Blakandblack
@blakandblack.bsky.social
Enemy of the establishment. Friend to everyone else. Business owner. Rugby and boxing enthusiast. My view on life: party hard today, because tomorrow might never come 🇪🇺🇦🇺✡️
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Lachie & Daddy Rupie’s Parlour Tricks
Lachie and Rupie, barons of ink, Turn chaos to coin quicker than you’d think. With profit their beacon and ethics for sale, They spin every scandal and tip every scale. Assaults on the powerless, gone...
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Lachie and Rupie, barons of ink,
Turn chaos to coin quicker than you’d think.
With profit their beacon and ethics for sale,
They spin every scandal and tip every scale.
Assaults on the powerless, gone with a swipe –
Their headlines are poison, high-octane hype.
blakandblack.com/2026/01/08/l...
Turn chaos to coin quicker than you’d think.
With profit their beacon and ethics for sale,
They spin every scandal and tip every scale.
Assaults on the powerless, gone with a swipe –
Their headlines are poison, high-octane hype.
blakandblack.com/2026/01/08/l...
🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨
Netanyahu summons the spirit of antisemitism for political gain…
Netanyahu summons the spirit of antisemitism for political gain…
January 8, 2026 at 12:28 AM
🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨
Netanyahu summons the spirit of antisemitism for political gain…
Netanyahu summons the spirit of antisemitism for political gain…
Lachie and Rupie, barons of ink,
Turn chaos to coin quicker than you’d think.
With profit their beacon and ethics for sale,
They spin every scandal and tip every scale.
Assaults on the powerless, gone with a swipe –
Their headlines are poison, high-octane hype.
blakandblack.com/2026/01/08/l...
Turn chaos to coin quicker than you’d think.
With profit their beacon and ethics for sale,
They spin every scandal and tip every scale.
Assaults on the powerless, gone with a swipe –
Their headlines are poison, high-octane hype.
blakandblack.com/2026/01/08/l...
Lachie & Daddy Rupie’s Parlour Tricks
Lachie and Rupie, barons of ink, Turn chaos to coin quicker than you’d think. With profit their beacon and ethics for sale, They spin every scandal and tip every scale. Assaults on the powerless, gone...
blakandblack.com
January 7, 2026 at 7:59 PM
Lachie and Rupie, barons of ink,
Turn chaos to coin quicker than you’d think.
With profit their beacon and ethics for sale,
They spin every scandal and tip every scale.
Assaults on the powerless, gone with a swipe –
Their headlines are poison, high-octane hype.
blakandblack.com/2026/01/08/l...
Turn chaos to coin quicker than you’d think.
With profit their beacon and ethics for sale,
They spin every scandal and tip every scale.
Assaults on the powerless, gone with a swipe –
Their headlines are poison, high-octane hype.
blakandblack.com/2026/01/08/l...
Marcel Ophuls’ Le Chagrin et la Pitié (The Sorrow and the Pity), released in 1969, stands as one of the most provocative and influential documentaries in the history of cinema. Its unflinching examination of French collaboration with Nazi Germany during World War II
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The Sorrow and the Pity: Marcel Ophuls’ Cinematic Challenge to French Postwar Identity
Challenged to face the unpleasant underbelly of conservative French society during the Vichy era, Le Chagrin et la Pitié inspired reflection in French society.
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January 7, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Marcel Ophuls’ Le Chagrin et la Pitié (The Sorrow and the Pity), released in 1969, stands as one of the most provocative and influential documentaries in the history of cinema. Its unflinching examination of French collaboration with Nazi Germany during World War II
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King Grift the Great, with a gold-foil crown,
Parades through towns in his made-for-TV gown.
He kisses the babies (but pockets their sweets),
Spins tales of the swamp to billionaires’ beats.
His pockets are bottomless, stuffed full of dreams –
The dreams he sells
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Parades through towns in his made-for-TV gown.
He kisses the babies (but pockets their sweets),
Spins tales of the swamp to billionaires’ beats.
His pockets are bottomless, stuffed full of dreams –
The dreams he sells
blakandblack.com/2026/01/07/k...
