Lachlan Musicman
@datakid.bsky.social
Systems - computer and otherwise, data science, political and cultural theory. Book reader, music listener, D'n'D participant, traveler.
Wowsers. That has to be the end of Pavlich at the Swans. What an appalling thing to say. #afl
And the story of the week should have been the absolutely awesome job the Sydney AFLW team did on the weekend, beating the Crows.
What in the hell is going on with the Sydney Swans, just catching up with the news on AFL360. Holy shit this ain’t good at all, and if what’s alleged to have happened did actually happen then the Swans as a club and the players involved are in a world of shit.
I was just playing this game for Speaki and now I'm getting forced to think about class consciousness
Headlines: Such-and-such technology may someday be as smart as human brains! Reminder: *We already have human brains.* Billions of them. Most of them living in poverty and being exploited for the obscene benefit of a tiny number of the worst people in the world.
I still subscribed to @3rrrfm.bsky.social but didn't send a donation this year because I knew this was happening. I'll send their donation to @3crmelbourne.bsky.social
Friday on RRR Breakfasters they had Kate Langbroek on, going on a "people are too polarised these days" and mentioning how they used to have Elliott as a guest. And no, it's not RRR that's changed, it's that Elliott wasn't an obvious insane reactionary back then.
"Incidents of sharks biting humans are incredibly rare, but at least three influencers have been bitten by the animals in less than a year." Sounds like they're getting a taste for influencers, and I can't say I disapprove of this tactic
'I never thought sharks would eat MY influencer,' sobs woman who voted for the Sharks Eating Influencers Party.
Super is the worst labor policy ever. Pensions shouldn’t be privatised, and the nation cannot save for its future in terms of a currency it issues. The libs Nats and one nation want to destroy it and replace it with poverty. You should be destroying it and replacing it with a decent pension
A THREAD, which I have decided to call 'Bloody Hell, Aren't Doors On Old Walls Fucking Brilliant?' You will find the all-important captions to each photo in the alt text.
"Shojo Manga Infinity: Moto Hagio, Ryoko Yamagishi, and Waki Yamato" at The National Art Center, Tokyo, will be the first large-scale shojo manga exhibition ever held at a national art museum in Japan. mainichi.jp/english/arti...
Legacy of 3 manga legends who transformed 'shojo' genre to be honored in Tokyo exhibit - The Mainichi
TOKYO -- Moto Hagio, Ryoko Yamagishi and Waki Yamato, pioneering artists who transformed
mainichi.jp
Subbies still too expensive, Fairfax? FFS, at least learn how to teach your LLM some rules.
It's the 81 anniversary of Japan's surrender. The usual crap fest at the Yasukuni Shrine by people who fortunately for them did not have to fight in the Imperial Japanese Army. Still they could watch some of the best and most disturbing war films. 🎥 grahamthomasauthor.wordpress.com/2025/06/29/a...
A Nation’s Reckoning: Some of the Best Japanese War Films
Twenty Four Eyes. Japanese cinema has a long relationship with the depiction of the Pacific War that continues haphazardly to this day but unlike the largely heroic and jingoistic war films produce…
grahamthomasauthor.wordpress.com
Warmest congratulations and big respect to Aunty Pat Turner AM, Kaylene Whiskey, and the late great Aunty Rhoda Roberts AO, on these big beautiful NAIDOC Awards: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Naidoc awards honour ‘fearless, brilliant’ promoter of First Nations culture Rhoda Roberts
Proud Widjabul Wieybal woman of the Bundjalung nation recognised posthumously with the lifetime achievement award
theguardian.com
Poor Indonesia! Now a 6.9 on the other side in North Sumatra. No tsunami warning has been issued. Bad Saturday shift at BMKG!
Gempa 6,4 Magnitudo Guncang Simalungun Sumut, Terasa Sampai Aceh - https://republika.co.id/berita//tjt7mi282/gempa-64-magnitudo-guncang-simalungun-sumut-terasa-sampai-aceh
Longest winning streaks by players V/AFL - 27 games Cameron Ling Max Rooke #AFLW - 28 games LIBBY BIRCH TESS CRAVEN JASMINE FERGUSON ERIKA O'SHEA TAHLIA RANDALL KIM RENNIE ASH RIDDELL RUBY TRIPODI #AFLWNorthCats
If you are a Breeders, Kim Gordon, or Le Tigre fan, check this mob out. sailorhoneymoon.bandcamp.com/album/the-wo...
The Worst of Sailor Honeymoon, by Sailor Honeymoon
13 track album
sailorhoneymoon.bandcamp.com
I aspire to being misnamed by Kelli Underwood. (Hint hint people that buy me birthday presents) #aflw
The biggest selling comic of all time is One Piece. The second biggest is not from the US or UK. It's French. DELIGHTED to welcome @juliekalman.bsky.social onto Untitled History Pod to talk origins of Asterix the Gaul and how it made modern France. Listen below, Youtube or your pod app of choice
Episode 27: The history and cultural impact of Asterix the Gaul
The Untitled History Podcast · Episode
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The author reader contract! If there's a map before the book starts, make sure the named location in the opening chapters is marked.
Big big earthquake out NTT this morning with warning of tsunami. 7.7 in Flores! Gorgeous part of the country with a lot of islands, I hope no news to come
a lot of posts from Labuan Bajo showing water receding and BMKG is posting really consistent aftershocks. not good
Big big earthquake out NTT this morning with warning of tsunami. 7.7 in Flores! Gorgeous part of the country with a lot of islands, I hope no news to come
Huge earthquake in Indonesia just now. @erincook.bsky.social
Listening to @adapalmer.bsky.social & @bluejo.eurosky.social talk about the author-reader contract & chapter headings made me think of The Olivia Tremor Control's songs Green Typewriter on "Music from the Unrealized Film Script: Dusk at Cubist Castle" oliviatremorcontrol.bandcamp.com/album/music-...
Music From The Unrealized Film Script: Dusk At Cubist Castle, by The Olivia Tremor Control
34 track album
oliviatremorcontrol.bandcamp.com
High Performance Bin is my new band name
[everything is still awful but] Farage did think he was going to be standing there having beaten all the main parties and instead he's spending the day having to lie about the police so that he doesn't have to be photographed next to a high performance bin whilst the money investigation continues
Happy birthday to the coolest snap in Indonesian political history feat. My guy Sutan Sjahrir