Mark Holsworth, Black Mark @mholsworth.bsky.social · 7hIf it is separation from god for all eternity, then it is bound to happen on death to all who believe in god. 010
Mark Holsworth, Black Mark @mholsworth.bsky.social · 7hYes, you did vote for this. You indicated a preference for the ALP, and in Australia's narrowing democracy, that counts as giving Albo permission to do whatever he wants because the Constitution gives you little to no rights. Ignorance is not an excuse because the ALP had form for doing this. 000
Mark Holsworth, Black Mark @mholsworth.bsky.social · 11hReading Lester Bangs again after many years, and man, does he rock, with every long, salty sentence of passionate, informed, honest, raving madness he lays down. 010
Reposted by Mark Holsworth, Black MarkABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Two Renoir paintings stolen from a museum in southern France last month have been found, and six people arrested, local authorities said.abc.net.auBreaking: Two stolen Renoir paintings found, six arrestedTwo Renoir paintings stolen from a museum in southern France last month have been found, and six people arrested, local authorities said. 0103
Mark Holsworth, Black Mark @mholsworth.bsky.social · 08/10/2026melbourneartcritic.wordpress.com/2026/10/08/f...melbourneartcritic.wordpress.comFrom Sicily to CaulfieldThis Monday, sculptor Phillip Cannizzo, best known in Melbourne for his sculpture at the corner of Caulfield Park, stopped by to give me a copy of his autobiography, From Sicily to Caulfield (Green… 000
Mark Holsworth, Black Mark @mholsworth.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Many of them need to be arrested at the border for war crimes and genocide, and then held in detention until trial. 010
Reposted by Mark Holsworth, Black MarkAmyville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026in the art fraud world, faking a signature is the killing stroke for a legal case. the smart fraudsters let a faked artwork work its way through a series of deniable attributed-to's and in-the-manner-of's and let the buyer fill in the blanks. 014437
Reposted by Mark Holsworth, Black MarkGlen @gergyl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Interesting thing about that, from an Australian perspective, is that then Attorney-General Robert Menzies toured Nazi Germany the following year, a few months before Kristallnacht; spoke highly of Herr Hitler on his return. He first became Prime Minister in December 1939. 185
Reposted by Mark Holsworth, Black MarkBlonde Matthew, tour guide @blondematthew.bsky.social · 04/10/2026People like sitting at City Square on a sunny day, despite what The Age says 051
Mark Holsworth, Black Mark @mholsworth.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The choice was always an illusion; it was never fair, free, or democratic elections in Australia, I know that, but I like to rub Australians' noses in the shit that they have talked for decades. 000
Mark Holsworth, Black Mark @mholsworth.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Betrayed? No, Australia chose Team Genocidal Lunatics long ago. Australians voted repeatedly to give the duopoly Australia to do whatever they wanted with it. Australians never voted for human rights or any constitutional power to limit the duopoly, and consistently voted for the duopoly. 100
Mark Holsworth, Black Mark @mholsworth.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Australians are amongst the best in the world at normalising something completely fucking insane. 060
Mark Holsworth, Black Mark @mholsworth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026melbourneartcritic.wordpress.com/2026/10/02/c...melbourneartcritic.wordpress.comCourt ReportingFollowing up from my previous post explaining my modus operandi, to use the Latin because we are straying into legal territory with this post, of going into art’s liminal zones. Two years ago… 000
Reposted by Mark Holsworth, Black MarkBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026Turning "politics" into "voting" is absolutely in line with Margaret Thatcher's dictum that "there is no such thing as society." 113725
Reposted by Mark Holsworth, Black MarkLaura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Oh god the cat's copying famous pictures again 2535
Mark Holsworth, Black Mark @mholsworth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026That's because you didn't read my post. No wonder you are so bad at making rational arguments and resort to ad hominem attacks when you instantly dismiss positions that don't fit your fantasy without looking at the evidence presented in the post. 010
Mark Holsworth, Black Mark @mholsworth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The ALP has a history of working with ON. Or aren't you aware of the reality that doesn't match your fantasy? 011
