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Andy Hazel @andyhazel.bsky.social · 22h

If I was Oasis, I would get some Mancunian craft brewery to make Oasis-branded beer and make a deal so that every arena I played in could only sell that beer and I would quit half way through the world tour a billionaire.

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Andy Hazel @andyhazel.bsky.social · 22h

No! How... NO one could have seen this coming.

Crikey @crikey.com.au · 22h

Teens are using TikTok to share tips on getting around Australia’s upcoming social media ban, from changing bios to using their parents' emails.

How Australian teens are already planning to dodge the social media ban

www.crikey.com.au

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Andy Hazel @andyhazel.bsky.social · 23h

I thought, "Well, what a way to go, what a way to be dragged off by the secret police, is for showing insufficient enthusiasm for the comedic potential of Mohammed bin Salman."

Saudi Arabia Gets the Last Laugh

The Riyadh Comedy Festival is just one part of a much bigger plan.

www.theatlantic.com

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Donna Benenson @donnabenenson.bsky.social · 1d

"...the NPC’s list of sponsors reveals the problem. Among them are no less than ten firms with links to the arms industry that is profiting from Israel’s destruction of Gaza, including four of the very largest defence manufacturers in the world – BAE, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin and Thales."

Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 1d

New:
Censorship by any other name.
The National Press Club cancelled a speaker, Chris Hedges, who planned to address the mass killing of journalists in Gaza. The mainstream press didn’t report it.
nickfeik.substack.com/p/censorship...

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Andy Hazel @andyhazel.bsky.social · 1d

Like Bowie...

Crikey @crikey.com.au · 1d

The late Jane Goodall becomes one of the figures both lucky and unlucky enough to have known the end was soon, and to leave behind a message.

Jane Goodall and what we leave behind

www.crikey.com.au

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Tyler Coates @tylercoates.bsky.social · 1d

this happening just eight days before his directorial debut hits theaters is what we in the biz call “a whoopsies”

Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 1d

Good for them

variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Human Rights Watch ‘Cannot Accept’ Donations From Aziz Ansari and Other Comedians Who Performed at Riyadh Comedy Festival

Human Rights Watch says it 'cannot accept' donations from Aziz Ansari and other comedians who performed at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia.

variety.com

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 1d

Once again, Joseph Heller had our number

James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 1d

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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Andy Hazel @andyhazel.bsky.social · 1d

It’s clear from National Press Club CEO Maurice Reilly’s own explanation that he cancelled Chris Hedges’ talk, ’The Betrayal of Palestinian Journalists,’ upon learning of its proposed content.

How do you “balance” a talk about how 270 journalists have been killed? @nickfeik.bsky.social

Censorship by any other name

The National Press Club cancelled a speaker who planned to address the mass killing of journalists in Gaza. The mainstream press didn’t report it.

nickfeik.substack.com

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Andy Hazel @andyhazel.bsky.social · 1d

Mine just arrived, in Melbourne. Thank you @monorailmusic.bsky.social

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Don Linn @donlinn.bsky.social · 1d

Claim and celebrate ALL the victories

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

A library director in Wyoming who was fired two years ago because she refused to remove books with sexual content and LGBTQ themes from a library’s children and young adult sections was awarded $700,000 in a settlement on Wednesday.

Librarian Fired in Books Dispute to Receive $700,000 Settlement

County officials in Wyoming fired Terri Lesley, a library director, after she refused to purge children and young adult books that contained sexual content and L.G.B.T.Q. themes.

nyti.ms

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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.

buff.ly

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Andy Hazel @andyhazel.bsky.social · 2d

Don't Robert! He is very charismatic and great interview and with the combined powers of his smile and a complimentary bottle of tequila, I could see him sneaking into the five.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 2d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Andy Hazel @andyhazel.bsky.social · 2d

Is this recent news Kevin? I can't find any report of this since 2024.

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 2d

Just so we’re clear: Labor is choosing to work with the worst possible party on environmental issues, instead of the Greens and teals who actually want environmental regulation.
And Watt is already admitting it won’t have a climate trigger …

Watt nears deal with Coalition to finally overhaul environment laws

Environment Minister Murray Watt will sit down with his Liberal counterpart Angie Bell today, with quiet optimism in both parties that a deal might soon be struck to finally rewrite Australia's "broke...

www.abc.net.au

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Andy Hazel @andyhazel.bsky.social · 2d

I noticed it and immediately assumed the rest of the world had been pronouncing it incorrectly for decades. LOVE this Artemis Fowl episode.

