Astro Xerxes
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Cathy and Heathcliff
February 7, 2026 at 5:58 AM
Cathy and Heathcliff
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
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tripling down
brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
January 27, 2026 at 7:05 AM
tripling down
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Rob Hirst - One of the world's greatest drummers (and almost certainly the smartest, tbh) - has passed. Also singer, songwriter, guitarist, activist, author, raconteur, and all-round fine bloke. Not unexpected, but still a profoundly painful loss. www.facebook.com/midnightoilo...
Midnight Oil
After fighting heroically for almost three years, Rob is now free of pain - ‘a glimmer of tiny light in the wilderness’. He died peacefully, surrounded by loved ones. The family asks that anyone...
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January 20, 2026 at 6:48 AM
Rob Hirst - One of the world's greatest drummers (and almost certainly the smartest, tbh) - has passed. Also singer, songwriter, guitarist, activist, author, raconteur, and all-round fine bloke. Not unexpected, but still a profoundly painful loss. www.facebook.com/midnightoilo...
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sigh, goats
A trip of goats
(language warning)
A trip of goats
(language warning)
January 11, 2026 at 3:57 AM
sigh, goats
A trip of goats
(language warning)
A trip of goats
(language warning)
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and i’ll do it again
January 7, 2026 at 7:37 AM
and i’ll do it again
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re-upping dan's wonderful piece from today - and yes, if you've never seen this version of Fairytale of New York, you really need to (and play it loud)
and I am in agreement:
this next year is OUR year, gdammit
k
and I am in agreement:
this next year is OUR year, gdammit
k
December 24, 2025 at 11:20 PM
re-upping dan's wonderful piece from today - and yes, if you've never seen this version of Fairytale of New York, you really need to (and play it loud)
and I am in agreement:
this next year is OUR year, gdammit
k
and I am in agreement:
this next year is OUR year, gdammit
k
world aids day - such loss.
remembering died pretty performing prince’s the cross at selinas at a world aids day benefit.
remembering a school mate’s funeral in sutherland, a wonderful beautiful soul, in his early 20s, victim of a big disease with a little name, thinking of greg and so many others
remembering died pretty performing prince’s the cross at selinas at a world aids day benefit.
remembering a school mate’s funeral in sutherland, a wonderful beautiful soul, in his early 20s, victim of a big disease with a little name, thinking of greg and so many others
December 1, 2025 at 9:39 AM
world aids day - such loss.
remembering died pretty performing prince’s the cross at selinas at a world aids day benefit.
remembering a school mate’s funeral in sutherland, a wonderful beautiful soul, in his early 20s, victim of a big disease with a little name, thinking of greg and so many others
remembering died pretty performing prince’s the cross at selinas at a world aids day benefit.
remembering a school mate’s funeral in sutherland, a wonderful beautiful soul, in his early 20s, victim of a big disease with a little name, thinking of greg and so many others
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Patti Smith: ‘I’ve never seen a world so driven by power and money’
Patti Smith: ‘I’ve never seen a world so driven by power and money’
This year, the singer-songwriter celebrates the 50th anniversary of ‘Horses’, the album that made her famous, and releases her memoir ‘Bread of Angels.’ Her voice, steadfast in its commitment to the w...
english.elpais.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Patti Smith: ‘I’ve never seen a world so driven by power and money’
Loving @carlhiaasen in Port Douglas!
November 15, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Loving @carlhiaasen in Port Douglas!
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October 25, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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“the project could fuel around four billion tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions – roughly ten times Australia’s total annual emissions.”
EJA lawyers have just filed a Federal Court challenge to Woodside’s North West Shelf Extension on behalf of the Australian Conservation Foundation.
Read more 👇
envirojustice.org.au/legal-work/c...
Read more 👇
envirojustice.org.au/legal-work/c...
The North West Shelf extension case
Taking the Environment Minister to court over his approval of Australia’s largest, longest operating and most polluting gas project.
envirojustice.org.au
October 13, 2025 at 2:28 AM
“the project could fuel around four billion tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions – roughly ten times Australia’s total annual emissions.”
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Psychobilly-influenced swamp rockers The Gun Club performing "Like Calling Up Thunder" live at Manchester's Hacienda in 1984. From the band's second album, 1982's Miami. m.youtube.com/watch?v=uM7a...
Gun Club - Like Calling Up Thunder - Hacienda 1984
YouTube video by MePablo808
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July 7, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Psychobilly-influenced swamp rockers The Gun Club performing "Like Calling Up Thunder" live at Manchester's Hacienda in 1984. From the band's second album, 1982's Miami. m.youtube.com/watch?v=uM7a...
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What do you prefer? Our oldest, grandest form of human rock art in THE WORLD, showing plants, creatures, even human faces & meaningful messaging vs huge expanded industrial gas drilling & processing causing acid rain & fast art destruction? for OS shareholders to get richer?? Hmmm? #MurrayWatt
The Environment Minister is about to decide if Woodside's North West Shelf gas expansion gets the green light - and whether to cave in to corporate pressure to weaken environment laws.
We need strong laws - and we need leaders who stand with communities, not corporations.
#EnvironmentLaws #AusPol
We need strong laws - and we need leaders who stand with communities, not corporations.
#EnvironmentLaws #AusPol
May 22, 2025 at 4:21 AM
What do you prefer? Our oldest, grandest form of human rock art in THE WORLD, showing plants, creatures, even human faces & meaningful messaging vs huge expanded industrial gas drilling & processing causing acid rain & fast art destruction? for OS shareholders to get richer?? Hmmm? #MurrayWatt
A great sign reminding people that kid’s footy is about fun!!!
May 20, 2025 at 2:19 AM
A great sign reminding people that kid’s footy is about fun!!!
Listening to Bessie Smith on a wet Friday night - ‘I need a little sugar/in my bowl, I need a little hotdog/between my rolls’.
May 16, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Listening to Bessie Smith on a wet Friday night - ‘I need a little sugar/in my bowl, I need a little hotdog/between my rolls’.
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NO ONE:
ME: How does the man in the moon cut his hair?
ABSOLUTELY NO ONE:
ME: Eclipse it!
ME: How does the man in the moon cut his hair?
ABSOLUTELY NO ONE:
ME: Eclipse it!
May 14, 2025 at 3:57 AM
NO ONE:
ME: How does the man in the moon cut his hair?
ABSOLUTELY NO ONE:
ME: Eclipse it!
ME: How does the man in the moon cut his hair?
ABSOLUTELY NO ONE:
ME: Eclipse it!