Louis Schetzer PhD 🍉
@schetz1.bsky.social
Legal policy, human rights, casual academic, hack musician, Carlton tragic. Opinions are my own.
Happy Birthday Woody! Woody was born July 14, 1912 in Okemah, OK. We celebrate his enduring legacy...his songs which gave voice to the working class, marginalized, and dispossessed, as well as his influence on musicians to write songs about social activism & human rights with honesty & clever wit.
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds Paul Kelly & the Messengers Weddings Parties Anything Yothu Yindi Midnight Oil Goanna The Blackeyed Susans Painters & Dockers Warumpi Band Chris Wilson & Crown of Thorns
Holly Cullen@hollycullenfreo.bsky.social · 3mo agoIntroduce yourself with 10 bands/musicians you've seen live! Beach Boys Bruce Springsteen Men Without Hats Blondie Franz Ferdninand Kaiser Chiefs San Cisco Tame Impala Cyndi Lauper The Jezabels
“Ava good weekend Mr Walker…” Bonus points if you can identify the Carlton FC connection
Dave Lennon@davelennon.bsky.social · 3mo agofor any and all New Zealanders here. "take it in to Mr Geddes"
This is the funniest thing I’ve seen today…
Anton@anton.beauty · 3mo agoa ballroom has a core strategic weakness: the man in the back saying “everyone attack”
I dreamed I saw Phil Ochs last night, as live as you & me, Says I to Phil your 5 decades dead, “I never died” says he, “I never died” says he…
Billy Bragg@billybragg.bsky.social · 4mo agoIn memory of Phil Ochs - singer-songwriter, anti-war activist, father, true patriot - who took his life fifty years ago today m.youtube.com/watch?v=Vmb0...
Well this is a long way from The Birthday Party at the Prince of Wales in St Kilda
Oscars 2026: Nick Cave, Huntr/x Nominated for Best Original Song
Cave’s Bryce Dessner collaboration “Train Dreams” and the KPop Demon Hunters band are up against Dianne Warren, Raphael Saadiq and Ludwig Göransson, and more
pitchfork.com
Solidarity with Louise Adler and Randa Abdel-Fattah. We stand against this retrograde decision and with the countless authors withdrawing in support of Randa and her work.
Telephone books were an investigative tool used by Queensland police when interviewing persons of interest
Greg Jericho@grogsgamut.bsky.social · 7mo agoHandy hint: remember to remove the tab on the VCR cassette to make sure the movie you recorded doesn’t get recorded over.
“The dangerous thing here is the idea that a President can just decide that a leader is not legitimate & then invade the country… If that were the case, that’s the end of international law, that’s the end of the UN charter, that’s the end of any kind of legal limits on the use of force.” So scary.
The Brazen Illegality of Trump’s Venezuela Operation
A scholar of international law on the implications of the U.S. arrest of President Nicolás Maduro.
newyorker.com
This week we lost a giant. A huge tree has fallen... the forest is weeping.
‘A champion of Aboriginal rights’: Alice Springs leader Geoffrey Shaw dies aged 79
The 79-year-old Vietnam war veteran and founding member of the Central Land Council ‘believed deeply in service’
theguardian.com
This week we are all playing our songs in Dm... the saddest of all keys
Hollywood reacts in shock to death of Rob Reiner: ‘One of the greatest filmmakers to ever live’
Actors, directors and politicians voice their sadness after bodies of Reiner and wife Michele Singer Reiner were found by authorities
theguardian.com
Smith doesn’t walk. So much for “the spirit of cricket “ #ashes
Brook doesn’t walk. So much for “the spirit of cricket “ #ashes
Joe Root doesn’t walk. So much for “the spirit of cricket “ #ashes
#ashes listening to the 7+ commentary from the English commentators, one would be forgiven for thinking that Australia was in trouble in this match
Just wondering… has the Anti-Semitism envoy come out & criticised this rally & the failure of NSW Police in allowing it to go ahead?
Neo-Nazi rally outside NSW parliament allowed to go ahead by police
A neo-Nazi rally outside the NSW parliament on Saturday morning was deemed "authorised" because police had chosen not to oppose the public assembly.
abc.net.au
Who remembers when John Laws encouraged people to “take the trip”?
Stone (1974) HD Trailer
YouTube video by Umbrella Entertainment
youtube.com
The AFL is an obscene, elitist organisation
Louis Schetzer PhD 🍉@schetz1.bsky.social · 9mo ago“In Tasmania, such battles tend to end in the mud and sometimes in jail – but they usually end the same way. The Franklin River, the pulp mills, the stadium: the people win, and the empire retreats in shame.”
