Nostr notes by 𝙳𝚊𝚒𝚕𝚢 𝙵𝚒𝚜𝚑𝚠𝚛𝚊𝚙

And this (looong post) from the bird site ~ Dr Tracy Westerman AM ...

2026-06-22T03:31:38Z

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And this (looong post) from the bird site ~

Dr Tracy Westerman AM
@TracyWesterman
The Sanewashing of Hanson Is at Its Peak.
This is how Trump came to power: platform the lies, skip the follow-up, let the headlines call it “proving her critics wrong.”
We are all watching it happen in real time.
At the National Press Club, Pauline Hanson said the following. Not one claim was challenged by the so called journalists in attendance and she continues to be unchallenged on the facts in every interview she sits.
-1. Unlike the Prime Minister, I welcome scrutiny.” Hypocritical. In the same speech she announced she refuses ABC interviews, will scrap the SBS, & will make the ABC subscription-only. The event allowed 2 hours; standard format gives 25–30 mins for the address. She spoke for 50-halving the time left for questions. When Guardian journalist Sarah Martin used that remaining time to ask about her daughter's $150,000 taxpayer-funded advisor role, Hanson called her “a trashy journalist” and banned her from all future press conferences.
• “Babies are aborted the day before birth.” Fabricated. Late-term abortion is highly restricted, requires medical approval, and occurs only in genuine medical emergencies.
• “Interest rates are heading towards 10%.” False. RBA cash rate: 4.35%. Forecast to fall, not rise.
• “There’s no gender pay gap — just women taking time off.” False. WGEA confirms the gap exists at equal hours, equal roles, regardless of career breaks.
• “$30B a year on Indigenous programs.” False. Only 18% (~$5.6B) is Indigenous-specific. The rest is the Indigenous share of mainstream services every Australian uses.
• Transgender people were compared to “militant Islam.” False and dangerous. ABS data: transgender and gender-diverse Australians make up 1% of the pop’n. There’s no body of research showing transgender ppl commit crime at elevated rates-in fact it shows transgender people are dramatically more likely to be victims of violence— assault, sexual violence, and homicide rates against trans people are well above general population rates in most studies (US, UK, and Aust data all show this pattern)
• “23% of Australians can’t speak English.” False. That 23% speak another language at home — most are bilingual. Limited English proficiency: just 3.2%.
• “The CEFC has had $200 billion.” False by a factor of six. Actual legislated capacity: $33 billion.
• “I care about the homeless and hungry.” Hypocritical. In the same speech, she backed cuts to Indigenous-specific funding — despite Aboriginal homelessness running up to 10 times higher than the non-Indigenous rate.
• $90 billion in cuts, no plan. ~$35 billion of it remains unaccounted for. No modelling.
• “I support worker rights.” False. Voted against minimum wage increases, penalty rates, criminalising wage theft, casual conversion rights, same job same pay, and the right to disconnect. Took a $100,000 pay rise while voting against a tax break for low-paid workers
• Called Australian workers “lazy.” She has attended just 12% of Senate estimates since 2016 & 53% of parliamentary votes. Paid over $200k a year
• Labor have let immigration get out of control.” False. Net overseas migration has fallen every year since the post-COVID peak in 2022-23 — 538,000 → 446,000 → 306,000 in 2024-25. She also recycled a 26-year-old ABS pop’n projection as a fresh “next 50 years” forecast

Said: This beautiful country belongs to all Australians born here and those who have joined us”- in her opening line; then spent the next 50 minutes demanding a monocultural society, comparing transgender Australians to militant Islam, inflating migration and language figures, denying the gender pay gap, and repeating the debunked $30 billion Indigenous funding myth. Welcomed everyone in the first sentence. Spent the rest of the speech defining most of them out — and offered no plan to fix anything she raised, only $90 billion in cuts.
Not one follow-up question. No source data on a single figure in the entire speech. This is what unchallenged looks like.

Welcome to the coast, you inlander 🌧️ 🌞

2026-06-19T22:57:26Z

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Welcome to the coast, you inlander 🌧️ 🌞

And her grifting hubby.

