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Christopher actually

@chrismardell.bsky.social

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Aussie back from the Bad(isch)lands of Germany. Web weaver in the corner where sustainability, risk and resilience meet. Trying to avoid politics. Views expressed are neither my employer’s nor my own (please direct all complaints to the rodent in my hat).

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Christopher actually @chrismardell.bsky.social · Dec 29

Australian animals rarely kill people. ~180,000 die from all causes each year. Of those, ~2 snake bite. ~3 shark bite. <1 combined from crocodiles, jelly fish, blue ringed octopus, Pacific man-o-war, cone shell, stone fish. 0 from spider bite.
In India? 60,000 deaths annually from snake bite alone.

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Christopher actually @chrismardell.bsky.social · 4h

Charge the scumbags with kidnapping and false imprisonment

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Preacher from the Black Lagoon @revpoppop.bsky.social · 12h

“Why are they upset about the frog?”

Because the frog has power. As silly as it sounds. The frog is not just a good idea. It’s our greatest weapon.

And I’m going to explain why…

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Christopher actually @chrismardell.bsky.social · 4h

I tell my kids, “you don’t comment on a person’s body or appearance unless it’s a compliment”.
(They’re a bit young to appreciate the ways in which some compliments can be inappropriate).

Christopher actually @chrismardell.bsky.social · 4h

what an amoral wretch he is

Christopher actually @chrismardell.bsky.social · 5h

unless you’re, I don’t know, into demons or something

Christopher actually @chrismardell.bsky.social · 5h

From what I recall it’s weird and somewhere between disconcerting and terrifying depending on what dream you’re having at the time. I suspect believing that it’s caused by demons would make it a worse experience.

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Christopher actually @chrismardell.bsky.social · 5h

sleep paralysis demon vibes

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Christopher actually @chrismardell.bsky.social · 5h

Some Australian states do the same

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 5h

check this out: here in Norway we tax cars (including EVs!) by weight

www.skatteetaten.no/en/rates/wei...

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Christopher actually @chrismardell.bsky.social · 5h

Sorry but that’s Ingrid Seynhaeve.
(Bondi has her own questionable history of failing to charge Epstein, but the woman in those photos is not her).

Christopher actually @chrismardell.bsky.social · 12h

it’s not a pooma

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Christopher actually @chrismardell.bsky.social · 13h

how dare *checks latest outrage notes* communists *checks notes again* have a good time

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Christopher actually @chrismardell.bsky.social · 14h

maybe because America has wide stroads with car parks that you need a packed lunch to cross to the distant big box, while London has narrow streets designed for people?

Christopher actually @chrismardell.bsky.social · 14h

*installs content warning sign on the facade of every state art gallery in the world*

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Christopher actually @chrismardell.bsky.social · 14h

No off site backup

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

Christopher actually @chrismardell.bsky.social · 14h

A police force being partisan is a clear sign that it needs to be rebuilt from the ground up

Christopher actually @chrismardell.bsky.social · 18h

also soft armour against rubber bullets and pepper balls. and anyone attacking someone dressed as an animal looks like even more of a dick than they already did in their temu GI Joe cosplay outfit

Christopher actually @chrismardell.bsky.social · 18h

I guess buying from [country with decent labour laws] improves the chances that the maker was well paid, but doesn’t guarantee it, and it doesn’t really do anything to solve the global issues of worker exploitation

Christopher actually @chrismardell.bsky.social · 18h

There’s no way that the person who made it was paid what I would consider a fair wage. And I’d be happy to pay significantly more for the same shirt *if I could ensure that extra money went to the person doing the work*. But no mechanism seems to exist for me to tip the factory worker. It should.

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Christopher actually @chrismardell.bsky.social · 18h

At my kids’ school, the uniform includes a non-branded polo shirt which retails at Target for the equivalent of US$5. I look at that and think, with my sewing skills, it would take me at least a couple of hours to make that shirt badly; it’s it’s not a low-skilled job.

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Christopher actually @chrismardell.bsky.social · 18h

I’m not American, but one thing that frustrates me about buying clothing is that even though I’m willing to pay extra for quality, that doesn’t guarantee that the people who made the clothes were paid fairly, regardless of where it was made.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

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Christopher actually @chrismardell.bsky.social · 20h

how dare the FBI under *his admin* be prepared to respond to events that ultimately happened

Christopher actually @chrismardell.bsky.social · 20h

Can one be “on” dementia?

Christopher actually @chrismardell.bsky.social · 20h

In your analogy, the competent plumber has coworkers who are still in the condo, getting paid big bucks to help with maintenance but they’re just watching TV and changing the occasional washer and ignoring the water gushing down the stairs and flooding dozens of apartments