@davidbridie.bsky.social
Donkey Shed Studios on Gadubanud lands, AD Wantok Musik Foundation, NDW, MFTCC, composer, piano player, not on Spotify, went to Antarctica to create an filmsoundart installation, came back alarmed
Vanuatu’s Climate Minister, Ralph Regenvanu, is urging countries (looking at you, Australia) to resist US pressure and stand with Vanuatu for climate justice. Vanuatu wants the UN to back the ICJ’s finding that countries are legally responsible for climate damage. Australia — whose side are you on?
25.02.2026 04:55 — 👍 78 🔁 27 💬 2 📌 3
"A Confluence of Uncertainty" a sound/vision installation by video artist K. Verell & myself, deals w Antarctica ice melt implications amongst the utter beauty/harshness of the southern ice desert. Part of "Creative Antarctica"-Design Hub Gallery RMIT in Melb til May 2
pgav.org.au/Creative-Ant...
Not Drowning, Waving Malira/Tabaran tour with Sir George Telek Ben Hakalitz and Pius Wasi in May. Cairns and Brisbane later in the year. Hope to see you there
20.02.2026 05:21 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
Separated at birth
21.02.2026 03:36 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Not Drowning, Waving Malira/Tabaran tour with Sir George Telek Ben Hakalitz and Pius Wasi in May. Cairns and Brisbane later in the year. Hope to see you there
20.02.2026 05:21 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
Rabaul.
19.02.2026 09:04 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A political cartoon by Megan Herbert, referencing a moment in episode 16, season 4 from The Simpsons ("Duffless"), in which Lisa Simpson sets out to prove that Bart is dumber than a hamster because he is unable to learn from operant conditioning (that touching a cupcake leads to an electric shock). The cartoon is split into 4 panels and all people featured are drawn in The Simpson's style. In panel 1, titled JUNE 2024, Peter Dutton (with smiling Angus Taylor and Sussan Ley watching on) is attracted to the sight of a model of a nuclear power plant on a bench top. The model is connected to a device which will deliver an electric current to anyone who touches it. Dutton is looking at a small sign announcing "VOTERS DO NOT WANT". Nevertheless, he is clearly drawn to it, and is saying "OOOOOH...". Panel 2. Labelled MAY 2025, Peter Dutton touches the Nuclear model, receiving an electric shock (BZZZZT!). Taylor is still smiling. Ley now looks concerned. Panel 3, labelled NOVEMBER 2025. The same scene, but now the Nuclear model has a sticky note added to it saying "SCRAP NET ZERO", and this time it's Sussan Ley (with Dan Tehan looking on) touching the model and receiving the electric shock. Panel 4, labelled FEBRUARY 2026, is the same scene yet again, except with the sticky note now removed, and the label saying "VOTERS STILL DO NOT WANT". This time it's Angus Taylor grabbing the nuclear model and receiving the shock, with a smiling Jane Hume watching on. Not pictured: Lisa Simpson watching on from the next room saying "Hamster: two, Liberal party: zero."
D'oh!
My cartoon in today's @theageaustralia.bsky.social (with apologies to Matt Groening)
And in case you'd like to know the episode this references, it's "Duffless", Ep 16, Season 4... google "Bart gets electrocuted by muffin" for a Youtube clip of the moment. You're welcome. 🤓)
Australia Institute research shows why Australia needs more politicians: smaller electorates mean MPs who are more responsive to local communities, more accountable to grassroots campaigns, and better able to specialise in policy areas.
Read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/4tF9SkF
Siouxsie and the Banshees made it to Bougainville! #shippingcontainergraffiti
16.02.2026 00:29 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Frank Yamma in Pitjantjatjara youtu.be/CNAZ4gsGl_g?...
10.02.2026 02:05 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
‘Journey Home, David Gulpilil’ two AACTA gongs. Such a wonderful film to be involved with. Brilliant team.
07.02.2026 01:16 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Here at the Aacta’s with the wonderful crew who made ‘Journey Home David Gulpilil’- the film is up for best cinematography, sound, original music, feature documentary and best group photos. Five Stars Mr Gulpilil.
04.02.2026 07:57 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Not to be obsessive but what if I just listened to Dick Gaughan’s recording of Craigie Hill over and over again forever youtu.be/b8973TCmfM8?...
03.02.2026 10:33 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 1
Remembering Arthur "Killer" Kane on his birthday. This very moving film about the remarkable life of the New York Dolls bassist is one of the greatest music documentaries
youtu.be/a7oHhHGzf3w
This has 'Joh for PM' written all over it minus the John Stone and Geoffrey Blainey parts but still with the flat earther tax.
02.02.2026 18:51 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Our Turning Point should sue. Much better organisation also. The addiction they research and educate about is less harmful than the rightwing Christian opiates- www.turningpoint.org.au
01.02.2026 22:37 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Catherine -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC8rZq3oKuI
30.01.2026 23:11 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Catherine. youtu.be/bUGKJ13RQq8
30.01.2026 23:09 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
And here's Robert Wyatt performing Sea Song from Rock Bottom on French TV in 1975. Watch the full recording, which also includes Alifib, here
youtu.be/dWGGCcdjFsM
Quote of the morning -”This isn’t miscalculation by the Nats — it’s institutionalised incompetence.”
28.01.2026 22:59 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Happy birthday to the magnificent Robert Wyatt. Here he is performing I'm a Believer on #TOTP in 1974. The show's producer asked him to perform in a wicker chair because a wheelchair "was not suitable for family viewing". Robert told him where to go
28.01.2026 08:44 — 👍 239 🔁 47 💬 7 📌 5
The Rosie Jones documentary on George Telek and me, NDW, Aust-PNG relations et al is up on Apple TV and Doc Play now. www.docplay.com/shows/abebe-...
28.01.2026 07:36 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Uncle Frank Yamma is in Alice recording a new album.Backed by a deadly band of young Arrernte musicians, Jason Renehan, guitar, Shawn Foster,bass, and Eric Williams, drums, the album shouts blending rock, Pitjantjatjara stories and deep roots. Big things coming, stay tuned! @wantokmusik.bsky.social
27.01.2026 10:36 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0The Australian of the Year should be given to the kind of person who works in a mental health clinic in Tennant Creek on a shit wage not an Astronaut or the Pat Rafters of the world. And it definitely will should be handed out on another day of the year.
25.01.2026 22:40 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Marxist historian & political scientist Michael Parenti explaining why the US has conducted so many covert CIA & overt military interventions since WW2, & destroying the myth that the US intervenes to support ‘democracy.’
#ValeMichaelParenti
[Sorry, had to chop this before the end for BlueSky.]
The Rosie Jones documentary about George Telek and myself, and PNG and Australia is now out on DocPlay.
24.01.2026 10:29 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0ABC Indigenous doesn’t mince words
23.01.2026 06:33 — 👍 573 🔁 300 💬 26 📌 40
Ethical music streamers?
This research is useful for those of us who don’t want our £$€ funding Tr*mp / IsR&€L / other ghastly things, and if we want to support the arts & artists being able to afford to create all the lovely music we enjoy.
It’s Quboz for me. 👍
This account is over on Instagram.
With huge thanks to the coalition I’ve learnt the meaning of the word Epicaricacy.
23.01.2026 06:50 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Which genocidal war criminal will be next?
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
Satirical comedy is dead.
