Noel Kelly

Just found this @npub1fdr…lvhs gem.
https://youtube.com/shorts/lzdpS4s4xuI
Back in the 80s, the old people who where there in the 1920 and 1930s warn about exactly where this would lead. It's called Neoliberal economics because it's a Friedmanesque propaganda rebranding of the discredited Liberal economics that produced the Great Depression.

2026-01-06 01:02:09 GMT

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That leaves air-conditioned Woden Plaza?

2026-01-06 00:41:15 GMT

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Not next door, on ice?

2025-12-13 16:42:25 GMT

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AI? Autonomy?
I'm not willing to drive a car with a SIM in it!

2025-12-09 23:22:50 GMT

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And they wonder why the US has/is fallen behind China?

2025-12-01 06:40:04 GMT

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Just looking at the middle ground in the photo on the left. Noticed half a building pair gone.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/specials/curious-canberra/2017-02-20/anzac-park-east-and-west-buildings-are-they-really-abandoned/8226866
https://cdn.masto.host/rubysocial/media_attachments/files/115/642/893/748/372/013/original/908a9c5a6f6ebec4.png

2025-12-01 06:19:13 GMT

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When you GoogleMaps "Canberra", this is the photo you get.
https://cdn.masto.host/rubysocial/media_attachments/files/115/642/841/408/253/624/original/b8f5cc0624313009.png

2025-11-05 11:51:34 GMT

What I love is how Zohran Mamdani's father Mahmood found out about Marx.
"Soon after, he learned about Karl Marx's work from an FBI visit." -wikipedia
FBI guy said, “Do you like Marx?”
I said, “I haven’t met him.”
Guy said, “No, no, he’s dead.”
“Wow, what happened?”
“No, no, he died long ago.”
I thought the guy Marx had just died. So then, “Why are you asking me if he died long ago?”
“No, he wrote a lot. He wrote that poor people should not be poor.”
I said, “Sounds amazing.”

2025-10-29 06:42:25 GMT

FYI the poverty line is $584 a week for a single adult and $1226 a week for a couple with two children.
Albo Labor is hopeless.
#RaiseTheRate

2025-10-10 15:13:28 GMT

Just reading reports out of Portland [OR].
Suspect it's only a matter of time before some ex-cop ICEer with Israeli trainers* snipes someone on the streets.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDsdXo9JnAs
* this has been happening since before Trump 45.

2025-09-23 22:11:10 GMT

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*wonders if backup and outage overlapped*

2025-08-11 16:22:19 GMT

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Metrication started in 1971.
Metric day was 1 July 74.
By the time Carter reversed the decision, we were already past the point of no return [less effort to go forward].
Process largely completed by 1981.

2025-08-11 16:15:16 GMT

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Part of the justification for Australia going metric was, not getting left behind because the US and UK were going metric.

2025-08-10 05:37:49 GMT

https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/09/elite-disunity/#awoken-giants
"Millionaire on billionaire violence" by @npub1fdr…lvhs
Your enemy's enemy, friend or foe?

2025-08-04 04:29:23 GMT

Looking from comments from my Sydney friends.
Is it normal to run a parade across the Harbour Bridge from south to north?
The few I remember have been north to south.

2025-07-30 14:57:55 GMT

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Have you tried melamine milk? It's cheaper.

2025-04-15 15:23:31 GMT

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Will be dead in a few months. Like journos, medical and para-medicals, and aid workers, he'll be targeted.

2025-03-21 09:51:45 GMT

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Cores?

2025-03-21 01:05:04 GMT

This is the first Tesla protest in Australia.
It's appeared since I checked, last night.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:3pfdqix25czqi33a6lrubjzv/post/3lktwmyxumk26

2025-03-05 07:38:12 GMT

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When Keynes wrote that in 1940, he was more concerned about resources. Limiting private consumption with high taxes on the rich, rationing to ensure the poor got a fair share of resources.
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.499597

2025-03-05 07:27:01 GMT

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Buy How to Pay for the War?

2025-02-03 04:11:48 GMT

A lot of what Trump is doing, makes sense, if he's a Russian asset.

2025-01-18 05:31:09 GMT

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We're like three judgements away for the 1st Amendment only applies to Billionaire and GOP members.

2025-01-11 02:10:06 GMT

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So is he also demanding the 'historically Bulgarian' regions on Romania, that connect Southern Bessarabia to modern Bulgaria?

2025-01-09 21:00:35 GMT

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The one that scares the fuck out of me, is the one few have ever experienced. Wetbulb.

2024-12-23 19:18:45 GMT

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And total donations per candidate to £50k?

2024-12-23 00:59:01 GMT

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And thus we end up back at the root of the problem.
Reaganomics, including the abandonment of enforcing Antitrust laws.

2024-12-22 07:04:18 GMT

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@npub1vxd…u29d
I rather like this AI image.
President Luigi delivering the State of the Union Address.
https://cdn.masto.host/rubysocial/media_attachments/files/113/695/187/889/236/642/original/da8fc68a00d2df03.png

2024-12-19 01:05:30 GMT

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hehe 'Kate Carruthery'

2024-12-15 05:38:32 GMT

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Google? Kate will be thrilled...
"Thirteen and 17-year cicadas don't often emerge in unison, and the two specific broods that came out in 2024 haven't coincided since 1803."

