Ötzi (=>÷)
@abhoth.bsky.social
Banner: The unexamined life is not worth living. Socrates
Phaemon's dog was right.
Old fart suffering from various chronic, incurable illnesses including a predilection for satire.
Australian world citizen.
Phaemon's dog was right.
Old fart suffering from various chronic, incurable illnesses including a predilection for satire.
Australian world citizen.
Pinned
Ötzi (=>÷)
@abhoth.bsky.social
· Mar 8
Luxurious living and base cruelty are not mutually exclusive.
Quintus Curtius Rufus.
Quintus Curtius Rufus.
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Sarah Abbott (Australian, b.1983)
"Basking in Sunshine,"
Acrylic on canvas
82 x 82 cm
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt
"Basking in Sunshine,"
Acrylic on canvas
82 x 82 cm
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt
November 10, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Annabelle Crabb has the rare ability to trivialise the already trivial, to make light of the insubstantial and to smear humour around creating awkward frivolity.
In the past the ABC was intelligent, original and creative but now we have Annabelle who is bland, anodyne and up herself.
#NotMyABC
In the past the ABC was intelligent, original and creative but now we have Annabelle who is bland, anodyne and up herself.
#NotMyABC
November 10, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Annabelle Crabb has the rare ability to trivialise the already trivial, to make light of the insubstantial and to smear humour around creating awkward frivolity.
In the past the ABC was intelligent, original and creative but now we have Annabelle who is bland, anodyne and up herself.
#NotMyABC
In the past the ABC was intelligent, original and creative but now we have Annabelle who is bland, anodyne and up herself.
#NotMyABC
You're setting the bar pretty low here Mr Littletobeproudof.
From what I've seen something would have to be miniscule to be smaller than any of your colleagues all of whom are insignificant by any measure.
Furthermore please avoid the tautology it is unnecessarily repetitive.
From what I've seen something would have to be miniscule to be smaller than any of your colleagues all of whom are insignificant by any measure.
Furthermore please avoid the tautology it is unnecessarily repetitive.
November 10, 2025 at 5:35 AM
You're setting the bar pretty low here Mr Littletobeproudof.
From what I've seen something would have to be miniscule to be smaller than any of your colleagues all of whom are insignificant by any measure.
Furthermore please avoid the tautology it is unnecessarily repetitive.
From what I've seen something would have to be miniscule to be smaller than any of your colleagues all of whom are insignificant by any measure.
Furthermore please avoid the tautology it is unnecessarily repetitive.
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There are countries which have freely available universal healthcare
countries that don't need food stamps & foodbanks to feed the people
countries where a job provides sufficient remuneration to live
What are those countries doing wrong?
countries that don't need food stamps & foodbanks to feed the people
countries where a job provides sufficient remuneration to live
What are those countries doing wrong?
November 9, 2025 at 11:24 PM
There are countries which have freely available universal healthcare
countries that don't need food stamps & foodbanks to feed the people
countries where a job provides sufficient remuneration to live
What are those countries doing wrong?
countries that don't need food stamps & foodbanks to feed the people
countries where a job provides sufficient remuneration to live
What are those countries doing wrong?
No wonder Anthony is so keen to host the next COP meeting.
All his besties and his most 'ardent' supporters will be there.
#AusPol
#Environment
All his besties and his most 'ardent' supporters will be there.
#AusPol
#Environment
November 8, 2025 at 12:17 AM
No wonder Anthony is so keen to host the next COP meeting.
All his besties and his most 'ardent' supporters will be there.
#AusPol
#Environment
All his besties and his most 'ardent' supporters will be there.
#AusPol
#Environment
You're part of the problem, Bill.
Not the solution.
*Not* a philanthropist, a proof of the failure of taxation.
#EatTheRich
#IHateMicrosoft
Not the solution.
*Not* a philanthropist, a proof of the failure of taxation.
#EatTheRich
#IHateMicrosoft
November 7, 2025 at 2:49 AM
You're part of the problem, Bill.
Not the solution.
