Andrew Elder
@awelder.bsky.social
Media criticism and other things. Yeah but why
They don't invite me either
The Golden Globes are silly, glorified payola run by a media monopoly and have no real impact on the Oscars. We should pay less attention to them.
December 9, 2025 at 10:55 AM
They don't invite me either
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In December 1989, Margaret Urlich's debut solo album Safety In Numbers was released, and reached No. 4 on the NZ Album Chart. After making her mark in Peking Man, people embraced her work as a solo artist. Margaret's story by Murray Cammick: www.audioculture.co.nz/profile/marg...
December 9, 2025 at 7:47 AM
In December 1989, Margaret Urlich's debut solo album Safety In Numbers was released, and reached No. 4 on the NZ Album Chart. After making her mark in Peking Man, people embraced her work as a solo artist. Margaret's story by Murray Cammick: www.audioculture.co.nz/profile/marg...
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Anything James Massola @sydmorningherald.bsky.social ? 🦗🦗
December 9, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Anything James Massola @sydmorningherald.bsky.social ? 🦗🦗
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This event is evil, unconscionable, and it’s a referendum on the nation’s moral compass.
MAGA mobs circling Tim Walz’s home to attack his son (not autistic, nonverbal) is not an accident, it’s the logical outcome of Trump’s politics of dehumanization.
This is Trump’s America and it must stop.👇
MAGA mobs circling Tim Walz’s home to attack his son (not autistic, nonverbal) is not an accident, it’s the logical outcome of Trump’s politics of dehumanization.
This is Trump’s America and it must stop.👇
December 9, 2025 at 4:06 AM
This event is evil, unconscionable, and it’s a referendum on the nation’s moral compass.
MAGA mobs circling Tim Walz’s home to attack his son (not autistic, nonverbal) is not an accident, it’s the logical outcome of Trump’s politics of dehumanization.
This is Trump’s America and it must stop.👇
MAGA mobs circling Tim Walz’s home to attack his son (not autistic, nonverbal) is not an accident, it’s the logical outcome of Trump’s politics of dehumanization.
This is Trump’s America and it must stop.👇
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Look at the brothers' reaction to their bro being a paedo. Very telling. All the Kennedy males were/are fucked up beyond belief and shouldn't be anywhere near public office.
December 9, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Look at the brothers' reaction to their bro being a paedo. Very telling. All the Kennedy males were/are fucked up beyond belief and shouldn't be anywhere near public office.
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A HAMAS car wash.
But the tunnels!
But the tunnels!
Israeli occupation bulldozers are demolishing a Palestinian-owned car wash and two auto-accessory facilities in the town of Hizma, northeast of occupied Jerusalem.
December 8, 2025 at 9:31 AM
A HAMAS car wash.
But the tunnels!
But the tunnels!
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I reject the Crockett electabiltiy arguments out of hand. For 30 years, TX Dems have run a non-offensive white guy who always gets beat by a car salesman who bought his wife from Belorussia and is diddling his daughters. Be open to something different. You can run a loudmouth.
December 8, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I reject the Crockett electabiltiy arguments out of hand. For 30 years, TX Dems have run a non-offensive white guy who always gets beat by a car salesman who bought his wife from Belorussia and is diddling his daughters. Be open to something different. You can run a loudmouth.
People's deaths are "low-key messed up" - a new low even for Crabb
Joyce moved an entire departmental headquarters to provide grifting opportunities for his mates
December 9, 2025 at 5:17 AM
People's deaths are "low-key messed up" - a new low even for Crabb
This is just one of those irrelevant details bad writers insert to make themselves look like better writers than they are. You may as well say what school Dr Upton went to, or does she own two thousand acres in Somerset
"Dr Beth Upton - a biological male who identifies as a woman ."
BBC News can fully eat shit.
BBC News can fully eat shit.
December 9, 2025 at 5:15 AM
This is just one of those irrelevant details bad writers insert to make themselves look like better writers than they are. You may as well say what school Dr Upton went to, or does she own two thousand acres in Somerset
If that temperature was Celsius it wouldn't need to be asked
It is 49° why is your AC on uber driver? Why?
December 9, 2025 at 4:39 AM
If that temperature was Celsius it wouldn't need to be asked
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It’s time to stop saying that we need to understand these people. We do understand them.
We understand that they have dug in their heels so deeply, they will not be moved by anything: not facts or data or truth or their own eyes.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/we-cant-ch...
We understand that they have dug in their heels so deeply, they will not be moved by anything: not facts or data or truth or their own eyes.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/we-cant-ch...
We Can't Change These Hateful People, America. We Have to Outnumber Them.
There’s an old saying: “When the horse is dead… dismount.”
johnpavlovitz.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:25 AM
It’s time to stop saying that we need to understand these people. We do understand them.
We understand that they have dug in their heels so deeply, they will not be moved by anything: not facts or data or truth or their own eyes.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/we-cant-ch...
We understand that they have dug in their heels so deeply, they will not be moved by anything: not facts or data or truth or their own eyes.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/we-cant-ch...
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I lost my job, there are no toys on the shelves, and the only hospital within 100 miles of my house just closed. But at least I know that now there won't be any non-binary characters on Paw Patrol.
December 9, 2025 at 2:14 AM
I lost my job, there are no toys on the shelves, and the only hospital within 100 miles of my house just closed. But at least I know that now there won't be any non-binary characters on Paw Patrol.
