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Nigel Bell 🍉
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Still alive - HA - take *that* body!
Recovering caricaturist.

Gaza, the West Bank & Lebanon are all expressions of Ethnic Cleansing.
iZrael is an unfettered Apartheid state.

DoB: 318.99ppm (CO₂)
Residing currently on Yugara land.
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Trump's Russian Connections In 7 Charts
www.politico.com/magazine/sto...
All of Trump’s Ties to Russia, in 7 Charts
A visual guide to the many links between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin’s Russia.
www.politico.com
January 19, 2026 at 6:57 AM
"Make Heaven Crowded"? 😯

a) don't go if you don't have to; &
b) if you do have to go,
f'chr!stsake, do NOT sip the Kool-Aid!!
JD Vance rethinking his plan
Make Heaven Crowded is an insane title.
January 20, 2026 at 8:34 AM
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I am the book reviews editor for @jich.bsky.social and always looking for new review pitches. If you’d like to review a recently published book on imperial, colonial or Commonwealth history (broadly defined), please get in touch: evan dot smith at adelaide dot edu dot au. Authors, get in touch too!
January 19, 2026 at 12:32 PM
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Worth revisiting this @desmog.com @stellalevantesi.bsky.social piece from a few years' back analysing how fossil fuel companies sold gas as an "energy security" solution

Now Europe is being threatened by America: the country it turned to for 'secure' gas supply

www.desmog.com/2023/02/24/e...
January 19, 2026 at 8:38 PM
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Protesting against anything it seems.

It's a very rubbery definition

What do we want ?

Apathy

When do we want it ?

Anytime, no hurry

AFP "You're nicked!"
January 20, 2026 at 7:17 AM
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In order to achieve this doubling, a gain of average 7.2% annually is needed over 10 years. S&P 500 has averaged 13.5% annually over the past decade. These fearful ghouls are beggaring us all with their mediocrity
‘Property investors across Otago will be "a wee bit gutted" prices did not quite double over the past decade, a Dunedin landlord says.’

How tone deaf can you possibly be?

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Otago just short of ‘aspirational’ rise
Property investors across Otago will be "a wee bit gutted" prices did not quite double over the past decade, a Dunedin landlord says. Latest data...
www.odt.co.nz
January 20, 2026 at 6:41 AM
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ICE goons will be stationed at the finish line of every Olympic event and any athlete who beats home an American will be detained and deported.
January 20, 2026 at 7:39 AM
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"Our task is to build an anti-drone dome over Ukraine. A system that does not react after the fact, but destroys the threat during its approach. We need people who have already proven their effectiveness in modern warfare. Yelizarov is one of them."

kyivindependent.com/zelensky-nam...
Zelensky names Pavlo Yelizarov new Air Force deputy commander, calls for overhaul of Ukraine's air defenses
"Our task is to build an anti-drone dome over Ukraine. A system that does not react after the fact, but destroys the threat even during its approach," Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov said.
kyivindependent.com
January 20, 2026 at 7:36 AM
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I do wonder if Americans understand quite how insane he looks.
Q: Did you invite Putin to be on the Board of Peace?

TRUMP: Yeah. He's been invited

Q: Thoughts on Macron saying he won't join?

TRUMP: Did he say that? Nobody wants him bc he's going to be out of office very soon. If they feel hostile, I'll put a 200% tariff on his wines & champagnes & he'll join
January 20, 2026 at 7:41 AM
It's just more media bollocks - pursuing clickbait stories, to promote clickbait activities, regardless of the outcome, and then inevitably, if/when that outcome goes very poorly, blaming one or more of those involved... but never, ever mentioning their own shrill, persistent stoking of the fire.
January 19, 2026 at 10:31 PM
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Clorox coming out with a bold "huff bleach" ad campaign
January 18, 2026 at 6:57 PM
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This is not in fact the definition of the “working class.”
it’s just so crazy to see it happen in real time
January 19, 2026 at 9:14 PM
(sigh)... so, so true. 🫤

www.instagram.com/stories/hump...
Instagram
www.instagram.com
January 19, 2026 at 8:35 PM
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If Keir Starmer has disappeared up Trump's arse,
he'll find that Anthony Albanese crawled up there first.

Notable that British journalists are at least trying to do what Australian mainstream hacks rarely do:
challenge their PM about the US 'relationship'. #auspol
Keir Starmer disappeared up Donald Trump's arse.

And he has nothing to show for it.
January 19, 2026 at 8:04 PM
Ooh, this guy's a nutter! 😯

- but - but why is my Prime Minister nodding to everything the nutter says like one of those novelty dog toys with the wobbly head!?

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January 19, 2026 at 8:27 PM
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MLK reminds us that the time to act is NOW.
January 19, 2026 at 8:05 PM
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Politicians (certain politicians) aside, when are we going to jettison the now nonsensical nostalgia of journalists as a worthwhile element of society?

Indeed, the aforementioned 'certain politicians' only have their perverted reach *because* of these same journalists.

youtube.com/shorts/PDNE7...
How was this new report so badly twisted?
YouTube video by Simon Clark
youtube.com
January 17, 2026 at 9:28 PM
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Trump is trying to sell Palestinian sovereignty for $1 billion per seat while Palestinians are still being bombed and starved under the so-called “ceasefire.”

This isn’t diplomacy, it’s profiteering off genocide. Australia better not touch this with a 10-foot pole.
January 18, 2026 at 10:18 PM
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Trump circumvents the UN in his Gaza “Board of Peace”. @albomp.bsky.social invited to join. Conditions appear unacceptable. Trump would control all the money donated to help rebuild Gaza = corruptible governance.
January 18, 2026 at 10:27 PM
Share a television show that raised you.
January 18, 2026 at 10:45 PM
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More people should know about the day 90% of Icelandic women went on strike, forcing real political change towards gender equality:

www.bbc.com/news/magazin...
January 18, 2026 at 4:32 AM
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The largest spiders present are the very chill but formidable looking giant banded huntsmen. These spiders are tolerated by many Australians inside houses solely because of how well they can hunt large cockroaches. Our predatory version of the koala pretty much.
January 6, 2026 at 3:56 AM
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And sure, photographing bugs and spiders in a vegetable garden may not be as glamourous as jungle or swamp. But theres a great feeling that comes from a memory card of photos from a slow wander through a garden, that kinda capture its portrait through the faces that live there
January 6, 2026 at 4:12 AM