Beddy
@lancecalhoon.bsky.social
Aussie dad with Irish streak. Legislative drafter. Whitlamite.
My interests are pretty niche: sports, music, movies, games. GWJ. May contain traces of Partridge.
Walking on Ngunnawal land.
My interests are pretty niche: sports, music, movies, games. GWJ. May contain traces of Partridge.
Walking on Ngunnawal land.
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Beddy
@lancecalhoon.bsky.social
· Oct 3
when you hate the song the DJ is playing, but the fellas are cutting sick on the dance floor
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One of the most interesting aspects of contemporary media discourse is the way that massive popular displays of support for pro-Palestinian and pacifist positions are just ignored by mainstream media. The Gathering for Gaza gig in Melbourne was huge
Fantastic crowd at A Gathering For Gaza Naarm / Melbourne Australia 👏👏👏 💪 #AgatheringForGaza #FreePalestine ✊ 🕊️
January 18, 2026 at 1:34 AM
One of the most interesting aspects of contemporary media discourse is the way that massive popular displays of support for pro-Palestinian and pacifist positions are just ignored by mainstream media. The Gathering for Gaza gig in Melbourne was huge
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imploring people to understand every news story about the CFA is a trojan horse for Victorian liberal party bullshit. Is everyone in the CFA a liberal stooge? No, thats a stupid assertion. Is the CFA a fundamentally political organisation of the liberal party? Yes, this is objective fact.
January 17, 2026 at 10:45 PM
imploring people to understand every news story about the CFA is a trojan horse for Victorian liberal party bullshit. Is everyone in the CFA a liberal stooge? No, thats a stupid assertion. Is the CFA a fundamentally political organisation of the liberal party? Yes, this is objective fact.
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“Those responsible for the climate crisis must be made to pay for the mess they have made,” writes @alexkelly.bsky.social, Director of the Economic Media Centre and a filmmaker, based on Dja Dja Wurrung Country.
Read Alex Kelly’s full piece on The Point: thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
Read Alex Kelly’s full piece on The Point: thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
January 16, 2026 at 1:49 AM
“Those responsible for the climate crisis must be made to pay for the mess they have made,” writes @alexkelly.bsky.social, Director of the Economic Media Centre and a filmmaker, based on Dja Dja Wurrung Country.
Read Alex Kelly’s full piece on The Point: thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
Read Alex Kelly’s full piece on The Point: thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
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Matthew McConaughey is taking a novel legal approach to combat unauthorized artificial-intelligence fakes: trademarking himself.
Exclusive | Matthew McConaughey Trademarks Himself to Fight AI Misuse
Actor plans to use trademarks of himself saying ‘Alright, alright, alright’ and staring at a camera to combat AI fakes in court.
on.wsj.com
January 14, 2026 at 4:52 AM
Matthew McConaughey is taking a novel legal approach to combat unauthorized artificial-intelligence fakes: trademarking himself.
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This is not an 'out there' idea & it's not one, we in Australia, should 'gasp in horror' at, or refuse to consider.
Trump is 'lighting fires' everywhere; at home, thieving Venezuela's oil under the pretence that Maduro's the 'criminal', threatening Greenland & destroying trusted peace pacts. (1/2)
Trump is 'lighting fires' everywhere; at home, thieving Venezuela's oil under the pretence that Maduro's the 'criminal', threatening Greenland & destroying trusted peace pacts. (1/2)
Should the EU form a defensive alliance with China?
We're told we have to placate Trump because we need America's protection from Russia. But Europe has other options for deterrence while it builds sovereign defence.
open.substack.com
January 14, 2026 at 1:05 AM
This is not an 'out there' idea & it's not one, we in Australia, should 'gasp in horror' at, or refuse to consider.
Trump is 'lighting fires' everywhere; at home, thieving Venezuela's oil under the pretence that Maduro's the 'criminal', threatening Greenland & destroying trusted peace pacts. (1/2)
Trump is 'lighting fires' everywhere; at home, thieving Venezuela's oil under the pretence that Maduro's the 'criminal', threatening Greenland & destroying trusted peace pacts. (1/2)
Thinking back to a simpler time*
*Australia’s second innings in Perth, when Travis Head hit Stokes for 17 off his second over and he didn’t bowl for the rest of the day.
