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Andrew Stafford

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Author (Pig City, Something to Believe In), journalist. Content: music, wildlife/biodiversity, AFL, cats. patreon.com/andrewstafford

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Andrew Stafford @andrewstafford.bsky.social · May 23

A walk with Robert Forster that turned into a kind of requiem for our home town of Brisbane. They shut it down, closed it down, pulled it down… www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Robert Forster: ‘You improve as a person as you get older. I think that’s a fact’

The lauded singer-songwriter takes a wander along the Brisbane streets that formed him and the Go-Betweens

www.theguardian.com

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Jarrod Watt @jaywatt.bsky.social · 5h

Banned Books Week ends today and I thought I'd try and catch up on some reading... sadly this list is American only. Big ups to Judy Blume - celebrating 50 years of bans on her book "Forever". pen.org/banned-books...

Banned Books List 2025

What books are banned in 2025? Thousands of titles have been removed from public schools across the country.

pen.org

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Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 8h

"Shame on you, Kris Stewart. What an abject betrayal of the artists who helped draw this city out of the dark ages.

For these pathetic lickspittles, musicians are mere minstrels, there to provide light entertainment for the leisure classes gathered around the canapés." @andrewstafford.bsky.social 🔥

Friday On My Mind: Biko | Andrew Stafford

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Andrew Stafford @andrewstafford.bsky.social · 10h

Here is the excerpt from my appearance on Thursday night that Chris is referring to. www.patreon.com/posts/140529...

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Andrew Stafford @andrewstafford.bsky.social · 21h

Actually we should form a group. Julie and the Andrews

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Andrew Stafford @andrewstafford.bsky.social · 21h

(Andy wasn’t on the VAD panel with us but was with us at the signing table. Great night)

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Andrew Stafford @andrewstafford.bsky.social · 21h

With photojournalist Julian Kingma, Andrew Denton from Go Gentle and Andy Griffiths, whose bum famously went psycho. Andy’s signing queue was immense. After an excellent session on assisted dying at Brisbane Writers Festival

Happy snap from left: Julian Kingma, self, Andrew Denton, Andy Griffiths

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Andrew Stafford @andrewstafford.bsky.social · 1d

I spoke to Kate Ceberano for a story a week or so ago and she loves that one of her biggest hits is in the local vernacular

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 2d

Big presence on the beaches of Normandy in 1944 too.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2d

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 2d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Jarrod Watt @jaywatt.bsky.social · 4d

Cory Doctorow off the long run-up with quality AI analysis: “So, you're saying a third of the stock market is tied up in seven AI companies that have no way to become profitable and that this is a bubble that's going to burst and take the whole economy with it?" pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

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Andrew Stafford @andrewstafford.bsky.social · 3d

This reminds me of my dear Mum (RIP) who told her Melbourne tram flasher “mate I’m a nurse, I see better than that every day”

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Liz Darvill @lizdarvill.bsky.social · 4d

This seems totally fine and exactly what you'd expect from a healthy, cohesive and vibrant democracy

David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 4d

Over the weekend, Trump's deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller repeatedly attacked judges, calling them part of an "organized terrorist attack" on the US government....

On Saturday, the home of a judge who ruled against Trump, went up in flames

time.com/7323442/sout...

House of South Carolina Judge Criticized by Trump Administration Set Ablaze

Authorities are investigating a fire at the home of a South Carolina judge who had reportedly received death threats in what could be the latest incident of political violence across the country.

time.com

Andrew Stafford @andrewstafford.bsky.social · 5d

“Ah my sweet, innocent child…” 😂

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Andrew Stafford @andrewstafford.bsky.social · 5d

“As algebra is beyond a cat” FFS how did anyone ever take this nincompoop seriously

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Andrew Stafford @andrewstafford.bsky.social · 5d

It's a popular faux-competition which has helped raise the profile of birds, and the threats facing them, that would normally never get a run in the news cycle. What is there not to like about that? I'm proud to contribute every time it comes around www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Solitary, yes. Shy? Hardly, albatrosses trail after trawlers and dance for their partners

A better term for the shy albatross comes from its scientific name: sea commander. Unfortunately, it’s now in a battle to survive

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Andrew Stafford @andrewstafford.bsky.social · 5d

That is indeed the whole idea: to get people who normally don’t think about birds (or biodiversity, or their environment) to engage with it in a fun, informal way. It’s a gateway.

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Andrew Stafford @andrewstafford.bsky.social · 5d

I’ve got a pretty good idea who wrote them and I’d say you’re taking it a mite seriously, Vyv. (It wasn’t me)

Andrew Stafford @andrewstafford.bsky.social · 5d

“as algebra is beyond a cat” is an apt metaphor if only for illustrating this painfully stupid timeline we all live in

Andrew Stafford @andrewstafford.bsky.social · 5d

A reminder that I'll be at BWF this week talking about the legacy of Pig City and protest songs with John Willsteed. It's an opportunity I don't plan on wasting 👀 brisbanepowerhouse.org/events/pigs-...

Pigs & Punks - Brisbane Powerhouse

The Go-Betweens' John Willsteed joins legendary Queensland music journalist Andrew Stafford for a literary headbanger at Brisbane Writers Festival.

brisbanepowerhouse.org

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Andrew Stafford @andrewstafford.bsky.social · 6d

Lots to say about lots of things through lots and lots of grief, which tends to render everything a garbled incoherent mess.

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Andrew Stafford @andrewstafford.bsky.social · 6d

In the dustbin, preferably

Andrew Stafford @andrewstafford.bsky.social · 7d

I'm too messy to reply to everyone individually, but thank you. She was an extraordinarily devoted cat and I'm a better person for having had her for the time that I did

Priscilla and me c. 2018, showing off her brilliant blue eyes

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 7d

What an incredible act of cowardice by the National Press Club.
WTF.

The National Press Club of Australia, caving to the Israeli lobby, Cancels My Talk on Our Betrayal of Palestinian Journalists

The National Press Club of Australia cancelled my talk on how the media, by amplifying Israeli lies, have betrayed Palestinian journalists, 278 of whom have been assassinated by Israel.

chrishedges.substack.com

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Andrew Stafford @andrewstafford.bsky.social · 7d

The word the Courier-Mail is looking for here is “racist”. Either “Racist Aussie” or “Proud racist” will do.

Courier-Mail headline: “Proud Aussie kicked out of shop for offensive anti-immigration sign” with an bald old bozo wrapped in a flag

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