Kwelaman
@kwelaman.bsky.social
Writing essays (wish I could be like Clive James), read (mostly fiction, but also essays), football (the real type) and rugby, Coursera and all the courses available, music of all types, especially when the lyrics are good
Making another appeal for progressive minds who would nominate fin next year's Victorian state elections.
I intend to stand as an independent, but it is really hard to get a message out alone.
I'm testing out whether there is a chance of a network of independents.
Rough manifesto would be:
I intend to stand as an independent, but it is really hard to get a message out alone.
I'm testing out whether there is a chance of a network of independents.
Rough manifesto would be:
December 9, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Making another appeal for progressive minds who would nominate fin next year's Victorian state elections.
I intend to stand as an independent, but it is really hard to get a message out alone.
I'm testing out whether there is a chance of a network of independents.
Rough manifesto would be:
I intend to stand as an independent, but it is really hard to get a message out alone.
I'm testing out whether there is a chance of a network of independents.
Rough manifesto would be:
To Melburnians, who like me, are sick of screaming at the sky.
Vic state elections are in Nov 2026. I am going to stand in whatever capacity I can but it's hard to get a message out as a solo.
Are there any progressive thinking Victorians out there who'll join me in a coalition of independents?
Vic state elections are in Nov 2026. I am going to stand in whatever capacity I can but it's hard to get a message out as a solo.
Are there any progressive thinking Victorians out there who'll join me in a coalition of independents?
December 8, 2025 at 7:04 AM
To Melburnians, who like me, are sick of screaming at the sky.
Vic state elections are in Nov 2026. I am going to stand in whatever capacity I can but it's hard to get a message out as a solo.
Are there any progressive thinking Victorians out there who'll join me in a coalition of independents?
Vic state elections are in Nov 2026. I am going to stand in whatever capacity I can but it's hard to get a message out as a solo.
Are there any progressive thinking Victorians out there who'll join me in a coalition of independents?
I re-discovered this gem from Mark Twain, America's greatest writer.
www.online-literature.com/twain/2854/
www.online-literature.com/twain/2854/
The War Prayer by Mark Twain
www.online-literature.com
December 7, 2025 at 9:45 PM
I re-discovered this gem from Mark Twain, America's greatest writer.
www.online-literature.com/twain/2854/
www.online-literature.com/twain/2854/
The internet has a lot of smart stuff and a lot of incredibly stupid stuff on it. AI creatures trawl the internet to "educate" themselves without knowing which is which.
How can we be surprised when it produces crap?
And we think AI teachers and companions are acceptable?
Maybe we really are doomed.
How can we be surprised when it produces crap?
And we think AI teachers and companions are acceptable?
Maybe we really are doomed.
October 31, 2025 at 10:52 PM
The internet has a lot of smart stuff and a lot of incredibly stupid stuff on it. AI creatures trawl the internet to "educate" themselves without knowing which is which.
How can we be surprised when it produces crap?
And we think AI teachers and companions are acceptable?
Maybe we really are doomed.
How can we be surprised when it produces crap?
And we think AI teachers and companions are acceptable?
Maybe we really are doomed.
Is it just me or does it seem paradoxical that societies with a communal outlook tolerate and accept individuals' differences but individualistic societies despise those who are different?
October 31, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Is it just me or does it seem paradoxical that societies with a communal outlook tolerate and accept individuals' differences but individualistic societies despise those who are different?
October 20, 2025 at 5:17 AM
So I'm finding it very difficult to get away from all the apps and social media owned and controlled by billionaires. But I'm just saying:
monnett.social
monnett.social
Home - monnett
monnett.social
October 15, 2025 at 10:26 PM
So I'm finding it very difficult to get away from all the apps and social media owned and controlled by billionaires. But I'm just saying:
monnett.social
monnett.social
We all need to remember something about people to understand the world today
The Stanford Prison Experiment
exhibits.stanford.edu/spe/browse/v...
Milgram's shock box
youtu.be/Kzd6Ew3TraA
California's Third Wave.
www.historicmysteries.com/history/thir...
The Stanford Prison Experiment
exhibits.stanford.edu/spe/browse/v...
Milgram's shock box
youtu.be/Kzd6Ew3TraA
California's Third Wave.
www.historicmysteries.com/history/thir...
exhibits.stanford.edu
October 5, 2025 at 12:41 AM
We all need to remember something about people to understand the world today
The Stanford Prison Experiment
exhibits.stanford.edu/spe/browse/v...
Milgram's shock box
youtu.be/Kzd6Ew3TraA
California's Third Wave.
www.historicmysteries.com/history/thir...
The Stanford Prison Experiment
exhibits.stanford.edu/spe/browse/v...
Milgram's shock box
youtu.be/Kzd6Ew3TraA
California's Third Wave.
www.historicmysteries.com/history/thir...
Football ("soccer" to some) fans who plan to visit the US for the World Cup next year better start preparing themselves mentally and physically for American hospitality. Sports fans wanting to attend the Olympics in LA in 2028 too.
