Tim Lyons
@picketer.bsky.social
Ex union boss. Organising, political economy, labour markets, tax, pensions, climate, China, Spinoza. Proud @UnitedWorkersOz member since 1990.
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that's the good stuff
🚨 President Trump’s Claim of an “Irrefutable” Argument Supporting His Right to Unilaterally Impose Voter ID and Election Rules May Be Based on Insane Claim that Marriott Hotel Manager Found Secret Text in the Shadows of a Microfilm Copy of the U.S. Constitution electionlawblog.org?p=154326
President Trump's Claim of an "Irrefutable" Argument Supporting His Right to Unilaterally Impose Voter ID and Election Rules May Be Based on Insane Claim that Marriott Hotel Manager Found Secret Text ...
Yesterday I noted the latest set of unhinged social media posts from President Trump in which he declared that voter id requirements and other election changes would be imposed in the midterms via exe...
electionlawblog.org
February 14, 2026 at 6:12 PM
that's the good stuff
Know (Your Product.)
The new Liberal leaders are inferior in so many ways. But I’ll tell you this without hesitation. Never have have we seen such magnificent heads of hair on a leadership duo.
February 15, 2026 at 8:11 AM
Know (Your Product.)
On Wall St: "A decent asteroid strike could BBQ that up nicely and we can IPO the giant cevapi."
Within 18 months all white collar workers could be replaced by a 1km sphere of flesh in Central Park
February 15, 2026 at 7:32 AM
On Wall St: "A decent asteroid strike could BBQ that up nicely and we can IPO the giant cevapi."
many such cases
I will never understand why so many people decided this dumb Nazi fuck was some kind of dissident intellectual.
February 15, 2026 at 7:25 AM
many such cases
The Chili Colorado made with a big lump of pork scotch fillet has been on since 0715 and, folks, we are in very good shape...........
February 15, 2026 at 6:44 AM
The Chili Colorado made with a big lump of pork scotch fillet has been on since 0715 and, folks, we are in very good shape...........
"Car burglar"? He smashed a window in and pinched stuff. He's not a dashing David Niven gentleman thief.........
Alleged cat burglar arrested after priceless Egyptian artefacts taken in Queensland museum heist
Alleged cat burglar arrested after priceless Egyptian artefacts taken in Queensland museum heist
Man charged after 2,600-year-old cat sculpture, mummy mask and necklace stolen from Caboolture museum
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Queensland police have arrested a man accused of staging a brazen cat burglary of priceless Egyptian artefacts from a museum in Caboolture, north of Brisbane.
The man, 52, of no fixed address, was arrested on Russell Island in Moreton Bay on Saturday evening, after police allegedly found most of the stolen artefacts in a camper van parked at a ferry terminal. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
February 15, 2026 at 6:21 AM
"Car burglar"? He smashed a window in and pinched stuff. He's not a dashing David Niven gentleman thief.........
Dig up. Drink deep from the stuff at the bottom of the hole, it will do you good. (They have had now had two (2) chances to forget this nonsense but they are like rats with a wire.)
Deputy Liberal leader Jane Hume says Australia needs to be "open minded" on nuclear power if the country is to bring down emissions and make power cheaper.
Ruling out nuclear power is 'crazy', new Liberal deputy says
Deputy Liberal leader Jane Hume says Australia needs to be "open minded" on nuclear power if the country is to bring down emissions and make power cheaper.
www.abc.net.au
February 15, 2026 at 5:01 AM
Dig up. Drink deep from the stuff at the bottom of the hole, it will do you good. (They have had now had two (2) chances to forget this nonsense but they are like rats with a wire.)
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Here’s to your Horse Year!
马年快乐！🎉
马年快乐！🎉
February 13, 2026 at 9:13 AM
Here’s to your Horse Year!
马年快乐！🎉
马年快乐！🎉
A substitute / additional holiday for Anzac Day when it falls on a weekend is good stuff - it's basically the only "floating" PH that doesn't automatically work like that.
February 14, 2026 at 11:49 PM
A substitute / additional holiday for Anzac Day when it falls on a weekend is good stuff - it's basically the only "floating" PH that doesn't automatically work like that.
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straight out of those Civil War histories where some ill informed white Union soldier got a view of slavery up close and became hyper abolitionist in an instant
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 9:28 PM
straight out of those Civil War histories where some ill informed white Union soldier got a view of slavery up close and became hyper abolitionist in an instant
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The non sports part of prediction markets is trivially small and economists should stop being excited about it. - www.ft.com/content/1aa7...
February 14, 2026 at 8:39 AM
The non sports part of prediction markets is trivially small and economists should stop being excited about it. - www.ft.com/content/1aa7...
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"everyone has to get back to the office because the important thing about business is human interaction" is dying, but "white collar jobs will be replaced by AI agents within 18 months" cannot yet be born; in this interregnum a variety of morbid symptoms appear.
February 13, 2026 at 9:52 AM
"everyone has to get back to the office because the important thing about business is human interaction" is dying, but "white collar jobs will be replaced by AI agents within 18 months" cannot yet be born; in this interregnum a variety of morbid symptoms appear.
