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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

all i wanted from games growing up was cars and physics sandboxes

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Peter Malinauskas announces Ed Sheeran as headliner of Adelaide Writers' Week 2027

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This from Bikrum Gill describes colonialism & fascism so succinctly in a way I hadn't grasped this clearly before To the colony, the founding genocide is supposed to close the question of its legitimacy. But when resistance inevitably re-opens it, the colony 'must' return to its founding mode

What we see, then, in the period from 2006 onwards is the capacity of the rising armed resistance to re-open contestation of that which was long assumed to have been settled: the fundamental equation of force underlying Israel’s colonial project. In overturning this equation, the armed resistance has opened, irreversibly, the road to liberation and Israel has responded by explicitly returning to its genocidal foundations. The massive death and destruction Israel has routinely visited upon Gaza is not a collateral damage of war; it is the intended outcome of a doctrine that seeks to restore, via the logic of total elimination, an irreversibly eroding deterrence capacity.

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

seen postings of a couple of local exhibitions recently that presented AI ~artworks~ in a supposedly critical "indigenous"/"eco" context and they still look exactly like slop, more offensive if anything. it's not happening cousins let it go

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I don't like the term "Polynesian outliers" because it implies that the simplistic "Polynesian triangle" is Polynesia proper, when in reality it's all just Polynesia. Also the real shape of Polynesia is way prettier than a triangle, reminds me of a bird or a ray

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

it's crazy to me how elon completely killed poly/islander twitter there's like 5 of us left over there

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

just clocked someone as being from adelaide solely based on how they pronounced "home", confirming my view that we have a distinctive /oʊ/ diphthong and the plant/dance stuff isn't the only thing differentiating our accent from east coast ones. no one talks about this in australian accent convos !

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I need to write a long form post or make a video essay or something on how there's archaeological evidence that Polynesians reached australia in the 12th century and were hanging with Aboriginal peoples along the coast because it's so cool and literally no one knows about it

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

are we putting gender & sexuality in the census so the community has rep to justify social services or leaving it off in case One Nation gets in and has a free list of all the undesirabes' names and addresses

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

seen attempts to rewrite history claiming there was no sign of a genocide in October 2023. Anyone who was actually paying attention could see within a few days of the 7th that Israel had decided to wage an extermination & annexation campaign. You can't gaslight me it's seared into my mind forever

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

every day i wake up looking forward to having my breakfast cereal and every day without fail it's the most delicious thing ever

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

new track 'In Kind' on the huge new H34VEN0N34RTH compilation ⭐️ sc: soundcloud.com/h34ven0n34rt... bc: h34ven0n34rth.bandcamp.com/album/3quino...

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

another one last night: became lucid mid dream and started questioning the dream characters which caused the whole scene to deconstruct into this pixel art looking thing. then i tried to astral project but could feel i was uncomfy irl and had to wake up 😪 but i'm beginning to Gain Control....

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

'Estuary' from the album Crown of My Spirit animation by me character design by me & Solomon Enos full video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i9s...

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

a special send-off for the Crown of My Spirit era 5pm AEST today

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

i don't like the argument that using gen AI is "cheating" because it implies it's a devious shortcut to creating an artwork (reinforcing the pro-AI narrative) when it's more like a devious shortcut to conducting a pinterest search

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

couple nights ago in a lucid dream i decided to shut my eyes and travel to a deeper layer, which was just colourful lights and static but i stayed lucid. i then woke up from that into a non-lucid dream that had the same atmosphere/setting as the first lucid dream

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

i've had a premonition that when Tr*mp d*es it will be in a funny way

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

my observation of the visual artists i follow who have been using genAI tools for several years is that it doesn't seem like any of them have really developed the practice further since then, and in some cases their non-AI work has actually deteriorated in quality

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

research has led me to reading up on the Bible... Exodus is straight up a horror movie, this reminds me of The Conjuring or some shit. has anyone done that

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

one of the most mentally helpful things of my life has been understanding my body's cyclical patterns of mood/focus and how to work with them nonjudgementally. I involuntarily move thru a set of ~1-3 week mental phases and each one is kinda like a superpower with an achilles heel

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

blowing my mind realising the word va (space/time/distance between) is everywhere in the polynesian vocab vaha = open sea between vaka = canoe vahe = divide vaʻinga = play faiva = performance (fai = do) lava = able hiva = sing/dance ava = opening vai = water manava = womb, heart, gut (mana = power)

