NPR published a story 5 days ago about three high ranking Trump officials with clear ties to Hitler-admiring antisemites and it barely made a ripple. These are the kind of stories that used to end political careers. Now the subjects of the stories just hold up a middle finger and keep plowing ahead.
Every time Bluesky announces a new feature, 1000 people in the comments are like "we just want an edit button". No we fucking don't. I don't want my like/repost on something you changed after the fact to be some headass garbage. Just eat your typos, or delete and reskeet your little brain turd.
Brisbane's answer to Don Dunstan?
(Frank Sleeman, Labor Mayor from 1976 to 1982, having a twirl at Cloudland in a safari suit)
You're a scientific marvel!
No Country for Auspol'd Men.
Mummy and daddy are getting a divorce but will still love you?
I have a bit of time for the Borg. A decent person.
My god this is like the Libs splitting from the Nats in QLD in 1982 or 3 or whatever and that worked out well for them.
Somewhere Lawrence Springborg is mad.
Like Brian
Get on it, kids. Where else will you find the Boss, Glenn Campbell and Five and the Spice Girls
In today’s Kafkaesque censorship news-Zionists have targeted a Jewish teacher in Chicago for *displaying art by Jewish artist made for Jewish Currents, with a quote by a renowned rabbi about dissent*
If you have a moment, send a letter in support of the teacher actionnetwork.org/letters/supp...
I wish we could just openly describe this as exactly what it is: a copy-paste of Trump's cruel, authoritarian crackdown on anyone too openly opposing the weaponised mass murder of families in Gaza.
You don't need to dance around the doublespeak of these murderous scumbags. Just say it out loud.
today a NSW cop killed someone while a sacked NSW cop was given a non-custodial penalty after he deliberately tasered a great grandmother, causing her death, on the basis that he “poses no future threat”.
They all pose a current threat. Cut police forces by 41,000 cops, we would all be safer.
The Venn diagram of men who say “but 1 man a day commits suicide” in response to women dying from FDV and these guys is a circle
And as Wellington has discovered, sacking lots of public servants is a disaster for capital city economies because well obviously
I just keep thinking of the heartlessness of going to an election promising to sack 41,000 people just because they’ve chosen public service. The LNP talks of small business owners going out of business as a tragedy. How is sending thousands of people into unemployment not?
Campaign mood day 1
And then on the podcast this afternoon; Mel consolidated her position in my mind as the most wholesome contestant ever. “Rate your podcast experience out of 5”. “7” which she then talks up to 9
Somehow watching repeats of #taskmaster never gets old.
Case in point: prize task to being in the most cash and Lolly pulls out £2000 and little Alex Horne’s face when he realises it’s real cash is perfection. He’s both horrified and amazed
sell peanut butter in wide tubs, not deep jars. tired of gettin pb on my knucks
I mean butter butter isn’t sold in jars. Peanut butter shouldn’t be either.
Don’t look a day over 3
54/365
24th Feb
Los lobos - a bit more than “just another band from east LA)
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Late last week, I got news that an old colleague had died. She was 43. With two tween/teen daughters but I still call her a girl because she was the team baby (and I wasn’t far behind her)
I suddenly had this memory of this song coming up once and a convo about it.
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Was this 2015 or 2018? Unsurprisingly I can’t remember and there are numerous booze selfies on my phone and in my feeds
On the upside: you were absolutely correct in your original take
Plus ca change
#fingernailsthatshinelikejustice
