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alflow.bsky.social @alflow.bsky.social · 14m

I have gone from using cash to credit card and now back to cash (where I can) as credit card surcharges would have cost me about $500.00 per annum.

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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 7h

If there is any justice, Trump’s name will stand not among peacemakers but among those who proved how easily the language of peace can be turned inside out; how empire dresses its crimes in the robes of virtue. #auspol #Trump #NobelPrize

Trump’s war for peace: How the Nobel became his battlefield

Donald Trump’s pursuit of the Nobel Peace Prize has been one of the most grotesque spectacles of the modern era – a man trying to win a peace prize by promoting war.

johnmenadue.com

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elfdock.bsky.social @elfdock.bsky.social · 19h

He was later deemed unfit for sea duty and referred for assessment, where a psychologist described traits "in the psychotic direction" and a high level of amorality.

"The Navy knew he had a problem, and they did nothing," Ms Davey said.

'My daughter wasn’t protected’: a Kimberley mother’s fight for justice reaches the United Nations

'It makes me feel angry,' says Bardi Elder Irene Davey, after lodging a United Nations complaint alleging discrimination by WA Police and the Australian Navy in the investigation into her daughter Sar...

nit.com.au

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gwenoc.bsky.social @gwenoc.bsky.social · 1h

Mostly his friends?

gwenoc.bsky.social @gwenoc.bsky.social · 1h

Smile! You're on camera!

gwenoc.bsky.social @gwenoc.bsky.social · 1h

They mightn't say so, but their ideas (no policies!) and actions make it obvious.

gwenoc.bsky.social @gwenoc.bsky.social · 1h

Sneer not at good old pen, pencil and paper. Nor cash.

The modern electronic world is quickly paralysed when power is interrupted.

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Marns🌿🍉 @marnshibski.bsky.social · Sep 3

An extraordinary situation has arisen in NSW, and inland rivers and internationally significant wetlands will miss out on vital watering this season.

Essentially the rivers are being persecuted as if they are stealing their own water.
#waterislife
#biodiversity

naturensw.good.do/letthewaterf...

Join me in supporting the Let the water flow Campaign

In an unprecedented crisis for the mighty inland rivers of NSW, the state and federal government are stopping water from naturally flowing down stream to wetlands and waterways that rely on it. The...

naturensw.good.do

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gwenoc.bsky.social @gwenoc.bsky.social · 8h

Great Amy Remeikis article in TND!

gwenoc.bsky.social @gwenoc.bsky.social · 8h

Inevitably.

gwenoc.bsky.social @gwenoc.bsky.social · 8h

Particularly if human rights violations are inflicted on poorer people with coloured skins.

Disgraceful!

gwenoc.bsky.social @gwenoc.bsky.social · 8h

Celebrating the freeing of 20 hostages in Israel, while back in the US, Trump's ICE are kidnapping and deporting hundreds daily.

Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 9h

Pretending to the world that you are the president of peace while waging war at home is diabolical.

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gwenoc.bsky.social @gwenoc.bsky.social · 9h

Another fair explanation by Ian Verrender.

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gwenoc.bsky.social @gwenoc.bsky.social · 9h

Shifty!

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Sydney EV @sydneyev.bsky.social · 1d

Every day, and night, there is a conga line of trucks leaving Oberon with timber products headed to Sydney... destroying roads, costing the community in maintenance, and health impacts,
meanwhile, there is a rail link directly from the timber mills to Sydney. abandoned, unused. why #auspol?

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jen sometimes aph 🌻 @bunnibytz.bsky.social · 1d

"How to Stand Up to a Dictator" author @mariaressa.bsky.social explains how social media companies used the Philippines as a testing ground for mass manipulation before employing their tactics in the U.S.

via @thedailyshow.com

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gwenoc.bsky.social @gwenoc.bsky.social · 9h

Wise move, Ian.
Shingles' pain is severe and recurrent.

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gwenoc.bsky.social @gwenoc.bsky.social · 9h

Essence of the Liberal Party these days is pursuing your self-interest, first and foremost.

Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 19h

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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gwenoc.bsky.social @gwenoc.bsky.social · 9h

Usually, not only often.

maga-crime-watch.bsky.social @maga-crime-watch.bsky.social · 1d

Corruption is often the wrongful theft of government power and resources to serve personal interests.

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jimaxon66.bsky.social @jimaxon66.bsky.social · 22h

Capital vs Labour,

Always was,always will be...

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 13h

Farmers grow what they grow because of farm policy.

We don’t need all the soy and corn that we grow, but those are the commodities that receive subsidies and markets.

If we want something better, if we want to heal the Earth and grow food, now is the time to do it.

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gwenoc.bsky.social @gwenoc.bsky.social · 9h

Money, money, money makes Linda happy.

Other people being happy doesn't.

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gwenoc.bsky.social @gwenoc.bsky.social · 19h

Eventually? After 2 months. 😆😅🤣

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Rob Reiner Fan @rob-reiner-fan.bsky.social · 1d

Democracy dies in the darkness of media capitulation.

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gwenoc.bsky.social @gwenoc.bsky.social · 19h

💯👏👏👏

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