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Tony Watts @wattsburger.bsky.social · 1d

Check how an American says it and get back to me

Tony Watts @wattsburger.bsky.social · 1d

Yep. What I’m saying.

Oxford says minimize. And now also minimize in brackets.

Macquarie didn’t even exist when I went to school.

I understand that languages evolve. I’d rather Aus English didn’t evolve into American.

We may have to pronounce buoy as ‘booeee’ if this continues

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 1d

🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon who incites political violence, adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did 🩸🩸🩸

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Tony Watts @wattsburger.bsky.social · 1d

Quelle surprise!

Tony Watts @wattsburger.bsky.social · 1d

Built an off grid house 15 years ago without subsidies.

Replaced the system last year and OMG! Absolutely life-changing. And all for the exact same dollar cost - which means, adjusted for inflation, less than half the cost.

Insane.

Anyone who can't see solar as a revolution is blind.

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Tony Watts @wattsburger.bsky.social · 1d

Fair enough.

I grew up in Aus and had to sing God Save the Queen at primary school. Every. Single. Day.

I'm suggesting things may have changed over time.

Also worked as an editor for publications for 20 years in British English, Aus English, and US English.

Shudder away

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Tony Watts @wattsburger.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a nice feeling isn’t it? Gotta say the new equipment- particularly batteries, but also panels- are so much cheaper and better than when I started.

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Tony Watts @wattsburger.bsky.social · 1d

Yes. I’d call it creeping Americanization, but someone may correct my spelling 😝

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Tony Watts @wattsburger.bsky.social · 1d

So what does Macquarie say? That'd fix it. Personally I'd use minimize because that's what I was taught was the English spelling and at the time that was what we used in Australia.

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Tony Watts @wattsburger.bsky.social · 1d

If you do it in plain sight, it's not corruption. I don't make the rules.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

'Outrageous conflict of interest': Crypto is making the Trumps hundreds of millions of dollars

Donald Trump's wealth has skyrocketed since his return to the White House nine months ago, leading to accusations that he is profiting from the presidency.

www.abc.net.au

Tony Watts @wattsburger.bsky.social · 1d

which is why they should have corrected it as I suggested 🤷‍♂️

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Mike Johnson is flustered because he saw a woman's ankle

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 1d

Literally nothing coming from the Pentagon, DHS, or DOJ should be considered credible unless backed up by an independent source outside of government. (This, for the record, is a huge problem!)

MFordTheRiver @prynnford.bsky.social · 1d

Of all the things that didn’t happen

Screen shot of ABC article with the headline “cartels issuing bounties up to 50k for hits on ICE and CBP agents, DHS says.”

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Rob Arnol @robertarnol.bsky.social · 2d

Timeline cleanse.

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Tony Watts @wattsburger.bsky.social · 1d

They're going to "charge all of those people who are causing this chaos in Portland and all these other cities across our country"?

They're going to charge themselves? Good idea

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Bailing out Bessent’s billionaire friends on Wall Street from their bad investments is much more important.

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Bernard Zuel @bernardzuel.bsky.social · 1d

Yep

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 2d

Part of the reason many Germans supported the Nazis was that there really was a lot of violence in the streets & they wanted order. But much of that violence was carried out by the Nazi paramilitary SA.

So the Nazis presented themselves as the solution to a problem they intentionally created

NPR @npr.org · 2d

Videos taken by eye witnesses of federal agent encounters with immigrants in Chicago and elsewhere have shown increasingly tense incidents. Immigrant advocates and observers say they're indicative of a larger trend of aggression among federal immigration officers.

Tackles, projectiles and gunfire: Many fear ICE tactics are growing more violent

Videos taken by eye witnesses of federal agent encounters with immigrants in Chicago and elsewhere have shown increasingly tense incidents. Immigrant advocates and observers say they're indicative of a larger trend of aggression among federal immigration officers.

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Tony Watts @wattsburger.bsky.social · 1d

Fun that a bunch of blokes who have never got over failing to get laid at high school are now willing to destroy the planet so other incels like them can have pretend girlfriends.

The simple solution is just to stop being arseholes.

This is clearly something they're not capable of achieving

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Tony Watts @wattsburger.bsky.social · 1d

Also the subediting needs work:

"– including minimising Nazi medical experiments in concentration – "

"concentration camps" perhaps? (Also I'd go with "minimizing" because it's English).