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@mediaactive.bsky.social
Former ABC broadcast journalist, presenter. Pioneered Australian *national* radio talkback on ABC Radio National. Podcaster: https://rss.com/podcasts/transitzone/
THEMES: DEMOCRACY/JOURNALISM FUTURES/INTERVIEWING/AUSTRALIAN REPUBLIC/WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHY.
THEMES: DEMOCRACY/JOURNALISM FUTURES/INTERVIEWING/AUSTRALIAN REPUBLIC/WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHY.
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MEET WILL MATTHYSEN: CLOCKMAKING VIRTUOSO | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
We humans live within a triad of physical phenomena: SPACE, MOVEMENT and TIME. The three are intertwined in multiple ways and experiences. But TIME remains the most mysterious.The revolution of our pl...
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PODCAST “Meet Will Matthysen: Clockmaking Virtuoso”. #clocks #time #art #woodworking rss.com/podcasts/tra...
It's no longer left versus right or even Democrat versus Republican.
It’s now democracy versus oligarchy. Freedom versus dictatorship. Right versus wrong.
Millions are awakening to this new reality — and they're speaking up.
The sleeping giant of America is roaring.
It’s now democracy versus oligarchy. Freedom versus dictatorship. Right versus wrong.
Millions are awakening to this new reality — and they're speaking up.
The sleeping giant of America is roaring.
January 2, 2026 at 6:28 AM
OPINION “For forty years, sensible, hard-headed, experienced operatives like @albomp.bsky.social have become what they have always said they hated. ‘I fight Tories, that’s what I do,’ has become ‘I am a Tory in all-but name.’” 2026 promises to be a doozy here in Australia & geopolitically. #Taiwan
"We live inside a billionaire-operated media landscape where every little & big thing that happens is part of a struggle to shape what we think & how we act and most of the time we don’t realise how we are being played. And look, even realising it doesn’t help."
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In your heart of hearts, you know this wrong
So what?
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January 2, 2026 at 6:22 AM
OPINION “For forty years, sensible, hard-headed, experienced operatives like @albomp.bsky.social have become what they have always said they hated. ‘I fight Tories, that’s what I do,’ has become ‘I am a Tory in all-but name.’” 2026 promises to be a doozy here in Australia & geopolitically. #Taiwan
OPINION “Italian government has launched a full-scale judicial assault on the Palestinian solidarity movement. The targets are no longer just individual voices of dissent; they are the very infrastructure of Palestinian survival.” #Italy #Israel #Gaza #fascism www.counterpunch.org/2025/12/31/o...
Operation Domino: Italy’s War on Palestinian Charity and the Criminalization of Survival
In a chilling escalation of state repression, the Italian government has launched a full-scale judicial assault on the Palestinian solidarity movement.
www.counterpunch.org
January 2, 2026 at 2:47 AM
OPINION “Italian government has launched a full-scale judicial assault on the Palestinian solidarity movement. The targets are no longer just individual voices of dissent; they are the very infrastructure of Palestinian survival.” #Italy #Israel #Gaza #fascism www.counterpunch.org/2025/12/31/o...
Gill on Epstein Files: I reached out to sources and they say that not only did New York send over everything they had in March, but that the entire review process—using roughly a thousand analysts from the FBI’s Information Management Division—was specifically to review the files from New York
January 2, 2026 at 2:41 AM
“Many younger photographers are picking up affordable vintage cameras, and many older photographers are dusting off their old film cameras. It’s not surprising then there’s been a huge revival for shooting black and white film, which has that nostalgic tactile look”. #photography flip.it/kr9QVx
Why Black and White Photography Is Making a Comeback
In a world oversaturated with colorful images showcasing the latest trends in color editing effects and presets, I’m seeing a quiet and growing resurgence of black and white photography. Why is that? ...
