loaf

head in the sand / they/them / settler on wurundjeri & boon wurrung country

[loaf @Leonrw]

deleting this app as doom scrolling has hit a new level. I’m on bluesky (same username) if I turn into a poster again mb I’ll get some invites.. until then. my ig is ordinary_waiting_period - I also hate it there. u could email me (same username) at geemail that’d b cute byeeeeee

[Future Adam Curtis B-Roll @adamcurtisbroll]

Labour minister Andy Burnham struggles to open a heavy security gate at the entrance to Downing Street before being assisted by a police officer, June 2007.

[Ronni🧂Salt-WhoWroteGunnawahYeahThatOne @RonniSalt]

So, let's recap, shall we?

This week the @PressClubAust managed to:

* cancel at the last minute, the questions and subsequent presence of renowned journalist Margo Kingston, who’d travelled over 2 days to Canberra to ask her question of Pauline Hanson – and yes, they were questions initially requested and organised by the Press Club itself 9 days ago.

* cancel the press gallery membership of long-term journalist, Greg Jericho, allegedly because he works for the @TheAusInstitute. Although Greg has been employed by the Aust Institute for 4 years, his membership cancellation only came yesterday after he publicly called out the Canberra press gallery - which is of course a highly fortuitous coincidence and not at all connected to his criticism.

* somehow allowed a person or persons unknown to enter the Press Club premises and put up a 3 metre wide electronic banner, without anybody in the Press Club noticing them doing it. How several people enter a private club carrying something that large, then proceed to wire it up on an open stage and nobody at the premises noticed in any way, is yet another display of the NPC’s staggering incompetence.

* release an unnecessarily detailed, high-school level statement about said banner incident, a statement that reeks of defensiveness and hysteria, while also prejudicially naming an alleged culprit and arguably sinking to the bottom of the barrel in terms of the journalistic standards it supposedly represents. Read it below and remind yourself that people who work with words for a living wrote that.

* allowed the speaker, Pauline Hanson, to defame one of their own - a journalist from the Guardian who dared to ask a hard-hitting question - by calling her "trash". This was only weeks after calling the same journalist a "nasty bitch". Mirroring, Trump’s “Quiet piggy” incident, the journalist's alleged colleagues all sat mute, as did the moderator, Tom Connell from Sky News during the abuse. No rebuke, no blow-back, no support for their fellow journalist, standing alone under Hanson's hissing vitriol. Just pusillanimous silence.

The National Press Club outdid their already dubious reputation this week, spraying themselves in a spectacular shower of self-inflicted shit – wall to wall, dripping effluent.

Australians currently suffer some of the most timid, captured political journalism in the western world, and if the actions of the #NPC this week are the metric, then we can all see why.

What a national and international embarrassment of an organisation meant to serve as a vital democratic institution and a cultural conscience – and one that has offered us neither.

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[loaf @Leonrw]

this is an aside to otherwise admirable child social media policy

[loaf @Leonrw]

To me, the true wonder of train arriving at station (and, well, cinema) is that even if you Know, rationally, it’s not actually going to travel through the screen and crash into you, your body can’t help but react as if it is

[•ᴗ- @evadentz]

we should ban teenagers from ALL media. and then on their 16th birthday they are brought to a theatre to be shown a movie of a train coming directly at them to see if they react and flee in horror like they did in 1896

[loaf @Leonrw]

After a headline of “Pickering calls Tame problematic” it takes 10 paragraphs before they reveal that he said it to Avi fucking Yemini

[Omar Sakr @omarsakrpoet]

This SMH article quoting Pickering also describes the genocide as "Israel's long military campaign in Gaza", and quotes the extreme racist Islamophobic org AJA, a fringe group that the media loves to continually try to lend credibility, because our status quo is resolutely racist

[loaf @Leonrw]

@kerrholden Yeah nice this is motivating me to get out my Sony handycam again. The screen had broken so I was stuck using the tiny viewfinder (also kinda fun) but recording direct to monitor would solve both these problem

[loaf @Leonrw]

@kerrholden Never tried recording straight to the monitor though !! Is there a notable difference for you between that and recording to dv tape

[loaf @Leonrw]

@kerrholden Yesss I was struggling with the double firewire dongle scenario and the fact capture has been removed from premiere before discovering I could do the same with my handycam and a black magic video assist

[Bernard Keane @BernardKeane]

ah the ceremonial Expression of Concern, to be followed by the inevitable ritual of Doing Nothing.

[Marcus Wong @aussiewongm]

The LXRA PR team had to import a group of cyclists to pose on this new shared path as it doesn't lead anywhere (note the "No Through Path" sign hiding in the background)

[loaf @Leonrw]

@aussiewongm @wheelreinvent Bahahaha incredible

[loaf @Leonrw]

There’s a sticker w a QR code in the grace toilets saying ‘remember when music was real’ but jokes on you music was never real

[F♯A♯∞, fka ☕️ @coopercooperco]

Using the power of AI to make sure my photos are always overexposed at least two stops.

[Alex Hochuli 🧉🎙️🤯📉 @Alex__1789]

Finally, technology has caught up with 1940s Argentinan literature

[Z.H. (Burial Magazine - SUBMISSIONS CLOSING 6/30) @BurialMagazine]

new in burial: in less than ten lines, @goodguygenc builds a brutal secluded world in his poetry. i’m in awe of this one—it’s called ‘crusaders’ and you should turn your phone sideways to read it. real proud to run this, a sort of depressive private myth. don’t miss it—read it👇!

[Deepcut News @deepcutnews]

Australia’s sovereign wealth fund drastically increased its investments in arms, tech and banking companies contributing to the Gaza genocide in 2025, risking “serious breaches of international law” according to pro-Palestine advocacy groups.

https://t.co/PVLvoioUsB

[Free Palestine Melbourne @FPMelbourne]

NAKBA DAY RALLY
12PM, SUNDAY 17 MAY

May 15th marks 78 years since the Nakba, when Israel was created on the land & graves of the Palestinian people. The Nakba continues today as Israel continues its genocide in Gaza, annexation of the West Bank & assaults on Lebanon & Iran.

[C.J. Prince @cj_prin]

the cafe staff seeing stan brakhage walk in with his film strips and painting equipment

[Scott Ludlam @Scottludlam]

last week richard marles announced an additional $53 billion in military spending for weapons of death and obsolete nuclear submarines.

[Natalie Wolchover @nattyover]

Bacteria move around using a molecular machine called the flagellar motor that rotates faster than the flywheel of a race car engine and switches directions in an instant. After 50 yrs, scientists have finally figured out how it works. “My lifelong quest is now fulfilled.” Link⤵️