Derek Jarman 🤘🏏⬛🔴 @derekjarman.bsky.social · 11hAnd underfunded on purpose. It's a disgrace. Best way to reinforce the two-tiered society we've built is to make sure that only rich kids get access to good schools. 010
Reposted by Derek Jarman 🤘🏏⬛🔴Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 15hWhat does the inequality crisis look like? This 👇 98% of public schools are underfunded – that’s 2.6 million kids without the resources they need for the education they deserve. Yet the richest private schools are charging massive fees while banking billions of public dollars. 78441
Derek Jarman 🤘🏏⬛🔴 @derekjarman.bsky.social · 11hAnd the senior bureaucrat got a cushy job at the DoD with no reports and a $800k+ salary. Morrison got away scot free too. One utter disgrace on top of another. Robodebt was our government's equivalent of the UK's Post Office scandal - both governments screwed the pooch cleaning the mess. 020
Derek Jarman 🤘🏏⬛🔴 @derekjarman.bsky.social · 22hCalling the regime "fascist" is an overshoot, but the restitution (both in size and alacrity) in this case is disgraceful. 010
Derek Jarman 🤘🏏⬛🔴 @derekjarman.bsky.social · 22hWell as much as I dislike defending lawyers... they are acting under instructions. The political party that is nominally in charge could instruct the bureaucracy to tell the lawyers differently... but they haven't. 100
Derek Jarman 🤘🏏⬛🔴 @derekjarman.bsky.social · 22hWell, kinda. Labor was elected with an historically low primary vote. 000
Derek Jarman 🤘🏏⬛🔴 @derekjarman.bsky.social · 22hBecause shitfuckery isn't just for governments. #tax #auspoldeepcutnews.comNews Corp, Santos, Kogan paid $0 in tax. But sure, let’s blame ‘government spending’ - Greg JerichoThe Coalition want to cut already-underfunded social and health services, while staying silent on the corporations paying nothing 024
Derek Jarman 🤘🏏⬛🔴 @derekjarman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026What in the name of all that is unholy? Judge Todd Lang of the Arizona court system, who "loved" the AI-generated video of the dead guy forgiving his killer, needs his head read and to be removed from his position. If the family forgive the killer, fine, let them say as much... #WTFbbc.comUS road rage killer's sentence quashed because AI video of victim was shown in courtThe Arizona appeals court ruled that airing an AI message from the dead victim "crossed that line". 000
Derek Jarman 🤘🏏⬛🔴 @derekjarman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026No-one's been held accountable either; which another kick in the face. You'd think that the ALP would have wanted to go hard on the perpetrators and shit all over those evil fucks... but no, career politicians and public servants look after each other. 000
Derek Jarman 🤘🏏⬛🔴 @derekjarman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Hey, @australianlabor.bsky.social, stop being cunts. Don't fucking pixel bitch about the victims of Robodebt; it was an egregious crime committed by the state against it's most vulnerable. Just pay the compensation. #auspoltheguardian.com‘You’re denying what you did to my son’: mother of robodebt victim told she is ineligible for compensationCommonwealth lawyers argue Jarrad Madgwick, whose death by suicide was highlighted at royal commission, ineligible as he only received provisional debt notice 416747
Derek Jarman 🤘🏏⬛🔴 @derekjarman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Well-trodden path to roil up the supporters... realistic or not. 010
Derek Jarman 🤘🏏⬛🔴 @derekjarman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Ridiculous words delivered seriously. Same formula as what made movies like Airplane and The Naked Gun classics. 010
Derek Jarman 🤘🏏⬛🔴 @derekjarman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Bandcamp Friday once again does damage to my bank balance. #metalsky \m/ 020
Derek Jarman 🤘🏏⬛🔴 @derekjarman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Majesty of Rock is a legit good song. Plenty of other good tracks on that album, including the title track and The Sun Never Sweats. Haven't listened to it in ages, but it is still worthy... I should give it a spin. 120
Derek Jarman 🤘🏏⬛🔴 @derekjarman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Yes, they have worn people down. Stacked up against the recent history of the US, these fucktards are pulling some of the most egregious shit on a daily basis and it barely moves the needle. It's crazy. 100
Derek Jarman 🤘🏏⬛🔴 @derekjarman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026If it didn't work its arse off, they wouldn't keep doing it, right? 100
Derek Jarman 🤘🏏⬛🔴 @derekjarman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026If you're new to the group, I strongly recommend diving back into their previous albums. "Meridian" (2021) was revelatory for me. 110
Derek Jarman 🤘🏏⬛🔴 @derekjarman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Hide the truth under a misleading headline. Oldy but a goody. 100
Derek Jarman 🤘🏏⬛🔴 @derekjarman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026It's also what the Israeli government has been trying to do for years. Along with actual anti-Semitism, any criticism of Israel, Zionism or Judaism is anti-Semitic according to them... until that doesn't work for them. 010
