Apatheist
@apatheist.bsky.social
Traveller, linguaphile, pseudo-intellectual. I care about grammar, social justice, foreign cinema, the Euro and the Tour de France. Je parle français, hablo un poco español. Live on Ngunnawal Land. That's me on the left. No DMs.
This is the best summary of what Nolan's Odyssey is really about I have seen.
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The right hates The Odyssey because of its ‘wokeness’ – but it missed an even bigger threat to its worldview | Peter Swallow
The new film extols the value of a rules-based world order. That’s far more radical than any casting decision says Labour MP and classicist Peter Swallow
www.theguardian.com
August 3, 2026 at 10:03 PM
This is the best summary of what Nolan's Odyssey is really about I have seen.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Well if course he would. He's afraid he'll lose.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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How Trump’s address was bluntly aimed at destabilizing the US electoral system
US president using office and intelligence agencies to try to undermine confidence in elections before midterms
www.theguardian.com
July 17, 2026 at 12:13 PM
Well if course he would. He's afraid he'll lose.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
With deepest sympathy on your 250th birthday.
July 5, 2026 at 11:40 PM
With deepest sympathy on your 250th birthday.
This will be very interesting to watch. And with the heat wave in Europe right now, there can be something similar there.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Trapped by floods and fearing death in the heat: the Australians taking legal action over the climate crisis
Ten people affected in different ways by extreme weather are taking a case against the federal government to the UN
www.theguardian.com
June 22, 2026 at 10:00 PM
This will be very interesting to watch. And with the heat wave in Europe right now, there can be something similar there.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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The @nytimes.com headline writer continues to airbrush the abject failures of this wretched President. FFS.
June 15, 2026 at 8:51 PM
The @nytimes.com headline writer continues to airbrush the abject failures of this wretched President. FFS.
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Cartoon by @jesseduquette.bsky.social
June 15, 2026 at 5:25 PM
Cartoon by @jesseduquette.bsky.social
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Status Coup reporters JT Cestkowski and Jon Farina are LIVE outside Delaney Hall ICE prison as the detention center continues its violence and retaliation both in the prison and on ICE protesters outside. We'll cover anything the police and ICE do, talk to protesters, and more tonight. This is now..
🚨BREAKING: ICE ATTACKS Protesters at Delaney Hall ICE Prison
YouTube video by Status Coup News
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June 16, 2026 at 4:05 AM
Status Coup reporters JT Cestkowski and Jon Farina are LIVE outside Delaney Hall ICE prison as the detention center continues its violence and retaliation both in the prison and on ICE protesters outside. We'll cover anything the police and ICE do, talk to protesters, and more tonight. This is now..
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One Nation "policy development officer" defended Hitler Youth. per The Guardian: t.co/p0aayY5LlK
If The L-NP ever has to join with PHON to form government, James Patterson won't have too many qualms ... 👇
#auspol
If The L-NP ever has to join with PHON to form government, James Patterson won't have too many qualms ... 👇
#auspol
June 16, 2026 at 4:11 AM
One Nation "policy development officer" defended Hitler Youth. per The Guardian: t.co/p0aayY5LlK
If The L-NP ever has to join with PHON to form government, James Patterson won't have too many qualms ... 👇
#auspol
If The L-NP ever has to join with PHON to form government, James Patterson won't have too many qualms ... 👇
#auspol
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We Need To "Claw" Back All Of
Our Money, From Fraud Felonious !
Our Money, From Fraud Felonious !
June 15, 2026 at 9:54 PM
We Need To "Claw" Back All Of
Our Money, From Fraud Felonious !
Our Money, From Fraud Felonious !
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Harvard and Princeton graduate, Grammy winner, and former First Lady Michelle Obama appreciation post
June 15, 2026 at 7:39 PM
Harvard and Princeton graduate, Grammy winner, and former First Lady Michelle Obama appreciation post
And that's the good news.
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...
'We'll never do this again': Why the UFC won't return to the White House
Despite touting the massive success of the White House event, UFC boss Dana White says the company will never stage another event like it.
www.abc.net.au
June 16, 2026 at 4:43 AM
And that's the good news.
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...
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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
And that's the good news.
And that's the good news.
Workers begin to remove Trump’s name from Kennedy Center after court rulings
In the dead of night, behind a screen, the president’s name started to be purged from the facade of the Washington building
www.theguardian.com
June 13, 2026 at 12:55 PM
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
And that's the good news.
