Jasper
@jaspersilver.bsky.social
If you’ve ever been one to question Australia’s regime of compulsory voting, compare tonight with the recent US election and think why culture war politics may have failed for the NLP…
May 3, 2025 at 12:13 PM
If you’ve ever been one to question Australia’s regime of compulsory voting, compare tonight with the recent US election and think why culture war politics may have failed for the NLP…
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starting to believe that when they built the Large Hadron Collider it warped us into an alternate reality where everything is stupid as fuck
April 15, 2025 at 1:45 AM
starting to believe that when they built the Large Hadron Collider it warped us into an alternate reality where everything is stupid as fuck
I feel like destroying Teslas in art is going to be the Che Guevara poster or Jim Morrison t-shirt of the 2020’s (not that I object…)
Thanks to @paulmmcooper.bsky.social for this; go check out his Fall of Civilisations podcast, it’s mint…
timesofmalta.com/article/mexi...
Thanks to @paulmmcooper.bsky.social for this; go check out his Fall of Civilisations podcast, it’s mint…
timesofmalta.com/article/mexi...
Mexican artist crushes Tesla under giant stone head
Sculptor Chavis Marmol intends to provoke Elon Musk
timesofmalta.com
March 23, 2025 at 3:46 AM
I feel like destroying Teslas in art is going to be the Che Guevara poster or Jim Morrison t-shirt of the 2020’s (not that I object…)
Thanks to @paulmmcooper.bsky.social for this; go check out his Fall of Civilisations podcast, it’s mint…
timesofmalta.com/article/mexi...
Thanks to @paulmmcooper.bsky.social for this; go check out his Fall of Civilisations podcast, it’s mint…
timesofmalta.com/article/mexi...
I really don’t think Trump has a good grasp of American history and its creation myths.
Imagine fighting a war to leave an empire, and then turning around later and saying you want to be an associate member of its inheritor organisation…
www.ft.com/content/8b1f...
Imagine fighting a war to leave an empire, and then turning around later and saying you want to be an associate member of its inheritor organisation…
www.ft.com/content/8b1f...
Trump says he would be happy for US to become ‘associate’ Commonwealth member
US president posted Sun news story that referred to a supposed ‘secret offer’ King Charles is due to extend
www.ft.com
March 22, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I really don’t think Trump has a good grasp of American history and its creation myths.
Imagine fighting a war to leave an empire, and then turning around later and saying you want to be an associate member of its inheritor organisation…
www.ft.com/content/8b1f...
Imagine fighting a war to leave an empire, and then turning around later and saying you want to be an associate member of its inheritor organisation…
www.ft.com/content/8b1f...
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I took the Myers-Briggs personality test, and it said that I am the kind of person who believes in pseudoscience.
Huh, interesting...
Huh, interesting...
March 21, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I took the Myers-Briggs personality test, and it said that I am the kind of person who believes in pseudoscience.
Huh, interesting...
Huh, interesting...
Go see Flow, it is an amazing film; a wondrous experience that will leave you contemplating its dialog-free, visual storytelling long after you walk out of the cinema
youtube.com/watch?v=82WW...
youtube.com/watch?v=82WW...
Flow - Official Trailer
YouTube video by Madman Films
youtube.com
March 16, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Go see Flow, it is an amazing film; a wondrous experience that will leave you contemplating its dialog-free, visual storytelling long after you walk out of the cinema
youtube.com/watch?v=82WW...
youtube.com/watch?v=82WW...
If workers have no say in how an enterprise is run or organised, or what it produces and why, does it even matter who or what owns the enterprise?
youtube.com/shorts/GNnz5...
youtube.com/shorts/GNnz5...
Richard Wolff: State Capitalism in the Soviet Union
YouTube video by Robinson Erhardt
youtube.com
March 12, 2025 at 5:09 AM
If workers have no say in how an enterprise is run or organised, or what it produces and why, does it even matter who or what owns the enterprise?
youtube.com/shorts/GNnz5...
youtube.com/shorts/GNnz5...
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Ketamin Addiction : an illustrated guide
March 12, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Ketamin Addiction : an illustrated guide
Amazing deep analysis of Andor and the modern state by Damien Walter (@damiengwalter.bsky.social)
“The revolution for grown-ups of Andor gives us the mature truth
The Republic is already a corrupt oligarchy
And fascism is implicit in its systems, not just an external evil”
youtu.be/T5eEkYYd0gA?...
