Mr D Sky

“How good is being a Liberal!”

While it is very noble to think of farmers and the transport industry (and mining companies will be just fine, thank you very much) it's the working poor and the unemployed who will suffer without help, and with very limited advocacy.

The newly amalgamated Adelaide University brings utter shame upon itself in its first months of operation. In a statement following this shocking act, it risibly claims it is a place where "exchange of ideas can happen freely". Not if the ideas include a defence of the remaining Gazans, it seems.

Concerned for all the artists suddenly found to have used a watermelon pink shade on their palettes

Gone with the Shitposts

My statement regarding my decision to withdraw from this year’s Adelaide Writers Festival.

Cathy Wilcox has nailed the brief here

Boxing Day and I could be throwing good money after bad in the sales #ashes

We all have opinions but is there no longer a case for leaving them in the too soon basket?

Who did this to my feed?

And of course Australian journalists are only interested in one thing:

Good analysis from Sarah Martin, but misses a key point: if the Bondi massacre is being hijacked by culture warriors like Howard and the anti-immigration right, it's because that's how mainstream media chooses to frame it. They are lazy or complicit. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

This from Turnbull sums it up. No accusations. Facts that matter

Let’s take a moment before we post

Not an American so Thanksgiving is a mystery really. However social media tends to suggest it’s about being thankful you’re so right about things like wokeness (ideas you don’t like) and all the bad choices your stupid family makes. And supersized roast chicken. Keep it, please.

The Department of Preemptive Strikes just doesn’t roll off the tongue so well

Here here. Trump is a bully and the most fragile snowflake in all the lands

He made them an offer they couldn’t refuse

I think SBS needs a new show: Who Do You Think You Are Asking Me About Who I Am?

This is Israel.

Albanese says Australian recognition is predicated on Palestinian Authority commitments including: - no role for Hamas in future Palestinian state - recognising Israel's right to exist in peace and security. - demilitarise - hold general elections follow live: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Binge refreshing

Barry Blitt’s cover for this week’s issue, “The First Hundred Days.” #NewYorkerCovers nyer.cm/ysrCZ47

The ongoing assault on free speech in Australian arts is only worsening. This is obscene.

Do people actually tune in to listen to Fran Kelly and Patricia Karvelas on ABC RN? They do little beyond mutual congratulation and make me switch off straight away. What - honestly - is the attraction?

Invaded space FML

On Thursday the 2024 issue of @theneweuropean.bsky.social comes out and they have given me the platform to explain why Gisèle Pelicot is my hero and how she radically changed the conversation about shame and sexual assault It is my proudest writing. app.theneweuropean.co.uk/2024/10/26/v...

Treat the Coalition’s nuclear policy as what it is. A distraction.

Here we go…. It’s on

Finished! It wasn’t hard to do, just hard to find time. Close up of the fine details. (Hehe) #embroidery #ThisIsFine

So get this, former acting C'wlth Ombo Richard Glenn who was in the chair during the first botched Robodebt investigation and who Royal Commission found should have been alert to the "substantial" doubt about lawfulness of income averaging has been appointed as... CEO of the High Court of Australia.

So pleased to find people here. Bit of a follow fest ☄️

We’re just normal men 🦊

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