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Liam Hogan

@liamhogan.id.au

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Heritage yobbo. Intern at Dark Heart of Gradual Reform Pty. Ltd. All punked up on jupiter oil, rolling fifty deep. Mostly at http://aus.social/@liamvhogan

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · May 12

Immigration (and exmigration) is good, has increased human welfare and human liberty, has broadened societies, and is a demonstration everywhere of a society’s dignity

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 1h

There’s heaps of people who say, if Australia had fast trains I could commute to a Sydney job from Bathurst! I could live in Ballarat and work in Melbourne! But don’t consider what it would be like to work that

Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 15h

As Elias swiftly played the ball out to Sironen, the mismatch dawned slowly on both sides. At the wing Tim Brasher had been joined by Steve O’Brien. With a left dummy, Brasher made his try, in the seventy-eighth minute of the 1989 Grand Final. Balmain led Canberra 18-12. With a kick to come.

TECHNOLOGY
Altman says ChatGPT will soon allow erotica for adult users
BY TARA SUTER

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 15h

Tarantino levels of shit movie, incredible soundtrack

Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 17h

No! This is actually just a general Liam being old gripe

Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 17h

This is why God invented the garden hose, Bubba, and I’m not afraid to turn it on any under-30s I see influencing

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 17h

Is this about Marx

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 17h

Liam Hogan Thought insists that lapel microphones are for lapels. Hand-holding a device meant for clothing is annoying and a stupid affectation. Get off my lawn.

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 21h

Don’t verbal me, dickhead,

Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 21h

⭐️

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 21h

Maybe I should have a lengthy dispute in @mattcowgill.bsky.social’s menchies

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 23h

Free your mind and your Crassus will follow

Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 1d

Yes m.youtube.com/watch?v=duF2...

GWAR covers Pet Shop Boys: "West End Girls"

YouTube video by The A.V. Club

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 1d

Aside aside: the prospect of a military that owes loyalty to private interests over the common ones of the State is bad. But it’s not the reason for States to be so jealous of pay.

There are always officers smart enough to realise that being an *armed* capitalist is a competitive advantage

Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 1d

Sooner or later everyone who deals with the complexities of a modern highly urbanised society arrives back at boring old social democracy where they began

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 1d

Aside: of course there is, despite the grotesque wealth of billionaires, none rich enough to actually fund a functioning State let alone a military in the Roman way. It’s the limit of ‘tax the rich’: obviously they should be taxed, but there aren’t enough of them to get away from taxing *everyone*.

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 1d

American Crassus / get away from me / American Crassus

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I had a very wealthy person who called -- a donor, a great gentleman -- and he said, 'if there's any money necessary, shortfall, for the paying of the troops, then I will pay it.' Meaning he will pay it. How about that?"

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 2d

60 Minutes: In the hunt for philosophical truths we travelled to Lebanon and hit a grandmother on the side of the head with a pistol

Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 2d

Jacobin: philosophy is pleasurable, which as Yankee Methodists, we view as a frightening and disgusting sin

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 2d

Australian philosophers well known for their ability to get along with one another and achieve collective goals

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 2d

The guy had his picture taken with the UTS Aussie rules team (UTS Bats), and that year the rest of the comp turned up to their GF with STOP THE BATS signs

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 2d

Nice. I would compare political philosophy to doing a huge double backflip over a row of cars, on a Harley Davidson Sportster, dressed in a vinyl jumpsuit and cape. No big deal

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Dr. Katherine Haenschen @drkath.bsky.social · 2d

True story: I had a field experiment that was just racking up brutal desk rejects from various political science journals so I used the formatting to make a Word doc look like LaTeX and it got accepted on my next try.

I figure the reviewers assumed a dude wrote it.

John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 3d

This is your periodic reminder that you can add coffee stains to your LaTeX documents.

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 2d

The Guardo even commissioned me to write insane essays for beer money, so we can't take that kind of liberal access to exposure as unalloyed good

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brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 3d

Anyone who claims that Silicon Valley would be better with more humanities education has to grapple with the fact that Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 3d

[puff of sulphurous smoke]

This package has, honestly, some of the crankiest but most correct advice about the use of tables that I’ve ever read

ctan.org/pkg/booktabs/

CTAN: Package booktabs

ctan.org

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