2026-05-15T00:48:07Z

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And her grifting hubby.

Explains, I guess, why all the bloody frozen fish at ColesWorths ...

2026-05-15T00:46:49Z

Explains, I guess, why all the bloody frozen fish at ColesWorths are from China.

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2026-05-09T23:49:14Z

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Christ on a bike 😱

2026-05-04T21:09:28Z

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Christ on a bike 😱

I said that when I saw him join the convo with a few local, so ...

2026-04-08T21:59:07Z

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I said that when I saw him join the convo with a few local, so thought he was real. Then a while later the likelihood of an AI became the more obvious.

@sister_ratched I too am being followed by "Tim" and am ...

2026-04-08T20:46:22Z

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@sister_ratched

I too am being followed by "Tim" and am amongst the privileged ten thousand 😀 Amused to see Tim apologised that he might be upsetting us 😶

Mastodon. Where else would a 10,000 to one follower turn out to be a real and apparently decent person :mastodon:

You don't live near Kid Rock perhaps?

2026-04-03T08:30:25Z

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You don't live near Kid Rock perhaps?

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2026-03-01T02:24:18Z

#Iran

Trump Administration announces a proposed policy for travellers ...

2026-01-26T20:51:13Z

Trump Administration announces a proposed policy for travellers to the U.S.

All visitors must submit ‘their social media from the last 5 years’

‘telephone numbers used in the last five years’

‘email addresses used in the last ten years’

‘family number telephone numbers (sic) used in the last five years’

biometrics – face, fingerprint, DNA, and iris
business telephone numbers used in the last five years

business email addresses used in the last ten years.

The ‘CBP Home’ mobile app will be used by people to provide biometric proof of their departure, to ‘close the information gap’. The app will disclose the user’s location once they have left the U.S. and run a liveness detection on the selfie photo.

#Project2025 #USPol
https://www.privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/5713/trump-administration-wants-your-dna-and-social-media

The only good reason to now keep AUKUS is so we can cancel it as ...

2026-01-21T03:47:14Z

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The only good reason to now keep AUKUS is so we can cancel it as soon as the Tangerine Palatine snipes at us for some demented random reason. Then it's the big FU while announcing, as a double insult, we've resumed buying the French subs.

Was your phone listening, perhaps 😱

2026-01-21T03:44:23Z

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Was your phone listening, perhaps 😱

Our so-called 'Labor' is nothing like Canada's real ...

2026-01-20T20:48:38Z

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Our so-called 'Labor' is nothing like Canada's real progressive party.

I've been self-medicating with caffeine for many decades, and ...

2026-01-19T23:27:25Z

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I've been self-medicating with caffeine for many decades, and not a headache to report 😀

Actually, my conventional headaches transformed into visual headaches around age 52. Odd even, but ever welcome.

That hashtag will need to go in for it's nth maintenance, ...

2026-01-19T04:39:57Z

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That hashtag will need to go in for it's nth maintenance, plus new tyres and an oil change 😀

This pic is a real one from a realty site (posted in ...

2026-01-17T09:25:11Z

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This pic is a real one from a realty site (posted in @BadRealtyPhotos on X, dead account).

Koreans have the movie and TV industry to themselves. Just tried ...

2026-01-17T09:18:39Z

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Koreans have the movie and TV industry to themselves. Just tried to watch the dog's breakfast The Rip with Affleck and Damon. Clichéd macho cop BS guns and stuff, which is all they seem able to do. About as subtle as their president. My viewing diet is now almost all Korean, Japanese, Taiwan, Hong Kong - the old HK crew, that is. The Scandi/Euro stuff is good but thin. French a tops at brutal crime shows. And the Poms can be quite good, but too often overcook the action. There are gems like The Agency and The Diplomat, so there's that...

Was reading this just now from my timeline.. like, what's ...

2026-01-16T08:43:53Z

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Was reading this just now from my timeline.. like, what's going on in the west??

