Tim Bright

Festival and events manager. Sometime lighting, audio, visual designer.
Wanting to learn node real bad! 😀

[Tim Bright @Red_Beardo]

@jd0tmp4 Totally agree, it looks terrible , and I love him. It looks like a massive miss

[Tim Bright @Red_Beardo]

@ScooterMcNeice @AnthP_ Yes looks super impressive totally agree

[Tim Bright @Red_Beardo]

@AnatoliKopadze Awesome interview

[Tim Bright @Red_Beardo]

@JohnOSullivan36 @MaryKostakidis And to think when ever people suggest the same about Oct 7th, that this isn't where it started - they are shouted down

[Interested Bystander 🇵🇸 @IntBystand]

The only real journalist in Australia who’s prepared to call out the appalling bullshit @AlboMP has said in our name, effectively condoning the blatantly illegal, disgraceful US-Israel slaughter of yet more civilians, this time in #Iran #auspol

[Dr. Simon @goddek]

> 70 years ago, Iran looked just like any Western country.
> Short skirts, rock’n’roll, open universities.
> It’s 1953. Iran elects a secular socialist: Mohammad Mossadegh.
> He nationalizes oil. That pisses off BP.
> Cold War excuse.
> CIA and MI6 stage a coup. Operation Ajax.
> Mossadegh is overthrown.
> They install the Shah, a brutal US-backed dictator.
> Secret police. Torture chambers.
> Iran turns into a puppet state.
> People are that desperate, they turn to Khomeini, an exiled cleric, promising independence and dignity.
> 1979: Islamic Revolution.
> The Shah flees.
> US embassy stormed. Hostage crisis.
> America never forgives.
> Arms Saddam Hussein.
> Iraq invades Iran.
> US provides chemical weapons, satellite intel, logistics.
> 1 million Iranians die.
> Iranian kids sent into minefields with plastic keys around their necks.
> US shoots down Iran Air Flight 655
> 290 civilians dead.
> No apology.
> Fast forward today, Israel attacks Iran.
> The U.S. immediately says “we stand with Israel.”
> They talk about “regime change.”
> They say that Iranians “deserve freedom.”
> No mention of the coup they started.
> No mention of the dictator they installed.
> No mention of the war they fueled.
> No mention of the decades of sanctions and sabotage.
> They created the monster, and now they attacked it because it was still breathing.
> Watch who they try to put on the throne next.
> The son of the Shah is already being presented as the “alternative.”
> The same dynasty.
> The same foreign backing.
>The same promises of stability.
> History will repeats itself.
> And it’s not gonna end well.

[Matt McDermott @mattmfm]

Really can’t get over this video of more than a half dozen ICE agents forming a tactical perimeter at a suburban Minnesota Target so their commander can use the bathroom, cosplaying like they’re in Fallujah.

What an absurd waste of taxpayer dollars.

[Jenny Difficult-Frecklington-Jones 🇵🇸🇱🇧🇮🇷 @JonesHowDareYou]

Cathy Wilcox makes me feel proud to be an Australian. 🙇🏻‍♀️ #auspol #IStandWithCathyWilcox

[AdviceFromLouis @AdviceFromLouis]

100% PROOF: ICE killing Renee Nicole Good was COLD BLOODED MURDER (shots fired in clip)

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

My withdrawal from Adelaide Writers' Festival (in protest to the ban on Randa Abdel-Fattah following pressure from the Zionist lobby) drew out immense support but (naturally) also criticism. As the criticism is always more interesting than the praise, here is an extract from an email by a Australian-Greek who was "appalled" by my withdrawal. [My reply to him follows below]

LETTER BEGINS

I'm writing as a second-generation Greek-Australian. My grandparents immigrated to Australia, and my grandmother raised six children alone in Adelaide. All went on to build successful families here - a story that represents the best of multiculturalism, made possible by embracing Australian values of equality, respect, and opportunity.

Your withdrawal from the Adelaide Writers Festival in solidarity with Randa Abdel-Fattah is appalling. The festival organizers made the right decision in removing her. Rhetoric that calls for the elimination of any people - regardless of the political context - has no place on Australian platforms. This isn't about silencing legitimate criticism; it's about recognizing a line that should never be crossed in a democratic society.

By withdrawing in protest of that decision, you're defending the indefensible. As a Greek who should understand what happens when democratic societies fail to stand firm against eliminationist rhetoric, your position is particularly shameful.

