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Simon T Wolf

@simontwolf.bsky.social

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Cis: he/him/his, gay, HIV+, Out, Loud & Proud, living on Wadda warrung country in Naarm; Gondwana. This is an autobiography of sorts...

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Simon T Wolf @simontwolf.bsky.social · Dec 15

(bio ext.) Dad taught Science, built Deakin University while Mum was a nurse. I learned everything I needed to know to have a successful experience before Secondary School and went on to be a successful practitioner of my trade as a Barman, Waiter and eventually Chef as I worked my way up my own tbc

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Simon T Wolf @simontwolf.bsky.social · 5h

well as reaching in to help and to hold.
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This is lived experience, there's far too many references to build an appendix. Try every "Holy Book" and a couple of encyclopaedia along with a teacher for a father and a nurse for a mother.

Simon T Wolf @simontwolf.bsky.social · 5h

I reserve that for anyone who got murdered, hurt, orphaned, widowed or is starving by the indiscriminate use of weapons of #collective_punishment - that's my opinion.

My empathy doesn't see flag or belief, it is reserved for skin and bone, grissle and blood, hearts, minds and hands reaching out as

Simon T Wolf @simontwolf.bsky.social · 5h

certain perspective - that would be any one others' than mine, but I live by the "leave as little a foot print on the planet" principle too. Yeah, nothing to do with my argument point.

When you see such an impossibly imbalanced conflict, it's impossible to hear the aggressor and feel empathy...

Simon T Wolf @simontwolf.bsky.social · 5h

I'm fucking sick to the back teeth of the Israeli Government continuing to hang the Holocaust over our heads like some #Damoclean blade.

I make my purchasing choices by one directive: someone eats tonight and for the next X-time depending on value, and yes I know that's incredibly naive from a

Simon T Wolf @simontwolf.bsky.social · 5h

feel the same way about that period of time for many different reasons. They are all personal and they are all valid.

I'm going to say something very controversial and this is your warning to be ready for my personal take on #BenjaminNetanyahu, #Gaza and the Israeli MOU with the #USA.

Simon T Wolf @simontwolf.bsky.social · 5h

men and women were gassed and burnt along with the Travellers and those of their own population who were "less than fit to justify continuance of life privileges" - that's how a German friend of mine translated the German that was spoken in the documentary he was showing me.

We all have reason to

Simon T Wolf @simontwolf.bsky.social · 5h

I'm one of the Wizards of Oz - I'm #gay and #Australian... so when it comes to that first half of the 20th Century, I've got something in common with many #Jewish people.

Do I need to draw a picture here? I really fucking hope not.

I can draw the comparison and I will.

About half a million gay

Simon T Wolf @simontwolf.bsky.social · 5h

... deeper, go through 60 years of watching, reading, discussing, arguing, debating and having the first half of the 20th Century driven into your world view by - the religious instruction received at primary school and the #EuropeanColonial History, particularly #BritishEmpire - laden shit because

Simon T Wolf @simontwolf.bsky.social · 5h

history going back to the founding of #Jericho, #Ur and through to the #Hittites of #Anatolia and the #Egyptians of #Alexandria.

This #land has #human #history soaked into the #soil in #blood & #faith and its future is watered by the tears of #hope.

So that's the #MiddleEast in a nutshell. You...

Simon T Wolf @simontwolf.bsky.social · 5h

... #France. I single out France as Lebanon was their responsibility and fault and it's as deeply intertwined in this due to the Sykes-Picot Agreement following WW1.

The history of Palestine and #Lebanon are wrapped in Catholic expansionist colonialism that begins with The Crusades, but there is...

Simon T Wolf @simontwolf.bsky.social · 5h

#Palestinians - the inhabitants of the land known as #Palestine. The history of this area is so complicated, that's the most definite statement I can make; and yes, my federal government recognises the current areas mapped as "Palestine" as the Nation of Palestine along with other nations like...

Simon T Wolf @simontwolf.bsky.social · 5h

Definitions in use: Israel = Nation State and its Administrative #Government; ergo: Israeli ≠ Jewish, as there are Arabic Israelis (other than Palestinians), whom are Christians and Muslims and from many other Older Asian Faith Traditions - OAFTs (Zoroastrianism, adherents of Ba'al and for example).

Simon T Wolf @simontwolf.bsky.social · 1d

I thought that was Church...

Simon T Wolf @simontwolf.bsky.social · 1d

Yes please

Simon T Wolf @simontwolf.bsky.social · 1d

All he needs is a good long rest... 6 feet underground should prove restful enough for an eternity in hell.

I have a better idea! Use all that lasts he carries around to plug the hole at Chernobyl! "

Simon T Wolf @simontwolf.bsky.social · 1d

There's not many more breaths available for #DJT. Short of a helium factory with a digitalis extraction facility for fun would be a laugh for! When's good birthday? Someone I know wants to deliver a pointed message...what do you mean "what do I mean pointed?", I replied "like a knife you imbécile"!

Simon T Wolf @simontwolf.bsky.social · 1d

...easily cause a myocardial infarction of impotent rage building up his blood pressure coz he hasn't got the vessels to transport it effectively throughout his body... been through it - congestive heart failure; the reason for the impotent rage can be directly tied to his failing heart + he knows.

Simon T Wolf @simontwolf.bsky.social · 1d

The moment has arrived for step one: question, challenge and ridicule the ridiculous. Step two is cause a mass tantrum to deliver the #AdministrationHierarchy heart burn at every moment. Make sure they don't sleep well at night. The old pots and pans drumming out of town is a tradition that could...

Simon T Wolf @simontwolf.bsky.social · 1d

correction: lost one main processor, the AMD Zen4 APU 5XXXX, so stripped for bits and being happy they were cheap.

Simon T Wolf @simontwolf.bsky.social · 1d

It's at moments like this I look back upon the 1930s and think...well was it really worth it after all? A cursory glance over who's who and where they is, reveals the same over-arching direction of capital and money flows have been at play for now the last century, still in the hands of financiers.

Simon T Wolf @simontwolf.bsky.social · 1d

this is deep doo-doo...I'm really trying to be less sweary

Simon T Wolf @simontwolf.bsky.social · 1d

those Pirates hogging my line...

Simon T Wolf @simontwolf.bsky.social · 1d

...living room and a curved gaming monitor: 144 MhZ, less than 1 microsecond response, 1.5K at 38" with upscaling to UQHD 2.5K...OLED as well...wasn't cheap.

That's why I'm impressed by the speed. I downloaded an episode of Have I Got News For You in 5 seconds - 2160p 4k UHD 4.2Gb file size...damn

Simon T Wolf @simontwolf.bsky.social · 1d

home; all up I pay $105.00/mth.

I had a massive CD Collection and when DVD Movies were the thing I bought thousands, so I have digital HD/UHD for 1080p up to 2160p full 4K movie library approaching 10 TB of Ultraviolet digital twins for computer nerds like me who use a 4K TV as a monitor in the ...

Simon T Wolf @simontwolf.bsky.social · 1d

but we used messenger and ICQ to get around that. Primitive video calling but it was worth it.

So in 18 years the changes are the above down and up speeds for unlimited data plus my mobile is on a 5G plan for very little because I rarely use it to make mobile calls...I use it to use over #WiFi at