#the australian

[myhughniverse]

Kylie Minogue - via social media - "Hi from LA! 🌳🏰🌞" Christian Vermaak, The Australian, Chateau Marmont, Frank Strachan"

[sweetdreamsjeff]

Searchers fail to find Jeff Buckley

Date: June 2, 1997

From: The Australian (National, Australia)

Publisher: News Limited

Document Type: Brief article

MEMPHIS: Heavy rain hampered a search yesterday for singer Jeff Buckley, who vanished on Thursday while swimming in the Mississippi River.

Police boats searched for Buckley but it was too dangerous for divers.

Buckley, 30, disappeared on Thursday night after he and a friend went to Memphis harbour with a portable stereo player and a guitar, said Major Jim Tusant, of the Memphis police.

Major Tusant said Buckley had waded into the river fully clothed and began to sing and swim on his back.

Buckley was signed with Columbia Records and had been in Memphis since February working at a recording studio. Described as a folk singer, his music had gravitated more towards rock.

Critics had compared his sweeping voice to that of Van Morrison and his bombastic lyrics to those of Led Zeppelin.

His 1994 album, Grace, yielded the alternative hit, Last Goodbye, and he contributed to Patti Smith's 1996 album, Gone Again.

Buckley is the son of songwriter Tim Buckley, who died of a drug overdose in 1975, and was best known for his 1967 album, Goodbye and Hello.

[pencildragons]

bro i LOVE indigenous fusion music i love it when indigenous people take traditional practices and language and apply them in new cool ways i love the slow decay and decolonisation of the modern music industry

[pigeonsplease]

[injuries-in-dust]

And here we find a rare instance of a Humans Are Space Orcs post from Tiktok that isn't an AI voice reading a reddit post over a minecraft video.

[loloraturaart]

AU AU, haha (like, Australian AU, Geddit?) because I went to Bunnings yesterday and Jinx would've loved Bunnings.

[captain-ultimat-doggo]

Humans entering space and realizing we are so small. We are mice compared to these giant races with their advanced machinery and technologies and experiences beyond us- except that we're humans. And our engineers dive into the new tech and once we learn the principles we also soon realize how Inefficient everything is. Their "microchips" are the size of cars, their storage drives are basically buildings, and they somehow store less data than ours. So, human companies take advantage, and tech starts rolling out. Massive and there's a lot of wasted space so that it can be managed with larger hands/pincers/claws/tentacles, but also so much more efficient than anything the galaxy has seen before.

Human technicians start hopping ships and upkeeping the general maintenance, the stuff that most aliens put off or don't notice because they never access the crevices of their ships. As human companies become more popular and lead the tech world in everything from warp cores to game stations ("it's so compact! How are the graphics so good?" Says a 60' tall grimbleback, holding a new VR headset that has all of its components included because it's so BIG by our tech standards), soon many things have accessibility ports for humans to be able to use as well. This means that these shiprats hoping ship to ship cause such a huge improvement in everything running smoothly, and there's a huge downtick in pests on ships because those "pests" are not only big enough and aggressive enough to bite a pitbull or a person in half, they're invasive to so many planets and humans hate nothing more than dog killing planet overrunning monsters.

All the while, from the Aliens perspective, humans are an elusive race that don't fraternize much with them. You almost never see a human as most places aren't exactly safe for the little things to run around in. They do export so much stuff though, and the custodial staff at the Central Galactic Outpost insists that there's more humans around than any other race if you just know where to look.

And sure it's somewhat known that some of the little daredevils hop ships and help out in exchange for room and board, usually without permission, but that can't be that common, can it?

Maybe your ship is running better this cycle ever since you stopped at the last station, that just means that tuneup was better than you thought. And maybe for some reason that program you were working on last night is finished when you wake up, but you're so tired maybe you finished it before you passed out. Somehow that faulty light in the galley has fixed itself as well, which is odd, but maybe the Engineer finally got to it. You'd know if there was someone else on your ship.

Right?

... You leave a little bowl of berries out as a thank you, just in case. You're not sure what humans like but you've heard they have a sweet tooth.

[passerkirbius]

So, there's a lot of USians around who are very clearly fucking fed up with their political choices this election cycle, and planning to sit it out.

And I get it! What's the point of voting if there's no one to vote for?

The thing is, I'm Australian. In Australia, voting is compulsory. We don't get to sit out our elections, and I'll be real honest with you - we don't exactly get better choices than you lot. So how do you vote if there's no one to vote for? You find someone to vote against. And there's always someone to vote against.

Now, we have the pleasure of preferential voting in Australia - We get to rank every candidate from 1 to X, and I'll tell you, there's something so cathartic about putting the biggest bastard of the lot at the very bottom of your preferences. I understand that USians don't get that option - you get to mark one person, and that's it.

That means that you get one shot, so aim it at the biggest bastard of the lot. The candidate you most utterly detest. Put your vote in the worst possible place for them. Don't even think about who that vote's going towards, that's not the point. Remember, every vote is a vote against someone. Make sure you fuck up that someone's election day!

[autisticexpression2]

Seeing a lot of posts about the Palestinian flag, and it got me thinking about indigenous flags around the world.

Māori:

Kalaallit Nunaat:

Haudenosaunee

Nunatsiavut:

Australian Aboriginal:

Torres Strait Islands:

Rapa Nui:

Kurdistan:

Sami:

Ainu:

Of course, these are just a handful. May they all reclaim their stolen lands.

[myhughniverse]

The Australian - via social media - "Riding a career high, ‘Min’ (as her mates call her) has proven she’s still got what it takes. In her fifth act, the tiny singer has finally made it big in America. How did she do it?"

[mistressemmedi]

Lewis after his first race weekend with Ferrari

[aressida]

[forzasedici]

f1 drivers when it’s a wet race and their race engineer requires them to answer a question

[tenth-sentence]

He and his wife arrived in Sydney on the day that The Australian carried a lead business article suggesting that Westpac had found a new chief executive.

"Westpac: The Bank That Broke the Bank" - Edna Carew

[the-wolf-and-moon]

Milky Way And The Australian Pinnacles