Charles Firth

What’s worth watching: Edinburgh Fringe 2025 1902, 1984, Redheaded Coffee Shop, Flora MacDonald & Zombies, Day I got the horn, Lunchbox, Moon Team, Police Cops, Bite-Size, The Bush, Fit Prince, Gummy Bears’ war, Ben Manager, Waiting…

Also added Hooky Productions' Baby World and the comedy. including @misterabk.bsky.social, @robbotron.bsky.social (Dark Room + Play With his Audience), @showstoppermusical.bsky.social and Wankernomics (@charlesfirth.bsky.social).

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This marvellous book arrived to me today. Already horrified about how real it is.
@chaser.com.au @charlesfirth.bsky.social

Just get chatGPT to read it for you.

This guy gets it

WMD 2.0 is so half-arsed, be embarrassed for people falling for it - The Shot America and Israel are rolling out a rerun of old war propaganda, and it's embarrassing. Your media and government are again lying to you.

Here's me. "WMD 2.0 is so half-arsed, be embarrassed for people falling for it"

With two excellent new cartoons from @fionakatauskas.bsky.social. Peace.

Israel claims that killing civilians is bad

"The international community must act to stop civilian deaths by any means necessary"

Read more: chaser.com.au/world/israel...

Waheed Ali, Greg Sheridan and some hack from Stokes' paper. Yeah, nah. I enjoyed a Sunday Shot instead.

Photoshopped image of soldiers at the White House. Headline: US sends military to restore order in tin pot dictatorship

"Enough is enough, it's time to enact some freedom."

Read more: chaser.com.au/world/us-sen...

Capitalism has already eaten democracy anyway - The Shot If left unsupervised, capitalism will always eat democracy. And we are further on this arc than many of us want to believe.

Here's me. 'Capitalism has already eaten democracy anyway'

Is it over yet? - The Shot By the time you read this, the 2025 federal election campaign will mercifully have less than 24 hours left on...

Here's @ronnisalt.bsky.social! 'Is it over yet?'

Ronni and me with words on the same day. Michael earlier this week. Jo kicking butt on The Sunday Shot every week. John and Joel with ace contributions. Everyone around The Shot really put in through this shitshow of an election, you guys rule👏

Great correction by @nytimes.com today.

God blesses faithful Pope by ensuring he doesn’t have to meet JD Vance again

“It’s tragic when someone suffers this fate” said a representative for the Vatican, referring to shaking Vance’s hand.

Read more: chaser.com.au/world/god-bl...

The craven crushing of campus dissent - The Shot There isn’t a free society where universities aren’t havens for academic freedom. The Nazis knew this; Trump, and Australian Zionists, know this too.

Here's @marquelawyers.bsky.social. 'The craven crushing of campus dissent'

The path towards fascism looks like this.

YouTube video by The Sunday Shot The Kids are Alright

Today's #SundayShot is up, people! Get into it for illumination and insight from @punterspolitics.bsky.social and @crystaljane.bsky.social. Oh, and @davemilbo.bsky.social too. #auspol

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Blood, Sweat, and Tariffs | The Chaser Report The Chaser Report

This is the angriest I've ever heard @charlesfirth.bsky.social. Very amusing, highly recommended

@chaser.com.au
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Your rights are being eroded so Israel can commit genocide without criticism  - The Shot Across the Western world, criticising Israel's genocide in Palestine is being stamped down. News laws and a culture of fear make it hard.

Here's me. 'Your rights are being eroded so Israel can commit genocide without criticism'

YouTube video by The Sunday Shot Well, this is AUKUS - March 9.

This morning's episode of the #SundayShot is up! @emmashortis.bsky.social & @andrewjfowler.bsky.social lead us through the disaster that is AUKUS & discuss whether a US-gone-rogue gives us a chance to walk it back.

Subscribe to our channel if you like what we do.

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lol, from UK satirical magazine Private Eye

The ABC need to look at what true balance looks like - expertise, with views grounded in facts and analysis, not bad faith actors who are rusted onto their ideology, or politicians constrained by the party room #thesundayshot

Absolutely. The Sunday shot is the standard that ABC should be reaching.. anything else is not good enough
Well done @davemilbo.bsky.social @deniseshrivell.bsky.social and the rest of the shot team

Nazi oligarchs have seized treasury control of an authoritarian White House and everyone seems kinda chill about it - The Shot Capitalism and democracy, despite what you’ve been led to believe, are not the same thing. Capitalism eats democracy if unsupervised.

Here's me.

'Nazi oligarchs have seized treasury control of an authoritarian White House and everyone seems kinda chill about it'

Gigs are back, baby.

Housing Crisis Worsens As Peter Dutton Reveals He May Never Own His 27th Home — The Shovel "I definitely feel the pain of ordinary Australians trying to make their way through the housing crisis"

“I’m 54 now, and you look ahead and you think, am I forever going to be someone who has only ever owned twenty-six properties? That’s probably the reality for me now.

"So I definitely feel the pain of ordinary Australians trying to make their way through the housing crisis"

Elon Musk to keep having kids until one eventually likes him

“Statistically speaking, if I have enough kids, one of them has to like me right?” said Elon Musk

Read more: chaser.com.au/general-news...

YouTube video by The Sunday Shot THE SUNDAY SHOT - February 16

First hit out for #SundayShot

An intelligent, incisive & in depth look at the state of Oz 🇦🇺 politics

The ALP should take a close look

Well done @davemilbo.bsky.social @instanterudite.bsky.social @rachelwithers.bsky.social @anthonyklan.bsky.social & @theshot.net.au

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"We don't have peerages in this country. The Captain's (Chairman's) Lounge is as close as you'll get to a knighthood," Charles Firth et al, 'Optics' S1 E3.

Visit the Qualitus Captain's Lounge on Optics

Airing tonight at 8:30 on ABCTV, or stream every episode right now on ABC iview iview.abc.net.au/show/optics

Albo nervously waiting to hear from RBA about when the next election will be held

Meanwhile Dutton has urged the RBA to not have any rate cuts, that aren’t during an LNP government

Read more: chaser.com.au/national/alb...

Albo should announce a 25% tariff on Tesla cars, starting Monday.

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