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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 1h

A question that I’m sure will be studied by political scientists for millennia … can you successfully govern a country of 330 million people with an administration made up largely of former Fox News hosts and former podcasters 🤷🏽‍♂️

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mick12345.bsky.social @mick12345.bsky.social · 2h

My bag of frozen chips has more intelligence, compassion and common sense than the combined phonp.

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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 2h

The fish n chip shop gossip is trying to drive division in the community AGAIN‼️

Pauline Hanson’s sustained campaign of alarmist rhetoric about immigration has once again returned to the centre of public debate and it deserves a careful & sober rebuttal

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Debunking Pauline Hanson’s Anti-Immigration Rhetoric: A Fact-Based Critique

Blaming the costs of living, lack of housing and cultural issues to migration ignores the benefits, including economic growth and prosperity.

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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 1d

A key element of Agnes Heller’s
philosophy was the concept of shame, which she argued was culturally bound. Unlike fear and joy, both primal emotions, shame is conditioned by the society in which we live. To feel shame is to believe that we’ve failed…

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Ágnes Heller: Shame and the Moral Compass

Shame is not a primal instinct, but a conditioned response, one based on the values we develop as we mature.

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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 1d

He kneels, yet will not bow his head –
Night gathers round, the field is lost,
But from his wounds and earth-stained skin
Still blazes pride, undimmed by cost.
His sword lies broken at his side,
Fragments glinting in failing day,
Yet in his grasp remains the will

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Undefeated

He kneels, yet will not bow his head – Night gathers round, the field is lost, But from his wounds and earth-stained skin Still blazes pride, undimmed by cost. His sword lies broken at his side, Fragm...

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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 1d

Man there are a lot of clumsy bastards in Russia…

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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 1d

He kneels, yet will not bow his head –
Night gathers round, the field is lost,
But from his wounds and earth-stained skin
Still blazes pride, undimmed by cost.
His sword lies broken at his side,
Fragments glinting in failing day,
Yet in his grasp remains the will

blakandblack.com/2025/10/07/u...

Undefeated

He kneels, yet will not bow his head – Night gathers round, the field is lost, But from his wounds and earth-stained skin Still blazes pride, undimmed by cost. His sword lies broken at his side, Fragm...

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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 1d

New people moving in next door. The old house was built some 80 years ago by a “new Australian” who left the Soviet bloc drawn to Australia by the Snowy Mountains project. The new young owners, seeing opportunity willing to work, have decided to renovate

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On the value of everything and nothing

There's nothing valuable about mediocrity, especially when the gains are easily won.

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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 1d

… or another one to Obama 😉

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Jorj, Interim DEITY🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦💪🏽 @just-jorj.bsky.social · 1d

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
trib.al/9Sxu9IN

Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Ewart, Dave @davidewart.bsky.social · Mar 13

@keanebernard.bsky.social "Albanese must ignore the bootlickers, get off his knees and punch back at Trump"

i respectfully disagree . no good would come of that . say nothing and move on . otherwise its just theatrics

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Annastasia @annastasia77.bsky.social · 2d

These are not normal times!
Glad to have him on our side!

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TiggsCupcake @tiggsisacupcake.bsky.social · 2d

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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 1d

If man baby Trump actually does get the Nobel Peace Prize it will become meaningless and worthless…

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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 2d

French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu has resigned, after less than a month in the position.

Mr Lecornu was appointed prime minister in September.

He was preceded by François Bayrou, who also quickly left the position.

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My Zero Carbon #ClimateAction @myzerocarbon.org · 21d

🎥
Climate Change Myth Buster (part2)

Watch here ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw5s...

e.g.
Myth 12 it’s unseasonally cold today
Myth 13 We have plenty of time
Myth 15 Technology will sort it out
Myth 16 #ClimateChange is good for us
Myth 19 We need to give up

PL RP 🩷💚💙
#ClimateAction #video #climate

More Climate Change Myth Buster (Part 2) | My Zero Carbon

YouTube video by My Zero Carbon

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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 3d

Tu Pham abused her position as Chief Executive of ACT Treasury to sack a subordinate who had commenced legal action against her for racism. She manipulated her position to destroy the life of her Indigenous employee to avoid being taken to the Human Rights commission

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TikTok - Make Your Day

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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 3d

What’s the collective noun for a group of fake Christian’s praying over the Antichrist…

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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 3d

Mary Ann Bugg (born 7 May 1834 near Gloucester, NSW) — a Worimi woman of mixed Indigenous and European descent — defied rigid 19th‑century expectations to emerge as one of Australia’s few documented female bushrangers.

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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 3d

If you can't see where this is headed or, worse yet, you don't care, get fucked.

You're a traitor to the United States of America if you support what Spray-Tan Shitler is doing to this country's citizens.

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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 3d

Tu Pham abused her position as Chief Executive of ACT Treasury to sack a subordinate who had commenced legal action against her for racism. She manipulated her position to destroy the life of her Indigenous employee to avoid being taken to the Human Rights commission

vt.tiktok.com/ZSUReH4GF/

TikTok - Make Your Day

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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 5d

Is Trump’s America a textbook example of reality imitating art?

It has all the ingredients of a dystopian work of fiction … only … it’s all real

It has everything from mindless MAGA chants to the virtual deification of Horst Wessel oops Charlie Kirk

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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 4d

Not a communist, not necessarily woke, not a racist, not a worshipper of money … but, a proud humanist” – is an attempt to map a middle ground that refuses to be flattened by contemporary binaries. It offers a robust moral vocabulary for critiquing life

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The Humanist: Not woke, racist, communist or money focused

Humanism values dignity and individual rights, acknowledging growth through reason whilst maintaining personal responsibility for collective outcomes.

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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 5d

Is Trump’s America a textbook example of reality imitating art?

It has all the ingredients of a dystopian work of fiction … only … it’s all real

It has everything from mindless MAGA chants to the virtual deification of Horst Wessel oops Charlie Kirk

blakandblack.com/2025/10/04/the…

https://blakandblack.com/2025/10/04/the…

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