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Simon @sds9999.bsky.social · 1d

You have to assume that the NACC has allegedly been created as a useless entity and the incompetent commissioners allededly by design. To quote a familiar refrain "the purpose of a system is what it does". Allegedly.

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John O’Donnell @jodami.bsky.social · 2d

Never gets old.

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 11d

American business and media elites have the same relationship to American democracy as Yossarian had to the Pianosa officers club

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Thomas Hansen @thomashansen.bsky.social · 24d

10/10 resistance - No notes

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · Sep 2

The #MarchForWhiteAustralia is the dog that caught the swasticar.

Boo-fucking-hoo.

“Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed.

That word is "Nazi." Nobody cares about their motives anymore.

They joined what they joined. They lent their support and their moral approval. And, in so doing, they bound themselves to everything that came after. Who cares any more what particular knot they used in the binding?”

A.R. Moxon

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · Sep 2

#auspol To be fair to Australia's Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism, I'm beginning to understand why she may not want to Advance any critical public discourse about the March For White Australia or the neo-Nazis who formed its leadership.

A tweet by the right-wing corporate-sponsored lobby group Advance:

"It's time to put Australians first.

For too long, Australians have been forced to pay higher rents, higher house prices, or worse: go homeless.

All so that Labor can bring in more voters.

Enough is enough. It's time to END MASS MIGRATION."

The text appears above a badged image of a woman strolling past a person sleeping on the street with additional text reading 'Housing UNAFFORDABLE thanks to immigration'.

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Adam @kels316.bsky.social · Aug 31

if you have nazis openly marching in your country you're in a nazi country.

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Chris and his farmily of forever friends @caenhillcc.bsky.social · Aug 27

Letty-Lou our very playful baby donkey, happy Wednesday

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Tamara Keel, but spooky @tamslick.bsky.social · Aug 8

The Average Suburban Republican Dude's Perception of Risk, Illustrated

Canon EOS-1D Mark IV
EF 24-105mm f/4L IS

A black and white photo of a man on a Harley Davidson motorcycle with open pipes. He is wearing shorts, a tee shirt, flip flops, and no helmet. He is openly carrying a stainless revolver in an outside-the-waistband holster.

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Simon @sds9999.bsky.social · Aug 14

youtube.com/watch?v=X_OT...

"Americanism", the Smithsonian, and the Hostile Takeover of U.S. History

YouTube video by Tad Stoermer

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Skylar Grayson @skylargrayson.bsky.social · Jul 29

My thoughts on those recent alien headlines…🔭🧪

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Simon @sds9999.bsky.social · Jul 20

So typical of Qantas they can't even be bothered to get a human to write an email to their customers whose personal data they lost.

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enrich12 @enrich12.bsky.social · Jul 9

ICE: You're guilty until you can prove yourself innocent.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Jul 1

I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that.

The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.

This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.

I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation.

Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country — as if these people haven't lived through enough horror...

I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question — it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes.

A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her.

Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard.

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Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · Jun 25

Predictable that in this comment piece, The Australian doesn't actually say what Antoinette Lattouf posted. Also seems to confuse that the post in question wasn't actually on ABC platforms. 🙃

THE AUSTRALIAN
The point is, the ABC is not the platform for political activism. Full stop. End of story.
If you don't like it, don't work for the ABC.

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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · Jun 25

In a June 23 instagram video, Liver King says “Joe Rogan, I’m calling you out, my name’s Liver King. Man to man, I’m picking a fight with you. I have no training in Jiu-jitsu, you’re a black belt, you should dismantle me. But I’m picking a fight with you. Your rules, I’ll come to you.”

Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · Jun 25

BREAKING: Liver King arrested

Social media influencer ‘Liver King’ arrested in Austin

The Austin Police Department has arrested Brian Johnson, known online as the social media influencer “Liver King,” according to Travis County Jail records.

www.kxan.com

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Deepcut News @deepcutnews.bsky.social · Jun 24

New: A senior official at the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations told an anti-poverty campaigner her 'Free Palestine' sign "may cause someone distress"

www.deepcutnews.com/p/free-pales...

'Free Palestine' sign may 'cause distress', federal bureaucrat tells anti-poverty campaigner

A senior government official raised concerns over a campaigner's 'Free Palestine' sign that was visible on a video call

www.deepcutnews.com

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Brian Rosenworcel @brianrosenworcel.bsky.social · Jun 22

brilliant

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Greenmitty @greenmitty.bsky.social · Jun 22

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · Jun 9

Not one lie detected

Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · Jun 8

Breaking: ABC News says senior national correspondent Terry Moran "has been suspended pending further evaluation." This since-deleted tweet is the reason for the suspension:

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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · Jun 8

Breaking: ABC News says senior national correspondent Terry Moran "has been suspended pending further evaluation." This since-deleted tweet is the reason for the suspension:

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · Jun 9

This is not just revisionist history, it's ignorant of reality. Activists didn't leave Twitter because they "thought they would be more effective" somewhere else, they left because Elon made it clear that he would *deliberately undermine their influence."

Why make shit up?

Megan McArdle @mcmegan.bsky.social · Jun 8

I’m not upset. I’m bemused that activists thought they would be more effective by giving up a platform where they had considerable influence and self segregating on a site almost no one else reads.

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Rohan Connolly @rohanconnolly65.bsky.social · Jun 7

I'd love to see Tasmania in the AFL. But there's a lot of footy people blithely dismissing the considerable objections to the insistence on a new stadium as part of the deal without bothering to understand them. They should definitely read this piece.

Tasmania in crisis over billion-dollar AFL stadium

The Tasmanian Liberal government is in crisis and a snap election likely to be called as the premier clings to plans for a stadium that will bankrupt the state.

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · Jun 3

Some of the most chilling 2 minutes you've ever seen. Look at what's being said, openly, on one of the most popular TV channels in Israel.

History is happening in front of our eyes. Don't look away.
Please help share this widely.

Read the full story here: zeteo.com/p/inside-the...

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · May 28

INCREDIBLE !!

Here we are... 😱😱😱

After days of overloading and cracks propagating, Birch Glacier collapsed today at 3.24 pm over Blatten and the dammed Lonza river...

Devastating! 😭

www.letemps.ch/suisse/valai...

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