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Josef O'Shea @josefoshea.bsky.social · 1h

TIL that Ireland has a Witness Protection Programme - a challenge in a small country full of nosey people who all went to school with your cousin.

"IS IT YOURSELF, TONY!?!"

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Jeff Thomson @jeffct.bsky.social · 40m

www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/convicted... Geez, what is it with these eye surgeons?

Eye surgeon who tried to kill landlord on how people now treat him on the golf course

'I keep to myself, I keep busy doing individual activities'.

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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 1d

U.S. TSY SECY BESSENT: TARIFFS ARE A SURCHARGE, NOT A TAX

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Jeff Thomson @jeffct.bsky.social · 12h

a man in a suit and tie has a badge on his jacket that says congressman

ALT: a man in a suit and tie has a badge on his jacket that says congressman

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Jeff Thomson @jeffct.bsky.social · 12h

Well that’s a follow.

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Jeff Thomson @jeffct.bsky.social · 12h

‘I am Hope’ing for a big salary.

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Jeff Thomson @jeffct.bsky.social · 12h

Laser focused.

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Jeff Thomson @jeffct.bsky.social · 12h

Yes, that may not be comfortable.

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Jeff Thomson @jeffct.bsky.social · 14h

A good feed tonight ahead of my next 16 hour fast. Needed that.

Jeff Thomson @jeffct.bsky.social · 14h

Don’t think there’s any ‘must’ about it, Tony. 😁

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Jeff Thomson @jeffct.bsky.social · 14h

‘Where’d you get the money for that farm, Mike?’

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 17h

Welch: Mike Johnson-If he's a big Christian, he should be fighting for the marginalized, fighting for the poor. But instead he weaponizes his faith to lure voters in and then dicks him over every chance he gets.

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Jeff Thomson @jeffct.bsky.social · 14h

Retired, extremely dangerous. 😅

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Jeff Thomson @jeffct.bsky.social · 14h

I haven’t seen them. Thanks for the clip, Eleanor. That’s a treat. Bit of Ernest in there as well.

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Jeff Thomson @jeffct.bsky.social · 14h

What a cast. Wow.

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Jeff Thomson @jeffct.bsky.social · 14h

Wrecked the train network and then when the Clark Government resurrected part of it they made Jim Chair of Kiwirail. Masterstroke, I guess…

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Jeff Thomson @jeffct.bsky.social · 14h

Oh, an extra ‘to’…

Jeff Thomson @jeffct.bsky.social · 14h

Economic recession and then they double-downed, reducing automatic stabilisers: transfer payments. Absolute idiots in charge. Again.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18h

Portland has fallen!

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Jeff Thomson @jeffct.bsky.social · 14h

I told a cooker to where to go. Fairly standard stuff, I thought…

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Jeff Thomson @jeffct.bsky.social · 14h

I’m suspended. Read-only mode. They won’t even let me deactivate my account. I’ve had an account here for some time. So, bye-bye Leon.

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Dave Krantz @weskrantz.bsky.social · 15h

learning the kookaburra song seems to be a common childhood experience for some reason - this is a blue winged kookaburra, one of two Australian species - the other is the laughing kookaburra (further south, and also the world’s largest kingfisher)