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wil @wilful.bsky.social · 2h

What's his next shit take - Iain M Banks would love chatGPT because of Minds?

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wil @wilful.bsky.social · 2h

But... but... Uhura... and Sulu... and all those obvious space communist messages.

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wil @wilful.bsky.social · 3h

The Romans loved it too. In a continent without chillies.

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wil @wilful.bsky.social · 3h

With names like hallucigenia.

wil @wilful.bsky.social · 3h

Curious thing I learnt from a Bill Bryson book - the little salt and pepper containers on a table used to have a third pot, but we don't know what it had in it - best guess is mustard.

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wil @wilful.bsky.social · 3h

That's not actually the meaning of the Reichstag fire. It wasn't a distraction, it was a pretext. Was it a false flag operation we'll never know.

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wil @wilful.bsky.social · 3h

He has a very cunning plan to sidestep this problem, you're gonna love it.

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wil @wilful.bsky.social · 3h

a close up of a man looking at another man while holding a bottle of alcohol .

ALT: a close up of a man looking at another man while holding a bottle of alcohol .

media.tenor.com

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wil @wilful.bsky.social · 4h

Most of us?

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wil @wilful.bsky.social · 4h

Which bastard poisons slaters?

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wil @wilful.bsky.social · 5h

What's her government pension worth? About $200k a year?

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wil @wilful.bsky.social · 7h

Also:
"We're not the richest country in the world, but we're close.

If dollars don't move you, think about what they buy us: better health, longer lives, a social safety net, freedom from fear, poverty and hunger."

And the richest country in the world? How are they going?

Gavin Miller @glmiller.bsky.social · 7h

what a load of🐂
'Our lower house is dominated by two parties. That may feel stifling, until you look abroad, where fragile coalitions collapse and rarely deliver either stability or reform.' @gekko.bsky.social
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Australia's institutions are rare, valuable and worth defending

The world changes, yet Australia keeps being great. Our institutions permit us to be nimble, and we adapt.

www.abc.net.au

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wil @wilful.bsky.social · 7h

Went full tangerine today didn't he.

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wil @wilful.bsky.social · 12h

First they came for the job service providers, and I was cheering because I wasn't a dodgy cnut. Then they came for the offshore profit shifters, and I remained happy. Then they came for the gas thieves, and I was so happy that I forgave the ALP all their sins.

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wil @wilful.bsky.social · 12h

Won't somebody think of the rentseekers?

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wil @wilful.bsky.social · 1d

He couldn't possibly have just quoted 18 USC 11, because that would be too much delicious irony.

"Bribery, Graft and Conflicts of Interest" I kid you not.

wil @wilful.bsky.social · 1d

Primitive country.

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wil @wilful.bsky.social · 1d

The cars that ate pavlova.

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wil @wilful.bsky.social · 1d

Render unto Caesar.

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wil @wilful.bsky.social · 1d

People don't need health insurance, they need healthcare.

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wil @wilful.bsky.social · 1d

Though China knows which buttons to press.

wil @wilful.bsky.social · 1d

Anybody who thinks that the USA can or should 'just go back to the good old days' profoundly misunderstands the problem.

There's no way back, only forwards.

David Atkins @davidoatkins.bsky.social · 1d

The choice cannot be between "win every election from here until forever" or maga fascism.

Liberalism will need to fight for structural permanence just as aggressively as fascism does.

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wil @wilful.bsky.social · 1d

While registered not for profits that have been in the sector for decades have to jump through all sorts of hoops to get paid less.

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wil @wilful.bsky.social · 1d

This is the insightful commentary that we've come to love and expect from #OurABC.

I'm not clicking through to see if Annabel wrote it.

ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 1d

Threatening to euthanase Johnny Depp and Amber Heard's dogs, repeatedly calling out "caaarp" in parliament, that notorious moment on a Canberra footpath, Barnaby Joyce's career has had plenty of colour and movement.

From Pistol and Boo to leaked texts, Joyce has always run his own race

Threatening to euthanase Johnny Depp and Amber Heard's dogs, repeatedly calling out "caaarp" in parliament, that notorious moment on a Canberra footpath, Barnaby Joyce's career has had plenty of colour and movement.

www.abc.net.au

wil @wilful.bsky.social · 1d

"if you don't join One Nation, I will!"