The Ice Axe 🧊🪓
@eisaxt.mountaineering.monster
Suburban #NAFO family guy. Think of Bluey's dad. Export Control Specialist, Fallschirmjäger & High Altitude Mountaineer. Sometimes I do 🇦🇺 - 🇩🇪 explainers. #MilSky
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Check the replies for the set-up & updates 👇Feedback is always welcome 🙏
... and always remember: Every run is a beer run 🍻
Check the replies for the set-up & updates 👇Feedback is always welcome 🙏
... and always remember: Every run is a beer run 🍻
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a man in a suit and tie is holding a jacket and asking where are you .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is holding a jacket and asking where are you .
media.tenor.com
December 22, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Reposted by The Ice Axe 🧊🪓
Alzheimer’s and Dementia are not the same thing. Here's why this matters:
DAMMIT It's Not Alzheimer's! Here's Why It's A Far Worse Nightmare Scenario
You deserve the facts, not conjecture. Alzheimer's diminishes a person. Trump's not diminishing, he's escalating, and you need to know the frightening reason why.
open.substack.com
December 19, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Alzheimer’s and Dementia are not the same thing. Here's why this matters:
The question "What can be done?" has a simple answer: Charge rego by emission (NOx & Carbon).
Boom 💥 Done.
Boom 💥 Done.
The proliferation of SUVs and giant Ute's has made it unsafer for drivers of smaller cars. Owners of these monsters should be hit in the hip pocket - the only way to reverse this trend. #auspol #roadsafety
theconversation.com/australias-r...
theconversation.com/australias-r...
Australia’s roads are full of giant cars, and everyone pays the price. What can be done?
If larger vehicles make us feel safer inside them, do they also make us take more risks behind the wheel?
theconversation.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:24 PM
The question "What can be done?" has a simple answer: Charge rego by emission (NOx & Carbon).
Boom 💥 Done.
Boom 💥 Done.
Mr Aftab Malik (Special Envoy to Combat Islamophobia) was originally intended to present his findings on Islamophobia in schools to the state and federal education ministers at the upcoming EMM.
Guess who got his time-slot.
#auspol
Guess who got his time-slot.
#auspol
December 17, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Mr Aftab Malik (Special Envoy to Combat Islamophobia) was originally intended to present his findings on Islamophobia in schools to the state and federal education ministers at the upcoming EMM.
Guess who got his time-slot.
#auspol
Guess who got his time-slot.
#auspol
Das ist schon eine bisschen übertriebene Kritik. Carlo's Buch ist doch eigentlich richtig gut, oder?
@carlomasala1.bsky.social
@carlomasala1.bsky.social
December 17, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Das ist schon eine bisschen übertriebene Kritik. Carlo's Buch ist doch eigentlich richtig gut, oder?
@carlomasala1.bsky.social
@carlomasala1.bsky.social
At one stage Australia needs to decide whether it wants to sit on the right or the left side of the table:
🇪🇺🇺🇦 🇺🇸🇷🇺
Who do we want to be? #auspol
🇪🇺🇺🇦 🇺🇸🇷🇺
Who do we want to be? #auspol
December 17, 2025 at 4:51 AM
At one stage Australia needs to decide whether it wants to sit on the right or the left side of the table:
🇪🇺🇺🇦 🇺🇸🇷🇺
Who do we want to be? #auspol
🇪🇺🇺🇦 🇺🇸🇷🇺
Who do we want to be? #auspol
Hello there 👋 I guess this is our reminder the danger noodle season has started.
(For the non-Aussies: This is an Eastern Brown Snake. It's in the top 3 of most deadliest or venomous snakes)
(For the non-Aussies: This is an Eastern Brown Snake. It's in the top 3 of most deadliest or venomous snakes)
December 16, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Hello there 👋 I guess this is our reminder the danger noodle season has started.
(For the non-Aussies: This is an Eastern Brown Snake. It's in the top 3 of most deadliest or venomous snakes)
(For the non-Aussies: This is an Eastern Brown Snake. It's in the top 3 of most deadliest or venomous snakes)
There's bravery and then there's whatever Ahmed Al Ahmad did 🫡
In 2006 he came here from war-torn Syria to start a new life for his family & the day he became an Aussie citizen, this country became a better nation.
#auspol
In 2006 he came here from war-torn Syria to start a new life for his family & the day he became an Aussie citizen, this country became a better nation.
#auspol
Parents praise 'hero' son for tackling gunman during Bondi Beach attack
The ABC has spoken to the parents of Ahmed Al Ahmed who was shot after he heroically wrestled and disarmed one of the Bondi Beach attackers.
www.abc.net.au
December 15, 2025 at 8:53 AM
There's bravery and then there's whatever Ahmed Al Ahmad did 🫡
In 2006 he came here from war-torn Syria to start a new life for his family & the day he became an Aussie citizen, this country became a better nation.
#auspol
In 2006 he came here from war-torn Syria to start a new life for his family & the day he became an Aussie citizen, this country became a better nation.
#auspol
A wild reminder of how unprepared EU countries are for hybrid warfare. And honestly? I doubt Australia’s faring any better. If anything, we lack the kind of hard-hitting journalism needed to drag foreign state interference into the light.
#auspol
#auspol
They Droned Back
Young journalists expose Russian-linked vessels circling off the Dutch and German coast
www.digitaldigging.org
December 11, 2025 at 10:42 PM
A wild reminder of how unprepared EU countries are for hybrid warfare. And honestly? I doubt Australia’s faring any better. If anything, we lack the kind of hard-hitting journalism needed to drag foreign state interference into the light.
