Simon Copland 🍉🍉

Director Conservation Council ACT. Did a PhD on the manosphere, masculinity, social media and extremism.

Also tweets about sport and Bowie, and am in the SES.

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Look what has arrived! I got my copies on my book - it is now very real and also very surreal!
The book comes out in the UK on February 7 and will be in stores in Australia on May 16.
See online ordering options in the next week.

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@pavyg Is this a joke? The whole domestic violence....

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This video made me cry. No child should have to go through such fear for their safety. How are we letting this happen?

[الرادع المغربي 🇲🇦🔻🇵🇸 @Rd_fas1]

لحظة قصف اسرائيل لروضة أطفال جنوب لبنان 🇱🇧

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

When Metropolitan Police officer Wayne Couzens kidnapped and murdered Sarah Everard, Nigel Farage released a five-minute video urging people not to attack men or the police.

Today, in response to the murder of Henry Nowak, he called for "pure cold rage."

[Hasan alrabay @HasanEssam29636]

One of the most terrifying images in history: a transformation from life to death.

Gaza in 2023 and 2026!

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#576 Be by Common (2005)

A combination of hip hop and soul, this was really quite sublime. Working with Kanye West, Common moved away from his previous psychedelia to create an album full of great tracks and incredible heart. Love the album cover too. 7.5/10

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#380 Blood, Sweat, And Tears by Blood, Sweat, And Tears (1969)

An album that fuses fiery blues-rock with jazz, there are some great moments in the album. But also some of it is a little bit much. The album was a huge success, but it didn't last for the band. 7/10

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#575 Devotional Songs by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Party (1992)

I wish the book had more non-English language albums. This one is a stunner. The album is joyous, having an almost sexual rhythm to everything. A short number of long tracks I could listen to over and over. 9/10

[Muhammad Mazen @mhmd_s09]

One of the most horrific scenes in human history has been revealed.

A video shows people trying to rescue an injured person and carry him to the hospital; Israel bombed them all and killed them with a missile.

A video the world must never forget.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

Failure to vote for Israel at Eurovision is a sign of grave alarm and apparently warrants a Senate investigation in Australia.

Beyond parody at this point. They already eroded their free speech laws to protect Israel. Next: mandatory voting for Israel in song competitions.

[ᴅʀ ᴛᴀᴅ @Dr_Tad]

One Nation mostly ate into both LNP & ALP primary support between last year’s election & February this year, but hardly anyone is able to point to what might have been happening to drive this — some major policy? Some real world shock?

Some commentators still underplaying how much this has hurt the ALP & not just the LNP.

Some commentators even claiming the ON surge only really took off in recent months (probably when they first took it seriously).

Almost an entire commentariat caught off guard & imagining this shift was a flash in the pan, rather than the floodgates opening following a long period of major party decline.

In many ways Labor’s historic landslide on a low primary vote should’ve alerted people to its weakness. Instead they got caught up projecting a myth of ALP strength.

How quickly it’s been undermined.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

It’s wild how Texas Republicans think maybe being vegan is worse than being a child rapist.

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

Nothing to see here, just Israel live streaming its war crimes.

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

This CBS interview w Thomas Massie is insane.

Massie: “my policy has always been, no country is special and no country deserves my constituents’ taxpayer dollars.

So I’ve never voted for foreign aid, to Egypt, to Syria, to Israel or to Ukraine… but the ones in Israel … they are the biggest recipients so they are mad.” […]

CBS: “…are you antisemitic?”