“The revolution for grown-ups of Andor gives us the mature truth
The Republic is already a corrupt oligarchy
And fascism is implicit in its systems, not just an external evil”
youtu.be/T5eEkYYd0gA?...
Andor is NOT a revolution against the Empire
YouTube video by Science Fiction with Damien Walter
youtu.be
March 11, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Amazing deep analysis of Andor and the modern state by Damien Walter (@damiengwalter.bsky.social)
“The revolution for grown-ups of Andor gives us the mature truth
The Republic is already a corrupt oligarchy
And fascism is implicit in its systems, not just an external evil”
youtu.be/T5eEkYYd0gA?...
“The revolution for grown-ups of Andor gives us the mature truth
The Republic is already a corrupt oligarchy
And fascism is implicit in its systems, not just an external evil”
youtu.be/T5eEkYYd0gA?...
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The Beginning and End of Philosophy
existentialcomics.com/comic/593
existentialcomics.com/comic/593
March 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
The Beginning and End of Philosophy
existentialcomics.com/comic/593
existentialcomics.com/comic/593
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We have a special word for men like JD Vance in England
Cockwomble
The man is a complete cockwomble
Cockwomble
The man is a complete cockwomble
March 6, 2025 at 10:29 AM
We have a special word for men like JD Vance in England
Cockwomble
The man is a complete cockwomble
Cockwomble
The man is a complete cockwomble
I discovered Ken Russell’s films in university and they remain one of my favourite bodies of work by any film-maker.
Even without the incomparable The Devils, his films run the full gamut of what film can do when the director (mostly) mostly a free hand…
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma...
Even without the incomparable The Devils, his films run the full gamut of what film can do when the director (mostly) mostly a free hand…
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma...
Mark Kermode on… director Ken Russell, the king of cult classics who was so much more than a sensationalist
Half a century on from the sublimely ridiculous Tommy, the passionate abandon that distinguished Russell’s films – from composer biopics to the infamous The Devils, among other bonkers oddities – is n...
www.theguardian.com
March 1, 2025 at 12:17 PM
I discovered Ken Russell’s films in university and they remain one of my favourite bodies of work by any film-maker.
Even without the incomparable The Devils, his films run the full gamut of what film can do when the director (mostly) mostly a free hand…
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma...
Even without the incomparable The Devils, his films run the full gamut of what film can do when the director (mostly) mostly a free hand…
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma...
In which Master Birmingham (@birmo.bsky.social) draws from the great work of English black satire by my favourite misanthrope, the incomparable Jonathan Swift…
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A Modest Proposal.
For Preventing All These Billionaires From Being a Burden to The World, and Ruining Everything.
aliensideboob.substack.com
February 28, 2025 at 4:44 AM
In which Master Birmingham (@birmo.bsky.social) draws from the great work of English black satire by my favourite misanthrope, the incomparable Jonathan Swift…
aliensideboob.substack.com/p/a-modest-p...
aliensideboob.substack.com/p/a-modest-p...
When watching classic Doctor Who it’s fun to contemplate which adventures Mary Whitehouse would have hated.
Who am I kidding, she would have hated them all…
Who am I kidding, she would have hated them all…
February 16, 2025 at 6:23 AM
When watching classic Doctor Who it’s fun to contemplate which adventures Mary Whitehouse would have hated.
Who am I kidding, she would have hated them all…
Who am I kidding, she would have hated them all…
John Birmingham (@birmo.bsky.social) nails the fine are of making deadly serious geo-political commentary funny…
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At least we're not Canadian.
Has anybody checked on Australia’s national security establishment?
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February 14, 2025 at 11:19 AM
John Birmingham (@birmo.bsky.social) nails the fine are of making deadly serious geo-political commentary funny…
aliensideboob.substack.com/p/at-least-w...
aliensideboob.substack.com/p/at-least-w...
While the Cheeto-in-Chief’s brainfart only appears in parentheses for users outside of the US, you can still follow these steps to report the parenthetical element as inaccurate content.
1. Google Gulf of Mexico
2. “Gulf of America" will appear
3. Click on the three dots to the right of “Gulf of America”
4. Select "Send Feedback"
5. Click on "Gulf Of America" text
6. Select "Inaccurate content"
7. Select "Incorrect" and type "It's the Gulf of Mexico!"
You can do it multiple times
2. “Gulf of America" will appear
3. Click on the three dots to the right of “Gulf of America”
4. Select "Send Feedback"
5. Click on "Gulf Of America" text
6. Select "Inaccurate content"
7. Select "Incorrect" and type "It's the Gulf of Mexico!"
You can do it multiple times
February 12, 2025 at 9:43 AM
While the Cheeto-in-Chief’s brainfart only appears in parentheses for users outside of the US, you can still follow these steps to report the parenthetical element as inaccurate content.
