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@johnalees.bsky.social
Slightly less than ordinary person, hailing from Magandjin in so called Australia.
Lover of art and music.
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Lover of art and music.
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@johnalees.bsky.social
· Nov 29
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Keep bsky accessible for everyone.
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My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
November 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
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Ableist/saneist slurs against people you don't like are a lazy copout from actually naming the causes of problems
November 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Ableist/saneist slurs against people you don't like are a lazy copout from actually naming the causes of problems
Qld. We're going to violate the human rights act and lock up kids to pander to the moral panic that the Murdoch press has whipped into a frenzy.
Victoria. Hold my VB.
Victoria. Hold my VB.
📢 Offenders as young as 14 face life in jail under Premier Jacinta Allan’s plan to enforce “adult time for violent crime”, including home invasions, carjackings and armed robbery.
Children to be tried as adults in youth justice overhaul
www.smh.com.au
November 11, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Qld. We're going to violate the human rights act and lock up kids to pander to the moral panic that the Murdoch press has whipped into a frenzy.
Victoria. Hold my VB.
Victoria. Hold my VB.
The robot has now brought shame to the Motherland.
It will probably fall out of a window very shortly from now.
It will probably fall out of a window very shortly from now.
Russia presented its human-like AI robot. It fell down as it walked onto the stage.
November 11, 2025 at 11:07 PM
The robot has now brought shame to the Motherland.
It will probably fall out of a window very shortly from now.
It will probably fall out of a window very shortly from now.
Interesting thread.
Siegfried Sassoon, J.R.R. Tolkien, Mosab Abu Toha, Pramoedya Ananta Toer, and Usmar Ismail shared a thing: grounded, realistic depiction of war impacts and its subsequent disillusionment in modern era, forcing us to reexamine the fervor of "war glory". 🧵1/6
#TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday
#TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday
November 11, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Interesting thread.
Once again seemingly proving the notion that the least christian people are conservative christians.
If you talk about forgiving or cancelling debts nowadays, you may face a variety of insults from conservatives
But it is something built into Biblical law. Maybe those conservatives need to read a book about the history of Debt.
But it is something built into Biblical law. Maybe those conservatives need to read a book about the history of Debt.
November 11, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Once again seemingly proving the notion that the least christian people are conservative christians.
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Happy 50th anniversary of the day Australia came fully under the US' imperial control
Whitlam Dismissal take
The greatest achievement of the Dismissal has been the crushing of the ALP’s ambition to actually bring a better world into being.
Hawke sealed the deal by making the mark of success decent management of a capitalist economy.
Now it’s just ambition to be in government.
The greatest achievement of the Dismissal has been the crushing of the ALP’s ambition to actually bring a better world into being.
Hawke sealed the deal by making the mark of success decent management of a capitalist economy.
Now it’s just ambition to be in government.
November 11, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Happy 50th anniversary of the day Australia came fully under the US' imperial control
Turntable working.
Currently playing the B side of Blow By Blow by Jeff Beck.
Produced by George Martin and it fucking sounds like it too. All the instruments have space to breathe and the sound just has this great depth of field.
And that's before you get to the music. So good.
Currently playing the B side of Blow By Blow by Jeff Beck.
Produced by George Martin and it fucking sounds like it too. All the instruments have space to breathe and the sound just has this great depth of field.
And that's before you get to the music. So good.
November 11, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Turntable working.
Currently playing the B side of Blow By Blow by Jeff Beck.
Produced by George Martin and it fucking sounds like it too. All the instruments have space to breathe and the sound just has this great depth of field.
And that's before you get to the music. So good.
Currently playing the B side of Blow By Blow by Jeff Beck.
Produced by George Martin and it fucking sounds like it too. All the instruments have space to breathe and the sound just has this great depth of field.
And that's before you get to the music. So good.
Generally recovering well enough from this stupid herniated cervical disc. But today the neuropathy in my left arm is especially annoying me. Time for Lyrica and codeine and a lie down for a while
November 11, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Generally recovering well enough from this stupid herniated cervical disc. But today the neuropathy in my left arm is especially annoying me. Time for Lyrica and codeine and a lie down for a while
This piece of shit probably learned handing out sweets from driving round in a windowless van near achools.
