Richard Watts
@richardthewatts.bsky.social
Arts writer, 3RRR broadcaster, RPG writer and player, Doctor Who watcher, Melburnian, OAM recipient, Hibernophile and habitual wearer of black.
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The so-called ceasefire definitely worked to mostly push Gaza off the front page, so... mission accomplished, I guess.
Israel still committing genocide in Gaza, Amnesty International says
The NGO’s chief says last month’s ceasefire ‘risks creating a dangerous illusion that life in Gaza is returning to normal’
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November 27, 2025 at 9:09 PM
The so-called ceasefire definitely worked to mostly push Gaza off the front page, so... mission accomplished, I guess.
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“At the end of the day, most people do not give a shit about Ned Kelly’s rotating three-dimensional helmet…Most people come into the library to use a computer, to use wifi, to look something up, to ask a librarian for help.”
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State Library of Victoria faces job cuts as staff accuse management of pursuing ‘digital vanity projects’
Under the plan, 39 jobs would be lost and the public-facing workforce of reference librarians would be cut from 25 staff to 10
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November 27, 2025 at 9:32 PM
“At the end of the day, most people do not give a shit about Ned Kelly’s rotating three-dimensional helmet…Most people come into the library to use a computer, to use wifi, to look something up, to ask a librarian for help.”
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This regulation is a vital step forward for the Australian screen industry, and one that will help support a vibrant and sustainable screen sector that continues to play an important role in our economy and culture.
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Surprise $50m boost for ABC as streaming quotas finally become law
The national broadcaster will get the extra funds for children’s programs and drama after the government’s quotas bill was passed.
www.smh.com.au
November 28, 2025 at 12:21 AM
This regulation is a vital step forward for the Australian screen industry, and one that will help support a vibrant and sustainable screen sector that continues to play an important role in our economy and culture.
www.smh.com.au/culture/tv-a...
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Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022
Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.
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November 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
That feeling when you've turned yr flat upside down looking for yr perscription reading glasses, have even emailed your volunteer workplace to see if you've left em there, and are about to give up and order another pair - only to walk back into the lounge & see them staring at you atop a book pile.
November 28, 2025 at 1:28 AM
That feeling when you've turned yr flat upside down looking for yr perscription reading glasses, have even emailed your volunteer workplace to see if you've left em there, and are about to give up and order another pair - only to walk back into the lounge & see them staring at you atop a book pile.
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Neo-Nazi & NSN flunkey Joel Davis (co-host w Blair Cottrell of 'The Joel & Blair Show') got arrest today.
'Davis was expected to be charged with using a carriage service to harass or menace. Sources have told this masthead the alleged victim was a political figure.'
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'Davis was expected to be charged with using a carriage service to harass or menace. Sources have told this masthead the alleged victim was a political figure.'
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Neo-Nazi leader Joel Davis arrested by AFP at Bondi
The National Socialist Network leader, who led the anti-Jewish rally outside parliament, is now in custody.
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November 20, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Neo-Nazi & NSN flunkey Joel Davis (co-host w Blair Cottrell of 'The Joel & Blair Show') got arrest today.
'Davis was expected to be charged with using a carriage service to harass or menace. Sources have told this masthead the alleged victim was a political figure.'
www.smh.com.au/national/neo...
'Davis was expected to be charged with using a carriage service to harass or menace. Sources have told this masthead the alleged victim was a political figure.'
www.smh.com.au/national/neo...
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November 19, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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KITCHEN CABINET is less "holding their feet to the fire" and more "giving politicians a warm pair of socks".
Buried deep, deep in the announcement of the ABC's programming for 2026 is the news that Kitchen Cabinet is returning, and honestly I don't think anyone would have voted for Labour at the last election if we knew this was the kind of shit we'd get under Albo
November 20, 2025 at 4:39 AM
KITCHEN CABINET is less "holding their feet to the fire" and more "giving politicians a warm pair of socks".
