I’m not really DBSweeney.
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Technical writer ... with interests in film, music, Perth Glory, Newcastle United and ... my beautiful wife, son and dog. Freo bound.
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Well, this is an utter disaster for science.
This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next.
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This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next.
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December 16, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Well, this is an utter disaster for science.
This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next.
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This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next.
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This is one of those times when all of the bad news just sucks the air out of your lungs.
December 15, 2025 at 3:31 AM
This is one of those times when all of the bad news just sucks the air out of your lungs.
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Autumn is the most Enya of seasons, and it's ten years this month since I interviewed Eithne Ní Bhraonáin together with Roma and Nicky Ryan (the other 2/3 of the Enya project) about their avant-garde roots, Celtic Futurism, and 2015's wonderful Dark Sky Island LP
thequietus.com/interviews/e...
thequietus.com/interviews/e...
Space Celts & A Voyage Into The Avant-Garde: Enya Interviewed | The Quietus
Back in 2013 The Quietus published an article on the 25th anniversary of Watermark. It was a defence of both album and Enya against the prevailing view of her as a dated, patchouli car-freshener relic...
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November 7, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Autumn is the most Enya of seasons, and it's ten years this month since I interviewed Eithne Ní Bhraonáin together with Roma and Nicky Ryan (the other 2/3 of the Enya project) about their avant-garde roots, Celtic Futurism, and 2015's wonderful Dark Sky Island LP
thequietus.com/interviews/e...
thequietus.com/interviews/e...
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Between diffusion models and LLMs, tech has inflated a trillion dollar bubble around automating activities that have immense social and cultural capital—writing, art, photography—but little actual capital. It’s harmful to education, culture, and society with minimal overall benefit
November 30, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Between diffusion models and LLMs, tech has inflated a trillion dollar bubble around automating activities that have immense social and cultural capital—writing, art, photography—but little actual capital. It’s harmful to education, culture, and society with minimal overall benefit
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just playing all the Siouxsie and the Banshees albums in order. You can hear punk transmute smoothly into post-punk into goth just over the first three. Fuckin great songs too.
November 25, 2025 at 4:23 PM
just playing all the Siouxsie and the Banshees albums in order. You can hear punk transmute smoothly into post-punk into goth just over the first three. Fuckin great songs too.
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Hi! There's been lots of doomscrolling lately because many things are awful. However, sleep deprivation makes everything worse. You still deserve time to rest and recover. Try not to stay up too late tonight. Max loves you.
November 14, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Hi! There's been lots of doomscrolling lately because many things are awful. However, sleep deprivation makes everything worse. You still deserve time to rest and recover. Try not to stay up too late tonight. Max loves you.
Funeral Parade of Roses. Unbelievable fun with jokes and ideas zinging around in rapid fire. On top of that, deeply empathetic and touching. Reminded me of my favourite Godard not in style but in inventiveness and as an ideas machine. As soon as my watch finished, immediately bought a physical copy
November 11, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Funeral Parade of Roses. Unbelievable fun with jokes and ideas zinging around in rapid fire. On top of that, deeply empathetic and touching. Reminded me of my favourite Godard not in style but in inventiveness and as an ideas machine. As soon as my watch finished, immediately bought a physical copy
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Happy birthday to the brilliant Lindy Morrison. Here's a glorious Go-Betweens performance filmed for Australian TV in 1987. It boasts their best line-up and a short but sweet set including Bye Bye Pride, Right Here, Cut It Out, Spring Rain, Cattle and Cane…
youtu.be/4ALbPfCFfkQ
youtu.be/4ALbPfCFfkQ
The Go-Betweens - Live in studio (Rock Arena 1987) (HD 60fps)
YouTube video by The 80s, a Decade of Music (Master Noise HD 60fps)
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November 2, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Happy birthday to the brilliant Lindy Morrison. Here's a glorious Go-Betweens performance filmed for Australian TV in 1987. It boasts their best line-up and a short but sweet set including Bye Bye Pride, Right Here, Cut It Out, Spring Rain, Cattle and Cane…
youtu.be/4ALbPfCFfkQ
youtu.be/4ALbPfCFfkQ
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What an absolute treasure Diane Keaton was. Her wit never tired, nor did her style.
October 11, 2025 at 8:30 PM
What an absolute treasure Diane Keaton was. Her wit never tired, nor did her style.
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The best vowel is obviously 'O' while the worst is 'E', which isn't even symmetrical.
September 20, 2025 at 9:55 AM
The best vowel is obviously 'O' while the worst is 'E', which isn't even symmetrical.