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January 2, 2026 at 2:36 AM
“Many younger photographers are picking up affordable vintage cameras, and many older photographers are dusting off their old film cameras. It’s not surprising then there’s been a huge revival for shooting black and white film, which has that nostalgic tactile look”. #photography flip.it/kr9QVx
“I don’t think that we should have billionaires because, frankly, it is so much money in a moment of such #inequality, and ultimately, what we need more of is equality across our city and across our state and across our country.” @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social #USA
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‘I don’t think we should have billionaires’: mayor Zohran Mamdani in his own words
Democratic socialist mayor led historic push to lead New York, speaking on immigration, Trump and subway burritos
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January 1, 2026 at 11:54 PM
“I don’t think that we should have billionaires because, frankly, it is so much money in a moment of such #inequality, and ultimately, what we need more of is equality across our city and across our state and across our country.” @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social #USA
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The pressure on @australianlabor.bsky.social @albomp.bsky.social govt to have a #Bondi Royal Commission is misguided. The conversation is lopsided. There was huge sympathy & goodwill towards #Israel after October 7. Then the corrupt, fascist #Netanyahu regime slaughtered & scorched the earth. #Gaza
OPINION "’There is an important ethical distinction between the justification for going to war – what is called in Latin jus ad bellum – and the moral justification of how the war is conducted – jus in bello.” #Israel #Gaza #genocide #ethics flip.it/XbOJwJ
War ethicist Michael Walzer, Zionist to his core, cautiously joins Israel's critics
Michael Walzer Supported Israel After October 7. Now He Says Its "Crazed Response of Revenge" Threatens Its Future and Urges Israelis to Face the Injustices Done in Their Name
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January 1, 2026 at 11:15 PM
The pressure on @australianlabor.bsky.social @albomp.bsky.social govt to have a #Bondi Royal Commission is misguided. The conversation is lopsided. There was huge sympathy & goodwill towards #Israel after October 7. Then the corrupt, fascist #Netanyahu regime slaughtered & scorched the earth. #Gaza
OPINION "’There is an important ethical distinction between the justification for going to war – what is called in Latin jus ad bellum – and the moral justification of how the war is conducted – jus in bello.” #Israel #Gaza #genocide #ethics flip.it/XbOJwJ
War ethicist Michael Walzer, Zionist to his core, cautiously joins Israel's critics
Michael Walzer Supported Israel After October 7. Now He Says Its "Crazed Response of Revenge" Threatens Its Future and Urges Israelis to Face the Injustices Done in Their Name
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January 1, 2026 at 9:58 PM
OPINION "’There is an important ethical distinction between the justification for going to war – what is called in Latin jus ad bellum – and the moral justification of how the war is conducted – jus in bello.” #Israel #Gaza #genocide #ethics flip.it/XbOJwJ
OPINION “when we rediscovered classical sculpture in the Renaissance, we took the monochrome aesthetic to be intentional. As a result, we internalized a deep-seated attachment to an unblemished white image of Greek and Roman art.” The influence of classical #art?
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Were classical statues painted horribly? - Works in Progress Magazine
Many claim that modern viewers dislike painted reconstructions of Greek and Roman statues because our taste differs from theirs.
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January 1, 2026 at 9:51 PM
OPINION “when we rediscovered classical sculpture in the Renaissance, we took the monochrome aesthetic to be intentional. As a result, we internalized a deep-seated attachment to an unblemished white image of Greek and Roman art.” The influence of classical #art?
worksinprogress.co/issue/were-c...
worksinprogress.co/issue/were-c...
OPINION “Book sales fell in the first half of 2025, and while #AI continued to erode our ability to write and think for ourselves, tireless (and tiring) discourse raged on about whether men have been forever exiled from the kingdom of letters.” #books #writing www.vulture.com/article/book...
28 Book Industry Professionals Get Candid About The Year in Books
“Nobody wants to write narrative anymore, but that’s where the fairy-monster-sex books are running laps around the litfic authors.”
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January 1, 2026 at 9:34 PM
OPINION “Book sales fell in the first half of 2025, and while #AI continued to erode our ability to write and think for ourselves, tireless (and tiring) discourse raged on about whether men have been forever exiled from the kingdom of letters.” #books #writing www.vulture.com/article/book...
PODCAST “Meet Will Matthysen: Clockmaking Virtuoso”. #clocks #time #art #woodworking rss.com/podcasts/tra...
MEET WILL MATTHYSEN: CLOCKMAKING VIRTUOSO | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
We humans live within a triad of physical phenomena: SPACE, MOVEMENT and TIME. The three are intertwined in multiple ways and experiences. But TIME remains the most mysterious.The revolution of our pl...
rss.com
January 1, 2026 at 9:20 PM
“Mr. Lutnick, Mr. Witkoff and the president’s #AI and crypto czar, David Sacks, have been pushing for the sale of U.S. chips to nations that are simultaneously negotiating with the business partners and families of Mr. Lutnick, Mr. Witkoff and Mr. #Trump.” #USA #corruption #fascism
January 1, 2026 at 9:18 PM
“Mr. Lutnick, Mr. Witkoff and the president’s #AI and crypto czar, David Sacks, have been pushing for the sale of U.S. chips to nations that are simultaneously negotiating with the business partners and families of Mr. Lutnick, Mr. Witkoff and Mr. #Trump.” #USA #corruption #fascism
“Since his return to office, President #Trump and his family have engaged in a moneymaking campaign like none in modern American history.” The Huckster does his self-infatuated venality & #corruption in plain sight. Part of the insidious “normalising” process. #USA www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Trump’s Tangled Web of Deal-Making, Policy and Riches
The president, his family and some of their closest associates have engaged in a sprawling campaign of deals that stretches across industries and the globe.