Just as they do this, they introduce laws targeted at children, and Indigenous children will be disproportionately convicted. No wonder Indigenous people regard the law as a game they can't win
December 9, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Just as they do this, they introduce laws targeted at children, and Indigenous children will be disproportionately convicted. No wonder Indigenous people regard the law as a game they can't win
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What the social media ban assumes about our society is that the places where adults congregate to share ideas are never safe for children. And it’s wrong
December 9, 2025 at 1:21 AM
What the social media ban assumes about our society is that the places where adults congregate to share ideas are never safe for children. And it’s wrong
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The 'What the Papers Say' section of news programmes should be replaced with What the Papers Botched, where the microscopic 'apologies' and corrections buried away on page 23 are openly discussed with each Editor.
December 8, 2025 at 10:55 AM
The 'What the Papers Say' section of news programmes should be replaced with What the Papers Botched, where the microscopic 'apologies' and corrections buried away on page 23 are openly discussed with each Editor.
It's also self-serving. Wells isn't just the sport minister, she's the minister for the 2032 Olympics. Part of the reason why she's in cabinet is because her seat is in Brisbane. That job involves travelling the world on junkets, and it will be interesting to see if the next minister cops the same
Expenses: duty, family reunion or indulgence? It’s a question of judgement. Phil Coorey’s analysis 👇is spot on.
December 9, 2025 at 12:19 AM
It's also self-serving. Wells isn't just the sport minister, she's the minister for the 2032 Olympics. Part of the reason why she's in cabinet is because her seat is in Brisbane. That job involves travelling the world on junkets, and it will be interesting to see if the next minister cops the same
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Hemingway is a juggernaut.
He also loved Cuba, and for it, earned himself the eye of McCarthy. One reason Hemingway killed himself was no one would believe him that he was under constant surveillance. They chalked it up to his alcoholism. McCarthy unredacted files revealed Hemingway was correct.
He also loved Cuba, and for it, earned himself the eye of McCarthy. One reason Hemingway killed himself was no one would believe him that he was under constant surveillance. They chalked it up to his alcoholism. McCarthy unredacted files revealed Hemingway was correct.
December 8, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Hemingway is a juggernaut.
He also loved Cuba, and for it, earned himself the eye of McCarthy. One reason Hemingway killed himself was no one would believe him that he was under constant surveillance. They chalked it up to his alcoholism. McCarthy unredacted files revealed Hemingway was correct.
He also loved Cuba, and for it, earned himself the eye of McCarthy. One reason Hemingway killed himself was no one would believe him that he was under constant surveillance. They chalked it up to his alcoholism. McCarthy unredacted files revealed Hemingway was correct.
This is great and matters more from community perspectives, because the May 2025 vote becomes moot given the decline of the Libs, a Labor govt that is arrogant, secretive and self-limiting, the rise of PHON and the possibility of rural electorates with more independents given coherent communities
Today's blog post is one I've been working on for a while - I have drawn a map of what the electoral map could look like if the Parliament expanded to 16 senators per state and 200 seats in the House. #auspol
What might an expanded parliament map look like?
A lot of people would love to know how the electoral map would change if the parliament was expanded. We’ve already been able to get some idea of what might happen by looking back at the hist…
www.tallyroom.com.au
December 8, 2025 at 11:39 PM
This is great and matters more from community perspectives, because the May 2025 vote becomes moot given the decline of the Libs, a Labor govt that is arrogant, secretive and self-limiting, the rise of PHON and the possibility of rural electorates with more independents given coherent communities
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It’s always Trump supporters that do this kind of mess. Almost 90% if not more are Trump supporters. They only can blame themselves with all the crazy crap they do!
December 8, 2025 at 1:04 AM
It’s always Trump supporters that do this kind of mess. Almost 90% if not more are Trump supporters. They only can blame themselves with all the crazy crap they do!
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"We can't allow fact checkers into the country" is late-stage USSR shit, real end-of-empire stuff
Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
December 8, 2025 at 9:23 PM
"We can't allow fact checkers into the country" is late-stage USSR shit, real end-of-empire stuff
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Every Australian political party in opposition: "The minister should have ridden a bike to Jakarta."
The same party in government: "Whee, Taylor Swift tickets for my 100 best friends! Government's paying!"
The same party in government: "Whee, Taylor Swift tickets for my 100 best friends! Government's paying!"
December 8, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Every Australian political party in opposition: "The minister should have ridden a bike to Jakarta."
The same party in government: "Whee, Taylor Swift tickets for my 100 best friends! Government's paying!"
The same party in government: "Whee, Taylor Swift tickets for my 100 best friends! Government's paying!"
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"If you put a kid on the cover, you’re telling buyers it’s a kid game. If you put adults on the cover, you’re telling kids it’s a gateway to adulthood. This is basic aspirational psychology. They’ll feel like tiny professors. Or tiny villains. Both sell."
The Mastermind Box Cover: What the Hell Were They Thinking?
- - -INVICTA GAMES, LTD. Packaging Team — Official Minutes Project: Mastermind / New Cover Presentation MARTIN SMITH (Marketing Senior Vice Presi...
buff.ly
December 8, 2025 at 7:27 PM
"If you put a kid on the cover, you’re telling buyers it’s a kid game. If you put adults on the cover, you’re telling kids it’s a gateway to adulthood. This is basic aspirational psychology. They’ll feel like tiny professors. Or tiny villains. Both sell."
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♥️ “ICE looked at that school, saw a community standing up for families, and decided it wasn’t worth it.”
December 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
♥️ “ICE looked at that school, saw a community standing up for families, and decided it wasn’t worth it.”
Double or nothing, come in lucky
Brooke Rollins: "Eggs are down. Really everything is coming down. But listen, we're not tone deaf. We know that a lot of Americans are like, 'Well, we're still not feeling the relief.' The relief is coming ... it really is a golden age just right around the corner."
December 8, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Double or nothing, come in lucky