*Australia’s second innings in Perth, when Travis Head hit Stokes for 17 off his second over and he didn’t bowl for the rest of the day.
January 12, 2026 at 12:19 AM
Thinking back to a simpler time*
*Australia’s second innings in Perth, when Travis Head hit Stokes for 17 off his second over and he didn’t bowl for the rest of the day.
*Australia’s second innings in Perth, when Travis Head hit Stokes for 17 off his second over and he didn’t bowl for the rest of the day.
Nice work, Indonesia - Australia should too
"First country blocks access to Elon Musk’s Grok AI over sexual deepfakes"
Indonesia said ‘the practice of non-consensual sexual deepfakes’ produced by the AI bot is a ‘serious violation of human rights, dignity, and the security of citizens in the digital space’.
metro.co.uk/2026/01/11/f...
Indonesia said ‘the practice of non-consensual sexual deepfakes’ produced by the AI bot is a ‘serious violation of human rights, dignity, and the security of citizens in the digital space’.
metro.co.uk/2026/01/11/f...
First country blocks access to Elon Musk's Grok AI over sexual deepfakes
metro.co.uk
January 12, 2026 at 12:10 AM
Nice work, Indonesia - Australia should too
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"Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through."
January 3, 2026 at 9:05 PM
"Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through."
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but Australian police don’t need training in bombing all our neighbours and blowing up entire families, their homes, hospitals, ambulances, universities, schools, refugee camps, mosques, churches, bakeries, fishing boats, and food and water distribution points.
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
Israeli government said it is 'willing to assist' Australian police in countering terrorism
The Israeli government has steeply criticised the Albanese government in a letter to the home affairs minister.
www.sbs.com.au
January 3, 2026 at 1:31 AM
but Australian police don’t need training in bombing all our neighbours and blowing up entire families, their homes, hospitals, ambulances, universities, schools, refugee camps, mosques, churches, bakeries, fishing boats, and food and water distribution points.
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
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In 2023 I became obsessed with videos of dads in cargo shortswaiting in parking lots during Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. So when she came to town, I grabbed a camera and headed down to talk to them. I thought it'd be funny. It turned out to be something else entirely.
December 23, 2025 at 9:18 PM
In 2023 I became obsessed with videos of dads in cargo shortswaiting in parking lots during Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. So when she came to town, I grabbed a camera and headed down to talk to them. I thought it'd be funny. It turned out to be something else entirely.
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What, another one of these? You're joking! mrtonymartin.bandcamp.com/album/sizzle...
SIZZLETOWN Goes to Hollywood 2, by Tony Martin's SIZZLETOWN
12 track album
mrtonymartin.bandcamp.com
December 23, 2025 at 7:49 AM
What, another one of these? You're joking! mrtonymartin.bandcamp.com/album/sizzle...
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Holy shit, was googling around to find out if this could possibly be real and came across this Rolling Stone June 2023 story about the EXISTENCE of this letter, but the content wasn’t known — until now www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
December 23, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Holy shit, was googling around to find out if this could possibly be real and came across this Rolling Stone June 2023 story about the EXISTENCE of this letter, but the content wasn’t known — until now www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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[first day as a shepherd]
boss: where are you going?
me: [pointing] star
boss: what? why
me: [shrugging] baby
boss: where are you going?
me: [pointing] star
boss: what? why
me: [shrugging] baby
December 23, 2025 at 1:24 AM
[first day as a shepherd]
boss: where are you going?
me: [pointing] star
boss: what? why
me: [shrugging] baby
boss: where are you going?
me: [pointing] star
boss: what? why
me: [shrugging] baby
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I’ve been in game dev for 26 years and I can’t remember any other time where a specific tech was being insistently and persistently pushed on devs as a group in the public sphere.
Why would it? Cui bono? Why would any given dev have an interest in other devs using tech they don’t have a stake in?
Why would it? Cui bono? Why would any given dev have an interest in other devs using tech they don’t have a stake in?
