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We perform caricatures written by our rivals at patreon.com/rivalimage - humour, music, lit.
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#Irony: he pretends to be stupid even though he is.
#ANU should never have considered cutting Humanities. An advanced society must study its own Literature. Judging by podcasts, if we lose Lit departments, we’ll stop producing lascivious leches who keep blowup lie-lows in their offices for special classes. #auspol

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Australia news live: ANU reverses cuts to music and humanities; Wells says Lemon8 may be added to social media ban
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December 2, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Oolong Musk.

Far too lovely a name.
December 1, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Which band name should I choose:

Kibble

Or

Roll Me Over and Call Me Mary
November 30, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Are we the baddies, Hans?
US getting ready to attack Venezuela.

The rhetoric of curbing narcotics trade is just an excuse as Trump plans to pardon convicted drugs tsars at home.

It is about vanity, control of oil/gas and minerals and new Imperialism.

Who is next? Why is the UN silent?
Venezuela denounces ‘colonialist threat’ as Trump orders airspace closed
President made declaration in a social media post, after FAA last week warned airlines of ‘worsening security situation’
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November 30, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Which band name should I choose:

Kibble

Or

Roll Me Over and Call Me Mary
November 30, 2025 at 6:25 AM
They all watched too much of

#TheBoldAndTheBeautiful.
November 29, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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❛ I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead.

We're sorry to hear of the passing of Tom Stoppard. #RIP
November 29, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Everyone should draw a diagram such as this to be printed on a T-shirt, then get together at parties to describe them (on alcohol). Or just print and describe Hegel’s logic. I may never understand it but still enjoy the creativity and work.
This Graph shows the trajectories of ideas, when an idea starts at a certain point it will naturally follow the closest path to it barring outside forces.
This is Newton's Laws of Motion ≡ Alisru's Laws of eMotion
Also quantizes morality and truths, so we can perform spectroscopy with questions
November 29, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Years ago thinking ‘grotesque plastic face’ was an expression of US power:

Power is Beauty: thus, if the powerful have grotesque plastic faces, then grotesque faces must be beautiful. Or “we can make people desire even THIS!”

It didn’t really work though.

#magaface #usa #auspol
Again, the upside is MAGA-face will prevent them from melting back into the population when the regime falls. By their faces we shall know them.
Botox. Plastic surgery. That make-up. What is going on with the MAGA look?

@inaeoh.bsky.social explores how beauty upholds power—and how we're all complicit in a new reality TV politics.
November 29, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Difference btw a PhD & an MD is that a PhD must write an 80,000 word thesis that makes an original contribution to a field of knowledge. MDs must write illegible scripts and not faint at the sight of blood. Pilots save 300 people a day but also imperil them.
November 29, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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Paco was giving me a good sniff today at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica

#tapiroftheday #tapirs #nature
November 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Quokkas are my new favourite marsupial
#rottnestisland
November 29, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Difference btw a PhD & an MD is that a PhD must write an 80,000 word thesis that makes an original contribution to a field of knowledge. MDs must write illegible scripts and not faint at the sight of blood. Pilots save 300 people a day but also imperil them.
November 29, 2025 at 5:39 AM
No one is more uptight about second opinions than doctors.
November 29, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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Astral doors open with #Bilal:

m.youtube.com/watch?v=FcvX...
Bilal - Quantum Universe (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bilal Oliver
m.youtube.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Does anyone else want to see Bono or Ed Sheeran ‘unbosomed’?
Musicians: Instead of ‘unplugged’, go with ‘unbosomed’.

#music #songwriting
November 29, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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Very significant and exciting publication in Aboriginal culture and history!

#auspol #aboriginal #australia

upswellpublishing.com/product/birr...
A breathtakingly beautiful and history-swerving body of work.
upswellpublishing.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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Nice to see a honey bee again & sharing the Lilli Pilli flowers with a bumble bee in the backyard jungle at #HeathcoteNSW #Sydney #NewSouthWales #Australia

#nature #wildoz #ozflowers #stormhour
November 26, 2025 at 11:37 PM
#Britbox procedurals: Is not commenting the same as saying ‘no comment’.
November 28, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Very significant and exciting publication in Aboriginal culture and history!

#auspol #aboriginal #australia

upswellpublishing.com/product/birr...
A breathtakingly beautiful and history-swerving body of work.
upswellpublishing.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:47 AM
An unusual thing in Australia: a popular and well-respected Humanities academic. #GraemeTurner #auspol
It is with deep sadness that we share the passing of Emeritus Professor Graeme Turner AO FAHA FQA — one of Australia’s most influential humanities scholars and a towering figure in the Academy’s history. humanities.org.au/our-communit...
November 28, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Astral doors open with #Bilal:

m.youtube.com/watch?v=FcvX...
Bilal - Quantum Universe (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bilal Oliver
m.youtube.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Tassie: The End of the Tour.

#livemusic is #auspol
This coming weekend we are playing in Tasmania.
Friday in Launceston www.iwannaticket.com.au/event/dave-g...
Saturday in Ulverstone www.moshtix.com.au/v2/event/dav...
Sunday at the Hotel Longley
www.moshtix.com.au/v2/event/dav...
November 27, 2025 at 10:13 PM
It looks as cathartic as it does bonkers.

The Tell: No harmony.

Band name: White Theocracy Trash Thugs.

#onlyinamerica
This MAGA church is incredibly absurd.
November 27, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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‘Sweary Aussie Drama’ from Mitchell & Webb. #auspol
@ashleysays.bsky.social @slessans.bsky.social

As promised, here's the second episode of Sweary Aussie Drama from Mitchell & Webb Are Not Helping.

I'm assuming there's going to be one with each of the 6 shows in this season.

Content Warning: There's an incredible amount of swearing in it.
November 27, 2025 at 9:58 AM