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Sue

@susannainoz.bsky.social

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Melbourne, Victoria Australia. Sport: AFL STKFC; cats, food, coffee, gardening, puzzles. Science. Data. MBI INTP, therefore I don’t chat. Equality, diversity, equal opportunity If that is woke, then I embrace it.

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 7d

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11d

From Ken Burns' “The 2025 Battle of Portland”

🎶Sweet Betsy From Pike🎶

“Dearest Prunella: As I write to you, a silent war rages in Portland. ANTIFA is the sneakiest foe of any war. Being invisible, they are difficult to find. Please pray for me as I enjoy my delicious coffee. Your Loving Husband”

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Sue @susannainoz.bsky.social · 11d

They think you’re in Kansas..

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 13d

Recently @amyremeikis.bsky.social reminded my of Umberto Eco's 14 points of "eternal fascism" in which "it is enough that one of them be present to allow fascism to coagulate around it".

And well , there is a sh*it load of coagulation happening.

1. The cult of tradition.

2. The rejection of modernism. – Ur-Fascism can be defined as irrationalism.”

3. The cult of action for action’s sake. – Thinking is a form of emasculation.”

4. Disagreement is treason.

5. Fear of difference. – The first appeal of a fascist or prematurely fascist movement is an appeal against the intruders.

6. Appeal to social frustration.

7. The obsession with a plot – At the root of the Ur-Fascist psychology there is the obsession with a plot, possibly an international one. The followers must feel besieged.”

8. The enemy is both strong and weak – By a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.

9. Pacifism is trafficking with the enemy.

10. Contempt for the weak.

11. Everybody is educated to become a hero. – heroism is the norm. This cult of heroism is strictly linked with the cult of death.”

12. Machismo and weaponry. – both disdain for women and intolerance and condemnation of nonstandard sexual habits, from chastity to homosexuality

13. Selective populism. – the emotional response of a selected group of citizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People.

14. Ur-Fascism speaks Newspeak. – all the Nazi or Fascist schoolbooks made use of an impoverished vocabulary, and an elementary syntax, in order to limit the instruments for complex and critical reasoning.

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Anthony Albanese @albomp.bsky.social · 12d

Happy as Larry to get a pat in at the end of a long day of meetings.

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 13d

Car crash.
My @smh @theage cartoon.

Single frame. Scene is outside the UN building entrance (on the right). A couple of flags in the foreground (France and Europe)) Trump getting blithely out of presidential car approaching entrance. Behind him, multiple car pile-up caused by his car with cars marked UN, CLIMATE, DEMOCRACY, GAZA.
Security guards at entrance, one says to other: “Maybe it’s time they take away his keys…”

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15d

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58george.bsky.social @58george.bsky.social · 15d

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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 15d

FUN FACT: Autism was first diagnosed at least 40 years before Tylenol was created.

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J. Elvis Weinstein @jelvisweinstein.bsky.social · 16d

I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.

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Sue @susannainoz.bsky.social · 19d

Never forget this…

Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 20d

Sue @susannainoz.bsky.social · Sep 5

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Mlb Kiwi 🫵✋😛🤚 @mlbkiwi.bsky.social · Sep 5

#nzpol

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I Post Animal Vids... 😊 @realjfairclough.bsky.social · Aug 24

Dog stealing the show! 😊

#dog #dogday #bluesky

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Sue @susannainoz.bsky.social · Aug 24

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Sue @susannainoz.bsky.social · Aug 24

The best and most amusing scene in Netflix’s “The Hostage” was the one with Larry the Downing Street cat near the end.

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John W Dean @johnwdean.bsky.social · Aug 21

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Sue @susannainoz.bsky.social · Aug 18

I hope this is true!

KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · Aug 18

Sue @susannainoz.bsky.social · Aug 18

Such a relief to get this extraordinary young man signed up. Seeing Nasiah in full flight is truly a delight, and he’s only 22… ❤️🤍🖤

Sue @susannainoz.bsky.social · Aug 16

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Julie Roginsky @julieroginsky.bsky.social · Aug 15

I am a firm believer that whatever was said between Trump and Putin (whose English is good enough) privately in The Beast for several minutes without witnesses is the real reason for this whole last minute summit. And I am not so sure it was just about Ukraine.

Sue @susannainoz.bsky.social · Aug 16

So seems that the key sticking points in today’s Anchorage Meeting were:
Who gets to speak first=Trump lost
Putin disses Biden, but that’s all he agreed to = Trump lost
Putin gave up nothing else = Trump lost

Sue @susannainoz.bsky.social · Aug 15

Appalling press conference in Anchorage. Russia invaded Ukraine. Full stop.
Where is Zelenskyy?

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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · Aug 15

It's like waiting to hear how a negotiation went between Hans Gruber and Ralph Wiggum. You already know. But somehow it will still be worse than you think.

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Sue @susannainoz.bsky.social · Aug 11

And of course, if the midterms or next presidential election are “close”, he’ll try to shut down any protests using whatever means at hand including the FBI, the National Guard, the military…

♥️♠️Pam♦️♣️ @pamrichmond1.bsky.social · Aug 11

Why is Pedo talking about crime in DC?

Epstein.

He wants you to stop talking about Epstein.

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Valorie Bridges Fant * Author of * Go Back to Your Country * @vrfant1.bsky.social · Aug 10

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Sue @susannainoz.bsky.social · Aug 11

And of course, if the midterms or next presidential election are “close”, he’ll try to shut down any protests using whatever means at hand including the FBI, the National Guard, the military…

♥️♠️Pam♦️♣️ @pamrichmond1.bsky.social · Aug 11

Why is Pedo talking about crime in DC?

Epstein.

He wants you to stop talking about Epstein.

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