#auspol
#auspol
It's definitely an Ode to Joy
December 11, 2025 at 6:52 AM
It's definitely an Ode to Joy
Scathing critique of the Aussie Social Media Ban by the German magazine "Der Spiegel". At the same time we've fuck all to protect kids from predatory gambling ads.
#auspol
#auspol
December 10, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Scathing critique of the Aussie Social Media Ban by the German magazine "Der Spiegel". At the same time we've fuck all to protect kids from predatory gambling ads.
#auspol
#auspol
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90% of WA's gas is exported by mostly foreign owned gas corporations that pay no PRRT.
Our governments should prioritise the interests of Australians, not gas industry profits.
✍️ Sign our petition and demand that the gas industry pays its fair share:
nb.australiainstitute.org.au/increase_the...
Our governments should prioritise the interests of Australians, not gas industry profits.
✍️ Sign our petition and demand that the gas industry pays its fair share:
nb.australiainstitute.org.au/increase_the...
December 8, 2025 at 2:00 AM
90% of WA's gas is exported by mostly foreign owned gas corporations that pay no PRRT.
Our governments should prioritise the interests of Australians, not gas industry profits.
✍️ Sign our petition and demand that the gas industry pays its fair share:
nb.australiainstitute.org.au/increase_the...
Our governments should prioritise the interests of Australians, not gas industry profits.
✍️ Sign our petition and demand that the gas industry pays its fair share:
nb.australiainstitute.org.au/increase_the...
Australia isn’t being courted — it’s being played. In this strategy, we’re treated like a handy pawn to push back against China’s economic rise, all while being pressured to pump more into the US defence industry.
Feels less like partnership, more like leverage. #auspol
Feels less like partnership, more like leverage. #auspol
Europeans are waking up this morning to find the new US National Security Strategy (quietly) released. And what it has to say on Europe could not be clearer. On the „stark prospect of civilizations erasure“ for example. 👇
December 5, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Australia isn’t being courted — it’s being played. In this strategy, we’re treated like a handy pawn to push back against China’s economic rise, all while being pressured to pump more into the US defence industry.
Feels less like partnership, more like leverage. #auspol
Feels less like partnership, more like leverage. #auspol
Turns out yesterday was my last day as a mono-citizen 🇦🇺🇩🇪
December 4, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Turns out yesterday was my last day as a mono-citizen 🇦🇺🇩🇪
Oi!
Wenn hier noch einer behaupten Stirb Langsam sei kein Weihnachtsfilm, dann hol' ich meine MP5 aus'm Schrank!!!
Die Die Hard Filme drehen sich im Kern um Wiedergutmachung. Schon im ersten Teil von 1988 steht dieses Thema im Mittelpunkt: John McClane versucht nicht nur, seine Frau zu retten,
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Wenn hier noch einer behaupten Stirb Langsam sei kein Weihnachtsfilm, dann hol' ich meine MP5 aus'm Schrank!!!
Die Die Hard Filme drehen sich im Kern um Wiedergutmachung. Schon im ersten Teil von 1988 steht dieses Thema im Mittelpunkt: John McClane versucht nicht nur, seine Frau zu retten,
1/
December 4, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Oi!
Wenn hier noch einer behaupten Stirb Langsam sei kein Weihnachtsfilm, dann hol' ich meine MP5 aus'm Schrank!!!
Die Die Hard Filme drehen sich im Kern um Wiedergutmachung. Schon im ersten Teil von 1988 steht dieses Thema im Mittelpunkt: John McClane versucht nicht nur, seine Frau zu retten,
1/
Wenn hier noch einer behaupten Stirb Langsam sei kein Weihnachtsfilm, dann hol' ich meine MP5 aus'm Schrank!!!
Die Die Hard Filme drehen sich im Kern um Wiedergutmachung. Schon im ersten Teil von 1988 steht dieses Thema im Mittelpunkt: John McClane versucht nicht nur, seine Frau zu retten,
1/
That's my type of humour 😎
December 3, 2025 at 6:01 AM
That's my type of humour 😎
I need McDonald's Deutschland to have a serious conversation with Maccas Australia. #WTF
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November 27, 2025 at 5:03 AM
I need McDonald's Deutschland to have a serious conversation with Maccas Australia. #WTF
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When things are escalating in the office
November 27, 2025 at 2:23 AM
When things are escalating in the office
This is the last Thanksgiving for Trump as a president.
November 26, 2025 at 10:27 PM
This is the last Thanksgiving for Trump as a president.
Melbournian traffic engineers consider paint thinner a normal food group.
#Melbourne #bikeinfrastructure
#Melbourne #bikeinfrastructure
November 24, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Melbournian traffic engineers consider paint thinner a normal food group.
#Melbourne #bikeinfrastructure
#Melbourne #bikeinfrastructure
Credit where credit is due 🙌
Wrote an email to my local member that a construction crew put up 70 sign in a 40 school zone. By lunchtime these signs were moved and now a subbie faces serious questions about their paint thinner consumption.
That's what I call working for the community 👍
Wrote an email to my local member that a construction crew put up 70 sign in a 40 school zone. By lunchtime these signs were moved and now a subbie faces serious questions about their paint thinner consumption.
That's what I call working for the community 👍
November 20, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Credit where credit is due 🙌
Wrote an email to my local member that a construction crew put up 70 sign in a 40 school zone. By lunchtime these signs were moved and now a subbie faces serious questions about their paint thinner consumption.
That's what I call working for the community 👍
Wrote an email to my local member that a construction crew put up 70 sign in a 40 school zone. By lunchtime these signs were moved and now a subbie faces serious questions about their paint thinner consumption.
That's what I call working for the community 👍