2024-12-13 03:29:01 GMT

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So YouTube's anti-AI measures need more work.
Would be interesting to know how much of these generated voice vids are already shadow banned. Ie, they're still there, but not being shown to anyone.

2024-12-08 08:22:10 GMT

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@npub186r…aanq
Was just thinking about the difference between this event and last week's NYC shooting.

2024-12-07 18:36:10 GMT

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Let's not forget the $44B Musk spent, and he and others financed, to buy and turn Twitter from a 'public square' in 2020, to a far right echo chamber in 2024.

2024-12-01 13:04:18 GMT

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It's often forgotten, but Reagan had a "Project 1981" from the Heritage Foundation too. It was called the "Mandate for Leadership", and was 1,100 pages.
Thus began the assault of workers right, that is at the root of the housing affordability crisis, among other things.

2024-11-23 10:22:14 GMT

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Sorry, I didn't make myself clearer. My comment wasn't about the degrees of threat to the US democratic system. You're right, this is more serious the either '16 or '20.
My comment pertained to the US's ability to engage w/ reality. The GOP simply have less situational awareness an the Dems [theirs is better, but isn't good]. The GOP are still in Karl Rove's "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality".
For Russia, China and Iran, Trump is preferred.

2024-11-23 06:41:46 GMT

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Why I've said, in ever election since 2016, that Russia, China and Iran have spread dis/misinformation in Trumps favour. Each Trump term is another 4 years of continued inertia (decline). Of not maintaining the commons, let alone making tactical investment/spending to bring about long-term strategic policy goals.

2024-11-10 08:17:41 GMT

Musk and Ramaswamy are disingenuous arseholes.
No, the Public Service isn't the forth branch of government.
It's the apparatus and corporate memory of each of three branches.
One reason Musk and Ramaswamy are going after it, is to destroy the corporate memory.
Once destroyed, the system lose the ability to tell where points of failure will be and when appointees and outsourcers are being self serving.
The second is to get rid of decision makers acting in the public interest.

2024-10-23 21:40:19 GMT

Just struck me about what's familiar about the federal Liberal's housing policy announcement.
Basically, targeted HomeBuilder, again. Giving the building industry a bucket of money, as per lobbyists request. And just like the last time, I think the money will go directly in land developer's profits, not to builders.
Effect on affordability: Nil.

2024-10-18 06:23:09 GMT

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If only under 18 indigenous youth got such punishments.

2024-10-15 02:26:39 GMT

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Not, sue. Nationalise and systematically shut down.

2024-10-14 10:39:33 GMT

I doubt even @npub1sg0…5wjp had 'third assassin' on her 2024 bingo card.

2024-10-06 21:52:36 GMT

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Didn't realise it, Dutton's great great great and great great grandfathers where squatters.

2024-09-16 00:22:58 GMT

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Thank you Kate, bought.

2024-09-02 12:32:40 GMT

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So many new radicalisation channels.
Just two example for today...
...echos from 2020
https://ruby.social/@npub1pr2…j95v/113066422437025024
and
https://ruby.social/@gnoll110/113067607178579266
I go a YouTube recommendation for an interview where the interviewee's shtick was 'Diversity is a Catastrophe'. The channel is question bills itself as an 'Executive Search and Board Advisory' firm.

2024-09-01 03:49:51 GMT

Saw my first snake of the spring this morning, 9:25 am. Eastern Brown snake, Pseudonaja textilis.
https://cdn.masto.host/rubysocial/media_attachments/files/113/060/252/722/490/660/original/d5c1e2c063ef094d.png

2024-08-30 06:44:08 GMT

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@npub1sg0…5wjp
Those Greens, always asking annoying questions.
#AusPol #Banks #Supermarkets #TaxTheRich
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/apr/16/supermarket-inquiry-woolworths-contempt-threats-ceo-brad-banducci-return-on-equity
https://cdn.masto.host/rubysocial/media_attachments/files/113/049/610/825/206/341/original/f271894067783f15.png

2024-08-19 14:01:29 GMT

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@npub1sg0…5wjp
Things I learnt this week.
The floor of the Aral Sea is now called the Aralkum Desert.
https://ruby.social/@gnoll110/112972361110206091

2024-08-05 03:55:56 GMT

A long good bye...
"Fifteen years minus one day between these photos. Taken at the Rhone glacier in Switzerland today.
Not gonna lie, it made me cry."
From @misterduncan at birdland/ @npub107d…jgpg
https://x.com/misterduncan/status/1820168563350450324
https://cdn.masto.host/rubysocial/media_attachments/files/112/907/390/643/602/981/original/543d065432d30a34.jpeg
https://cdn.masto.host/rubysocial/media_attachments/files/112/907/392/152/368/817/original/f45852c021cd3258.jpeg

2024-08-04 19:14:47 GMT

Remember how Andrew Tate got caught because of a Romanian brand pizza box in a social media post.
Well, currently on the run Tommy Robinson, real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, has been tracked to the Atlantica Mare Village hotel on the outskirts of Ayia Napa, Cyprus. How? He posted a video from the hotel's gym.
A bit hypocritical. This guy is know for turn up at the critic's homes, harassing them, and posting photos and videos of it to social media,
https://cdn.masto.host/rubysocial/media_attachments/files/112/905/356/010/138/640/original/b155d3bb869ef6ff.jpeg

2024-05-24 22:43:35 GMT

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That remind my, I should upgrade my Framework 13 from Ubuntu 22.04 LTS to 24.04 LTS sometime...