Tom Tanuki

@tomtanuki.bsky.social

regular columns and videos, usually on the latest in aus radical, activist, fringe and/or gross political scenes. independent as fuck.

Australia now has the most unfavourable attitude toward Israel of any Western nation. We've laid the legislative groundwork for banning essentially all activist & political expression. What's next? Go after random bits of subcultural millennial trivia like Eurovision & TISM, of course! Link:

Sarah Henderson puts Senate Estimates on notice over Israel's Eurovision score

Liberal Senator uses Senate Estimates to examine Israel's Eurovision score and cult band TISM under attack from pro-Israel lobby.

independentaustralia.net

Welcome to Country booing @ Dawn Service was organised by the exact same group of people who arranged the last round. The whole crowd was not booing. If I am with a small crowd booing and I record myself it sounds like the whole crowd is booing. It's called camera perspective bias.

I'LL ASSEMBLE SOME FOOTAGE IN THE COMING DAYS. IT HELPS TO DO SOMETHING USEFUL WITH THIS ANGER. I'M SHAKING WITH RAGE AT THE LITTLE I'VE SEEN FROM THESE PIGS IN SYDNEY TONIGHT. PLEASE, DO SHARE ANY FOOTAGE YOU SEE WITH ME IF THAT'S YOUR IDEA OF USEFUL TOO.

So the NSN is dead. Good riddance. I wrote for @independentaus.bsky.social about the danger in abruptly creating hundreds of ASIO head Mike Burgess's 'lone actors' without having done a thing to support the families of ex-cultists through what comes next: independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...

The National Socialist Network is dead

The far-right group is gone but the danger isn’t — Australia has just turned an organised hate group into hundreds of abandoned "lone" actors.

independentaustralia.net