Andrew Stafford
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The Saints @ Pig City: An oral history | Andrew Stafford
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Thought I’d re-up my piece on this perfect day as the Saints (73-78) prepare to embark on a national, then international tour. I’m dead proud of it, if I do say so myself www.patreon.com/posts/saints...
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I remember back in the late '90s -- when magazine writers were still getting big book and movie deals -- an editor of mine who'd worked with a bunch of them sighing and saying, "The story no one will ever publish is the exposé of which famous writers can't actually write at all."
Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.
November 17, 2025 at 9:58 PM
I remember back in the late '90s -- when magazine writers were still getting big book and movie deals -- an editor of mine who'd worked with a bunch of them sighing and saying, "The story no one will ever publish is the exposé of which famous writers can't actually write at all."
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This should be a @nytpitchbot.bsky.social headline
November 17, 2025 at 6:18 AM
This should be a @nytpitchbot.bsky.social headline
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The Albanese government’s nature reforms would change biodiversity offsets policy, including by setting up a “restoration contributions” fund. Guardian Australia reporting exposed major failures with a similar scheme in NSW. Experts are warning the federal plan could repeat those mistakes
Biodiversity offsets failed to protect habitat in NSW. Now federal Labor is about to make the same mistakes, critics warn
Offsets were meant to be a last resort for mitigating environmental damage from development projects, but rapidly became the default
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:10 PM
The Albanese government’s nature reforms would change biodiversity offsets policy, including by setting up a “restoration contributions” fund. Guardian Australia reporting exposed major failures with a similar scheme in NSW. Experts are warning the federal plan could repeat those mistakes
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It's written like "post-liberalism" has the momentum of a runaway freight train, when all that's happened is a fracturing of the vote to One Nation and a few sooks quitting or being sacked from the opposition front bench whiteanting a weak leader.
No sign of a Labor voter anywhere falling for this.
No sign of a Labor voter anywhere falling for this.
November 15, 2025 at 9:11 PM
It's written like "post-liberalism" has the momentum of a runaway freight train, when all that's happened is a fracturing of the vote to One Nation and a few sooks quitting or being sacked from the opposition front bench whiteanting a weak leader.
No sign of a Labor voter anywhere falling for this.
No sign of a Labor voter anywhere falling for this.
Without grievance, they are nothing
The funniest thing about Twitter these days is that right wing dipshits still think their content is being suppressed by some unseen liberal forces.
Elon Musk has owned the site for over three years now.
Elon Musk has owned the site for over three years now.
November 14, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Without grievance, they are nothing
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Giving the Nazis days of nation-wide headline media coverage every time they do a ten minute photo op is not a good way to get them to stop doing photo ops.
November 12, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Giving the Nazis days of nation-wide headline media coverage every time they do a ten minute photo op is not a good way to get them to stop doing photo ops.
How much more Goth could Mothica be? The answer is none. None more Goth www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8c0...
MOTHICA - EVERGREEN MISERY (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by MOTHICA
www.youtube.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:28 AM
How much more Goth could Mothica be? The answer is none. None more Goth www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8c0...
Since Nazis now feel normel enough to show their faces, how about all media editors instruct snappers to zoom in on them instead of depicting looking scawy in their all blacks
November 10, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Since Nazis now feel normel enough to show their faces, how about all media editors instruct snappers to zoom in on them instead of depicting looking scawy in their all blacks
There’s only one piece of writing you need to read on the 50th anniversary of Horses, and it’s this one by the incredible jennpelly.bsky.social 🐎 pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
Patti Smith: Horses
Read Jenn Pelly’s review of the album.
pitchfork.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:41 PM
There’s only one piece of writing you need to read on the 50th anniversary of Horses, and it’s this one by the incredible jennpelly.bsky.social 🐎 pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
Please do not encourage the PM to wear a 30-Odd Foot of Grunts t-shirt
November 9, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Please do not encourage the PM to wear a 30-Odd Foot of Grunts t-shirt
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I was impressed by this statement by Australia's Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism, Jillian Segal, in response to the nazi rally at the NSW state parliament yesterday:
November 9, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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Share them
Identify them
Out them
Ostracise them
Identify them
Out them
Ostracise them
18/ Beyond that, get informed. Organise w yr communities & in yr workplaces. Assist anti-fascist researchers by helping to document to nazi antics & ID participants. Respond to calls-to-action.
Put simply: fight the real enemy; not yr fellow workers.
Put simply: fight the real enemy; not yr fellow workers.
