Leroy
leroylynch.bsky.social
Leroy
@leroylynch.bsky.social
ALP member. Social Democrat. Posts are mainly news, plus some history and general interest.
Poor list, but nice to see Juggernaut get some love.
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The Forgotten: Richard Lester's "Juggernaut" (1974)
Bombs on an ocean liner endanger lives and enable a political discourse in Richard Lester's savage, savvy seventies thriller Juggernaut.
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November 28, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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(We still have a statue of Major General Charles "Chinese" Gordon outside Parliament House BTW.)
November 28, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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And it’s all flowing from a tiny handful of diehard racists and nativists who have seized unprecedented power by puppeteering an almost incomprehensibly corrupt and unfit president towards a nativist agenda that would have made the KKK proud.

AND EVERY KEEPS ACTING LIKE EVERYTHING IS NORMAL.
November 28, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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The US federal government is openly warring against its own nonwhite population in a way no one alive has ever experienced. It’s not even getting to hide it. The overt bigotry is comparable to Jim Crow. And our pathetic, cowed, putrid political class just keeps pretending it isn’t even happening.
November 28, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Blue Thunder (1983)
It retained some 70s subversive edge, immediately undermined by the very 80s TV show version that followed.
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Blue Thunder Is Watching You: Advanced Tech Meets Cold War Paranoia - Reactor
The phrase “80s action movie” elicits images of a musclebound Übermensch dispatching dozens of faceless enemies, all while his girlfriend/wife/daughter waits helplessly for rescue. For those who grew ...
reactormag.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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Ngl I always do feel a degree of jealousy reading about almost any study or experiment in the old days where the extent of the ethics review appears to have been going "yeah I'm gonna try this and see what happens lol" and a bunch of other academics say "ok lol" while you all smoke indoors..
November 27, 2025 at 12:03 PM
"They are backed by a group called the Digital Freedom Project, led by NSW upper house MP John Ruddick of the Libertarian Party. So far, the Digital Freedom Project has not revealed who is giving it money."
theconversation.com/two-teens-ha... #auslaw
Two teens have launched a High Court challenge to the under-16s social media ban. Will it make a difference?
The teenagers will argue the laws restrict their constitutional right to freedom of political communication.
theconversation.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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The 1948 election in South Africa could, I suppose, be said to have killed 'centrism' in that country. It wasn't a lonely grave.
November 27, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Among many ridiculous "policies" Hughes is touting. The total exclusion of young candidates aside how on earth is an electoral commission supposed to determine whether a candidate has worked for a minimum of 10 years? What if they have been a sporadic worker?
November 27, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Grattan on Friday: when the music stopped, Greens had out-stepped flat-footed Liberals on environment deal
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Grattan on Friday: when the music stopped, Greens had out-stepped flat-footed Liberals on environment deal
The government finally got through its environmental laws, doing the deal with the Greens, leaving the Liberals hung out to dry.
theconversation.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:58 PM
A “milestone, a win, and genuine progress” are just three of the terms used to describe a new bill announced by the Albanese government designed to protect Australia's environmental future.
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Albanese government passes 'milestone' laws to protect Australia's future
The new bill has been praised for ending 'decades of lawlessness and natural decline'. Find out more about how the new laws have been received.
au.news.yahoo.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:53 PM
"The Coalition voted against what Sussan Ley described as a “dirty deal” that would drive up energy prices, although one of her colleagues, the pro-nature senator Andrew McLachlan, crossed the floor to back Labor’s bill."
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... #ausecon #auspol
Labor strikes deal with Greens on nature laws overhaul amid criticism ‘dirty deal’ being ‘rammed through’
Deal to rewrite the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act marks end to five-year struggle to fix broken system
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:51 PM