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Sandra N

@attempt57.bsky.social

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Was a teacher, a public servant, a business owner living on Ngarigo land in southeast NSW. Alternate now between doom scrolling and attacking the garden with sharp implements. #auspol #ClimateAction #USPolitics

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Sandra N @attempt57.bsky.social · Dec 14

So Dutton's plan:

🤔underestimates construction, fuel, operations costs, & construction time
🤔ignores SMR, coal power plant extension, nuclear waste disposal & accident liability costs
🤔assumes less consumption
🤔spreads costs over 50 yrs but only models 25 yrs

Well, he's convinced me.

#auspol

Opposition’s nuclear costings are unrealistic

13 December 2024 (IEEFA AUSTRALIA): Australia’s federal opposition Coalition today released modelling from Frontier Economics for its plan to establish nuclear reactors at seven sites across Australia...

ieefa.org

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BNO News @bnonews.com · 5d

BREAKING: Prince Andrew stripped of royal titles and evicted from Windsor mansion, palace says

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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · Sep 23

Australia's national interest is better served by Albo not getting a meeting with Trump.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · Sep 4

Kennedy continues to claim that vaccines aren’t adequately tested.

He is a liar. They are the most thoroughly tested intervention of all.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Sep 4

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · Aug 30

Thought and prayers until it is confirmed

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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · Aug 30

At his funeral there will be a yeulogy, the biggest yeulogy you’ve ever seen, in all history.
And a big beautiful covfoffin

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Oz Wiltshire. @ozwiltshire.bsky.social · Aug 1

I was just sitting here minding my own business and the next thing I knew I was the same age as old people. 😆

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mariecolemanao.bsky.social @mariecolemanao.bsky.social · Jul 31

I need more from the Heard Island Government in my inbox.

Heard Island Government @heardislandgov.bsky.social · Jul 31

JUST IN: Heard Island Government responds before the midnight Tariff deadline with what can only be described as ice cold diplomacy. @cnn.com @msnbc.com @foxnews.com.web.brid.gy @nbcnews.com @theguardian.com @australia.theguardian.com @bbcbreaking-bot.bsky.social @us.theguardian.com @theonion.com

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OFFICIAL STATEMENT
Government of Heard Island Office of the Prime Minister
To the White House,
The Government of Heard Island acknowledges receipt of your so-called "tariff ultimatum," issued under the pretentious pretense of economic strategy.
This is not a negotiation. This is not a plea. This is not a request for exemption from your performative trade tantrums. This is the final frostbitten word from a sovereign Antarctic territory that refuses to be economically colonized by a reality TV reject.
Flip off, you block-headed kiddiediddlers.
Respectfully disinterested,
PM Tuxley
Prime Minister of Heard Island

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Sandra N @attempt57.bsky.social · Jul 29

But of course.
#climatecatastrophe

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Emily Mayo @emilymayo.bsky.social · Jul 25

How grubby. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

Parents did not consent to children appearing in new Advance ad

Conservative lobby group Advance used unblurred images of children taken from the YouTube accounts of education organisations without their consent, an ABC NEWS Verify investigation has found.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · Jul 25

Donald Trump is coming for the “holy grail” of climate regulations.

The landmark 2007 Supreme Court ruling in Massachusetts v. EPA found that the agency not only has the authority to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act, but the obligation to do so.

Not if Trump has a say.

"Another Big Lie": Trump's EPA plans to stop regulating greenhouse gases

And put the whole planet on the chopping block.

www.motherjones.com

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · Jul 23

Graduate of the Wharton School of Economics 1968.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Jul 23

Trump: We will have reduced drugs prices by a 1000%, 1100, 1200, 1300, 1400… Not 30 or 50%,

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Sandra N @attempt57.bsky.social · Jul 23

From an article in the NY Times, the EPA is apparently drafting a plan to end its ability to fight climate change.

What is wrong with these people?
#climatecatastrophe #Trumpageddon

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Sandra N @attempt57.bsky.social · Jul 15

Angus Taylor outdid himself tonight with his train wreck interview on #abc730. And after crashing the train, he backed over it with a steamroller, and then blew it up with dynamite. An absolute masterclass. Fantastic, well done Angus.
#auspol

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · Jul 14

"the tax system is...an important tool for distributing national income to minimise the harmful impacts of wealth #inequality that can erode social cohesion, harm economic growth and lead to political instability." 🎯💯

Time to go after the tax rorters and wealth bludgers. #auspol #ausecon

ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · Jul 14

Welfare for the wealthy. The battle over superannuation reform.

Who’s a dole bludger now? Why our wealthy are fighting to retain a super rort

Welfare for the wealthy. The battle over superannuation reform.

www.abc.net.au

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · Jul 13

She won’t tell her husband not to spend the family money on supporting hate speech, but is happy to tell government, universities, media etc
Rightio.

Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · Jul 13

It’s her family’s trust

Antisemitism envoy distances herself from husband’s donation to right-wing lobby group

Donation records lodged by a company Jillian Segal’s husband is a director of show that his family trust gave $50,000 to Advance.

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Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · Jul 12

If you believe your social rights are being threatened by this egregious overreach of public censorship, here is the contact link to let ASECA know what you think

Keep it civil. Use your voice

Your taxes are funding this - you have a right to be heard

👇🏽 #share

www.aseca.gov.au/form/get-in-...

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · Jul 2

Just to be perfectly clear.

We are witnessing, in real time, the collapse of civilization.

It's pretty f&%king horrible, even for a doomer who knew this was coming eventually, I've got to say.

Pretty f&%king horrible.

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Sandra N @attempt57.bsky.social · Jun 25

Quote from Tax Office website:

'The sole purpose of your SMSF is to provide retirement benefits to your members, or to pay death benefits if a member dies before retirement.

To be eligible for the tax concessions normally available to super funds, your SMSF must meet the sole purpose test.'

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Sandra N @attempt57.bsky.social · Jun 25

Quote from the Tax Office website:

'The sole purpose of your SMSF is to provide retirement benefits to your members, or to pay death benefits if a member dies before retirement.

To be eligible for the tax concessions normally available to super funds, your SMSF must meet the sole purpose test.'

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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · Jun 24

The best political analysis I’ve read all day

Imani Gandied Yams @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · Jun 24

He's just a really dumb asshole. This fucking ding dong is the goddamn president.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Jun 24

i’m scared but i also want a lobotomy

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💧Bee 🐝🌿❤ @belindajones68.bsky.social · Jun 23

If you only read one article today, read this one
🐝
#auspol
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/06...

Neocolonialism, media propaganda, never-ending wars: Served with ketchup and fries - Part 2

In the 20th-century the American empire realised it could no longer rely solely on military might despite its need to grow the Military Industrial Complex, which remains central to its economy and its...

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Sandra N @attempt57.bsky.social · Jun 22

You've mentioned 1 boomer in this article, Patricia. Maybe you should not generalise until you cite actual evidence.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · Jun 22

World War 3 kinda sucks, but you know, it was either this or pronouns

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Sandra N @attempt57.bsky.social · Jun 8

I've just realised DJs Wagga shut down in the early 70s. Marge definitely continued her shopping habit but I don't know who she shifted her custom to.

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