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naomi gurner @silencewedge.bsky.social · 4h

not the right colours idc, unironically loving that this has become a sam kerr fan account 💛💚💛💚

naomi gurner @silencewedge.bsky.social · 14h

More likely to get investigated by the NACC for suggesting that the NACC is corrupt

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Matthewせいじ @matthewseiji.com · Aug 14

It’s 2050 and a teen girl is torrenting a .tar.gz file of all the consciousnesses of all the tech bros who uploaded themselves into the cloud in a bid for immortality and modding them into The Sims 4

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naomi gurner @silencewedge.bsky.social · 1d

I would like one of the big silver fellows so I could sit in my house in a white shirt and clip-on tie and pretend I am helping people land on the moon

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Tom Dowling @tomdowling.bsky.social · 3d

Send Albo a message by joining your local chapter of the Nationwide March for Palestine this Sunday.

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Azlancat @azlancat.bsky.social · 3d

A chihuahua in a DIY Pinhead costume from Hellraiser, complete with head pins and leather attire, carried in a bag against an autumn park backdrop for a timely Halloween vibe.

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naomi gurner @silencewedge.bsky.social · 3d

Hooray!

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MartIn The Mouth Of Madness @martindunlop.bsky.social · 6d

Three Legged Gorgoneion Head With Three Legs And Ears Of Wheat Growing Out Its Holes: rolling down the shop, you want anything?

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naomi gurner @silencewedge.bsky.social · 8d

Funny that these days reading someone’s aura means telling them they have shit vibes

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naomi gurner @silencewedge.bsky.social · 8d

Illegality is a useless measure of wrongdoing because every time you spend years proving that the government has done something obviously illegal and shockingly immoral they just go “guess what? now it was never illegal so it’s fine”

Michael Klapdor @mklapdor.bsky.social · 9d

More than 200,000 debts raised under the Robodebt scheme didn’t rely on the averaged ATO data. They were not refunded or zeroed. Many of these lawful debts would have been calculated using a different, unlawful method - income apportionment. This Bill will retrospectively validate that method

Screenshot of Bills Digest text: ‘The use of averaged Australian Taxation Office (ATO) data to raise a debt under the Robodebt scheme was declared unlawful by the Federal Court (p. 6). Robodebts—those raised wholly or partially using the averaging of ATO data—have been refunded or reduced to zero. Other debts raised as part of the same compliance programs, but calculated without using ATO data, remained subject to recovery.

Some individuals responded to the notices issued as part of the Robodebt programs or sought reviews and submitted information such as payslips and bank statements (pp. 4–6). These individuals had their payment rates recalculated using this information rather than averaged ATO data. Debts raised using this information were not ‘Robodebts’. Services Australia’s sampling indicates that the majority of historical debts involving employment income are affected by income apportionment (p. 3). It is therefore likely that many of the debts raised under Robodebt programs using payslips and bank statements relied upon income apportionment.’

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naomi gurner @silencewedge.bsky.social · 10d

nothing like enjoying the social benefits of higher acidic pollution

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naomi gurner @silencewedge.bsky.social · 11d

I suppose someone must manage Man U and it’s easy to see Amorim as the sin eater, dutifully sacrificing his own soul only to be ostracised from the world of men

naomi gurner @silencewedge.bsky.social · 11d

Ruben Amorim seems like a nice guy but I don’t think he’s a good fit for Manchester United because a) he’s trying to play a style of football to which the team is poorly suited , and b) he seems like a nice guy

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Cheshire Cat ᓚᘏᗢ, @autismsupsoc.bsky.social · 17d

I'm joining the war on Autism on the side of the Autism.

Murderbot is the character shown

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petit burgo @burgotastic.bsky.social · 17d

The irony of people on TikTok preparing for the rapture, as if anybody who has ever made short form video content will ever be welcomed into the kingdom of heaven

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naomi gurner @silencewedge.bsky.social · 18d

oh that’s a good shout. Hell of a film

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naomi gurner @silencewedge.bsky.social · 19d

Makes me think of how swiftonsecurity described having her location narrowed down quite exactly once by someone who identified a single tree in the background of a photo

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naomi gurner @silencewedge.bsky.social · 21d

yeah that sucks. I think there’s an ongoing issue with UWCL fixtures being announced late making it hard to schedule the big stadium but I don’t love it, especially as you say with them being the goddamn title holders

naomi gurner @silencewedge.bsky.social · 21d

honorable mention to the guardian women’s football weekly pod not for the coverage per se but for one of the hosts describing the tillies hat they were wearing in celebration

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Kieran Yap @kieranyap.bsky.social · 21d

Me listening to every WSL podcast until they get to the part about Sam Kerr

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 22d

If you boycott Disney, which has been on the BDS list forever, it will cover your Kimmel and your HBO Max boycott...and I say this as someone who loses money when Disney gets boycotted

الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 22d

You should already be boycotting HBO Max, but if you aren't, now it's definitely time
www.avclub.com/hbo-max-one-...

HBO Max acquires scripted series inspired by October 7 attack in Israel

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The Onion @theonion.com · 22d

Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’

JERUSALEM—In response to an independent United Nations inquiry concluding that Israel is committing an ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a defiant...

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naomi gurner @silencewedge.bsky.social · 23d

I only put yellow paint on things to let players know that the surface is climbable

naomi gurner @silencewedge.bsky.social · 23d

all of these are metric in Australia except for a person’s height. for some a person’s weight is always in kg, unless they’re a newborn. Sometimes seems inconsistent bc we often use imperial for hyperbole (“he was going 300 miles an hour”)

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · Nov 30

posting this Classic over here in honor of the big man himself. adios bitch

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