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Vaxatious Litigant 💉 @exposingnv.bsky.social · 34m

Just in! Candace Owens has lost her High Court challenge over the Aus Govt’s decision to deny her entry to Australia

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Tom @tomgj.bsky.social · 31m

Sounds like a faux phở

Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 6h

how much basil comes with takeout phở (actual size): 🌱

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 9h

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

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Tom @tomgj.bsky.social · 39m

Late start; caffeination has commenced.

Freshly drawn coffee in front of an espresso machine

Tom @tomgj.bsky.social · 17h

"The ship has headed to deeper waters while assessments are undertaken to see if the hull has suffered any damage."

I'm no expert but if there's potential damage I'd stick to the shallows

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Tom @tomgj.bsky.social · 17h

Sorry, just busy in my drug lab because my 'silent partner' wants some money.

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Tom @tomgj.bsky.social · 18h

. . . of course he's moved into property development.

Jon Piccini @jonpiccini.bsky.social · 18h

Winding back odometers is such an 80s crime. Almost nostalgic. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Used car salesman fined $25,000 for winding back car odometers

Alexander Thomas Hallett pleaded guilty to winding back a total of 648,000 kilometres on the odometers of seven vehicles.

www.abc.net.au

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Tom @tomgj.bsky.social · 19h

Swimmingly.

If you don't count not staying afloat

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Tom @tomgj.bsky.social · 19h

Was it Ansett that spent millions rebranding by adding a full-stop to their name?

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Tom @tomgj.bsky.social · 19h

I like the original collective noun, army.

It Follows @deuce7crakd.bsky.social · 19h

What do you call a group of frogs?

A portlandia.

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Tom @tomgj.bsky.social · 20h

FMD, I know he's sick but he looks at least 74

A 54 year old Dave Hughes looking not a day under 70

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 1d

Oh wait that wasn’t even an embellishment huh they’re really wylin out

Nicholas Kristof
@NickKristof
In Portland, an ambulance was summoned to the
ICE office to treat an injured protester (not clear
how he was injured). But when the patient was
loaded inside, ICE officers refused to let the
ambulance leave and threatened to shoot the
ambulance driver:

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David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 1d

SA is showing leadership and common sense by banning AI in election ads.

The Federal govt should follow their lead and protect our democracy from the misuse of generative AI.
www.innovationaus.com/sa-cracks-do...

SA cracks down on AI deepfakes in political advertising

South Australia has become Australia's first state to ban AI-generated political ads and deepfakes aimed at misleading voters, with the changes coming into effect on Monday. Political parties, MPs and...

www.innovationaus.com

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Tom @tomgj.bsky.social · 1d

I know the feeling. It's up there with the worst

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Tom @tomgj.bsky.social · 1d

Holy shit.

I'm glad to hear he's recovering; but yeah vet bills are never bloody small.

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Tom @tomgj.bsky.social · 1d

Melbourne Cup should mandate salmon fascinators.

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 1d

Next time an institution tells you how seriously it takes research misconduct, ask them if it's *this* seriously. www.bmj.com/content/297/...

In 1916 the BMJ published an article about the work done by James Shearer, an American physician working in the British Army as a sergeant (because he had no British qualification). He had described a
"delineator" which was better than x rays for portraying gunshot wounds. This caused a sensation and a lot of interest — but on investigation the work was found to have been invented. The BMJ published a retraction, but Shearer was tried by court martial and sentenced to death by firing squad.

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Tom @tomgj.bsky.social · 1d

The best part of this is the second paragraph making it sound deliberate.

®PG🇵🇸 @realphilgold.bsky.social · 1d

probably one of the most iconic images of any Australian PM

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

as we all know a true vanguard activist of the left is impervious to the quisling capitalist insult of “a flaming helicopter dropping on their head”

Sam @very-simple.com · 1d

What do they think happens when they make the helicopter flying over a crowded, occupied city, inoperable? Do they think it will only crash into other feds?

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Tom @tomgj.bsky.social · 1d

I love this story.

onion person @junlper.beer · 2d

Tom @tomgj.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not saying it's bad but ai could probably do better.

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Tom @tomgj.bsky.social · 2d

A company's policy does not circumvent law.

Maybe it's different where you live, but I'm one of the scores of people who don't happen to live in america.

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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like today is a good day to remind everyone that just last year Barnaby Joyce called on a crowd of cookers to say “goodbye” to 3 Labor MPs inc the PM by getting ready to “load that magazine” & think of a “bullet” when casting their vote.
And received no penalty or censure.

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

Fierce, unruly joy in Portland at the emergency naked bike ride

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Tom @tomgj.bsky.social · 2d

Oh god, I just looked it up:

"Forgive me, it sounds cocky/He ah-matized me and opened my eyes/Redwood tree, it ain't hard to see/His love was the key that opened my thighs,"

Not sure what a young swifty would make of that.

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