Reposted by Mark Holsworth, Black MarkRob Arnol @robertarnol.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Australian Banksy for the win. 🏆 05119
Mark Holsworth, Black Mark @mholsworth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026You and the rest of the ALP supporters are delusional. Now you are claiming that what happened in the Tasmanian elections wasn't real. And your only retort is an ad hominem. You really need to learn how to debate and reason. 200
Mark Holsworth, Black Mark @mholsworth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Bullshit. The ALP may go into coalition with the ON to stop a Green/ALP government and protect mining and Zionist interests. Remember Tasmania, where the ALP preferred an LNP government over a coalition with the Greens. 131
Mark Holsworth, Black Mark @mholsworth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Do you have some special access to the truth?! Will you, Scooby-Doo-style, pull off the mask from 'false Labor' to reveal it was really old-man conservative all along? Bullshit derived from crap premises. This is the true ALP, the white Australia policy one from the past, and the same one now. 010
Mark Holsworth, Black Mark @mholsworth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I've been using some of the same paper decorations my mother bought in c.1970. 010
Mark Holsworth, Black Mark @mholsworth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026My neighbour does the best jack-o'-lanterns. 010
Mark Holsworth, Black Mark @mholsworth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026melbourneartcritic.wordpress.com/2026/10/01/a...melbourneartcritic.wordpress.comAn attempt to explain what I doThis blog post from five years ago attempts to explain what I do as an art and culture critic. I’ve been slowing down my blog posts this year because I thought I needed to step back from writing Bl… 010
Reposted by Mark Holsworth, Black MarkTwang 🍉 @twangmaker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Albo is putting a wrecking ball through the creative arts in Australia. He appointed the Antisemitism Envoy to suppress creative voices. He is bowing to US tech bros and allowing them to steal Australian creative works without payment. Creative people unite and campaign to eject Albo from office. 185
Mark Holsworth, Black Mark @mholsworth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"...last term bans on Nazi symbology were also introduced with strict penalties." As far as I know, these laws have only been used twice, both times to censor criticism of the ALP/LNP duopoly, which depicted their leaders dressed as Nazis. Fuck the ALP/LNP. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...abc.net.auAntisemitism plan would strip funding from unis, arts events who fail to fight Jewish hatePowers to strip funding from public institutions who fail on antisemitism, a review of Australia's hate speech laws, and visa screening for antisemitic views are among the recommendations of a wide-ra... 001
Reposted by Mark Holsworth, Black MarkJessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I have separated the art from the artist and am now whipping the art to stiff peaks, after which I will gently fold it into the artist before baking at 350 til golden and puffed 3545491101
Mark Holsworth, Black Mark @mholsworth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Plus, you are obsessive, you sound like one of those abusive guys who stalks his ex-wife and blames her for all those times he hit her. I hope you live to see the destruction of Israel. 000
Mark Holsworth, Black Mark @mholsworth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026So you know more about the genocide in Palestine than the ICC? More likely, you are an amoral shit-for-brains who remains deliberately ignorant of anything other than Zionist propaganda and should shut-the-fuck up. 000
Mark Holsworth, Black Mark @mholsworth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Victims are never guilty. Occupied people have a right to resist. Blaming the resistance for Israel's genocide is something that only an unthinking, amoral, deliberately ignorant person would do. 100
Mark Holsworth, Black Mark @mholsworth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026So why don't you use the internationally agreed-upon definition of genocide? www.ohchr.org/en/instrumen... Is it because it clearly defines genocide, and the ICC has determined Israel's actions meet that definition? If that's the case fuck you, you amoral bigot.ohchr.orgConvention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of GenocideEntry into force: 12 January 1951, in accordance with article XIII The Contracting Parties , Having considered the declaration made by the General Assembly of the United Nations in its resolution 96 (... 020