Australia's success as a multicultural nation depends on rejecting those who promote hatred toward any group. I expected someone who speaks of equality and democracy to understand this fundamental principle.

A deeply disappointed compatriot.

AND HERE IS MY REPLY

Thank you for writing. At the very least, we are still blessed with the capacity to disagree agreeably.

In your letter you write that “[r]hetoric that calls for the elimination of any people - regardless of the political context - has no place on Australian platforms”. Agreed. Fully. Except that Randa Abdel-Fattah never called for the elimination of a people. Had she done so, I too would have refused to share a platform with her at the Adelaide Writers Week or anywhere else for that matter.

Like successive Australian governments were calling for years for the elimination of the South African Apartheid state, Randa wished for an end of the “Zionist colony” in Palestine – the equivalent of the Boer colonial white supremacist state in south Africa. What Randa was wishing for, in the terms of your letter, was that the same Australian values you cherish prevail (instead of an Apartheid state’s laws and mores) in the land of her ancestors: equality before the law independently of one’s religion, ethnicity or creed. It is for this call that Randa was banned from this year’s Adelaide Writers Week.

So, if you do care about Australian values and institutions, you should be appalled.

You should be appalled by the ban of Randa Abdel-Fattah, independently of whether you agree with her on specifics.

You should be appalled by the silencing and sidelining of the AWW’s wonderful director, Louise Adler – a Jewish intellectual who has contributed so much to Australian letters and culture and who invited Randa knowing full well the facts of the case.

You should be appalled by a Zionist lobby determined to use the accusation of antisemitism in order to legitimise any war crime the Israeli Apartheid state chooses to commit – all in the name of Australian and Western values.

Finally, and on a personal note, I am glad to have withdrawn from this year’s AWW in a bid to help save it.

Respectfully

Yanis Varoufakis

[Scooter @ScooterMcNeice]

Damn this is getting genuinely scary.

[Peter Murphy @PeterWMurphy1]

The IDF has thermal scopes. They knew 6yo Hind Rajab was alive in the car, surrounded by 6 dead family members. They fired 335 bullets into the car, killing her. Now imagine the media coverage if Hamas had fired 335 bullets into a car, killing a 6yo Israeli girl #IsraeliTerrorism

[Tim Bright @Red_Beardo]

@BomberRicko Love Nguyen, hope it gets a good crack at it this year, such a terrific start last year, want overawed at all

[David Pocock @DavidPocock]

Why I've been banned from playing parliamentary sport...

[💧Mary Kostakidis @MaryKostakidis]

The rain didn’t stop us. A historic march.

[Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhd]

laughing at how insane it is to say this publicly. what is the link between these two things, keir? either palestine's statehood is recognizable or not, what is this blackmail situation??? how is it possible that the statehood claim will become invalid if the massacre is stopped?

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

The absolute incapacity of Western leaders to enforce intl law when it comes to Israel is EPIC.

Ministers, Prime Ministers, Presidents of Republic:

Doing NOTHING, diverting attention, sanctioning individual ministers IS NOT enforcing the intl law that was developed after the Holocaust and WWII to prevent another Holocaust and WWII.

At this critical point,
Your states have a CLEAR obligation to:
1. Sanction Israel
2. Impose a total arms embargo (no buy, no sell, no transfer, direct or indirect)
3. Break the siege (send navies instead of dropping food on the head of starving genocide survivors)
4. Suspend all trade agreements with Israel till the end of the genocide, occupation and apartheid.
5. Investigate and prosecute individuals and orgs that have committed crimes in the oPt.

Together we can, and we will.

[Crazy ass moments in DC history 🏳️‍🌈 @DC_moments]

In the 60s, a recurring character in Justice League comics was their mascot, Snapper Carr, a young hipster who snapped his fingers when happy.

While creating DC: The New Frontier (2004), one of the continuity rules Darwyn Cooke set for himself was "Snapper Carr does not exist".

[WACA @akaWACA]

Thank you @cathywilcox1
Cathy’s cartoon says everything people need to know about the Miznon protest.

Protesters arrested on the night need our support, inc financial assistance.
Please donate what you can to the WACA solidarity fund and share the link.

https://t.co/ZUTGf3JZ4S

[Bob Carr @bobjcarr]

The slaughter of Palestinians desperate for food, on top of 50,000 civilian deaths, would persuade most people that right now anti-Palestinianism is a more deadly pathology in the world than anti-Semitism. Scenes in Gaza resemble the Warsaw Ghetto.