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GeoffHiggins 🍉

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Lefty on unceded Darumbal land in regional Qld / he/him / ally / carer / still disappointed. 🇵🇸

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GeoffHiggins 🍉 @geoffhiggins.bsky.social · 3h

Seems low brow, but I still get a little hit from watching the quiet horror in the back of their eyes when they see that some people actually still want and expect justice.

GeoffHiggins 🍉 @geoffhiggins.bsky.social · 3h

I wonder how far 'into' the institution most board members can see. I have certainly heard frustration from staff representatives.

GeoffHiggins 🍉 @geoffhiggins.bsky.social · 3h

Just during the furlough. So their families don't go hungry.

GeoffHiggins 🍉 @geoffhiggins.bsky.social · 4h

And sadly it's not such a hard sell to lots of people.

GeoffHiggins 🍉 @geoffhiggins.bsky.social · 4h

Thank you for your work Tiana.

I was privileged recently to talk to Woppaburra Elder Bob Muir about the role of FPIC on sea country, partnering with AIMS. Some great work going on throughout the Great Barrier Reef.

GeoffHiggins 🍉 @geoffhiggins.bsky.social · 4h

Australians are waiting to hear Tromp say, in some countries they are killing journalists.

GeoffHiggins 🍉 @geoffhiggins.bsky.social · 4h

It seems to me that the more they sit on their perceived centrist fence, the further voters move -- to the left and the right.

GeoffHiggins 🍉 @geoffhiggins.bsky.social · 23h

My wife and I lived in different countries for a while before we were married -- 35 years ago. 15 minutes Sunday afternoon ... for months.

GeoffHiggins 🍉 @geoffhiggins.bsky.social · 1d

Elbow and his cronies seem quite happy to take Australia down the same s-bend.

GeoffHiggins 🍉 @geoffhiggins.bsky.social · 1d

The rest of the world looks on while Americans say "This is not America." and we say "Apparently it is." At the moment, tragically it is.

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GeoffHiggins 🍉 @geoffhiggins.bsky.social · 1d

5 Put in microwave.
6 Find cold in microwave 3 hours later.

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GeoffHiggins 🍉 @geoffhiggins.bsky.social · 1d

Can we please have a RSS feed? Tks

GeoffHiggins 🍉 @geoffhiggins.bsky.social · 1d

We are at the "Mission Accomplished" stage of the genocide. So much more dispossession, disillusion and death still to come.

We are still missing the #FreePalestine part of the story.

GeoffHiggins 🍉 @geoffhiggins.bsky.social · 1d

"Centre for Public Integrity's Geoffrey Watson ... called for the exceptional circumstance test to be flipped and all hearings held publicly unless there was a good enough reason for it to be kept private."

Yup.

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GeoffHiggins 🍉 @geoffhiggins.bsky.social · 1d

Wow. Recently formed landscapes can feel so very permanent. Makes the inevitable inundation of Bayside suburbs much more imaginable, even tangible.

GeoffHiggins 🍉 @geoffhiggins.bsky.social · 1d

Perhaps paid in a "the cheque is in the mail" way?

Or perhaps in the manner Tromp pays contractors building casinos.

GeoffHiggins 🍉 @geoffhiggins.bsky.social · 1d

Anne Bronte - characters characterised. Loving her asperity and wit in characterising Mr Lawrence.

His excessive reserve upon all his own concerns was, indeed, provoking and chilly enough; but I forgave it, from a conviction that it originated less in pride and want of confidence in his friends, than in a certain morbid feeling of delicacy, and a peculiar diffidence, that he was sensible of, but wanted energy to overcome. His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind.

GeoffHiggins 🍉 @geoffhiggins.bsky.social · 2d

I thought we were all antifa. Solidarity comrades.

GeoffHiggins 🍉 @geoffhiggins.bsky.social · 3d

Maga: Don't for get that Portland once had a beautiful airport.

Airport Management: Maybe we should just show the video.

GeoffHiggins 🍉 @geoffhiggins.bsky.social · 3d

"heir to the real maga"?

Wtf?

GeoffHiggins 🍉 @geoffhiggins.bsky.social · 3d

'Entertainment journalist'?

Sounds like Sydney or Gold Coast which is really just a glorified northern NSW.

GeoffHiggins 🍉 @geoffhiggins.bsky.social · 3d

Which often excludes people with disability and carer responsibilities.

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GeoffHiggins 🍉 @geoffhiggins.bsky.social · 4d

Yes. #RaiseTheRate cos it is the right thing to do.

But if you need an economic argument, do it cos the money will immediately be spent, stimulating the economy.

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GeoffHiggins 🍉 @geoffhiggins.bsky.social · 5d

J u s t n e e d t o g e t p a s t t h e m I d t e r m s.

GeoffHiggins 🍉 @geoffhiggins.bsky.social · 6d

Make friends with local street library peeps. My Dad had to throw books out. He got two or more in for every one that went out.