PJ Rochester
@pjrochester.bsky.social
All war is crime.
Except maybe class war. Even then it depends which side you're on.
Except maybe class war. Even then it depends which side you're on.
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Parliament is back and so is the blog
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October 6, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Parliament is back and so is the blog
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#auspol
So, what are the chances that Australia is also on the hook due to similar “arbitration clauses” with say… Woodside… or other fossil fuel and mining corporations?
Any journos want to investigate this?
So, what are the chances that Australia is also on the hook due to similar “arbitration clauses” with say… Woodside… or other fossil fuel and mining corporations?
Any journos want to investigate this?
September 16, 2025 at 3:27 AM
#auspol
So, what are the chances that Australia is also on the hook due to similar “arbitration clauses” with say… Woodside… or other fossil fuel and mining corporations?
Any journos want to investigate this?
So, what are the chances that Australia is also on the hook due to similar “arbitration clauses” with say… Woodside… or other fossil fuel and mining corporations?
Any journos want to investigate this?
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The catastrophic National Climate Risk Assessment isn't a warning — it's a promise of what Australia will look like under Labor's policies, @keanebernard.bsky.social writes.
Australia's way of life is being destroyed right in front of us. That's not a warning, but a Labor promise
www.crikey.com.au
September 16, 2025 at 2:47 AM
The catastrophic National Climate Risk Assessment isn't a warning — it's a promise of what Australia will look like under Labor's policies, @keanebernard.bsky.social writes.
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The shuttering of Meanjin is a further reminder of how hard it is to find spaces for left-of-centre voices. Getting such stuff published was never easy & even in the era of new media there are enormous barriers. Solidarity is needed to stand against the endless attempts to muzzle progressive writing
September 5, 2025 at 1:43 AM
The shuttering of Meanjin is a further reminder of how hard it is to find spaces for left-of-centre voices. Getting such stuff published was never easy & even in the era of new media there are enormous barriers. Solidarity is needed to stand against the endless attempts to muzzle progressive writing
Slow month, not much listening time. But *quality*.
#BonniePrinceBilly #Panopticon #BlackSabbath #Pixies #Tidal
#BonniePrinceBilly #Panopticon #BlackSabbath #Pixies #Tidal
September 1, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Slow month, not much listening time. But *quality*.
#BonniePrinceBilly #Panopticon #BlackSabbath #Pixies #Tidal
#BonniePrinceBilly #Panopticon #BlackSabbath #Pixies #Tidal
By all means, tread on those people
We know you love freedom, we just wish you’d share.
doctorow.medium.com
August 27, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Every issue we face is a consequence of a highly flawed and corrupted decision making process - where this 👇 plays a major role.
More here #auspol > newsapp.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
More here #auspol > newsapp.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
August 21, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Every issue we face is a consequence of a highly flawed and corrupted decision making process - where this 👇 plays a major role.
More here #auspol > newsapp.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
More here #auspol > newsapp.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
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Bad news days for AI and everyone who slops it. 'If your incredible business idea – key word here, business – is to bake cakes for sale and then you complain that you have to pay for eggs and flour then I have some terrible news about your business idea and also quite possibly your soul and brain.'
'One of the proposed solutions to the fact that these AI companies are already stealing the work of creatives, writers and artists is not to wonder – not even performatively – about how to protect the output of the creators but to suggest formalising the theft'. rick-morton.ghost.io/crumbs-at-th...
Crumbs at the Slophouse
There was a man at the ice creamery the other day and I cannot stop thinking about him.
He looked about 50. No family in tow, indeed no other travelling friends or acquaintances in sight. From his pe...
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August 19, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Bad news days for AI and everyone who slops it. 'If your incredible business idea – key word here, business – is to bake cakes for sale and then you complain that you have to pay for eggs and flour then I have some terrible news about your business idea and also quite possibly your soul and brain.'
Haven't read it, but appears this *Abundance* thing is equivalent to tobacco industry dodgy research on the health benefits of cigarettes. That the legacy parties of the left are all over such obvious bollocks is . . . sigh
#auspol #abundance #shitfuckery
www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...
#auspol #abundance #shitfuckery
www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...
Gripped by an 'Abundance fever' that makes us see only red
Canberra is in the grip of Abundance fever, a virus that threatens to overwhelm public policy with a diagnosis of overregulation.
www.thenewdaily.com.au
August 18, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Haven't read it, but appears this *Abundance* thing is equivalent to tobacco industry dodgy research on the health benefits of cigarettes. That the legacy parties of the left are all over such obvious bollocks is . . . sigh
#auspol #abundance #shitfuckery
www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...
#auspol #abundance #shitfuckery
www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...
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Coming in March 2026: Flowers! When flowers appeared, nothing was ever the same. They are the world’s great collaborators and creators. Writing this book transformed how I see life’s history and future. Cooperation, beauty, and illusion transform the world. Can't wait to share these stories
August 12, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Coming in March 2026: Flowers! When flowers appeared, nothing was ever the same. They are the world’s great collaborators and creators. Writing this book transformed how I see life’s history and future. Cooperation, beauty, and illusion transform the world. Can't wait to share these stories
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he’s biting the heads off angels now
July 22, 2025 at 6:38 PM
he’s biting the heads off angels now
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So many of the "rusted ons" here (aka ALP social media) betray themselves by hammering the idea that the quality of a policy is determined by the vote it's proponent party got. Did not hear them sprout this rubbish during the LNP years.