King Grift the Great
King Grift the Great, with a gold-foil crown, Parades through towns in his made-for-TV gown. He kisses the babies (but pockets their sweets), Spins tales of the swamp to billionaires’ beats. His pocke...
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January 7, 2026 at 11:40 AM
King Grift the Great, with a gold-foil crown,
Parades through towns in his made-for-TV gown.
He kisses the babies (but pockets their sweets),
Spins tales of the swamp to billionaires’ beats.
His pockets are bottomless, stuffed full of dreams –
The dreams he sells
blakandblack.com/2026/01/07/k...
Parades through towns in his made-for-TV gown.
He kisses the babies (but pockets their sweets),
Spins tales of the swamp to billionaires’ beats.
His pockets are bottomless, stuffed full of dreams –
The dreams he sells
blakandblack.com/2026/01/07/k...
My earliest encounter with the Iliad occurred in the cluttered study of my uncle’s home, among overflowing bookshelves that bore the imprint of a life spent in relentless intellectual curiosity. My uncle, a survivor of the Holocaust and a man whose life…
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Homer: From Ancient Fusion To Modern Meaning
Rather than tales for ancient times, Homer's Iliad and Odyssey demonstrate the same cares and priorities across the ages, remaining relevant today.
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January 6, 2026 at 9:09 PM
My earliest encounter with the Iliad occurred in the cluttered study of my uncle’s home, among overflowing bookshelves that bore the imprint of a life spent in relentless intellectual curiosity. My uncle, a survivor of the Holocaust and a man whose life…
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Sounds very sus.
An Australian Federal Police “national surveillance team” set up under the Commonwealth High Risk Terrorist Offender regime was quietly disbanded because of funding shortfalls just weeks before the deadly Bondi attack.
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Specialist counter-terror team shut down weeks before Bondi — The Nightly
An AFP ‘national surveillance team’ was quietly disbanded because of funding shortfalls just weeks before the deadly Bondi attack.
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January 6, 2026 at 6:03 AM
Sounds very sus.
Tomorrow’s BnB post about an unexpected package I received from my uncle, posted from Paris in Nov. It contained his tweed overcoat—he had worn since the late 1950s—his constant hat, and walking cane his habitual attire. Tucked within that bundle: his well-thumbed copy of the Iliad - the post point
January 6, 2026 at 8:29 AM
Tomorrow’s BnB post about an unexpected package I received from my uncle, posted from Paris in Nov. It contained his tweed overcoat—he had worn since the late 1950s—his constant hat, and walking cane his habitual attire. Tucked within that bundle: his well-thumbed copy of the Iliad - the post point
An Australian Federal Police “national surveillance team” set up under the Commonwealth High Risk Terrorist Offender regime was quietly disbanded because of funding shortfalls just weeks before the deadly Bondi attack.
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Specialist counter-terror team shut down weeks before Bondi — The Nightly
An AFP ‘national surveillance team’ was quietly disbanded because of funding shortfalls just weeks before the deadly Bondi attack.
apple.news
January 6, 2026 at 5:33 AM
An Australian Federal Police “national surveillance team” set up under the Commonwealth High Risk Terrorist Offender regime was quietly disbanded because of funding shortfalls just weeks before the deadly Bondi attack.
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Great and Glorious GD,
Glow at the heart of every candle,
Gift behind evergreen fronds,
Gently weaving wonder – GD!
No face, no form,
No word can frame You;
You are the Breath between syllables,
The silence after laughter – GD.
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Glow at the heart of every candle,
Gift behind evergreen fronds,
Gently weaving wonder – GD!
No face, no form,
No word can frame You;
You are the Breath between syllables,
The silence after laughter – GD.
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Chrismukkah and Beyond
GD! Great and Glorious GD, Glow at the heart of every candle, Gift behind evergreen fronds, Gently weaving wonder – GD! No face, no form, No word can frame You; You are the Breath between syllables, T...
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January 6, 2026 at 5:27 AM
Great and Glorious GD,
Glow at the heart of every candle,
Gift behind evergreen fronds,
Gently weaving wonder – GD!
