Nostr notes by Droppie [opensoc]

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2026-06-17T06:27:19Z

In reply to nevent1q…20zp
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@[url=https://toot.community/users/sister_ratched]Jude🇵🇸[/url] didn't watch/listen, simply couldn't. why does she hate me & mine so much? rhetorical question btw. knowing there's this growing cohort of strayans who feel this way is just so catastrophic to any sense of mental health for me. that's how dangerous i am, so dangerous & evil that i cower in fear at home, erasing myself from society, from which month by month i feel an ever widening gap. it's so horrible.

@[url=https://mymasto.com/users/VWDasher]Frank[/url] i lasted 24 ...

2026-03-04T06:31:08Z

In reply to nevent1q…047z
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@[url=https://mymasto.com/users/VWDasher]Frank[/url] i lasted 24 seconds

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2026-03-04T06:13:53Z

In reply to nevent1q…pf8e
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@[url=https://toot.community/users/sister_ratched]Jude🇵🇸[/url] am now contemplating whether sticks or boonies are more remote.

poor old black stump left in dust, looking askance.

question: why do some strayans say [quote]butt[/quote] instead of ...

2026-03-04T04:09:56Z

question:

why do some strayans say

[quote]butt[/quote]

instead of

[quote]bum[/quote]

?

why the contemporary merkan mangling here?

in olden decades, before the toxin of merkan cultural imperialism had fully poisoned straya, nobody said "butt" here except ironically, but even then, still very rarely. it was [i]bums[/i] & [i]arses[/i] all the way. why have so many since, succumbed to the toxin? i mean, [i]fair dinkium! [/i]

🤔🤷‍♀️

@[url=https://sfba.social/users/CaraBruar]Cara Bruar[/url] fyi: ...

2026-02-28T06:11:35Z

In reply to nevent1q…pz7y
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@[url=https://sfba.social/users/CaraBruar]Cara Bruar[/url] fyi: [url=https://thepoint.com.au/news/260227-failure-to-tax-wealth-will-fuel-far-right-surge-warns-gary-stevenson]https://thepoint.com.au/news/260227-failure-to-tax-wealth-will-fuel-far-right-surge-warns-gary-stevenson[/url]

[quote]Failure to tax extreme wealth will fuel far-right surge, warns Gary Stevenson

British economist Gary Stevenson, known as 'the People's Economist' has delivered blunt advice to Australian politicians during his tour of Australia, warning that living standards will continue to deteriorate unless they start taxing the “super-rich elite.”[/quote]

#[url=https://friendica.opensocial.space/search?tag=auspol]auspol[/url] #[url=https://friendica.opensocial.space/search?tag=whythefuckislabor]whythefuckislabor[/url]

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2026-02-24T00:28:05Z

In reply to nevent1q…daxd
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@[url=https://toot.community/users/sister_ratched]Jude🇵🇸[/url] it shall be an onerous task best left to others, as i am far too delicate n discreet, to reflect upon the fact that mention of [i]fuckheads[/i] immediately reminded you of poor downtrodden [i]Herve[/i] 🤷‍♀️🤭😇

@[url=https://social.chinwag.org/users/abc_bot]Unofficial ABC News Bot[/url] @[url=https://im-in.space/users/captainb]Hervé 🇵🇸[/url]
😜

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2026-02-23T11:53:39Z

In reply to nevent1q…mlnv
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@[url=https://aus.social/users/luciedigitalni]lucie digitální[/url] back in the day [i]passiona[/i] was ok but for me the real deal was [i]sarsaparilla[/i]. loved it. i very rarely met anyone else who also liked it. prolly made me the woman i am today.

if there's anything even more vacuous grifting & B-Arkish ...

2026-02-21T01:04:26Z

if there's anything even more vacuous grifting & B-Arkish than royalty/monarchy itself, it's so-called self-appointed "royal watchers" & "royal whisperers". jfc what total wastes of oxygen.

#[url=https://friendica.opensocial.space/search?tag=fuckallmonarchies]fuckallmonarchies[/url] #[url=https://friendica.opensocial.space/search?tag=Guillotine]Guillotine[/url]
[attachment type='link' url='https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/royal-editor-unpacks-the-fallout-following-andrews-arrest-20260221-p5o491.html'; title='Royal editor unpacks the fallout following Andrew's arrest' publisher_name='The Sydney Morning Herald' image='https://static.ffx.io/images/w_800%2Ch_450%2Cc_fill%2Cg_auto:faces/q_86%2Cf_auto/449f371cc3e1d59d12b6408cd2d3b1d3d9c14487';]Associate Editor at The Telegraph Camilla Tominey unpacks the fallout following the arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor as the disgraced former prince returns to his home in Sandringham.[/attachment]

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2026-02-12T10:52:29Z

In reply to nevent1q…as90
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@[url=https://toot.community/users/sister_ratched]Jude🇵🇸[/url] @[url=https://im-in.space/users/captainb]Hervé 🇵🇸[/url] 🥺

@[url=https://im-in.space/users/captainb]Hervé 🇵🇸[/url] ...

2026-02-12T09:19:59Z

@[url=https://im-in.space/users/captainb]Hervé 🇵🇸[/url] hello, just wondering if you're doing ok? seems like i've not noticed your activity here for several days 🤞 🤞 🤞

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2026-02-11T23:59:14Z

In reply to nevent1q…5jj5
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@[url=https://toot.community/users/sister_ratched]Jude🇵🇸[/url]
[quote]while at the same time being subjected – moment by moment – to the most sophisticated #[url=https://friendica.opensocial.space/search?tag=propaganda]propaganda[/url] ever developed.”[/quote]
themes like this just constantly test my fooffle-valve. yes there's tonnes of bullshit, lies, propaganda... so what? i still have no trouble knowing facts from lies. all my daily fedi-interlocutors seem similarly to possess this basic capability. so what's the go with all the morons of the world? why are they so credulous & undiscerning? does it actually indicate the power of propaganda, or... might it perchance merely expose [i]latent[/i] rwnj fuckheadedness in most of these peeps?

i just have almost no patience with nor sympathy for fools who allow themselves such beliefs. i'd be ordering lots n lots of wombats...

[i]tirade ends... um, well... pauses[/i]

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2026-02-11T23:49:13Z

In reply to nevent1q…mvzt
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@[url=https://toot.community/users/sister_ratched]Jude🇵🇸[/url] or, you could [b]quote-boost[/b] it, with the tag added yourself. #[url=https://friendica.opensocial.space/search?tag=multiskinnablecats]multiskinnablecats[/url] @[url=https://aus.social/users/Tooden]Hugs4friends ♾🇺🇦 🇵🇸😷[/url]

@[url=https://aus.social/users/Devorppa]Devorppa[/url] ha, no in ...

