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@liamnilon.bsky.social
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Probably posting about my two passions - politics and writing.

If you came for one, I'm terribly sorry about the other.

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liamnilon.bsky.social
Magnificent stuff from @cormacmccafe.bsky.social
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Laws stayed as is for most of his career, fossilised in the amber we call Australia’s media landscape, the evolution of which moves so slowly it can barely be perceived by the human eye, let alone your average talkback radio listener. He looked the same since the early 1990s — as if Jimmy Saville and Greg Norman fell into the teleporter from The Fly — and his opinions, too, stayed as static as the dial of those calling in to complain about immigrants, The Greens, or The Youth, or to hear him wax lyrical about fine scotch and miniskirts. In his 71 years on air, he maintained an odd blend of approachability and edge, a quintessentially Australian kindness, which is to say a false one that can snap away in a millisecond of boredom, bigotry, or plain old pettiness. He lacked the overt evil of his longtime rival Alan Jones (did not share his love of fucking underaged boys etc.) but kept up the steady hum of false mateship that underscores most the hurt and darkness in this proudly two-faced country. To say he got it down to a fine art means something to someone somewhere, surely
November 14, 2025 at 9:56 AM
liamnilon.bsky.social
Look it’s probably for the best they they couldn’t, but very funny that they tried www.msn.com/en-us/news/w...
MSN
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November 12, 2025 at 4:13 AM
liamnilon.bsky.social
Every time I’m convinced Netflix is just the worst, they go and do something like green light Boots (Miles Helzier is wonderful)
November 10, 2025 at 8:38 AM
liamnilon.bsky.social
Good thread on a genuinely interesting figure
liamhogan.id.au Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 8d
Graham Richardson’s career was the paradox of neoliberalism: he was actually an incredibly effective and innovative figure for *governance*, in that he had vast skills in making the State, his Party, unions, all work together. But those acts were at the expense of *politics* in our democracy. >
November 8, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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bakoon.bsky.social
HELLO SIDNEY. DO U CONDEMN THE ACTIONS OF HAMAS
culturecrave.co Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 17d
First poster for ‘Scream 7’

In theaters February 27
October 30, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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tiny.baby
people playing music/videos on their phone speakers in public is more than just mildly annoying and is instead a leading indicator of the decline of community and empath
zachweinersmith.bsky.social Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · Oct 16
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 19, 2025 at 8:54 PM
liamnilon.bsky.social
Oh Microsoft copilot how many times must I uninstall you?
October 19, 2025 at 8:11 AM
liamnilon.bsky.social
This week I answer the question: was Australia just too racism to go fascist?
deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social @deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social · Oct 17
Episode 19 is now live! This week we're talking about Eric Campbell, arguably Australia's most successful and famous fascist (who was neither famous nor terribly successful).

podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/e...

