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benjamin @benjamino.bsky.social · Jan 15
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Meanjin weather update
November 27, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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Meanjin weather update
Mordor arse sky with ominous black and silver clouds over Meanjin/ Brisbane city skyline
November 27, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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meanjin weather update
Aerial view of some curved coastal land jutting into a large blue body of water beneath a mass of high cloud in an otherwise blue sky
November 26, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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These are really odd support slot choices but I guess iNsuRge didn't exist until 1994
gigsyoumissed.bsky.social Gigs You Missed @gigsyoumissed.bsky.social · 1d
23 January 1993
The Disposable Heroes of Hypocrisy
/w You Am I + The Fauves
@ Prince of Wales
November 26, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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not entirely the point but this is a serious issue and these supposed representatives need to grow the fuck up
A spokesperson for the home affairs minister said: “The government takes advice from our security, intelligence and law enforcement agencies, not from the Greens political party.”
November 26, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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“I always find it annoying when everyone makes a mad dash for the offence microphone,” Joyce told Sydney radio 2GB as criticism of Hanson grew on Tuesday. “They’re supporting the right for someone to wear a burqa, but kicking out someone for wearing a burqa.” Kent Brockman ' dumb words from a dumb cunt' meme
November 25, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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barbra "streisand effect" streisand
November 25, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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There's no inherent contradiction in Labor governments simultaneously imprisoning ever-younger kids for longer while banning teens from social media while going soft on gambling advertising, all against expert advice, because the logical consistency tying it all in a neat bow is 'hehe fuck you'
November 25, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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They do this now and again in Footscray for a weekend or so, the entire CBD + plenty more for six months is incredible cop (and Costco cop) overreach
Public notice: Melbourne CBD - Sunday 30 November 2025 to Friday 29 May 2026
A public notice for Melbourne CBD and surrounds from Sunday 30 November 2025 to Friday 29 May 2026.
www.police.vic.gov.au
November 25, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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Good luck to Bevan Shields as he strikes out on a new career as an Austrian-English translator
November 25, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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garbage racist nonsense from a govt with no vision for anything beyond maintaining their own power, coveted for no reason beyond the basest self-serving hackery
jeremypoxon.bsky.social Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 3d
New: 100+ legal experts, welfare groups & academics demand the Minister bin an amendment, allowing police to cancel welfare payments for people who have not been found guilty of any crime

@tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social is trying to ram this amendment through today

Read more: archive.is/UHu9J
"Labor’s plan to cancel the welfare benefits of people accused of serious violence or sexual offences has come under fire by more than 100 academic and legal experts. “This represents a dangerous departure from fundamental legal principles that underpin Australia’s social security and criminal justice systems,” the 116 signatories wrote in the letter to be tabled by independent Senator Lidia Thorpe in parliament on Monday. The so-called Schedule 5 amendment was quietly tacked onto an unrelated bill previously introduced by Social Services Tanya Plibersek in late October with no announcement or prior notice by the government."
November 24, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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You and me baby ain't nothin' but mammals
so let's d-
Pope Leo channels his inner Bloodhound Gang
November 23, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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Food $200
Data $150
Rent $800
Making BoM website worse $96,000,000
Utility $150
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying
Total bill for BoM's new website came in at $96 million
November 23, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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authorised officers on the train heading straight for the studentest looking travellers (because they're cunts)
November 22, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Nobody goes into the city any more, between the communist state gov and the multiculturalisms it's completely dead
Melburnians join in some live African drumming in Fed Square
November 22, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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She did it again. It was four years later. Another presidential campaign. Another book project. Another candidate whom she had profiled. Another note—a poem, according to Olivia—though this time from the candidate to her. “Yr open mouth awaiting my harvest,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is now the Secretary of Health and Human Services, had written to my then-fiancé. “Drink from me Love.” He continued, “I mean to squeeze your cheeks to force open your mouth. I’ll hold your nose as you look up at me to encourage you to swallow. ‘Dont spill a drop’. I am a river You are my canyon. I mean to flow through you. I mean to subdue and tame you. My Love.”
November 22, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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When I am mayor of Melbourne there will be strict rules around things like Sharon Van Etten and Peep Tempel not being allowed to play across town on the same night
November 22, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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Mamdani schmamdami, the actual news is Mohamed Semra being elected mayor of Maribyrnong
Mohamed Semra, elected mayor of Maribyrnong, getting his mayoral bling attached by council execs
November 22, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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psa
THE BETA BAND PRE-SALE The wait is over! Experimental Scottish icons, The Beta Band make their long-awaited Melbourne debut on Thursday 4 June at Forum Melbourne performing The Three E.P.'s along with fan favourites.
November 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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'This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Glenn Danzig' is so frequent it deserves its own level 400 error code
Video unavailable This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Glenn Danzig
November 21, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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Another night stuck chaperoning the rugrats at some newfangled nonsense, Piggies or Poxies or somesuch
Pixies stage at Festival Hall
November 20, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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they're kinda neat
Elliot & Vincent at Festival Hall
November 20, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Peter is correct this is a lovely video, it is also my solemn dadly duty to note that you should dafinitely see Black Aleph perform should the opportunity present
peterhollo.com Peter Hollo @peterhollo.com · 8d
Oh hey! I was in Europe in the middle of the year touring with one of my bands, Black Aleph.

Here's a lovely video of us performing in Paris:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMH5...
Black Aleph - Return (live in Paris 2025)
YouTube video by Art As Catharsis
www.youtube.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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quick question wtaf is wrong with you
But it is Wilson’s sex, rather than her generation, which invites a different sort of scrutiny. A confession. During Wilson’s first press conference as opposition leader, I couldn’t help but observe and take detailed notes about her shoes until an angry voice on my shoulder – let’s call it my feminine side – angrily pointed out that I’d never taken much of an interest in Brad Battin’s boots. In my defence, Your Honour, I would submit that we can learn things about a woman politician from her choice of shoes that we can’t from the ubiquitous RMs of male parliamentarians. In Wilson’s case, her blue suede slingbacks – adorned with a slightly punkish buckle and studs – was the only break from the customary, pantsuit uniform that gave an inkling of personality. Her brand of her shoes, Bared Footwear, is well known among busy women for offering orthopaedic support without compromising on style. This suggests there is a practical streak to Wilson and a willingness to spend long days on her feet, if that is what it takes, to prosecute her case. Or maybe, I’m just an ageing bloke whose eyes are having trouble adjusting to an important, overdue change in the Victorian Liberal Party and our state parliament. Chip Le Grand is state political editor.
November 19, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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How can you accuse my racist client of racial vilification when a whole lot of racist nazis on X, The Every Racist Nazi app, were also racist?
On the first day of the appeal hearing, Ms Chrysanthou said many Australians were upset about the death of the Queen, who had for many been the only monarch they had ever known, and argued that Senator Faruqi’s tweet was “provocative and was reasonably likely to incite a response”. The barrister added there was “quite a vigorous response” to the tweet, with many people expressing “outrage” over her stance, with many comments that were overwhelmingly the same or near-identical views as Senator Hanson. This included examples of Twitter users calling her a number of names and describing her as “disgraceful”, before telling her to leave Australia, the barrister said.
November 19, 2025 at 11:01 AM