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excanberran.bsky.social @excanberran.bsky.social · 2d

Family story was that great-grandfather joined up and got an STD in Egypt so missed the fighting. Was quite disappointed to read his military records and realise it was just dysentery.

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excanberran.bsky.social @excanberran.bsky.social · 2d

A. He is a complete peanut
B . He has no tastebuds
C. Both

excanberran.bsky.social @excanberran.bsky.social · 2d

Still giggling at the “advance australia” anti-Pocock campaign in Canberra before his first election where they claimed he was a closet Green. In an electorate with a Labor-Green coalition government at the time. Bet he appreciated the free advertising.

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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 2d

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 Independent ACT senator David Pocock – a former Wallabies captain – been banned from attending parliament house’s social sports club after raising concern about its sponsorship by the gambling industry. The former rugby star was on Thursday night told he was no longer welcome at Australian Parliament Sports Club events, and accused of politicising the organisation. He has been removed from group chats discussing its events. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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excanberran.bsky.social @excanberran.bsky.social · 2d

More like attempting to bring the club into repute. Onya David!!

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excanberran.bsky.social @excanberran.bsky.social · 2d

Have seen similar in puddles in tracks in Namadgi national park, and they seemed to be thriving despite the complete lack of cover.

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excanberran.bsky.social @excanberran.bsky.social · 3d

Good read. politicalnerdery.substack.com/p/who-went-n...

Who Went Nazi?

The More Things Change…

politicalnerdery.substack.com

excanberran.bsky.social @excanberran.bsky.social · 4d

Having lived in Canada and had friends who worked for them, I would only fly Air Canada by accident. I have once; spent 9 hours in the dark unable to read because the lights and entertainment system had fallen over, and I had no phone. BAD flight! They didn’t even apologise

excanberran.bsky.social @excanberran.bsky.social · 5d

Super seniors are great at zoomies! Mine loved the stairs at full speed

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excanberran.bsky.social @excanberran.bsky.social · 5d

Interesting, from recent pictures I was wondering if he had exophthalmos and couldn’t close his eyes properly, but it turns out he’s actually just aware he is enormously out of his depth and is completely shitting himself
with fear.

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dr-ian.bsky.social @dr-ian.bsky.social · 5d

Cathy Wilcox

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excanberran.bsky.social @excanberran.bsky.social · 5d

Having done actual military training that wasn’t even infantry/hard core stuff, the ICE training is laughable. Recruit gullible stupid people, tell them that is training and send them out to brutalise people? That’s baaaad.

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 5d

it is useful not to lose sight of how, underneath everything else, hollow all of this noise is. portland and chicago are warzones, so i am dispatching a couple hundred best buy assistant managers there to quell the insurrections. potemkin stuff, paper thin

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excanberran.bsky.social @excanberran.bsky.social · 7d

Her face has such character and expressiveness!

excanberran.bsky.social @excanberran.bsky.social · 7d

After I fixed the getting-woken-up problem by providing a timed feeder, mine has taken to… waking me up so she can come under the covers for cuddles 🤦‍♂️🥰🥱

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excanberran.bsky.social @excanberran.bsky.social · 9d

Gee, the eyeliner hasn’t changed

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Dana Goldberg @dgcomedy.bsky.social · 9d

The way this made me laugh! 🤣

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excanberran.bsky.social @excanberran.bsky.social · 9d

Chip Roy enters the race for who can lick the boots of the master the hardest. Congrats Chip! Hope that tongue is abrasion-resistant!

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Rod Campbell @rodcampbell.bsky.social · 10d

Big congrats to Santos Ltd!!

10 years. $46.7 billion in sales.

ZERO TAX

New ATO data out today.
@markogge.bsky.social @australiainstitute.org.au
data.gov.au/data/dataset...

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excanberran.bsky.social @excanberran.bsky.social · 10d

Spoiler alert: training against civilian friendlies is not any sort of training for war. Those militaries busy killing kids (Israel, Russia) are training to fail when they meet actual opposition. That “3 days to Kyiv” plan is still working great for Russia… more than 1000 days later.

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NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre conservative editors @originalist.bsky.social · Aug 30

Higher overall taxes in red states like Texas avoiding wealth income tax!

And "Liberal policies keep blue-state residents living longer"

"Republican-controlled states have higher murder rates"

Crimes per 1M trips
* NYC: 1.3
* Dallas: 38.0

"Texans 17% more likely to be murdered than Californians"

TEXAS - LOW TAXES FOR WHOM?
TOTAL STATE AND LOCAL TAXES AS SHARE OF FAMILY INCOME BY INCOME GROUP

Texas Tax Rate California Tax Rate

Income Bracket

0-20% 13% 10.5%
20-40% 10.9% 9.4%
40-60% 9.7% 8.3%
60-80% 8.6% 9.0%
80-95% 7.4% 9.4%
95-99% 5.4% 9.9%
99-100% 3.1% 12.4%

Source: https://itep.org/whopays/

Don Moynihan
@donmoyn
Here's another secret about federalism: blue state taxpayers are subsidizing the lower tax red states
4:47 PM • Apr 30, 2023 • 33.4K

Federal Aid as Share of State Budget
2017

Mississippi, Louisiana, Idaho, Montana, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, South Dakota, Georgia, Maine

Illinois
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Kansas
Minnesota
Hawaii
Nevada
Connecticut
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Source: Tax Foundation
Mother Jones

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Mentions of crime relative to first six months of 2022

The figures below compare the average percentage of 15-second segments in a given day during a 10-day chunk of a month with the average percentage for 10 day chunks over the first six months of the year.

Fox News

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Source: GDELT Analysis of Internet Archive caption data

THE WASHINGTON POST

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excanberran.bsky.social @excanberran.bsky.social · 10d

Ex-military, can confirm. Proper hard training like what you need to go to war busts people up, and losing those skills and experience because you can’t define what your functional fitness standard is is… counter-productive.

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Glenn Jones @jonesy101.bsky.social · 10d

This is what hate and division create. Total chaos. All from one man who like all Authoritarians, blame the other side for their actions.
Beware Australia, we have like minded people in this country who would run us into the ground for their own personal gains.
#auspol

Glenn Jones @jonesy101.bsky.social · 10d

Layoffs 'imminent' in US govt shutdown

www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/world/u...

Layoffs 'imminent' in US govt shutdown, Trump suffers blow

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt says public service layoffs are "imminent" amid a US government shutdown.

www.thenewdaily.com.au

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excanberran.bsky.social @excanberran.bsky.social · 10d

Hegseth is such a peanut. why the heck would you want a stupid military if you’re not being paid off by your country’s enemies?

Oh.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 10d

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

harpers.org/archive/1941...

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

harpers.org

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