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simonpayne.bsky.social
Wholesome curmudgeon. Not the target market for anything. What I lack in enthusiasm, I make up for in complacency.
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That ruled. Well, the second half sportress.org/2025/04/27/r...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

We have now arrived at the "arresting judges" level of fascism.

submitted 3 days ago • 1729 comments

Your regular reminder that voting at Old Parliament House is an option (and is delightful!) www.moadoph.gov.au/visit/whats-...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Happy Easter to the radical left lunatics 💙💙💙👏👏👏

submitted 8 days ago • 9 comments

“Days later it emerged that the troubled sister plant at Callide C had suffered another serious “explosion” that will take one of its units offline for at least two months. This is the same facility that suffered a catastrophic explosion in May, 2021 that took the C4 units offline for three years.”

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

Good morning. Raven with wave breaking below, a few days ago.

submitted 11 days ago • 5 comments

PR campaign may have fuelled food study backlash, leaked document shows www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Start the clock on Waltz. "He was an intern. A coffee boy. I think he came to one meeting. I don't know him."

submitted 32 days ago • 416 comments

www.cnn.com/2025/03/24/p... I'll simplify it for you, CNN. Trump is a fascist, pure and simple. There is no other explanation. He is a criminal, and illegitimate stooge. He and anyone in government at any level who is loyal to him are in gross, blatant violation of their Oaths of Office.

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

You can't debunk someone out of something they didn't bunk themselves into in the first place.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

It’s probably not a good sign when your closest ally issues, a travel warning against you.

submitted 38 days ago • 19 comments

Not really the selling point he thinks it is. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... #auspol #aukus

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

When I wrote my camps book, people sometimes had difficulty understanding how concentration-camp regimes were proud of what they were doing and wanted attention for it, even as they also hoped to keep many aspects secret and terrorize vulnerable classes. Anyway, this is what that looks like.

submitted 42 days ago • 724 comments

If you let the executive deport people to a foreign gulag just by pronouncing the word “terrorism,” then expect to be called a “terrorist” soon yourself.

submitted 42 days ago • 562 comments

Oh. My. Wow. This image here, THIS STUNNING PHOTO, was taken by Blue Ghost on the Moon. Because while we saw a lunar eclipse on Earth, the Moon saw a solar eclipse at the same time. That's us, Earth, eclipsing the Sun. And it just gives me goosebumps to see like this!!

submitted 44 days ago • 10 comments

Battery swapping trucks! Made in Australia. And can make ANY truck a battery swap Ev truck! Seen at @everythingelectric.bsky.social Sydney. See it again in Melb in nov.

submitted 47 days ago • 4 comments

Anthropogenic Global Warming & Storms🧵 theconversation.com/even-weak-tr...

submitted 59 days ago • 7 comments

A reminder, at $368bn we have just made a payment of $800m, So just 459 easy payments of $800m each to go before we get the subs... assuming the US military builds them (which they probably won't have) and they don't want them (which they definitely will). Telemarketing scams are less subtle

submitted 53 days ago • 28 comments