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Alter-ego of @infinite8horizon.com (the nice one, with pictures). This account for politics & biting social commentary (rants). Bio: https://bsky.app/profile/infinite8horizon.com/post/3lgmq5wdco22d Longform essays at https://infinite8horizon.wordpress.com
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As the Fourth Estate gleefully raise their binoculars & burn contenders' track records, I ask: Q: What's the difference between the Melbourne Cup & the Federal Election? #ThisIsNotJournalism 🧵

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

Perhaps the key sentence here is "It barely triggers a 24-hour news cycle", when you realise this is published in... a news cycle outlet. YOU made this choice. YOU let him grab women by the pussy, notionally shoot people in New York streets. YOU open the Overton window. YOU, the owners of the cycle🧵

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

The most contentious thing Albanese has done is change his glasses frames. He's not an exponent of realpolitik, he's a vegetative-state example of nullpolitik. Dutton's black-clad Border FORCE was just a foretaste of his fever-dreams, we'll be an expendable part of the axis the day after he wins.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

We compare and contrast how, in 1936, Columbia University expelled a student for staging anti-Nazi protests and how Columbia has now punished 22 students for protesting against Israel's war on Gaza.

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

The instantaneous response from the LNP ("insurance companies are ripping you off, we will look after you") is just another reminder—as if we needed one—that their number one, in fact their only real constituents, are mining and fossil fuel. The ALP, in simply looking the other way is no better, 🧵

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

A slide about the death toll in Gaza “could be perceived as antisemitic.”

submitted 1 day ago • 71 comments

after seeing all the praise for The Atlantic, it's important to remember the magazine drove away Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist Ed Yong and then hired Jonathan Chait late last year

submitted 1 day ago • 58 comments

I gotta say, ranking LNP leaders and ministers in order of arseholiness is a perfectly acceptable if rather nauseating pastime, but comparing Fraser as PM and Whitlam as PM, there is seriously NO comparison. How Fraser got there, and what he did when he got power, compared with Whitlam? Please...🧵

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

I agree it's sad (maybe I'd use a stronger word than sad), but the grease was out long before now. Most of these people work for billionaires whose agendas do not include any amendments at all, and their unwillingness, for FOUR YEARS, to call #45 a liar was all the warning you needed. 🧵

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Will Musk interfere in the Australian election? Lessee... White, born in South Africa, maternal grandfather supported apartheid, holds far right views and hates migrants. Peter Dutton, white, holds far right views, hates certain coloured migrants, and as I recall, was pro-white-South African. 🤷

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Perfect 🤣🎯

submitted 2 days ago • 407 comments

Now is exactly THE RIGHT TIME, NYT to slide the stiletto into the still-warm body of American democracy. The Times & latterly WaPo have been the almost invisible, deadly blade, in comparison with the daily unsubtle bludgeon of Fox. They're all tools of billionaires, wielded differently. #uspol

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

...and this is why Israel and Gaza are taking up so much space in our media and the election campaign... (sarcasm, and disgust, for the sarcasm impaired) If you vote for a party that ignores & condones genocide, consider how little they will care for you when it's expedient. #Gaza #auspol

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

At what point does this chaos impinge on the populace? Too late? They are truly in boiled frog territory now.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Climate disaster or hip-pocket? @theage #Election2025 #auspol

submitted 3 days ago • 25 comments

“The media falls for it” I have a bridge to sell you. Bezos, Slim, Murdoch, Musk, Zuckerberg are not “falling” for anything, and the trained, intelligent, professional journalists they employ or amplify haven’t tripped over anything. They fear for their jobs, or they quit. #ThisIsNotJournalism

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I was going to leave this, since your comment contained zero argument & 100% personal opinion, but if you want to vote for a genocide supporting, coal exporting, environment destroying, gambling coddling, poverty preserving, asylum interring, promise breaking ShitLite™ government, it's your choice.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Hi, and welcome! I have two BlueSky accounts. This one is for politics and not-so-nice things. The other account, @infinite8horizon.com, is for my photos (and others') and other nice things. Choose wisely, and check the auto-complete. Bio is the same (it's me!), link in profile. Enjoy.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

If an Australian journalist were murdered in Gaza, who would write their obituary? Who would report and mourn their death? Not any of their colleagues—Australian journalists working for the mainstream media, our so-called "free press". How can I be so sure? It's simple: #ThisIsNotJournalism 🧵

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment