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Even if he presented as slick and competent it’s just bizarre that he is constantly making public appearances. I couldn’t even name a defence secretary prior to him other than Rumsfeld, probably because they had better things to be doing with their time

Yeah they could have given everybody in WA a cheque for $3.50!

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“The dire consequences for Gazans… have inevitably affected the global view of Israel” is as close as this editorial gets to acknowledging the fact that Israel’s name is now mud www.theaustralian.com.au/subscribe/ne...

theaustralian.com.au

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Shane Carrow @shanecarrow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Rest assured the Victorian judiciary will make sure he is promptly bailed again

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When I played Social Democracy by @red-autumn.itch.io last year I could never manage a better result than a civil war which left hundreds of thousands dead and only stopped by foreign intervention… and it struck me this was still a better outcome than what happened in real life

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Shane Carrow @shanecarrow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I do not understand why it takes so long for pharmacists to fill a prescription. It is a bottle sitting on a shelf that has come to your pharmacy from a factory. This is not the Old West, you are not mixing shit up with beakers back there

Shane Carrow @shanecarrow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A fact that really surprised me was that Russia only made up about 50% of the population of the USSR

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I have to know what the deal is with the Roof House

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Ah good it’s the time of the year where we fuck around with the clocks for no good reason

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It has crossed my mind that in the unlikely event they form govt here that might actually be good in the long run as the rest of the country will have 18 months to observe the chaos that ensues

You don’t have an answer because you know what you said is stupid 👍

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Didn’t answer the question - who is “comfortable” on the matter of how much Western countries should assist an invaded European democracy? Whose cage is being rattled when Shoebridge rejects providing military aid as a matter of universal principle?

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As I said it’s a last straw moment for me not a red line. My beliefs have simply become more aligned with ALP policy than Greens over time. (Eg I am not particularly pro Aukus but Shoebridge’s position is reflexively against the American alliance entirely, which I disagree with)

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André Brett @drdrehistorian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Who is in the comfortable cage on this particular issue? The people in Kyiv who’ve been getting bombed by fascists for four years?

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I'm a left-of-Labor voter, which has often meant voting 1 for the Greens. You'd be right surmising my politics are pretty anti-war too. But failing to aid Ukraine's defence against invasion is loathsome and the purported principle invoked is one that does not meet the moment

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New Greens leader: No weapons for Ukraine, curtail the US alliance

David Shoebridge believes the Greens can win votes by campaigning to scrap the AUKUS nuclear-powered submarine pact and legalise recreational cannabis.

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Lots of American companies made lots of money out of Lend-lease in the 1940s too. So what?

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Shane Carrow @shanecarrow.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

On this very particular issue the answer to that is obvious, as Shoebridge has helpfully made clear

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Every time this crops up I’m reminded of how the opening interview of Working by Studs Terkel is with a steel mill worker who talks about how much he hates his shitty job that has ruined his body and how he’s saving to send his kids to college so they don’t have to do anything remotely similar

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Shane Carrow @shanecarrow.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This started a few months ago at least and definitely has the vibe of one of those things that’s a pet obsession of somebody in Trump’s outer circle which has leaked inwards www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/u...

nytimes.com

Vance Downplays Watergate and Compares Himself to Nixon

The vice president said that the scandal that ended Richard Nixon’s presidency would be “like a 12-hour news story” if it happened today and that the “deep state” had taken down Nixon.

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Stephen King, author of The Stand (1,152 p.)

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This is true, but it’s also true of basically all crimes

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I sincerely believe that a lot of America’s policing problems - obviously not all, but a lot - stem from the fact that it’s largely a municipal responsibility

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Storm at Sea (1875), by Ivan Aivazovsky

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Shane Carrow @shanecarrow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s notable because it’s the first time an Asian power defeated a European power. At least that’s what I learned when we covered it in high school 🤷‍♂️

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My gut feeling is that as much as 50% of contemporary Australian anti-immigration sentiment is driven by a dislike of food delivery e-bikes

Shane Carrow @shanecarrow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

One day I will clear out my Letterboxd watchlist and my Goodreads want-to-read shelf and then I can die

Shane Carrow @shanecarrow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Goddamn it I once literally wrote a list calling Children of Men the best film of the 2000s and somehow forgot it here

Shane Carrow @shanecarrow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Watched this for the first time recently and (speaking as an Australian) it is very much, psychologically and thematically, an English film rather than an Australian film

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Shane Carrow @shanecarrow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“What would you say is the greatest British film of all-time? Gimme a Top 5.” 28 Years Later A Field in England A Night to Remember Dunkirk The Trip

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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

'Greenwich Obsevatory Sunset' by Kit Boyd kitboyd.com

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Shane Carrow @shanecarrow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Incompetent idiots can still be very dangerous. Just ask the families of Chris Baghsarian or Katie Tangey.

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Shane Carrow @shanecarrow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Frankly I don’t think this place is that good but it’s undeniably an Australian Institution 🫡

Shane Carrow @shanecarrow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Was recently astonished to learn that 1 in 5 Brits live in public housing. They still have an affordable housing crisis.

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 26/09/2026

‘Tobias and the Angel’ Leonard Baskin, 1958

a large-winged, bald angelic figure with a solemn expression walking alongside a young Tobias, who holds a fish by his side. Baskin used intricate, web-like black lines and stark contrasts to create a dramatic and haunting atmosphere across the landscape

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Shane Carrow @shanecarrow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Victoria’s highways will continue to be more pothole than road because the government buckled in the face of affluent NIMBYs who think their buyer’s remorse about moving to an industrial zone should be everyone else’s problem www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Shane Carrow @shanecarrow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It’s been more than a decade since I’ve interviewed outside the tightly regulated public service and this is making me very grateful for that

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Shane Carrow @shanecarrow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Terror s1, about a doomed 19th century Arctic expedition. One of those shows where every aspect - the acting, the writing, the cinematography, the set design, the soundtrack - is near perfect. Tremendous story about leadership and brotherhood.

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What I really admired about Band of Brothers is it follows technical aspects of war other than the infantryman POV: the officer directing different platoons to best effect in an engagement; or the medic to whom it doesn’t matter if they’re advancing or retreating, he just needs more supplies

I’m sure this was a Chad Profitz bit involving a gigantic bowl of M&Ms on the table

This is a very funny headline

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Yeah I assumed this would be its death knell but everyone says this so apparently not! I need to get around to watching the later seasons

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The Wire is still incredibly good storytelling but the more I return to it the less I think it’s (for want of a better term) “smarter” than Breaking Bad or any of its other prestige peers. It’s a polemic with its finger heavily pressed on the scale.

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I have encountered this too often not to believe many of them are being sincere, I just personally find that inexplicable

Rick and Morty probably has the biggest disparity between how objectively good a show is and how embarrassed I am to say I like it because of its terrible fanbase

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Ultimately goes to the same stressful and violent place, though

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Having Breaking Bad at the top is defensible. Having that much of a gap between Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul is not. I wouldn’t say “they’re basically the same show,” but everything that makes either of them great is amply present in its sibling.