2026-02-11T04:12:01Z

In reply to nevent1q…4dls
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@[url=https://aus.social/users/Devorppa]Devorppa[/url] ha, no in fact it was a ridiculous thing to say, by me, & i'm ashamed that i overlooked the golden opportunity available to us. once you have both of the buggers in the room, hook a pair of jumper-leads up to one, with the other ends connected to the grid. then, let 'em at it! the infinite energy spontaneously released will then feed into the grid, & bob's yer aunty, we have free energy for a millennium! [i]whacko[/i], finally some positive use for elbow! @[url=https://toot.community/users/sister_ratched]Jude🇵🇸[/url]

@[url=https://aus.social/users/Devorppa]Devorppa[/url] this is a ...

2026-02-11T03:59:24Z

In reply to nevent1q…xees
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@[url=https://aus.social/users/Devorppa]Devorppa[/url] this is a good plan, but you simply must make sure the two never touch or even come near each other, lest they both spontaneously cancel each other out in a blinding flash of energy! @[url=https://toot.community/users/sister_ratched]Jude🇵🇸[/url]

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2026-02-05T03:23:43Z

In reply to nevent1q…06wr
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@[url=https://toot.community/users/sister_ratched]Jude🇵🇸[/url] start by [i]getting a wombat up 'er[/i]... obvs.

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2026-02-05T03:20:42Z

In reply to nevent1q…dh46
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@[url=https://toot.community/users/sister_ratched]Jude🇵🇸[/url] once we've achieved all monarchies becoming smoking flattened ruins, we can rescue Mary from those nasty evil mean Danes... wonder how long it'll then take to restrayanise her? 🤪

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2026-02-04T23:55:28Z

In reply to nevent1q…0s5f
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@[url=https://toot.community/users/sister_ratched]Jude🇵🇸[/url] nice one...

[url=https://friendica.opensocial.space/photos/msdropbear/image/10653769076983dc5d542d4050548498][img= ][/img][/url]

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2026-02-04T23:53:59Z

In reply to nevent1q…0s5f
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@[url=https://toot.community/users/sister_ratched]Jude🇵🇸[/url] i do hope the rest of that metaphor does not apply! 🤞 🤞 🤞

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2026-02-04T04:04:40Z

In reply to nevent1q…30fx
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@[url=https://toot.community/users/sister_ratched]Jude🇵🇸[/url] [i]oooooh[/i], #[url=https://friendica.opensocial.space/search?tag=FuckheadAlert]FuckheadAlert[/url] ... #[url=https://friendica.opensocial.space/search?tag=FuckheadWarning]FuckheadWarning[/url] ... [i]danger, will robinson, danger![/i]

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2026-02-03T02:41:17Z

In reply to nevent1q…pt40
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@[url=https://toot.community/users/sister_ratched]Jude🇵🇸[/url] always seems so cliquey that peeps only give useful advice to [i]Ken[/i], rather than [i]all[/i] local denizens. i expect his head is quite swollen with egotistical pride by now... 🤪

anyone remember the cartoon when we were kids, ...

2026-02-02T08:05:17Z

anyone remember the cartoon when we were kids, #[url=https://friendica.opensocial.space/search?tag=MiltonTheMonster]MiltonTheMonster[/url] ? for me, his contemporary incarnation is matt canavan.

#[url=https://friendica.opensocial.space/search?tag=auspol]auspol[/url]

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2026-02-01T23:44:22Z

In reply to nevent1q…lne5
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@[url=https://toot.community/users/sister_ratched]Jude🇵🇸[/url] yes, sorry, they are all teeny tiny here in #[url=https://friendica.opensocial.space/search?tag=Friendica]Friendica[/url], & i wish i could make them much larger.

[i]pls attend the customer service counter for your complimentary coupon as a token of our most grovelling indifference no um we mean apology.[/i]

making that sarcastic post had the intended effect. ten minutes ...

2026-02-01T22:20:46Z

In reply to nevent1q…twwn
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making that sarcastic post had the intended effect. ten minutes afterwards, he arrived, & now a few minutes ago, has departed. i shall allow the cold winds from open windows & door to blow thru the house for another 30 minutes, then remove my mask & gob a celebratory muesli n coffee. gosh i [i]rooly[/i] do live life large...

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2026-02-01T21:19:47Z

In reply to nevent1q…rq2e
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#[url=https://friendica.opensocial.space/search?tag=plumber]plumber[/url] supposedly here at 0730, i was awake at 0530 & up by 0550. now at 0820... still just 🦗🦗🦗

eggsellent. sigh.

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2026-02-01T08:14:47Z

In reply to nevent1q…5sl6
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@[url=https://toot.community/users/sister_ratched]Jude🇵🇸[/url] pls accept our sincere congratulations... n gratitude 🤭😇

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2026-02-01T04:28:45Z

In reply to nevent1q…h4mp
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@[url=https://toot.community/users/sister_ratched]Jude🇵🇸[/url] ta. feeling it will all go fine, apart from the peopling bit.

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2026-02-01T04:11:55Z

In reply to nevent1q…jy4x
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@[url=https://toot.community/users/sister_ratched]Jude🇵🇸[/url] oh shit, had i forgotten it? -- bugger -- orf now to find & fix it. oh the shame... 🥺

[abstract=apub]Food, vegetarian treats, cold treats[/abstract] ...

2026-02-01T04:02:32Z

In reply to nevent1q…t3nd
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[abstract=apub]Food, vegetarian treats, cold treats[/abstract]
@[url=https://bne.social/users/caity]Wonderdog 🏳️‍🌈[/url] @[url=https://aus.social/users/dropbear]The Drop Bear 2.0:angery:[/url] [i]eeet's wafer thin you know[/i]...

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2026-02-01T03:59:02Z

In reply to nevent1q…kpla
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@[url=https://toot.community/users/sister_ratched]Jude🇵🇸[/url] seems vaguely familiar... 😜

oh bugga n botheration. enforced ...

2026-02-01T03:57:22Z

oh bugga n botheration. enforced #[url=https://friendica.opensocial.space/search?tag=peopling]peopling[/url] at sparrow's fart tomorrow morn, damnit. 😱

main shower's HW tap today decided it rather likes the erotic tickling of the water surging over its washer & seat, & thus summarily declined my invitation to cease & desist, once my shower was over.

[i]sassen frassen rassen[/i]

#[url=https://friendica.opensocial.space/search?tag=plumber]plumber[/url]

others already posted this many hours ago, but i've only just ...

2026-02-01T01:19:37Z

others already posted this many hours ago, but i've only just read it now

[url=https://michaelwest.com.au/zionism-the-greatest-pyramid-scheme-ever-invented/]https://michaelwest.com.au/zionism-the-greatest-pyramid-scheme-ever-invented/[/url]

tis most interesting & informative, IMO
[attachment type='link' url='https://michaelwest.com.au/zionism-the-greatest-pyramid-scheme-ever-invented/'; title='Zionism. The greatest pyramid scheme ever invented? - Michael West' publisher_name='Michael West' publisher_url='https://michaelwest.com.au/'; author_name='Veronica Sherman' author_url='https://www.facebook.com/michaelwest.journo/'; author_img='https://www.michaelwest.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Michael-West-Image-150x150-1.png'; image='https://michaelwest.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Jews-against-the-occupation-e1769760686618.jpg';]Not all Jews are equal; some are more equal than others. Questioning the myth that Australian Jews are the same as Israeli Jews.[/attachment]

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2026-01-31T06:28:48Z

In reply to nevent1q…62np
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@[url=https://toot.community/users/sister_ratched]Jude🇵🇸[/url]
[quote]Haven't seen Beetlejuice, but I must[/quote]
we are no longer able to interact with you, until this [i]shocking[/i] personal character flaw is expunged 😱

🤪

i have never seen [i]Home Alone[/i] i have never wanted to see it ...

