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You can’t get mad at me, I’m disabled. I’m also a woman with absolutely no patience. Never got my pen license. I’ve been writing unlicensed all this time. Inner West, Sydney, Australia

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Kitty/Inner West Hansard @tiredhottakes.bsky.social · Jul 3

Me on BlueSky vs me on Twitter

Murray Bartlett in White Lotus looking very perky

Murray Bartlett in The Last of Us looking disheveled

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 13h

What you see here in the children’s father, Bandit, is the culmination of sin. A father whose very name evokes crime, the criminal of criminals. Bluey, the color of sorrow. Bingo, lust for games of chance. Mother Chilli, who works part time at an airport in which planes “soar into the heavens”, thi-

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 14h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Kitty/Inner West Hansard @tiredhottakes.bsky.social · 13h

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Kitty/Inner West Hansard @tiredhottakes.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a bit mental how quickly online beauty trends pivoted to ‘the skin on your neck should never age’ and how many companies were able to pivot to ‘buy our miracle cure!’ as a result. Western beauty standards need to die. Just let my skin sag in peace.

Kitty/Inner West Hansard @tiredhottakes.bsky.social · 1d

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eggs @thewetmale.bsky.social · 1d

I miss REAL Journalists

Rob Sitch, Jane Kennedy, and Tiriel Mora posing as their characters from the TV show Frontline

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Kitty/Inner West Hansard @tiredhottakes.bsky.social · 1d

Hahaha absolutely spot on

Kitty/Inner West Hansard @tiredhottakes.bsky.social · 1d

That’s true, but journos are allegedly impartial (yes I know it is an opinion piece) and aren’t supposed to assume the voting public are just stupid (I know, I know)

Kitty/Inner West Hansard @tiredhottakes.bsky.social · 1d

As someone actually wise keeps telling me, these types of men just think the electorate voted by mistake and need to be reminded of who they really support, which can only ever be the person said men want

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Kitty/Inner West Hansard @tiredhottakes.bsky.social · 1d

It is incredibly funny that these ‘wise men’ see that the Liberals keep losing out to Independent women candidates based on their climate change credentials and they still think Hastie, conservative that hates climate action and probably women too, is the ticket to electoral success

Jessie L @jessielilley.bsky.social · 2d

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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Kitty/Inner West Hansard @tiredhottakes.bsky.social · 2d

Strands #587
“That's branding”
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Kitty/Inner West Hansard @tiredhottakes.bsky.social · 2d

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Dumb arse purple

Kitty/Inner West Hansard @tiredhottakes.bsky.social · 2d

Please, my wets

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Thought my positioning word was gonna be it for a sec

Kitty/Inner West Hansard @tiredhottakes.bsky.social · 2d

Hahahaha

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Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 2d

Are you in Australia, aged 20-70, with an increased risk of #BreastCancer via family history, prev ADH or LCIS on biopsy, or other reasons? Hurry to your GP for referral to this FREE, TELEHEALTH service recently started by Prof Kelly Anne Phillips to discuss medical prevention. #ASBD2025

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• Frec consultative, telehealth service for healthy women anywhere in Australia at
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• Primory focus is to initiate BC prevention medication and ensure well-tolerated

•Discharge women to primary care to complete the 5-year treatment course

Support women, referring clinicians and GPs throughout treatment trajectory
(hotline service)

Embedded implementation study to assess feasibility and effectiveness of the
Service (uptake 55%)

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Who is suitable?
Female
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And a QR code for referral information

Prof Kelly Anne Phillips appealing at podium

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Kitty/Inner West Hansard @tiredhottakes.bsky.social · 2d

At a Federal level, yeah. On the ground in the Inner West LGA, you have Labor councillors who changed the LEP upzoning based on the engagement report and Greens councillors who were so steadfastly determined to block everything they voted against a policy they later claimed as a win 🤡

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Kitty/Inner West Hansard @tiredhottakes.bsky.social · 2d

Haaahahahaha quite

Kitty/Inner West Hansard @tiredhottakes.bsky.social · 2d

I remember maybe three? four? years ago, before the YIMBY stuff really kicked off, I’d point out that someone like McKim was a part of the problems we face and people responded with ‘but the Greens are actively helping to solve it!’. Turns out, they aren’t. Instead they’re the biggest roadblock.

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Kitty/Inner West Hansard @tiredhottakes.bsky.social · 2d

Nick owns four houses. This is the hotdog guy meme playing out in Estimates.

www.9news.com.au/national/mic...

'I would not accept that': RBA boss denies housing crisis accusation

www.9news.com.au

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Kitty/Inner West Hansard @tiredhottakes.bsky.social · 2d

“Donald Trump’s Gaza peace deal” 🫠

Unofficial BBCNews (World) Bot @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social · 3d

Donald Trump's Gaza peace deal is a huge moment but this is just the beginning

The BBC's Lyse Doucet reflects on how long-awaited negotiations to move forward, not further back, appear to be succeeding.

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Kitty/Inner West Hansard @tiredhottakes.bsky.social · 3d

I kinda get why the pollies say it’s detached, though. They hold the power there and can choose not to engage. Like when I worked in a hospital and accepting a pen from a pharma rep is a no no, but getting them to sponsor whole conferences kinda makes them a useful idiot. Does that make sense?

Kitty/Inner West Hansard @tiredhottakes.bsky.social · 3d

Strands #586
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I’ll be laughing for ages at what I thought one of them was

Kitty/Inner West Hansard @tiredhottakes.bsky.social · 3d

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Kitty/Inner West Hansard @tiredhottakes.bsky.social · 3d

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Kitty/Inner West Hansard @tiredhottakes.bsky.social · 3d

Quite right, it should be banned for everyone

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 4d

4chan unlikely to be included in Australia’s under-16s social media ban, eSafety commissioner says

Julie Inman Grant says message board will need to comply with other codes which will also include age assurance for sites hosting violent and adult content * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The eSafety commissioner is not expected to block children from accessing 4chan as part of the under-16s social media ban, despite it being labelled one of the “darker” places on the internet. The eSafety commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, was asked by independent senator Fatima Payman in Senate estimates on Wednesday night whether 4chan, the message board often referred to as the engine room of the internet, would be considered one of the sites required to prevent under-16s when the social media ban comes into effect from 10 December. Continue reading...

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