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Scruffy Aussie Lefty Ratbag. Social Justice Cleric. Swears like a soldier. Unashamed nerd. AuDHD He/They Living on unceded Whadjuk Noongar land
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December 4, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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December 4, 2025 at 12:33 PM
M O O D !
This is where I've been for several months, on the off chance that any of the accounts following me have been wondering why I'm only intermittently here myself.
Pace yourself folks, and remember: You can't help anyone else until your own oxygen mask is fully and properly on. Good luck!
This is where I've been for several months, on the off chance that any of the accounts following me have been wondering why I'm only intermittently here myself.
Pace yourself folks, and remember: You can't help anyone else until your own oxygen mask is fully and properly on. Good luck!
Every Bluesky post is now just another facet in the horrifying broken mirror of the world. So I’m bowing out of Bluesky for today. Normal service will probably resume tomorrow (but let’s face it more likely later today)
You can find me over on Patreon today probably.
You can find me over on Patreon today probably.
December 4, 2025 at 10:30 AM
M O O D !
This is where I've been for several months, on the off chance that any of the accounts following me have been wondering why I'm only intermittently here myself.
Pace yourself folks, and remember: You can't help anyone else until your own oxygen mask is fully and properly on. Good luck!
This is where I've been for several months, on the off chance that any of the accounts following me have been wondering why I'm only intermittently here myself.
Pace yourself folks, and remember: You can't help anyone else until your own oxygen mask is fully and properly on. Good luck!
Me today, realising literally a full week after one of the major banks stole my ATM card (and gave entirely bullshit rationalisation for why they had the right to do so and left me with zero access to my own funds until a replacement card arrives):
"Wait, I have a coin-pouch packed with coins." 🤦
"Wait, I have a coin-pouch packed with coins." 🤦
December 4, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Me today, realising literally a full week after one of the major banks stole my ATM card (and gave entirely bullshit rationalisation for why they had the right to do so and left me with zero access to my own funds until a replacement card arrives):
"Wait, I have a coin-pouch packed with coins." 🤦
"Wait, I have a coin-pouch packed with coins." 🤦
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INCIDENTALLY you should know THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST is currently ranked #700 for 'Mystery and Thriller' at Libro and I *know* we can get that up to 666
December 3, 2025 at 8:17 PM
INCIDENTALLY you should know THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST is currently ranked #700 for 'Mystery and Thriller' at Libro and I *know* we can get that up to 666
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Either Rudolph is a competent sleigh puller or he's not. Only employing him when there's a specific slot for his facial difference or disability is the kind of workplace discrimination that hampers the careers of people with disability worldwide.
Laughing and calling him names is a hate crime.
Laughing and calling him names is a hate crime.
December 3, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Either Rudolph is a competent sleigh puller or he's not. Only employing him when there's a specific slot for his facial difference or disability is the kind of workplace discrimination that hampers the careers of people with disability worldwide.
Laughing and calling him names is a hate crime.
Laughing and calling him names is a hate crime.
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Hey all,
The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships.
Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits.
You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.
The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships.
Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits.
You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.
Fellowship
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December 3, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Hey all,
The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships.
Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits.
You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.
The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships.
Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits.
You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.
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All super rich guys sound the same now. It’s all “I sleep four hours a night and spend the other twenty hours a day developing a product that’s going to bring us the best widespread poverty anyone’s ever seen.”
December 3, 2025 at 9:53 PM
All super rich guys sound the same now. It’s all “I sleep four hours a night and spend the other twenty hours a day developing a product that’s going to bring us the best widespread poverty anyone’s ever seen.”
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you mean to tell me the ceo of the ford motor company is comfortable with open white nationalism in the white house
December 4, 2025 at 12:01 AM
you mean to tell me the ceo of the ford motor company is comfortable with open white nationalism in the white house
"Coalition has 'no confidence' social media ban will work under Labor"
This headline strongly implies that they are confidant it would somehow magically work under a government they ruled over.
Which given both the most recent LNP terms (both government and opposition) are laughable, ofc.
This headline strongly implies that they are confidant it would somehow magically work under a government they ruled over.
Which given both the most recent LNP terms (both government and opposition) are laughable, ofc.
Coalition has 'no confidence' social media ban will work under Labor
Opposition Leader Sussan Ley says Australia's social media ban will not work under Labor, as the federal government rejects YouTube's claim it will make kids "less safe".
www.abc.net.au
December 3, 2025 at 3:02 PM
"Coalition has 'no confidence' social media ban will work under Labor"
This headline strongly implies that they are confidant it would somehow magically work under a government they ruled over.
Which given both the most recent LNP terms (both government and opposition) are laughable, ofc.
This headline strongly implies that they are confidant it would somehow magically work under a government they ruled over.