Ben Gvir passes out sweets to Knesset members after the first reading for the new law to execute Palestinian prisoners is approved.
November 11, 2025 at 1:05 AM
This piece of shit probably learned handing out sweets from driving round in a windowless van near achools.
As well as being one of the funniest and best shows that a teenage me could have hoped to have seen on TV in the mid 1980s.
I can still remember a few of the Balowski soliloquies.
I can still remember a few of the Balowski soliloquies.
On 9 November, 1982, the alternative comedy sitcom The Young Ones debuted on the BBC.
I have argued that watching this show gives in a great historical insight into Britain during the early years of Margaret Thatcher’s Prime Ministership.
hatfulofhistory.com/2014/06/10/i...
I have argued that watching this show gives in a great historical insight into Britain during the early years of Margaret Thatcher’s Prime Ministership.
hatfulofhistory.com/2014/06/10/i...
November 10, 2025 at 4:57 AM
As well as being one of the funniest and best shows that a teenage me could have hoped to have seen on TV in the mid 1980s.
I can still remember a few of the Balowski soliloquies.
I can still remember a few of the Balowski soliloquies.
Made some progress yesterday getting this 35 year old turntable playing properly. Pulled the bottom off and got some oil into the motor and now it spins at proper speed. Original rubber slip mat disintegrated, so I need to replace that. But it will be nice to listen to vinyl again.
November 9, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Made some progress yesterday getting this 35 year old turntable playing properly. Pulled the bottom off and got some oil into the motor and now it spins at proper speed. Original rubber slip mat disintegrated, so I need to replace that. But it will be nice to listen to vinyl again.
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WHAT A SPIDER!!! 🤯🤯
BEHOLD, one of the coolest arachnids in the world, the Long-horned Spiny Orb Spider (Macracantha arcuata)! 🕷😍
Found in the rainforests of SE Asia, these magnificent beasts are found usually at head-height in a web they’ve made to catch flying prey!🐞🕸️
BEHOLD, one of the coolest arachnids in the world, the Long-horned Spiny Orb Spider (Macracantha arcuata)! 🕷😍
Found in the rainforests of SE Asia, these magnificent beasts are found usually at head-height in a web they’ve made to catch flying prey!🐞🕸️
November 9, 2025 at 9:48 AM
WHAT A SPIDER!!! 🤯🤯
BEHOLD, one of the coolest arachnids in the world, the Long-horned Spiny Orb Spider (Macracantha arcuata)! 🕷😍
Found in the rainforests of SE Asia, these magnificent beasts are found usually at head-height in a web they’ve made to catch flying prey!🐞🕸️
BEHOLD, one of the coolest arachnids in the world, the Long-horned Spiny Orb Spider (Macracantha arcuata)! 🕷😍
Found in the rainforests of SE Asia, these magnificent beasts are found usually at head-height in a web they’ve made to catch flying prey!🐞🕸️
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Lots of NSN were face out yesterday but at least one seemed to be trying to retreat inside his bucket hat. Does Oscar Tuckfield not want his colleagues at the law firm knowing how he spends his weekends?
November 9, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Lots of NSN were face out yesterday but at least one seemed to be trying to retreat inside his bucket hat. Does Oscar Tuckfield not want his colleagues at the law firm knowing how he spends his weekends?
One for people on Gadigal land to avoid.
17/ > long history of determined opposition.
A trivial example: the leader of the NSN in NSW is Jack Eltis.
He runs a business.
Don't use it.
jeltisac.com
A trivial example: the leader of the NSN in NSW is Jack Eltis.
He runs a business.
Don't use it.
jeltisac.com
J Eltis Air Conditioning and Electrical
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November 9, 2025 at 7:01 AM
One for people on Gadigal land to avoid.
Came home at lunch and managed to fall asleep. Completely slept through Miss 15 managing to get bitten on the inner thigh by the dachshund in its quest to bite her friend.
November 9, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Came home at lunch and managed to fall asleep. Completely slept through Miss 15 managing to get bitten on the inner thigh by the dachshund in its quest to bite her friend.
