“I can’t believe what you say because I see what you do.” — James Baldwin

Sledgehammer was released 40 years ago today!

Oh, but “Green Revolution“ something something

The national media suddenly pretending BRS wasn't found by a court to have committed these horrific actions in Afghanistan and suddenly ignoring the original 2023 judgment and the appeal, both of which BRS lost, is an absolute travesty. Rich people are laundering this bastard's reputation.

**GASP** He said the C word!

OMG I GOT A SHOUT OUT ON MICHAEL AND US PODCAST!!!

THANK YOU @willsloanesq.bsky.social !!!

sounds like he has a beef with the cost of living crisis

Time for Mark and his wealthy entertainment mates to do what Charlie Chaplin and co did decades ago: create a new United Artists and freeze out the corporates

JD: killin’ popes ‘n’ dashin’ hopes

The Fox host. Not interested in learning any more about him.

And jailed.

He said it ON TV!!!

I’d be thinking “ew gross“ if I heard some dirty old man mutter it to his mates at the pub, away from public scrutiny.

BUT HE SAID IT ON TV!!

Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school.

Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon!

🌕 💛

My school friend got a job at Channel 9 Brisbane straight out of school in 1989. He got to meet Jana and couldn't stop raving about how beautiful she was (he was 19 yo of course). We believed him.

Not to say we didn't admire her as a journalist, too. We weren't that shallow. But still ... grrrowwl.

Good on them at least for letting you know well in advance that you should block them.

... and I've heard it said that the portrayal of Indigenous characters in the first Crocodile Dundee was the most accurate and respectful in a mainstream movie to that point.

But yeah, the homophobic and transphobic scenes were pretty shitty.

... to the humour bc in reality he was from inner city Sydney. Having the classic Aust actor John Meillon (look him up) starring was also a stroke of genius, as was casting the equally classic David Gulpilil. ...

... because we knew him from his stand up and comedy shows, as well as his backstory as a former painter for the Sydney Harbour Bridge who decided to give comedy a try in his 30s to support his family. His portraying a bushie who'd never been in the city was filled with irony and probably added ...

As an Australian, I was saving this episode for a time when I could listen all the way through and it did not disappoint. Hogan was VERY well known by the time CD was released and Aust audiences probably read more into the character and the movie than Nth Americans did ...

"Chust to be clear, it vasn't me."

Trust me, every time I check, they hold up. And both shit stains are still alive, goddammit.

And for those who love to scare voters with the "highest interest rates" claim during the Keating years, here's something they tend to forget:

Carrie Fisher later said she bonded with Cary Grant over a shared hate of Chevy Chase.

Perfect opportunity to remind everyone of Chevy Chase's pathetic attempt to bring CG down with a homophobic smear in 1980, only for Grant to clap back with a lawsuit. Just adding to the well-deserved hate CC is experiencing at the moment.

There's always the pub test.

"Next round's on me! By the way, do you reckon I'm a rapist?"

There’s a direct line from this pathetic response to the original perfidious influence of Roy Cohn.

There’s a mini suburb in the northern part of Melbourne that is literally still called “Olympic Village“. As in 1956.

As far as I am concerned, Kennett's behaviour should have left the weekly Leader newspaper office for the front page of the next day's Herald Sun.

Yes. Premier Kennett sexually assaulted the senior female reporter this 16yo cadet was assigned to. If Kennett wants to sue me? Bring it on, I say.

It’s all in the Communist Mantafesto

I believe it was Karl Sharks who accurately predicted the Fin-ancial Crisis.