2026-01-31T06:07:58Z

i have never seen [i]Home Alone[/i]

i have never wanted to see it

i have seen [i]Beetlejuice[/i]

many times

vale, Delia

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2026-01-31T04:20:04Z

In reply to nevent1q…fty0
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@[url=https://toot.community/users/sister_ratched]Jude🇵🇸[/url] oh [i]foo[/i] !! @[url=https://bne.social/users/caity]Wonderdog 🏳️‍🌈[/url] @[url=https://mastodon.au/users/LifeTimeCooking]Ganga[/url] @[url=https://theblower.au/users/AnnonBudgie]Citizen ❎️❎️[/url]

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2026-01-31T04:17:59Z

In reply to nevent1q…zm0g
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@[url=https://toot.community/users/sister_ratched]Jude🇵🇸[/url] eh, wot, a gammy leg? 33 days, & still no sign of land! @[url=https://aus.social/users/treleanor]Trish Roberts[/url]

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2026-01-31T04:16:47Z

In reply to nevent1q…e29y
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@[url=https://toot.community/users/sister_ratched]Jude🇵🇸[/url] Jude; team player! @[url=https://aus.social/users/Susan60]Looking for explanations…[/url]

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2026-01-31T03:57:05Z

In reply to nevent1q…8fhl
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@[url=https://toot.community/users/sister_ratched]Jude🇵🇸[/url]
[quote]sent men to the moon in 1969[/quote]
or [i]did[/i] we? [i]muhahahahahahaha[/i]

@[url=https://mastodon.au/users/LifeTimeCooking]Ganga[/url] @[url=https://theblower.au/users/AnnonBudgie]Citizen ❎️❎️[/url] @[url=https://bne.social/users/caity]Wonderdog 🏳️‍🌈[/url]

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2026-01-31T00:07:39Z

this [url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-31/australian-open-novak-djokovic-jannik-sinner-carlos-alcaraz/106289146]https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-31/australian-open-novak-djokovic-jannik-sinner-carlos-alcaraz/106289146[/url] simply illustrates part of why i can applaud his athletic & tennis greatness yet [i]continue[/i] to mock & disdain his character. a more decent peep would feel no compulsion to make such statements, knowing simply that their on-court performance had more than ably rebutted his naysayers. but no, he feels compelled to cross that line, & is far lesser because of it.

#[url=https://friendica.opensocial.space/search?tag=tennis]tennis[/url] #[url=https://friendica.opensocial.space/search?tag=ego]ego[/url]
[attachment type='link' url='https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-31/australian-open-novak-djokovic-jannik-sinner-carlos-alcaraz/106289146'; title='Djokovic hits out at critics after epic Australian Open win over Sinner' publisher_name='ABC News' publisher_url='https://www.abc.net.au/'; publisher_img='https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/7ee6f190de6d7dbb04203e514bfae9ec?impolicy=wcms_crop_resize&cropH=700&cropW=700&xPos=0&yPos=0&width=862&height=862&imformat=generic'; author_name='Luke Pentony' author_url='https://www.abc.net.au/news/luke-pentony/167206'; image='https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/c3de7b3bbdd8ea85035f4667d2ed008d?impolicy=wcms_watermark_news&cropH=2208&cropW=3926&xPos=0&yPos=157&width=862&height=485&imformat=generic';]After beating two-time defending Jannik Sinner in five gruelling sets, Novak Djokovic sets his sights on those who doubted whether he could still be an Australian Open contender.[/attachment]

[i]turkish delight[/i] mining is one extractive industry for ...

2026-01-30T23:55:29Z

[i]turkish delight[/i] mining is one extractive industry for which i'd totes vote!

@[url=https://mastodon.au/users/smitjo]John Smith[/url] haha, ...

2026-01-30T22:37:20Z

In reply to nevent1q…shhr
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@[url=https://mastodon.au/users/smitjo]John Smith[/url] haha, yes, could be!

i mean, for instance, a song i adore, [i]Whiter Shade of Pale[/i], could never ever be mistaken as anything [i]but[/i] a 60s song; that decade simply flows thru & drips from its distinctive audio style. yet, so many others, otoh, seem timeless.

@[url=https://toot.community/users/sister_ratched]Jude🇵🇸[/url]

@[url=https://mastodon.au/users/smitjo]John Smith[/url] though i ...

2026-01-30T22:28:12Z

In reply to nevent1q…pkgp
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@[url=https://mastodon.au/users/smitjo]John Smith[/url] though i know the song well, ta heaps for your link coz i've never actually seen them playing/singing it before. quite apart from it still being wonderful, i sat here the whole time in utter amazement that it was 1966, & yet it remains so utterly contemporary IMO [or rather, maybe, i am frozen in amber?]. @[url=https://toot.community/users/sister_ratched]Jude🇵🇸[/url]

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2026-01-29T23:39:52Z

In reply to nevent1q…pw3l
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@[url=https://toot.community/users/sister_ratched]Jude🇵🇸[/url] one that is symmetrically distributed about the mean grunt value, which itself is symmetrically banded by a + & - 3 sigma band, beyond which grunts might generally be regarded as abnormal. i mean, [i]obvs[/i].

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2026-01-29T06:53:39Z

#[url=https://friendica.opensocial.space/search?tag=abc]abc[/url] journos generally / foreign correspondents specifically, from prior years, of note...

i always liked Monica Attard :heart decoration:

@[url=https://aus.social/users/Tooden]Hugs4friends ♾🇺🇦 ...

2026-01-29T04:15:49Z

In reply to nevent1q…4p6p
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@[url=https://aus.social/users/Tooden]Hugs4friends ♾🇺🇦 🇵🇸😷[/url] [i]ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh[/i]... whilst i gloatfully deduced barnson, the best i could do for SAD was seasonal affective disorder, which in context just seemed to tell me that i understand pollyticks [i]even more[/i] poorly than i already suspected! @[url=https://toot.community/users/sister_ratched]Jude🇵🇸[/url]

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2026-01-29T03:51:17Z

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@[url=https://toot.community/users/sister_ratched]Jude🇵🇸[/url] made of wood...

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2026-01-28T23:40:29Z

In reply to nevent1q…hgdn
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@[url=https://toot.community/users/sister_ratched]Jude🇵🇸[/url]

[abstract]da woidz[/abstract]

[quote]A new 50-metre outdoor swimming pool will be built in Woden and officials will look for a new site to replace a diving pool slated for demolition in the city centre.

The ACT government has committed to building a new outdoor Olympic-sized swimming pool following months of mounting public pressure over the future of the capital's swimming spots.

