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Dominic Meagher @dom-ma.bsky.social · 21h

Laura Tingle had a great interview with Singapore's PM yesterday, ahead of him coming to Canberra today.
Covers a lot of his thoughts on the state of the world and the place of Australia and Singapore in it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnhn...

Singapore PM talks Taiwan, Trump tariffs and Australian military presence | ABC NEWS

YouTube video by ABC News (Australia)

www.youtube.com

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Dominic Meagher @dom-ma.bsky.social · 1d

Alex Hawke on why the Libs lost:

“Clearly we didn’t have a clear policy offering for the election in any area of policy, and that was a real problem.”

No clear policy in *any* area. 😳

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Dominic Meagher @dom-ma.bsky.social · 1d

Just going to note that Whyalla wasn’t bailed out at all, it was compulsory nationalised.
Confiscating someone’s company because they screwed it up doesn’t create moral hazard.

www.smh.com.au/business/the...

Labor’s multimillion-dollar rescue won’t stop the rot

Bailing out distressed smelters saves jobs, albeit temporarily, but there is a perverse quality to governments lending a hand to multinationals with multibillion-dollar balance sheets.

www.smh.com.au

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Kathrine Richter @krichtercph.bsky.social · 2d

💯 True.
I'm an @ecosiasearch.bsky.social fan!

Dominic Meagher @dom-ma.bsky.social · 2d

Discovered that www.ecosia.org search gives results that are more like the mid-2000s when the internet still worked. I've started using it as my main search, not for the tree planting thing but because it's the best search.

Ecosia - the search engine that plants trees

Ecosia uses 100% of its profits for the planet and produces enough renewable energy to power all searches twice over.

www.ecosia.org

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Dominic Meagher @dom-ma.bsky.social · 2d

What I love most: it links to primary sources instead of infinite low quality news reports about primary sources.

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Dominic Meagher @dom-ma.bsky.social · 2d

Discovered that www.ecosia.org search gives results that are more like the mid-2000s when the internet still worked. I've started using it as my main search, not for the tree planting thing but because it's the best search.

Ecosia - the search engine that plants trees

Ecosia uses 100% of its profits for the planet and produces enough renewable energy to power all searches twice over.

www.ecosia.org

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Dominic Meagher @dom-ma.bsky.social · 2d

Gracious of Lawrance Wong to offer condolences, but I think it’s a pretty tall ask to expect Singapore to be somehow responsible. I don’t think anyone would suggesting the fault is with Singapore or its government.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Singapore PM gives condolences to families impacted by Optus outage deaths

Singapore's Prime Minister, Lawrence Wong, offers his condolences to the families of four Australians who died during an Optus network technical failure last month, which impacted hundreds of triple-0...

www.abc.net.au

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Dominic Meagher @dom-ma.bsky.social · 2d

I do think the average person could take the average kangaroo in a fight if they had to.
Not sure about the average Brit 🤷‍♂️

youtu.be/z-hXkQpDxMI?...

Man punches kangaroo in the face to rescue his dog

YouTube video by Mrmansderni123

youtu.be

Dominic Meagher @dom-ma.bsky.social · 2d

Alternatively, anything that might weaken Trump is default the most important thing in the world.

Dominic Meagher @dom-ma.bsky.social · 2d

The absolute state of the US…

Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 3d

This is the home of Diane Goodstein, a federal judge who ruled against Trump last month.

Members of her family were still inside, but survived by jumping out windows.

Just yesterday Stephen Miller claimed left wing judges were terrorists & state power was needed to stop them.

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Dominic Meagher @dom-ma.bsky.social · 2d

A little too much diversity for ICE, but yeah

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Prof Brendan Crabb AC @brendancrabb.bsky.social · 3d

As an Australian, I’m especially proud to be in PNG today. 50 years ago, demonstrating how interdependent and close our countries are, Gough Whitlam said something like, “Australia can only be fully free when PNG is fully free”. This announcement is in that spirit.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

'Our nearest neighbour is our newest ally': Albanese, Marape sign new defence treaty

PNG and Australia formally sign a landmark new defence treaty, elevating the bilateral relationship between the two countries to an alliance and agreeing to "act to meet the common danger" if the othe...

www.abc.net.au

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Dominic Meagher @dom-ma.bsky.social · 3d

Iran revaluing its currency by cutting four zeros off… maybe trying to drop nuclear bombs on Israel hasn’t been the best use of their resources 🤦‍♂️

ground.news/article/iran...

Iranian parliament approves currency redenomination

Iran has gained parliamentary approval for a monetary overhaul to remove four zeros from its national currency over the next few years to simplify transactions after years of inflation.

ground.news

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Dominic Meagher @dom-ma.bsky.social · 3d

Come to Australia & you can add gratuitous stochasticity to that torture since we usually can’t make up our minds between UK & US English.

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Dominic Meagher @dom-ma.bsky.social · 3d

Well I could’ve sworn that was going to be the Phantasy Star 2 theme song when it started 😂

youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Phantasy Star 2 OST - YouTube

Fuck yeah, 8 bit!

youtube.com

Dominic Meagher @dom-ma.bsky.social · 3d

How do we let them sell themselves as “anti-colonialists” while they’re in the midst of empial conquest?

Dominic Meagher @dom-ma.bsky.social · 4d

Ah, you’re right. 16-bit. I forgot.

Dominic Meagher @dom-ma.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks for the book recommendation in there, too. Have just downloaded the audio edition.

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Barry Malone @barrymalone.bsky.social · 4d

Delighted to have a guest post from @melissakchan.bsky.social in Proximities today. She has written an explainer about Taiwan with a level of depth and insight you rarely see elsewhere. Please give it your time.

www.proximities.news/p/what-youre...

What you're not hearing about Taiwan

A guest post from Melissa Chan

www.proximities.news

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Dominic Meagher @dom-ma.bsky.social · 4d

“At least I didn’t get the vax”
- common last words

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Dominic Meagher @dom-ma.bsky.social · 4d

Optimistic of you to assume they’ll be allowed to teach that in 50 years.

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Dominic Meagher @dom-ma.bsky.social · 4d

Compare the above to the London Symphony Orchestra recording the latest soundtrack of a free mobile game from China (they’ve released 30+ albums of music from that game at this quality):

youtu.be/RuXa_yxZMGI?...

Nod-Krai Main Theme Live Performance | Genshin Impact #GenshinImpact #NodKrai

YouTube video by Genshin Impact

youtu.be

Dominic Meagher @dom-ma.bsky.social · 4d

Biggest improvement in RPG’s since the 80s has got to be music though.

I mean, compare this 8-bit hell: youtu.be/Sejg3zeUuk8?...
To…

[TAS] Genesis Might and Magic II: Gates to Another World by Dammit in 06:15.33

YouTube video by TASVideosChannel

youtu.be

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Dominic Meagher @dom-ma.bsky.social · 4d

That makes sense. I can understand if she was looking at political tenacity, too.

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Dominic Meagher @dom-ma.bsky.social · 4d

Oh, you said “she is open about wanting to be Japan’s answer to Margaret Thatcher”
Sorry - I read it too quickly the first time. It was her, not you, making the comparison.

Still, any idea what she means if not economic policy (which is what Thatcher is mainly known for)?

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