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Tim Lyons

@picketer.bsky.social

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Ex union boss. Organising, political economy, labour markets, tax, pensions, climate, China, Spinoza. Proud @UnitedWorkersOz member since 1990.

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 45m

People dunking on Chatterton Williams

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 53m

Matt, Sam, Moira, Adrian, Mike, Peter I blame all of you for this.

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 57m

Did you know Bennelong went to London? Kids aren't told that because of woke.

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 1h

Apple just said I "might like" "based on my listening" a 3 hr pod of Red Scare talking to Chatterton Williams and some people I pay money to subscribe to owe me for the mental trauma caused by their episode titles because the algo does not detect dunks...........

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 1h

I'm waiting for the 9 hour podcast

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 1h

I still know a bunch of pretty nasty swears in Hokkien from being a kid in KL. I could impress the Gallery........

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Osmond Chiu (赵明佑) @redrabbleroz.bsky.social · 2h

Remembering the time when Coorey was convinced that Keith Wolahan was a “fluent Chinese speaker” because he said 我叫, 这是 and 对 in a video with Ted O’Brien

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 2h

It was nice in the 90s

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 3h

I'm being particular.

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 3h

Melbourne is much easier. The only place worth crossing to the East Bank of the Yarra for is Box Hill.

Christopher Owen @oysta.au · 4h

I thought we had the definitive answer a while ago

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 4h

Abbott, T.
Australia: A History
ISBN: 9781460768297
Published: 13/10/25

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 6h

Lucy just so you know we are not gay. It's about ethics in political journalism films.

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 8h

I know I’m yelling at the void (and people that agree) but BARI WEISS GOT BILLIONAIRE FUNDING!

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 8h

Apes. Gone.

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 12h

As I wrote before the legislation even hit parliament www.theguardian.com/media/articl...

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 8h

I wouldn’t say “all” but your point is a very good one

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 8h

I really liked Lane’s work here - a byline I’d always click.

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 9h

(One of Alinsky's dictums was that a great tactic - done well - available to people with little power is to just take the piss out of the people who do have it. Mock them. It's great fun and they reeaaallllyyyy hate it.)

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 9h

If the witness didn't say "Just a bit of fun, Senator" in response we really missed out on a thing.

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 9h

I think we need to consider how these extremists who used to be journalists at the ABC Workers' and Peasants' Soviet end up in Parliament.

CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 9h

Senator Henderson to Yahoo: "You're displaying on your front page... a photo which looks like a woman exposing her buttocks. Then when you go into it, you see that those are two. bald heads in front of the woman... Can I ask you to explain why this is on your front page?"

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 9h

"Nice."

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 9h

This is a superb use of Temu crap by protestors. (The DHS will now procure 500 units @ $200,000 a unit of the 'Palantir AI-Power Smart Tactical Dirigible Threat Eliminator - it's a box-cutter with an app.)

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 17h

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 9h

The Teen Poasters Liberation Army (PF) are preparing some backyard IEDs that the government forces are just not prepared for.

CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 3d

With 2 months until the teen social media bans kicks in, teens are already inventing — and sharing — ways to get around the ban.

They're making TikToks teaching each other to how to say their accounts are run by their parents, or to find alternative platforms
www.crikey.com.au/20...

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 11h

Late Capitalism (2025, Digital Photograph)

onion person @junlper.beer · 16h

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 11h

There isn't a suburb in Australia where you couldn't get 200 signatures against absolutely ANYTHING. *Petition against free cake* signed for reasons including, I Like Biscuits More, I'm Dieting, I Hated My Mum's Cake, Satan Loves Cake, Waddabout Famine Overseas, I Want Free Fireworks etc etc.

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