An outdoor pool at Phillip owned by developer Geocon is set to be redeveloped into apartments, a move that prompted community anger over the loss of the facility despite the new site needing to have a publicly accessible 25-metre indoor pool.

Early work on potential sites for a new, government-owned outdoor pool in the town centre has already started, with site options to consider community needs and technical requirements.

Sports groups which rely on the deep diving pool at the Canberra Olympic Pool in the city centre had also led a campaign against the planned closure because the replacement, an aquatic centre at Commonwealth Park, would not include diving facilities.

The government has now committed to investigating options for competition and recreational diving facilities somewhere else in the ACT.

"While there has been strong interest expressed in competition diving opportunities at Olympic level, the site constraints at Commonwealth Park do not allow for deepwater dive facilities to be included at this site," a spokesperson said.

The government had confirmed earlier this month no dive pool would be built at the new aquatic centre in Commonwealth Park, which will be built and opened before the Civic pool is shut.

Chief Minister Andrew Barr said the government had heard from the community and acknowledged its role in providing pools.

"Canberra doesn't have beaches, so our local pools are where many people go to cool off, where kids learn to swim, and where communities come together. We absolutely recognise how essential they are," Mr Barr said.

Nearly 1600 people filled in a survey as part of consultation on the new Canberra Aquatic Centre to be built at Commonwealth Park.

A consultation report said there was broad support for a modern aquatic centre among community and stakeholder feedback.

"Community feedback reflects strong interest in a facility that is inclusive, well-equipped and future-ready. As design work continues, the focus will be on understanding what can be delivered within the available budget and proposed site, and how different features can be combined or adapted to serve multiple purposes," the report said.

Infrastructure Canberra would prepare a business case for the government to consider this year, and was refining what would be included for the $137.8 million budget.

"Following initial site investigations, the scope of the project indicates that multiple pools, including a 50-metre pool, and indoor/outdoor health and wellness spaces will be included at the facility, helping to establish a vibrant community hub asset that benefits the broadest user group possible," the consultation report said.

Sport and Recreation Minister Yvette Berry said the aquatic strategy was about planning the government's investment in new swimming pools and maintaining existing pools.

"All of us have fond long-lasting memories at our pools. Whether it's jumping off the dive tower at Civic pool, enjoying the slides at Big Splash or a picnic at Manuka Pool, all of our pools private and public are important to our growing city," Ms Berry said.

"We've heard Canberrans. None of us want our children to miss out on the great experience we've all had hanging out at one of Canberra's pools. We want that experience to endure across the ACT today and into the future."

The Canberra Olympic Pool, known as the Civic pool, first opened on December 22, 1955 ahead of the 1956 Melbourne Olympics. The site was once earmarked for a city stadium and the pool has had a long history of leaks.

ACT Labor promised a new swimming pool in Commonwealth Park ahead of the 2024 ACT election, having secured joint funding from the federal Labor government.

Construction on the new Commonwealth Park swimming pools is expected to begin in 2027.

Territory planners signed off on approval late last year for the first stage of Geocon's proposed redevelopment beside the Phillip Swimming and Ice Skating Centre, which the developer has foreshadowed would be the subject of future development applications in a multi-stage project.

The swimming pool at Woden was built by the Commonwealth government and opened in 1971. The ACT government effectively sold off the pool in the early 1990s, issuing a 99-year lease to its long-time operator, which had built the ice-skating rink.

The operator told a parliamentary inquiry in 2017 the facility was "nearing the end of its life".

High-rise developer Geocon bought the Phillip Swimming and Ice Skating Centre site in late 2022.[/quote]

fuckhead! 😡🖕 🤢🤮 ...

2026-01-28T22:50:30Z

you dun did good, Anne. happy retirement. 🎉 🥳 👯‍♀️ ...

2026-01-28T04:58:26Z

you dun did good, Anne. happy retirement. 🎉 🥳 👯‍♀️

[url=https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/radionational-breakfast/anne-barker-retires/106277232]https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/radionational-breakfast/anne-barker-retires/106277232[/url]

#[url=https://friendica.opensocial.space/search?tag=abc]abc[/url] #[url=https://friendica.opensocial.space/search?tag=annebarker]annebarker[/url] #[url=https://friendica.opensocial.space/search?tag=foreigncorrespondent]foreigncorrespondent[/url] #[url=https://friendica.opensocial.space/search?tag=retirement]retirement[/url]
[attachment type='link' url='https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/radionational-breakfast/anne-barker-retires/106277232'; title='Highlights from the stellar career of Anne Barker - ABC listen' publisher_name='ABC listen' author_name='ABC listen' image='https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/693f1dd24bbf28711caa3ad5b0ca7f5d?impolicy=wcms_crop_resize&cropH=470&cropW=835&xPos=0&yPos=103&width=862&height=485&imformat=generic';]From Jerusalem to Jakarta, foreign correspondent and Radio National Breakfast producer Anne Barker has had an astonishing career.

She has been with Aunty for 38 years, but today Anne hangs up the headphones.[/attachment]

now here's a pair of fuckheads [i]really[/i] crying out for ...

2026-01-27T21:58:43Z

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2026-01-20T05:19:12Z

In reply to nevent1q…4dnt
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@[url=https://gives.hugz.online/users/MelissaBearTrix]Melissa BearTrix[/url] to show we're serious, i'd be despatching the 42nd Airborne Bunyip Battalion. time to get [i]real[/i] !

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2026-01-20T00:47:31Z

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2026-01-19T23:32:52Z

In reply to nevent1q…8auu
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@[url=https://toot.community/users/sister_ratched]Jude🇵🇸[/url] oh there ya goes agin, being compulsively nice. [i]wot are ya?[/i] 😜

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2026-01-19T23:26:23Z

In reply to nevent1q…ktkv
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@[url=https://toot.community/users/sister_ratched]Jude🇵🇸[/url]
[quote]not a coffee addict[/quote]
me neither!

[i]one of us
one of us
one of us[/i]

always keep up with your... medicine.

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2026-01-19T23:16:29Z

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@[url=https://toot.community/users/sister_ratched]Jude🇵🇸[/url] good point... i am a hypocrite, alas. my daily Elevenses [had anywhere in an 11am - 3pm window] comprises cashews, sunflower seeds, walnuts, olives... & almonds. sigh. it's so hard to seriously be properly good.

i drink ...

2026-01-19T22:43:33Z

i drink #[url=https://friendica.opensocial.space/search?tag=soymilk]soymilk[/url], & use it on my #[url=https://friendica.opensocial.space/search?tag=muesli]muesli[/url] & in my coffee. i like it.

recently i tried some #[url=https://friendica.opensocial.space/search?tag=AlmondMilk]AlmondMilk[/url] bought for me by my sister. ugh, it is revoltingly sweet & i very much dislike it.

as i abhor food waste i shall finish the litre carton, not tip it out, but oh mighty zarquon will i be glad once it's finished!

last year i tried #[url=https://friendica.opensocial.space/search?tag=oatmilk]oatmilk[/url] , in powdered form that one then makes up with water. also too sweet for me, but wow, only an amateur compared to this almondmilk!

