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Jo

@moartoast.bsky.social

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Listed as one of Australia's top ten intellectuals, twice. Peer reviewed in the streets, widely discredited in the sheets.

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Jo @moartoast.bsky.social · 3h

Hunger. I inhaled that roast lamb 🤣🤣

Jo @moartoast.bsky.social · 3h

Amazing. Enjoy!

Jo @moartoast.bsky.social · 3h

Yes! They’re such cute strange looking little critters I love them

Jo @moartoast.bsky.social · 3h

It’s all or nothing. Always

Jo @moartoast.bsky.social · 3h

Nah that’s tonight 🥳

Jo @moartoast.bsky.social · 3h

I feel ya. I’ve just started having hot flashes that disappeared for six months but now back daily. Like when does it fkn end!

Jo @moartoast.bsky.social · 3h

Me too I always do and they never get up. I’ve loved them since I held one when I was 5 😭

Jo @moartoast.bsky.social · 3h

The tawny frogmouth people COME ON.

Jo @moartoast.bsky.social · 3h

Tassie?

Jo @moartoast.bsky.social · 3h

My man is going to a Bathurst party tomorrow. I assume it’s just boobs and cars right?

Jo @moartoast.bsky.social · 4h

It is work and it’s work that is worth paying for. I wish I had a cleaner but I can’t afford to pay what they’re worth right now. I’d never try to do what this person did.

Jo @moartoast.bsky.social · 4h

😏

Jo @moartoast.bsky.social · 4h

Jo @moartoast.bsky.social · 4h

No but I’m going to see them!

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Peter Anderson @zerogeewhiz.bsky.social · 6h

Cue the usual suspects doing an all caps post of this video saying, "This is what America would look like under the radical left Democrats."

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 8h

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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Emily Mayo @emilymayo.bsky.social · 5h

The audacity. Honestly.

A screenshot from a FB group of a person seeking a after renovation cleaner for $35 and hour — own supplies, unpacking and sorting also required. A quick google shows they are a spokes about the gender pay gap for women in start ups.

Jo @moartoast.bsky.social · 4h

You are the best

Jo @moartoast.bsky.social · 4h

Getting drunk watching Oasis concert and smooching. Hurry up lamb roast I’m starving

Jo @moartoast.bsky.social · 4h

🥰

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Andrew Elder @awelder.bsky.social · 7h

I, Peter Hartcher, political insider for almost all of Andrew Hastie's life, have decided that Hastie is not undermining his leader. My judgement settles the matter. Thank you for your attention

Jessie L @jessielilley.bsky.social · 15h

The ageing fellas at the news desk have such a boner for a strong, young white man in politics they are going to will Hastie to the top of the pile whether we like it or not.

Opinion piece in the 9Papers:

Hastie's got the right stuff but one obsession may fast-track or derail his ambitions
By Peter Hartcher
October 11, 2025 - 5.00am
"The train coming down the tracks isn't the one that you expected. It's not the one advertised on the board," says actor Benedict Cumberbatch playing the role of a pro-Brexit strategist.
"Well, tough," he says. "It isn't even the one that I imagined. But I accept it. And you can't stop it," he says in the 2019 movie Brexit: The Uncivil War in the persona of the notorious Dominic Cummings, adviser to Boris Johnson.
"There is a new politics in town. One that you cannot control."

Article extract:

As he read his charter letter from his leader, Sussan Ley, setting out his duties as opposition home affairs spokesman, he realised he would have no part in immigration policy - opposition immigration spokesman Paul Scarr, not Hastie, would "lead" and "develop" the policy. Hastie practised his personal policy of a
48-hour cooling off before making any major decision.
At this point, a more typical politician would accept the ruling, but then begin a quiet campaign of leaking and undermining against the leader. Hastie did not.
He was careful to take counsel with a handful of trusted allies, including only two Liberal MPs, so that he couldn't be accused of "doing the
numbers" as a prelude to a leadership challenge.
He told the most trusted of his trusted circle, his wife, Ruth, that he'd have to take a 25 per cent pay cut if he went ahead with the resignation. She rejoined that the family budget would simply have to adjust.

Jo @moartoast.bsky.social · 5h

snoopy is sitting at a table with his eyes closed and his hand in his mouth .

ALT: snoopy is sitting at a table with his eyes closed and his hand in his mouth .

media.tenor.com

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Tim Coronel @timcoronel.bsky.social · 5h

unsolicited Slick pic

Jo @moartoast.bsky.social · 5h

Unsolicited mick pic

Jo @moartoast.bsky.social · 5h

Omg

Jo @moartoast.bsky.social · 5h

Nah he’s not a cooker he’s outside cooking my meal with a maga apron on. 😆 jks