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Liam Hogan

@liamhogan.id.au

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Heritage yobbo. Intern at Dark Heart of Gradual Reform Pty. Ltd. All punked up on jupiter oil, rolling fifty deep. Mostly at http://aus.social/@liamvhogan

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · May 12

Immigration (and exmigration) is good, has increased human welfare and human liberty, has broadened societies, and is a demonstration everywhere of a society’s dignity

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 5h

SFC signed Toure, but his brother, who does not play for Australia

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MJ O’Neill 🏳️‍⚧️ @mjoneillchw.bsky.social · 5h

The thing about the concept of a PMC is that premature menstruation skills and collection skills are extremely dissimilar. Equally valuable. But very much not the same.

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André Brett @drdrehistorian.bsky.social · 6h

The thing about the concept of a ‘PMC’ is that prime ministerial skills and cabinet skills are extremely dissimilar. Equally valuable. But very much not the same

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 6h

It’s great that Sydney FC signed that Touré guy, he’s doing great playing for Australia

I am being handed a note

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 7h

The thing about the concept of a ‘PMC’ is that professional skills and management skills are extremely dissimilar. Equally valuable. But very much not the same

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 7h

H TO THE IZZO #socceroos #sokkah #shootfarken

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André Brett @drdrehistorian.bsky.social · 8h

This is *such* a Wollongong piece of news

ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 9h

A Wollongong hotel owner goes to unusual heights to mock a controversial piece of public art and protest against a council decision to knock back a development application.

Hotel owner mocks council's palm tree art after renovation refusal

A Wollongong hotel owner goes to unusual heights to mock a controversial piece of public art and protest against a council decision to knock back a development application.

www.abc.net.au

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 8h

The little voice in my head is calling, ‘Liam, buy a fucken dud’ and bikesales provides

Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 8h

Call me back when China can make a second hand car from the 1970s

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 22h

White House staff should just make and show him an AI-generated video where he wins, fly him to Duluth and tell him it’s Oslo, and dare the New York Times to say anything more than “Experts disagree about whether Mr Trump was awarded the Nobel Prize”.

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ExecutiveOtaku @executiveotaku.bsky.social · 1d

God I want the beige shoebox

Bring a Trailer @bringatrailer.bsky.social · 1d

Single-Family-Owned 1984 Volvo 240 Sedan at No Reserve

No Reserve: Single-Family-Owned 1984 Volvo 240 Sedan

Bid for the chance to own a No Reserve: Single-Family-Owned 1984 Volvo 240 Sedan at auction with Bring a Trailer, the home of the best vintage and classic cars online. Lot #215,120.

bringatrailer.com

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 1d

I know there are a number of actual qualified philosophers who follow me, and I’m picturing each of them in turn reading this toot and getting annoyed at me

Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 1d

The Commonwealth is Rousseauian: everyone expects the best out of everyone else because humans must be perfectible (and the Teals take this farthest).

States are Mandevillian and reflect the Colonies they once were.

Local Governments are Jacobin and understand virtue must be protected by terror

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 1d

The median duty town planner in a suburban Sydney or Melbourne council has a better appreciation of integrity risk than the whole of the Australian Public Service, and that is because duty town planners are often called before the ICAC to answer questions the answers to which the ICAC already knows

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 1d

What the Cwth *think* security and integrity are is emails with SEC:OFFICIAL and keeping the Yanks at Pine Gap by handling secrets. Sure. But integrity is also your mate the developer ringing you up about the tender, or your mate the bookie ringing you up about the state of the wicket at Chennai

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 1d

The difference between David Pocock and the rest of the Cwth Parliament is that as a professional athlete he was required to appreciate interest conflicts and integrity risks (especially re. gambling).

In Australia the federal level is unique in not doing this: States and Councils must handle risk

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 1d

Read this you muppets: Paul Musgrave on post-literacy

musgrave.substack.com/p/a-post-lit...

A Post-Literate Society is a Too-Literal Society

Directness is a virtue and subtlety is lost

musgrave.substack.com

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Jason Wilson @jasonaw.bsky.social · 1d

They think that the church is a building constructed within tight architectural parameters that hosts plentiful Tridentine masses and endless Padre Pio bullshit. I don’t have a dog in the fight any more but everyone whose grandmother coped with the new mass knows that they’re poseurs

Habeus Jocus @toowoke2joke.on.computer · 1d

lol at "just focus on the Church" bro, what do you think the Church does?

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 1d

It’s a great time for American Catholic trads to break bold new ground in sedevacantism

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 1d

Glorious

Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 1d

Getting unreasonably mad about the actions of the Pope in an environment of deep confusion about the religious basis to government is exactly the problem faced by that well known Catholic theologian and philosopher, Martin Luther

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 1d

Look, on the one hand it’s about time that American right wing Catholics simply admitted to Protestantism, on the other hand, if you haven’t got wildly red mad and nude about the Pope describing doctrines older than you, have you really engaged with Catholicism at all?

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 2d

Tired: Australia paying the Americans vast sums for submarines we’re never going to get

Wired: in the Solomons, you get free drug submarines from the sea

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

'Made in Colombia' narco sub found floating in Solomon Islands

Cousins Reubenson and Martin Fugui found a 'Made in Colombia' narco sub in Solomon Islands over the weekend — the third such vessel found in the country's waters over the past year.

www.abc.net.au

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 2d

Does a mere measurable public health success mitigate the loss of human achievement, creativity, and simple joy that is teenagers drinking and doing drugs? I look to @benhr.bsky.social for the utilitarian judgement

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Karl Sinclair @frkarlsinclair.bsky.social · 2d

Unironically, the whole production of that show is low-key impressive. They pump out over 200 episodes a year. No time for endless takes etc. writing around logistics because they are filming in multiple locations at once.

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