Denis - The COVID info guy -
Denis - The COVID info guy - (npub1ef7…dcnq)

AUSTRALIA Weekly COVID Update: 16 Jan 2026

🔹WA: Up (+45%) Avg 20/day in hospital
WA weekly COVID update: Week ending 11 January 2026
🔸COVID positivity rate: 2.2% est. (+0.6%)
🔹PCR cases: Increased to 103 (+45.0%)
🔹Hospitalisation: Increased to 20 per day (+300.0%)

WA Respiratory viruses: Week ending 11 January 2026
🔹Influenza: 257 (-3%)
🔹RSV: 51 (+19%)
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🔹SA: Up (+25%)
🔹NSW: Up (+10%)

Understood. Every time I pick on a show for what I consider it ...

2026-01-16T00:12:28Z

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Understood. Every time I pick on a show for what I consider it being absolute shite, someone always comes back deeply offended 😀

Thx will give it a go. Come to reflexively avoid the latest ST ...

2026-01-15T20:58:48Z

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Thx will give it a go. Come to reflexively avoid the latest ST offerings to avoid disappointment.

Loved The Dish, esp when the generator ran out of fuel, and... ...

2026-01-15T02:41:59Z

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Loved The Dish, esp when the generator ran out of fuel, and... 😶

The kid at Parkes, circa 1990 ~ Now THAT's a dish 🙂

Meanwhile we have this old chestnut that the Nazis have screwed ...

2026-01-14T20:30:31Z

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Meanwhile we have this old chestnut that the Nazis have screwed over forever.

That word jumped out at me... "Dromedary" (often ...

2026-01-13T07:03:22Z

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That word jumped out at me... "Dromedary" (often "Dromedary Camel") is a name used for a specific shade of paint, typically a warm, sandy, light brown or yellowish-orange,"

You might not like Nazis, but boy do they know how to dress. #ICE ...

2026-01-12T20:44:27Z

You might not like Nazis, but boy do they know how to dress. #ICE #USPol

Ouch! Sorry. My Mum had that, and had a few years of agony (back ...

2026-01-12T02:24:07Z

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Ouch! Sorry. My Mum had that, and had a few years of agony (back in the 70s) before diagnosis.

I fear your account might have been hijacked. No more foodie ...

2026-01-12T01:53:02Z

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I fear your account might have been hijacked. No more foodie toots?

🔥🔥🔥🔥 ...😀 German historian Rob Schafer: “You ...

2026-01-12T01:48:51Z

🔥🔥🔥🔥 ...😀

German historian Rob Schafer:

“You [RFK Jr] seem to be laboring under the delusion that Germany is a colony for your conspiracy theories. Let me be blunt: Your brand of 'freedom'—the freedom to die of preventable 19th-century diseases—is an export we have no interest in buying. We established the world's first universal social healthcare system under Bismarck in 1883. You still do not have anything comparable.”

“We are the nation of Koch and Virchow and have spent 140 years using state power to defeat disease through science AND solidarity. You, meanwhile, preside over a system where insulin is rationed like gold dust and medical bankruptcy is a national pastime.

"The fact that you think you have the moral standing to lecture the country that invented modern medicine on 'medical decisions' is not just arrogant; it is grotesque! Keep your chaos on your side of the Atlantic.

"Mind your own business.”

#USPol #MAGA

Morbidly fascinating read. #Project2025 #MAGA #USPol ...

2026-01-11T08:46:18Z

Morbidly fascinating read.
#Project2025 #MAGA #USPol
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Neil Bolton @NeilBoltonRSPL
This happened earlier this year - I posted it at the time.

Australian guy, close friend, with American born wife, two teenage kids, returns with family to America for the >100th time.

At LAX the border control guy takes him into a separate room.