*Not* a philanthropist, a proof of the failure of taxation.
#EatTheRich
#IHateMicrosoft
Not the solution.
*Not* a philanthropist, a proof of the failure of taxation.
#EatTheRich
#IHateMicrosoft
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Some morons in America have paid $25,000 to hear Poorlean when we can listen to her vindictive, ignorant racist shit for free any day.
#Racists
#Auspol
#OneNotion
Some morons in America have paid $25,000 to hear Poorlean when we can listen to her vindictive, ignorant racist shit for free any day.
#Racists
#Auspol
#OneNotion
Pauline Hanson skips parliament to speak at conservative conference at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago
One Nation leader also seen with Gina Rinehart – and many of her talking points align with mining magnate
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:38 AM
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Some morons in America have paid $25,000 to hear Poorlean when we can listen to her vindictive, ignorant racist shit for free any day.
#Racists
#Auspol
#OneNotion
Some morons in America have paid $25,000 to hear Poorlean when we can listen to her vindictive, ignorant racist shit for free any day.
#Racists
#Auspol
#OneNotion
A special note for the Medgjia.
It's not compulsory, nor even particularly helpful, to include the term 'socialist' every time you mention Zorhan Mamdani.
Just as you don't include the terms 'capitalist, oligarch, convicted sex offender' every time you mention DonOld.
It's not compulsory, nor even particularly helpful, to include the term 'socialist' every time you mention Zorhan Mamdani.
Just as you don't include the terms 'capitalist, oligarch, convicted sex offender' every time you mention DonOld.
November 6, 2025 at 4:11 AM
A special note for the Medgjia.
It's not compulsory, nor even particularly helpful, to include the term 'socialist' every time you mention Zorhan Mamdani.
Just as you don't include the terms 'capitalist, oligarch, convicted sex offender' every time you mention DonOld.
It's not compulsory, nor even particularly helpful, to include the term 'socialist' every time you mention Zorhan Mamdani.
Just as you don't include the terms 'capitalist, oligarch, convicted sex offender' every time you mention DonOld.
Free buses a rent freeze and free child care part of Zohran Mamdani's plans for New York City.
Price control is just like wage control.
It's just that it's not designed to benefit the $Millionairs.
#EatTheRich
Price control is just like wage control.
It's just that it's not designed to benefit the $Millionairs.
#EatTheRich
November 6, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Free buses a rent freeze and free child care part of Zohran Mamdani's plans for New York City.
Price control is just like wage control.
It's just that it's not designed to benefit the $Millionairs.
#EatTheRich
Price control is just like wage control.
It's just that it's not designed to benefit the $Millionairs.
#EatTheRich
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Expecting Labor to do good things makes as much sense as expecting Christians to do something good just because they're Christian
#auspol
#auspol
November 5, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Expecting Labor to do good things makes as much sense as expecting Christians to do something good just because they're Christian
#auspol
#auspol
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A two-speed economy serving the rich and excluding the rest
Not just in Australia
Not just in Australia
November 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
A two-speed economy serving the rich and excluding the rest
Not just in Australia
Not just in Australia
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Poverty exists because public resources have been stolen and given away.
Our economy should be measured by how the bottom 30% are doing in the supermarket not how the top 1% are doing in the stock market.
Charity is an admission of government failure.
#AusPol
Poverty exists because public resources have been stolen and given away.
Our economy should be measured by how the bottom 30% are doing in the supermarket not how the top 1% are doing in the stock market.
Charity is an admission of government failure.
#AusPol
One in five Australian households 'severely food insecure', report finds
A new report from Foodbank finds 20 per cent of Australian households have skipped meals or days of eating in the year to July.
www.abc.net.au
November 5, 2025 at 12:15 AM
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Poverty exists because public resources have been stolen and given away.
Our economy should be measured by how the bottom 30% are doing in the supermarket not how the top 1% are doing in the stock market.
Charity is an admission of government failure.
#AusPol
Poverty exists because public resources have been stolen and given away.
