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Jack M Davenport @jackmdavenport.bsky.social · 9h

I really like the way the film details precisely how to grow, cultivate, prepare, and distribute cannabis.

Jack M Davenport @jackmdavenport.bsky.social · 9h

This film is dope.

Reefer Madness
Formerly ‘Tell your children’
An ? And H production
Copyrighted

Jack M Davenport @jackmdavenport.bsky.social · 9h

This film is dope.

Jack M Davenport @jackmdavenport.bsky.social · 20h

On way to a conference and passed a sign that advertised ‘Seminar on Satan’ and now I wish I was going to that event. #tasmania

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Jack M Davenport @jackmdavenport.bsky.social · 1d

I’d also suggest the TV comedy series 2 Point 4 Children also serves as a suitable reliveable memorial, with the number of times that Belinda Lang’s character Bill Porter blamed Thatcher for anything that went wrong.

Jack M Davenport @jackmdavenport.bsky.social · 1d

This description is not reflective of the much more cerebral abstract, nor source of research. The research was part paid for by 23andMe, a genetic testing company. They filed for bankruptcy earlier this year, only to be purchased by a non-profit created by their former CEO.

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Jack M Davenport @jackmdavenport.bsky.social · 1d

I remember my home telephone numbers from when I was a kid. I even remember when our telephone number was just four digits before they added an extra two because of population (UK).

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Jack M Davenport @jackmdavenport.bsky.social · 1d

So did I! 🤣

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Jack M Davenport @jackmdavenport.bsky.social · 2d

So let’s build a stadium.
#politas

Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 2d

🚨 BREAKING: Brand new @ACOSS report finds 1 in 7 Australians are living in poverty, including 757,000 children. Millions of families are struggling while our leaders sit on their hands and let it happen.

Poverty in Australia 2025: Overview – Poverty and Inequality

povertyandinequality.acoss.org.au

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Jack M Davenport @jackmdavenport.bsky.social · 3d

I feel like the unnamed Labor advisor is saying a lot about themselves in highlighting Albanese’s negativity towards transparency. I mean, you work for the party but seem satisfied with this undemocratic intransigence on truth? Knowing the damage it can do to effective & sound governance?

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Jack M Davenport @jackmdavenport.bsky.social · 3d

Serves no purpose that can’t be met through other means, and it’s not just those who prefer to have a night sky who might suffer. Nocturnal animals are a thing, and many already have significant disruption arising from artificial lighting. Humans sleep based on nighttime too. This is so dumb.

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Jack M Davenport @jackmdavenport.bsky.social · 4d

“Mr Ridgers blamed the fact that he had had a stressful day, had been diagnosed with ADHD and suffered bullying as child, for killing a 10 month old baby.”

Did he now? I suspect something else may have been the primary factor here. #politas

pulsetasmania.com.au/news/coroner...

Coroner condemns man who blamed ‘stressful day’ for killing baby

The man lied to police, doctors and the child’s mother about what happened…

pulsetasmania.com.au

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Jack M Davenport @jackmdavenport.bsky.social · 4d

What kind of debate is he sparking exactly? And he linked what now to autism?

Jack M Davenport @jackmdavenport.bsky.social · 4d

The ‘most dangerous’ label isn’t that useful for understanding fascist or autocratic governments. It satisfies his ego, & discounts all the other dangerous people. If a piano fell on Miller today there’d be a new most dangerous man, but the same administration.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Stephen Miller is the most dangerous man in the Trump administration | Judith Levine

In the White House deputy chief of staff, we see that Maga will not simply end with Trump. We must keep our eyes on Miller

www.theguardian.com

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Jack M Davenport @jackmdavenport.bsky.social · 5d

Hahaha even when he loses the media still manage to make the story about him. The whole story is about Machado, nothing more.

Jack M Davenport @jackmdavenport.bsky.social · 5d

Tis true for sure, but also am reminded of George Pell meeting Alan Jones and Tony Abbott at the Australia Club shortly after his release from prison.
#auspol

Michael West Media - investigative journalists - always indepen… @michaelwest.com.au.web.brid.gy · 5d

Pope Leo condemns wealthy living in a bubble of luxury

Pope Leo XIV has criticised how wealthy people live in a "bubble of comfort and luxury" while the poor suffer.

michaelwest.com.au

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Jack M Davenport @jackmdavenport.bsky.social · 5d

Trump will create his own version of the Nobel Peace Prize, but he’ll run it like the Apprentice.

Jack M Davenport @jackmdavenport.bsky.social · 5d

“And the prize goes to…SkyNet.”

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Jack M Davenport @jackmdavenport.bsky.social · 5d

They’re approaching science the way they approach their tax returns.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

Jack M Davenport @jackmdavenport.bsky.social · 5d

Labor is also doing a deal with the Trump-style culture war on science/climate/environment Coalition to gut the EPBC. I can only deduce Labor’s going for something along the lines of ‘Trump-lite’ in its selective engagement with the hard Right.

#auspol

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

‘Australia is not the USA’: Labor accuses Coalition of importing Trump-style culture war on immigration

‘It’s not just a few extremists or populists – Hastie, Price and their cabal – blowing the dog whistle now; the Liberals are all taking the coward’s route,’ Julian Hill says

www.theguardian.com

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Jack M Davenport @jackmdavenport.bsky.social · 6d

Go on…

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 6d

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

Jack M Davenport @jackmdavenport.bsky.social · 6d

Well WaPo, turning up to someone’s 21st birthday on their 30th is pretty late, but I suppose it’s the thought that counts right?

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Jack M Davenport @jackmdavenport.bsky.social · 6d

“Steve, we know it’s your first day as an intern at Fox News, but we have a little job that we think you’d be perfect for…”

Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 6d

You have got to be joking hahaha

Jack M Davenport @jackmdavenport.bsky.social · 7d

When the ninth circle of Hell throws shade at one of the other circles…
#auspol

Technology
News Corp Australia chair says social media platforms are ‘true monsters’ and ‘torment our children’
Photo of a Rupert Murdoch minion.

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Jack M Davenport @jackmdavenport.bsky.social · 8d

It seems very daring of Murray Watts to to effectively admit that Labor isn’t going to make any difference to climate change, because that is the implication of his logic. #auspol

Michael Mazengarb @michaelmazengarb.bsky.social · 8d

The 'statement of reasons' given by enviro minister Murray Watt approving the North West Shelf gas project extension contains some astonishing mental gymnastics.
He assumes the same level of emissions could occur even if the project didn't proceed
epbcpublicportal.environment.gov.au/_entity/shar...

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Jack M Davenport @jackmdavenport.bsky.social · 8d

So he’s gone with ‘it’s fucked whatever we do, so might as well go ahead and do it.’

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