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Andy Hazel @andyhazel.bsky.social · 9h

Thank you. So kind of you to let me know. Also, great Letterboxd! We have very similiar taste.

Andy Hazel @andyhazel.bsky.social · 9h

Perhaps you can commission it, like an editor commissions a writer, or John Leavitt commissions a suit.

Andy Hazel @andyhazel.bsky.social · 9h

Thanks! It's quite surreal.

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Andy Hazel @andyhazel.bsky.social · 15h

Thank you @sonicboomrecords.bsky.social. It's mindblowing to see @numerogroup.bsky.social's reissue of Tacoma Radar's album crack a chart so long after it was first released to universal indifference and followed by 20 years of silence that reinforced that initial impression.

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 11h

has been a loooonng time coming... Will see if there's anything new in it. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Calls to stop NSW police trial of national facial recognition system over lack of legal safeguards

Passport photos used in state’s criminal investigations despite parliament rejecting legislation on controversial technology

www.theguardian.com

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Andy Hazel @andyhazel.bsky.social · 10h

The Attorney-General's Department has quietly revealed it plans to make the National Driver Licence Facial Recognition Solution “operational” this year, enabling people to use their driver’s licence to biometrically verify their identity through the federal government’s Face Verification Service.

National photo licence recognition system set to go live in 2025

Eight years after system first proposed.

www.itnews.com.au

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 15h

"People often ask me what journalism I trust. So today I’m handing out letter grades to some major players." —Mark Jacob. www.stopthepresses.news/p/im-handing...

I’m handing out pro-democracy grades to the media

The Guardian gets an A, the NY Times gets a C, CBS gets an F

www.stopthepresses.news

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Andy Hazel @andyhazel.bsky.social · 15h

Thank you @sonicboomrecords.bsky.social. It's mindblowing to see @numerogroup.bsky.social's reissue of Tacoma Radar's album crack a chart so long after it was first released to universal indifference and followed by 20 years of silence that reinforced that initial impression.

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 1d

[Professor Farnsworth voice]: "Good news, everyone !"

Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 1d

Researchers pointed a satellite dish at the sky for 3 years and monitored what unencrypted data it picked up. The results were shocking: They obtained thousands of T-Mobile users' phone calls and texts, military and law enforcement secrets, much more: www.wired.com/story/satell... 🧵👇

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...

www.wired.com

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 1d

He had no clue what happened either

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 2d

They are so pathetic. There isn't a business lobby in existence they can't cave to.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Treasurer announces rework of stalled superannuation tax increase plan

Treasurer Jim Chalmers announces the federal government's stalled superannuation tax increases will be reworked after criticism over the plan.

www.abc.net.au

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Andy Hazel @andyhazel.bsky.social · 1d

MAN I love that film. It is such a good time. Seriously underrated.

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Andy Hazel @andyhazel.bsky.social · 1d

*Ooh! Woo-oh!* - backing vocals

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Andy Hazel @andyhazel.bsky.social · 1d

*joins on air guitar*

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Captain Quoll @kudelka.bsky.social · 2d

Gotta pay for that stadium. pulsetasmania.com.au/news/staff-r...

Staff rally over Royal Hobart Hospital clinical trial cuts

The state government says nobody will lose their jobs as a result…

pulsetasmania.com.au

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Mawkish Twaddler @newaveclub.bsky.social · 4d

Just now, as the foothills wait for the sun to awaken, the arcadian Scottish ethereality of this new Tacoma Radar reissue feels exactly right.

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Andy Hazel @andyhazel.bsky.social · 2d

Big day. Lots of people. ❤️

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A Republic If You Can Keep It @arepublicif.bsky.social · 3d

Don’t know who to credit but bravo.

An illustrated poster in style of Obama Hope posters with a frog and the word hop

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Andy Hazel @andyhazel.bsky.social · 5d

If I was Oasis, I would get some Mancunian craft brewery to make Oasis-branded beer and make a deal so that every arena I played in could only sell that beer and I would quit half way through the world tour a billionaire.

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Andy Hazel @andyhazel.bsky.social · 5d

No! How... NO one could have seen this coming.

Crikey @crikey.com.au · 5d

Teens are using TikTok to share tips on getting around Australia’s upcoming social media ban, from changing bios to using their parents' emails.

How Australian teens are already planning to dodge the social media ban

www.crikey.com.au

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Andy Hazel @andyhazel.bsky.social · 5d

I thought, "Well, what a way to go, what a way to be dragged off by the secret police, is for showing insufficient enthusiasm for the comedic potential of Mohammed bin Salman."

Saudi Arabia Gets the Last Laugh

The Riyadh Comedy Festival is just one part of a much bigger plan.

www.theatlantic.com

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Donna Benenson @donnabenenson.bsky.social · 5d

"...the NPC’s list of sponsors reveals the problem. Among them are no less than ten firms with links to the arms industry that is profiting from Israel’s destruction of Gaza, including four of the very largest defence manufacturers in the world – BAE, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin and Thales."

Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 5d

New:
Censorship by any other name.
The National Press Club cancelled a speaker, Chris Hedges, who planned to address the mass killing of journalists in Gaza. The mainstream press didn’t report it.
nickfeik.substack.com/p/censorship...