyed slimy skin-crawl of a menace to social cohesion and unable to surmount such a difficulty elected to simply keep my thoughts to myself.
Feels suboptimal to be using the same word to describe the targeted murder of unarmed citizens / endeavours to stop the targeted murder of unarmed citizens - entering contronym territory
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · yesterdayArson attack on Victorian defence manufacturer Lovitt Technologies investigated as ‘far-left terror’
Found out today why my portable heater recommended against using an extension lead (smoke started billowing from connection point), almost found out today how stupid fuckers get zapped dead doing extremely dumb shit (pulled the smoking leads apart before switching off at either end).
I'm not particularly left or right I'm a secret third thing (right but a coward about it)
I noticed from my 12yo's lock screen notifications over the w/e that he is still using all of the apps, only difference now is that none of the parent filters and controls apply
Ben Schwarz@benschwarz.bsky.social · 2d agoAustralia’s eSafety commissioner buried a report (released Friday afternoon) that shows the under 16 social media ban didn’t tangibly reduce teen social media use, and also resulted in parents tuning out of kids usage. We traded our privacy for no reason. theconversation.com/more-than-80...
I guess you could say Avi is almost like a son to me (in that my son also has a history of domestic violence charges)
If you turn up to a press conference from which your media colleagues have been banned for doing journalism you're not a scab but you're certainly scab-adjacent.
Music peaked with Hildegard von Bingen and everything since then has been slop
lil miss big boy@lighter.bsky.social · 5d agoPost your hottest music take. Mine is New Order is better than Joy Division.
Important context missing from the article is the full recipe for turning Gina Rinehart into one big sausage roll
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 5d agoGina Rinehart puts ABC on notice over Race around the World episode action
Actually okay with this not being prosecuted provided she can be described as 'Perpetual racist fuck Pauline Hanson' without her bitching about it
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 6d agoNo 'good' Muslims comments by One Nation's Pauline Hanson do not meet hate speech threshold
The thing separating this chilling extremist overreach from McCarthyism is that McCarthyism wasn't straight-up foreign interference to blatently protect an external genocidal state
stranger@strangerous.bsky.social · 6d agoJillian Segal says her plan is to expand IHRA training “at scale” — to all govt depts & all businesses in the country — & be driven by a new taxpayer funded body - which she reveals is already in the works.😳 What the hell is going on?
ChatGPT generic apology generator do your thing
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 7d agoWoman faces legal threats after posting Provac Australia driver's racist road rage gesture
It's a shame John Cleese died in a terrible swan-related mishap in 1979 but at least his legacy remains untarnished
Okay let's rip the bandaid completely off, I need to see this boy's desert island playlist
Josh Taylor@joshtaylor.bsky.social · 7d agoThe new premier's reading pile from last year, posted without comment.
We are not ready for how bad the next Victorian government is going to be.
I actually don't think they should arrest Netanyahu while he is in the US, I do however wish him a very Mahmoud al-Mabhouh
Paul Eric@pauleric70.bsky.social · last wk.🇮🇱Netanyahu at 6:00 PM: "I'm going to NYC. I'll speak truth to this hateful official. Let's see him try to arrest me." 🇺🇸Mamdani at 6:05 PM: "ICC issued a warrant. I back it. I can't arrest you. DC can. I'm asking the feds to act. NYC doesn't welcome war criminals. We will defend human dignity." 🔥🔥
tbf she has clearly mixed these two up more than once
Andy Fleming@slackbastard.bsky.social · last wk.2/ Bonus quote: "I don't want you to go to any parts of Australia and don't know whether I am walking into a butcher shop or a hairdressers or where I am going."
Interesting, imagine one of these fellas could also put their home on the market given their accommodation looks sorted for a while to come
AFL great Dustin Martin, Ralph Carr list Abbotsford property
Dustin Martin’s prolific post-football activity has come into focus as the ex-Tiger and his manager list a Melbourne property.
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I actually sense the long and silly reframing of 'elites' as anyone with a social conscience has been largely successful and there is little evident hypocrisy in portraying yourself as pro-battler while hobnobbing with the country's richest provided they too are sufficently racist/evil.
Josh Butler@joshbutler.bsky.social · last wk.Pauline Hanson has updated her parliamentary register of interests for her European trip - disclosing that Gina Rinehart paid for the flights www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...