Our economy should be measured by how the bottom 30% are doing in the supermarket not how the top 1% are doing in the stock market.
Charity is an admission of government failure.
#AusPol
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
This is people smuggling.
This is human trafficking.
If there were no human rights violations here there would be no need for secrecy.
#AusPol
#humanrights
This is people smuggling.
This is human trafficking.
If there were no human rights violations here there would be no need for secrecy.
#AusPol
#humanrights
Albanese government deports two more men to Nauru in secret, infuriating human rights advocates
Exclusive: Sources say a Sudanese national and another man were chartered to the former regional processing centre last week, joining one other person
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:21 AM
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
This is people smuggling.
This is human trafficking.
If there were no human rights violations here there would be no need for secrecy.
#AusPol
#humanrights
This is people smuggling.
This is human trafficking.
If there were no human rights violations here there would be no need for secrecy.
#AusPol
#humanrights
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
This hateful, thin skinned, vindictive, vengeful, sadistic, megalomaniac.
This narcissistic, misogynistic, racist, lying, greedy, power hungry, pedophile has finally gone too far.
Bad taste can never, ever be tolerated and he should be terminated immediately.
#ugh
This hateful, thin skinned, vindictive, vengeful, sadistic, megalomaniac.
This narcissistic, misogynistic, racist, lying, greedy, power hungry, pedophile has finally gone too far.
Bad taste can never, ever be tolerated and he should be terminated immediately.
#ugh
Trump renovates White House bathroom with marble and chandelier over toilet
The US president says the new look is more appropriate than the "Art Deco green tile style" from the last renovation in the 1940s.
www.abc.net.au
November 4, 2025 at 2:03 AM
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
This hateful, thin skinned, vindictive, vengeful, sadistic, megalomaniac.
This narcissistic, misogynistic, racist, lying, greedy, power hungry, pedophile has finally gone too far.
Bad taste can never, ever be tolerated and he should be terminated immediately.
#ugh
This hateful, thin skinned, vindictive, vengeful, sadistic, megalomaniac.
This narcissistic, misogynistic, racist, lying, greedy, power hungry, pedophile has finally gone too far.
Bad taste can never, ever be tolerated and he should be terminated immediately.
#ugh
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Why would Anthony not go to Brazil but wish to host the next COP?
Well, you get a better class of photo op when you're at home.
Why would Anthony not go to Brazil but wish to host the next COP?
Well, you get a better class of photo op when you're at home.
November 3, 2025 at 4:38 AM
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Why would Anthony not go to Brazil but wish to host the next COP?
Well, you get a better class of photo op when you're at home.
Why would Anthony not go to Brazil but wish to host the next COP?
Well, you get a better class of photo op when you're at home.
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'“There was a young man I studied with, in the university in Khartoum, he told them, ‘Don’t kill him’. After that, they killed the rest of the people, the youths with me and my friends.”'
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...
Thousands missing, new horrors emerge after RSF taking of Sudan’s el-Fasher
Sudanese people are being hunted down, humiliated and killed by RSF fighters, according to survivors and aid agencies.
www.aljazeera.com
November 2, 2025 at 8:28 PM
'“There was a young man I studied with, in the university in Khartoum, he told them, ‘Don’t kill him’. After that, they killed the rest of the people, the youths with me and my friends.”'
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...
The dumbing down of Australia.
Teacher enthusiasm is systematically and deliberately drained by appalling working conditions, poor pay and inadequate resourcing.
Parental support is impossible when you need to work two jobs to afford food and pay a mortgage.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Teacher enthusiasm is systematically and deliberately drained by appalling working conditions, poor pay and inadequate resourcing.
Parental support is impossible when you need to work two jobs to afford food and pay a mortgage.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
‘Diabolical’: why Australia’s teacher shortages are among the worst in the world – and who is suffering most
Regional and disadvantaged schools are bearing the brunt of the crisis, with almost two-thirds of teachers reporting high levels of stress
www.theguardian.com
November 2, 2025 at 11:27 PM
The dumbing down of Australia.