The best bit is some absolute little twerp in the 70's got in the shit from his mum for having a dirty book in his room.
can you imagine how disappointed you’d be if you knew nothing about this book and only picked it up for this particular cover
February 14, 2026 at 10:13 AM
The best bit is some absolute little twerp in the 70's got in the shit from his mum for having a dirty book in his room.
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‘My family emigrated from South Africa’
[the entire barbecue falls silent while everyone waits to hear what year]
[the entire barbecue falls silent while everyone waits to hear what year]
No no no see you have to know the exact year a given Croatian family arrived here
February 14, 2026 at 6:38 AM
‘My family emigrated from South Africa’
[the entire barbecue falls silent while everyone waits to hear what year]
[the entire barbecue falls silent while everyone waits to hear what year]
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my favorite stolen art restored story is when an Orthodox bishop was watching a documentary on Boy George and spotted an interesting icon on his back wall. He investigated and found the icon had been stolen by Turkish troops and BG had unknowingly bought it in 1985. BG immediately returned it.
February 14, 2026 at 3:01 AM
my favorite stolen art restored story is when an Orthodox bishop was watching a documentary on Boy George and spotted an interesting icon on his back wall. He investigated and found the icon had been stolen by Turkish troops and BG had unknowingly bought it in 1985. BG immediately returned it.
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Doctors say that vaccines protect children from dangerous diseases. A nepo baby who barbecues dogs and snorts cocaine off toilet seats says that vaccines make children vulnerable to 5G radiation. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.
February 14, 2026 at 3:41 AM
Doctors say that vaccines protect children from dangerous diseases. A nepo baby who barbecues dogs and snorts cocaine off toilet seats says that vaccines make children vulnerable to 5G radiation. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.
Not zero but ballpark - and its current market cap is USD 3 trillion and true most of that reflects the licences for white collar slobs so the lols of him saying this are very large.
Who is going to buy Microsoft Office 365 Licences then?
Like, if this is true, Microsoft is worth $0
Like, if this is true, Microsoft is worth $0
Microsoft AI CEO: 'Most, if not all' white-collar tasks can be replaced by AI within 12-18 months
Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft's AI chief, says AI can automate white-collar jobs within 12-18 months, as tech reaches human-level performance in tasks.
www.businessinsider.com
February 14, 2026 at 8:51 AM
Not zero but ballpark - and its current market cap is USD 3 trillion and true most of that reflects the licences for white collar slobs so the lols of him saying this are very large.
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So The Age has churned out "special series" on exclusive men's clubs, then private golf clubs, now restaurant tycoons. All suitably fawning over supposed powerful elites. Tell you what, why not just save time and do one called "Rich arseholes, and why we suck up to them".🙄
February 14, 2026 at 3:25 AM
So The Age has churned out "special series" on exclusive men's clubs, then private golf clubs, now restaurant tycoons. All suitably fawning over supposed powerful elites. Tell you what, why not just save time and do one called "Rich arseholes, and why we suck up to them".🙄
Through union work I met someone who had worked as a sexual health nurse practitioner at an Olympic village and they said it was "an entire career compressed into a month"
10K condoms for 17 days for 3K athletes in the prime of their physical lives = one encounter every 5 days or so.
By comparison, the Paris Olympics provided enough condoms (300K) for every athlete to have sex twice a day.
Are Italians really that chaste? 🤭
By comparison, the Paris Olympics provided enough condoms (300K) for every athlete to have sex twice a day.
Are Italians really that chaste? 🤭
The Winter Olympics village ran out of condoms after just 3 days. 😂🤣😂🤣😂
www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...
www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...
February 14, 2026 at 6:48 AM
Through union work I met someone who had worked as a sexual health nurse practitioner at an Olympic village and they said it was "an entire career compressed into a month"
This would’ve ruled
49 years ago today
Fred Schneider, Cindy Wilson & Kate Pierson of The B-52′s making their worldwide debut at a Valentine’s Day house party in Athens, GA, February 14, 1977.
Photo by Kelly Bugden
#punk #punkrock #newwave #womenofpunk #theb52s #history #punkrockhistory
Fred Schneider, Cindy Wilson & Kate Pierson of The B-52′s making their worldwide debut at a Valentine’s Day house party in Athens, GA, February 14, 1977.
Photo by Kelly Bugden
#punk #punkrock #newwave #womenofpunk #theb52s #history #punkrockhistory
February 14, 2026 at 5:18 AM
This would’ve ruled
@economeager.bsky.social here we go mate - the 90s are back baby!
February 14, 2026 at 4:46 AM
@economeager.bsky.social here we go mate - the 90s are back baby!
The premise was simple: kys
February 14, 2026 at 2:54 AM
The premise was simple: kys
A 3-Bloke byline piece in Ninefax says Ley was "shrill." Not a quote from an MP the word they chose to use. *Hysterical* was right there lads, why not go hog wild?
February 14, 2026 at 1:54 AM
A 3-Bloke byline piece in Ninefax says Ley was "shrill." Not a quote from an MP the word they chose to use. *Hysterical* was right there lads, why not go hog wild?