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Arts criticism is vitally important, whether it's for TV, movies, comic books, or anything else. It's more than a binary good/bad; it's a way of contextualizing the emotional, political, or other themes of a piece as well as laying out connections and comparisons through deep historical knowledge.
September 16, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Arts criticism is vitally important, whether it's for TV, movies, comic books, or anything else. It's more than a binary good/bad; it's a way of contextualizing the emotional, political, or other themes of a piece as well as laying out connections and comparisons through deep historical knowledge.
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Anyone in need of a serotonin boost should watch this
August 11, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Anyone in need of a serotonin boost should watch this
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Twenty years ago, this was merely a paragraph of speculative fiction in an unwritten late work from J.G. Ballard.
The village of Dean has entered a lockdown for the imminent arrival of US vice-president JD Vance. All entrances to the village (between Chipping Norton and Charlbury) are closed to non-residents, with police stationed at every road and even footpath.
August 11, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Twenty years ago, this was merely a paragraph of speculative fiction in an unwritten late work from J.G. Ballard.
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"Tomorrow belongs to me."
On the left is a post today from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. On the right is literal Nazi propaganda from the 1930s.
![@DHSgov on X: Remember your Homeland’s Heritage.
New Life in a New Land - Morgan Weistling
[Painting of a family]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eppsmw5nfmdzhfeymtzd3xbe/bafkreifufhjor4i5ijjyh2cuswhmtmoybnr7rzjg3pdi6ow3udhtbuxhnu@jpeg)
![Nazi propaganda: "The Nazi Party secures the national community"
[Painting of a German family]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eppsmw5nfmdzhfeymtzd3xbe/bafkreidjr6b3w65abp2xtc5qax7rxhupvocfkvdvh23gfwlrnr7f555nmu@jpeg)
July 15, 2025 at 12:31 AM
"Tomorrow belongs to me."
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"Brian Wilson, he made all his records with four tracks, but you couldn't make his records if you had a HUNDRED tracks today." "That ear – I mean, Jesus, he’s got to will that to the Smithsonian." — Bob Dylan
RIP Brian Wilson
RIP Brian Wilson
June 11, 2025 at 4:47 PM
"Brian Wilson, he made all his records with four tracks, but you couldn't make his records if you had a HUNDRED tracks today." "That ear – I mean, Jesus, he’s got to will that to the Smithsonian." — Bob Dylan
RIP Brian Wilson
RIP Brian Wilson
From Surf’s Up, music and lyrics by Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks. Heart is broken by Brian’s death.
June 11, 2025 at 9:23 PM
From Surf’s Up, music and lyrics by Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks. Heart is broken by Brian’s death.
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This world-renowned Iranian director was barred from making films in his own country. Now, he has come to Sydney under a veil of secrecy to promote his latest work, which is based on his interrogations in prison.
This filmmaker couldn't say he was coming to Sydney until he was on the plane
This world-renowned Iranian director was barred from making films in his own country. Now, he has come to Sydney under a veil of secrecy to promote his latest work, which is based on his interrogations in prison.
www.abc.net.au
June 10, 2025 at 4:58 AM
This world-renowned Iranian director was barred from making films in his own country. Now, he has come to Sydney under a veil of secrecy to promote his latest work, which is based on his interrogations in prison.
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anything that at any point you loved but then became too cool for, know that someday you will turn back to that thing and say "oh. no. you were fine, you were more than fine. it is I who was cringe"
May 16, 2025 at 2:35 AM
anything that at any point you loved but then became too cool for, know that someday you will turn back to that thing and say "oh. no. you were fine, you were more than fine. it is I who was cringe"
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1950 via Sidney Skolsky:
“Ida Lupino relates this incident as being mainly responsible for her turning from actress to director.” …
“I discovered,” says Ida Lupino, “that no one listens to an actress. So became a director in self-defense.”
“Ida Lupino relates this incident as being mainly responsible for her turning from actress to director.” …
“I discovered,” says Ida Lupino, “that no one listens to an actress. So became a director in self-defense.”
May 5, 2025 at 7:08 PM
1950 via Sidney Skolsky:
“Ida Lupino relates this incident as being mainly responsible for her turning from actress to director.” …
“I discovered,” says Ida Lupino, “that no one listens to an actress. So became a director in self-defense.”
“Ida Lupino relates this incident as being mainly responsible for her turning from actress to director.” …
“I discovered,” says Ida Lupino, “that no one listens to an actress. So became a director in self-defense.”
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Just got a message from a mate: “Can Peter Dutton get a ‘Goodbye From Country’?”
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May 3, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Just got a message from a mate: “Can Peter Dutton get a ‘Goodbye From Country’?”
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