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Reaching the eliminating civil society organisations phase

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To the office and we sent for Sir Thos. Allen, one of the Aldermen of the City, about the business of one Colonel Appesley, whom we had taken counterfeiting of bills with all our hands and the officers of the yards, so well counterfeited that I should never have mistrusted them.

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Just got an email from the Fulbright Association. As of right now, funding has been cut off to 12,500 US citizens currently abroad and and more than 7,400 foreigner scholars and students in the United States

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Yes, my economic plan will cause short term pain. But after that you won't feel the pain anymore because you'll be dead

submitted 3 days ago • 170 comments

During the last batch of Shoot! magazines I bought, right in the middle, as an extra slice of life, was someones school lines...... You should pay attention to the bandmaster mate, and not read Shoot! Good times #shoot #Shootmagazine

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Quite a famous letters page in the 06/02/1988 Shoot, the Fergie must go letter you've seen a few times Greavsies considered response to racism.......not so much..... #Shoot #shootmagazine

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I am told that the Parliament hath voted 2s. per annum for every chimney in England, as a constant revenue for ever to the Crown.

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"tree equity" is the kind of thing that columnists like to make fun of when why it works is actually instantly apparent to anyone who's ever walked down a street in the summer apnews.com/article/tree...

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I sat through an analysis of a foresight scenario where everyone quits Big Food and goes and becomes smallhold farmers on their own land. Big European project. Half of Europe dies in a year.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

🫣 michaelwest.com.au/israel-activ...

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Scenes related to a charity women's football game between Grimethorpe Black Diamonds & Brierley Bombers in November 1968. The Black Diamonds players were women working for or connected to the local colliery. Women's football was rare in England then & I'm not sure if there were any female refs.

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ABC election guru Antony Green says it’s ‘time to retire’ as he prepares to leave on-air role

submitted 12 days ago • 13 comments

Antony Green transformed the way we think about elections in Australia and has become an icon of Australian democracy.

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Footage shows brutal soccer fan brawl www.news.com.au/national/vic...

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Am not the first to point this out, but they need to start using their real names, Pang y Molloy. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

submitted 15 days ago • 6 comments

I think if you kung fu someone in the head, a red card is a pretty predictable and appropriate outcome. www.youtube.com/live/9PHeKIs...

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

No, you didn’t think that. Maybe you told yourself you thought that that because you didn’t like the real reasons you decided to vote for Trump. But “he will use his business acumen to make targeted cuts to make govt work better” is not something you actually believed.

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

Neighbours cancelled for second time as Amazon backs out

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An Australian judge has quite compassionately given a do-over to a father who had missed a family court hearing because he had gotten involved with a sovereign citizen group, in Einarsson & Joshi (No 2) [2024] FedCFamC1F 820

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The Age has kindly given our comms manager three words in their write up (link below) on the results of last weekend's Werribee by-election: "People aren't stupid". For those interested in a bit more of the context for that (accurate) remark, read the full statement here... 🧵

submitted 22 days ago • 4 comments

an update: melbourne's fake seizure guy has been arrested: www.webworm.co/p/fakeseizur...

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

Daily Telegraph "acknowledges out approach could have been better". Also: "multiple venues" 👀

submitted 23 days ago • 27 comments

As @rhtebooks.bsky.social always observes, the journos and editors who work at the Daily Tele behave in ways that put them beyond the pale of ordinary society and even sometimes of criminal law, but not beyond beers and chuckles with the rest of their colleagues at other outlets

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

Internal News Corp planning docs shows that Daily Telegraph journalists spent a week planning using secretly recording video glasses to show "peopls [sic] reaction to this jewish man" CCTV shows that he went into a cafe, ordered a drink, loitered for a few minutes and just walked out.

submitted 23 days ago • 18 comments

WSJ sub: “Indian Partition went smoothly enough, right? Will try to remember to check this before publishing.”

submitted 24 days ago • 484 comments

This is important and yet all I can see is that Monique Ryan is making it look like Bill Browne has a mullet here

submitted 24 days ago • 13 comments

Jeff Kennett on Melbourne underground rail: 2012 vs 2025

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

Our mudslide into idiocracy is not without its moments.

submitted 25 days ago • 7 comments

At night begun to compose songs, and begin with “Gaze not on Swans.” So to bed.

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Over 20 years ago I borrowed a 3 CD set of the Altona Star newspaper (1960-1977) from my local library, and made copies of the discs. 3 years ago I compiled the image files on the CDs into PDFs, and uploaded them to @archive.org. Today I got this message from the library's new heritage librarian.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

1/ The extremist far-right "Baekgoldan" group has threatened to initiate a "Second Founding War" if President Yoon's impeachment is upheld by the Constitutional Court, calling for US military intervention and establishment of a "temporary national government". v.daum.net/v/2025020921...

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

Jesse Williams erasure. Pretty sure Williams got a ring with the Seahawks for being on their title winning roster.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Skynet is waking up and it's hungry for scrambled eggs

submitted 29 days ago • 13 comments

Hearing that Mr. Turner was much troubled at what I do in the office, and do give ill words to Sir W. Pen and others of me, I am much troubled in my mind, and so went to bed; not that I fear him at all, but the natural aptness I have to be troubled at any thing that crosses me.

submitted 29 days ago • 2 comments

nice to see recognition of the "balanced and journalistically sound" reporting by Antoinette Lattouff and I on the Sydney Opera House protest, per an ABC exec's emails Our reporting was confirmed by police who later said they could find "no evidence" of the specific chant.

submitted 30 days ago • 2 comments

Kansas reckons with large tuberculosis outbreak as health officials hamstrung

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Bail Safe, a private company that that uses GPS tracking to monitor offenders released into the community, has closed down without notifying authorities www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

submitted 31 days ago • 6 comments

If you work for the federal government and are tempted to take Musk’s “buyout” offer please know that you’re never going to see that money.

submitted 32 days ago • 130 comments

Home and supped with Sir W. Pen and played at cards with him, and so home and to bed, putting some cataplasm to my testicle which begins to swell again.

submitted 31 days ago • 3 comments

In terms of how empires fall stories turning the whole thing over to a ketamine addled tech baron and a band of incel teens is probably one of the most pathetic options

submitted 32 days ago • 233 comments

It's not a demolition site it's a mass grave. It's not a demolition site it's a crime scene. It's not a demolition site its a homeland. It's not a demolition site it's Palestine. It's not a demolition site it's a genocide.

submitted 32 days ago • 98 comments