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Sydney person. Quite into old films, reading, music, animals, veg food, and weekend walks. 👬🐶🎥🎵📚🌿🇦🇺
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Enjoyed this year’s Sydney Film Festival. Brazil’s The Secret Agent, and Iran’s It Was Just An Accident were great. And there was Jodie Foster in the French mystery Vie Privee, Ethan Hawke as Lorenz Hart in Blue Moon, Twinless, and the 1985 anime Angel’s Egg. #film @sydfilmfest.bsky.social

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My part of Sydney has so many cafes & parks & bookshops that it probably doesn’t need a silent book club too, but I like the idea of them. If I lived somewhere that didnt have so many reading options I think I’d like having a silent book club nearby. #reading www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

The US tech oligarchs designed their algorithms to boost antagonistic arguments to drive engagement, then gave their AI chatboxes an agreeableness bias. They know people like to complain and attack each other, and to be told they’re right, so they’re using humans for one thing and AI for the other.

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

Egads! I’ve never heard anyone say it, it feels like a word you only see in old books. But in Mrs Miniver (1942), the family’s son says it, though the actor failed to make it seem like natural dialogue. Makes me wonder - did English people of the 40’s really go around saying egads?

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Facebook today is showing me ads for flights to the US. I realise it might be a bargain, potentially with free lifetime accommodation in El Salvador thrown in, but no thanks, it’s creepy that they’re even trying to get us to go, like some kind of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang childcatcher waving lollies.

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

Being middle aged a lot of my favourite Australian/NZ #music is last century, but this century has been good too. So here’s an appreciation post for Cut Copy, Gotye, Empire of the Sun, Budjerah, The Preatures, Faker, Pnau, Tame Impala, Van She, Boy & Bear, Cloud Control, Confidence Man, Vance Joy…

submitted 64 days ago • 1 comment

This recent survey result from Essential was startling. Young Australian men (many of them stuck in US-based social media bubbles) are far less likely to be concerned about Trump’s govt than everyone else, even older men (who are usually more conservative). #auspol essentialreport.com.au

submitted 85 days ago • 2 comments

A whole lot of US industries are starting to ask Trump to put pressure on Australia the same way they’re doing with everyone else. They want to continue taking their huge profits, without paying our taxes or following our laws. It’s time for us to detach from US companies as much as we can. #auspol

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

ABC, Press Club, and the rest that are still treating News Corp as if it’s simply rightwing need to acknowledge it’s run by a US based oligarch tax cheat who’s heavily promoting an anti-democracy pro-corruption fascism. They’re foreign fascist agents. #auspol

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

When the US puts tariffs on everyone (increasing US inflation and reducing standards of living, because they’re nuts) the target countries suffer, but not by much if they all boycott US products and increase buying off each other instead. Americans don’t seem to have grasped that part yet.

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

This WP article contains a frightening summary of Trump’s despicable media team and their tactics, which helps explain why some Americans still think everything is going great.

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

How would a random Russian news agency reporter sneak into the White House?

submitted 107 days ago • 1516 comments

This cute #gecko has been visiting our kitchen recently to snack on bugs. I’d never seen geckos in #Sydney before, they always used to stay further up north. Have they recently moved south? Slowly gotten used to Sydney the way the ibis, lorikeets and bats did? Or it could just be an escaped pet!

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

Here’s a good example of Murdoch’s social media propaganda tactics. Sky News Australia’s YouTube page publishing multiple versions of the same anti-Labor story at the same time today, hoping one will take off. #auspol

submitted 113 days ago • 1 comment

This would have to be a good time for Australians to follow more Canadians. The US dominates so much of what we hear from North America that it can leave us a bit in the dark on Canada, which is unfortunate at a time like this when the US is going off the deep end. Time to show more ❤️ to 🇨🇦! #Canada

submitted 117 days ago • 0 comments

The community note 🤌😘

submitted 119 days ago • 2906 comments

When Murdoch’s Aust outlets do something heinous, a few people declare they’d never read his papers and sign petitions. But wouldn’t it be more effective to boycott his profitable businesses instead? Eg his Realestate website? His papers are just his political arm, like Twitter is for Musk. #auspol

submitted 120 days ago • 3 comments