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Floyd, of the K floyds
@floydthek.bsky.social
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Communist, philosophy-interested, Anglican, Manx speaker....the usual (if you're me)
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The other Newman's experience
Newman from Seinfeld, a chubby shifty-looking white dude with glasses and frizzy hair
December 11, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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The Age cheerfully running a Deepcut story with no acknowledgement today
Photo of an Age (really Deepcut) story about Bayside council removing an image of a teenager because of 9 complaints about her tiny Palestine necklace
December 10, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Anyone who hasn't read Thurber's 'The thirteen clocks and the magical O' should.

Also: Publishers! Do a nice hardback edition of this book with the Ronald Searle illustrations but without unncecessary Neil Gaiman introduction
Paperback edition of The 13 Clocks, shwoing a villainous-looking guy with an extravagant feathered had, a sword and an eyepatch
December 2, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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What, all of them?
Cover of the first Radio Birdman album, 'Radios Appear', featuring the band against a black background
December 1, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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I for one approve of the Specator's open and honest self-description
The Spectator This is the behaviour of a defeated people. This is what it looks like when you lose.
November 29, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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If you see this, post a monster
Anthony Albanese
November 27, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Some say there's not much happening in Perth, but this monster lamington I'm about to eat says differentl
A gigantic fluffy lemon lamington
November 26, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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Share a 90s movie that you think deserves more love
(Ahnold's last good movie, for mine)
Poster advertising 'Eraser', black and white picture of Arnold looking grim with Vanessa Williams behind him looking hunted
November 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Bevan's legacy also includes 9 pages of unhinged Hartcher war mongering and being fine with threatening journalists who signed an open letter calling for fair reporting on Palestine.
Announcement that Bevan Shields will be replaced by Jordan Baker with caption saying "it's a tough gig and the Herald does a great deal of quality reporting"
November 25, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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Hey yo stop whatcha doin
Cause I'm about to ruin
The image and the style thatcha used to
My name is Humpty
Pronounced with a 'umpty'....
The pope holding a microphone and speaking into it
November 23, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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Capitalism is well on the way to making the planet uninhabitable, so "can and does overshoot on occasion" is quite the understatement
"We believe in the long-term benefits of capitalism, free enterprise and a well-functioning market economy," its website says. "We recognise that capitalism can and does overshoot on occasion, and can lag in its ability to appropriately and fairly manage externalities and systemic risk.
November 23, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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I remember a time when Labor stood for more than Sean Kelly
What does Labor stand for? Sean Kelly
November 20, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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From Uni of NSW just now, impact of AI on court cases
fake and incorrect case citations and summaries · flawed legal reasoning · incorrect documentation, and · prolix documentation and ‘flooding’
November 16, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Ready for no-holds-barred driver installation action, I set it up and...it worked instantly! Ubuntu must have put the driver in an update.
There's some sort of moral in this, probably. Meanwhile, huzzah!
(helps that I'm off to Perth soon and could really use the external monitor)
A laptop with a portable external monitor connected to it, both showing the Ubuntu 24.04 Noble Numbat logo
November 16, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Now watching 'I Bury the Dead' (1958). It's the best noticeboard-pin themed horror movie I've seen this year (also features Brylcreem-driven horniness
Opening shot for a movie. Caption "SCIENCE HAS LEARNED THAT MAN POSSESSES POWERS WHICH GO BEYOND THE BOUNDARIES OF THE NATURAL. THIS IS TH STORY OF ONE CONFRONTED BY SUCH STRANGE FORCES WITHIN HIMSELF. A woman holding a man. Subtitles read 'Bob, it's just that you're too attractive'
November 15, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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Yuck, just stumbled onto Mark Kenny's admiring piece on Albanese, all because Albo said some brave words he's shown no sign whatsoever of backing up. That gets a 'Woah' from credulous Kenny.
Remembering all his wishful thinking stuff about Turnbull

('Appears' works hard here.)
Albany appears to be open to a reworking of Rudd's possibilities, via a recognition that an enlightened "progressive" patriotism can arise through greater self-confidence and moral consistency internationally
November 4, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Morning commo read; Marx looking like he's about to compose a symphony
Cover of paperback book, Marx before Marxism, a drawing of the young Marx
November 2, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Really good piece here, How the marriage of American exceptionalism and liberal Zionism led to genocide

www.equator.org/articles/we-...
And what was it about the Jews? Years later, I felt a thrill of recognition when I read that Philip Roth described his religious education as offering “no body of law, no body of learning and no language, and finally, no Lord… But there were reminders constantly that one was a Jew and that there were goyim out there”. He was being taught “a psychology”, he recalled, one that “can be translated into three words – ‘Jews are better.’” When I read this sentence now, my thrill of recognition turns into a shock. This would never have been said. What would have been said – what often was said – was exactly the opposite: that all people are equal, that black people were as good as white people, that women were as good as men. This was the perfectly standard belief system of modern liberal America. It required no religious imprimatur. But these values, in that world, were also described as Jewish. In olden days, their neglect had led to the Holocaust. Today, their neglect could lead to another.
November 1, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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Is the answer 'because riding in a helicopter is one of the nine zillion things that are more interesting than the Melbourne Cup?'
Promo for a The Age piece: Spring racing carnival 'Hot-loading': why the sky is full of helicopters on Melbourne Cup Day
November 1, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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I’m getting weary of this. This opposition is representative of what some of people of this place want. The argument is with all of us. Turning it into a constant personalised political snipe belittles the nature of the problem.
Jonathan Green posting a Joy Division sing, 'Shes losing control', "Apropos of certain recent comments from the 'leader of the opposition' "
October 29, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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Hey gang, the woman whose response to Labor leaving Jobseeker under the poverty line was "there are lots of jobs in Bendigo" has opinions about what resonates in today's Australia
Promo quote for a Van Badham piece "Westpac's WFH complaint doesn't resonate in today's Australia"
October 28, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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This third coffee had better work
A coffee cup, 'CPA EST 1920' visible Same coffee cup, but with a hammer and sickle motif blending with a 100
October 27, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Ita "I'm tired of getting emails about Lattouf" Buttrose
Quote of the Week “She has never shied away from tackling difficult subjects” Professor Henry Brodaty, celebrating Ita Buttrose at the release of her autobiography Unapologetically Ita. It cost the ABC $1.1 million to defend an unfair dismissal case brought by Antoinette Lattouf, sacked after Ita shied away from the difficult subject of emails from Zionist pressure groups.
October 25, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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It's everyone's fault, let's just sigh at it a bit and hold off being nasty about the guy who approved the North-West Shelf extension, that'll do the trick.
What this climate crisis needs is more tone-policing.
Screenshot: Jonathan Green saying : I’m getting weary of this. This government is representative of what the people of this place want. The argument is with all of us. Turning it into a constant personalised political snipe belittles the nature of the problem. He's quoting a post from Nick Feik "Thanks to Murray and his ALP pals, weather reports like this will become increasingly scary and weird"
October 22, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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Picture is Snidely Whiplash, twirling his thin moustache
October 20, 2025 at 10:30 PM