Anthony Morgan

@admorgan.bsky.social

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I was a funny man, then I went away. https://www.patreon.com/posts/89348454?utm_campaign=postshare_creator

A photo of a half decent suit stuffed with a craven greedy boy whose morals are given to the highest bidder. The pic appeared in an ABC (australia) article online.)
A red brown terrier looking like a little dingo stares at a painting of a woman, which is leaning against a wood stove. It wasn't there this morning. The dog dares the woman to try something.
Six cans of beer making extract, four labelled "Draught" and two labelled "Stout" sit on a shelf next to a jar of rolled oats and a mystery cream coloured powder.
Around field of blue, like a badge, features 3 stylised human figures outlined in white, whilst a yellow banner bears the logo "I PLEDGE TO GO DRY" Beneath is yellow lettering reading "DRY JULY for cancer support"
Part of the wikipedia page on the origins of the lowy institute, Sir Frank was a veteran of the 1947-1949 Palestine war, and close associate of a couple Israeli PMs.
The cover of the Allen Family's double album, and the cover of the inner sleeve booklet lie on a plywood floor painted seemingly at random from the end of cans found at the tip.
A screenshot from Mastadon. (at)babadookspinoza types 'People will be running from the shame of supporting this the rest of their lives' An attached post reads "The Health Ministry has released a new 1000 page document with the names, ages and other info, of 52,929 Palestinians killed in Gaza. For the first 100 pages (over 5000 names) the age is listed at 5 years or younger. The first 18 pages the age is listed as 0 (under 1 year)."
A young Keith Richards plays a butterscotch telecaster with a black pick guard and a maple neck (of course)
Another dead-eyed man named Jimmy
A black t shirt has a hand drawn picture of a skeleton wearing an officer's jacket with fringed epaulettes. Above the drawing, the name of the band in question - 'LOS CAPITANES' Below the drawing, the inscription ' ... there are worse things'
A black and white painting of Hank Williams hangs in a building with thick oregon (Douglas Fir) trusses and purlins, Sydney Blue Gum posts, and a corrugated iron ceiling.
Two Hungarian police officers walk down the street in Hungary.
Books piled everywhere
A monochrome painting of Hank Williams by Ffarff.
A bunch of headlines to articles describing how much gas, coal and nuclear is needed to power the "AI boom"
A denim clad man plays lovingly with his young dog in the mist.
A dirty bespectacled and slightly crazed looking man with a swollen damaged mouth looks directly at the camera.
A mango seed falls from the dilapidated arse of a president.
A small wicker basket of Ruby Mangoes sits on a hessian covered flat surface.
Rhodri Marsden's passport photo.
There’s a meta version of “stories of powerlessness that are apparently too difficult or niche for a national audience”. It’s called Tasmania. I’ve lost count of the number of stories I’ve encountered in the island state that should have scandalised the nation, but have been met with a shrug by the mainland media. For example, did you know that the Tasmanian government recently paid $75 million in a class action settlement to 129 victims of child sexual abuse at the hands of dozens of government employees in its only youth detention centre? Probably not. Amid the lack of national attention, the Ashley Youth Detention Centre is still open, and this year almost 50% of its detainees reported they’d been victims of abuse. There is now a second class action in train for the many further Ashley victims who missed the first one. The impoverished state has estimated its total liability for child sexual abuse claims at over $600 million. Six. Hundred. Million. Dollars. You cannot tell me that this didn’t deserve national attention, or that they wouldn’t have been leading national bulletins for weeks if they broke in Melbourne or Sydney. Did you know that Tasmania has a functional adult literacy rate of 50%? I’ve written about these and so many other scandals. Local Tasmanian reporters have also written about the horrific environmental impact of the salmon industry; about the clusterfuck of the biggest infrastructure project in the state’s history, the new Spirit of Tasmania vessels; about the dire state of the health system; about the cost of housing and the madness of building an unaffordable AFL stadium, and the ballooning government debt. In terms of ongoing national coverage, though, all of these stories have been outweighed by the annual nude swim that happens in Hobart’s River Derwent during Dark Mofo.
A bulldog stands proudly on a paddle board whilst the owner paddles them along the bay.
A bulldog waits on the beach, standing resolutely on a paddle board while waiting for the human to get their shit together