As always bibliography is attached
Bibliography Primary Sources “Part XVI Religion”, Census of the Commonwealth of Australia, 30 June 1933, https://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/DetailsPage/2110.01933 “Bridge Incident,” Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate, 22 March 1932, p. 5, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/136874174 Campbell, Eric, The rallying point: My story of the New Guard, Melbourne University Press, 1965. “Campbell Launches Centre Party”, Liberty, 1:20, 19 December 1933, p. 7, https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-772172776/ “Conscription referendums, 1916 and 1917,” National Archives of Australia, accessed: 17 September 2025, https://www.naa.gov.au/help-your-research/fact-sheets/conscription-referendums-1916-and-1917 “De Groot Case,” Lithgow Mercury, 1 April 1932, p.1, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/219680305/24318458 “Mr Lang’s Speech,” The Sydney Morning Herald, 21 March 1932, p. 11, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/16849511. “Police powerless in wild Bankstown Riots,” The Daily Telegraph, 27 February 1932, p. 1, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/246546701 “The De Groot Incident,” The Cairns Post, 31 Mar 1932, p. 8, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/41127385 Secondary Sources Alder, Baron, “The Ideology of the New Guard Movement”, Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, Vol. 82 Part 2, 1996, pp. 192 - 209, https://search.informit.org/doi/abs/10.3316/ielapa.970606441. Amos, Keith, The New Guard Movement 1931 - 1935, Melbourne University Press, 1975, https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-3326426489/view?partId=nla.obj-3326429849#page/n8/mode/1up. Amos, Keith, “Campbell, Eric (1893–1970)”, Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/campbell-eric-5487/text9331, published first in hardcopy 1979, accessed online 16 September 2025. Blackton, Charles, “Review: The Rallying Point: My Story of the New Guard by Eric Campbell, in The American Historical Review, Vol. 72, No. 1, 1966, Oxford University Press, p. 274, https://www.jstor.org/stable/1848341 Cunningham, Matthew, “Australian Fascism? A Revisionist Analysis of the Ideology of the New Guard, Politics, Religion & Ideology, 13:3, 2012, pp. 375-393, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/21567689.2012.701188 Evans, Richard, “‘A Menace to this Realm’: The New Guard and the New South Wales Police, 1931–32,” History Australia, 5:3, 76.1-76.20, 2016, https://doi.org/10.2104/ha080076 Evans, Richard, W. J. MacKay and the NSW Police, 1910-1948: A Dangerous Man, Springer International Publishing AG, 2022. Love, Gary, “‘What’s the Big Idea?’: Oswald Mosley, the British Union of Fascists and Generic Fascism,” 2007, Journal of Contemporary History, 42:3, pp. 447–68. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/30036457. Moore, Andrew, “The New Guard and the Labour Movement, 1931-35”, Review in Labour History, No. 89, 2005, pp. 55 - 72, https://www.jstor.org/stable/27516075 Moore, Andrew, “Discredited Fascism: the New Guard after 1932”, Australian Journal of Politics and History, 2011. Moore, Andrew, “An Uncomfortable Past, Historiographical Refections on Fascism and Interwar Australia,” Histories of Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Australia, 1st Edition, 2022, Routedge. Rutland, Suzanne, “The long, dark history of antisemitism in Australia”, The Conversation, 24 November 2023, https://theconversation.com/the-long-dark-history-of-antisemitism-in-australia-217908
October 17, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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October 14, 2025 at 12:38 AM
liamnilon.bsky.social
Surely a bit. But a magnificent one.
luxalptraum.com Lux 🍂 Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · Oct 8
TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it
One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way. What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money. Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight. To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.
October 9, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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alexkirshner.com
A major part of Elon's desire to dismantle Wikipedia revolves around this one page, in my opinion en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
October 6, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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emceekayvee.bsky.social
Yay!
Meme that says, “when you’re nobody’s type guess I’ll die alone”
October 6, 2025 at 3:43 AM
liamnilon.bsky.social
I want a brain this smooth.
dominickelly.bsky.social Dominic Kelly @dominickelly.bsky.social · Oct 4
“The one major European country that has nothing to be ashamed of in its 20th-century history is Britain.”
– Tony Abbott, serious historian and intellectual
October 4, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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milesklee.bsky.social
This is the biggest, toughest article I’ve done about so-called “AI psychosis.” It’s the story of a man who committed a horrific crime in his youth but served his time and against all odds found love and a new life—one that completely unraveled after he started talking to Google’s Gemini chatbot.
He Grew Obsessed With an AI Chatbot. Then He Vanished in the Ozarks
Jon Ganz committed a terrible crime in his youth, but he survived prison, fell in love, and started over. His new life unraveled in a way nobody could have predicted.
www.rollingstone.com
October 2, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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jazzreads.bsky.social
So exhausting..
September 28, 2025 at 6:41 PM
liamnilon.bsky.social
I’m new at this parenting gig but already decided: Bluey is a delight, whereas Peppa Pig is a porcine monstrosity for whom I wish nothing but suffering
September 25, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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kenklippenstein.bsky.social
ICE shooter Joshua Jahn's politics aren't what's being reported, three longtime former friends tell me.