Mark Holsworth, Black Mark @mholsworth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...theguardian.comAn epic Melbourne art crawl: how many gallery openings can I cram in in one night?Covering 15km and several suburbs on an e-bike, James Norman discovers vibrant artist-run spaces, crowds spilling on to pavements and a garbage bin of ice-cold beer 032
Mark Holsworth, Black Mark @mholsworth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026No, you are not stupid; you are obviously an intentionally ignorant, amoral genocide supporter, literally amongst the worst people in the world. 010
Mark Holsworth, Black Mark @mholsworth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026If you weren't an amoral, shit-for-brains bigot supporting Israel's genocide, you could look up the Genocide Convention and find the answer: that there is no time limit. It is judged like all crimes by intentions and actions, not your fantasy brain-farts. 010
Mark Holsworth, Black Mark @mholsworth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Look up the definition in the Genocide Convention, you ignorant bigot. 000
Mark Holsworth, Black Mark @mholsworth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026What about your brain farts? Whataboutism is a sign of a bigot who wants to distract from the argument. I suspect the reason you are doing this is that you are an amoral bigot who supports genocidal war criminals, but of course, you could just be a stupid bigot who hasn't learned to shut up. 000
Mark Holsworth, Black Mark @mholsworth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026If your claim has any legal validity or credibility, tell the ICC. Do not post your ignorant, uninformed, uneducated brain farts unless you are either a stupid bigot or an amoral, shit-for-brains bigot. 010
Mark Holsworth, Black Mark @mholsworth.bsky.social · 27/09/2026For more, see my blog post about the event: lookingglassjukebox.com/2026/09/27/h...lookingglassjukebox.comHis Master’s Voice LaunchIt was forty years ago today When the sirens told the band to play… …So may I introduce to you The scenario you’ve known for all these years… His Master’s Voice is a series of three Call of Cthulhu… 000
Mark Holsworth, Black Mark @mholsworth.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Having a human rights charter that parliament cannot simply override is a good start. Both major parties in Australia suspended the Racial Discrimination Act, so they could discriminate against Indigenous people. They also compelled Indigenous people to vote for them. 000
Mark Holsworth, Black Mark @mholsworth.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Mr Informal was not allowed to run for election under his legal name, Mr Informal; instead, he had to run under a dead name because the Australian Electoral Commission claimed "Vote Informal" would encourage people not to vote. Obviously, arbitrary censorship is incompatible with democracy. 010
Mark Holsworth, Black Mark @mholsworth.bsky.social · 27/09/2026It will censor people's freedom of political expression in ways you cannot predict. Let me tell you about Albert Langer, who was jailed for telling Australians about the voting laws because the Australian Electoral Commission claimed it would encourage people not to vote. Next comes Mr Informal. 200
Mark Holsworth, Black Mark @mholsworth.bsky.social · 27/09/2026lookingglassjukebox.com/2026/09/27/h...lookingglassjukebox.comHis Master’s Voice LaunchIt was forty years ago today When the sirens told the band to play… …So may I introduce to you The scenario you’ve known for all these years… His Master’s Voice is a series of three Call of Cthulhu… 000
Mark Holsworth, Black Mark @mholsworth.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The hard-core ALP claims the Overton Window definition of the left (anything left of the LNP). Under that definition, even the Nazi Party had a left wing. 010
Mark Holsworth, Black Mark @mholsworth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I think this is the real ALP; the imaginary Whitlam's ALP is just a front that convinces some people to join, vote for it, or pass their preferences to it. There is no evidence of sustained underlying progressive politics in the ALP, from the White Australia Policy to today. 475
Reposted by Mark Holsworth, Black MarkStuart Horrex @stuarthorrex.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Perhaps we need to discuss why we continue to give taxpayer funding to 'Christian' organisations who mock widely held community values; equality for women, right to choose, inclusive schools, child safety, actually paying compensation to abuse survivors instead of hiding behind legal challenges? 031