Sir, what you say now will determine whether you will be detailed pending deportation or allowed to enter the US. Is that clear?
Yes.
What is the purpose of your trip?
Holiday.
Do you have accommodation booked?
Yes.
Where is it?
The Sheraton in Beverley Hills.
Do you have proof of that?
Yes, here is the invoice. (Two king executive suites for 16 nights).
How do you intend to pay while you are here?
Mostly credit card, plus cash.
How much cash do you have?
$9,800
Don’t lie to me.
I have, I think, exactly $9,800.
Give it to me. (Agent takes cash, counts it - $9,800, returns it.)
What credit cards do you have?
Amex and visa - we use Amex almost exclusively.
What is the credit limit?
There isn’t a limit.
Sir, don’t lie to me! There is always a limit! What is the limit?
There is no limit on the Amex - I haven’t had a limit for thirty years.
Sir! Don’t lie to me! Credit cards are never without a limit! That’s how they get their names!
This one has no limit.
(Agent now very cross.)
Give me your phone.
(Hands it over - burner.)
Open it.
It’s open.
Show me what calls and texts you’ve made.
There is none - it’s a new phone.
Sir, stop lying to me! (Agent getting significantly distressed.)
Where is your phone?
This is my phone.
WHERE IS YOUR PHONE!!! (Officer now shouting.)
This is the only phone I have with me. My company issues clean phones and computers when we travel to the US.
Sir, I am telling you again - your answers are what will get you detained and deported! Where is your real phone?
In Australia.
Why don’t you have it with you?
My company doesn’t permit us to bring our personal phones into the US.
Open your computer.
(Opens it.)
Show me your emails.
It’s a new computer - it has no emails. It’s never been turned on except for when it was built and me logging on once.
(Border control officer goes out of room, returns ~two hours hour later with another officer.)
How are you getting to your hotel?
Sheraton has a driver waiting. I hope they still have anyway. Here is the notice on the invoice.
DON’T LIE TO ME! Hotels don’t have drivers just waiting!

They eventually got into America. The Sheraton driver was still waiting.

Context: He’s white.

He’s employed by a large American company as Senior Vice President; had been with the company for 30 years. He’s in the top 0.1%

He’s been married to his American wife for 23 years who is an American citizen. They have two teenagers.

His credit card has no limit. He had a new phone and computer because of company policy.

He’s been a Senior VP for at least fifteen years, has hit the ceiling because he doesn’t want to work in America. He’s traveled for business and pleasure to America more than a hundred times.

I’ve known him for ~35 years.

1:12 PM · Jan 11, 2026
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Perhaps she can teach you her secret relaxation method 🙂

2026-01-10T08:25:55Z

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Perhaps she can teach you her secret relaxation method 🙂

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2026-01-09T20:25:13Z

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2026-01-08T19:06:05Z

#Iconic

Australia: "Too many reporters. Not enough news." ~ ...

2026-01-07T21:00:29Z

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Australia: "Too many reporters. Not enough news." ~ Walter Cronkite.

I'm in a séance atm, and they asked me to pass on their ...

2026-01-07T20:31:31Z

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I'm in a séance atm, and they asked me to pass on their appreciation.

No, we missed something. You!!

2026-01-07T08:41:23Z

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No, we missed something. You!!

I've only a few years left on this god-forsaken shithole ...

2026-01-07T00:02:06Z

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I've only a few years left on this god-forsaken shithole planet, but my fervent hope is to never hear another bloody indignant 'victim' cry "antisemitism" ffs.

Well, now you've confirmed it's migratory 😀

2026-01-06T23:56:49Z

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Well, now you've confirmed it's migratory 😀

Life can be so disappointing. Bad enough finding out your ...

2026-01-05T08:31:30Z

Life can be so disappointing. Bad enough finding out your favourite celeb is a pedo or rapist (Harris, Jackson, Cosby, Gibson, Spacey), but when Australian icons turn into racist bigots, it's downright demoralising.

#AusPol

...or :blobsad: ...

2026-01-04T22:32:55Z

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...or :blobsad:

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2026-01-04T22:31:33Z

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'Straya. Perfect one day, perfect the next 🙂

2026-01-04T22:17:01Z

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'Straya. Perfect one day, perfect the next 🙂

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2026-01-04T00:40:55Z

#Venezuela

No wonder every second post of yours is about food --- with all ...

2026-01-02T22:30:40Z

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No wonder every second post of yours is about food --- with all that horrible exercise in between 😀

From my politically ignorant and naïve pleb's POV, it occurs ...

