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Nick, Molly, Dipper and 🌈 Brutus@knockaboutwok.bsky.social |
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Small house, big dogs, bigger garden, tiny livestock. RNing 30+ years. Paeds/adults/aged care/pal care/rural/med/surg/HDU/OR/union rep/thug since '88. Humanist Living in subtropical Australia
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Really scary part is listening to the speech in the movie of the event. They're using the same language "We want our country back" etc.
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@paultobin.bsky.social www.npr.org/sections/cod...
Gee, I'm glad history doesn't loop....
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That's suboptimal. Here in Aus, I roll in whenever I'm due. No wait, cos people think "it's over" and aren't lining up, also no charge - cos we're a bunch of commie socialists* *I'm ok with that.
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My builder assumed I'd be ordering a charcoal grey roof on an extension. Why? Well that's what everyone's doing now ... Nah mate. Give us the closest thing to white. And it works very well in summer heat (sub tropics). But yeah, seems dark roofs are "fashionable". Quite a few round here. Crazy.
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Gotta wonder how much of the JRM thing was a performative response to knowing his grandfather was a truck driver. An essential and skilled occupation, for sure, but probably not one known for their employment of nannies and such.
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Sun dresses are bad news for Biden. Here's why.....
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Yes, absolutely performative.
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Saw this earlier and assumed it was Photoshop. Now learning all candidates over there get to share a platform..... This needs to become universal 😁
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He's gornnnnn. Apparently.
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My theory is that politics is just a measure of empathy. About 30% of every population is low empathy. Eg from the 1932 Reichstag elections to the Australian plebiscite on marriage equality, there's a consistent 30% vote just hating on people. Anyway, that's just like, my opinion man.
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I've taken the measure of living in Australia just so I see this through for everyone who can't stay up. Remember, even if he stays, he'll be an ongoing reminder of what they stood for...
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Australian version is the One Nation party and its various iterations. And yes, it splits the RW vote but unfortunately it has also pushed the major parties here further right.
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This is gonna cost more than it saves. Genius conservative policy.
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Reminds me of the rise and fall (hopefully) of one nation in the Qld parliament. In 1998 they picked up almost a quarter of the vote and held more seats than the liberal party. Queensland 🤦♂️
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I see Rees Mogg has moved from likely to be flushed, to 50/50 floater.
I'm not going to bed til I see a result (not a hard ask, it's 0935 here 😉)
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Yeah, I keep saying that to myself. He's back in Aus next month, might see if his position has um.... remained.
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"What would Jeebus do?"
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Often think about my Eurasian-Australian acquaintance who emigrated to the UK, obtained citizenship, got a job, family, settled right in. Then voted for brexit to "stop all those foreigners coming here", while living in one of the least diverse towns there. My dude.....
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That Burnicle was easily removed...
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UK polls closing in a couple of minutes. 0700 in Australia, going to be an interesting day (they count overnight?)
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Monsters.
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Oh. No. Gosh.
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Pasty tax?! I've just googled this and geez, too far Tories. Too far. (Yeah everything else is also terrible)
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I don't even live there and I'm with you on that one in particular. Slithery git indeed.
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Saw Star Wars at the drive in that year (with the whole family). Same year Elvis died. Remember both well.
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Rees Mogg, please punt him 😁
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*She was also pretty adept at Australiana. I can still recall the lyrics to "The Thargomindah Track". Dear old Mrs Bellis.
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As a school kid in the 70s, we had singing accompanied on the piano by an elderly lady who could belt out hot hits of the1920s. To this day, despite my Aus upbringing, I still know the lyrics to "California Here I Come" and "Yankee Doodle Dandee" Anyhoo, happy July 4 to those who celebrate it.
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"get immunity from catching the disease to get immunity from the disease" wot If only there was another way...
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Happy birthday to this little hound, Molly. 7 years old. Lucky to get past 2 😊
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Yeah we might have been a bit reckless with the whole emu thing, but we know our limits. Sort of.
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They were quite untroubled by that fellow, right up until they suddenly weren't. Around they go again.
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Look at the NYT, thinking they'll be able to just get on with business as usual under a dictatorship. You're actively enabling the end of your own democracy, you clowns.
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Always think back to that time she wanted the US to invade Australia. Y'know, we got these things.....
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Just thinking bout that big account guy back in my bird site days who chastised then blocked me for raising this business as a possibility. So Julius, how goes it?
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Just wondering what a fascist regime in the US will be like. Power centralised, cronyism, corruption, loss of environment/workplace protections. Persecution of minorities. Religious zeal. International power vacuum, boost to Putin, rise of China, withdrawal from treaties. Crikey. Good luck.
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Yeah, soz my bad. *Sections* of our system are.
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Yep. Not just Europe tho. Australia has a PR system, compulsory voting, an independent Electoral Commission and we vote on weekends. Plus, we get a sausage sizzle. Good for keeping the 1/3rd in check (they still sneak into our senate but)
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Part two is the obligatory and also quasi-comedic non sequitur.
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Starting to think I've unwittingly joined a furry/anime site.....
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Reckon anyone at the NYT has heard of Alfred Hugenberg?
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It's been noted before, but it seems consistent that a 3rd of any population would happily subjugate/oppress/murder another 3rd but are normally kept in check by the other 3rd. Tip the scales a little and boom, full fash in a heartbeat.
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Dear US friends, y'know Australia has a skilled immigration program? Just saying.
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Hey, y'know who *does* have a king as head of state?
Mind you, we don't see a lot of him.
*Disclosure, I voted for a republic in 1999.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarch...
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Hey remember that time they had a revolution cos they didn't want to live under a king?....
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Look who's back..... everywhere, it seems.
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Good news. It's a little overcast but everything's in order. Monday is safe to proceed to 👍
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Ok, a beer but not a vape.
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Bedtime in eastern Australia. We'll go on ahead and make sure Monday's ok for everyone else, so ditch the blues. We got this 👍
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Was at a pub chatting to a pharmacist on Friday. She says "I can't believe they're going to put it onto us to sell vapes!" Other fellow there said "Well, have you just considered not selling them?" Get that man a beer....
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