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Gordon Kerry @gordonkerry.bsky.social · 35m

And here was I thinking it was the woke pinko one-world government antichrist thingy.

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Geelan Mitchell Media @victoriannews.com.au · 2h

Total Fire Ban declared for Mallee region
#cfa #tfb #fireban #summer #Mallee #fires #TotalFireBan #fireseason

Total Fire Ban declared for Mallee region

MALLEE, VIC. — The first Total Fire Ban (TFB) of the 2025/26 fire season has been declared for the Mallee tomorrow, Thursday, October 16, 2025.

www.victoriannews.com.au

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Lisa the Antifascist “Leftist”🇦🇺 @lisatellstruth.bsky.social · 3h

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TeeDixie 📎 @teedixie.bsky.social · 2h

What’s that Jeremy? Your private healthcare couldn’t save your life but the NHS could?

People need to think long and hard about voting for Reform, Farage openly says we need insurance based healthcare, but what about people who can’t afford it?

They die. It’s simple.

Paul Marshall @pmarsha11.bsky.social · 1d

Embarrassing Jeremy Clarkson u-turns on his criticism of the NHS after receiving urgent treatment his private care couldn’t provide.

Jeremy Clarkson reneges on NHS criticism after needing urgent treatment

Presenter, who called service ‘a creaking monster’, says he’s ‘eternally grateful’ to medics who aided him

www.independent.co.uk

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Gordon Kerry @gordonkerry.bsky.social · 2h

I put some seedlings in a week ago and they’re doing fine.

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Gordon Kerry @gordonkerry.bsky.social · 2h

Even rerouting the tracks between Sydney and Melbourne now that we don’t have to factor in the gradients that steam trains can use might help.

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2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 7h

www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/rare-whit...

Locals stunned by world-famous white whale sighting off NZ coast

Locals near Kaikōura captured rare footage of a white humpback whale.

www.nzherald.co.nz

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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 7h

So glad to see the future of relationships is wanking alone to prompts from a chatbot that will raise your electricity and water prices send all your private responses to Sam Altman for unsafekeeping

The Verge @theverge.com · 14h

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

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FrodoLove @frodolove.bsky.social · 1d

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 4h

What next? @monashuniversity.bsky.social will let a fossil fuel corp sponsor an entire university building creating an unmissable presence on campus⁉️

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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 5h

Exclusive | Sportsbet has given a guest lecture at Monash University, sparking a faculty review after the university admitted an error of judgement. @daanysaeed.bsky.social reports.

Sportsbet guest lecturer at Monash university seminar prompts faculty review

Monash University has barred Sportsbet from providing industry presenters to masters students after acknowledging the guest lecture spot was an error in judgement.

www.crikey.com.au

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Gordon Kerry @gordonkerry.bsky.social · 3h

'Senior' conservative?

Gavin Miller @glmiller.bsky.social · 9h

Phoenixing the Liberal Party. 'FS don't fall for it.
A "phoenix company" a company that is liquidated or shut down and then reborn as a new entity, often with the same directors, to continue the business and avoid paying debts.
@gekko.bsky.social @gergyl.bsky.social
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Senior conservative cautions Liberals quietly pushing to split the party

In a major address to his party, James Paterson says "marginal" voices agitating for the Liberal party to split must be kept on the sidelines, cautioning it would spell "disaster".

www.abc.net.au

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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 4h

Lunch time. I could buy this lunch for 40,000 people for the cost of this report nobody has written nor read, commissioned and then buried in the desperate thrashing of a department bargaining with the reality of what they've done to hundreds of thousands of welfare recipients.

I am holding up a banh mi sandwich in front of the sign outside one of Deloitte's offices in Sydney.

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Gordon Kerry @gordonkerry.bsky.social · 4h

We used to drive past it every so often when I was a kid, thinking ‘that’s where the magic happens’. :)

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Hellion @ellyzoe.bsky.social · 7h

When the most threatening thing you’ve ever seen is a naked bike ride?? I don’t even know, man. He’s clearly trying to force this narrative of scary antifa warriors, but Portland’s just knocking the narrative deconstruction out of the park. 🩵🩷❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤 Keep it up, babes.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 8h

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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Gordon Kerry @gordonkerry.bsky.social · 7h

A landmark!

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 7h

it's getting rapidly memory-holed that in 2012 kennedy claimed to a divorce judge that the brainworm affected his brain function and therefore future earning potential
www.politico.com/news/2024/05...

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Gordon Kerry @gordonkerry.bsky.social · 8h

And I’ll bet they don’t even have the cattle sales in it.

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Andrew Elder @awelder.bsky.social · 8h

For scale, this is about the same circulation of The Border Mail in Albury-Wodonga, Australia

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Phil Eckert @fileckert.bsky.social · 8h

Yes.

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Paul Bamford @paulb237.bsky.social · 8h

Those would be the hostages released during Biden's Thanksgiving ceasefire of 2023, wouldn't they?
bsky.app/profile/lsam...

LESams @lsam22.bsky.social · 1d

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Antonia 🦋 💙📘🩵Democratic Election Judge, Autism Awareness @antonia2024bsky.bsky.social · 6d

Stephen Miller, one of Trump’s closest advisers, asserted during a Monday CNN interview that his boss had “plenary authority” — a legal term meaning total and absolute power — as he answered a question about Trump’s desire to send National Guard troops into Portland, Oregon.

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

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John Holmes @jhaue.bsky.social · 1d

Jared Kushner's ties to the Middle East go far beyond diplomacy www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Gaza deal highlights Kushner's ties to the Middle East

The US president's son-in-law had little diplomatic or successful investment management experience before helping to broker the Gaza ceasefire deal.

www.abc.net.au

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Gordon Kerry @gordonkerry.bsky.social · 9h

They seem nice.

Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 11h

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 1d

When you get owned on X....Gym Jordan

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