Which given both the most recent LNP terms (both government and opposition) are laughable, ofc.
Looking down at the tiny!cat eagerly helping herself to the crumbs of the (plain) pancakes I had for dinner: "Obligate hyperpredator, huh?"
🙄 😅
🙄 😅
December 3, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Looking down at the tiny!cat eagerly helping herself to the crumbs of the (plain) pancakes I had for dinner: "Obligate hyperpredator, huh?"
🙄 😅
🙄 😅
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A few days ago, the National Blood Bank of Sri Lanka said they were running low in the wake of the disaster and called for fifteen hundred donors to help them catch up. Twenty thousand people showed up. Today the Bank said, basically, thanks this is great but please stop now we are too full of blood
December 3, 2025 at 2:07 PM
A few days ago, the National Blood Bank of Sri Lanka said they were running low in the wake of the disaster and called for fifteen hundred donors to help them catch up. Twenty thousand people showed up. Today the Bank said, basically, thanks this is great but please stop now we are too full of blood
The Salvation Army's rampant homophobia and transphobia has a documented body count.
They are bigots and extremists, give them nothing but your disdain, your vocal disgust and then your back. #FuckTheSalvos
They are bigots and extremists, give them nothing but your disdain, your vocal disgust and then your back. #FuckTheSalvos
It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.
December 3, 2025 at 2:37 PM
The Salvation Army's rampant homophobia and transphobia has a documented body count.
They are bigots and extremists, give them nothing but your disdain, your vocal disgust and then your back. #FuckTheSalvos
They are bigots and extremists, give them nothing but your disdain, your vocal disgust and then your back. #FuckTheSalvos
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There's a couple reasons so many IWW songs are set to the tunes of hymns and one is that the Salvation Army Band would show up and try to stop workers organizing by playing hymns to drown out speeches, so the Wobblies came up with words so they could sing along. SA has been trash all along.
It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.
December 3, 2025 at 2:09 AM
There's a couple reasons so many IWW songs are set to the tunes of hymns and one is that the Salvation Army Band would show up and try to stop workers organizing by playing hymns to drown out speeches, so the Wobblies came up with words so they could sing along. SA has been trash all along.
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‘I’m a firm believer in no business after dark’
‘But it’s winter it’s dark at like 330’
‘Correct, and if you think my laptop is still open at 331 you have made a strategic error’
‘But it’s winter it’s dark at like 330’
‘Correct, and if you think my laptop is still open at 331 you have made a strategic error’
December 3, 2025 at 4:25 AM
‘I’m a firm believer in no business after dark’
‘But it’s winter it’s dark at like 330’
‘Correct, and if you think my laptop is still open at 331 you have made a strategic error’
‘But it’s winter it’s dark at like 330’
‘Correct, and if you think my laptop is still open at 331 you have made a strategic error’
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I’ll admit this is depressing to me, that the GOP is trying to bring back the 50’s but in their heart of hearts Schumer and Jeffries and their ilk just want to bring back the 90’s. There’s no party infrastructure (plenty of individuals) actively forward-looking.
full offense i do not know why hillary clinton is even talking
December 3, 2025 at 6:20 AM
I’ll admit this is depressing to me, that the GOP is trying to bring back the 50’s but in their heart of hearts Schumer and Jeffries and their ilk just want to bring back the 90’s. There’s no party infrastructure (plenty of individuals) actively forward-looking.
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Plugging this more widely as it's quite useful for reading expensive publications for nowt, if you are Australian (or at least Australia-based).
For what it's worth, people in Australia can get free membership of the National Library, and with that you can read the ABR free. It's how I came to enjoy this lovely little bit of savagery.
www.library.gov.au/research/gui...
www.library.gov.au/research/gui...
Join the Library | National Library of Australia (NLA)
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www.library.gov.au
December 3, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Plugging this more widely as it's quite useful for reading expensive publications for nowt, if you are Australian (or at least Australia-based).
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nothing to see here, just leaving this thing about setting up a vpn on aws ec2 for no reason.
tonynzuki.hashnode.dev/beyond-comme...
tonynzuki.hashnode.dev/beyond-comme...
December 3, 2025 at 1:46 PM
nothing to see here, just leaving this thing about setting up a vpn on aws ec2 for no reason.
tonynzuki.hashnode.dev/beyond-comme...
tonynzuki.hashnode.dev/beyond-comme...
I see #TronAres is now released for streaming.
I guess I'll have to go out of my way to not watch it again. Maybe if it continues to be an utter disaster Hollywood might finally learn that casting #JaredFuckingLeto in anything is damn near equiv. to just setting piles of money on fire?
Yeah, nah.
I guess I'll have to go out of my way to not watch it again. Maybe if it continues to be an utter disaster Hollywood might finally learn that casting #JaredFuckingLeto in anything is damn near equiv. to just setting piles of money on fire?