September 30, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Football ("soccer" to some) fans who plan to visit the US for the World Cup next year better start preparing themselves mentally and physically for American hospitality. Sports fans wanting to attend the Olympics in LA in 2028 too.
So are we going to continue being typically apathetic, or are we going to flood the streets when the meatheads run one of their white men rallies? The rest of us, especially women, have a lot to lose if these idiots end up in power in Australia, you only have to see Trump;s UN speech to see that
September 24, 2025 at 11:11 PM
So are we going to continue being typically apathetic, or are we going to flood the streets when the meatheads run one of their white men rallies? The rest of us, especially women, have a lot to lose if these idiots end up in power in Australia, you only have to see Trump;s UN speech to see that
FFS @albomp.bsky.social
When will you realise that Trump is not interested in you? When will you face up to the fact that America is not Australia's friend any more (if it ever was).
Just stop crawling after this corrupt ass, it's diminishing all Australians.
And dump AUKUS.
When will you realise that Trump is not interested in you? When will you face up to the fact that America is not Australia's friend any more (if it ever was).
Just stop crawling after this corrupt ass, it's diminishing all Australians.
And dump AUKUS.
September 22, 2025 at 10:11 PM
FFS @albomp.bsky.social
When will you realise that Trump is not interested in you? When will you face up to the fact that America is not Australia's friend any more (if it ever was).
Just stop crawling after this corrupt ass, it's diminishing all Australians.
And dump AUKUS.
When will you realise that Trump is not interested in you? When will you face up to the fact that America is not Australia's friend any more (if it ever was).
Just stop crawling after this corrupt ass, it's diminishing all Australians.
And dump AUKUS.
Billions sunk into a bad treaty agreed by a ratbag Aussie PM, that will enrich a corrupt POTUS and his family.
The only way, it seems, that we Aussies can stop it, is if we can somehow unite and just sit at home playing board games until it stops. Don't work, buy only essentials.
One can dream
The only way, it seems, that we Aussies can stop it, is if we can somehow unite and just sit at home playing board games until it stops. Don't work, buy only essentials.
One can dream
September 13, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Billions sunk into a bad treaty agreed by a ratbag Aussie PM, that will enrich a corrupt POTUS and his family.
The only way, it seems, that we Aussies can stop it, is if we can somehow unite and just sit at home playing board games until it stops. Don't work, buy only essentials.
One can dream
The only way, it seems, that we Aussies can stop it, is if we can somehow unite and just sit at home playing board games until it stops. Don't work, buy only essentials.
One can dream
@albomp.bsky.social DON'T DO THIS, Albo.
He's not your friend, he's not your ally, he's not Australia's friend or ally.
That's OUR money you're using for this, and it will only enrich him and his family.
Just dump this corrupt "treaty".
He's not your friend, he's not your ally, he's not Australia's friend or ally.
That's OUR money you're using for this, and it will only enrich him and his family.
Just dump this corrupt "treaty".
September 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
@albomp.bsky.social DON'T DO THIS, Albo.
He's not your friend, he's not your ally, he's not Australia's friend or ally.
That's OUR money you're using for this, and it will only enrich him and his family.
Just dump this corrupt "treaty".
He's not your friend, he's not your ally, he's not Australia's friend or ally.
That's OUR money you're using for this, and it will only enrich him and his family.
Just dump this corrupt "treaty".
OMG. Is there any place on Earth where people glorify violence and hatred more than in the USA?
September 11, 2025 at 9:39 PM
OMG. Is there any place on Earth where people glorify violence and hatred more than in the USA?
I fear for the future of once great America, so full of hateful language and mutual abhorrence. Dem politicians assassinated one minute, Rep figureheads the next. American society seems so polarised by petty gripes that there seems no path out of this.
September 11, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I fear for the future of once great America, so full of hateful language and mutual abhorrence. Dem politicians assassinated one minute, Rep figureheads the next. American society seems so polarised by petty gripes that there seems no path out of this.
First they conned the world with their emissions fiction. Now they deal with a corrupt dictator who doesn't give a shit about the climate or people. Anyway, wouldn't be the first dictator they dealt with. I guess there's no escaping your roots, even for a corporation.
www.reuters.com/business/aut...
www.reuters.com/business/aut...
Volkswagen in advanced talks with US over investment deal
Volkswagen was in advanced talks with the U.S. government over substantial investments in the world's second-largest auto market, where tariffs have cost Europe's top carmaker billions of euros so far this year.
www.reuters.com
September 8, 2025 at 10:25 PM
First they conned the world with their emissions fiction. Now they deal with a corrupt dictator who doesn't give a shit about the climate or people. Anyway, wouldn't be the first dictator they dealt with. I guess there's no escaping your roots, even for a corporation.
www.reuters.com/business/aut...
www.reuters.com/business/aut...
The corrupt Emperor of America, Caligula Trump, is warring with his people.
In the UK, the King of Scotland, Idi Starmer, is warring with his people.
In Australia, Albo Macchiavelli, gas-lighter extraordinaire and US & UK toady, arses around pretending to be of the people.
