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bernardzuel.bsky.social
Writer & critic (SMH, Guardian, Rhythms & everything found at bernardzuel.net) teacher (Sydney University), podcaster, host/facilitator (anywhere you want me), media trainer (you talk, I help). Opinions definitely are those of my employer - moi.
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Federal employees - are you tired of Elon Musk trying to contact you? Have you tried pretending to be the mother of his children?

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Meet the men behind the "worst public policy decision" of the 21st century (or since Federation - depending who you ask). A long read on the WA GST "forever deal": www.afr.com/politics/how...

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

Who can you hear in the new playlist? OneFour, @fontainesdc.bsky.social & Glen Campbell; Freya Josephine Hollick, Oumou Sangare & The Heart Throbs; Fountains Of Wayne, Frazey Ford+Altameda & Bob Dylan; Jay Jay Johanson, Falling Joys, & Mt Joy; The Sports +17 more open.spotify.com/playlist/5c7...

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But, but ... The Australian told us there was nothing to see here, that it was a hoax. Does this mean Graham Lloyd may not be - and I shudder just to type this - a reliable source of information on climate change? Say it isn't so!

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New playlist for you. Has Jason Isbell & @lauramarling.bsky.social, The Jam x2 & Terra Lightfoot, ONJ & @lizstringer.bsky.social, Erik Voeks & Voice Of The Beehive, Nature Strip & Ami Ogaeri, Small Town Romance & Nancy Wilson+Cannonball Adderley, Restless Leg. www.bernardzuel.net/post/devil-s...

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

Sssh, genius at work. In canary yellow. #morningpop #curtismayfield #curtis

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A Sky after dark hosting job in … 5 …4 …

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An officer in the Australian Army has been stripped of his security clearance because Asio believes he is more loyal to Israel than Australia, and at risk of being exploited by the Mossad. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

submitted 15 hours ago • 12 comments

Omg Silver is an IQ weenie. Seriously you have to be very, very dumb (and/or racist) to get into IQ as a measurement of intelligence.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Foxtel: British cinema is here! Martin McDonagh, Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell: say what now?

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Really think this may be Stanley Tucci’s best chance at the cathedra.

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Liverpool putting on the baggy silk trews & dancing. It’s Hammers time!

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So let's get this straight: The U.S. and Elon are now extorting Ukraine and threatening to turn off their Starlink Internet access unless they give their critical rare earth minerals to the United States? Staggering levels of corruption.

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Is it time to start the clock on Adrian Collett’s days left in the Creative Australia job? Time’s out already on his & the board’s reputation so all that’s left is seeing if it is an appropriately humiliating departure or one cushioned by Tony Burke.

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Breakfast advice. Always taken here. #morningpop #saturdayvinyl #blondie #eattothebeat

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I want to tell you something you knew all along. #morningpop #saturdayvinyl #blondie #parallellines

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Hard to see how Creative Australia is going to weather this. Lawyers now engaged. CA lost last year when Casey Jenkins sued after they withdrew an awarded grant after rightwing pressure, and this is - by several orders - a much worse decision. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/culture...

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www.smh.com.au/national/nsw... ‘Federal member for Mackellar, Dr Scamps called for Northern Beaches Hospital to be “returned to public hands”, saying the public private partnership was a “failed experiment” & that “public health & private profit-making are fundamentally incompatible.”’

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Saturday read (& listen) #5. A playlist for the cracks & the rapture with Nadia Reid, The Chills, Sia+Kylie Minogue & The Electorate; Phyllis Dillon, Dua Lipa, Female Species & My Morning Jacket; Susan Tedeschi, The Tubs, James Brandon Lewis, Royksopp + more open.spotify.com/playlist/0sP...

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Saturday read #4. North of the land hosting festering pustules erupting from a raging idiot of a fascist, Canada does it differently. So finds Wind Back Wednesday on a trip to Montreal, Toronto & sanity. Yes, that's Leonard. www.bernardzuel.net/post/montrea...

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Saturday read #3. Torch songs & short stories, indie film starkness & southern soul - for The Delines on another great new album, it's all grist (or grits?) to the mill. But wait, there's a crack where the (sun)light gets in too. You'll want to hear them, trust me www.bernardzuel.net/post/the-del...

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Saturday read #2. A new Led Zeppelin film finds a former rabid sceptic, pinned to his seat with excitement & the impact of big swinging rock, trying to figure out why he resisted & finding it may have been a hippie & a punk (& daddy issues?). Baby I'm not foolin' www.bernardzuel.net/post/sceptic...

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Saturday read #1. Small gods & big ruptures are the meat of Sarah Blasko's newish album. Mid-tour she stops to consider whether she's thriving because of or despite it. "I don’t think you are ever really over any kind of grief; it just changes over time." www.bernardzuel.net/post/god-s-i...

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A very cool thing my partner has been working has come into the world today: the remastered release of Alan Lomax’s entire recording archive www.lomax-archive.com

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

If Patel’s confirmation scares you and you’re worried about the FBI being used to wage war and terrorize American citizens, just ask Black people for advice, they’ve been dealing with it for decades

submitted 3 days ago • 31 comments

With songs bringing film noir, Bobbie Gentry & Raymond Carver into play, The Delines are class. But what's this, a sorta happy ending to one of their character studies? A little dance in the dim light? A place where romance, wreckage & regrets sound very fine. www.bernardzuel.net/post/the-del...

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Yesterday today, still. #morningpop #marvelous3 #heyalbum

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

The Delines bring a "tale of Nancy & The Pensacola Pimp: its rhythm sultry-with-an-edge, its characters living on that edge, its sounds nighttime bar opening to a punchier hall, its inevitability some noir feeding into film more modern, more vicious" & it's great. www.bernardzuel.net/post/the-del...

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Cocky? Moi? #morningpop #fridayvinyl #lennykravitz #mamasaid

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This article articulates what I've been thinking the whole time reading The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins. "The US no longer bothers to dress up its ruthless perceived self-interest in the garbs of high-minded principles." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Tremendous piece by Gideon - this kind of criticism is sadly rare in Australia today

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defunding a program that gives free books to children sounds like a great choice for your state's education system. I'm sure it's a super popular choice to thwart Dolly Parton, too

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The courage of the craven

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Snowy leaves the stage. Leaving only Harry. www.noise11.com/news/snowy-f...

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Arts Minister Tony Burke made some remarks earlier this week about Creative Australia’s decision to ditch Lebanese Australian artist Khaled Sabsabi as the pick for the 61st Venice Biennale. They didn’t get much coverage but I can’t get them out of my head. So here you go.

submitted 6 days ago • 10 comments

"There were a good number of reasons back then to not just be uninterested in Led Zeppelin but to actively designate them as Very Much Not Our Thing Thank You." But did that survive exposure to Zeppelin at their most Zeppelin? New film, old memories & boys vs men www.bernardzuel.net/post/sceptic...

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Staying in Jimmy Webb territory after Thelma Houston. #morningpop #glencampbell #rhinestonecowboy #jimmywebb

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Led Zeppelin & their part in my downfall. Or, how a righteous post-punk/new wave know-it-all found himself in thrall to everything that - surely, as god/NME is our witness - was wrong in the musical world. Riding the ripples after watching Becoming Led Zeppelin. www.bernardzuel.net/post/sceptic...

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When a grey day needs a blast of sunshine to start it right. #morningpop #thelmahouston #sunshower #jimmywebb

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