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Former SysProg moved on to being a payments specialist - and now trying to fully retire. — @FunnellMike over with the pachyderms & on what might still be Twitter (sort of). Sydney, Australia.
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Ahead of tomorrow's #SundayShot, here's some Saturday night reading for you. My latest for @theshot.net.au about our Ugly Ally. theshot.net.au/uncategorize...

“The Member for the Pentagon Richard Marles” is all too true 😡

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"Australia's deepest fear isn't Beijing. It's the possibility of thinking for itself." Ooof of an article yet again - William Huo on #AUKUS #Auspol threadreaderapp.com/thread/19331...

Seeing the prompts, I had to do this:

I was supposed to catch a 🚊 to Newcastle this morning, then go for a 🚲 ride with a friend. Except: it rained on and off all day in Newcastle. We went to the pub instead. I love it when a plan comes together. Even if it’s “Plan B”.

Unsung hero of WWII

news.ku.dk/all_news/202...

We need to get out of AUKUS now. #auspol #AUKUSIsADud #GetUsOutOfAUKUSNow

A year ago, I found this 1940s photograph of a London vegetarian restaurant on eBay. The restaurant, known as the Vega, was a popular hang-out run by a German-Jewish couple and their refugee staff. It was also a front for a Europe-wide and today little known anti-Nazi resistance network 1/

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“Australians have always valued fairness, community, and equal opportunity. But neoliberalism has eroded these values, replacing them with privatisation, austerity, and corporate influence.” theaimn.net/what-austral...

Youngster still looking utterly adorable. Happy to be fact-checked on this. #tawnyfrogmouth #ausbirds #birds

David Pope in Canberra Times

Another random photo presented by my iPad:

We have War Plans, War Rooms, War Councils and War Games. Where are our Peace Plans, Peace Rooms, Peace Councils and Peace Games? We are a species conditioned for conflict. We are obsessed with our differences rather than our shared future. We have choices we just keep making poor ones.

(Speculating) Felon Husk’s lawyers tell him: now that Donnie Convict is above the law - with your enthusiastic support - legal advice is worthless. No law can protect you. You asked for it, you got it. The only advice we have is: “grovel!”

Private school fees are currently GST free, and now the Libs want to make them tax-deductible??

"I voted for lawless, anonymous, masked, and unchecked police" is one hell of a jump from "eggs cost too much."