And that's the good news.
A clear demonstration of Trump's reverse Midas touch - now everything he touches turns to sh*t.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
'Cancel it', Trump says after artists drop out of US Freedom 250 festival
Trump suggests holding a "Make America Great Again" rally instead after most headliners drop out of White-House-linked event.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 31, 2026 at 11:07 PM
A clear demonstration of Trump's reverse Midas touch - now everything he touches turns to sh*t.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Some good news.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Judge orders Kennedy Center to remove Trump’s name from building
Judge Christopher Cooper also ordered Kennedy Center officials to halt plans to close for two years starting in July.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 30, 2026 at 8:35 AM
Some good news.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Nice to see the system returning to how it worked under the CES. Outsourcing and 'mutual obligations' have been a nightmare for job seekers, but also potential employers, who have to deal with applications from unqualified people trying to meet 'obligations'.
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
Employment services overhaul aims to make system fairer after litany of complaints
The system has faced complaints welfare payments are being cancelled unfairly, and that it punishes people with complex needs.
www.sbs.com.au
May 27, 2026 at 1:37 AM
Nice to see the system returning to how it worked under the CES. Outsourcing and 'mutual obligations' have been a nightmare for job seekers, but also potential employers, who have to deal with applications from unqualified people trying to meet 'obligations'.
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
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Too stupid to leave well enough alone. Too stupid to admit it wasn't broken and didn't need to be fixed. Too stupid to know all the people that came before you must realize something you can't. Just a whole bunch of stupid.
April 17, 2026 at 10:20 AM
Too stupid to leave well enough alone. Too stupid to admit it wasn't broken and didn't need to be fixed. Too stupid to know all the people that came before you must realize something you can't. Just a whole bunch of stupid.
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Because Australia gives so much of our gas away for free, Japan gets it so cheap that it makes a profit selling it on to other countries!
Add your name to the call to impose royalties on all gas exported from Australia ✍️ https://nb.australiainstitute.org.au/collect_gas_royalties
Add your name to the call to impose royalties on all gas exported from Australia ✍️ https://nb.australiainstitute.org.au/collect_gas_royalties
April 17, 2026 at 9:43 PM
Because Australia gives so much of our gas away for free, Japan gets it so cheap that it makes a profit selling it on to other countries!
Add your name to the call to impose royalties on all gas exported from Australia ✍️ https://nb.australiainstitute.org.au/collect_gas_royalties
Add your name to the call to impose royalties on all gas exported from Australia ✍️ https://nb.australiainstitute.org.au/collect_gas_royalties
We're laughing at you even more, now, Trump. Except when we're crying.
April 18, 2026 at 12:06 AM
We're laughing at you even more, now, Trump. Except when we're crying.
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We never had a need for ICE or Border Gestapo. Never. Immigration was used as a maga rallying cry. One big disgusting lie. Open borders? Lie. Never. The Agents are committing crimes. NOT Immigrants. Human rights and Miranda rights? Deportation of U.S. citizens. Murder of U.S citizens. NAZI Rep. scum
April 17, 2026 at 6:56 PM
We never had a need for ICE or Border Gestapo. Never. Immigration was used as a maga rallying cry. One big disgusting lie. Open borders? Lie. Never. The Agents are committing crimes. NOT Immigrants. Human rights and Miranda rights? Deportation of U.S. citizens. Murder of U.S citizens. NAZI Rep. scum
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Is the world really going to have to suffer WW3 because the USA can’t impeach a president?
April 17, 2026 at 4:11 AM
Is the world really going to have to suffer WW3 because the USA can’t impeach a president?
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When a prosecutor finds that there is insufficient evidence to prosecute one of Trump’s enemies after a thorough assessment of the facts and law, he just fires the prosecutor and gets a new one to hack it up. Authoritarianism 101 from Trump’s Gangster Lawless DOJ.
April 17, 2026 at 11:24 PM
When a prosecutor finds that there is insufficient evidence to prosecute one of Trump’s enemies after a thorough assessment of the facts and law, he just fires the prosecutor and gets a new one to hack it up. Authoritarianism 101 from Trump’s Gangster Lawless DOJ.
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Yet another sad reminder that there is a two-tiered justice system in America: One for the rich. Another for everyone else.
April 17, 2026 at 10:45 PM
Yet another sad reminder that there is a two-tiered justice system in America: One for the rich. Another for everyone else.