Derek Jarman 🤘🏏⬛🔴 @derekjarman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Notably it is companies that have been able to accumulate masses of tax losses and multinationals that can siphon off revenue make up the bulk of non-taxpayers. #auspolcrikey.com.auNews Corp celebrates more than a decade of paying zero tax in AustraliaNews Corp continues to make serious money in Australia while paying no tax. But even the Murdoch monolith isn't the nation's worst tax dodger. 010
Derek Jarman 🤘🏏⬛🔴 @derekjarman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Good chance that's where the inspiration comes from. Mis-titled though.... should be the Office of Judeo-Christian Affairs. 100
Derek Jarman 🤘🏏⬛🔴 @derekjarman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026HIPPOTRAKTOR - Annihilist Release day for this excellent piece of progressive post metal too. There's too much goddamn music! #metalsky \m/hippotraktor.bandcamp.comAnnihilist, by HIPPOTRAKTOR7 track album 120
Derek Jarman 🤘🏏⬛🔴 @derekjarman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Sgaile - Onwards to Embrace the Echo Release day! I have no idea how he'd top TtB but I'm here for it. The same lush soundscapes, soaring vocals and beautiful artwork are present. Decent chance of featuring in my top 10 at the end of the year... but I haven't finished listen 1 yet. #metalskysgaile.bandcamp.comOnwards To Embrace The Echo, by Sgàile6 track album 010
Derek Jarman 🤘🏏⬛🔴 @derekjarman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Gonna go down as one of the great orators of history, no doubt. 000
Derek Jarman 🤘🏏⬛🔴 @derekjarman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I'm always reminded of the thrust of this quote from a Douglas Adams book: "those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it" Others have noted that talented people go into other fields and the leftovers go into politics. Never the best and brightest. 193
Derek Jarman 🤘🏏⬛🔴 @derekjarman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I think it's a bit lower than that and more than twice as likely in males than females. But, psychopaths are over-represented in the upper echelons of government and industry - not feeling guilt about screwing someone over is a superpower in those fields. 241
Derek Jarman 🤘🏏⬛🔴 @derekjarman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Old news. I knew companies did this (we've long known that using an Apple device can increase the price of online products), but I only just heard about this. Company said the quiet part out loud.fortune.comJetBlue told a grieving customer to clear his cookies after a $230 price hike—then deleted the evidence | FortuneThe FTC has been studying surveillance pricing since 2024 and recently its chairman told a Senate committee it may be time to review its disclosure rules for companies. 000
Derek Jarman 🤘🏏⬛🔴 @derekjarman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The people paying their tax via credit card were most likely doing so in order to take advantage of point-accumulation schemes. I've had them advertised to me previously. Tiny fraction of businesses affected. Cry me a river. #auspolafr.comTax Office ban on credit cards enrages SMEsSmall business has warned its cash flow will be squeezed from the ATO’s sudden ban on using credit cards to pay tax bills. 030
Derek Jarman 🤘🏏⬛🔴 @derekjarman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Also not a gambler. Let's call it a draw. As long as books are being read, we all win anyway. 100
Derek Jarman 🤘🏏⬛🔴 @derekjarman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I'd raise you the stack of library books next to my partner's nightstand. 100
Derek Jarman 🤘🏏⬛🔴 @derekjarman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The struggle is real. My partner faces that exact same problem. 100
Derek Jarman 🤘🏏⬛🔴 @derekjarman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Disarmonia Mundi - Mind Tricks. This album (and its predecessor) are fucking fantastic. It really highlights the change (downturn) in the quality of the band's output in recent years when I go back to this absolute banger of an album. Definitely a favourite in the melodeath space. #metalsky \m/disarmoniamundi.bandcamp.comMind Tricks (Extended Version), by Disarmonia Mundi14 track album 010
Derek Jarman 🤘🏏⬛🔴 @derekjarman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026More good coverage from @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social. The interest rates rises are a blunt instrument and are being used in the wrong economic circumstances. My only comment is that quoting AI chatbots doesn't prove anything except that the average of the internet agrees. #michaelwest #auspolmichaelwest.com.auA blunt tool. RBA's incompetence is making the rich richer - Michael WestHaving created market expectations that it would raise rates, the Reserve Bank board delivered, demonstrating its incompetence. 010
