kathleenannie.bsky.social
@kathleenannie.bsky.social
Living on Gold Coast 🇦🇺 retired and living the dream
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WARNER: Can you explain how it helps natl security or our trade balance - I loved your fancy Greek formula which was bad math on steroids - how with a trade surplus Australia got hit with a 10% tariff as well?

GREER: Australia has the lowest rate available

WARNER: We have a trade surplus!
April 8, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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April Fools gags are a cheap and lazy way to generate content for poor quality clickbait accounts.

And in other news, I'm pleased to notice that with the US no longer a reliable ally New Zealand has announced plans to resume domestic tank production.
April 1, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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March 11, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Ah yes, focusing on the issues that impact regular Americans.
February 18, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Sheryl Crow:

“My parents always said you are who you hang out with.
There comes a time when you have to decide who you are willing to align with. So long Tesla.
Money donated to NPR, which is under threat by President Musk, in hopes the truth will…find its way to those willing to know [it].”
February 15, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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This is so good.
February 4, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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January 30, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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This is how you say “go fuck yourself sideways with a porcupine” in inspector general speak.

Going to be interesting to see how the administration responds
January 25, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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'Every house reduced to rubble': Gazan family's painful return to Rafah.

According to reports, the Israeli military has dropped over 85,000 tonnes of bombs on Gaza since October 2023, surpassing the amount of explosives used in World War II. (Nov 2024)

#auspol #GenocideInGaza
#IsraeliWarCrimes
'Every house reduced to rubble': Gazan family's painful return to Rafah
Leila and Ibrahim el Arja fled their home in Rafah, southern Gaza, in May last year. This week they returned, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, but what they found only added to their devasta...
www.abc.net.au
January 23, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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"I am filled with happiness, and I will never retire" is so powerful
January 16, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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🎯
January 11, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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"When America sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with them. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. And some, I assume, are good people."

--Greenland
January 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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The Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist Ann Telnaes has resigned from her position at the Washington Post after her cartoon depicting Jeff Bezos and other billionaires genuflecting toward Trump was killed.

Her piece here: https://bit.ly/3Pk1g07
January 4, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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Happy New Year from the Izu Shaboten Zoo!
January 1, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Too true
A social distancing cheat chart:
January 1, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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December 29, 2024 at 4:01 PM
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I have the popcorn ready. 🤣
December 27, 2024 at 5:35 AM
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I am. 😊🤞🦋
Disclaimer: Not actually suggesting this. I feel I must say that, just in case.
December 19, 2024 at 10:05 AM
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"A gentleman,
is someone that can
play the accordion,
but doesn't.

Tom Waits
December 11, 2024 at 9:56 PM
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@humblyjay.bsky.social Be Kind ☺️
December 10, 2024 at 3:01 PM
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We keep getting messages saying climate change is a hoax and the world is flat. Is it 2024?!
December 7, 2024 at 11:09 PM
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Sweden's remarkably clean power grid. In November, this was its electricity generation mix:

Hydro 38%
Wind 31%
Nuclear 28%
Bioenergy 4%

Zero coal or gas.

- Ember data
December 5, 2024 at 10:46 AM
November 27, 2024 at 9:29 AM
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This needs to be said, loud, and often.
November 25, 2024 at 5:20 PM
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💯
November 24, 2024 at 6:02 PM