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thefrollickingnerd.bsky.social
Agricultural Climate Scientist of sorts. Your favourite political analyst’s favourite political analyst. My views are my own. On Kaurna Land - Australia | 27 | 🏳️‍⚧️
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Nepotism is when your parents have careers

This week on After America, I spoke to former PM Malcolm Turnbull about the dreaded Aukus review. As he put it - Aukus demanded Australia trade our sovereignty for our security, and now we may well end up with neither. australiainstitute.org.au/post/mugged-...

The right has no reason to restrain this culture given all the political violence is done by their people. They’re not worried about a socialist killing them

I dyed my hair red and I feel my aura has doubled overnight, my friend said I’m 10,000x hotter now so I guess I can never go back

I helped rescue a koala that got hit by a car in front of me today, thankfully the rescue people called me to say she’s in good condition now!

So… does Iran have a right to defend itself?

The Fox News angle is that the people of Iran will be dancing through the streets of Tehran thanking Israel for these strikes on Iran. I'm losing my mind, Americans are so fucking stupid

It's actually crazy the level of lawlessness America and Israel display on the world stage with no consequences

Can someone remind me when civilian scientists and their families became valid military targets

you have to hope the zohran team is prepared for the historically massive ratfuck attempt on the horizon lol

Why would the US cancel getting free money from us when they were never going to deliver anyway

Katherine Stewart with some really interesting insights into the Christian underbelly of the conservative right on Hell to Pay. But her closing sentiment was basically the left needs to suck it up and vote blue no matter who.

Thanks for the shout out @emmashortis.bsky.social in the latest after America 🤩 I’ll always reinforce this point - right wing attacks on trans people are the blue print for how they want to police gender for everyone

A government sending military in to quell protestors is usually something American media would label said government as a regime for. The irony

I'm convinced that the CIA runs toxic leftist debate bots whose sole purpose is to go into TikTok comment sections about Chappel Roan and say how she's a fake leftist

Watching that Charlie Kirk debate and it melts my brain that even British progressives who are ostensibly not anti trans still use ‘adult human female’ and ‘biological reality’. The UK is so cooked

More than ten years worth of Australia’s emissions in a single facility for export. There is nothing that the Labor party could do this term - or ever - that could bring it back from the impact of this decision for climate harms. Absolutely evil.

Even in the wake of a historic victory all that’s left of Labor is a party that’s only platform is to run away from any wedge issue the liberals may attempt - no matter how irrelevant the liberal party is or how gutless a decision is

So @albomp.bsky.social used his thumping majority to deliver Peter Dutton’s gas policy. What a gutless nothing. Proud day I guess for all those who worked in the campaign. Your values being brought to life!

I bought this game Sunday and was like let’s see what it’s all about and straight up, I was fucking sobbing 15 minutes in.

My experience of bsky is it’s infinitely better then twitter and whenever there’s discourse you know people are opting into it voluntarily due to lack of organic algo to push division and to me that just says it’s a holdover from twitter culture and with time it’ll heal

Arsenal beating Barcelona for the champions league is actually incredibly hype

I’m personally revoking your Australian slur pass @ibnkulthum.bsky.social until you learn to pronounce them properly with the same vitriolic mirth of a 55 year old bogan 8 beers deep at the pub

As a senior political advisor i must say i am shocked that starting to wholly disassemble the rights of this minority group has not taken the heat out of this debate

Suggesting the car bombing of the Maltese journalist to cover up the Panama papers being released as an episode for hell to pay @ellehardy.bsky.social Seems like a perfect candidate

So refreshing to just listen to a few comrades chat on @helltopaypod.bsky.social after my usual political diet