Dr Craig Buchanan FSAScot

Dr Craig Buchanan FSAScot

@buchanan.today

Academic, writer and commentator, living on unceded Whadjak Noongar Boodja; Hon Research Fellow (UWA). Once dubbed “a ganja smoking hippy” by PHON’s James Ashby on Sky News. Fighting to live in a community, rather than exist in an economy. 🚫 DMs.

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Remembering Prince Maurice of Battenberg, the youngest grandchild of Queen Victoria, who was killed in action on this day in 1914, aged just 23. In December 1918, his cousin, King George V, visited his grave to pay his respects. 📍 Ypres Town Cemetery 🇧🇪

Perth kids are planning to walk out of school and rally against capitalism and One Nation on Remembrance Day. Veterans groups have criticised the date, but I think it’s incredibly appropriate - apologising for the far right is a sure way to embroil us in a war of foreign making, after all. #AusPol

A thread worth reading if, like me, the labyrinthine complexities of Israeli politics leave you scratching your head 👇🏻

Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis)@avishaybsg.bsky.social

In about 24 hours, poles will open here in Israel. In what is a strong contender for Israel’s most critical elections. The election pits Netanyahu’s extremely unpopular coalition against a non-coherent, but moderately more liberal, opposition. Here are some thoughts as we head into it.

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I don’t know which country needs to explain it - most likely the USA, thought that may be Canada lurking back there with a guilty look on its face too - but what the hell *does* No.12 mean then??

🎃Alice Anne Fayth🎃@aliceannefayth.bsky.social

AI seems to have no idea that millennials exist. Also hoping it thinks to ‘off’ someone is not in the British sense…

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“𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘴, 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴, 𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘦𝘳 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺; 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘱𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘴𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘶𝘱𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘭…” A long-forgotten, haunting, supernatural tale from Highland history, John Sobieski Stuart’s ‘The White Lady’ is available in e-format this #Halloween. 👻 #BookWormSat

Call me old fashioned @caimhmc.bsky.social, but has no one told such amadáin as’re tasked with the handling of the subtitles that a caravan, by its very definition, is devoid of an engine with which to rumble, even in the unlikely event that it felt the need? Still loving #TallTalesAndMurder, mind!

I don’t normally respond to pleas for money, but when I weigh up the chances of this little fella losing his sight, against the possibility that it’s a scam, you know what, I don’t care if it’s a risk, and I wouldn’t sleep tonight if I hadn’t made a small donation. 😢

In Gaza,I’m utterly defeated. My child lost one eye,and the last is dying.I have nothing left no options,no power,only tears.I beg you on my knees,have mercy on a helpless parent. Please save his only remaining sight before total darkness falls! Verified by:molly shah✅ chuffed.org/project/196611

Apparently orange rain is hitting Kerry and Galway, and no one knows whether to blame the weather, the boys in the bowler hats, or the idiot in the White House. Met Éireann be damned - I still think “Storm Austin” sounds like an eighties porn star who failed the auditions for ‘Debbie Does Dallas.’

Well, I guess I know what #IAmReading this weekend - the postie just delivered a copy of D.J. Taylor’s “The King Under The Mountain: In Search of J.R.R. Tolkien”, so I must follow if I can, though not until, like the Professor before me, I’ve enjoyed a well-packed pipe. #BookSky

Is the argument here that the weird somehow arrived in Australia in 1787 with the First Fleet? I’d have thought there were plenty of Dreamings that would be quiet at home in the genre, in stark opposition to what, ironically, strikes me as a worryingly “Old World” view of the Other.

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Proof, if it were needed, that the sin of greed is alive and well.

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UNITED STATES 🇺🇸: #Cannabis Industry Money Is Boosting Republicans Who Oppose Legalization👇🏻 www.newsweek.com/marijuana-mo...

Quote of the day, from Gary McAvoy’s ‘The Galileo Gambit’: “As a Benedictine, the cardinal was accustomed to silence and considered cell phones an affront to God.” For once, I find myself on the side of Holy Mother Church and her more conservative leaders! 😂

A forbidden love, a stolen bride & a desperate flight through the Scottish Highlands. But when a violent storm descends upon the mountains, romance gives way to something far more sinister, for some spirits never leave the glens. The White Lady (1831), by the Sobieski Stuart brothers #WyrdWednesday

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I’ve been seeing headlines all day saying that the next x-box might cost $1,800, and I’ve a confession to make: I honestly don’t know if the ruckus is because that’s cheap or expensive.