Oh man, thanks heaps for this! Seriously! On a LaCie hard drive I’ve got some 35mm scans that are so big I’ve had no idea how to play on my tv. Just set this up and it did the trick! Seriously man, thanks so much!
I hadn’t seen this. Kirk, the moderate free speech guy who did politics the right way per some liberals (!), called for Biden to be executed.
Meanwhile Joe Biden put out a very strong statement condemning Kirk’s killing.
Both sides!
Thanks! I’ve always thought the whole genre would be too sanitised/ghostwritten, so keen to check out Selwood/Chapman’s. Have you read Helen Garner’s The Season? Any good?
@michaelbodey.bsky.social Hey Michael. Followed your for a while now and I’ve always liked your yearly book summaries. I’ve been curious (but dubious of their quality) of AFL books and/or biographies. Do you have any recommendations of a AFL book that is actually good?
This is hilariously ridiculous. For two years Albanese has been saying Australia isn't a serious player in the Middle East and everyone pressuring the government to do more needs to chill out.
Now the government is backgrounding about us reconstructing Gaza!
My Fantastic Four
Reaching financial sustainability ANU • In mid-2024, revised financial assessments of the ANU revealed the need for a $250m reduction in spend across the University. • The CASS 2026 forward planning estimate (target) is $62m. • To achieve this baseline, the change proposal includes two financial responses needed address our full year (2025) deficit forecast v planning estimate of $9.5m • Net savings proposed against budget $6.1m • Plus pre-existing negative variance (2025 forecast v budget allocation) is an additional $3.4m • Meeting this target has required us to look carefully at our current operations to consider how we might both contract and grow areas of our business to reach target and assure future financial sustainability .
ANU executives spent $11M on travel, in the latest available reporting year. This year, ANU college of arts and social sciences is being forced to cut $6.1M. Make this make sense. vimeo.com/1098376260/f...
There is a direct line between the impunity with which Trump and MAGA politicians tell lies about immigrants’ supposed criminality and the way these establishment Democrats feel complete license to smear a Muslim politician with false allegations and insinuations about antisemitism
Let’s be clear: Israel, an occupier, has no authority under international law to board or divert the Madleen.
This is a hijacking, plain and simple. A hijacking of a UK-registered ship, with multiple *European* citizens on board.
Does the EU or UK government have anything to say? Anything??
The chief of the country’s premier anti-antisemitism organization is now praising a government official who just this week defended Holocaust denial as part of “viewpoint diversity.”
Gotta satisfy the bloodlust of the Boomers who rabidly digest Katie Halfpenny’s ‘hot takes’ day in day out.
Like, come on. No one actually likes those Dog On The Moon comics. The Guardian just prints those so boomers get their neck exercises in by nodding along as their political beliefs get recited back to them.
FINALLY! I’m so tired of the bourgeoisie media class labelling art as ‘necessary’. No!It can erotic! It can be nail biting! It can be violent! It can be funny! It can be emotional! I’m so tired of leftists liking shit that only ascribes to their political beliefs!
Bruce Durn delivering the single hardest line of all time and smashing it out of the park
A story about why Democrats are losers, in four parts.
The newspaper that gave the world Roger Ebert & published his Pulitzer-winning film criticism for five & a half decades can't be bothered to pay a human freelancer some tiny pittance to compile a summer reading list, so they outsourced it to the free lie generator. I have no joke. This is just sad.
"If we wish to have an inhabitable future for us and our children and their children, then might I quietly suggest we stop electing and tolerating obvious fascist buffoons because we think they're entertaining characters, as if they were housemates on Big Brother. This isn't reality TV. This is reality, or what's left of it. Let us instead protest and rail at these dribbling Nazi idiots to our last breath, rather than beam stupidly as Elon Musk 'sends his heart out to us' Nuremberg style. Let us point out that they are suicidal cretins when they insist that climate change is a Chinese hoax. Let us not give these witless fuckers an inch."
Alan Moore from a new interview.
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Can we just spare a thought, too, for the official end of News Corp as a political force. No one outside an aging political class pays any attention to them.
These systems that leveraged their positions to make art. Does the American videogame system have such a figure? I’d argue…not really!
And I think that fundamental antagonism to ‘art’ is still there today. Reading Blood Sweat and Pixels, developers and publishers see their work mostly as ‘video games’ and not ‘art’.
It’s true a lot of film studios, and people who work in them, hold the same views. But there has been artists in -
My two cents is the American videogame industry developed at the worst, most conservative time. Don’t have much of a clue what the developer studios looked like, but, I’d assume it would possess a similar ideology to 80’s film studios than 70’s.
Big fan of fine art and in my humble opinion it is a pretty lame gimmick painting. But the Archibald comp is very so so in general.
Are they? The Brisbane camp has been dead silent about his recovery from his 2nd concussion for about 6 weeks now.
Great piece Isaac! Really enjoyed it (and your book, too!). Keep it up.
Woolworths image of a soldier in black and white: LEST WE FORGET ANZAC 1915 - 2015 FRESH IN OUR MEMORIES Woolworths
Happy 10th anniversary to this.
A number of mutually exclusive but equally destructive interests are colluding to control the future but if there’s one link to bind them it’s a mental enslavement to joyless pursuit of money and power for its own sake at all costs. A pure Anti-Life Equation that wilts in the face of actual passion
‘Like many small business owners, Zahid acknowledges that his administrative paperwork isn’t always up to date’
Between Dutton’s uninspiring campaign, the undercover millionaire in Kooyong, now this, I’m penciling in a labour win. When your PR team has to admit you fucked up, you REALLY fucked up.
Good movie! I like it’s spin on the hostage film by having Jack’s character reluctantly participating. Catchy theme song too!
Every single western pundit, politician, person on this site, pro Israel group, who mindlessly chanted for 18 months, ‘if Hamas released the hostages the war would be over’… should hang their heads in shame, & spend the rest of their lives apologizing, especially for being played by Netanyahu!
Man, didn’t know you hated Soderbergh that much…