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Wept and wept and wept through The History of Sound, now playing at the British film fest before general release on Dec 18 bit.ly/3LSSwiR
The History of Sound review: abandon all hope of dry eyes | ScreenHub: Film, TV, Streaming and Games
Brought to life with moving performances by Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor, The History of Sound is a heart-rending love story.
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November 19, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Wept and wept and wept through The History of Sound, now playing at the British film fest before general release on Dec 18 bit.ly/3LSSwiR
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25/ 'Reactive lawmaking & off-the-cuff ideas won’t deal with the problem, says Andy Fleming, Some Guy.
"In the absence of a strategy – a social movement strategy – to respond, then we wind up with kind of piecemeal reaction that risks exacerbating the problem.”'
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"In the absence of a strategy – a social movement strategy – to respond, then we wind up with kind of piecemeal reaction that risks exacerbating the problem.”'
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‘We can’t police our way out of fascism’: experts urge holistic approach to counter Australia’s neo-Nazis
Reactive lawmaking and off-the-cuff ideas won’t deal with the problem, counter-terrorism expert and researcher at ANU says
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November 15, 2025 at 5:08 AM
25/ 'Reactive lawmaking & off-the-cuff ideas won’t deal with the problem, says Andy Fleming, Some Guy.
"In the absence of a strategy – a social movement strategy – to respond, then we wind up with kind of piecemeal reaction that risks exacerbating the problem.”'
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"In the absence of a strategy – a social movement strategy – to respond, then we wind up with kind of piecemeal reaction that risks exacerbating the problem.”'
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Very much enjoyed - tho enjoyed is not quite the right word for a play about colonisation's impact on First Peoples - Palawa playwright Dylan Van Den Berg's Whitefella Yella Tree at @unimelb.bsky.social's Union Theatre last night. Moving, confronting, excellent.
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UMAC - Whitefella Yella Tree
UMAC presents, curates and commissions inspiring and entertaining arts experiences throughout the year at its award-winning cultural precinct on the northern edge of the CBD.
www.umac.melbourne
November 14, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Very much enjoyed - tho enjoyed is not quite the right word for a play about colonisation's impact on First Peoples - Palawa playwright Dylan Van Den Berg's Whitefella Yella Tree at @unimelb.bsky.social's Union Theatre last night. Moving, confronting, excellent.
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#FCKNZS
Tired: Complaining about NSW Police facilitating a Nazi rally.
Wired: Helping @whiterosesociety.bsky.social out by sharing any verifiable information about the Nazi meatheads.
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Tired: Complaining about NSW Police facilitating a Nazi rally.
Wired: Helping @whiterosesociety.bsky.social out by sharing any verifiable information about the Nazi meatheads.
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Do you know these nazis?
Today, Saturday November 8 2025, NSW National Socialist Network (NSN) members held an antisemitic rally outside NSW Parliament House un...
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November 12, 2025 at 2:21 AM
#FCKNZS
Tired: Complaining about NSW Police facilitating a Nazi rally.
Wired: Helping @whiterosesociety.bsky.social out by sharing any verifiable information about the Nazi meatheads.
thewhiterosesociety.writeas.com/do-you-know-...
Tired: Complaining about NSW Police facilitating a Nazi rally.
Wired: Helping @whiterosesociety.bsky.social out by sharing any verifiable information about the Nazi meatheads.
thewhiterosesociety.writeas.com/do-you-know-...
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I found this episode of CRIMINAL very moving: "The story of one day in one neighborhood in Chicago – and the people living there who try to stop ICE agents from arresting their neighbors."
Episode 339: Rogers Park (11.7.2025)
The story of one day in one neighborhood in Chicago – and the people living there who try to stop ICE agents from arresting their neighbors.
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November 12, 2025 at 2:32 AM
I found this episode of CRIMINAL very moving: "The story of one day in one neighborhood in Chicago – and the people living there who try to stop ICE agents from arresting their neighbors."
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Booklovers in Victoria, help me out.
November 10, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Booklovers in Victoria, help me out.
