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Kitty/Inner West Hansard

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You can’t get mad at me, I’m disabled. I’m also a woman with absolutely no patience. Never got my pen license. I’ve been writing unlicensed all this time. Inner West, Sydney, Australia

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Kitty/Inner West Hansard @tiredhottakes.bsky.social · Jul 3

Me on BlueSky vs me on Twitter

Murray Bartlett in White Lotus looking very perky

Murray Bartlett in The Last of Us looking disheveled

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Kitty/Inner West Hansard @tiredhottakes.bsky.social · 37m

Cancelled Teams meeting. Blessed day 🙏

Kitty/Inner West Hansard @tiredhottakes.bsky.social · 4h

My Bluesky experience is now the juiciest it can ever be, thanks to Rob Delaney

Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 8h

The angriest I’ve ever been in my life was when the Jeremy Renner app shut down before I could download the last DMs my dad sent me before he died

Kitty/Inner West Hansard @tiredhottakes.bsky.social · 4h

My body positivity ends where James Paterson’s shit beard begins

Political Observer @politicalobserver.bsky.social · 4h

"Without culture wars, the Liberal Party would be soulless, hollow".

Senator James Paterson, Liberal Party (who is not yet 40 and tries to look 55) admits that policies, legislation and governance and administration come second to culture wars on nothing.

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Kitty/Inner West Hansard @tiredhottakes.bsky.social · 5h

Haaaaahahaha brilliant

Kitty/Inner West Hansard @tiredhottakes.bsky.social · 5h

But basically if you demand purity in cooking, as some do, you end up alienating the average person, who will then look for easier, less beneficial alternatives cos they are too overwhelmed by the complexity of it all. That is detrimental to the health of population as a whole - same with politics.

Kitty/Inner West Hansard @tiredhottakes.bsky.social · 5h

I came up with a really good food analogy for politics the other day but now I can’t remember it exactly and it doesn’t sound as good.

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Kitty/Inner West Hansard @tiredhottakes.bsky.social · 5h

Bought tickets to see Gwar. I couldn’t hum a Gwar tune if my life depended on it, but I am absolutely hanging to see their live stage show (Other Half is a big fan but also cannot hum one of their tunes. Not because he doesn’t know them but because he is tone deaf).

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Kitty/Inner West Hansard @tiredhottakes.bsky.social · 15h

Strands #591
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Kitty/Inner West Hansard @tiredhottakes.bsky.social · 15h

Connections
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Humph. American nonsense.

Kitty/Inner West Hansard @tiredhottakes.bsky.social · 15h

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Just how many words are spelled that way anyway

Kitty/Inner West Hansard @tiredhottakes.bsky.social · 15h

Strands #590
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That’s how the post came out and it makes about as much sense as the puzzle did

Kitty/Inner West Hansard @tiredhottakes.bsky.social · 1d

One major difference between neurodivergent men and women is that women are taught they should frequently apologise for their behaviour (which is also standard for neurotypical women, granted) and far more men can ‘overreact’ or be rude and people will dismiss it with ‘that’s just him’.

Kitty/Inner West Hansard @tiredhottakes.bsky.social · 1d

Today’s Thing That Shits Me: Australians who write ‘Mom’ instead of Mum

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Kitty/Inner West Hansard @tiredhottakes.bsky.social · 1d

Strands #589
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Kitty/Inner West Hansard @tiredhottakes.bsky.social · 1d

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 2d

What you see here in the children’s father, Bandit, is the culmination of sin. A father whose very name evokes crime, the criminal of criminals. Bluey, the color of sorrow. Bingo, lust for games of chance. Mother Chilli, who works part time at an airport in which planes “soar into the heavens”, thi-

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Kitty/Inner West Hansard @tiredhottakes.bsky.social · 2d

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Kitty/Inner West Hansard @tiredhottakes.bsky.social · 3d

It’s a bit mental how quickly online beauty trends pivoted to ‘the skin on your neck should never age’ and how many companies were able to pivot to ‘buy our miracle cure!’ as a result. Western beauty standards need to die. Just let my skin sag in peace.

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eggs @thewetmale.bsky.social · 3d

I miss REAL Journalists

Rob Sitch, Jane Kennedy, and Tiriel Mora posing as their characters from the TV show Frontline

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Kitty/Inner West Hansard @tiredhottakes.bsky.social · 3d

Hahaha absolutely spot on

Kitty/Inner West Hansard @tiredhottakes.bsky.social · 3d

That’s true, but journos are allegedly impartial (yes I know it is an opinion piece) and aren’t supposed to assume the voting public are just stupid (I know, I know)

Kitty/Inner West Hansard @tiredhottakes.bsky.social · 3d

As someone actually wise keeps telling me, these types of men just think the electorate voted by mistake and need to be reminded of who they really support, which can only ever be the person said men want

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Kitty/Inner West Hansard @tiredhottakes.bsky.social · 3d

It is incredibly funny that these ‘wise men’ see that the Liberals keep losing out to Independent women candidates based on their climate change credentials and they still think Hastie, conservative that hates climate action and probably women too, is the ticket to electoral success

Jessie L @jessielilley.bsky.social · 4d

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."

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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.

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