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The Rani
@therani.bsky.social
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Renegade Time Lord, born on Gallifrey, living in Australia while formulating my next evil scheme (possibly the next pandemic). Passing the time with pets, nature, writing and politics. Leftie.
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May 3, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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Because there's no Antony Green graphs #auspol #BinNight
May 3, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Checking progress a few hours later.
Dow Jones graph for five days from WSJ. Shows sharp drop at open, moves up to under half of previous day and currently trending downwards.
April 3, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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In case you were wondering about the Dow Jones, too.
April 3, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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In case you were wondering, no, the AEC is not on Bluesky yet, but they are open to it in the future. (Screenshot from their eX-twitter account to that effect.)
#AusPol #AusElection2025
Post text reads (including typos): We’re not on Bluesky - perhaps at point [sic] in the future, but we have to prioritise the channels we’re on to [sic] we can provide adequate coverage responsiveness, etc in our online engagement.
April 1, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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Spotted on Facebook. (So it's still good for some things.) #GulfOfAustralia
A globe with a white map of Australia in the lower left hand section and 'Gulf of Australia' in black letters across the Pacific Ocean.
February 25, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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From appearances, the White House on eX-twitter is now basically a troll account.
Screenshot of White House X account with mock-up of Time cover which has an image of Trump, wearing a crown and text which reads 'long live the king'.
February 19, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Would it work to substitute a solid black rectangle for these now-censored words? Or even '[censored]'? It'd (probably?) be clear in most cases what's been removed, make the point it's been censored while not falling foul of the *rules.
Screenshot of post including 4 screenshots showing 'transgender' has been removed from a web page re Stonewall.
February 14, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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Maybe this will result in increased 'country of origin' labels on all sorts of things. *nudges Colesworth* Because some of us might want to say this:
Australian schoolgirl, Kylie Mole, in her bedroom. Text reads, 'America, you're dropped'.
February 10, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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Aha! So he's an *engineer*...? This explains *a lot*.
Screenshot of Mark Zuckerberg Facebook post sharing another Mark Zuckerberg Facebook post talking about playing something called 'Civilization' and including the words 'one of the reasons I got into engineering'.
February 9, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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That great schoolgirl, Kylie Mole, in her bedroom. Text reads, 'America, you're dropped'.
February 5, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Image of the great Australian schoolgirl Kylie Mole in her bedroom. Text reads, 'America, you're dropped'.
February 2, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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KitKat #shrinkflation
Text saying they've improved the product's 'snap' as a feeble excuse for reducing from 45g to 42g. Presumably the price will not reduce.
January 18, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Post an image from a movie that traumatized you 🍿 A
A burning black car, bonnet and door open, flames extending right. Sitting on the ground in front, mid-shot, a man in a dark suit with burnt face. From 'Walkabout' (1971).
December 12, 2024 at 6:21 AM
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I assume the reference to pages 4 & 5 is this bit.
'The next conservative President must make the institutions of American civil society hard targets for woke culture warriors. This starts with deleting the terms sexual orientation and gender identity (“SOGI”), diversity, equity, and inclusion (“DEI”), gender, gender equality, gender equity, gender awareness, gender-sensitive, abortion, reproductive health, reproductive rights, and any other term used to deprive Americans of their First Amendment rights out of every federal rule, agency regulation, contract, grant, regulation, and piece of legislation that exists.' 'Pornography, manifested today in the omnipresent propagation of transgender ideology and sexualization of children, for instance, is not a political Gordian knot inextricably binding up disparate claims about free speech, property rights, sexual liberation, and child welfare. It has no claim to First Amendment protection. Its purveyors are child predators and misogynistic exploiters of women. Their product is as addictive as any illicit drug and as psychologically destructive as any crime. Pornography should be outlawed. The people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned. Educators and public librarians who purvey it should be classed as registered sex offenders. And telecommunications and technology firms that facilitate its spread should be shuttered.'
November 25, 2024 at 11:56 PM
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Locking on.
Interior of the Rani's TARDIS with some other bloke.
November 18, 2024 at 8:54 AM
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A week and a half on from the election and still current.
Jessica Jones (labelled 'USA') looking stricken, David Tennant (labelled 'the rest of the world right now') glaring at her.
November 16, 2024 at 10:21 PM
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From 'Something Rotten' by Jasper Fforde. Buy it - it's great.
Page 33 from 'Something Rotten' by Jasper Fforde - too much text to re-write.
November 15, 2024 at 1:46 PM