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Liam Hogan

@liamhogan.id.au

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Heritage yobbo. Intern at Dark Heart of Gradual Reform Pty. Ltd. All punked up on jupiter oil, rolling fifty deep. Mostly at http://aus.social/@liamvhogan

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · May 12

Immigration (and exmigration) is good, has increased human welfare and human liberty, has broadened societies, and is a demonstration everywhere of a society’s dignity

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 1h

Read this you muppets: Paul Musgrave on post-literacy

musgrave.substack.com/p/a-post-lit...

A Post-Literate Society is a Too-Literal Society

Directness is a virtue and subtlety is lost

musgrave.substack.com

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Jason Wilson @jasonaw.bsky.social · 3h

They think that the church is a building constructed within tight architectural parameters that hosts plentiful Tridentine masses and endless Padre Pio bullshit. I don’t have a dog in the fight any more but everyone whose grandmother coped with the new mass knows that they’re poseurs

Habeus Jocus @toowoke2joke.on.computer · 3h

lol at "just focus on the Church" bro, what do you think the Church does?

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 3h

It’s a great time for American Catholic trads to break bold new ground in sedevacantism

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 3h

Glorious

Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 3h

Getting unreasonably mad about the actions of the Pope in an environment of deep confusion about the religious basis to government is exactly the problem faced by that well known Catholic theologian and philosopher, Martin Luther

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 3h

Look, on the one hand it’s about time that American right wing Catholics simply admitted to Protestantism, on the other hand, if you haven’t got wildly red mad and nude about the Pope describing doctrines older than you, have you really engaged with Catholicism at all?

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 21h

Tired: Australia paying the Americans vast sums for submarines we’re never going to get

Wired: in the Solomons, you get free drug submarines from the sea

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

'Made in Colombia' narco sub found floating in Solomon Islands

Cousins Reubenson and Martin Fugui found a 'Made in Colombia' narco sub in Solomon Islands over the weekend — the third such vessel found in the country's waters over the past year.

www.abc.net.au

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 1d

Does a mere measurable public health success mitigate the loss of human achievement, creativity, and simple joy that is teenagers drinking and doing drugs? I look to @benhr.bsky.social for the utilitarian judgement

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Karl Sinclair @frkarlsinclair.bsky.social · 1d

Unironically, the whole production of that show is low-key impressive. They pump out over 200 episodes a year. No time for endless takes etc. writing around logistics because they are filming in multiple locations at once.

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 1d

A pair of Korean backpackers at the campsite I was at had the most extraordinary setup. A campervan with a kitchen full enough to do a hotpot dinner. And a projector, and a big screen, and they watched Jerry McGuire. They asked me to take a picture of it all with them in it. Sure, I said. Sure.

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 1d

For everyone now following me with an interest in 80s and 90s Australian soaps

Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · Nov 6

Consider the alphabetic topic list of ‘storylines’ covered by the soap Home & Away, for a 7pm time slot and PG rating, and tell me its writers don’t have Godlike powers

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_an...

Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 1d

Look the guy up, he did plenty, but also he did a lot of time

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thomas irvine @ahermitsvino.bsky.social · 1d

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 1d

One of the conspirators who helped Gavrilo Princip shoot Archduke Franz Ferdinand survived to see the breakup of Yugoslavia. He could conceivably have watched the Neighbours episode where Scott and Charlene got married

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 2d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 1d

Only bad if you owed money, that’s a skill issue

Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 1d

John Macarthur would have been an utterly incredible poster and it’s only the 175 years that separates his death from the advent of the social media era that has prevented him from becoming the most hated Australian ever

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 1d

If I wanted to take advantage of Sydney property, I would simply be a member of the colonial elite, an officer, or a middle-class trader with access to capital, in the period in which large ‘grants’ were issued on the basis of preferment in the 1800s and 1810s

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 1d

Everyone wants to have bought a house in the 1980s. Real heads imagine the value uplift from having bought a house in the 1880s

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 2d

The Age View: "....... but you didn't did you, you dumb ****?"

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 1d

Yes. The Blue Mountains Panther is real

Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 1d

The FBI has ordered all its agents to cease work and investigate sightings of large cats between Mt Victoria and Springwood in the Blue Mountains National Park