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

i regularly have multilayered dreams where i am in sleep paralysis or a lucid dream but i feel too tired & heavy to control it, so i wake myself but "wake up" into a non-lucid dream. and it's like deeper dream layer = more tired/heavy feeling... what does all this mean

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

wait i just remembered intimate pronouns are actually a thing in tongan lol. you use them to emphasise strong love/respect/sympathy for whoever you're talking about :')

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

working on a searchable copy of Churchward's Tongan Grammar which will be the first one ever afaik. may also add my own annotations & layout edits for timeliness & readability. it will be free bc i'm for the culture unlike Some tongan language resource creators. millions will ako lea fakatonga

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I’m not anxious about my writing accidentally sounding like AI because I write the way I need to, and the way I need to write is the most human thing I have. When AI starts to sound like me it will be because it tried to steal me, and it can only steal something that sounds like me

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

it went really well!! i think i actually helped a lot with translating the native speakers' way of explaining into terms the newer learners can grasp. it became more like a collaborative exchange for everyone and i realised this is how education is supposed to be. now i want to read freire again

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

new monnie prod by me 🩷 "out to dry" + "welcome to my island" (caroline polachek cover) artwork by jasmine jafari bfan.link/out-to-dry

bfan.link

Monnie — out to dry

New release out June 10, 2026!

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

the artist's #1 tool is intention. imo ceding any part of the process to any automation, AI or not, can dilute that (why i don't fw most algorithmic art). my core problem with genAI is that it just fully removes your freedom to iterate w specificity, which is The creative process

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

idk if this Conversation article is AI generated but either way i'm sick to death of this sentence structure holy shit

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

damn that's crazy, anyway the Solomon Islands is enclosed on all sides by a network of US colonies and military installations run by the "United States Indo-Pacific Command" whose insignia is a big fascist knife stabbing through the Pacific

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

this is my oversimplified external take but most of the time when i see left critiques of zohran it's because he's annoyingly moderate in words, but it seems like in practice he does a lot of genuine progressive policy. which is like the opposite of all other liberal politicians lol

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

i kinda reversed this because 1. bluesky is insanely shit for image and video, no hope for it as a visual platform in this state 2. if you talk about politics too much on twitter you get into the auspol outrage algorithm where 🇦🇺s brigade you if you say anything about race or colonialism

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

obviously One Nation doesn't represent "everyday aussies" and is really just the political vehicle of some mining & property magnates. i'm sure many ON supporters can see this. so the crazy thing to me is how many people are willing to be sold out for the promise of a license to be racist

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

most people probably don't realise there are solid pasifika communities in extremely random rural towns around the world like australia, the UK, i assume the US. i think it would be cool if there were more media about those specific experiences

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

> i attend our local tongan community's language class because i want to improve my high beginner/low intermediate level tongan > it starts at absolute basics so i'm cruising > second lesson i go to everyone thinks i speak really well and am way ahead > i'm co-running the next lesson

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

reading about the American folklorist Stith Thompson and i can't get over the name Stith. we don't have guys called Stith anymore

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

explaining gas export taxes to an australian: imagine a beer

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

getting back into sim racing... the lonelyspeck racing team is live

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

new song out today as the premiere track for katharsis' new compilation, 'changes' Lonelyspeck - Each Other compilation out may 11 🦋 katharsis-label.bandcamp.com/album/changes

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

i was thinking of starting a page/site to make socialist politics relatable to a Pacific context but then was happy to discover there's a new Pacific socialist publication. but after some observation they're giving white stupol trots so i'm back to wanting to make my own

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

i've been a long time hater of spotted doves because their sound pmo in a misophonia way but i've begun to think they are cute... also my baseline mild dislike/indifference to dogs has been shifting toward positive bc i love my friend's housemate's dog so much. and i'm nice to all spiders now

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

sydney added! lonelyspeck.neocities.org

Lonelyspeck & JesseMelancholy
The Equinox Tour 2026

17 april • adelaide • unibar
24 april • melbourne • leadbeater
22 may • sydney • crowbar

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

if anyone is going to ability fest in melb next weekend i will be there playing guitar for daine :p

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

This is off northern 'New Britain' 🇵🇬 where Polynesians' ancient Papuan ancestors may have came from. We always cite the Lapita people as Polynesian ancestors - which they are - but I feel like it gets overlooked that the Polynesian culture didn't emerge until Lapita & Papuan peoples mixed

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