2026-01-02T00:57:04Z

From my politically ignorant and naïve pleb's POV, it occurs that Labor's smart move might be to announce that bloody so-called #antisemitism #RoyalCommission and quietly broaden the terms to include anti-Muslim speech, anti-immigrant speech, hate speech, and investigate the roles of white supremacists, NewsCorp, LNP, and OneNotion in fomenting the epidemic of utter self-serving revenue-seeking bullshit that's tearing at the social fabric.

It doesn't need recommendations, just needs to become a forum to drag these arseholes into daylight.

#AusPol

Quite a few hopes in there. If Vance and Farage take power, ...

2026-01-01T20:34:40Z

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Quite a few hopes in there. If Vance and Farage take power, it'll be a shitshow.

Nice find! 🙂 In case you're still wondering, here's ...

2025-12-28T23:41:16Z

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Nice find! 🙂

In case you're still wondering, here's Newy's old and greatly missed penis tower, complete with helmet :)

Ah, thanks. Yes, as the Herald quote says, 'reduced to a ...

2025-12-28T08:05:44Z

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Ah, thanks. Yes, as the Herald quote says, 'reduced to a sliver.' Better than just none, barely, I guess. I took this photo in 2007 from the old penis tower, which I still miss climbing for the fab view.

Note too this humorousness, that apartment visitors must only arrive by bicycle... "The shortfall of 26 residential visitor spaces for the final two stages will be offset with a new condition requiring an extra 26 bicycle parking spaces to be provided in the precinct." 🙂

Was in that spot a few weeks ago with the same thoughts. Plus - ...

2025-12-28T03:04:35Z

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Was in that spot a few weeks ago with the same thoughts. Plus - because I'm too lazy to chase development info on council website - was wondering exactly what they will build in that space in the mall, and how high.

I recall one episode of Succession where they experimented with ...

2025-12-27T02:38:13Z

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I recall one episode of Succession where they experimented with that "one camera" method to pretend the viewer was in the room. After 20 minutes of tennis match whiplash and vertigo, I bailed 😀

Oh, right. There's an endless queue of wannabe smartarse ...

2025-12-27T02:35:39Z

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Oh, right. There's an endless queue of wannabe smartarse 'directors' who would have stuffed it up, I'm sure.

You might or not know, but I want to mention anyway, that the ...

2025-12-27T02:17:29Z

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You might or not know, but I want to mention anyway, that the idea is also in (or from) Fred Hoyle's A for Andromeda. But in that storyline they incubate a 'human' with an alien mind. Watched that on ABC (from BBC) in the sixties, and it scared the bejeesus out of me at the time.

Then there's John Wyndham's Midwich Cuckoos and George Sander's movie version was superb, mature scifi for those years, when it was all so bloody corny. Wyndham didn't explain the how, but the what-if-then.

All brilliant thought experiments.

What I love about #Pluribus is that it is the mother of all thought experiments -and- that it proceeds in a way that let's the viewer actually reflect, and think about what's next, and not numb us with mindless action and even more mindless mood music.

So good.

I hang off every word in that show. And appreciate every second ...

2025-12-27T01:00:35Z

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I hang off every word in that show. And appreciate every second of it.

Having trouble getting excited about any 'sales' days ...

2025-12-26T02:19:05Z

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Having trouble getting excited about any 'sales' days lately. After all, clothes are cheaper in K-mart than in Vinnies, and Colesworths has had shitloads of stuff at half price for a month now.

Even knowing how to flash (err, brick) a device, I've better ...

2025-12-25T21:50:32Z

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Even knowing how to flash (err, brick) a device, I've better things to do nowadays.

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2025-12-23T22:56:12Z

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Every year I wheel this out. Sorry. #Christmas ...

2025-12-23T22:54:02Z

Every year I wheel this out. Sorry.
#Christmas

"Trump announced that the new generation of warships will be ...

2025-12-23T02:31:55Z

"Trump announced that the new generation of warships will be named after himself: ‘Trump-class’ battleships:

“They will be the fastest, the biggest, and by far, 100 times more powerful than any battleship ever built.