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January 1, 2026 at 9:12 PM
“Since his return to office, President #Trump and his family have engaged in a moneymaking campaign like none in modern American history.” The Huckster does his self-infatuated venality & #corruption in plain sight. Part of the insidious “normalising” process. #USA www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
OPINION “As Kennedy said at Amherst, ‘The artist, however faithful to his personal vision of reality, becomes the last champion of the individual mind and sensibility against an intrusive society and an officious state.’” #Trump #fascism #art flip.it/iPhQ4h
Trump’s cultural coup is doomed to fail
Artists are protesting Trump's Kennedy Center takeover — and creating art in defiance of his repression
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January 1, 2026 at 8:51 PM
OPINION “As Kennedy said at Amherst, ‘The artist, however faithful to his personal vision of reality, becomes the last champion of the individual mind and sensibility against an intrusive society and an officious state.’” #Trump #fascism #art flip.it/iPhQ4h
The #USA has a convicted felon & ajudicated sexual abuser as their president. He rants & rages continuously spewing lies, #racism, self-infatuated grandiosity. Jack Smith lays out his #January6 “self-coup” culpabilities. Read his deposition. #ruleoflaw #Trump #fascism www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
January 1, 2026 at 10:30 AM
The #USA has a convicted felon & ajudicated sexual abuser as their president. He rants & rages continuously spewing lies, #racism, self-infatuated grandiosity. Jack Smith lays out his #January6 “self-coup” culpabilities. Read his deposition. #ruleoflaw #Trump #fascism www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
unvarnished gutter racism and Nazism from the president. a disgrace to our country.
January 1, 2026 at 10:23 AM
“The C.I.A. has determined that #Ukraine did not target President Vladimir V. #Putin of Russia or one of his residences in an attack this week”. Well, Duh. A small subset of the #propaganda war to coincide with Zelenskyy going to Mar-a-Lago. Seemed to suck Trump in? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/u...
Ukraine Did Not Target Putin’s Home, C.I.A. Finds
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January 1, 2026 at 9:52 AM
“The C.I.A. has determined that #Ukraine did not target President Vladimir V. #Putin of Russia or one of his residences in an attack this week”. Well, Duh. A small subset of the #propaganda war to coincide with Zelenskyy going to Mar-a-Lago. Seemed to suck Trump in? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/u...
“Republican representative Lauren Boebert has fired back at Donald #Trump for vetoing a bill that would have funded a drinking water project in her Colorado district, implying the president was playing at political retaliation.” #GOP #democracy #USA #MAGA www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Lauren Boebert claims Trump’s veto of safe drinking water bill is retaliation
Colorado lawmaker, who pushed for Epstein files release, points to bill’s unanimous passage through US House and Senate
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January 1, 2026 at 8:47 AM
“Republican representative Lauren Boebert has fired back at Donald #Trump for vetoing a bill that would have funded a drinking water project in her Colorado district, implying the president was playing at political retaliation.” #GOP #democracy #USA #MAGA www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
As the digital revolution, with its many modes & devices, continues its unfurling, we can see handwriting is already a human skill being eclipsed. It involves a fundamentally different process & cognition from tapping a keyboard (or orally instructing a digital assistant). #writing flip.it/uH_0RC
People Who Still Write Everything Down By Hand Usually Have These 4 Increasingly Rare Traits
Writing things down isn't so common in the digital age we live in, but science shows there are major advantages to doing so. If you like putting pen to paper, here are four rare traits you likely poss...
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January 1, 2026 at 8:42 AM
As the digital revolution, with its many modes & devices, continues its unfurling, we can see handwriting is already a human skill being eclipsed. It involves a fundamentally different process & cognition from tapping a keyboard (or orally instructing a digital assistant). #writing flip.it/uH_0RC
“It wasn't the technology itself that shocked us. It was the creeping realisation that most people genuinely don't care whether what they're consuming was made by a human or a machine.” Nor apparently how crappy the images, sounds, writing generated via generative #AI are. 💀SLOP💀 flip.it/NPAh4K
The wildest AI art moments of the year
2025 was the year AI stopped playing nice, and most people didn't care if things were real or not.
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January 1, 2026 at 8:08 AM
“It wasn't the technology itself that shocked us. It was the creeping realisation that most people genuinely don't care whether what they're consuming was made by a human or a machine.” Nor apparently how crappy the images, sounds, writing generated via generative #AI are. 💀SLOP💀 flip.it/NPAh4K