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Idea Monkey 🧨 💥 🐵 @ideamonkey.bsky.social · 2m

No, not really. At all. Stop it.

It's always socio-economic.

Fuck, who would have ever thought that an awkward kid called 'Elon' would have got anywhere, except - he grew up with his parents owning a fucking emerald mine while exploiting Apartheid to make their fortune

Work back from that, k?

The Independent @the-independent.com · 9m

Triptych, X Æ A-Xii, or Slim Easy: Can a name really determine your child’s destiny?

www.independent.co.uk

Idea Monkey 🧨 💥 🐵 @ideamonkey.bsky.social · 8m

Yes

It's 'relatively' decentralised

Massive interruption? 100%

Los a bunch of data/services? Also 100%

But no one country could nix it. Communication would remain

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Idea Monkey 🧨 💥 🐵 @ideamonkey.bsky.social · 9h

Quelle surprise

🙄

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Idea Monkey 🧨 💥 🐵 @ideamonkey.bsky.social · 7h

So have they

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 8h

I am formally admitting defeat at understanding the Argentinian economy

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Idea Monkey 🧨 💥 🐵 @ideamonkey.bsky.social · 5h

Free market absolutist turns to socialism to get a bail out after failing at the free market

The hypocrisy of these people is beyond measure

Fifty Shades of Whey @fiftyshadesofwhey.bsky.social · 6h

US soybean farmers finding out the hard way that "America First" was a lie

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Idea Monkey 🧨 💥 🐵 @ideamonkey.bsky.social · 14m

I mean, if chopping off part of your head gives you Autism, these dudes getting crazy fades are living on the fucking edge, bro

Idea Monkey 🧨 💥 🐵 @ideamonkey.bsky.social · 19m

Sorry, misread

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Idea Monkey 🧨 💥 🐵 @ideamonkey.bsky.social · 20m

Norway is part of NATO

There will be ZERO military response. Also, Norway has no say in the awards. They're merely the host.

As for the Nobels. If they want to exist past this year, they cannot award Trump

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Idea Monkey 🧨 💥 🐵 @ideamonkey.bsky.social · 53m

Does it?

Convergent evolution is actually a thing

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merekura.bsky.social @merekura.bsky.social · 4h

Norway is quite concerned! Don’t know whether to laugh at the absurdity or be fearful of USA repercussions 😳

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Idea Monkey 🧨 💥 🐵 @ideamonkey.bsky.social · 55m

FUCK all of them

They're struck off the list, permanently

Cancel them like Saudi Arabia does with foreign journalists

Anne @anneberra.bsky.social · 57m

“evil, amoral, grifting bastards”

‘Amoral, evil’: vitriolic backlash builds against comics who played Riyadh festival

Murder by bone-saw, lashings for rape victims, punishment amputation, jail for satirists … these are the Saudi human rights abuses fuelling the fury being directed at the likes of Louis CK, Dave Chapp...

www.theguardian.com

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Idea Monkey 🧨 💥 🐵 @ideamonkey.bsky.social · 1h

She looks, um, concerned?

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Idea Monkey 🧨 💥 🐵 @ideamonkey.bsky.social · 1h

It's more 'intimate' than that.

It's direct 'recruitment'.

x.com/TheAusInstit...

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Idea Monkey 🧨 💥 🐵 @ideamonkey.bsky.social · 1h

Indeed

To quote Tyler Durden from Fight Club:

"Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken."

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Idea Monkey 🧨 💥 🐵 @ideamonkey.bsky.social · 1h

Socialist?

🤪

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 1h

Kim Jong Un claims no mistakes, promises economic growth and stronger global standing for the nation.

‘Socialist paradise’: North Korea’s Kim marks 80th year of governing party

Kim Jong Un claims no mistakes, promises economic growth and stronger global standing for the nation.

bit.ly

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Idea Monkey 🧨 💥 🐵 @ideamonkey.bsky.social · 1h

Her intensity deserves one

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Debbie Fearon (she/her) @debbiefearon.medsky.social · 1h

I want Thunberg to win so we get to see hundreds of old, white men’s heads simultaneously explode all over the world.

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Idea Monkey 🧨 💥 🐵 @ideamonkey.bsky.social · 1h

Vids or they didn't happen 🤨

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Idea Monkey 🧨 💥 🐵 @ideamonkey.bsky.social · 1h

Republic?

FUCKING LOLZ 🤣

What's the point of pretending we're free of the British Empire while we're currently being completely supplicant to the American Empire?

We've NEVER been less independent.

Republic? What a fucking joke.

The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 1h

Becoming a republic, says historian Jenny Hocking, is about becoming “a fully independent nation”, free of “the last vestiges of colonisation”.

“Whitlam called them colonial relics, but those relics proved to be extremely powerful.” satpa.pe/w0chUX8

A republic in the too-hard basket

On the eve of the 50th anniversary of the Dismissal, the prime minister made it clear he will not pursue a republic – a further setback to a process that has long been under way.

satpa.pe

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Idea Monkey 🧨 💥 🐵 @ideamonkey.bsky.social · 1h

I'll defer to your expertise

😂

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Idea Monkey 🧨 💥 🐵 @ideamonkey.bsky.social · 5h

If directly threatening the host nation about winning the Nobel Peace Prize isn't a secret test to automatically exclude you, it really should be

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Idea Monkey 🧨 💥 🐵 @ideamonkey.bsky.social · 3h

Sadly so

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Idea Monkey 🧨 💥 🐵 @ideamonkey.bsky.social · 3h

This is 'by design'

LAbOr's design

Labor wants this shitshow to continue for as long as it takes for people to lose faith in the idea that an independent corruption watchdog is worth having at all

Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 3h

Ludicrous. The NACC is supposed to be independent but Brereton keeps working for the ADF while overseeing potential corruption investigations about it?
The Kathryn Campbell conflict wasn't enough to demonstrate how costly and damaging this is? That mistake already cost the NACC $1.2m to rectify.

Corruption watchdog head 'consulted' for ADF inspector general 11 times

Paul Brereton and Labor politicians had previously stated he had stepped away from the body and resigned as assistant inspector-general of the ADF prior to taking on the top integrity job.

www.abc.net.au

Idea Monkey 🧨 💥 🐵 @ideamonkey.bsky.social · 3h

Shelve one

I dares you

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Idea Monkey 🧨 💥 🐵 @ideamonkey.bsky.social · 3h

No, he won't attack them. Not without starting a war with NATO

And I think you're right. When he doesn't win it, he'll pout like s little bitch and say he didn't want it, or it never mattered, or it's a 'conspiracy'

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