Lachlan Musicman

conservativism is the belief that only the children of the rich should gets lots of free stuff.

Sorry to bother you is such a cracking good time.

imagine fleeing the Vietnam War and in your arms you're carrying a baby who will one day grow up to correct the US Secretary of Defense on his jeans. like bringing a football into the end zone

Donald Trump on roof of the White House

Naked man on roof of house from It Follows

Two pictures with the same energy.

The rich must be incentivised; the poor must be disciplined.

The political economy of the super-elite in one headline.

Yeah, but I'd only want to see Cash Savage and Party Dozen and Ratcat. Floodlights didn't do enough to impress and TFS I'm ambivalent about.

'It Will Be A Great Day When Our Schools Get All the Money They Need And The Air Force Has to Hold a Bake Sale To Buy A Bomber.'

Starting a podcast called Comfortable Silence, each week a guest brings along a book they've been trying to get through and we spend 45 minutes just reading our books without getting hassled or feeling pressured to small talk. Listeners can use the sacred time to catch up on their own books.

Last round of the #AFLW isn't great, but maybe we get lucky and just miss the early bands.

Bloody hell that's massive. Ratcat.

The one true ladder 🐶

Azure blue sky with palm trees. No clouds.

Back in Melbourne after two weeks of this.

With the rise of AI, I've begun to wonder if future graders of expository essays will even be able to grasp the sheer brilliance of Mandy Berry's famous Student Essay Unplugged? We many never see this kind of essay again, folks.

Came here to say this.

@andyhazel.bsky.social This, I believe, is in your wheelhouse? Also, if you haven't read Higg's The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band Who Burned a Million Pounds, I also commend that to you.

albanese is the principal skinner of australia

And the final result: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Too right. Lol

It's funny to think that my preference for urban living in areas with dense, mixed-used, walkable neighborhoods, multi-family housing, small businesses, and diversity probably stems from Sesame Street. Like an early education in Jane Jacob's urbanist theories.

1pm tomorrow, meet at Lang Park (near Wynyard Station) 🇵🇸

We need a planetary system of diplomacy for the 21st century | Aeon Essays We need new forms of global diplomacy to transcend the current pathetic bargaining of national and commercial interests

David Van Reybrouck, who wrote the phenomenal Revolusi, is in Aeon on diplomacy. It is extremely long so haven't fully read yet aeon.co/essays/we-ne...

NSW supreme court rules in favour of pro-Palestine march across Sydney Harbour Bridge Palestine Action Group claims as many as 50,000 people will take part in the march on Sunday Pro-Palestinian protesters will be legally protected while marching across the Sydney Harbour Bridge on Sunday after a New South Wales supreme court decision. The Palestine Action Group has claimed as many as 50,000 people will take part in the march across the iconic bridge, protesting against Israel’s conduct in Gaza and the starvation of children. Continue reading...

NSW supreme court rules in favour of pro-Palestine march across Sydney Harbour Bridge

I'm also kind of skeptical of the narrative that kids these days are hard up for sex. I kind of think they don't want sex, and that all the incel stuff is a proxy for other stuff, and that older generations don't see through the subterfuge because we like and enjoy sex too much to notice the charade

The thing that no one wants to hear, least of all the democrats, is that at this point it is going to take a revolution just to get us back to the basic functioning of government that we took for granted six months ago.

For those of you interested in the ins and outs of translation, that "Lately" was one of the most revised word choices in the entire book (past-tense narration in Japanese can accommodate locutions implying the present tense, like "recently," "now," etc. in a way English has a hard time with)

ACMI Unveils Full Lineup for 'Game Worlds' Exhibition ACMI has unveiled the full lineup for 'Game Worlds', its major upcoming exhibition dedicated to the art and impact of video games.

Super proud of the whole @acmimuseum.bsky.social team with Game Worlds now on full sale -> au.variety.com/2025/digital... … time to start planning your trip, customise your character, fill your inventory. Open Sept 18

Japanese Slang Review – July 2025 And it’s time for the seventh Japanese slang review of 2025 (see all prior posts here)! In these posts I deep dive into the world of Japanese terms you probably won’t see in a textbook,…

It's time for the July #Japanese slang review! Click the link below to learn about the words:

神ってる
ガイガイ音頭
ネット乞食
ビジュイイじゃん
自発光メイク/モカムースメイク
裏山
詐胸
対立厨/出会い厨/カプ厨/懐古厨
水素の音
マコモ湯構文

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Civics-oriented liberal democracy is no longer convenient for global capitalism

I'm currently reading @helenhester.bsky.social and @wstronge.bsky.social's Post-Work - they, along with Kathi Weeks, have done a great job of positioning care work as real work. I'll take a read, thanks.