“History doesnt repeat itself but, it often rhymes…” #gotchabitch

#BREAKING 🚨 First results for the Lalor Ward by-election, obtained by 6 News, show ex-councillor Stevan Kozmevski leading and Socialist candidate Omar Hassan in second place

#BREAKING 🚨 First results for the North-West Ward by-election, obtained by 6 News, show Angela Villella best-placed to succeed late councillor Gaetano Greco

Remeber "embedded journalism" in Iraq? The ABC is now embedded with the IDF as it carries out a renewed propaganda offensive. The phrase "humanitarian crisis" is the new euphemism for dismissing the genocidal intent of Israel's starvation plan as a logistical tragedy.

1960s CPA? Is that a model the RCO is aiming to emulate? Or is there something I'm not getting?

#MarchForHumanity The Age

The single worst thing about AI is that it has empowered the philistine. The whole point of Nighthawks is its tension, its silence, its stillness. Instead, you get an endless corridor of autogenerated detail, destroying the singular aura of the work.

Post-covid brain fog fucking with my actualisation fr. Inward brooding rules the day.

Interesting that the 'Bell St divide' doesn't appear to be an issue for Victorian Socialists in the way it continues to be for the Greens. The potential for VS to eat into the Labor vote in places like Reservoir (not to mention Lalor, Thomastown etc) is clear.

My favourite David Stratton moment was when he gave a movie 'zero stars' because it was 'a movie about scabs'. Can anyone remember what the film was? Tried to find the footage but it's probably not the kind of thing the ABC would want to hold onto. RIP legend.

Here it is! letterboxd.com/margaret_david…. "It is a film which celebrates strike-breakers and scabs... I mean, this must be Peter Reith’s favourite film of the year... I hated every second of it, I’m going to give it zero."

Solidarity is the one organisation on the Australian far left that the wsw/sep's 'pseudo-left' critique actually really applies to.

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