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@harper2024.bsky.social

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Left-wing Australian, Palestinian supporter, fundamentalist atheist, feminist, reader, gardener, and custodian of a beautiful sheepadoodle. My goal each day is to be happy and kind--except to RWNJs!

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Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · May 25

The best thing to have is enough.

Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · Dec 27

I've shared this quote before but I'll share it again, as it's one I've been thinking about a lot as I've watched how our oligarchs have been behaving over the past few months.

At a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island, Kurt Vonnegut informs his pal, Joseph Heller, that their host, a hedge fund manager, had made more money in a single day than Heller had earned from his wildly popular novel Catch-22 over its whole history. Heller responds, “Yes, but I have something he will never have … enough.” Enough. I was stunned by the simple eloquence of that word—stunned for two reasons: first, because I have been given so much in my own life and, second, because Joseph Heller couldn’t have been more accurate. For a critical element of our society, including many of the wealthiest and most powerful among us, there seems to be no limit today on what enough entails.

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🇦🇺 @harper2024.bsky.social · 5h

They are truly grotesque.

🇦🇺 @harper2024.bsky.social · 5h

The fact that we are still linked in any way to these useless parasites disgusts me.

🇦🇺 @harper2024.bsky.social · 5h

Me too. I have one for when I was working in Sierra Leone after the civil war. It needed its own luggage trolley! I was vaccinated for diseases I thought had long been eradicated.

🇦🇺 @harper2024.bsky.social · 6h

With a brown paper sick bag and some wet whipes?

🇦🇺 @harper2024.bsky.social · 16h

It won't happen while the ALP is in power. Albo is appallingly weak.

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🇦🇺 @harper2024.bsky.social · 16h

Simple answer: It could never have been done without the evil Murdoch family.

🇦🇺 @harper2024.bsky.social · 1d

I wonder how often they have to disinfect that gravestone.

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🇦🇺 @harper2024.bsky.social · 1d

Now! Please!

🇦🇺 @harper2024.bsky.social · 1d

I will hate them with a passion until my dying day.

🇦🇺 @harper2024.bsky.social · 1d

That is one seriously creepy, evil looking son of a bitch.

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Jessica D. M. 🇺🇦 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 🇵🇦 🇬🇱 🪃 🟧 @jessicaperthwa.bsky.social · 1d

youtu.be/wzhJmylW9Ws?.... I love Croc Turnbull 🤣

Another American trying to tell Australians we are doing it wrong.. 🤦‍♂️#askanyaussie #crocturnbull

YouTube video by Croc Turnbull

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Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀 @mackayim.bsky.social · 2d

🌞Total land required to replace coal fired energy
🌞Example assumes all solar:120,000 hectares
🌞 That’s less than 0.016 percent of Australia’s total land currently used for agriculture
🌞 Australian agriculture currently accounts for 58% of our land use
🌞And agrisolar = panels + grass/sheep etc

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 5d

Twitter BANNED the creator of this ad because it moves voters 7 pts toward Dems.

Voters are DISGUSTED by Trump’s gestapo kidnapping US citizens in Portland and Chicago.

SPREAD THIS EVERYWHERE

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🇦🇺 @harper2024.bsky.social · 1d

He's probably better off leaving.

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America, you truly have descended into the deepest of pits. This is beyond belief.

🇦🇺 @harper2024.bsky.social · 1d

The Zionists and others who had him dismissed are VILE ARSEHOLES.

🇦🇺 @harper2024.bsky.social · 1d

If Lump and other fascists around the world succeed in declaring Antifa a terrorist organisation, it's going to be the largest organisation in the world.

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🇦🇺 @harper2024.bsky.social · 1d

There is no hell deep enough or hot enough for that woman.

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Adam @kels316.bsky.social · 1d

If I was doing the shit Albanese's government is doing under the banner of a "workers party" I'd be keeping it a big fucken secret too.

David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 1d

The Albanese govt’s first term was the second most secretive on record.

Rather than changing their ways, they’re doubling down and tightening our FOI system to make it even harder to get information. Not a single expert or member of parliament outside of the Labor party has backed their new bill.

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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 2d

I remember being disgusted by Beazley re the Tampa. And Rudd and Gillard (for different reasons). But Albanese and Wong have left me utterly ashamed of the current Australian Labor Govt. 😔 #auspol

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🇦🇺 @harper2024.bsky.social · 2d

First step? Boycott Qatar Airlines.

🇦🇺 @harper2024.bsky.social · 2d

Not so much with the healthy media! Remember that Murdoch crawled out of the slime here. His hideous talons and slobber are all over our media, and our politicians crawl on their bloated bellies to lick his arthritic feet.

🇦🇺 @harper2024.bsky.social · 2d

No doubt Trump will now lose all interest in achieving peace anywhere, including the US, now that he lost his bid for the Nobel--and to a woman! 🤣🤣🤣🤣