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benjamin @benjamino.bsky.social · 1d

ie take up sailing and retire binch?

benjamin @benjamino.bsky.social · 1d

Here's the thing, the whole point of 'sponsoring' these things is you don't have to directly lobby or strong-arm, the appeasement becomes tacit - see also the National Press Club quietly slurping cash from multiple weapons companies and fossil fuel climate crims

The Centre for Public Integrity’s executive director, Catherine Williams, said the club offered “an invaluable opportunity for monied interests to build relationships with members of parliament and their staff”.

“Let’s be real about it: if the access isn’t perceived to be valuable, why is it sold as a benefit of membership?” Williams said.

RWA’s chief executive Kai Cantwell said it did not use the club to lobby politicians.

“RWA’s work on regulation and harm reduction happens through the proper parliamentary and regulatory processes, not on the sporting field,” Kantwell said.

“Like other industries, we occasionally take part simply to enjoy exercise and socialising – something important for all Australians, particularly in high-pressure roles.”

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benjamin @benjamino.bsky.social · 1d

They all need to slow the releases down, no respect for workloads and deadlines, but yes this one will be on the test

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benjamin @benjamino.bsky.social · 1d

Westside Cowboy - Don't Throw Rocks

Newish Manchester quartet effortlessly rolling out ear-catching jittery alt-cntry flecked bangers; this latest has a Dick Diversque laconicness to the verses before the slide guitar kicks in and the bridge gloriously explodes

Westside Cowboy - Don't Throw Rocks (Official Video)

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benjamin @benjamino.bsky.social · 1d

Wait you're trying to tell me *this* guy is a rapey sleazy creep?

Rapist Andrew Tate and creepy sicko lawyer Paul Ingrassia

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benjamin @benjamino.bsky.social · 1d

Fucking babies, gambling and fossil fuel lobbies clearly run this country and the most embarrassing part is how cheaply souls and favours are bought

Former Wallabies star David Pocock booted from parliamentary sports club

Exclusive: Senator accused of bringing social club into disrepute after raising concerns about its association with betting lobby

www.theguardian.com

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benjamin @benjamino.bsky.social · 1d

R u sure? Felt real

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benjamin @benjamino.bsky.social · 1d

Jerskin Fendrix - Sk1

The Fendrix album out today is *so* close to the kind of thing I would typically hate with fiery passion, yet it's actually a gripping work of art; striking opener Beth's Farm is the strongest but love the gloriously incongruous post-rock breakdowns shoehorned into this too

Jerskin Fendrix - Sk1 (Official Audio)

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benjamin @benjamino.bsky.social · 2d

Watching this now and wasn't expecting them to play it so straight, it really is an actual purely factual doco

The Onion @theonion.com · 2d

Forget everything you already know about America's most notorious dead person.

Watch Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile today at 7 p.m. ET/6 p.m. CT.

Only at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjhSoGcQhWU.

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benjamin @benjamino.bsky.social · 2d

Daily Toll - Time

Sometimes this lo-fi post-folk Sydney trio leans heavily into that Dadaist LWB scattergun sprechstimme, other times they slowly exhale in this languorous squeezebox somnambulism; either way they are a treasure

Time

YouTube video by Release - Topic

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benjamin @benjamino.bsky.social · 2d

Life Without Buildings - Love Trinity (2025)

Technically not new and it appeared on their Live At The Annandale Hotel release, but this resurfaced and remastered swansong has 2025 right there in the title and it's an excuse to listen to the fleetingly ecstatic LWB so

Life Without Buildings - Love Trinity (2025)

YouTube video by Errol's Hot Wax

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benjamin @benjamino.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, um,

Individuals should be free to marry and have children with whoever they want...'

Writer, Charles Amos, joins GB News to describe why he believes individuals should be free to form a relationship with anyone, including incestuous relationships with cousins or siblings.

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benjamin @benjamino.bsky.social · 2d

(Except when I was an editor of course but that was an accident and folly)

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benjamin @benjamino.bsky.social · 2d

every accusation etc

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benjamin @benjamino.bsky.social · 2d

You really do have to be a cretin or a coward to fail your way up into editorial management in Australian newsrooms

The DILETTANTE @demwar.bsky.social · 2d

Distinct Gulf of America vibes

www.smh.com.au/business/com...

SBS staff sworn off naming Palestine despite federal recognition

SBS staff remain unable to use the word Palestine in news reporting despite federal recognition of the state last month as tensions over reporting on the conflict in Gaza remain high.

www.smh.com.au

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benjamin @benjamino.bsky.social · 2d

Social media is to blame for social cohesion issues across the globe, News Corp Australia’s executive chair, Michael Miller, has said, as he calls for media to present a united front against the platforms and AI companies seeking content for free.

Miller told the Melbourne Press Club on Wednesday social media was rife with “misinformation, disinformation [and] the rabbit holes [that] they drag you down.

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benjamin @benjamino.bsky.social · 2d

It would really have helped if they had included (pejorative) after each line about violent pigs being klansmen etc

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benjamin @benjamino.bsky.social · 2d

chicken soup

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benjamin @benjamino.bsky.social · 2d

Went back to it today and it really is as good as we remember

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benjamin @benjamino.bsky.social · 2d

One thing he does well* is find and quote the people who say out loud the things he thinks so he can write the things they say in his periodical as though it's simply reporting when actually it's just ventriloquised public journalling - we saw this in his transphobia work in particular

Pm says October 7 'not a day for demonstrations' ahead of anniversary rallies' by Chip Le Grand and Paul Sakkal

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benjamin @benjamino.bsky.social · 2d

He is literally on every wrong side of history available and the worst thing to happen to The Age and its audience in decades

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benjamin @benjamino.bsky.social · 2d

Wild to me this guy can spend months drumming up a panic about protest movements and 'universities, the public broadcasters and the public service' being antisemitic hotbeds, then as soon as it's all shown to be utter horsehit and he was wrong all along just glide along without a moment's reflection

Chip Le Grand – J-Wire
L’Chaim to Life: Chip Le Grand
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Morry Frenkel speaks with Chip Le Grand, Chief Reporter for The Age newspaper, about the articles he has written since the recent arson attack on the East Melbourne Synagogue, the storming of the Israeli restaurant, Miznon, and the arson and graffiti attacks in Greensborough.

Chip talks about the implications of these events – and the rise in antisemitism in general – on the local Jewish and non-Jewish communities, and the need for Victoria Police to uphold the law. He is also critical of the campaign against Australia’s Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism, Jillian Segal and her report, Special Envoy’s Plan to Combat Antisemitism, a policy-oriented framework for government and the Australian community. Chip argues that the strength of the report lies more in its findings of where the problems lie: in universities, the public broadcasters and the public service.

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benjamin @benjamino.bsky.social · 2d

They are still winning to this day

Emus banned from outback Queensland pub

The owner of the Yaraka Hotel says he doesn't really want the birds' patronage, because "when they get in, they behave a bit badly."

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benjamin @benjamino.bsky.social · 2d

Pebbledash - Cell

Corkonian newcomers weave an intoxicating blend of elliptical sean-nós and towering shoegaze shimmerings as bright fragments of uncanny glisten through intricately laced interstices

Cell

YouTube video by Pebbledash - Topic

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benjamin @benjamino.bsky.social · 2d

don't want to be so sanctimonious, but inclined to agree

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