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Gavin Gatenby

@gavingatenby.bsky.social

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Retired NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service officer. My videos, mostly about Australian wildlife, can be seen on Werrong Lane: http://www.YouTube.com/user/possm1. Check it out! I stand with Ukraine! 🇦🇺🇺🇦 I block bullshit accounts.

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Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 12h

johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10... %26 Irritations
A timely reminder that the modern Israeli government is run by the descendants of the Irgun & Stern terrorist gangs. It’s no coincidence that the acts of the IDF in #Gaza expand on those ancient crimes

A century of deceit: Towards a new understanding of the colonisation of Palestine

Political and media commentary on the Hamas killings of October 2023 have been preoccupied with claims that these were not only the worst terrorists but that their actions were without precedent.

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Tranquility Found @divinedropbear.bsky.social · 12h

A pair of Little Corellas playing...
#birds #birdwatching #birding #birdphotography #australianbirds #parrots #WildOz #OzBirds

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Gavin Gatenby @gavingatenby.bsky.social · 12h

Following developments in the US from across the Pacific, it’s hard to see how civil war can be avoided. Trump’s egregious violations of the constitution have already provided sufficient legal justification for resistance up to the point of armed struggle and for a split in the military.

Gavin Gatenby @gavingatenby.bsky.social · 1d

What a hoot!

Gavin Gatenby @gavingatenby.bsky.social · 1d

Looking on from Australia, it seems quite possible the House may never reconvene.

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signtst @signtst.bsky.social · 1d

#auspol He really likes this one.

Andrew Hastie pointing to a signtst poster of Andrew Hastie.

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Gavin Gatenby @gavingatenby.bsky.social · 3d

Aren’t they great! Dingoes are so much cooler and less hysterically demonstrative.

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Gavin Gatenby @gavingatenby.bsky.social · 3d

Absolutely!

Gavin Gatenby @gavingatenby.bsky.social · 3d

What a jerk. A Putin puppet.

Gavin Gatenby @gavingatenby.bsky.social · 3d

A second US civil war is coming closer every day. It’s quite possible Congress won’t sit again.

CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 3d

🚨🚨🚨Judge Diane Goldstein of South Carolina was targeted by the Trump admin for carrying out justice according to the law. Because of this, her house was blown up, her husband is in the hospital, and the domestic terrorism continues. 1/2

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Gavin Gatenby @gavingatenby.bsky.social · 3d

Civil war coming closer day by day. It’s entirely possible Congress will never sit again.

Gavin Gatenby @gavingatenby.bsky.social · 3d

Politically correct? At the time of the Vietnam War? There was no “woke” then. The man is a moron.

Gavin Gatenby @gavingatenby.bsky.social · 3d

Do we want these US troops on our soil? Well at this stage that depends on which side they’re gonna stand on if and when the increasingly likely second US civil war breaks out. If they’re agin Trump and his fascist legions it’s OK by me.

Gavin Gatenby @gavingatenby.bsky.social · 4d

A second US civil war is looming.

Gavin Gatenby @gavingatenby.bsky.social · 4d

Face it: the house may never sit again. That’s what it’s come to.

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susannahtarbush.bsky.social @susannahtarbush.bsky.social · 4d

wapo.st/42q0h5z

Many American Jews sharply critical of Israel on Gaza, Post poll finds

Most Jews say Israel is committing war crimes — and 39 percent say genocide — while often distinguishing between the country and its leadership.

wapo.st

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Gavin Gatenby @gavingatenby.bsky.social · 4d

Don’t look away. This is what Trump’s ICE militia, largely staffed by pardoned J6 insurrection is doing to US citizens (let alone immigrants) every day. This is fascism arriving in the US, wrapped in the flag and waving the Bible.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 4d

The body slam seems to be the ICE preferred initial interaction.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 4d

Trump hates to be the object of humor. He understands that humor can be a more powerful antidote to tyranny than any other form of criticism.

I'm sure he'd hate it if you shared this cartoon. [Cartoon by Jon Adams/The New Yorker]

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Gavin Gatenby @gavingatenby.bsky.social · 4d

Jerk with the pistol appears to have dropped its magazine.

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Gavin Gatenby @gavingatenby.bsky.social · 4d

How would you like to be the junior curator delegated to rewrite the text accompanying the Roberts-Smith display to, ah, “add context”? Now that would be a “character development” experience. Me (I count myself as a museum professional) I’d have just said, “fuck off, NO!”

Gavin Gatenby @gavingatenby.bsky.social · 4d

During WW2, there was paper rationing in the UK and toilet paper was rationed to 3 squares of paper per person per sitting. The slogan was (I’m not kidding you), “One up, one down, and one to polish”.

Gavin Gatenby @gavingatenby.bsky.social · 5d

Wow! I thought the post was traditionally reserved for a male agnostic.

Gavin Gatenby @gavingatenby.bsky.social · 5d

Actually, if you looked carefully, there were a couple of women, but they had short hair. Besides, there were hundreds of officers there and the pix that made the media only showed a small portion of the audience.

Gavin Gatenby @gavingatenby.bsky.social · 5d

Yeah… that’s what he said about Ukraine the day before he ordered the march on Kyiv.

Gavin Gatenby @gavingatenby.bsky.social · 5d

What’s the betting Trump will pardon him?