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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 4h

*I’ve got a girlfriend she’s a member of another faction you wouldn’t know her.*

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 9h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 6h

Starting to look like “loyalist paramilitary” or “irregular regime forces” eh

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Iron Chef Bot @ironchefbot.bsky.social · 1d

Frame #63150 from S04 -E12 - Battle of Sea Urchin-628206

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 22h

A more snobby attitude of mine is how much it bothers me this works. To be frank, Weiss and the Free Press people always seem really obviously to be what they are to me - right wing shills. If anyone is actually fooled by the "I'm just a concerned centrist" schtick they seem incredibly stupid to me.

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

another thing Weiss does is give other very dull people a vehicle to spout bog-standard right-wing ideas and pretend they're being iconoclasts or innovative.

Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 1d

Weiss very intentionally does not describe herself as a conservative or Republican and wraps her politics in terms like "free press." That makes more useful at advancing Trumpism than explicitly right-wing figures. newrepublic.com/article/2014...

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 19h

Amazing how many *defences* of this stuff are just a version of the Dril drink driving tweet.

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 23h

I’ve been circling a cursed thought for a while and it’s time to let it out: These guys are Disney Adults for fascism.

the corgi from cowboy bebop @realqrampage.fightins.online · 2d

LMAO LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH
EVERY TIME I DO IT MAKES ME LAUGH

Kash Patel in his own merch looking fucking embarrassing as hell lmao

he’s so fucking ugly

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 21h

Kerensky was rejected for a teaching post at Melbourne Uni. These stories were close to joining up.

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 22h

Christ that is grim. Crapto passwords maybe?

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 22h

Several Balkan anarchists tried to send the odd Archduke into space with a barrel of black powder TBF

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 22h

Web search may be the only really significant technological advance where we *decided* to just bork it completely. It's like we had a steam turbine ships with radio and people said "fuck it, we are going back to slave galleys plus a bloke on top of the mast with some flags"

Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 1d

How many trillions of dollars have been invested into this technology so far?

Google search for "austria hungary in space"

Google excitedly tells you about the 1889 orbital flight, and that by 1908 there was a Mars research output with 30 people.

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 1d

Capital accumulation isn't labour, comrade. One Neat Trick etc etc.

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 1d

Take your irony to Mastodon, sister.

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 1d

Low effort! Sad! Where was the Grindset Mindset!

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 1d

It's really distressing. Those students lost years and tens of thousands. (FWIW I don't doubt that a bunch of people who actually taught them are even more horrified than us.)

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 1d

Parker Posey and Steven Segal.

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 1d

The Age View: "....... but you didn't did you, you dumb ****?"

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petit burgo @burgotastic.bsky.social · 1d

The Administrative Review Tribunal conspicuously silent on Anthony Albanese's war crimes indictment, I notice

Excerpt of a news article:

"He submitted that “the ATO does not exist, the Deputy Commissioner was not validly appointed, the term “taxpayer” and “income” is not properly defined, and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is being indicted for war crimes,” court documents read.

However, the Tribunal noted that it did not have the powers to assess the validity of Commonwealth laws, and therefore could not waive GST liabilities."

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 1d

I'm guessing the IRGC do this before starting a meeting as well.

PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 1d

Kristi Noem praying before sending her secret, masked goons out to harass the people of Portland

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The Frito Bandito @thefritobanditoo.bsky.social · 2d

Guys, every person you see on Fox News in a mask is just Robert O'Neill, retired Navy Seal and occasional Fox News contributor. He's the former Antifa, former Gazan, former gang member. His eyes are very unique.

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 1d

"And Lord said unto them 'shoot that priest dude in the face, LOL'"

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 1d

Two very solid choices indeed.

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 1d

Selling explicitly vocational degrees without being 100% clear if they don't come with any occupational licences required (as a matter of law or in practice) to actually work is scandalous.

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 1d

Worse spots for a few hours work.

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 1d

"It was not until Othniel Antwi had finished his masters and was looking for work that he realised his degree was not accredited."
This is horrendous from public unis - *I sold you this great car for your commute, but oopsie you can't drive it on a public road, sorry.* www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Careers in limbo after graduates discover university courses were never accredited

Students have been left with HECS debts and careers that are "non-existent" after completing degrees that were not accredited. Class actions have been launched against two Australian universities.

www.abc.net.au

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Dominic Kelly @dominickelly.bsky.social · 1d

Um, didn’t you literally write the book on Australian politics in the 80s? This is very clearly what also happened to the Liberals then.

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