Locke time is close
In the UK, the King of Scotland, Idi Starmer, is warring with his people.
In Australia, Albo Macchiavelli, gas-lighter extraordinaire and US & UK toady, arses around pretending to be of the people.
Locke time is close
September 7, 2025 at 10:08 PM
The corrupt Emperor of America, Caligula Trump, is warring with his people.
In the UK, the King of Scotland, Idi Starmer, is warring with his people.
In Australia, Albo Macchiavelli, gas-lighter extraordinaire and US & UK toady, arses around pretending to be of the people.
Locke time is close
In the UK, the King of Scotland, Idi Starmer, is warring with his people.
In Australia, Albo Macchiavelli, gas-lighter extraordinaire and US & UK toady, arses around pretending to be of the people.
Locke time is close
I feel like I need to apologise for the anti-migration protests in Aussie cities today.
To all my migrant colleagues and friends, I'm sorry. I'm glad you're here and I am sorry you have to put up with this sort of attitude.
A fuller text of my apology here
afransos.medium.com/australias-i...
To all my migrant colleagues and friends, I'm sorry. I'm glad you're here and I am sorry you have to put up with this sort of attitude.
A fuller text of my apology here
afransos.medium.com/australias-i...
Australia’s immigration protests
As I write this, Melbourne and other Australian cities are enduring the shame and pain of “March for Australia”, a thinly-disguised, racist…
afransos.medium.com
August 31, 2025 at 6:22 AM
I feel like I need to apologise for the anti-migration protests in Aussie cities today.
To all my migrant colleagues and friends, I'm sorry. I'm glad you're here and I am sorry you have to put up with this sort of attitude.
A fuller text of my apology here
afransos.medium.com/australias-i...
To all my migrant colleagues and friends, I'm sorry. I'm glad you're here and I am sorry you have to put up with this sort of attitude.
A fuller text of my apology here
afransos.medium.com/australias-i...
UK arrests 80-year olds and people in wheelchairs as terrorists.
The US turns its military on its own people.
We should not be allied with a corrupt US government and an incompetent ex-coloniser.
Turn AUKUS into USUK.
AUKUS diminishes all Australians
The US turns its military on its own people.
We should not be allied with a corrupt US government and an incompetent ex-coloniser.
Turn AUKUS into USUK.
AUKUS diminishes all Australians
August 25, 2025 at 9:06 PM
UK arrests 80-year olds and people in wheelchairs as terrorists.
The US turns its military on its own people.
We should not be allied with a corrupt US government and an incompetent ex-coloniser.
Turn AUKUS into USUK.
AUKUS diminishes all Australians
The US turns its military on its own people.
We should not be allied with a corrupt US government and an incompetent ex-coloniser.
Turn AUKUS into USUK.
AUKUS diminishes all Australians
Why, in Australia, lobby for guns? Protection? Ultimately, if that's true, we need protection from other people with guns, so we want guns to protect ourselves from guns?
This has to be arms manufacturers.
We need to stop Australia from becoming like that gun nation with whom we share no values.
This has to be arms manufacturers.
We need to stop Australia from becoming like that gun nation with whom we share no values.
August 25, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Why, in Australia, lobby for guns? Protection? Ultimately, if that's true, we need protection from other people with guns, so we want guns to protect ourselves from guns?
This has to be arms manufacturers.
We need to stop Australia from becoming like that gun nation with whom we share no values.
This has to be arms manufacturers.
We need to stop Australia from becoming like that gun nation with whom we share no values.
Kris Kristofferson, may have been a troubled person but he was also a Rennaissance man: writer, actor, Oxford Blue boxer and rugby player, helicopter pilot, musician, song-writer, philosopher, teacher, soldier, who knew the seedy side of life. Perhaps he expressed what is going to today well
August 21, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Kris Kristofferson, may have been a troubled person but he was also a Rennaissance man: writer, actor, Oxford Blue boxer and rugby player, helicopter pilot, musician, song-writer, philosopher, teacher, soldier, who knew the seedy side of life. Perhaps he expressed what is going to today well
I wish I admired Aus PM Albanese more. I think he's a tepid follower, not an intrepid leader. But I think a lot more of him when bullies like Netanyahu and the USA regime attack him.
August 19, 2025 at 9:35 PM
I wish I admired Aus PM Albanese more. I think he's a tepid follower, not an intrepid leader. But I think a lot more of him when bullies like Netanyahu and the USA regime attack him.
I'm just waiting for the news that Trump demands the Nobel Peace prize or he'll bomb the shit out of Norway. AND Sweden, just in case. And Denmark, because, you know...Greenland. And Finland because you know, it would help Putin, his master.
And because, you know, SOCIALISM.
And because, you know, SOCIALISM.
August 15, 2025 at 10:24 PM
I'm just waiting for the news that Trump demands the Nobel Peace prize or he'll bomb the shit out of Norway. AND Sweden, just in case. And Denmark, because, you know...Greenland. And Finland because you know, it would help Putin, his master.
And because, you know, SOCIALISM.
And because, you know, SOCIALISM.