NSW Police used pepper spray, helicopters, horses and blockades as part of a new program designed to bring the community together.
Read more: theshovel.com.au/2026/02/10/s...
For your #Noirvember pleasure, here are ten more international, ie, non-American, noirs that you might want to catch up with. Another past post from my Substack, it’s free to read at the link below.
andrewnette.substack.com/p/noirvember...
Before she passed, Jane Goodall was interviewed as recently as last week, and her message was clear, consistent, and timely: "Humans are not exempt from extinction."
“PROJECT 2025 Fame,” he writes, after denying he knew anything about it during his campaign.
He’s just drooling at the prospect of causing massive harm. It’s gross.
MAGA now celebrates cancel culture, promotes safe spaces for conservatives, believes free speech should be curtailed, and thinks words encourage violence.
Exact opposite of all their positions.
Its almost as if they're bad faith hypocrites who want power by any means necessary.
Movie a Day Project 2025: Day 247
The Whistler (William Castle, 1944)
Starring: Richard Dix, Gloria Stuart, J. Carrol Naish, and Alan Dinehart
#filmsky
Another very satisfying bluray release from Radiance.
Shinobi 1 Band of Assassins on Letterboxd boxd.it/aRYyXD
Nobody in history has deserved losing an election more than Democrats did in 24, even if the consequences of that loss are ultimately being felt by others.
I don’t know about you, but seeing these three together makes me feel a whole lot less safe. Marles handing over our cash with the same rote lines about shared history and values, and the other two grinning like cats about to eat a mouse. Time to end AUKUS and save us from this.
Israel’s war on Gaza is the deadliest conflict for journalists in recorded history. In an attack on Nasser Hospital in Gaza Monday, Israel killed five more journalists in addition to over a dozen others.
www.democracynow.org/2025/8/26/is...
Principle Trump meme
We're at the stage that it is news when Israel spends a day not committing war crimes.
to repeat, you can't win a war with air power alone
7" of Ernest Ranglin - Surfin' on Studio 1 label. Recorded circa 1970. Released on 7" in 1979. Produced by Sir Coxsone Dodd.
Happy 93rd birthday to guitar supremo Ernest Ranglin.
With a career beginning in the 1940s he's played on everything from Millie's My Boy Lollipop to The Congos' Heart Of The Congos.
Here he is at Studio 1...
youtu.be/nfGTBVYnRAQ?...
#reggae #reggaesky #vinylsky #musicsky #jazzsky
The first achievement by J.D. Vance that has ever impressed me: #2 most-blocked Bluesky account in just 24 hours on the platform
Speaking as someone who consumed Italian news from a variety of channels, mainstream and not, Bergoglio's determination and sheer ability to remind people about Gaza had no parallels. This would have applied also to Catholics who followed Pope news worldwide. Really hoping the same of the next guy.
Yep ! Nothing like a good fun funeral. And maybe a quick 18 holes on the Vatican golf course ?
BREAKING
Scott Morrison reveals that he appointed himself as Pope in 2020 as a backup
7" of Higgs & Wilson - Come On Home on WIRL label. Released in 1961. Produced by Edward Seaga.
In the early 1960s Joe Higgs was mentoring young vocal groups like The Wailers in Trench Town.
Here's a deep roots 7" he recorded in 1961 with Roy Wilson. It also features Rico on trombone along with some nyahbinghi drumming...
youtu.be/I1YGSCSEjF4?...
#reggae #reggaesky #vinylsky #musicsky
There were 69 journalists killed in all of WW2. 63 in Vietnam. The Israelis have killed more than 200 in Gaza. Deliberate murder to silence reporting.
Some initial analysis of the 2025 WA election comparing the results by party with when Labor was elected to office in 2017. The result was worse for the Liberal Party in votes, and considerably worse in terms of seats. antonygreen.com.au/2025-western... #wavotes
The solution for the ABC on this - and particularly in this age -is really simple. Any public affairs organisation that doesn't fully disclose its funding gets no air time. It't not hard.
from the US: 'Over 10 years, private equity firms acquired more than 1,000 disability care providers. But intense pressures to turn a profit could harm quality'
www.healthcaredive.com/news/private...
The US is detaining people trying to enter the country. Trump has really let ICE off the leash | First Dog on the Moon
Today, Thursday 20 March, is Alien Abduction Day. Prepared to be Probed. www.daysoftheyear.com/days/alien-a...
Also, World Rewilding Day. www.daysoftheyear.com/days/world-r...
And it’s (Inter?)National Ravioli Day. www.daysoftheyear.com/days/ravioli...
On 8 April 1998 Australians woke up to the startling news that dogs and men in balaclavas were invading the docks around the country, locking out workers.
This is a story of political intrigue, of lies, double dealing, high stakes leaks and high stakes finances. And guns.
The FBI is now moving to criminalize groups like Habitat for Humanity for “conspiracy to defraud the United States.”
This comes after EPA Director Lee Zeldin eliminated the EPA headquarters in D.C. and 10 other regional offices.
Govt will end first (of how many?) term in power without any real work done on Robodebt RoCo recommendation to reinstate 6yr limit on welfare debt recovery. Instead, it's in court refusing to waive millions of debts calculated unlawfully back to 1991. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/2025/03...
$1.1m is the budget a pitched the ABC for 13 episodes of A Rational Fear after #qanda