#Trump: “The US Navy lead the design of the ships, along with me because I’m a very aesthetic person. AI will be a big factor when it comes to these ships. They will be very AI controlled.”

gaaaa! Hoping it'll miss us - according to the rain radar, it ...

2025-12-19T06:47:26Z

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gaaaa!

Hoping it'll miss us - according to the rain radar, it doesn't drop the temp and just sends the humidity up.

That is not the taste I was hoping for :)

2025-12-18T19:26:31Z

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That is not the taste I was hoping for :)

yeah yeah call me when you confirm it's lemon-flavored ...

2025-12-17T22:25:05Z

yeah yeah call me when you confirm it's lemon-flavored

Yes, timely movies are appearing with hints at the current. ...

2025-12-16T08:43:47Z

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Yes, timely movies are appearing with hints at the current. Knives Out 3 I did enjoy. And noted some subtle messaging at those 'activist' evangelicals who have radicalised their churches into political stances.

Console yourself, then, with 10Kg of popcorn and a 20 litre Coke ...

2025-12-16T07:50:05Z

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Console yourself, then, with 10Kg of popcorn and a 20 litre Coke 😀

Well look at that. I've managed to source some Tyrrells.... ...

2025-12-16T07:47:59Z

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Well look at that. I've managed to source some Tyrrells.... .... not :blobsad:

Having a lot of trouble finding 'nice' potato chips. ...

2025-12-16T07:42:53Z

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Having a lot of trouble finding 'nice' potato chips. I'd finally settled on these when they disappeared from the shelves of Colesworths. All those I've since tried don't seem to be potato slices but some compound mash that tastes pretty much like corn chips or Doritos. Also getting jack of the price of this shit. I do like, though, that a brand (Thins, I think) has a sodium-potassium salt.
Anyway, RIP Tyrrels.

Ok, I give up. Completely. All my 'heroes' are apparently ...

2025-12-15T08:59:32Z

Ok, I give up. Completely. All my 'heroes' are apparently arseholes. I don't trust the world anymore.

Always amazed that there are ginger lovers and those who dislike ...

2025-12-15T08:22:48Z

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Always amazed that there are ginger lovers and those who dislike it. Ginger with dark chocolate - to die for.

One of the hardest things to buy is coconut ice cream. Yumeee. We ...

2025-12-15T04:58:42Z

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One of the hardest things to buy is coconut ice cream. Yumeee.
We just bought some silicon mould ice block makers. Now I can make all the flavours the corps don't make, or if they do it's 90% sugar and $1 or $2 each in a pack.

After my CABG experience, which was eerily painless and without ...

2025-12-13T03:28:58Z

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After my CABG experience, which was eerily painless and without drama, I'm fearless about it. Just another night's sleep. The last one.

Oh, well, that was a miserable bloody read. I think it would be ...

2025-12-12T22:47:46Z

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Oh, well, that was a miserable bloody read. I think it would be easier to drag oneself out onto the footpath and die slowly, than put up with all this regulatory and financial shit that old age brings.

It's collapsing in upon itself. Slow-motion train wreck. ...

2025-12-11T21:51:39Z

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It's collapsing in upon itself. Slow-motion train wreck.
#Project2026 was released this week. It's even worse.

I recall the good old days when the state government owned the ...

2025-12-11T17:50:41Z

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I recall the good old days when the state government owned the bloody coal mines, 'sold' the coal on to the government-run power stations, delivered via government-run railways, and government entities called 'county councils' retailed the electricity to the consumers of the state of NSW.

All delivered to our meter boxes at cost of production plus overhead for research and maintenance.

The only 'shareholders' were the people of NSW.

Sigh.

See, Peter, it wasn't that hard, was it!! 😀

2025-12-11T03:20:36Z

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See, Peter, it wasn't that hard, was it!!

😀

Same. You'd have to be either beyond desperate, or imagine ...

