Kerri Brannon 🇦🇺🇨🇦🇿🇦
@kerrib.bsky.social
#Difficult Lover of beautiful words and wild places | cat lover| bird noticer. Meanjin living on unceded Turrbal land. She/her
Now my television has AI and apparently I can't disable it. I don't know, man, if you really thought a technology was genuinely useful to people, you'd tell me it's there and let me decide if I wanted to use it, not pop it up every time I open an app and not allow me to turn it off.
OK, I'll say it: I love REALITY AWAITS! It's a v. enjoyable Strokes album! I wrote about why I feel that way, the early reactions to the record, the cyclical nature of Strokes backlashes, their current tour, and why young fans get them more than old fans. tinyurl.com/5eb2auna
"Reality Awaits" Will Be Loved By The Next Strokes Album (Which Will Be Hated)
Also: Reviews of new music by Frank Hurricane, Idle County, and Prairiewolf
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The Strokes, “The Modern Age”, live on “Late Night with Conan O’Brien” in ‘01. Never gets old. Just saw that “Is This It?” turns 25 today. Hard to believe. #ThrowbackThursday youtube.com/watch?v=ttLn...
The Strokes - The Modern Age Live Conan O'Brien 2001
YouTube video by German Vázquez
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The Tate arrests are for an extradition to the UK for rape and sex trafficking charges. So Donald will have no ability to pardon his fellow rapists.
Peleliu — September–November 1944: One of the Pacific’s bloodiest battles. Montford Point Marines operate ammunition dumps under constant sniper and artillery fire. They rescue trapped white Marines — actions often erased from official reports. (cont) daily.jstor.org/who-were-the...
Who Were the Montford Point Marines? - JSTOR Daily
The first African-American recruits in the Marine Corps trained at Montford Point, eventually ending the military’s longstanding policy of racial segregation.
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I missed this at the time but it's terrible. Albanese criticised Ben-Gvir's #SumudFlotilla stunt to Israel's ambassador but not much else. Kidnapping, piracy, beatings & rape ok apparently. Just a shame about the cameras. So much for the law. What a compromised prat. substack.com/@ritajabrima...
Use “respect and decency” if blocking humanitarian aid to a starving population; also IDF is not the concern: Australian PM
Prime Minister Albanese has expressed that if Israel illegally kidnaps and prevents Australians from delivering aid to a starving population, that it should do so in a manner that treats those Austral...
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The NYT calls this torture 'mistreatment' 🙄🙄 substack.com/@mosababutoh...
Mosab Abu Toha (@mosababutoha)
Another low in journalism. Another low by the New York Times. You call this “mistreatment”? Do you have any shame? Is there ever a justification for torturing someone like this, posting his photo o...
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Bombed train tracks already repaired near Mashhad in Iran. Iran doesn't muck around. substack.com/@lizlohtaylo...
Liz Loh-Taylor (@lizlohtaylor)
Believe it or not, the train tracks that were bombed have already been repaired. Tonight we’ll be taking the train back to Tehran by rail. It’s a small but telling example of the resilience and effic...
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“I find that the MSO would have taken the same actions if Mr Gillham had expressed a political belief in support of Israel,” said the judge (which is a statement that is so obviously stupid and untrue it should be appealed).
Pianist Jayson Gillham loses discrimination case against Melbourne symphony orchestra over Gaza comments
Gillham claimed Melbourne concert in 2024 cancelled in attempt to silence him over stance on Israel attacks on Gaza
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I walked my camera today after Dad and I went for a 🚴♂️: a habit I'm trying to re-establish. Once again, I'm concentrating on the parrot photos I took. So I 😍 parrots — so sue me, already. 🤷♂️ A male King Parrot, a lady Galah, a pair of Rainbow Lorikeets and a juvenile Eastern Rosella:
Heads up everyone! Sky News has rebranded to “News 24” & has started following people on BlueSky, to get more people to follow them, unaware it’s Sky. You know what to do folks! #auspol
Literally the world game BECAUSE of the low cost of equipment and infrastructure.
It has been criminally underreported but Kelsey Pfendler has just rowed solo across the Pacific Ocean from the US coast to Hawaii in record time. A 2,400-mile unsupported journey in 43 days, 17 hours, and 55 minutes. Notably beating the Men’s record by 9 whole days.
I walked my camera again today. My new-favourite Superb Parrots showed up 😍. As did lots of (very flighty) Eastern Rosellas (they're also very pretty). And just to show it's not all parrots, all the time, I've included a photo of a Crested Pigeon looking even more startled than usual.
CAP's Corporate Power Reset plan is a novel legal strategy that can effectively undo #CitizensUnited—here's how:
She was asked to apologise, which she did. Sge apologised because she got the numbers wrong. The clitoris has over 10,000 nerve endings!
On March 26, 2026, during a debate on violence against women in Germany’s Bundestag, left-wing MP Kathrin Gebel was repeatedly interrupted by AfD MP Martin Reichardt. She responded: “Mr. Reichardt, the clitoris has 3,000 nerve endings, and you’re still more sensitive. That’s quite an achievement.”
Police stop an Ambulance with flashing lights so a VIP can pass. One video that shows everything wrong with the UK. We need to stop letting the rich piss all over us.
VANCE SNUBBED Hard to build trust when your foreign policy changes with every Trump Truth Social post. Respect isn’t demanded. It’s earned.
It’s not Potomac water that has phosphates. It’s city water. They filled it with city water, which is basically algae food.
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · last mo.Sums it up nicely
