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Simon

@simonronalds.bsky.social

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Love jazz, keen saxophonist, guitarist, ex mountain biker, chess lover. Cats. Equality for all. Human rights, woke af. Climate emergency is the big issue. LGBTQI rights are human rights. Recovering Health professional. Naarn on Wurundjeri land. No DMs

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Simon @simonronalds.bsky.social · 5h

I’m in Australia, and as I desperately want to take part in the 18 October No Kings day, could someone carry a life size cardboard replica of me to show my support?
#NoKings

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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 1d

Can’t believe all these people are running a marathon through "war torn" Chicago today

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Simon @simonronalds.bsky.social · 1d

Stolen

Neat hand drawn sign on a city street with 5 check boxes - the 1st box is ticked. They say:
Ceasefire
End occupation
End apartheid
Rebuild Gaza, and
The Hague

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Simon @simonronalds.bsky.social · 5d

Uh huh

I you need to steal IP for you business model to work, it's not actually a business model

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Simon @simonronalds.bsky.social · 7d

In Greta's words, 'there's a lot of small dick energy' there

{paraphrasing I think}

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Simon @simonronalds.bsky.social · 7d

At my age, any day I wake up is a good day 👍

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Simon @simonronalds.bsky.social · 8d

Yes, yes, yes

Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 8d

“It’s not just Netanyahu, but the State of Israel that is committing crimes. States must act by severing strategic, military, and economic relations, otherwise they become complicit. The responsibility also falls on us citizens.”
— Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

Simon @simonronalds.bsky.social · 8d

Have you ever noticed how things are always in the last place you look - very suspicious IMO

Simon @simonronalds.bsky.social · 8d

HaPpY BiRtHdAy Ian & congratulations

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Simon @simonronalds.bsky.social · 9d

Today's bread

Hi @xskinn.bsky.social

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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 9d

This is a truly excoriating and well-deserved take-down of the National Press Club @PressClubAust by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges.

You really, 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 should read it. His words cut like a hot knife into butter. #auspol #GazaGenocide
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...

Hedges Report: NPC Australia caves to Israel Lobby, cancels talk on our betrayal of Palestinian journalists

The National Press Club of Australia cancelled my talk on how the media, by amplifying Israeli lies, have betrayed Palestinian journalists, 278 of whom have been assassinated by Israel.

johnmenadue.com

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Simon @simonronalds.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks Jenny for highlighting this. Details the insane horrors and hypocrisy.

Shame on the NPC
#AusPol

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Simon @simonronalds.bsky.social · 10d

In the US so much seems to make sense when viewed through the prism of white supremacy (reduce the number and influence of dark skinned people) & Epstein Files protection.

Simon @simonronalds.bsky.social · 11d

Mine didn’t kick in till 28ish…

Simon @simonronalds.bsky.social · 14d

I’m not a writers bootstrap - but I feel the same

Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 14d

That feeling as a writer when you see a line that just has you going "Damn, I wish I had written that"

"AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations"