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Nathan Wind @nwind.bsky.social · 2h

That kind of night

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Nathan Wind @nwind.bsky.social · 3h

Give a fuck

(((Tendar))) @tendar.bsky.social · 3h

The Trump administration has authorized the state of Qatar to have a training center established at the Mountain Home air base in Idaho, USA.

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Nathan Wind @nwind.bsky.social · 4h

Can you imagine what the Labor party of 2025 would do to Tony Abbott?

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Nathan Wind @nwind.bsky.social · 4h

LOL

Chris Wallace @chriswallace.bsky.social · 4h

'The long arm of the mad uncles – former senior politicians who can’t resist getting involved in political business that is no longer theirs – was evident in the Liberals’ turmoil this week.'

bit.ly/4h9xBDV #auspol

Happy birthday, Liberal Party of Australia

On Monday, the Liberal Party turns 81. Of several possible birthday options, the Liberals observe October 13, 1944, the date on which a conference of anti-Labor parties called by founder Robert…

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Nathan Wind @nwind.bsky.social · 4h

A lesson as old as Ancient Rome

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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 6h

Americans are all going to start dying of bacterial infections soon because some sideshow alley whale head collector of a political dynasty thinks antibiotics turns you trans

Reuters @reuters.com · 6h

Trump administration lays off dozens of CDC officials, NYT reports reut.rs/4mVmDDb

Trump administration lays off dozens of CDC officials, NYT reports

The Trump administration has laid of dozens of employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in its latest round of layoffs, including "disease detectives," high-ranking scientists and the entire Washington office, the New York Times reported on Saturday.

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Nathan Wind @nwind.bsky.social · 5h

Exactly. Just wild to see decline and fall before your eyes.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 6h

It simply should not be possible for the president to repeatedly claim that a major city is burning without a wall of live standups happening in that city clearly demonstrating that it is not

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 7h

American broadcast journalism has utterly failed and is a dead industry, there's nothing left worth saving

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Nathan Wind @nwind.bsky.social · 5h

America is a basket case

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 7h

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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Nathan Wind @nwind.bsky.social · 5h

He’s a cardboard cut out. Absolutely no substance.

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Nathan Wind @nwind.bsky.social · 5h

Smart dog.

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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 1d

The bemusing part of this is even though the Qld coal fleet is youngest in the country, they won't last to the 2040s. The Qld government knows this - but throwing red meat to their idiot wing and their donors is an aesthetic I suppose.

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

Australia's Queensland reverses policy, pledges to keep using coal power reut.rs/42BhtoJ

Australia's Queensland reverses policy, pledges to keep using coal power

Australia's Queensland state government said on Friday it would run coal power plants at least into the 2040s, reversing a previous plan to pivot rapidly to renewables and in turn making national emissions reduction targets harder to achieve.

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ChattyCathyPRGuysGrandma @chattycathyau.bsky.social · 7h

Meanwhile in Victoria, where 3AW & others tell the people to be scared in the Melbourne CDB, you get the Police having to issue this statement 🤦‍♀️

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Nathan Wind @nwind.bsky.social · 7h

Christmas shopping already maybe?

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turnleft2024 @turnleft8.bsky.social · 10h

life under Minnz: NSW has been over estimating the number of "anti semitic" incidents - theyve been counting attacks BY jewish people AGAINST pro Palestine / anti genocide activists

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 1d

“They make a desert and call it peace.” - Tacitus

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Nathan Wind @nwind.bsky.social · 11h

Fucked

David @daverino.bsky.social · 11h

“As..prices continue to rise, many Australians are taking longer to secure a home loan. First home buyers older than 45 now make up 10% of the market, up from just 2% in 2005..borrowers in their 50s are increasingly common as they struggle to overcome affordability”
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Mortgage holders may soon face similar dilemma to renters in retirement

Property analysts, brokers and banks report more borrowers are taking on big housing debts in their late 40s and 50s and, potentially, a retirement still saddled with mortgage repayments.

www.abc.net.au

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 12h

Toilet paper in Canada costs more per sheet than the Argentine Peso. blog.whogivesacrap.org/home/cost-pe...

What Does Toilet Paper Cost Per Square from Top Brands? — Talking Crap

Learn how to figure out the cost per sheet of a roll of toilet paper and examine the cost per sheet of toilet paper from premium brands.

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Nathan Wind @nwind.bsky.social · 12h

The ALP will destroy him.

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Jessie L @jessielilley.bsky.social · 13h

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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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 14h

Hours after Russia launched one of its most destructive terrorist attacks on Ukraine, Donald Trump publicly thanks Putin.

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Tom Red @tomredmemes.bsky.social · 13h

BREAKING: PISSED-UP SEX PEST SAYS BRING BACK ONION-CRUNCHING JESUS FREAK
#auspol #LibShamble

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Nathan Wind @nwind.bsky.social · 13h

Holocaust vibes

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 15h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Nathan Wind @nwind.bsky.social · 13h

Well heck.. any US bases overseas?

Nathan Wind @nwind.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, we were all young.