IMHO, this is the best documentary-style film I’ve ever seen.

I’ve seen it many times in the course of writing a university paper on it, and now it’s on TV and I can’t look away.

I Am Not Your Negro - Raoul Peck:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5804038/

#CosoMovies

I think Mademoiselle Hendrix might be having an epiphany, just not quite the kind his pope-ness might want her to have 😬 :

“We are really shocked,” said Valentine Hendrix, a 22-year-old student. “He reduces us to a role of childbearer, mother, wife, everything we want to emancipate ourselves from.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/29/catholic-belgian-university-deplores-comments-by-pope-francis-moments-after-speech

I’ve lived in Dee Why for more than a quarter of a century and, while a fair few things have changed here, I have never seen the beach erode away so much that rocks are exposed at the base of those stairs, and the waves crash up against them at high tide. There’s always been at least 5-10 metres of sand there.

It’s somewhat troubling.

#Climate

At the same time yesterday afternoon, it was sunny and about 27ºC here.

That's normal. This is weird:

#WeatherNerd

#Climate

Amyl and The Sniffers - "Big Dreams" (Official Video)

Yet another banger, and a cool video too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipZSqcFA0Z0

#CosoMusic

Trying to write a little something with alternate tunings today. It's getting a bit cluttered... 😕

#CosoMusician #CoSoGuitar

Looks like the Labor government's calculated that their traditional base won't vote for the opposition under any circumstances, so they may as well try to appease the coal money and try to attract voters who're into that:

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/sep/24/tanya-plibersek-approves-three-coal-mine-expansions-in-move-criticised-as-the-opposite-of-climate-action

They're probably right, TBH, but putting more coal out into the world is a pretty cynical way cling to power.

They're better than the opposition, yes, but so's sticking a fork into your own leg 🤷‍♂️

#Climate

The ups and downs of supermarket prices: looks like the secret is out - Fiona Katauskas:

Well, well, well. A government regulator finally doing some actual regulating, eh?

Wonders will never cease.

I’m so glad it’s summer because cricket. ❤️

#Cricket

They say they have the fire under control today, but it's still really smoky around here, and I can hear the helicopters constantly.

I was struck by this pic in The Guardian taken yesterday from south of Sydney Harbour that shows the scale of the thing:

Credit: Farid Farid/AAP

In an ever-changing world, sometimes it's nice to have a spot of consistency.

Today, it's Aotearoa giving Australia a beating in rugby again.

Very soothing 🇳🇿 😂

Good news.

They are typically very good at getting control of these things, especially when the professional firefighters go in to help the volunteer ones.

This, here, is the thing that worries me about it.

If we want to have green areas in the city, a few houses are gonna be threatened by fires every now and then.

But they've been building a bunch of these retirement villages up that way for a couple of decades now, and this fire is heading in their direction.

The fire as seen from Long Reef/Dee Why Beach

Photo credit: Andrew Quilty

Fortunately, they appear to have their Hueys available, but they typically send the bigger helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft over to North America to help there while we're in winter, so I don't know if they're back yet 🤞

Interesting. The smoke from the fire is the only thing showing up on the weather radar.

#WeatherNerd 🤓