#[url=https://friendica.opensocial.space/search?tag=vegan]vegan[/url]

[abstract=apub]Auspol, Newspoll[/abstract] ...

2026-01-19T12:42:45Z

[abstract=apub]Auspol, Newspoll[/abstract] ...

2026-01-19T00:46:33Z

In reply to nevent1q…khyj
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[abstract=apub]Auspol, Newspoll[/abstract]
@[url=https://toot.community/users/sister_ratched]Jude🇵🇸[/url] oh yes good point for sure. it all seeks to keep normalising the illusion of two main parties then daylight, which paradigm in reality, imo, is dead or dying due to demographics, but msm [& apparently some pollsters] seem intent on dead equine flogging. go greens, go prog indies! @[url=https://theblower.au/users/HardBeingGreen]Paul[/url]

[abstract=apub]Auspol, Board of Peace[/abstract] ...

2026-01-18T23:36:36Z

[abstract=apub]Auspol, Newspoll[/abstract] ...

2026-01-18T23:29:42Z

In reply to nevent1q…3gzx
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[abstract=apub]Auspol, Newspoll[/abstract]
@[url=https://theblower.au/users/HardBeingGreen]Paul[/url]
[quote]Greens 12[/quote]
this stasis continues to make me furious with that prevalent dead-end evolutionary branch, [i]australialus fuckheadipus[/i]

#[url=https://friendica.opensocial.space/search?tag=AusPol]AusPol[/url] #[url=https://friendica.opensocial.space/search?tag=WhyTheFuckIsLabor]WhyTheFuckIsLabor[/url] #[url=https://friendica.opensocial.space/search?tag=HahahahaLiebs]HahahahaLiebs[/url] #[url=https://friendica.opensocial.space/search?tag=NatsAreNuts]NatsAreNuts[/url] #[url=https://friendica.opensocial.space/search?tag=GreensYEAH]GreensYEAH[/url] #[url=https://friendica.opensocial.space/search?tag=VoteGreens]VoteGreens[/url] #[url=https://friendica.opensocial.space/search?tag=VoteProgIndies]VoteProgIndies[/url]

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2026-01-18T23:21:16Z

In reply to nevent1q…yp42
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@[url=https://social.vivaldi.net/users/AMonkeyInSilk]AMonkeyInSilk[/url] is he working to the [code]sunk cost fallacy[/code]? is he just a fuckhead? is the right answer [code]all the above[/code]? remind me what "rhetorical questions" means... 😜

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2026-01-18T23:13:09Z

In reply to nevent1q…skm9
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@[url=https://toot.community/users/sister_ratched]Jude🇵🇸[/url] soap. mouth.

@[url=https://mastodon.au/users/smitjo]John Smith[/url] Oh, John, ...

2026-01-18T05:17:44Z

In reply to nevent1q…8cxu
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@[url=https://mastodon.au/users/smitjo]John Smith[/url] Oh, John, your interesting post made me think. this is unambiguously invasive & certainly just more of my inveterate stickybeakism, but sometime if you would be prepared / willing / indulgent, i reckon it would be really interesting to learn more about your decision... a backstory if you like, that brought about such a major life trajectory alteration. or, ofc, i could just get back to minding my knitting! ;-)

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2026-01-18T05:11:08Z

In reply to nevent1q…gsf6
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@[url=https://toot.community/users/sister_ratched]Jude🇵🇸[/url] as i wrote it i was actually going to deploy "fuckwit", but then thought of the crushing disappointment such a cavalier act would engender... 🤭😇

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2026-01-18T04:36:57Z

[url=https://www.change.org/p/australia-day-jan-26-not-a-date-to-celebrate]https://www.change.org/p/australia-day-jan-26-not-a-date-to-celebrate[/url]

[quote]John, Melbourne
2 weeks ago
"I came from the UK in the 10 pound era. I and my wife got naturalised on Australia Day. I’m 94 yo and this day is a special day. We treat it like our wedding anniversary. Have voted Labor since I arrived. Will not vote for you again if you change the date."[/quote]

dear john, you're a fuckhead of the first order, jfc. it is [b]not about you[/b], you tin-eared turd on legs. the selfishness, cruelty, & let-them-eat-cake-ism of your post is appalling. pls do go & fuck off.

#[url=https://friendica.opensocial.space/search?tag=AusPol]AusPol[/url] #[url=https://friendica.opensocial.space/search?tag=TheVoice]TheVoice[/url] #[url=https://friendica.opensocial.space/search?tag=iVotedYes]iVotedYes[/url] #[url=https://friendica.opensocial.space/search?tag=FsckenStrayaVotedNo]FsckenStrayaVotedNo[/url] #[url=https://friendica.opensocial.space/search?tag=Racism]Racism[/url] #[url=https://friendica.opensocial.space/search?tag=VotedNoGetKarmaComebackYouRedneckRacists]VotedNoGetKarmaComebackYouRedneckRacists[/url] #[url=https://friendica.opensocial.space/search?tag=Misanthropy]Misanthropy[/url] #[url=https://friendica.opensocial.space/search?tag=FirstNations]FirstNations[/url] #[url=https://friendica.opensocial.space/search?tag=AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe]AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe[/url] #[url=https://friendica.opensocial.space/search?tag=InvasionDay]InvasionDay[/url]
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2026-01-18T02:38:23Z

In reply to nevent1q…xkzx
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@[url=https://toot.community/users/sister_ratched]Jude🇵🇸[/url] i find it's always best to consult a professional when designing my invocations of retribution & punishment! @[url=https://social.chinwag.org/users/abc_bot]Unofficial ABC News Bot[/url] @[url=https://mastodon.au/users/smitjo]John Smith[/url]

both "leaders" [sic] named in this article, need to die ...

2026-01-18T00:37:22Z

both "leaders" [sic] named in this article, need to die excruciatingly horrific deaths via massive spontaneous organ failure, asap.
[share author='Unofficial ABC News Bot' profile='https://social.chinwag.org/users/abc_bot'; avatar=' ; link='https://social.chinwag.org/@abc_bot/115910765672521319'; posted='2026-01-17 13:52:03' guid='f893b5eb-efb6b30fcbc748de-ff9f17e8' message_id='https://social.chinwag.org/users/abc_bot/statuses/115910765672521319';]Iran's leader Khamenei blames Trump for inciting deadly protests [url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-18/irans-leader-blames-trump-for-inciting-deadly-protests/106241068]https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-18/irans-leader-blames-trump-for-inciting-deadly-protests/106241068[/url] #[url=https://friendica.opensocial.space/search?tag=Unrest]Unrest[/url],ConflictandWar #[url=https://friendica.opensocial.space/search?tag=WorldPolitics]WorldPolitics[/url] #[url=https://friendica.opensocial.space/search?tag=CivilUnrest]CivilUnrest[/url][/share]

might not be everyone's cuppa, but fwiw, i found this ...

2026-01-17T07:19:23Z

might not be everyone's cuppa, but fwiw, i found this interesting.

