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benjamin
@benjamino.bsky.social
· Jan 15
🧵 Fairly Decent 2025 Choons...
happy new year from Castlemaine-upon-Derwent (Nipaluna)
December 31, 2025 at 10:42 AM
happy new year from Castlemaine-upon-Derwent (Nipaluna)
Checking out the sights
December 19, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Checking out the sights
What a horrible place to wake up, no wonder they warn us to keep away
December 19, 2025 at 12:33 AM
What a horrible place to wake up, no wonder they warn us to keep away
This smarmy ghoulish cvnt has no qualms smearing every Palestinian in Gaza as a hatemonger then the audacity to accuse others of bigotry for standing against genocide.
December 17, 2025 at 11:45 AM
This smarmy ghoulish cvnt has no qualms smearing every Palestinian in Gaza as a hatemonger then the audacity to accuse others of bigotry for standing against genocide.
Actually very open to hearing about the extent and scourge of antisemitism in Australia, my one stipulation is you don't have your own recorded history of Islamophobia if you expect me to take you as anything other than a ghoulish opportunist
December 17, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Actually very open to hearing about the extent and scourge of antisemitism in Australia, my one stipulation is you don't have your own recorded history of Islamophobia if you expect me to take you as anything other than a ghoulish opportunist
If I was still a journo and met someone new and they asked what I did I would probably tell them I sold drugs to primary school children
December 17, 2025 at 10:22 AM
If I was still a journo and met someone new and they asked what I did I would probably tell them I sold drugs to primary school children
Not one person involved in any of this should be let near any other cultural institution ever again
This is the way #Meanjin ends — not with a bang but a whimper.
New FOI story from me for @crikey.com.au:
www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/17/m...
New FOI story from me for @crikey.com.au:
www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/17/m...
FOI docs reveal Meanjin axing never debated by Melbourne Uni. And why were all bids to save it rejected?
The University of Melbourne's finance committee didn't invite members to question the closure of the 85-year-old literary journal, instead only waving it through. Meanwhile, all external offers to sav...
www.crikey.com.au
December 17, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Not one person involved in any of this should be let near any other cultural institution ever again
Here was I thinking having a racist no-values opposition and an Islamophobic conflict-thirsty media and governments who hate all forms of protest meant everything was going to work out swell
December 17, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Here was I thinking having a racist no-values opposition and an Islamophobic conflict-thirsty media and governments who hate all forms of protest meant everything was going to work out swell
Hope the masterful captain's picker PM was sitting down when he got this alert
December 17, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Hope the masterful captain's picker PM was sitting down when he got this alert
Losing my mind at the synagogue arson being used time and again to prove deep and violent community antisemitism, and collapsed in with anti-genocide sentiment, well after the PM and ASIO officials said the incident was tied to the Iranian government
December 16, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Losing my mind at the synagogue arson being used time and again to prove deep and violent community antisemitism, and collapsed in with anti-genocide sentiment, well after the PM and ASIO officials said the incident was tied to the Iranian government
Every now and then I try imagining what it might be like if Australian media wasn't deeply devoted to upholding white supremacy and I never get very far because of the patent implausibility
It matters so much and so directly to Bondi that the Christchurch attack, in which an Australian white supremacist massacred 51 people in a mosque, was first botched by Aus media outlets republishing his manifesto and then 100% deleted from public consciousness: memory-holed
What we learned from analyzing thousands of stories on the Christchurch shooting
On March 15, 2019, a gunman opened fire on worshippers at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, killing 50 and wounding dozens of others. In the wake of the worst terrorist attack in the country’s...
www.cjr.org
December 16, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Every now and then I try imagining what it might be like if Australian media wasn't deeply devoted to upholding white supremacy and I never get very far because of the patent implausibility
Have spent a lot of time with some wonderful people in newsrooms over the years and it's remarkable just how consistently they've been sidelined out of the industry while the dregs rise to the 'analysis' sphere
December 16, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Have spent a lot of time with some wonderful people in newsrooms over the years and it's remarkable just how consistently they've been sidelined out of the industry while the dregs rise to the 'analysis' sphere
I hate to speak ill of the dead but stfu John Howard you drearsome cadaver
December 16, 2025 at 5:01 AM
I hate to speak ill of the dead but stfu John Howard you drearsome cadaver
If 'Edward Crabtree' had been the Bondi hero we sure as hell wouldn't be reading about an ice pipe once spotted in his shop
December 16, 2025 at 12:53 AM
If 'Edward Crabtree' had been the Bondi hero we sure as hell wouldn't be reading about an ice pipe once spotted in his shop
When you order your subtle metaphors from Kogan
WATCH: Replica of the Statue of Liberty topples due to strong winds in Guaíba, Brazil
December 15, 2025 at 10:43 PM
When you order your subtle metaphors from Kogan
wanna know what the very last thing i could imagine choosing to do in this life would be?
December 15, 2025 at 10:31 PM
wanna know what the very last thing i could imagine choosing to do in this life would be?
Shoutout to the photo editor here, incredible The Worst War Criminal You Know Just Made A Complete Clown of Themselves energy
Israel’s PM Netanyahu heralded Ahmed al-Ahmed for showing “Jewish heroism” before learning the Bondi Beach “hero” is Muslim.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/th4zuo
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/th4zuo
December 15, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Shoutout to the photo editor here, incredible The Worst War Criminal You Know Just Made A Complete Clown of Themselves energy
So-called leaders deliberately fanning flames over this tragedy need to settle the fuck down now
December 15, 2025 at 10:52 AM
So-called leaders deliberately fanning flames over this tragedy need to settle the fuck down now
Turns out everyone who was a smug lying fuck before yesterday is still a smug lying fuck today, quelle surprise
The AFR's Phil Coorey has posted an unhinged, unfactual, fear-mongering piece, falsely equating pro-Palestine protests with anti-Semitism, claiming they chant "kill the Jews". This has been proven to be untrue. Coorey's op-ed is unfactual and dangerous. 😠 #BondiBeachShooting
December 15, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Turns out everyone who was a smug lying fuck before yesterday is still a smug lying fuck today, quelle surprise
Beautifully put, looking forward to the avalanche of racist hatemongering that runs completely counter to Ahmed al Ahmed's heroic actions
December 15, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Beautifully put, looking forward to the avalanche of racist hatemongering that runs completely counter to Ahmed al Ahmed's heroic actions
Broke: This is all Anthony Albanese's fault
Woke: This is all Keir Starmer's fault
Woke: This is all Keir Starmer's fault
December 15, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Broke: This is all Anthony Albanese's fault
Woke: This is all Keir Starmer's fault
Woke: This is all Keir Starmer's fault