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MsPraxis

@mspraxis.bsky.social

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Australian. Atheist. Skeptic. Female. Mother. Self-employed. Blood donor. Avid reader. Lefty. Of course I have a cat. I do not sport. Slowly giving less fucks day by day. Older than I'd like to be. I don't auto follow back.

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MsPraxis @mspraxis.bsky.social · May 17

How to play the games: see the post, reply by quoting the post, copy/paste the text, add your response/picture/GIF then post. Then the next person does the same. That way, everyone gets context. It's like a game of pass it on.
#BlueSkyTips

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Captain Nemo - Local Hero & Devil-May-Care-Flying-Fool. ✅ @flyingfool.bsky.social · 2h

Trump claims that María Corina Machado telephoned him and said she was accepting the Peace Prize on his behalf because he deserved it. meanwhile, in an anteroom Karoline Leavitt sniggers and puts the phone down after just putting on her best Venezuelan accent ever. 😂

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MsPraxis @mspraxis.bsky.social · 2h

You must never disturb the sacred bag time!

MsPraxis @mspraxis.bsky.social · 2h

Beautiful! I do partake but am currently persona non grata as Miss Fussy Pants has entered an "I DON'T LIKE THAT FOOD I LOVE ANYMORE" phase so she's not speaking to me at all 😂

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MColvinMcKenzie @mcolvinmckenzie.bsky.social · 2h

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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 2h

It gets worse ...

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MsPraxis @mspraxis.bsky.social · 2h

More stuff coming out about her - it's not looking good.

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TheFinnigans @finnigans.bsky.social · 3h

Oh dear. Mein Trumf just got another Piss Prize. He discovered almost 80% of US Military Hardware need Chinese Rare Earth Minerals

youtu.be/pWieCsMcHcM?...

Trump Is FURIOUS: 78% of America’s Military Runs on CHINESE Minerals as China BANS Rare Earth Export

YouTube video by World Affairs In Context

youtu.be

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FoxtrotFoxtrotSierra @maggiedawitch.bsky.social · 3h

It's our birthday today.My BillyBoyBumbleButt probs won't see his 16th,so I gave him some tuna-it's not on the kidney diet approved food list but he's dying-he can have a b/day treat.He's losing weight steadily & slowing down so much.Kidney disease is heartbreaking. Today I'm just going to love him.

A fluffy old grey cat lies half on his scratch bed and mostly on the red and cream rug underneath, enjoying the speing sunshine

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MsPraxis @mspraxis.bsky.social · 3h

Oh 😢 happy birthday beautiful boy! ❤️💔

MsPraxis @mspraxis.bsky.social · 3h

😂 you really are too kind

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MsPraxis @mspraxis.bsky.social · 3h

Such a beautiful piece of music. We had that playing as the entrance/background music for my stepdad‘s funeral a few years ago.

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🌊🏄BlueWaveSurfer🏄🌊 @bluewavesurfer.bsky.social · 4h

😂

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MsPraxis @mspraxis.bsky.social · 3h

He's both

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Dancer (The) @dancerv.bsky.social · 3h

Most days I can't tell if he's a fascist arsehole lying through his teeth, or a tragic gullible senile doddering old man, unable to distinguish reality from the lies his staff are feeding him.

Or maybe a bit of both.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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MsPraxis @mspraxis.bsky.social · 3h

You seem...surprised!

MsPraxis @mspraxis.bsky.social · 3h

*sniff* thank you! A few months back FB suggested the Dull Women's page for me and look at me now! 😂

MsPraxis @mspraxis.bsky.social · 5h

😂😫

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Benzie, the puppies Penn & Teller, and Richard @rdaily.medsky.social · 6h

TENNESSEE EXPLOSION: A before and after photo of the explosion in Tennessee today.

Reports of multiple fatalities and over a dozen missing at Accurate Energetic Systems.

Energetic is an understatement…

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Coral King @rocketcoral.bsky.social · 6h

Time for 🛏️
#sunset

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Jessie L @jessielilley.bsky.social · 6h

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."

Article extract:

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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Gekko @gekko.bsky.social · 6h

See the paternalism here?

Both dangerous, one the protege of the other, with "expectations"

They're career politicians - not REPRESENTATIVES working for voters. These are men who hijack votes, and, like cuckoos, hijack solutions to issues and replace them with ideology

Men absorbed in themselves

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MsPraxis @mspraxis.bsky.social · 5h

Damn :(

MsPraxis @mspraxis.bsky.social · 6h

I'm waiting to see a decent analysis from someone I trust (whoever that may be!) but there's sure to be hyperbole on either side.

MsPraxis @mspraxis.bsky.social · 6h

I neither Tik nor Tok and I don't Thread either but thanks! I just ran another search on Choice and the latest model of the LG fridge I have came up as the most recommended! (they're not affiliated with any company) but I have heard complaints. Hopefully I won't have to get a new one!

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TheFinnigans @finnigans.bsky.social · 6h

China has declared trade war against Trump. And Baby Pussy Donny is not happy especially post getting the Piss Prize. Poor Donny, he hasn't realised China don't need him & USA anymore. But US need China rare earth minerals

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Markets reel as Trump threatens to pull out of planned Xi meeting

The S&P 500 closed down 2.7%, its steepest fall since April, after the US president hit out at China.

www.bbc.com

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MsPraxis @mspraxis.bsky.social · 6h

So strange. I've had this one since 2018 and it's been brilliant til now. Choice magazine also rated it very highly at the time and subsequent models also rate very highly. I will look further into it if I have to get a new one though.

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