Submitted all my paperwork and paid the requisite upfront fee for my #autism and #ADHD assessment yesterday. Very much looking to receiving the diagnosis, which I'm pretty damn sure will be 'hell yes' given how often I was ticking the 'often/very often' boxes on the looooong questionnaires...
November 5, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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A ceasefire is not “fragile” when 104 people are murdered. It is over.
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Israeli strikes in Gaza kill at least 104 overnight as ceasefire looks increasingly fragile
Netanyahu ordered strikes on Tuesday evening after firefight between Israeli troops and Palestinian militants
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October 29, 2025 at 10:59 AM
A ceasefire is not “fragile” when 104 people are murdered. It is over.
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Very much looking forward to the opening night of the Irish Film Festival (@irishfilmfestau.bsky.social) in Melbourne tomorrow night: hoping for plenty of laughs from mocumentary FRAN THE MAN, plus the pre-film party is always great craic!
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Irish Film Festival 2025 Trailer | 9 Oct - 10 Nov
YouTube video by Irish Film Festival Australia
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October 22, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Very much looking forward to the opening night of the Irish Film Festival (@irishfilmfestau.bsky.social) in Melbourne tomorrow night: hoping for plenty of laughs from mocumentary FRAN THE MAN, plus the pre-film party is always great craic!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjBR...
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2/ “On the face of it the contents of the pledge itself are anodyne. But every mechanism of this kind is only as effective as the good faith with which it is applied, and as insidious as the misuse it allows for,” Evelyn Araluen, co-editor of @overlandjournal.bsky.social told Deepcut.'
October 21, 2025 at 2:52 AM
2/ “On the face of it the contents of the pledge itself are anodyne. But every mechanism of this kind is only as effective as the good faith with which it is applied, and as insidious as the misuse it allows for,” Evelyn Araluen, co-editor of @overlandjournal.bsky.social told Deepcut.'
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'The Victorian government will soon require organisations that receive grant funding to sign a ‘social cohesion’ pledge, despite broad opposition from civil society and the government’s own multicultural advisory group.'
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Victorian 'social cohesion' pledge will target multicultural communities, rights groups warn
New 'social cohesion commitment' goes against government's own advice
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October 21, 2025 at 2:43 AM
'The Victorian government will soon require organisations that receive grant funding to sign a ‘social cohesion’ pledge, despite broad opposition from civil society and the government’s own multicultural advisory group.'
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A few thoughts on Sophie Hyde’s Jimpa, which opener the Adelaide Film Festival last night bit.ly/497Mm8b
Jimpa review: supple and rewarding cinema | ScreenHub: Film, TV, Streaming and Games
In Jimpa, director Sophie Hyde explores family dynamics with sensitivity and subtlety.
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October 16, 2025 at 7:42 AM
A few thoughts on Sophie Hyde’s Jimpa, which opener the Adelaide Film Festival last night bit.ly/497Mm8b
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Nazi dentist Ian Lomax -- one of Tom Sewell's flunkeys -- is (temporarily?) no longer working as a dentist.
And That's Official.
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And That's Official.
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Dental board suspends Ballarat dentist after allegations of Neo-Nazi ties
Dental board suspends practitioner, who was allegedly photographed at a Neo-Nazi rally, while it investigates.
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October 16, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Nazi dentist Ian Lomax -- one of Tom Sewell's flunkeys -- is (temporarily?) no longer working as a dentist.
And That's Official.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
And That's Official.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
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Circus Centre Melbourne, originally designed as a home for Circus Oz, has reopened as a home for the broader contemporary circus and physical theatre sectors – a space where circus artists can meet, create, train and perform: www.artshub.com.au/news/news/ci...
Circus Centre Melbourne opens its doors
Envisaged as a creative hub for circus development and training, the new Circus Centre Melbourne opened on Monday and is already in demand.
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October 14, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Circus Centre Melbourne, originally designed as a home for Circus Oz, has reopened as a home for the broader contemporary circus and physical theatre sectors – a space where circus artists can meet, create, train and perform: www.artshub.com.au/news/news/ci...