Artist + Adventurer | STAR WARS | TF | Spiral Dynamics | Metal | Love + Chaos + Mystery + Wonder | Born in Meanjin | on Gubbi Gubbi land, Australia 🇦🇺🌈

Brisbane, Queensland
Joined March 2011
Replying to @Variety
They’re taking the Hobbits to AIsengard!
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Probably late to the convo with this one but my thoughts are that annoyed droid / first mate being named SM-33 is def a reference to first mate Mr. Smee from Peter Pan #skeletoncrew #starwars #DisneyPlus
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The US election results continue to show us how important education is, how uncommon critical thinking is, a total lack of agenda/bias acknowledgement, & how ANYBODY (including me) can make up stupid conclusions regardless of their left-right position on the political spectrum
Revelation 13:16-17.
Second time watching #TransformersOne in the cinema, just love love love that they focus on the lore and the Primes and Primus! We need a trilogy! ‘TIL ALL ARE ONE! @TFHypeGuy
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The audience at the Olympics
Brisbane 2032 Olympics better be featuring @parkwayofficial & @amityaffliction riffing over a MAD MAX apocalyptic hellscape filled with flames and demolition derby stunts jumping croc filled swamps or I’m renouncing my Australian citizenship 🇦🇺🤘🏻 #Olympics #brisbane2032
Star Wars is for everyone & everyone belongs. Difference of opinion is part of life & shouldn’t cause the collapse of something u love esp a 70s space wizard scifi fiction. Robust convos about Star Wars are rare or mislabeled as hate, so give me your best and worst takes! 😁
The division thats caused by the absolutely ridiculous fighting about how to enjoy Star Wars is destroying a beloved franchise. Omfg Both extremes are as bad as each other, while the majority of fans just wanna be left alone to enjoy a new era of we’ve loved since childhood
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"Please, don't worry so much. Because in the end, none of us have very long on this Earth. Life is fleeting. And if you're ever distressed, cast your eyes to the summer sky when the stars are strung across the velvety night. And when a shooting star streaks through the blackness, turning night into day... make a wish and think of me. Make your life spectacular.” - Robin Williams (as Jack in the movie 'Jack')
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Wealthy Capitalist Accidentally Makes Great Argument For Revolution Recent comments from a wealthy Australian property developer named Tim Gurner are going viral on social media right now for the unusual frankness with which he discusses the inherent conflicts of interest between the working class and employers, saying workers who’ve grown lazy and arrogant during Covid need to experience economic pain in the form of unemployment to rein them in and put them in their place. Gurner, who with a net worth of $912 million is ranked by the Australian Financial Review as the 154th richest person in Australia, made the remarks at the Australian Financial Review Property Summit on Tuesday. “You know, tradies [Australian slang for tradesmen] have definitely pulled back on productivity,” Gurner said. “They have been paid a lot to do not too much in the last few years. And we need to see that change. I think the problem that we’ve had is that we have people who decided they didn’t really want to work so much anymore through Covid.” Gurner continued: “We need to remind people that they work for the employer, not the other way around. We need to see unemployment rise, unemployment has to jump 40–50 percent. In my view, we need to see pain in the economy. I mean, there’s been a systematic change where employees feel the employer is extremely lucky to have them as opposed to the other way around. “So it’s a dynamic that has to change. We’ve got to kill that attitude and that has to come through hurting the economy which is what the whole global world is trying to do. The governments around the world are trying to increase unemployment, to get that to some sort of normality, and we’re seeing it. I think every employer now is seeing it. “I mean, there are definitely massive layoffs going off and people might not be talking about it, but people are definitely laying people off and we’re starting to see less arrogance in the employment market and that has to continue, because that will cascade across the cost balance.” It’s not often that you’ll see a member of the ruling class reveal their hostile, slave-master attitude toward the working class so transparently. Perhaps Gurner got a little too careless showing off in front of his rich friends at a forum which, like most things that happen in Australia, never attracts much international attention. But it also wouldn’t be the first time Gurner drew headlines by publicly expressing his disdain for normal working people; in 2017 he became a meme for blaming the economic struggles of millennials on the idea that they spend too much of their money on avocado toast. Whether he intended his remarks to gain attention or