[url=https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/philosopherszone/albert-camus-fascism-and-america/105884520]https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/philosopherszone/albert-camus-fascism-and-america/105884520[/url]

[quote]Living and writing through the years before, during and after the Second World War, French author and philosopher Albert Camus witnessed the rise of fascism and its terrible endgame in German National Socialism. Today, amid fears of a neo-fascist resurgence in the USA, his work well is worth revisiting.

This episode was first broadcast on October 5, 2025

Guest: Matthew Sharpe, Lecturer and Researcher in the School of Philosophy, Australian Catholic University Melbourne[/quote]

#[url=https://friendica.opensocial.space/search?tag=Philosophy]Philosophy[/url] #[url=https://friendica.opensocial.space/search?tag=fascism]fascism[/url] #[url=https://friendica.opensocial.space/search?tag=AlbertCamus]AlbertCamus[/url] #[url=https://friendica.opensocial.space/search?tag=USPol]USPol[/url] #[url=https://friendica.opensocial.space/search?tag=TuckFrump]TuckFrump[/url] #[url=https://friendica.opensocial.space/search?tag=FuckRWNJs]FuckRWNJs[/url] #[url=https://friendica.opensocial.space/search?tag=magamorons]magamorons[/url] #[url=https://friendica.opensocial.space/search?tag=FuckChristoFascists]FuckChristoFascists[/url] #[url=https://friendica.opensocial.space/search?tag=FuckAllReligion]FuckAllReligion[/url] #[url=https://friendica.opensocial.space/search?tag=OrangeOaf]OrangeOaf[/url] #[url=https://friendica.opensocial.space/search?tag=HeyFascistCatch]HeyFascistCatch[/url]
[attachment type='link' url='https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/philosopherszone/albert-camus-fascism-and-america/105884520'; title='Albert Camus, fascism and America - ABC listen' publisher_name='ABC listen' author_name='ABC listen' image='https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/daedf6a789e3eda1d413d5b6971f1716?impolicy=wcms_crop_resize&cropH=2093&cropW=3721&xPos=0&yPos=63&width=862&height=485&imformat=generic';]Living and writing through the years before, during and after the Second World War, French author and philosopher Albert Camus witnessed the rise of fascism and its terrible endgame in German National Socialism.[/attachment]

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2026-01-16T21:04:59Z

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@[url=https://toot.community/users/sister_ratched]Jude🇵🇸[/url] @[url=https://aus.social/users/CaringKinderSociety]Mazz@1984[/url] [abstract]all da wordz[/abstract]

[quote]The time may have come to retire the phrase "social coherence". One hardly ever heard of it a few years ago, but as Australian society seems to be atomising by the hour, it is on everyone's lips. Including those who might seem to be doing most to defeat in public any idea of a common good, national and social identity, and decency and tolerance towards all. The more I hear of it, the less I see.

It is quite true that the phrase seems to contain the germ of what might seem to be a good idea - a nation building and affirming ideal - but on many of the occasions it is trotted out, it seems, in practice, to be achieving the very opposite.

As a political idea, its main problem is that many of those most given rhetorically to talking about the need to build social coherence are not very good at making it happen. The fact that intentions were noble doesn't come into it. Take Anthony Albanese, for example. Included among his social cohesion triumphs are the Aboriginal Voice to Parliament, a very popular idea for a moment until it severely divided Australians and was humiliatingly defeated. Then, after 30 years of wasted time in action against climate change, Albanese got through Parliament legislation he claimed had ended the argument once and for all. Now he is again back to taws, with the opposition firmly against emission targets and firmly focused against what most observers regard as a bare minimum national interest. Government is going backwards.

On defence policy, particularly in the past six months of US President Donald Trump, we have not had unity or social coherence. Or intelligibility, consistency and relationship to our national circumstance. Minister for Defence Richard Marles has his own incoherence problem and seems to think that the reason for blind support of Trump is the international need for rules-based order, as though America provides that. Perhaps Albanese and Penny Wong have reasons they cannot disclose for adopting a slavish defence and foreign policy, increasingly against Australia's interests in relation to China. But they have failed to explain and justify it to the nation. Nor to reassure Australians who doubt that either the US or the UK can fulfil their nuclear promises over the next 40 years, leaving a serious risk that Australia will have no submarines at all.

Albanese badly mismanaged Australia's response to the October 2023 massacre in Israel and its prompt embarkation on a disproportionate war against the citizens of Gaza. For too long he failed to listen to public opinion about the size of the slaughter being visited on the people of Gaza, Israeli actions in withholding food and limiting medical and other services. For too long it has seemed to juggle the "problem" or the issue as being one of empathy with Israel and its problems in confronting terrorism. Albanese eventually joined Canada, Britain and most of western Europe in criticising Israel's war (which international courts had suggested to be genocide and involve war crimes) and in supporting Palestine's case for nationhood. But he and many of his colleagues always seem to see the conflicts through Israeli eyes, at best adopting the perspective of many Israeli citizens critical of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his method of prosecuting the war and what now passes for peace.

Critics have been targeting Israel, the IDF and Netanyahu, not Jewishness or Jews. That's not anti-Semitic.

Israel's conduct of the war led to an avalanche of local and international criticism. The overwhelming proportion of that criticism has been focused on the conduct of the state, its defence forces, and its politicians, not because of their Jewish religion or background. Many of the critics, especially Semitic people of the Muslim religion, have also been strongly critical of the Zionist movement which had promoted the idea of a "homeland" for the Jewish people plonked right in the middle of where Arabs (and a relatively small number of Jews and Christians) had lived for millennia. Their so-called denial of Israel's right to exist is not a slogan for extermination, but a rallying call against a history of imperial powers settling or planting populations in lands already occupied by others. Their use of the shorthand "Zionist" is not of itself anti-Semitic. A definition of anti-Semitism written by mostly Jewish Holocaust scholars and adopted, if in a non-binding way, by more than 30 countries including Australia, has suggested that criticism of Israel can be anti-Semitic if it holds Israel to account in ways that would not be used to criticise other nations.

This definition also suggested that being anti-Zionist could be anti-Semitic in denying Jews a right to self-determination. But critics of the very idea of the state of Israel in Palestinian homelands is not of itself an attack on the right of Jews to create a state elsewhere. The UN did not consecrate the state of Israel where it was for Biblical reasons. Nor can it be said that the world recognises a general right for people of a particular race or religion to have their own state. Kurds must manage without one at all. So must Yazidis, or Basques, Roma people or Bahai. Scores of states have significant racial minorities of religions different from the majority population.

ASIO, police forces and counter-terrorism agencies have tended to use the definition of anti-Semitism adopted by the Holocaust scholars. That definition itself recommends making allowance for context and common sense. But the Israeli state has tended to claim all criticisms of itself, its defence forces and its politicians as inherently anti-Semitic, and so, in general parlance do many of the leading public representatives of Jewish Australian groups, particularly those with a strong relationship with Israel. This is used both as a sword to delegitimise critics, and a shield to deflect criticism. Some Australian politicians, and others sympathetic to the pro-Israeli cause speak in a shorthand that contains an imputation that all Muslims are terrorists, as are their political organisations. Likewise, it is readily suggested that major rallies in support of Palestinian statehood, such as the Sydney Harbour Bridge march, were in support of terrorism or otherwise inherently anti-Semitic.