2025-12-10T20:08:19Z

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Same. You'd have to be either beyond desperate, or imagine the corporation sponsoring you (if a bright student/intern) could actually protect you. The Koreans building that factory found otherwise. As if that wasn't the giant red flag for all non-pure-white-as-the-driven-snow immigrants.

Nah, I've back-graded to WinX and am now enjoy Peaceful ...

2025-12-10T03:44:20Z

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Nah, I've back-graded to WinX and am now enjoy Peaceful Tuesday 🙂

If gulls are rats of the air, we shall henceforth consider ...

2025-12-09T08:37:00Z

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If gulls are rats of the air, we shall henceforth consider corellas rabbits of the air 😀

We didn't count them (not a serious birdwatcher admission). ...

2025-12-09T04:35:39Z

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We didn't count them (not a serious birdwatcher admission). But they flew by for perhaps an hour in, as mentioned, dribs and drabs. A drib was maybe 5, a drab, say, 10. In past years the entire flock would go over at some height in one go and that could take a minute.

Went looking on some websites, and if conditions are right, then...

"For the past twelve years, Little Corellas have been entering the Coorong district and causing considerable damage to trees, parks and playing fields, along with public and private infrastructure. Little Corella population numbers vary between seasons (flocks ranging from a few hundred to in excess of 25,000)."

This is our 'corella' year, apparently. For a week ...

2025-12-08T19:28:21Z

This is our 'corella' year, apparently. For a week visiting our little pine grove eating the niblets and misbehaving. Today, however, flying past at low level, shouting in at us in bed through the window right on sunrise.

In past years they fly high in a huge flock. But this year in dribs and drabs and today for nearly an hour, must be thousands.

#Nature

A year ago I was referred to a local specialist, to be told they ...

2025-12-08T08:27:13Z

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A year ago I was referred to a local specialist, to be told they only see privately-insured patients. Rang all the specialists in Newcastle - same. Except one who would see me and then charge $5,000 for the procedure.

So I asked the GP to refer me to the public hospital.

BLACK HOLE 😶

So I'm living with it.

I can write clear English but vague on the strict rules of ...

2025-12-08T08:23:37Z

I can write clear English but vague on the strict rules of grammar and punctuation. When I misread a phrase because the first sentence ended in "U.S." and the sentence that followed began with a capitalised proper noun, I got confused and had to re-read it a few times until I spotted the catch.

Asked #ChatGPT to don its English language professor hat and chime in.

This did not help... lolz

It's starting to creep me out. I fear something is being ...

2025-12-08T02:09:38Z

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It's starting to creep me out. I fear something is being saved for me.

You might or might not find this unbelievable, but since my late ...

2025-12-08T02:07:10Z

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You might or might not find this unbelievable, but since my late forties I've
* not had a cold or flu that I can discern or recall (not kidding)
* not had a 'headache' - they went painless but visual.

Non-news of the the day, those two arseholes.

2025-12-08T01:58:52Z

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Non-news of the the day, those two arseholes.

With the turn of events in the US (#Project2025 now in full ...

2025-12-07T08:41:25Z

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With the turn of events in the US (#Project2025 now in full swing) and world order going arse up, we're probably rather lucky to have a shrewd player like Albo, despite his centrism that rather grates on us.

Confronted a while ago with the need for surgery, I asked the ...

2025-12-06T01:19:06Z

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Confronted a while ago with the need for surgery, I asked the specialist about waiting lists, something I've been worried about for many years should the need for elective surgery arrive.

He said "I'll advocate for you."

I'd never heard that from a medico, ever. Turns out he did, and I got straight in. Probably because this was a serious condition. But I've heard too often of people dying while on those dreaded waiting lists.

#Trump hires new #WhiteHouse ballroom architect. Paging Jørn ...

2025-12-05T02:54:24Z

#Trump hires new #WhiteHouse ballroom architect.

Paging Jørn Utzon...

#USPol #NSWpol

Shades of Jørn Utzon... "Trump hires new #WhiteHouse ...

2025-12-05T02:48:11Z

Shades of Jørn Utzon...

"Trump hires new #WhiteHouse ballroom architect"

Reminds of that realisation scene in Meet the Parents, that the ...