Derek Jarman 🤘🏏⬛🔴 @derekjarman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026haenesy.bandcamp.com/album/esentia Hænesy - Esentia "Post" and "Atmospheric" are sometimes interchangeable when applied to black metal... I feel like both are required for this album. #metalsky \m/haenesy.bandcamp.comEsentia, by Hænesy7 track album 020
Derek Jarman 🤘🏏⬛🔴 @derekjarman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Kongh - Dissolved in Time Cool progressive sludge/doom album. #metalsky \m/kongh.bandcamp.comDissolved in Time, by Kongh3 track album 020
Derek Jarman 🤘🏏⬛🔴 @derekjarman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Fans of underground metal are constantly confronted with the possibility that a band we like might be Nazis or contain a member that beat his wife and have to make decisions about it (if the band doesn't make it for us). 000
Derek Jarman 🤘🏏⬛🔴 @derekjarman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026@theguardian.com, the difference is money. In less popular metal, bands split up and people are shunned for various crimes (and this is good). All the bands mentioned are making money for themselves and other people, so some unproven, minor or atoned actions are ignored for the sake of the $.theguardian.comHeavy metal is about uplifting the downtrodden. So why is alleged abuse by Marilyn Manson so easily forgotten?Slipknot sharing their stage with a man accused of wrongdoing by more than a dozen women is the antithesis of everything the genre should stand for, even if he denies it 100
Derek Jarman 🤘🏏⬛🔴 @derekjarman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It's something I think bears repeating, too. People can easily forget just how bad the former LNP government was, not just in terms of how they ran the country but also the awful people who were in charge and the stupid shit they pulled. The ALP is a bit "do nothing", but at least they're not LNP. 130
Derek Jarman 🤘🏏⬛🔴 @derekjarman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Positive move from The Greens. Shoebridge has a bit of juice and can be forceful without being sanctimonious. They've been absent during the rise of One Nation, but they have an opportunity to be a genuine (as opposed to opportunistic) bulwark. As long as they don't disappear up their own arses.theguardian.comDavid Shoebridge says ‘we’re here to replace Labor’ in first remarks after being elected new Greens leaderShoebridge, a senator from New South Wales and former upper house state MP, won the role over Mehreen Faruqi and Sarah Hanson-Young 020
Derek Jarman 🤘🏏⬛🔴 @derekjarman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Because of some spam purporting to come from my web service provider but showing the name of a company called "Benny Fjord Gaffeltruck" on the email address, I learned that the Danish word for "forklift" is "gaffeltruck". I don't know whether "Benny Fjord" is a pisstake of "Betty Ford" or not. 000
Derek Jarman 🤘🏏⬛🔴 @derekjarman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026He can be both, Rob. He's certainly spineless (and that's the part that is disappointing, I guess). And like most career politicians, he is also self-absorbed. You don't climb to the top of a political party unless you are. 011
Derek Jarman 🤘🏏⬛🔴 @derekjarman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026One does have to assume that the ALP is content with how things look. They have/had the juice to make all kinds of structural changes and they appear to have done very little. I'll still take them over the LNP (because they were *awful*), but it still feels like choosing the *least worst*. 021
Derek Jarman 🤘🏏⬛🔴 @derekjarman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I find myself disappointed in him too.. but I wonder whether that's on me. Did I follow hope a little too far? He's still better than Morrison, but that's because Morrison was a malignant scumbag; Albanese (it turns out) is just another career politician doing the bidding of the moneyed. 252
Derek Jarman 🤘🏏⬛🔴 @derekjarman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The answer is that they're one of the most propagandised populations on earth... from the cradle to the grave. 010
Derek Jarman 🤘🏏⬛🔴 @derekjarman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Sign for a baker at a farmer's market near my house. The first one reads amusingly to me... "our bread is *traditionally* sourdough"... but today? The second is an attempt from a month later. Closer... maybe still not ideal though. 000
Derek Jarman 🤘🏏⬛🔴 @derekjarman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026PSA: if you have a USB C port that the plug just doesn't seem to fit in anymore or is always loose and you can't see anything wrong with the plug or the port: There's probably something lodged in there and it's been compressed good. Grab a toothpick and dig... and don't stop at the first chunk. 001
Derek Jarman 🤘🏏⬛🔴 @derekjarman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The thing I noticed last time I was at the vet was the sheer number of companies that have entered the pet insurance space... there must be good money to be made there to attract and support that much competition. 010