Real people argue ideas. Party hacks see only numbers.
Real people argue ideas. Party hacks see only numbers.
July 16, 2025 at 11:38 PM
So many of the "rusted ons" here (aka ALP social media) betray themselves by hammering the idea that the quality of a policy is determined by the vote it's proponent party got. Did not hear them sprout this rubbish during the LNP years.
Real people argue ideas. Party hacks see only numbers.
Real people argue ideas. Party hacks see only numbers.
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June 30, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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It is free and easy to get a measles vaccination in Australia.
America’s health policies are obviously designed to kill poor people.
Trump is cruel.
America’s health policies are obviously designed to kill poor people.
Trump is cruel.
Due to the ongoing U.S. measles outbreak, a Texas man worried that his young son was at risk and took him to get vaccinated.
The cost of the shot? $1,400.
The cost of the shot? $1,400.
June 30, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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When reporting Israel's attacks on Iran it's important journalists remember Israel is a genocidal state, whose armed forces in the past 2yrs have murdered tens of thousands of civilians, many of whom were children and babies.
So maybe not treat everything they say with total credulity
So maybe not treat everything they say with total credulity
June 18, 2025 at 5:34 AM
When reporting Israel's attacks on Iran it's important journalists remember Israel is a genocidal state, whose armed forces in the past 2yrs have murdered tens of thousands of civilians, many of whom were children and babies.
So maybe not treat everything they say with total credulity
So maybe not treat everything they say with total credulity
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If the Americans come for the Australian PBS you’ll get riots. If you touch our Ventolin inhalers we’ll be out in the streets, well walking slowly and breathing shallowly anyway
US, UK to discuss preferential UK drugs tariffs treatment
June 16, 2025 at 9:19 PM
If the Americans come for the Australian PBS you’ll get riots. If you touch our Ventolin inhalers we’ll be out in the streets, well walking slowly and breathing shallowly anyway
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There is neither merit nor consistency to any of our systems except for the rule that the rich and powerful will be rewarded no matter what. They can only fail upward.
If one is censured by a nation's Parliament for behaviour officially found to be "corrosive of trust in government", and is referred to an anti-corruption commission for misleading its Cabinet about the "crude and cruel" Robodebt scheme, how is one then eligible for said country's highest honour?
June 7, 2025 at 6:02 AM
There is neither merit nor consistency to any of our systems except for the rule that the rich and powerful will be rewarded no matter what. They can only fail upward.
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The biggest problem with the ALP right now is it is led by someone who irrationally hates the Greens.
He doesn't really like to "fight Tories"; he loves to fight the party that reveals his actual lack of "left-wing" positions.
Someone needs to tell him to get over his uni politics crap.
He doesn't really like to "fight Tories"; he loves to fight the party that reveals his actual lack of "left-wing" positions.
Someone needs to tell him to get over his uni politics crap.
June 5, 2025 at 2:23 AM
The biggest problem with the ALP right now is it is led by someone who irrationally hates the Greens.
He doesn't really like to "fight Tories"; he loves to fight the party that reveals his actual lack of "left-wing" positions.
Someone needs to tell him to get over his uni politics crap.
He doesn't really like to "fight Tories"; he loves to fight the party that reveals his actual lack of "left-wing" positions.
Someone needs to tell him to get over his uni politics crap.
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*NB: The Nightmare Sequence is included in this photo of my five published books (with two international editions) purely for completion's sake. Purchasing the book does not directly support me as author royalties will be donated to Palestinian charities. Which is more important than supporting me.
June 5, 2025 at 12:08 AM
*NB: The Nightmare Sequence is included in this photo of my five published books (with two international editions) purely for completion's sake. Purchasing the book does not directly support me as author royalties will be donated to Palestinian charities. Which is more important than supporting me.
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Layne Staley and Jerry Cantrell by Michael Lavine (1993)
June 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Layne Staley and Jerry Cantrell by Michael Lavine (1993)
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Gaza & the Voice to Parliament and Waitangi & Salvadoran gulags & South African “refugees”. All enabled by the hard graft of a network of networks to make people believe in racial superiority and wHiTe gEnOcIdE. #Auspol #NZpol
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The Right's eugenics: Gaza, illegal deportations, breaking DEI, South African "refugees"...
It's not an accident that so many injustices are being perpetrated against people coded as non-White. It's the result of decades of promotion of myths that one "race" is scientifically better.
open.substack.com
May 30, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Gaza & the Voice to Parliament and Waitangi & Salvadoran gulags & South African “refugees”. All enabled by the hard graft of a network of networks to make people believe in racial superiority and wHiTe gEnOcIdE. #Auspol #NZpol
open.substack.com/pub/lucyham2...
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