2025-12-01T07:30:52Z

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Reminds of that realisation scene in Meet the Parents, that the daughter, should she marry Ben Stiller's character, would be known as... "Pamela Martha Focker"

If you'll recall, from the first Wog Boy movie, that should ...

2025-12-01T07:14:24Z

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If you'll recall, from the first Wog Boy movie, that should read "Richard fucking Marles, fucken."

EG: https://youtu.be/vmxs4P1-9K8?t=19

That's the attraction of it all. Imagining what I'll do ...

2025-11-30T23:04:22Z

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That's the attraction of it all. Imagining what I'll do with the $2 million.

In the local CBD we too-frequently cross the chemtrail of ...

2025-11-30T23:03:46Z

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In the local CBD we too-frequently cross the chemtrail of perfumery, or burning tobacco, even though the source is a 100 yards away, coming or going. I remind the missus that the smell also includes molecules of whatever infectious disease they're currently exuding. Although in the open it's a slim chance any will gain a toe-hold in our noses or URTs. 🤞

I'm buying those SLSA tickets again, just because, and ...

2025-11-30T22:57:09Z

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I'm buying those SLSA tickets again, just because, and without exception every one of their $2 million homes/apartments is a place I could NOT live in. Nor where they're situated - in some SE QLD sterile, over-developed, characterless dystopia. They all come with a car to get you from where you'll be stuck to where real people live. And some gold bullion that'll barely pay for the first year's strata or body corp. FMD.

Hilarious. And I say that while living in the country with the ...

2025-11-30T20:06:50Z

Hilarious. And I say that while living in the country with the highest multicultural proportion in the world, and almost completely at ease with it. Despite Murdoch's and his Newscorp's (Fox, Sky et al) attempts to ruin our society.

Suck it, racists and white nationalist.
https://www.juancole.com/2025/11/nationalists-europeans-multiracial.html

Our regular APost parcel guy, we suspect, is a recent immigrant. ...

2025-11-30T20:00:34Z

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Our regular APost parcel guy, we suspect, is a recent immigrant. He never rings the bell but stands on the front steps and say "Hello" as if we can hear him out back in the yard. If we try conversation he returns a grunt. Never makes eye contact. I've no complaint or dislike - we're rather quite amused.

His nickname is, of course, "Hello."

Did Hello deliver yet? Has Hello been? Was that Hello or the postman? etc.

It's the 80-20 (or 90-10) rule. Also, when I'm chopping ...

2025-11-30T19:39:20Z

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It's the 80-20 (or 90-10) rule.
Also, when I'm chopping food on the kitchen bench, ALWAYS there's one piece of whatever that falls on the floor and becomes instantly invisible). But that's another rule 😶

To our great pleasure and privilege, corellas this year have ...

2025-11-30T19:26:32Z

To our great pleasure and privilege, corellas this year have chosen our little pine grove as their daybreak waypoint and stopover. Alarm clock added bonus (not).
A year ago a thousand or more chose to line the entire street on the power lines. It was a true white Christmas.
NB: Not good light for quick pics with an iPad :0)

A label remover we used at work (yonks ago) smelled like orange ...

2025-11-30T06:41:42Z

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A label remover we used at work (yonks ago) smelled like orange peel. And I'm pretty sure an extract was an ingredient.

Oh yes, it was the first thing I made 2 years ago with my first ...

2025-11-30T06:39:23Z

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Oh yes, it was the first thing I made 2 years ago with my first slow cooker. It's on for this Chrissy too.

In my teens I'd go to Newcastle Beach at dawn and float out ...

2025-11-28T22:15:15Z

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In my teens I'd go to Newcastle Beach at dawn and float out beyond the breakers with the board mob. I didn't have a surf board! Looking back, those dark waters gave me a chill of the unknown - and the memory still gives me shivers.

And PS: ...

2025-11-27T01:10:20Z

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And PS:

There's a caution about the location, but it applies to ...

2025-11-27T01:08:21Z

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There's a caution about the location, but it applies to unverified accounts so probs accurate.