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Neil Brennan
@nellophonic.bsky.social
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Nutritionist, alternative practitioner, minister in the Universal Life Church, CTO. And everything else that takes no rigour or training. Just. Like. You.

I block pro-genocide, crypto and MAGA accounts. Instantly.

He/Him
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America is failing to attract new scientists. Graph showing every other major western country except Canada (roughly the same) up in percentage from last year for webpage views of PhD programs. Australia, Switzerland and Italy all +40%, USA down over 25%.
October 12, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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“We later found out that Hamas had offered on October 9 or 10 to release all the civilian hostages in exchange for the IDF not entering the Strip but the [Israeli] government rejected the offer.”
October 9, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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"Why didn't Biden release the Epstein files?" The Epstein records were sealed by a judge until after Ghislaine Maxwell's trial. They weren't unsealed until January 2024. So no, Biden couldn't release what wasn't legally available. Biden didn't run a cult. He let the DOJ operate independently-unlike Trump, who demands loyalty oaths and treats every agency like his personal operatives. And no Democrat ran on a platform promising to release the Epstein files.
July 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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And then there’s the movie he wrote and directed, named after its lead character, a black woman.
Jackie Brown
May 18, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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Let me consult the oracle
Simpsons still showing an open casket with the orange buffoon in it. Captioned “April 12 2025, the end of an era”
March 31, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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If something like this happened to me or mine, I might do more than vandalise a few Teslas
March 23, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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(NYTimes) What to know about Paul Weiss, the Law Firm That Gave In to Trump 3 MIN READ
March 23, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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Or the French
Guillotine :)
March 16, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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And more than half of all American adults read at lower than 6th-grade level
In the US, a significant portion of adults struggle with literacy, with 20% having difficulty completing literacy tasks, and 54% reading below a sixth-grade level. The average American reads at a 7th to 8th-grade level
March 14, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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Not the sharpest pencil in the box
March 11, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Ram
February 16, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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In which @johnbirmingham.bsky.social nails the zeitgeist to the table
#auspol

open.substack.com/pub/aliensid...
Let’s try a little escalation exercise. Could you imagine an Australian government remaining allied to an America that, say, supported Moscow’s territorial claims over Ukraine? ROFL. Trick question. We already are. Could you imagine an Australian government remaining allied to an America that, say, proposed the ethnic cleansing of two million Palestinians to create a re-development zone for a ‘world-class’ resort city to be built over the rubble of Gaza? Again, with the trick questions, sorry.
February 15, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Billie says hi!
Billie. A sandy golden retriever, at the beach, smiling contentedly.
February 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Musk is a clown. Not the vaguest fucking notion of what he's doing.
Molly Jong-Fast: I don' think the richest guy in the would should be cutting funding for cancer research. Elon Musk: I'm not. Wtf are you talking about? Molly Jong-Fast: The Trump administration is cutting billions of dollars in biomedical research funding, alarming academic leaders who said it would imperil their universities and medical centers...
February 10, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Yeah, funny that. Now look where we are.
A lovely picture of Anthony Rio Tinto, our Labor PM
February 3, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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Haven’t done it yet today (some days I just forget) but agreed, pretty much the only days I think I miss are the US-centred sports ones
Statistics: 92 completed, 88% win, 61 perfect
January 25, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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In the rest of the world - NSW and WA included - lining an old drain is seen as a cheap new-tech option for what used to be hard, disruptive, dirty work.

Not in Melbourne or Brisbane though. Here it's a GOLDMINE.
Sewer Pipe Relining Costs Across Australia Please use the cost data below as a guide. The reason for the drastic differences in pricing is dependent on many factors, one of them being that certain states may have more customers requiring pipe relines. City Sewer Pipe Reline Costs Per Metre Sydney $450 – $550 Melbourne $1,000 – $4,000 Brisbane $2,000 Perth $250 – $750
January 21, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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Billie
7 famous artworks of dogs, with a large framed photo of Billie the Golden Retriever in the centre, wearing mirror sunglasses. From the National Gallery of Victoria.
January 11, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Christopher Pyne, of all people, just came out this week and said it.

So, is Australian MSM stupid, complicit or both? Discuss.
#auspol #nuclearbullshit
Christopher Pyne: “...in more good news for Dutton, by the time anyone has worked out that the likelihood of a nuclear power plant actually being commissioned in Australia is, let’s be generous and say, limited, the election cycle will well and truly have clicked over”
January 10, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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On the fall of the American Empire, Joseph O’Neill nails it in this New York Review interview:

www.nybooks.com/online/2024/...
The current prevailing theory about Trump’s victory is that most Americans, irked by an unpleasant encounter with inflation, cast an anti-incumbent vote without giving much thought to the consequences of that vote for US democracy. I don’t totally buy this whoops! theory. My sense is that, in this era of the Internet, there are millions more fascists in this country than people think, young men in particular. And I believe that many more millions are fascinated by Trump not for his supposed business prowess but for his transparent wish to hurt others. He is an evil guy, a villain—and many Americans are excited by it. Harris and the Democrats, by contrast, are boring, boring, boring. In this sense, the election was like a choice between four more years of church or four years of violent entertainment.
January 4, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Worth posting on its own: Ann Telnaes’s EXCELLENT cartoon @washingtonpost.com refused to publish. No wonder she quit.
Mark Zuckerberg/Facebook & Meta founder and CEO, Sam Altman/AI CEO, Patrick Soon-Shiong/LA Times publisher, the Walt Disney Company/ABC News, and Jeff Bezos/Washington Post owner all worshipping a fat Trump statue, bags of money in hand as offerings.
January 4, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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He went back in time and killed Hitler and now you want to pick a jury?

Good fucking luck to you.
Luigi Mangione surrounded by NYPD goons
December 21, 2024 at 8:47 AM
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For the record
U.S. Embassy in Syria’s 2017 tweet offering $10 million reward to stop the “terrorist” Muhammad Al-Jawlani
December 9, 2024 at 1:18 AM
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Same, in Melbourne with Billie my Golden Retriever. Dogs bring out the best in people.
Billie, sitting in the grass looking very happy with herself
December 8, 2024 at 2:44 PM
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No way. She might have to lower the level in her money bin a centimetre.
Scrooge McDuck swimming in his money bin
December 7, 2024 at 3:56 AM