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Roger Scott

@roger-scott47.bsky.social

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With wife >56 years. 7 grandkids. Aussie republican, ret’d geologist, HS teacher. Atheist. Dislike LNP, GOP, MAGA, Ref’m UK. Covid vax’s x9. Fan of science. A just god would have given Mozart >>> his actual life span. Hate injustice. No DMs, solicitations. .. more

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Roger Scott @roger-scott47.bsky.social · 1d

The portents are not good.

Roger Scott @roger-scott47.bsky.social · 1d

Telling it like it is.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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Roger Scott @roger-scott47.bsky.social · 5d

E. Jean Carroll was EXACTLY Trump's "type".

Roger Scott @roger-scott47.bsky.social · 8d

Does being religious make you a better person?

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

Church under investigation after pastor's son sexually assaulted teen

Multiple investigations are examining a Victorian church's response to an assault committed by a senior pastor's son, amid allegations that information was withheld from the church community.

www.abc.net.au

Roger Scott @roger-scott47.bsky.social · 15d

Perfect!

Roger Scott @roger-scott47.bsky.social · 16d

With much more of this, the movie Idiocracy will need to be re-classified as a documentary.

Roger Scott @roger-scott47.bsky.social · 16d

Wow. For the first time in ages I agree with what Trump said.

Roger Scott @roger-scott47.bsky.social · 16d

Dumbest, dumbest, dumber.

Roger Scott @roger-scott47.bsky.social · 16d

He’s a scientifically illiterate crackpot.
To date he’s only said one thing that made any sense to me, namely when he said that people should not take medical advice from him.

Roger Scott @roger-scott47.bsky.social · 16d

The manufacturers of Tylenol are pushing back against this nonsense.

Roger Scott @roger-scott47.bsky.social · 16d

The manufacturers of Tylenol are fighting back against these clownish crackpots.

Roger Scott @roger-scott47.bsky.social · 16d

How far the US has fallen under the dumbest, most stupid president ever.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19d

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Our problem isn't a lack of resources.

Our problem is ever-expanding inequality.

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Roger Scott @roger-scott47.bsky.social · 19d

Absolutely!
RFK Jr is an utter crackpot.
quillette.com/2025/09/17/r...

RFK Jr. Must Go

By firing experts, cancelling important research funding, and promoting conspiracy theories, RFK Jr. threatens to undermine some of America’s most important public health achievements.

quillette.com

Roger Scott @roger-scott47.bsky.social · 21d

So realistic! 😆
Anti-gay Charlie Kirk jamming with Freddy Mercury in an imaginary place.
Fellow Queen member and not-yet-dead astrophysicist Dr Brian May is also shown, apparently twice.

Roger Scott @roger-scott47.bsky.social · 21d

Love this.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Farmer goes above and beyond for sky-high wedding proposal

NSW farmer Will Henderson had no choice but to bide his time to pop the question. In the end his efforts were rewarded.

www.abc.net.au

Roger Scott @roger-scott47.bsky.social · 24d

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Roger Scott @roger-scott47.bsky.social · 24d

This poor brainwashed youth. He actually believes people who told him that prayer recently brought a dead person back to life. He prayed for his diabetic sister's recovery as she lay dying.
He went to jail.
Images from an Australian ABC tv program.

Roger Scott @roger-scott47.bsky.social · 25d

Can Trump bring a measured response to the Charlie Kirk shooting?
Can Trump bring considered statements to an address to the nation and calm it?
Can a rattlesnake become vegetarian?

Roger Scott @roger-scott47.bsky.social · 27d

Problem?

Roger Scott @roger-scott47.bsky.social · 27d

Apparently men who join the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church have very little chance of retaining their hair.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Roger Scott @roger-scott47.bsky.social · 29d

I confessed being a little perplexed by your reply. I’m sorry for any trauma you and your loved ones have suffered during your life.
I was asking about the appearance during evolutionary history of the soul. I don’t see it as a scientifically supportable concept.

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Roger Scott @roger-scott47.bsky.social · 29d

Sorry about the extra enter. My bad.
The evolution of humanity and indeed all life is now an indisputable fact.
Did the first air breathing vertebrates have a soul? If not when did the lineage leading to humans acquire one?

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Roger Scott @roger-scott47.bsky.social · 29d

At what stage in the course of vertebrate evolution did the soul enter enter the process?

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Roger Scott @roger-scott47.bsky.social · Sep 5

RFK Jr Is risking more cases like this tragic man’s.

Sue Ferrara @sferrara.bsky.social · Sep 4

www.bbc.com/news/health-...

The man in the iron lung: How Paul Alexander lived life to the full

He spent 72 years using an iron lung machine to breathe after surviving polio as a child.

www.bbc.com

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Sep 4

Ossoff: He never should have been confirmed by the senate and he needs to resign. It is one thing to be a skeptic or a reformer. It is quite another to be a fool…

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Sue Ferrara @sferrara.bsky.social · Sep 4

www.bbc.com/news/health-...

The man in the iron lung: How Paul Alexander lived life to the full

He spent 72 years using an iron lung machine to breathe after surviving polio as a child.

www.bbc.com

Roger Scott @roger-scott47.bsky.social · Aug 28

Almost daily Trump says something equally preposterous and stupid. People are so normalised to it they just shrug and say ‘oh well it’s just Trump being Trump’.

Roger Scott @roger-scott47.bsky.social · Aug 27

What an ignoramus.
FDR was re-elected for a third time in 1944. The US was fighting on two fronts in the greatest war in history. D-Day had just happened. Soon, the Battles of the Bulge & Iwo Jima. Nazi atrocities.
He isn’t aware of that??!!!
(Trump has only read one book that anyone knows about.)