not, Gurner has gone viral once again, and opponents of the status quo he thrives on are making swift use of his comments. “I like teaching lefty theory as much as the next guy but I can rarely do better at explaining the connection between capital and social-political domination than just pointing at what the guys with the capital do and say,” reads a popular tweet by Georgetown professor Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò. “When Marxists say that capitalism, in order to function, literally requires unemployment and homelessness to discipline wages to ensure satisfactory profitability and maintain a useful social domination of the working class don’t take it from us, take it from capitalists,” reads another popular share of the Gurner video. Gurner’s statements are unusual in their frankness and in their admission that unemployment is a weapon of the ruling class to bludgeon workers into working harder for less pay, but his push to decrease employment is also entirely in alignment with what influential economists like Larry Summers, Ben Bernanke and Olivier Blanchard have been saying in recent months. Workers making more money is seen by the ruling class as a freakish aberrational problem that needs to be fixed via economic pain instead of a good thing that should be celebrated and normalized. It’s important to remember these frank admissions when they happen, because they don’t happen very often. Normally the capitalist class spends its time telling workers they’re an important part of the team and we’re all family here and hey, have a slice of pizza on us every now and then. But the fact of the matter is that all they really care about is their ability to siphon off the excess value generated by your labor, and they’ll come together with remarkable class solidarity to push the state to hurt you financially in order to ensure that they can skim the largest share of that value possible. This is completely unsustainable. We cannot continue to tolerate systems which must necessarily abuse workers with financial pain in order to keep increasing profits and quarterly statements. We must transcend these competition-based models where people are manipulated by financial pain into stepping on each other’s heads in a rat race to show the ruling class that they can generate more profit for their employer than their neighbor can. We need to move into collaboration-based systems in which we all work together for the good of everyone and toward the thriving of our biosphere. Our current status quo systems are choking us to death. Such changes aren’t going to happen until the people start using the power of their numbers to force them to happen. And Tim Gurner just made a splendid argument outlining why this should happen sooner rather than later. Remember: a class war is already happening. That decision has already been made for us. The only thing we have a say in is whether we fight back or not.
PERFECT! “Extraordinary things need extraordinary evidence.” Science and substance and proof matters, words and hype are cheap
I keep being asked what I make of the UFO thing in Congress yesterday, so here it is: I watched a few clips and saw some people who seemed to believe stuff saying extraordinary things without presenting extraordinary evidence. Therefore I have nothing more to say, other than: It would be great if true - it would take a bit of the pressure off our civilisation if we weren’t the only means within the Milky Way by which the Universe understands itself. Sadly, as of today, I still feel that pressure, so can we perhaps focus on not messing our world up rather than hoping that, to paraphrase Sagan, someone will float down to save us from ourselves.
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GIVEAWAY time. Who has seen Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny? To win one of 10 signed copies of my official quad style teaser poster tell me what your favourite part was, RT & ❤️this tweet. Winners picked July 5th. Poster size is A2. Fortune and glory, kids!
My oldest brother passed away tragically this week, he was 45. We both loved @starwars since we were kids, so my very last words to him as I said goodbye were “Luke, the Force will be with you. Always.” My brothers name was Luke. @MarkHamill TY for the gift of your legacy 😢❤️
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Carrie Fisher will receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on May 4th So well deserved. Forever our princess 💜
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Let’s just have fun teddit.net/comments/12eok9z
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So many incredible new Star Wars stories & characters in the galaxy now, and I love it all! BUT I’m still BAFFLED why so many fans are STILL unable to share opinions & ideas w/o feeling they need to toxically defend them. Gives me apologetics/fundy vibes and its gross AF
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In the venerated halls of London’s Natural History Museum, one of the largest animals ever to walk the Earth is about to make its debut. cnn.it/3M1wwQY