Yeah, nah.
December 3, 2025 at 12:43 PM
I see #TronAres is now released for streaming.
I guess I'll have to go out of my way to not watch it again. Maybe if it continues to be an utter disaster Hollywood might finally learn that casting #JaredFuckingLeto in anything is damn near equiv. to just setting piles of money on fire?
Yeah, nah.
I guess I'll have to go out of my way to not watch it again. Maybe if it continues to be an utter disaster Hollywood might finally learn that casting #JaredFuckingLeto in anything is damn near equiv. to just setting piles of money on fire?
Yeah, nah.
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Several Australian retailers have kept facial recognition technology (FRT) on despite the Australian Privacy Commissioner ruling Kmart and Bunnings’s use of the technology illegal, sparking concerns from computer scientists, unions and privacy advocates ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...
Retailers still using facial recognition tech
Sparks workplace and consumer rights concerns.
ia.acs.org.au
December 3, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Several Australian retailers have kept facial recognition technology (FRT) on despite the Australian Privacy Commissioner ruling Kmart and Bunnings’s use of the technology illegal, sparking concerns from computer scientists, unions and privacy advocates ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...
I just learned that there is a species of mango fly with the scientific name of Cordylobia anthropophaga.
I would like to clearly state I already know far more about this species than I need to and wish I knew less about them.
My nightmare-fuel tank is already quite adequately full, thanks. 😰 😱
I would like to clearly state I already know far more about this species than I need to and wish I knew less about them.
My nightmare-fuel tank is already quite adequately full, thanks. 😰 😱
December 2, 2025 at 1:02 PM
I just learned that there is a species of mango fly with the scientific name of Cordylobia anthropophaga.
I would like to clearly state I already know far more about this species than I need to and wish I knew less about them.
My nightmare-fuel tank is already quite adequately full, thanks. 😰 😱
I would like to clearly state I already know far more about this species than I need to and wish I knew less about them.
My nightmare-fuel tank is already quite adequately full, thanks. 😰 😱
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Seriously though, it has a glossary and everything without being an overwhelming amount of information and the cover of the book is a wonderful texture
🎁 For this holiday season, consider gifting COLOR TASTE TEXTURE! It’s a great primer for people of all ages with little to no experience cooking. If you have some neurodivergent friends and family, or parents of littles, they might love this! It’s not just a cookbook, it’s a new approach to food. 🎁
I’m an Autistic classically trained chef and I wrote a food aversion acceptance cookbook and guide titled COLOR TASTE TEXTURE, that’s all about finding out what works for specific sensory needs and how to customize food for them. It’s useful for all ages, no cooking experience necessary.
December 2, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Seriously though, it has a glossary and everything without being an overwhelming amount of information and the cover of the book is a wonderful texture
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ODYSSEUS: wife I am home after 20 years
PENELOPE: oh shit I mean honey you are home how wonderful
ODYSSEUS: who are all these strange men
PENELOPE: well, I'll tell you what they're definitely not, which is a 300 person polycule ruling in your absence
PENELOPE: oh shit I mean honey you are home how wonderful
ODYSSEUS: who are all these strange men
PENELOPE: well, I'll tell you what they're definitely not, which is a 300 person polycule ruling in your absence
December 2, 2025 at 8:28 AM
ODYSSEUS: wife I am home after 20 years
PENELOPE: oh shit I mean honey you are home how wonderful
ODYSSEUS: who are all these strange men
PENELOPE: well, I'll tell you what they're definitely not, which is a 300 person polycule ruling in your absence
PENELOPE: oh shit I mean honey you are home how wonderful
ODYSSEUS: who are all these strange men
PENELOPE: well, I'll tell you what they're definitely not, which is a 300 person polycule ruling in your absence
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WHO endorses GLP-1’s for long term use for obesity. Australia’s PBS doesn’t. It’s time the PBS ensures all Australians have affordable, timely access to these vital meds www.smh.com.au/national/the...
The WHO endorses Ozempic and other GLP-1s for obesity. Australia’s PBS doesn’t
The WHO’s announcement came hours after Australia released a safety alert over the potential risk of suicidal thoughts and behaviours for people using the medicines.
www.smh.com.au
December 2, 2025 at 5:30 AM
WHO endorses GLP-1’s for long term use for obesity. Australia’s PBS doesn’t. It’s time the PBS ensures all Australians have affordable, timely access to these vital meds www.smh.com.au/national/the...
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This is unconscionable behaviour if true
I was at a conference back in July where a senior bureaucrat responsible for PBS listings indicated there is no plan to list GLP-1s on the PBS for anything other than diabetes. Basically the demand is so high it would potentially double the cost of running the PBS.
December 2, 2025 at 7:08 AM
This is unconscionable behaviour if true