Teacher enthusiasm is systematically and deliberately drained by appalling working conditions, poor pay and inadequate resourcing.
Parental support is impossible when you need to work two jobs to afford food and pay a mortgage.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Teacher enthusiasm is systematically and deliberately drained by appalling working conditions, poor pay and inadequate resourcing.
Parental support is impossible when you need to work two jobs to afford food and pay a mortgage.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
From the Nazis to Nixon, to Trump they attack higher education because they are always led by ignorance. People who feel threatened by intelligence, kindness, mercy, decency, and respect.
This is a tactical understanding that an intelligent population will defend its most vulnerable.
#EatTheRich
This is a tactical understanding that an intelligent population will defend its most vulnerable.
#EatTheRich
November 2, 2025 at 4:39 AM
From the Nazis to Nixon, to Trump they attack higher education because they are always led by ignorance. People who feel threatened by intelligence, kindness, mercy, decency, and respect.
This is a tactical understanding that an intelligent population will defend its most vulnerable.
#EatTheRich
This is a tactical understanding that an intelligent population will defend its most vulnerable.
#EatTheRich
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Love that you can get a photo op with a GP, because the rest of us can’t get a fucking appointment!!
#auspol
#auspol
Because when you’re sick, you should be able to get the care you need without worrying about the cost.
November 2, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Love that you can get a photo op with a GP, because the rest of us can’t get a fucking appointment!!
#auspol
#auspol
'There's no such thing as a free lunch' and if you want to know the cost of this lunch just ask any of the 10,000 people becoming homeless this month in Australia or the 42 million Americans who have just lost their SNAP benefits.
They're toasting their $Billionaire investors.
#EatTheRich
They're toasting their $Billionaire investors.
#EatTheRich
November 1, 2025 at 5:55 AM
'There's no such thing as a free lunch' and if you want to know the cost of this lunch just ask any of the 10,000 people becoming homeless this month in Australia or the 42 million Americans who have just lost their SNAP benefits.
They're toasting their $Billionaire investors.
#EatTheRich
They're toasting their $Billionaire investors.
#EatTheRich
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www.alternet.org/trump-gambli...
Is it possible to turn an entire government into a Ponzi scheme?
The tRump family are giving it their best shot.
#TruckFump
Is it possible to turn an entire government into a Ponzi scheme?
The tRump family are giving it their best shot.
#TruckFump
A '24/7 corruption machine': Anger as Trump family acquires a new racket
President Donald Trump’s family has long generated controversy and criticism for running a cryptocurrency business during his second term in office, and now they’re adding an online betting business t...
www.alternet.org
October 31, 2025 at 10:01 AM
www.alternet.org/trump-gambli...
Is it possible to turn an entire government into a Ponzi scheme?
The tRump family are giving it their best shot.
#TruckFump
Is it possible to turn an entire government into a Ponzi scheme?
The tRump family are giving it their best shot.
#TruckFump
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
This is what we get with hereditary rulers.
Dumb, chinless, entitled greasers who think they can do whatever they like.
Come to think of it, we get that with elected leaders too.
#notmyking
This is what we get with hereditary rulers.
Dumb, chinless, entitled greasers who think they can do whatever they like.
Come to think of it, we get that with elected leaders too.
#notmyking
Not in this together: King Charles cuts Andrew loose to save royal family’s repute
Jettisoning of ex-prince became unavoidable when king’s loyalty to his brother collided with task of keeping public on side
www.theguardian.com
October 31, 2025 at 4:19 AM
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
This is what we get with hereditary rulers.
Dumb, chinless, entitled greasers who think they can do whatever they like.
Come to think of it, we get that with elected leaders too.
#notmyking
This is what we get with hereditary rulers.
Dumb, chinless, entitled greasers who think they can do whatever they like.
Come to think of it, we get that with elected leaders too.
#notmyking
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Of course!
This meme applies to Australia as well
This meme applies to Australia as well
October 31, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Of course!
This meme applies to Australia as well
This meme applies to Australia as well