There are, of course, others who are openly anti-Semitic, whether in terms of considering Jewish people as something other than anyone else, or in terms of imagined characteristics, such as being focused on money, usury, or world power, and sometimes, their alleged domination of the media, banking, and higher education. Pogroms, discriminations, persecutions and often forced conversions and exile have often originated in Christianity and been promulgated by church leaders and civil leaders seeking outside groups to blame for plagues, famines or mismanagement. It reached a peak with the Nazi Holocaust in the 1930s and 1940s, which saw perhaps 8 million die, alongside other groups hated by the Nazis such as Roma people. The world's moral shame over the Holocaust helped create the pressure for an Israeli state, although, as many people of the Middle East point out, they did not volunteer to bear the burden of the world's reparation. Some of the raw anti-Zionist fury comes from an early (pre-Holocaust) Zionist slogan: A land without people for a people without land, that pretended that Palestine was, as pre-settlement Australia was said to be, a terra nullius.

Some openly neo-Nazi parties have announced their intention to disband because of the proposed legislation. But it is unlikely that most will stop political activism that is still racist and discriminatory, if not so specifically focused on Jews. It is not racist of itself to want to restrict immigration, but some use their activism on this front to promote ideas that Australia is for whites, or only people of European backgrounds, or that groups such as Muslims should be excluded. Once distasteful around the civilised world, this is now, in effect, the official policy of the Trump administration, right down to Trump describing the people of some countries as "garbage" and "human trash". Likewise, many of the nationalist and anti-immigration right-wing parties of Europe and the UK are openly opposed to non-European entry into their country.

At just the same time, agents of the Trump administration are publicly criticising Albanese's legislation as being inconsistent with free speech. One might have thought that a nation so replete with abuse of law, power and authority might keep its mouth shut, just from shame. One can hardly blame the opposition for adopting such criticism. It will never win a vote, anywhere, even from Friends of Israel, for simply going along with Albo.

I do not doubt that the royal commission will find that many Jewish Australians have felt increasingly unsafe and uncomfortable in Australia. Many have felt themselves wrapped into criticism of Israel. The Bondi massacre shows that others have been inspired by their anti-Semitic backgrounds to kill and hurt innocent Australians. It does not diminish their sense of siege to say that this has been happening in an increasingly hostile world for many other Australians who have found their welcome here more constrained, hostility more open, and sometimes, their exposure to physical attacks and public racism more obvious.

Both the Voice debate and the immigration debate have empowered some Australians to express fundamental hostility to people who are different, "alien" or of other cultures. Such sentiments were once confined to the lunatic fringe, open Nazis and the One Nation movement. Now they come, dog-whistles and all, from some mainstream politicians. And in what is in part a homage to the US gun movement, the accompanying noise about governments trying to disarm the population can be expected to draw racism, anti-Semitism, and conspiracy theories into the public square.

Albanese has not been able to take charge of this debate.

He was behind the eight-ball with his tin-eared rejection of a royal commission and his dogged resistance even after his party machine had abandoned the debate. The opposition is, of course, being opportunistic. It is what oppositions do. It may say something about some of the individuals involved, but high school debating tactics about hypocrisy or inconsistency of the type Albanese has been engaging in do not cut through. Indeed, they delay the government being seen to take charge of the issue, and leave the agenda to be set by others, including the opposition, the anti-government Australia, and others with political agendas. There never was, in fact, a tradition of public silence and getting behind the prime minister after national tragedy and national disaster.

It is likely, moreover, that promises to attend to other forms of discrimination with criminalising legislation after the anti-Semitism legislation is rammed through will not satisfy many voters concerned about the extra power government is giving to itself, and to police and security agencies. Even the more so, as ministers are forced to deal day by day with deal-making politicians among the Greens and independents. It will not have the appearance of a government responding with care and deliberation to a grave crisis. It will, rather, resemble the usual sausage making at the Labor knackery. Any old sawdust and scraps in a combination without an abiding principle or flavour and without carefully considered checks and balances on the exercise of enormous power. It won't look potent, and the perfect answer to the critics. It won't look like national leadership. It will look like, and be, a mish-mash.

Perhaps one should feel sorry for the powerless Albanese, being swept by a tide and trapped into having to respond rather than take charge. But those reflexively in his favour should remember that he does not lack the power, or the political or public support to be more decisive and more magisterial. Less than a year ago, he won an overwhelming majority at a general election. The accompanying drubbing given the opposition amounted to a mandate to be a leader, not a follower, and not a wimp.

That even now the opposition is a complete shambles underlines the opportunities he is missing, perhaps because he does not know what to do. It has been only on this issue that the opposition has been running political rings around him. And that has been, in major part, because it has been Josh Frydenburg, not Sussan Ley, who has been calling the shots and orchestrating the daily serve of new public figures (including Labor ones) lining up to criticise Albanese. Albanese may not have realised it, but from the start he needed a royal commission to clear the air.

Resistance to a wide-ranging royal commission into the Bondi massacre deprived him of almost any opportunity to capture public opinion on the measures he was proposing. He could have done it with a good speech (provided it was not written by him or his usual national security speechmakers). He has not played Father of the Nation, or even Chief Mourner. He has not gained stature by standing next to Chris Minns, or Mike Burgess or Sandy Barrett, nor do they have the face, or record to be able to share the national leader's burden. Labor premiers, indeed, are draining Albo's standing among voters. Even their own crises and own goals, such as by Peter Malinauskas over the South Australian Writers Festival, hurt Albanese more.

His natural hostility to engage in any sort of public conversation with voters is a major handicap. It is perfectly true that the parliamentary opposition rejected any idea of national unity around his proposals, and, indeed, that they criticised him in a partisan manner from day two of the tragedy. But it is simply too easy to blame the other side for the disadvantage under which he is currently labouring.

Albanese's position ought to be stronger because the opposition has been a complete shambles since its defeat in the election, and its leader hangs in there only precariously.

It's not a crisis, even if it has weakened his standing among voters and among colleagues. On form, the Opposition First XI may score a six or two but be unable to bowl anyone out. But Albanese owes it to voters to inspire confidence in strategy and his play. Before he can talk about social cohesion, he must lead with coherence and authenticity.
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[li]Jack Waterford is a former editor of The Canberra Times.[/quote][/li]
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2026-01-13T08:53:48Z

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2026-01-13T06:11:20Z

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@[url=https://aus.social/users/CaringKinderSociety]Mazz@1984[/url] @[url=https://toot.community/users/sister_ratched]Jude🇵🇸[/url] @[url=https://aus.social/users/fixatedpersonsunit]Tingo[/url] oh bugger, in my panic i think i posted it standalone... can you all find it?

