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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 3h

Unsolicited Rick pics

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 3h

Us running a farmer's market stall at 70 "It's jam. Thirty five bucks for 150g. We get it in drums from Malaysia and bottle it. Cash only or fuck off."

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 4h

We desperately need to stop treating rich people like they are smart because they are rich. Just gibberish. (This bloke just fell arse-backwards into a fortune from a firm clipping the ticket on payment processing.) www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 4h

Elyse Perry could probably show up and make the 3rd round of The Australian Open just for shits and giggles.

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 4h

Habeas Corpus? The MS13 bad hombre? I have a joke about him but Antifa won't bring anybody to hear it am I right I'm here all week try the veal it's the best in the city

WIRED @wired.com · 1d

US president Donald Trump appeared confused by a question over the possible suspension of habeas corpus, during an “antifa roundtable” event at the White House attended by conservative influencers.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 6h

ICE Raids: Myth Vs. Fact https://theonion.com/ice-raids-myth-vs-fact/

MYTH: My grandmother was deported to El Salvador.

FACT: No one really knows where she was deported to.

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 6h

And one of the four was…..Jeff

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 7h

"And Jeff. The Vic Libs need Jeff"

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 7h

Lol lmao

Herald Sun
Steve Price
Abbott return is what Libs need

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 8h

"We'll leave your clocks alone and take the fluoride out of the water"

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Isi Baehr-Breen @isibb.bsky.social · 15h

Thinking about that time I got quoted in the National Review about Bari Weiss

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 8h

Tankies & MAGA: "The Nobel Committee must be destroyed."

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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 17h

It was two OUP books.

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 17h

Leaving it to the Coroner to do the pill testing seems sub-optimal

Travis Jordan @grugstan.bsky.social · 20h

A young person died just days after the LNP make pill testing illegal.

There’s a good chance that if they could have had these pills tested, they’d be with us all today.

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 20h

Highly potent synthetic opioids found in teddy bear-shaped pills linked to a death in Queensland

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 1d

Call HR, oh wait that's him..........

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 1d

It did not rise to the Lobby Level. The CO2 on the tongue was a mere tingle. Spritzig.

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 1d

You actually don't need thousands of dollars sponsorship and a legal entity with staff and to consider political donation and lobbyist laws to kick the footy in the park opposite work, you can just go and do it but there is no hydration sponsor or free shoes. bsky.app/profile/kanc...

Kancho Yogo @kanchoyogo.bsky.social · 1d

'Corporate membership of the club begins at $2,500, according to its website, and allows sponsors to access "key opinion leaders" and "over 200 parliamentary members" at social games and functions.' www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Gambling lobby’s sponsorship of Australian parliament’s sports club condemned by crossbench MPs

Exclusive: Kate Chaney calls on PM to remove Responsible Wagering Australia’s membership, which allows sponsors to access ‘key opinion leaders’

www.theguardian.com

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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 1d

Another reminder - because far too many people don't seem to know it - this guy tried to *PREVENT* war crimes investigations. The only whistle he tried to blow was his own.

Why some of you held him up as some kind of heroic figure makes my brain bleed.

ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 1d

The former military lawyer was sentenced to five years and eight months in jail after sharing classified material with journalists in a case that has raised debate about whistleblower laws.

David McBride loses last-ditch effort to overturn conviction

The former military lawyer was sentenced to five years and eight months in jail after sharing classified material with journalists in a case that has raised debate about whistleblower laws.

www.abc.net.au

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 1d

This is why we must oppose AUKUS.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1d

Here’s a primer on ‘primer.’

It’s pronounced ‘PRIMM-er’ if you mean “a small book” or “a short informative piece of writing.”

It’s pronounced ‘PRY-mer’ if you mean “an initial coat of paint.”

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 1d

Congrats to the people taking the sponsorship for some low key influence peddling who decided that “publicly purging a professional-athlete Senator from the sports ball” was part of that brief. I’m sure you’ll fail up some more.