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Dave Graney @davegraney.bsky.social · 2d

I never normally get any kind of review or feedback but this tour is something people can approach more easily. Here is a lovely, thoughtful piece on our Sydney show last Friday. (though I am not into any kind of karate movement as perceived here) cityhub.com.au/dave-graney-...

Dave Graney & The Coral Snakes Revisit ‘The Soft ‘N’ Sexy Sound’ at Factory Theatre

90s Australian rock icon Dave Graney and the Coral Snakes took the audience back to another era at Marrickville’s Factory Theatre.

cityhub.com.au

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Andy Hazel @andyhazel.bsky.social · 3d

So many jawdropping facts, and some jovial idiocy, in this thread...

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 3d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Andy Hazel @andyhazel.bsky.social · 3d

A stellar deep dive into the Venice smash hit and major awards player A House of Dynamite: @nadinewhitney.bsky.social speaks with Kathryn Bigelow, Rebecca Ferguson, Jason Clarke, Anthony Ramos, Tracy Letts, and Noah Oppenheim for @thecurb.com.au:

Inside a House of Dynamite - The Curb | Film and Culture

Kathryn Bigelow’s A House of Dynamite tracks the response to an unattributed nuclear warhead that is destined to land on an American city. The film moves in three terrifying segments replaying the sam...

www.thecurb.com.au

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6 News Australia @6newsau.bsky.social · 3d

🚨 NEW: 58% of Australians agree that a genocide is happening in Gaza, according to a YouGov poll commissioned by the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network

88% of Greens voters and 72% of Labor voters were among those who agreed with the UN report on Gaza

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Charlie Brigden @filmsonwax.bsky.social · 4d

With TRON ARES about to hit, here’s a bit I wrote for @crooked-marquee.bsky.social on the original TRON and it’s fabulous composer, the amazing Wendy Carlos

Pixel Perfect: How Wendy Carlos Gave an Extra Dimension to Tron

How synthesizer innovator Wendy Carlos created a combination orchestral/synth score for Disney’s big-budget adventure ‘Tron.’

crookedmarquee.com

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Andy Hazel @andyhazel.bsky.social · 3d

No mention of second-billed Gwyneth Paltrow at all in these first-look reviews of Marty Supreme? Very strange.

‘Marty Supreme’ Brings Down the House as Surprise NYFF Screening: ‘Major, Exhilarating Filmmaking’ and Timothée Chalamet’s ‘Best Performance Yet’

Benny Safdie directs Timothée Chalamet in the new movie 'Marty Supreme.' See the first reactions to the film.

www.indiewire.com

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Andy Hazel @andyhazel.bsky.social · 4d

Crikey’s inaugural Alan Bond Award for Corporate Misconduct, is... QANTAS.

"Strength-in-depth is needed to be a truly awful company, and Qantas has delivered that in spades over recent years, with an enviable record of offending in pretty much every way a company can in Australia."

And Australia's worst company is...

The inaugural winner of the Alan Bond Award for Corporate Misconduct goes to an Australian icon that has truly demonstrated awfulness across a wide range of criteria.

www.crikey.com.au

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The Nerve @thenerve.news · 6d

Thank you for all the support out there. We are blown away - and so grateful 🙏💪

Press Gazette @pressgazette.co.uk · 7d

Launch by ex-Observer staff of The Nerve has "hugely exceeded our expectations" in its first week with a beta website and its first newsletter

"We’ve shown what a small, dedicated, collaborative team of women – who’ve worked together for years – can do" pressgazette.co.uk/news/new-lau...

New launch from ex-Observer staff nears 1,000 paying subscribers in a week

The Nerve, the new publication launched by former Observer journalists including Carole Cadwalladr, topped 900 paying subscribers in a week.

pressgazette.co.uk

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Andy Hazel @andyhazel.bsky.social · 7d

You’re so lucky! She is the coolest.