November 9, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Share them
Identify them
Out them
Ostracise them
Identify them
Out them
Ostracise them
If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it. Or don’t. (Classic Australian edition)
November 9, 2025 at 12:30 AM
If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it. Or don’t. (Classic Australian edition)
Me (no byline) with one of my favourite, albeit saddest Queensland stories. Would really love an extra few thousand words to do full justice to it while the main players are still around to tell the tale. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The premier, the poet and the fight to save an extraordinary Australian frog
As amphibian enthusiasts get ready to hop into FrogID Week, hope persists that one of Australia’s most bizarre creatures may survive
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Me (no byline) with one of my favourite, albeit saddest Queensland stories. Would really love an extra few thousand words to do full justice to it while the main players are still around to tell the tale. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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The words “pusillanimous” and “captured” come to mind
“Norway has imposed a 56% "special tax" for oil & gas companies, alongside a 22% corporate tax rate. The proceeds..have been reinvested in its sovereign wealth fund, which is now the largest in the world”
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
“Norway has imposed a 56% "special tax" for oil & gas companies, alongside a 22% corporate tax rate. The proceeds..have been reinvested in its sovereign wealth fund, which is now the largest in the world”
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Norway struck oil in the 60s. Now it has trillions. This is how Australia compares
Norway struck oil in the 1960s. Now, almost a quarter of its national budget is funded through its sovereign wealth fund. How does Australia compare with taxing its resources?
www.abc.net.au
November 4, 2025 at 11:52 PM
The words “pusillanimous” and “captured” come to mind
“Norway has imposed a 56% "special tax" for oil & gas companies, alongside a 22% corporate tax rate. The proceeds..have been reinvested in its sovereign wealth fund, which is now the largest in the world”
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
“Norway has imposed a 56% "special tax" for oil & gas companies, alongside a 22% corporate tax rate. The proceeds..have been reinvested in its sovereign wealth fund, which is now the largest in the world”
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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These days, you can't even speak in support of white nationalism at a Nazi-organised rally and later urge support for a neo-Nazi political party without the politically-correct woke brigade siezing the opportunity to portray you as a Nazi sympathiser.
a cartoon of a man in a suit and tie says that 's not fair netflix
ALT: a cartoon of a man in a suit and tie says that 's not fair netflix
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November 5, 2025 at 7:56 AM
These days, you can't even speak in support of white nationalism at a Nazi-organised rally and later urge support for a neo-Nazi political party without the politically-correct woke brigade siezing the opportunity to portray you as a Nazi sympathiser.
Defender of Western Civilisation and literature professor can’t even spell “seize” SMDH
1/ Stephen McInerney -- ex-Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation Guy & current Dean of Studies & Associate Professor of Literature at Catholic tertiary institution Campion College in Sydney -- urges support for Tom Sewell's incipient neo-Nazi political party.
!['I'm not in the NSN but believe, for strategic reasons, people should become 'political supporters' of the White Australia Party. The creation of such parties is the only safeguard against White erasure. Other pro-White parties will follow in time. Sieze [sic] the day.'](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:o2ggsnr4ihu4pjka6zd7rv27/bafkreihocgeelqxtafrohy5geget2tdo4iximk4v6gvh5qx732wylht7dy@jpeg)
November 5, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Defender of Western Civilisation and literature professor can’t even spell “seize” SMDH
Thought I’d re-up my piece on this perfect day as the Saints (73-78) prepare to embark on a national, then international tour. I’m dead proud of it, if I do say so myself www.patreon.com/posts/saints...
The Saints @ Pig City: An oral history | Andrew Stafford
Get more from Andrew Stafford on Patreon
www.patreon.com
November 1, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Thought I’d re-up my piece on this perfect day as the Saints (73-78) prepare to embark on a national, then international tour. I’m dead proud of it, if I do say so myself www.patreon.com/posts/saints...
If you push dat button, yo ass has got to go m.youtube.com/watch?v=lsPr...
Sun Ra - Nuclear War
YouTube video by jaz2tumblrcom
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October 30, 2025 at 7:32 AM
If you push dat button, yo ass has got to go m.youtube.com/watch?v=lsPr...
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opening a new front in the (ahem) Sub-culture wars
I’ll see myself out
I’ll see myself out
Sky are actually attempting a culture war over the band name of Joy Division. There is nowhere ever too stupid for these people to go.
October 28, 2025 at 10:21 AM
opening a new front in the (ahem) Sub-culture wars
I’ll see myself out
I’ll see myself out
Anyway, I look forward to the PM wearing a Hard-Ons T-shirt for Ausmusic T-shirt day on 27 November. I believe he's a fan.
October 28, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Anyway, I look forward to the PM wearing a Hard-Ons T-shirt for Ausmusic T-shirt day on 27 November. I believe he's a fan.
Dead Kennedys next, please www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Sussan Ley goes after Anthony Albanese’s Joy Division T-shirt as the Coalition tears itself apart, again
While the opposition leader criticised the prime minister’s clothing as a ‘profound failure of judgment’, Albanese posted he was ‘getting things done’
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Dead Kennedys next, please www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Some PR just invaded my inbox wishing me happy TOOSYAY, might just go directly to jail to save time
October 28, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Some PR just invaded my inbox wishing me happy TOOSYAY, might just go directly to jail to save time
The tightly contained (and no doubt legally constrained) rage in this piece by @chriswallace.bsky.social is something to behold, especially the last two pars ($) www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/law-cri...
Linda Reynolds’ defamation war
Linda Reynolds is demanding a parliamentary inquiry into the events that followed Brittany Higgins’s rape in her office. The following is a precis of the former minister’s actions over that time.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
October 26, 2025 at 6:12 AM
The tightly contained (and no doubt legally constrained) rage in this piece by @chriswallace.bsky.social is something to behold, especially the last two pars ($) www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/law-cri...