No face, no form,
No word can frame You;
You are the Breath between syllables,
The silence after laughter – GD.
blakandblack.com/2026/01/06/c...
Glow at the heart of every candle,
Gift behind evergreen fronds,
Gently weaving wonder – GD!
No face, no form,
No word can frame You;
You are the Breath between syllables,
The silence after laughter – GD.
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This "Ba ya me" the Dreamtime entity, appears to have 60,000 years of street cred and some! A far more believable and realistic concept than the 6000 year old Abrahamic gobbledygook which pervades the modern marketplace of religions! #Auspol
January 5, 2026 at 8:37 PM
This "Ba ya me" the Dreamtime entity, appears to have 60,000 years of street cred and some! A far more believable and realistic concept than the 6000 year old Abrahamic gobbledygook which pervades the modern marketplace of religions! #Auspol
This is the second of my Australia Day 2026 Indigenous spirituality posts.
Baiame (also recorded as Biame, Baayami, Baayama, Byamee) occupies a central place in the cosmologies of many peoples of southeastern Australia…
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Baiame (also recorded as Biame, Baayami, Baayama, Byamee) occupies a central place in the cosmologies of many peoples of southeastern Australia…
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Baiame – The Creator God and Sky Father
A creation symbol in Indigenous culture, Baiame remains an example of how to live in harmony with the environment.
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January 5, 2026 at 8:07 PM
This is the second of my Australia Day 2026 Indigenous spirituality posts.
Baiame (also recorded as Biame, Baayami, Baayama, Byamee) occupies a central place in the cosmologies of many peoples of southeastern Australia…
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Baiame (also recorded as Biame, Baayami, Baayama, Byamee) occupies a central place in the cosmologies of many peoples of southeastern Australia…
blakandblack.com/2026/01/06/b...
It’s almost Australia Day again, I’m not interested in engaging in divisive Australia Day v Invasion Day debate. Instead I’m going to delve into Indigenous spirituality. Indigenous spirituality, though different from settler spirituality, is no less valid
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Sacred Creation Spirits – The Wandjina and Their Enduring Legacy
Preamble It’s almost Australia Day again, I’m not interested in engaging in the divisive Australia Day versus Invasion Day debate. Instead I’m going to delve into Indigenous spirituality. Indigenous s...
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January 4, 2026 at 8:50 PM
It’s almost Australia Day again, I’m not interested in engaging in divisive Australia Day v Invasion Day debate. Instead I’m going to delve into Indigenous spirituality. Indigenous spirituality, though different from settler spirituality, is no less valid
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I’ve written for decades about situations where the victim becomes the criminal and the criminal becomes the victim … no one listened…
Welcome to 2026 … the role reversal on steroids … the canary has been dead in the mine for a long time, people have simply chosen to ignore its rotting carcass…
Welcome to 2026 … the role reversal on steroids … the canary has been dead in the mine for a long time, people have simply chosen to ignore its rotting carcass…
January 3, 2026 at 9:55 PM
I’ve written for decades about situations where the victim becomes the criminal and the criminal becomes the victim … no one listened…
Welcome to 2026 … the role reversal on steroids … the canary has been dead in the mine for a long time, people have simply chosen to ignore its rotting carcass…
Welcome to 2026 … the role reversal on steroids … the canary has been dead in the mine for a long time, people have simply chosen to ignore its rotting carcass…
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I could almost hear Pete Seeger singing that version. Thank you.
January 3, 2026 at 9:49 PM
I could almost hear Pete Seeger singing that version. Thank you.
All of the worlds seemingly intractable problems have the genesis is the same fundamental human flaw…
Pleased to meet you, hope you guessed my name—
But what’s confusing you is just the nature of my game.
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Pleased to meet you, hope you guessed my name—
But what’s confusing you is just the nature of my game.
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January 3, 2026 at 9:24 PM
All of the worlds seemingly intractable problems have the genesis is the same fundamental human flaw…
Pleased to meet you, hope you guessed my name—
But what’s confusing you is just the nature of my game.
