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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 17h

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 10h

All those amazing colours and they choose to focus on the red rump?!

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Jeff Boone @jeffreyboone.bsky.social · 1d

Straight title doesn’t indicate the wicked comedy in this piece (Stewart Lee among the righteous!) www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...

‘Amoral, evil’: vitriolic backlash builds against comics who played Riyadh festival

Murder by bone-saw, lashings for rape victims, punishment amputation, jail for satirists … these are the Saudi human rights abuses fuelling the fury at the likes of Louis CK, Dave Chappelle and Jimmy ...

www.theguardian.com

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 17h

We need that woman on Instagram who teaches imaginary kindergarten kids to give them a lesson today about how “sometimes we don’t with the prize but that’s ok, because we should always keep trying to do our best…”

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 17h

You’d better trademark that name pronto!

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 23h

This is not just the appearance of conflict of interest, it is corruption of democracy pure and simple.

Gee, if only those First Nations people had thought of having a Voice to Parliament via a “Sports Club”.

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Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · 1d

The Aust Parliament Sports Club (the one that ditched David Pocock) is now formally registered as a lobby group👇🏽

Anthony Albanese is the President of the Aust Parliament Sports Club.

That means the Prime Minister of Australia is currently the president of a lobby group.

Just utterly unbelievable.

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry pal, no room for your “ethics” in this club. Cramps our style.

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Rachel Withers @rachelwithers.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine kicking the former national rugby captain out of your sports club instead of the gambling lobby.

To paraphrase Groucho Marx, who'd want to belong to a club that would accept Responsible Wagering Australia as one of its sponsors?

Bill Browne @browne90.bsky.social · 1d

Making his point for him -- just asking about the power of the gambling lobby gets Senator David Pocock booted from sports club the Prime Minister heads. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Former Wallabies star David Pocock booted from parliamentary sports club

Exclusive: Senator accused of bringing social club into disrepute after raising concerns about its association with betting lobby

www.theguardian.com

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@lizglab.bsky.social @lizglab.bsky.social · 1d

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 2d

But Trump gets what he wants, and the world is not just.

The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 2d

I think I worked out early that what they could imagine for me was not as interesting to me as that which I imagined.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lCI...

One day, lad, all this will be yours...

YouTube video by FILMYOLK

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 2d

Dime a dozen in France (and for a time in Aust).

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 2d

The wanderer.
My @smh @theage cartoon.

Single frame. Scene: a school building (marked “ÉCOLE PRIMAIRE”) facade flanked by sandstone walls, behind which bare winter trees, grey skies. Front right, wandering figure of Emmanuel Macron in overcoat (as seen in media).
Top left, speech bubbles from an upper window of building: “Un jour je serai premier ministre!” “Et moi!” “Moi aussi!”
Translation: “One day, I’ll be prime minister!” “And me!” “Me too!”

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 2d

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

When you first heard me speak against this genocide, you heard my words as betrayal. But they were meant as love | Sarah Schwartz

Not speaking would go against everything I was taught to honour: the righteous among the nations – those who refused to be bystanders to injustice

www.theguardian.com

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 2d

I know I can still hear my year 3 teacher telling us that was a mortal sin.

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 2d

But also

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 2d

Astute work by @fionakatauskas.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Has finding an affordable home in Australia just gotten harder? | Fiona Katauskas

Thanks climate change

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 2d

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 4d

More detail here on the NPC cancellation of a journalist who was booked to speak about Gaza.
Incredible how badly our cultural institutions have failed us.

Exclusive: National Press Club cancelled Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for being “in favour” of Palestine

Correspondence obtained by Lamestream shows the NPC confirmed Chris Hedges as a speaker, before cancelling him due to "balance".

www.lamestream.com.au

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 2d

Cool with me.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 3d

Your comment suggested that you did not.

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 3d

You have missed the point.

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 3d

That’s my problem with Alt text. I would rather not spell some things out, and leave them to interpretation, but people have asked for Alt text.
Perhaps the point is a rare dense material given weight/value versus an abundant material that doesn’t count for much.

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 3d

Scale.
My @smh @theage cartoon.

Single frame. Scale. On one side of scale, weighing heavily, a small gold weight marked “OCT 7 2023”. On the other side, much lighter, a huge bag (of sand?) marked “EVERY DAY SINCE.”

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