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Greybeard
@greybeard.bsky.social
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Former IT Geek, snake catcher and book hoarder
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Greybeard @greybeard.bsky.social · 3h
You'd think after 50+ years of marriage that you knew your partner, right? So *I* saw that the new Richard Osman book was coming out. *I* pre-ordered it from Boomerang Books. *I* was eagerly awaiting it. But at school pickup, there was a message as seen below...
Part cover of "The Impossible Fortune" by Richard Osman. Txt, "I got it first <smirk emoji>"
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Derek @derekianrobinson.bsky.social · 22h
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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 2d
Chris Bowen taunts Dan Tehan following his visit to Nuclear sites in the US saying Tehan’s post-trip YouTube video shows “he did not visit any small modular reactors, advanced modular reactors or micro reactors, perhaps due to the small technical detail that none exist”🔥🤣 #QT
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Greybeard @greybeard.bsky.social · 2d
Well deserved!
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 3d
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."
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Greybeard @greybeard.bsky.social · 3d
Ahhh. How... kind. I've disposed of my obsolete ones in the council e-waste though.
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Greybeard @greybeard.bsky.social · 3d
Yeah. I didn't mind the fancy modern stuff with "notes" and all.
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Greybeard @greybeard.bsky.social · 3d
Tallis Scholars. Average age here is 80+. If we all make it to the end, it'll be a miracle.
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Greybeard @greybeard.bsky.social · 3d
Sometimes under?
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Greybeard @greybeard.bsky.social · 3d
Ooh look at me, I'm a tourist.
Pic from a bridge over the Yarra, looking west.
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Greybeard @greybeard.bsky.social · 3d
NOT THE CABLES!?
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Greybeard @greybeard.bsky.social · 3d
Fair play to your Dad, his parents may have been Depression survivors like mine. Nothing wasted, nothing thrown out. Bits of soap in a mesh box for the dishes, recycled nails in Brylcreem jars, boiling clothes in the copper...
Hard to shake that upbringing.
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Greybeard @greybeard.bsky.social · 3d
Tapas and tempranillo, then the early music concert.
Two glasses of Red and the sad remains of a grazing board .
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Greybeard @greybeard.bsky.social · 3d
Oh no. And please keep us updated - I'm taking notes.
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Greybeard @greybeard.bsky.social · 3d
I just had a great idea (pause for derisive laughter). @2fbs.bsky.social and I go to a Comicon as Waldorf and Statler! No makeup needed, sarcasm pre-loaded.
Two people in a "theatre box" made up as Muppets Waldorf and Statler.
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Greybeard @greybeard.bsky.social · 5d
And that's pretty amazing. Great-great indeed.
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Greybeard @greybeard.bsky.social · 5d
I'm just happy not to be feeling anything to do with @2fbs.bsky.social !
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Greybeard @greybeard.bsky.social · 6d
Old Riley at the shops. Beautifully kept with wood and chrome and an antique radio on the dash. Someone's pride and joy.
Riley vintage car Car dash obscured by reflection but six dials and meters, shiny woodwork and a radio.
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Greybeard @greybeard.bsky.social · 6d
You're an evil man
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Greybeard @greybeard.bsky.social · 6d
Magnificent chemtrail this morning. (My mind is going Dave. I can feel it.)
Contrail across a blue sky above trees
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Greybeard @greybeard.bsky.social · 6d
Or patch the hull?
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The White Rose Society (Australia) @whiterosesociety.bsky.social · 7d
This is a sickening article from Rachael Lucas at the ABC, sanitising and rewriting the history of neo-Nazi Jeff Schoep, who is NOT reformed or repentant. Not ONE mention in this article of Charlottesville Unite The Right, or the murder of Heather Heyer. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
www.abc.net.au
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Greybeard @greybeard.bsky.social · 7d
John Birmingham puts my disgust and anger much better than I can.
open.substack.com/pub/aliensid...
Grand Theft Accounting
I am shocked—shocked, I tell you—to discover in this year’s corporate tax report that Optus paid no tax on $8.2 billion of income.
open.substack.com
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David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 7d
$1.5 million of 🇦🇺 taxpayer💰per head but asylum seekers still going without food.

Huge contract blowouts, added to the cost of the latest secret MOU with Nauru raises serious questions of gross mismanagement.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Refugees and asylum seekers on Nauru going hungry despite government spending $1.5m a year for each person
The Australian government is spending millions of dollars a year to house asylum seekers, yet many say they can not afford food and are forced to skip meals
www.theguardian.com
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Greybeard @greybeard.bsky.social · 7d
Just Boviphobia?
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