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Pleased to meet you, hope you guessed my name—
But what’s confusing you is just the nature of my game.
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I was undecided whether to call this where have all the Palestinians gone? Or where have all our consciences gone? - I decided to go with *Palestinians*
Where have all the Palestinians gone, long time passing?
Where have all the Palestinians gone, long time ago?
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Where have all the Palestinians gone, long time passing?
Where have all the Palestinians gone, long time ago?
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Where have all the Palestinians gone?
Where have all the Palestinians gone, long time passing? Where have all the Palestinians gone, long time ago? Where have all the Palestinians gone? Torn from their villages, every one. When will they ...
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January 2, 2026 at 9:15 PM
I was undecided whether to call this where have all the Palestinians gone? Or where have all our consciences gone? - I decided to go with *Palestinians*
Where have all the Palestinians gone, long time passing?
Where have all the Palestinians gone, long time ago?
blakandblack.com/2026/01/03/w...
Where have all the Palestinians gone, long time passing?
Where have all the Palestinians gone, long time ago?
blakandblack.com/2026/01/03/w...
Venezuela’s capital was rocked by a series of explosions as planes and helicopters flew over the city, with the government saying they were an act of aggression by the U.S.
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Venezuela Hit by Explosions It Says Were Act of Aggression by U.S. — The Wall Street Journal
Residents reported power outages in several areas of Caracas.
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January 3, 2026 at 8:28 AM
Venezuela’s capital was rocked by a series of explosions as planes and helicopters flew over the city, with the government saying they were an act of aggression by the U.S.
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I was undecided whether to call this where have all the Palestinians gone? Or where have all our consciences gone? - I decided to go with *Palestinians*
Where have all the Palestinians gone, long time passing?
Where have all the Palestinians gone, long time ago?
blakandblack.com/2026/01/03/w...
Where have all the Palestinians gone, long time passing?
Where have all the Palestinians gone, long time ago?
blakandblack.com/2026/01/03/w...
Where have all the Palestinians gone?
Where have all the Palestinians gone, long time passing? Where have all the Palestinians gone, long time ago? Where have all the Palestinians gone? Torn from their villages, every one. When will they ...
blakandblack.com
January 2, 2026 at 9:15 PM
I was undecided whether to call this where have all the Palestinians gone? Or where have all our consciences gone? - I decided to go with *Palestinians*
Where have all the Palestinians gone, long time passing?
Where have all the Palestinians gone, long time ago?
blakandblack.com/2026/01/03/w...
Where have all the Palestinians gone, long time passing?
Where have all the Palestinians gone, long time ago?
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You’ve been our wit since days of yore,
When Sydney hummed with hopes galore.
The beers we spilled, the nights we cheered,
The wildest tales we engineered –
And women, laughter on their lips,
Who truly sent us on a trip.
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When Sydney hummed with hopes galore.
The beers we spilled, the nights we cheered,
The wildest tales we engineered –
And women, laughter on their lips,
Who truly sent us on a trip.
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Ode to Jöge – Skull Stein of Sydney Nights
Old friend Jöge, lifted high, On New Year’s Eve beneath the sky, You greet the dusk’s warm, sticky hand – No frosted air across our land. Still, dinner jackets, black and bold, We gather, feeling youn...
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December 31, 2025 at 12:04 PM
You’ve been our wit since days of yore,
When Sydney hummed with hopes galore.
The beers we spilled, the nights we cheered,
The wildest tales we engineered –
And women, laughter on their lips,
Who truly sent us on a trip.
blakandblack.com/2025/12/31/o...
When Sydney hummed with hopes galore.
The beers we spilled, the nights we cheered,
The wildest tales we engineered –
And women, laughter on their lips,
Who truly sent us on a trip.
blakandblack.com/2025/12/31/o...
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Wow. Nice piece.
