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Liam Shiels @shielsyshielsy.bsky.social · 1h

Well we know who they'll blame for this: Mamdani

Liam Shiels @shielsyshielsy.bsky.social · 2h

On the 12th day of #Halloween my true love gave to me
12 nightmares waking
11 dolls a creeping
10 reapers reaping
9 vampires sucking
8 scream queens screaming
7 slashers slashing
6 ghosts a haunting
STEPHEN KING
4 rabid dogs
3 dead men
2 bloodied gloves
& A clown monster feeding on fear

Liam Shiels @shielsyshielsy.bsky.social · 4h

Much to my annoyance I've just learnt that, bc #Metallica are performing in #Melbourne 8 Nov, the Blood Bank are offering free Metallica t-shirts to donors booked in for the first 2 weeks of November. They're booked out now :(
#redcross
#lifeblood

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Liam Shiels @shielsyshielsy.bsky.social · 7h

Jaffas are more traditional. Maybe a choc-top.

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Liam Shiels @shielsyshielsy.bsky.social · 10h

Self check out is monitored. If you put an orange on the scale, it'll technically it as a round orangish thing and pull up apricots, nectarines, mandarins, etc as options.

It'll also notice when something isn't put through the scanner (which is annoying when it flags something i bought elsewhere).

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Liam Shiels @shielsyshielsy.bsky.social · 12h

Good idea. Slight aside, if you make voting compulsory you just incentivise the general populace to become more politically aware. Works wonders in Australia.

Liam Shiels @shielsyshielsy.bsky.social · 14h

You monster Larissa!
#auspol
#outofcontext

Liam Shiels @shielsyshielsy.bsky.social · 22h

#Incel culture and the #Manosphere both increased in prominence after #Mythbusters went off the air and I don't think that's a coincidence.

Liam Shiels @shielsyshielsy.bsky.social · 23h

The LNP: for when you want to make the same mistake twice as fast.

#auspol
#queerrights

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Snap new Queensland ban on puberty blockers for transgender adolescents

The Queensland health minister has issued a new directive to ban public doctors from prescribing puberty blockers to youths six hours after a Supreme Court overturned the January freeze.

www.abc.net.au

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Liam Shiels @shielsyshielsy.bsky.social · 1d

Good to see Allegra rate higher than Not-As-Dim-As-Dim-Tim Tim

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Liam Shiels @shielsyshielsy.bsky.social · 1d

Calm your tits, mate.

Liam Shiels @shielsyshielsy.bsky.social · 1d

I put on a suit and tie and Luchador mask. That works.

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Liam Shiels @shielsyshielsy.bsky.social · 1d

For those who need to know the line between anti-zionism and anti-semitism, it's where you're happy to attend a bar-mitzvah but leave when it's used to raise funds for the IDF.
#freepalestine
#israel
#antisemitism
#auspol
#afl
#carltonfc
www.deepcutnews.com/p/im-disgust...

'I'm disgusted' – Carlton fans in Melbourne's north feel betrayed after mascot's sacking

AFL club faces backlash from supporters after firing its mascot for refusing to participate in a pro-Israel fundraiser.

www.deepcutnews.com

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Liam Shiels @shielsyshielsy.bsky.social · 1d

The British? If you're after the Poms, you're not doing it very well.

Liam Shiels @shielsyshielsy.bsky.social · 1d

Sussan. Many things are anti-semitic, but Joy Division is not one of them. The Smiths? Probably, but not Joy Division.
#Auspol

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Liam Shiels @shielsyshielsy.bsky.social · 2d

Robochrist was not on my bingo card for 2025.
I think this is an excellent way to part a fool from their money, however.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’

Patrick Gelsinger, executive chairman of Gloo, has made it his mission to advance Christian principles in Silicon Valley

www.theguardian.com

Liam Shiels @shielsyshielsy.bsky.social · 2d

Once again hitting the ALP where it hurts; right in their choice of fashion and music.

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 2d

Sussan Ley goes after Anthony Albanese’s Joy Division T-shirt as the Coalition tears itself apart, again

While the opposition leader criticised the prime minister’s clothing as a ‘profound failure of judgment’, Albanese posted he was ‘getting things done’ Sussan Ley, faced with internal turmoil over climate and environment issues while trying to extinguish simmering challenges from a disgruntled backbench who want to philosophically reshape the very party she leads, has elevated a critical new political issue to the top of the national agenda. The prime minister’s decision to wear a Joy Division T-shirt. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Liam Shiels @shielsyshielsy.bsky.social · 2d

Sir Paul did both.

Liam Shiels @shielsyshielsy.bsky.social · 2d

Poonami

Liam Shiels @shielsyshielsy.bsky.social · 2d

Can we add on N.K Jemisin if we're doing recs?

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Liam Shiels @shielsyshielsy.bsky.social · 2d

That he's so radically different is a good sign they don't expect the Absolute line to exist long term.

Liam Shiels @shielsyshielsy.bsky.social · 2d

Hamas, Putin and N.Korea don't undermine his authority.

Liam Shiels @shielsyshielsy.bsky.social · 2d

When they deliberately misread 2 Thessalonians 3:10.

Liam Shiels @shielsyshielsy.bsky.social · 2d

That's a tax increase, that is.

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Liam Shiels @shielsyshielsy.bsky.social · 2d

When MAGA own the Libs, it's like eating donuts to piss off your diabetes specialist.