Andrew Stafford

“I find it mind boggling . . . the fact that [Australia is] giving away these natural resources”. – Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize-winning economist

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Can funeral arrangements be confirmed here?

Years after graduating, the day before the Pig City concert at UQ, Graeme’s Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies hosted a symposium on the event. I was so proud to speak and prouder still to have publicly acknowledge and thank him, sitting in the audience. I’ll never forget it, or him.

This is a terrible, terrible shock to hear. Graeme was an influential teacher and mentor at the University of Queensland and a giant in his field. He left a huge imprint on me

I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"

On par with @birmo.bsky.social’s legendary obituary for Joh Bjelke-Petersen

a man in a suit and tie is holding a banana and smiling . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is holding a banana and smiling .

Well played

NT News headline tomorrow morning: Great Head beats dud Root every time. #ashes

The entire skill of Test match batting has withered after nearly 20 years of 20/20

What’s the secret of the ‘Mar-a-Lago face’? | Fiona Katauskas It’s not just skin deep

Face Value- my Saturday cartoon for @australia.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

big bugs bunny getting elmer fudd to marry him vibes in the white house currently i see

Lemmy god-tier stuff!

Just awesome, isn’t it? I prefer XTRMNTR to Screamadelica, and yes, Mani is a big reason why

I haven’t seen this get covered in English yet so let me translate.

Grok is saying that the crematories at Auschwitz’s were conceived as disinfectant chambers, not mass execution and that the law has made it taboo to acknowledge that this is what they were

X is a Nazi site. Get off the Nazi site.

YouTube video by PrimalScreamVEVO Primal Scream - Shoot Speed / Kill Light (Official Audio)

This is my favourite Mani moment - you might as well strap yourself under a fighter jet at takeoff m.youtube.com/watch?v=OMiX...

Was at the recent QLD energy summit and David Janetzki didn’t mention climate once in his 45 minute speech. I pointed this out in question time. Burble-burble about finding the right balance

It’s one of the great regrets of my life that that man never went to jail

I remember back in the late '90s -- when magazine writers were still getting big book and movie deals -- an editor of mine who'd worked with a bunch of them sighing and saying, "The story no one will ever publish is the exposé of which famous writers can't actually write at all."

This should be a @nytpitchbot.bsky.social headline

I saw Deliver Me From Nowhere and Jeremy Allen White’s head was tilted to one side so far I kept waiting for it to fall off #Bruce

Biodiversity offsets failed to protect habitat in NSW. Now federal Labor is about to make the same mistakes, critics warn Offsets were meant to be a last resort for mitigating environmental damage from development projects, but rapidly became the default

The Albanese government’s nature reforms would change biodiversity offsets policy, including by setting up a “restoration contributions” fund. Guardian Australia reporting exposed major failures with a similar scheme in NSW. Experts are warning the federal plan could repeat those mistakes

It's written like "post-liberalism" has the momentum of a runaway freight train, when all that's happened is a fracturing of the vote to One Nation and a few sooks quitting or being sacked from the opposition front bench whiteanting a weak leader.

No sign of a Labor voter anywhere falling for this.

I’m sure you’re not alone in that

Without grievance, they are nothing

YouTube video by Gavwa's Inn TISM - Defecate On My Face (HQ audio)

A well-known Australian band had their own take on Adolf and Eva’s relationship m.youtube.com/watch?v=ey0E...

Giving the Nazis days of nation-wide headline media coverage every time they do a ten minute photo op is not a good way to get them to stop doing photo ops.

YouTube video by MOTHICA MOTHICA - EVERGREEN MISERY (Official Music Video)

How much more Goth could Mothica be? The answer is none. None more Goth www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8c0...

Since Nazis now feel normel enough to show their faces, how about all media editors instruct snappers to zoom in on them instead of depicting looking scawy in their all blacks

Allegedly out of “stock”

Patti Smith: Horses Read Jenn Pelly’s review of the album.

There’s only one piece of writing you need to read on the 50th anniversary of Horses, and it’s this one by the incredible jennpelly.bsky.social 🐎 pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...