My conspiracy theory about genAI in games blowing up more and more by big companies is that they’ve all got a ton of investors insisting they use genAI tools otherwise they(investors) won’t be able to bankroll em anymore
December 22, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I’ve been in game dev for 26 years and I can’t remember any other time where a specific tech was being insistently and persistently pushed on devs as a group in the public sphere.
Why would it? Cui bono? Why would any given dev have an interest in other devs using tech they don’t have a stake in?
Why would it? Cui bono? Why would any given dev have an interest in other devs using tech they don’t have a stake in?
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So apparently there are many Epstein files on the DOJ website where you can highlight the redacted text, copy it, and paste it onto another document to read the redactions
December 23, 2025 at 12:39 AM
So apparently there are many Epstein files on the DOJ website where you can highlight the redacted text, copy it, and paste it onto another document to read the redactions
Mania for Subjugation III
Podcast Episode · Dan Carlin's Hardcore History · 22/12/2025 · 4h 14m
podcasts.apple.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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they didn't need AI to make Silksong, it just needed some deeply insane guys to have a blank check for living expenses until their next thing was done, I think we should try doing more of that instead
December 22, 2025 at 12:29 AM
they didn't need AI to make Silksong, it just needed some deeply insane guys to have a blank check for living expenses until their next thing was done, I think we should try doing more of that instead
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Can we all agree now that conservative politics and most of our political media are filled with grubs? Putting the dead bodies of a terrorist attach through a mincer to make political and clickbait sausages. Sorry - your editors, leaders and advisors told you to? That just makes you a coward on top.
December 22, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Can we all agree now that conservative politics and most of our political media are filled with grubs? Putting the dead bodies of a terrorist attach through a mincer to make political and clickbait sausages. Sorry - your editors, leaders and advisors told you to? That just makes you a coward on top.
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All the Odyssey movie “inaccurate” versus “who cares” arguments are both fun and exhausting. But the trailer shows them rowing a clinker built Viking ship. That is like depicting Columbus crossing the Atlantic in a Chinese junk.
December 22, 2025 at 10:50 PM
All the Odyssey movie “inaccurate” versus “who cares” arguments are both fun and exhausting. But the trailer shows them rowing a clinker built Viking ship. That is like depicting Columbus crossing the Atlantic in a Chinese junk.
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Australians: we don't like guns. This is excellent.
December 22, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Australians: we don't like guns. This is excellent.
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every mainstream outlet has completely buried the lede on 7 men whose cars were rammed by NSW Police in Liverpool. They are all released without charge into the community. Not even ASIO, with its extensive powers to detain, applied to keep them incarcerated.
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
Seven men with possible links to extremism have been released. Here's what we know
Police ruled out any links with the Bondi Beach terror attack despite concerns the men were travelling there.
www.sbs.com.au
December 19, 2025 at 6:24 AM
every mainstream outlet has completely buried the lede on 7 men whose cars were rammed by NSW Police in Liverpool. They are all released without charge into the community. Not even ASIO, with its extensive powers to detain, applied to keep them incarcerated.
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
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Hope there’s some enterprising games journalist out there interested in putting down a couple thousand words about the death of the monoculture and the flop of King of Meat, because I’m sure there’s a story there, but I lack the willingness and motivation to give it the deep dive it deserves.
December 19, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Hope there’s some enterprising games journalist out there interested in putting down a couple thousand words about the death of the monoculture and the flop of King of Meat, because I’m sure there’s a story there, but I lack the willingness and motivation to give it the deep dive it deserves.
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There's a dark triad for predatory scammer types: refusing to pay their bills; constantly name-dropping and social-climbing in pursuit of new marks; escalating depravity as if in an attempt to see if there's anything they can't get away with. The problem is that millions of Americans are like this.
December 19, 2025 at 4:24 AM
There's a dark triad for predatory scammer types: refusing to pay their bills; constantly name-dropping and social-climbing in pursuit of new marks; escalating depravity as if in an attempt to see if there's anything they can't get away with. The problem is that millions of Americans are like this.