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Tim Lyons

@picketer.bsky.social

3.6K followers 520 following 6.3K posts

Ex union boss. Organising, political economy, labour markets, tax, pensions, climate, China, Spinoza. Proud @UnitedWorkersOz member since 1990.

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 20m

I did not make this up, as much as it sounds like I did. bsky.app/profile/grog...

Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 1h

Seriously, what is this shit?

ABC 730 with a truly embarrassing story of Young Liberals featuring some of the most vapid people you could ever have the misfortune to encounter.

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Luke Buckmaster @luke-buckmaster.bsky.social · 11h

ooof

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 2h

Lost her eponymous show, still has slots I think

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 2h

Aren't we all though?

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 2h

ABC 730 doing a feature story on the Young Liberal (& staffer) husband of a Sky Noos (Young Liberal / staffer) person. Awesome stuff.

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 2h

He can still call you 'von Hindenburg' behind your back

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 2h

On his CV or at the pub?

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 2h

From December we will be age blocked from this content by the Gummit.

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 3h

"I reckon that's a big f***** rock. Over."

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 3h

Gazza Toasts A Mazda woulda gone off like a frog in a sock on the Tik Toks TBF

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 3h

Where are they now: The kid from the 90s Lube Mobile ad. Barwon Prison? Partner at KPMG? Both? Who knows.

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 4h

Offset Account?

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 4h

Bring back 80's crime! Armoured car jobs! Elaborate cheque frauds! Someone robbing a bookie in the carpark after race 8!

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Jon Piccini @jonpiccini.bsky.social · 5h

Winding back odometers is such an 80s crime. Almost nostalgic. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Used car salesman fined $25,000 for winding back car odometers

Alexander Thomas Hallett pleaded guilty to winding back a total of 648,000 kilometres on the odometers of seven vehicles.

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 6h

Sortition - say it you cowards.

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 6h

or even "oh fuck"

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 18h

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 21h

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 7h

($2Million Sent From My Council iPad)

ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 7h

The mayor of a small council that lost nearly $2 million in a "sophisticated" scam says international fraudsters were able to "imitate personalities" using AI.

AI used to imitate personalities defrauds Noosa council of $2.3m

The mayor of a small council that lost nearly $2 million in a "sophisticated" scam says international fraudsters were able to "imitate personalities" using AI.

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 7h

Just so you are clear: I would use all the WMDs on fantasy novels.

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 7h

I mean Nella Dan also "made contact with the ocean floor"

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 7h

Thoughts with the crew and expedition members but "ship made contact with the ocean floor" is the most insane comms staff brain way to try and spin this www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Breaking: Australia's Antarctic icebreaker scrapes ocean floor near Heard Island

Antarctic icebreaker RSV Nuyina has headed to deeper waters off remote Heard Island in the Southern Ocean while assessments are undertaken to see if the hull has suffered any damage after scraping the...

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 8h

Stolen Smallpox Valour is .......... something.

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 8h

Colonel? Cool. Get in the back of the Coupe we going for a Coup.

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 8h

All fantasy novels are childish nonsense.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 22h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 9h

Real ones will remember the Bakoon poast.