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Fantasy without critique is escapism
Fantasy with critique is escape
Fantasy with critique is escape
February 7, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Fantasy without critique is escapism
Fantasy with critique is escape
Fantasy with critique is escape
Could someone pass this on to Albanese and the ALP caucus room.
Enough of the “small target” political tactics, shit big or get off the pot
Enough of the “small target” political tactics, shit big or get off the pot
The problem of Labour now being the Starmer-Party in a few words.
February 4, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Could someone pass this on to Albanese and the ALP caucus room.
Enough of the “small target” political tactics, shit big or get off the pot
Enough of the “small target” political tactics, shit big or get off the pot
“…we live in capitalism, it’s power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.
Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings”
youtu.be/Et9Nf-rsALk?...
Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings”
youtu.be/Et9Nf-rsALk?...
Ursula Le Guin
YouTube video by National Book
youtu.be
January 31, 2025 at 12:08 AM
“…we live in capitalism, it’s power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.
Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings”
youtu.be/Et9Nf-rsALk?...
Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings”
youtu.be/Et9Nf-rsALk?...
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If that sermon was “nasty” then Trump is more of a delicate snowflake than those he rails and stands against.
Why is it that boomers who regularly accuse those who want a kinder, more inclusive society of being weak and out of touch are so easily triggered by requests to be decent human beings?
Why is it that boomers who regularly accuse those who want a kinder, more inclusive society of being weak and out of touch are so easily triggered by requests to be decent human beings?
This week, the bishop of Washington's sermon in front of President Trump urged him to show mercy to LGBTQ+ and migrant communities. Trump condemned it as "nasty" and one Republican said the bishop “should be added to the deportation list”.
Here is the full sermon that enraged Trump and his allies
Here is the full sermon that enraged Trump and his allies
‘Contempt is a dangerous way to lead a country’: here is the sermon that enraged Donald Trump | Mariann Edgar Budde
This week, the Bishop of Washington delivered a sermon in front of President Trump urging him to show mercy towards LGBTQ+ and migrant communities. The president condemned it as ‘nasty’. We reproduce ...
www.theguardian.com
January 25, 2025 at 6:53 AM
If that sermon was “nasty” then Trump is more of a delicate snowflake than those he rails and stands against.
Why is it that boomers who regularly accuse those who want a kinder, more inclusive society of being weak and out of touch are so easily triggered by requests to be decent human beings?
Why is it that boomers who regularly accuse those who want a kinder, more inclusive society of being weak and out of touch are so easily triggered by requests to be decent human beings?
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John Boorman is 92.
In his excellent autobiography, Adventures of a Suburban Boy, he tells a wonderful story about his complicated relationship with Toshiro Mifune making Hell in the Pacific.
In his excellent autobiography, Adventures of a Suburban Boy, he tells a wonderful story about his complicated relationship with Toshiro Mifune making Hell in the Pacific.
January 18, 2025 at 12:32 PM
John Boorman is 92.
In his excellent autobiography, Adventures of a Suburban Boy, he tells a wonderful story about his complicated relationship with Toshiro Mifune making Hell in the Pacific.
In his excellent autobiography, Adventures of a Suburban Boy, he tells a wonderful story about his complicated relationship with Toshiro Mifune making Hell in the Pacific.
Simon’s achievement in creating a magazine news program for kids, that didn’t talk down to them, on a commercial TV station is quite an achievement.
That most news programs aimed at adults can’t manage not dumbing down the content is an ongoing social tragedy
That most news programs aimed at adults can’t manage not dumbing down the content is an ongoing social tragedy
Simon Townsend, star Australian children’s TV presenter, dies aged 79
Simon Townsend, star Australian children’s TV presenter, dies aged 79
Former journalist, who became a household name with Wonder World in the 1980s, died ‘surrounded by writers, actors, activists and Italians’
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January 15, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Simon’s achievement in creating a magazine news program for kids, that didn’t talk down to them, on a commercial TV station is quite an achievement.
That most news programs aimed at adults can’t manage not dumbing down the content is an ongoing social tragedy
That most news programs aimed at adults can’t manage not dumbing down the content is an ongoing social tragedy