Plato’s Timaeus, a fictional Egyptian priest rebukes the Solon for his people’s historical myopia. His rebuke remains relevant. Humanity’s tendency to elevate single myths arises from converging forces: institutional power, cognitive simplicity
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The Eternal Flood – Humanity’s Selective Memory in Myth and History
Various cultures have a flood myth, curated to reflect a local narrative at the expense of interconnectedness and the multiplicity of responses to catastrophes.
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December 30, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Wow. Nice piece.
The passages in Herodotus that use the term Palaistinê are few but consequential. They provide one of the earliest extant Greek testimonies to a geographical designation that would have an extraordinary afterlife in classical & later political vocabularies
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In Defence of Herodotus – Palaistinê Through the Eyes of the Father of History
The historical accounts of Herodotus provide context around the people of Palestine, his accounts demonstrating an empiricism that supports archaeology.
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December 30, 2025 at 9:47 PM
The passages in Herodotus that use the term Palaistinê are few but consequential. They provide one of the earliest extant Greek testimonies to a geographical designation that would have an extraordinary afterlife in classical & later political vocabularies
blakandblack.com/2025/12/31/i...
blakandblack.com/2025/12/31/i...
Plato’s Timaeus, a fictional Egyptian priest rebukes the Solon for his people’s historical myopia. His rebuke remains relevant. Humanity’s tendency to elevate single myths arises from converging forces: institutional power, cognitive simplicity
blakandblack.com/2025/12/30/t...
blakandblack.com/2025/12/30/t...
The Eternal Flood – Humanity’s Selective Memory in Myth and History
Various cultures have a flood myth, curated to reflect a local narrative at the expense of interconnectedness and the multiplicity of responses to catastrophes.
blakandblack.com
December 29, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Plato’s Timaeus, a fictional Egyptian priest rebukes the Solon for his people’s historical myopia. His rebuke remains relevant. Humanity’s tendency to elevate single myths arises from converging forces: institutional power, cognitive simplicity
blakandblack.com/2025/12/30/t...
blakandblack.com/2025/12/30/t...
Tomorrow’s BnB post is based on Plato’s Timaeus. The point is strikingly simple & unsettling—civilisations are repeatedly reshaped by cataclysms whose vestiges survive only as fragmented legends. From his vantage, the Greeks remember one flood and thereby mistake the exceptional for the definitive.
December 29, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Tomorrow’s BnB post is based on Plato’s Timaeus. The point is strikingly simple & unsettling—civilisations are repeatedly reshaped by cataclysms whose vestiges survive only as fragmented legends. From his vantage, the Greeks remember one flood and thereby mistake the exceptional for the definitive.
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How can stories of wonder co-exist with the revelation that people are capable of organised cruelty? Can the moral lessons of folktales guide us through modern political nightmares, or are we doomed to repeat brutality disguised in different rhetoric?
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The Arabian Nights: A Journey Through Fantasy, Inhumanity and Hope
In the tales of the Arabian, Nights, Scheherazade paints the complexities of life and posits ethical solutions to the contemporary issues.
blakandblack.com
December 28, 2025 at 10:58 PM
How can stories of wonder co-exist with the revelation that people are capable of organised cruelty? Can the moral lessons of folktales guide us through modern political nightmares, or are we doomed to repeat brutality disguised in different rhetoric?
blakandblack.com/2025/12/29/t...
blakandblack.com/2025/12/29/t...
How can stories of wonder co-exist with the revelation that people are capable of organised cruelty? Can the moral lessons of folktales guide us through modern political nightmares, or are we doomed to repeat brutality disguised in different rhetoric?
blakandblack.com/2025/12/29/t...
blakandblack.com/2025/12/29/t...
The Arabian Nights: A Journey Through Fantasy, Inhumanity and Hope
In the tales of the Arabian, Nights, Scheherazade paints the complexities of life and posits ethical solutions to the contemporary issues.
blakandblack.com
December 28, 2025 at 10:58 PM
How can stories of wonder co-exist with the revelation that people are capable of organised cruelty? Can the moral lessons of folktales guide us through modern political nightmares, or are we doomed to repeat brutality disguised in different rhetoric?
blakandblack.com/2025/12/29/t...
blakandblack.com/2025/12/29/t...