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automated content moderation is impossible to get right or even do reasonably well.
women *especially* get the worst of this when it comes to automated image analysis because of the ways those systems are implicitly biased to associate female bodies with sex basically any time a curve can be seen.
women *especially* get the worst of this when it comes to automated image analysis because of the ways those systems are implicitly biased to associate female bodies with sex basically any time a curve can be seen.
November 9, 2025 at 3:59 AM
automated content moderation is impossible to get right or even do reasonably well.
women *especially* get the worst of this when it comes to automated image analysis because of the ways those systems are implicitly biased to associate female bodies with sex basically any time a curve can be seen.
women *especially* get the worst of this when it comes to automated image analysis because of the ways those systems are implicitly biased to associate female bodies with sex basically any time a curve can be seen.
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Good morning #auspol
The NAZIS decided to get all their pretty little faces out for their most recent photo op, so it's time for a game of some good old fashion name and shame!
If you have any info on these losers, please send to:
thewhiterosesociety@protonmail.com
#FUCKNAZIS
The NAZIS decided to get all their pretty little faces out for their most recent photo op, so it's time for a game of some good old fashion name and shame!
If you have any info on these losers, please send to:
thewhiterosesociety@protonmail.com
#FUCKNAZIS
National Socialist Network rallied with police permission at NSW Parliament. The state remains ineffective in responding to the advancement of neo-Nazi groups. Here are their faces sent to us by community members - help us ID them!
write.as/thewhiterose...
write.as/thewhiterose...
Do you know these nazis?
Today, Saturday November 8 2025, NSW National Socialist Network (NSN) members held an antisemitic rally outside NSW Parliament House un...
write.as
November 8, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Good morning #auspol
The NAZIS decided to get all their pretty little faces out for their most recent photo op, so it's time for a game of some good old fashion name and shame!
If you have any info on these losers, please send to:
thewhiterosesociety@protonmail.com
#FUCKNAZIS
The NAZIS decided to get all their pretty little faces out for their most recent photo op, so it's time for a game of some good old fashion name and shame!
If you have any info on these losers, please send to:
thewhiterosesociety@protonmail.com
#FUCKNAZIS
Managed to burn my fried egg this morning. Ergo I just had some bacon in a toasted sandwich (not a toastie). Bacon was a nice balance of crispy bits and some soft fatty pieces. A good dollop of HP brown sauce. And finished off with a coffee. Just what I needed it turns out.
November 8, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Managed to burn my fried egg this morning. Ergo I just had some bacon in a toasted sandwich (not a toastie). Bacon was a nice balance of crispy bits and some soft fatty pieces. A good dollop of HP brown sauce. And finished off with a coffee. Just what I needed it turns out.
If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it
November 8, 2025 at 9:48 PM
If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it
Not sure Paul Kelly has written anything great for the last 25 years.
But I guess we'll never know what Lennon would have come up with at 70.
But I guess we'll never know what Lennon would have come up with at 70.
Paul Kelly: ‘Imagine by John Lennon is probably one of the worst songs ever written. I can’t stand it’
Paul Kelly: ‘Imagine by John Lennon is probably one of the worst songs ever written. I can’t stand it’
The legendary Australian singer on bad songs, good advice, disastrous gigs and why he feels lucky to reach 70
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Your new album is called Seventy. You are 70 years old. And I hear you like the number 70.
It’s a biblical number. It’s a very pleasing number to me. I like the sound of it. Turning 70 feels like a real marker. I wouldn’t say it’s an achievement, but I must have had my fair share of luck to reach 70. I was pretty reckless and I took risks – so I feel lucky to reach 70. Everything else after this is just extra. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Not sure Paul Kelly has written anything great for the last 25 years.
But I guess we'll never know what Lennon would have come up with at 70.
But I guess we'll never know what Lennon would have come up with at 70.
He's such a sad, pathetic man.
November 8, 2025 at 9:30 PM
He's such a sad, pathetic man.
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It also includes this banger of a William S Burroughs quote:
‘What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and shits quantity.’
‘What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and shits quantity.’
November 8, 2025 at 9:32 AM
It also includes this banger of a William S Burroughs quote:
‘What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and shits quantity.’
‘What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and shits quantity.’