www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-ice-sh...
The ICE Shooter’s Motive
Joshua Jahn's friends speak
www.kenklippenstein.com
September 25, 2025 at 1:53 AM
liamnilon.bsky.social
Was having an absolutely terrible day until I heard the immortal words: “You can't take opioids away from Americans. That's their fucking favorite thing.”
September 24, 2025 at 12:21 PM
liamnilon.bsky.social
We’ve found it: the only good post from today
furbyhancock.bsky.social furby hancock @furbyhancock.bsky.social · Sep 22
Too late, Batman. Once this Tylenol floods the city's water supply, my wiki won't run out of editors ever again
September 23, 2025 at 10:44 AM
liamnilon.bsky.social
listening to Ed Sheeran's one rap song on repeat just to feel something
September 22, 2025 at 12:55 AM
liamnilon.bsky.social
Started a podcast on Australian history @deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social, have made 18 episodes so far podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...
September 17, 2025 at 4:25 AM
liamnilon.bsky.social
Only piece worth reading on Charlie Kirk so far www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...
Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause
By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.
www.vanityfair.com
September 17, 2025 at 12:14 AM
liamnilon.bsky.social
Hey this isn’t fair!!! They made up a tonne of stuff in the nineteenth century
loreandordure.com Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · Sep 16
Another in the continuing series loosely titled “just about everything you have been told is ancient Celtic paganism was made up by some dude in the 1970s”:
mxfrankduffy.bsky.social frank: print witch @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social · Sep 16
your yearly reminder that #Mabon is a Welsh word plucked out of Y Mabinogi by an American Wiccan in the 1970s for some bullshit reason (maybe bc Welsh sounds all Elvish to non-speakers), it has fuck-all to do with the autumn equinox, & the Welsh witches I know refuse to use it #witchsky
September 16, 2025 at 9:35 AM
liamnilon.bsky.social
Wikipedia. Continues to be like the one room in a house the flooded with sewerage
mollyknight.bsky.social Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · Sep 11
Please give me an unironic list of things that have gotten better over the last ten years because I’m spiraling.

I’ll start: you can buy an enormous TV from Costco for like $100 bucks now.
September 15, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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clairewillett.bsky.social
reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle
One thing that has become really clear since yesterday is that we live in at least two different realities. Talking to a friend who only knew Charlie as a Christian motivational speaker because that's all that ever came across her feed. Showed me videos I've never seen before of him saying perfectly reasonable and empowering things. I showed her videos she'd never seen before of his racism, misogyny, homophobia, advocating for violence against specific groups of people. She was horrified by his remarks about Pelosi's husband's attacker being bailed out and celebrated for his violent act. She was horrified by a number of things that he said, but she had never seen or heard them before, the same as I had never seen or heard the generalized clips of him sounding like a perfectly nice loving man and father. Neither of us had a whole picture of this man. I mentioned he was a known white supremacist and she thought I was joking. She talked about him giving a speech about finding your purpose and doing good in the world and I thought she was joking. I saw why this friend was mourning the loss of a person she thought was a good person. My friend, bless her, saw why I feel the way I do about him. We understood each other better. In spite of a multi-billion dollar internet machine specifically focused on keeping us apart. Because we talked to each other with the desire to listen and to learn rather than the desire to change someone else's mind or to be "right". None of those motivational things he said change my opinion about him because they don't erase the negativity, the subtle calls for violence, the belittling and denigrating of other races religions genders etc. His negative and blaming comments about homeless people, the poor, and victims of domestic violence. His comments about rounding up people who didn't think like him and putting them in camps where their behavior could be corrected. That time he said empathy was a made-up word he didnt believe in. That other time he said the Civil Rights Act was a mistake. The time he said most people are afraid when they get on a plane and see that there's a black pilot. His anti-vaccination rhetoric and his active campaigning against people being allowed to wear masks for their own health. His open support of fascism and white supremacy. To me, all of those are fully unchristian sentiments. Those are undeniable and just one of them would be a deal-breaker for me. All of them together are a picture of a man who was polarizing, enraged a lot of people and rightly so, but even with all of that I would never wish upon him or especially his children the end that he got. Oh, and my friend had never heard, and God help me I don't know how she escaped the news, but she had never heard of the Minnesota legislators who were shot in June. The husband and wife and dog who were killed, one after throwing themselves over their child to protect the child. The other couple who somehow survived. Politically motivated attacks specifically because they were democrats. She learned about those shootings that happened months ago because I showed her Charlie Kirk's comments about them. The kidnapping plot against a female Midwestern Democratic governor. The assassination attempt against Pennsylvania's democratic governor. All things Charlie had plenty to say about while supporting the Second Amendment and bashing the Democratic party. She didn't know about any of it because we're all living in two different worlds and none of us have the whole story.
September 13, 2025 at 9:24 PM