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2026-01-13T06:06:49Z

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@[url=https://aus.social/users/fixatedpersonsunit]Tingo[/url] hang on a tick... oops, visitor incoming, might need to paste it in an hour or two... @[url=https://aus.social/users/CaringKinderSociety]Mazz@1984[/url] @[url=https://toot.community/users/sister_ratched]Jude🇵🇸[/url]

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2026-01-12T22:56:40Z

[url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/13/i-cannot-be-party-to-silencing-writers-which-is-why-i-am-resigning-as-director-of-adelaide-writers-week-ntwnfb]https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/13/i-cannot-be-party-to-silencing-writers-which-is-why-i-am-resigning-as-director-of-adelaide-writers-week-ntwnfb[/url]

excellent essay!

days ago there was some mis-, or at least ambiguous, early reporting that confused me into wrongly fearing LA had stopped being [i]"one of the good guys"[/i]. happily my faith in her is amply reinforced here.

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[attachment type='link' url='https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/13/i-cannot-be-party-to-silencing-writers-which-is-why-i-am-resigning-as-director-of-adelaide-writers-week-ntwnfb'; title='I cannot be party to silencing writers, which is why I am resigning as director of Adelaide Writers’ Week | Louise Adler' publisher_name='the Guardian' publisher_url='https://www.theguardian.com/'; publisher_img='https://uploads.guim.co.uk/2018/01/31/TheGuardian_AMP.png'; author_name='Guardian staff reporter' image=' ;]Cancelling the Australian Palestinian author Randa Abdel-Fattah weakens freedom of speech and is the harbinger of a less free nation[/attachment]

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2026-01-12T07:34:08Z

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@[url=https://aus.social/users/Devorppa]Devorppa[/url] meaning, [i]ipso facto[/i], that we grumps gonna grump, coz my poking rusty needles into his waxen effigy seems oddly ineffective so far. @[url=https://toot.community/users/sister_ratched]Jude🇵🇸[/url]

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2026-01-12T04:23:11Z

ta @[url=https://toot.community/users/sister_ratched]Jude🇵🇸[/url] -- i recently noted your
[quote]yebbut[/quote]
& like it so much that i have now purloined it.

cheque's in the mail, & all...

[quote]America has blown 80 years of accumulated goodwill and ...

2026-01-12T04:20:41Z

[quote]America has blown 80 years of accumulated goodwill and trust among its allies, our American moderator was told. A rock-steady assumption of allied defence and security planning for literally generations has been that America would act in its own interests, sure, but that those interests would be rational, and would still generally value the institutions that America itself worked so hard to build after the Second World War. America’s recent actions have destroyed the ability of any ally to continue to have faith in America to act even within its own strategic self-interest, let alone that of any ally.
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The officer then said that even a swift return of America to its former role won’t matter.
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Because “we will never fucking trust you again.”[/quote]

yebbut despite being incomprehensible intellectually & morally, our dear wondrous elbow wong & marles continue their delusional merkan arselickery in totes denial of reality. 🙄🤦‍♀️

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2026-01-12T03:36:30Z

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@[url=https://toot.community/users/sister_ratched]Jude🇵🇸[/url] your reaction is totes reasonable, whereas fwiw, i cannot even reach that level anymore... i am just in perpetual despair, at [i]sooooo[/i] much shit extant on this rotten rock. @[url=https://aus.social/users/treleanor]Trish Roberts[/url]

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2026-01-12T02:40:37Z

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@[url=https://toot.community/users/sister_ratched]Jude🇵🇸[/url] bloody vacuum cleaning. [i]surely[/i] it was [i]only[/i] last year i [i]already[/i] did it!

After a coupla hours, the latest bout of sucking, wheezing, ...

2026-01-11T23:31:09Z

After a coupla hours, the latest bout of sucking, wheezing, blowing, & most importantly swearing, is over, & the screaming wheeled banshee is now locked up again in its cupboard. i'd better not hear any more whining & moaning from the little bugger for [i]another[/i] six or nine months. oh mighty zarquon, my aching back...

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2026-01-11T06:00:44Z

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@[url=https://toot.community/users/sister_ratched]Jude🇵🇸[/url] tis all fuckheads n turds with me, [i]innit![/i] 🤪

there are [i]sooooo[/i] many merkanisms i loathe for their crimes ...

2026-01-11T03:43:56Z

there are [i]sooooo[/i] many merkanisms i loathe for their crimes against grammar

there's a subset i loathe for deeper more existential reasons... they embody how non-merkans perceive heapsa merkans & their sick national culture to be, ie, selfish, mean, egotistical, violent, unempathic. for example:
[quote]kick {something} to the curb[/quote]
do fuck off. it's bad enough you've broken your own country, but now you've actively done it also to so many others... you turds.

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2026-01-11T03:07:10Z

last 3 days... 🫠🫠🫠

today... trackydaks, woollen socks, sloppy-jo 😲

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far fecken out 😲 🤯 i read this article with fascination, ...

2026-01-11T02:48:12Z

far fecken out 😲 🤯

i read this article with fascination, given i'm a child of the 60s & grew up with two smoking parents, smoking rels, & for instance still can "smell" the ghastly odour from the ashtrays when i washed them as part of doing the sunday roast washing up each week.

the vox pops were truly interesting, being such a stark reminder of the vast social change that's occurred since those days... not to mention my head-voice going "bet [i]you're[/i] dead, bet [i]you're[/i] dead, bet [i]you're[/i] dead".

the last video, with a young male abc journo direct-to-camera, flabbergasted me. he kept using the word "propaganda" each time he described... [i]not[/i] smoking ads, but [i]anti[/i]-smoking reports. ads, leaflets, brochures et al 😲 🤯 now i find myself wondering, in view of contemporary enshitification, was there actually [i]any[/i] period in which aunty was worthy of my trust? 🤔🤷‍♀️

[url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-11/today-in-history-january-11-smoking-cancer-link-/106185276]https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-11/today-in-history-january-11-smoking-cancer-link-/106185276[/url]

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[attachment type='link' url='https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-11/today-in-history-january-11-smoking-cancer-link-/106185276'; title=''Let them smoke and die': How Aussies reacted to smoking cancer link in 1964' publisher_name='ABC News' publisher_url='https://www.abc.net.au/news'; publisher_img='https://www.abc.net.au/res/abc/logos/amp-news-logo-60x240.png'; author_name='Candice Prosser' author_url='https://www.abc.net.au/news/candice-prosser/4172326'; image='https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/96cc6cc45eae4a94fb455b4647d57279?impolicy=wcms_watermark_news&cropH=893&cropW=1588&xPos=0&yPos=44&width=862&height=485&imformat=generic';]In 1964, a major scientific report laid bare the deadly risks of smoking, at a time when the tobacco industry had a stronghold on the public and government coffers. Delve into the ABC Archives to discover how Australians reacted.[/attachment]

ooh, rambutans! [share author='Unofficial SBS News Bot' ...

2026-01-11T02:10:17Z

ooh, rambutans!
[share author='Unofficial SBS News Bot' profile='https://social.chinwag.org/users/sbs_bot'; avatar=' ; link='https://social.chinwag.org/@sbs_bot/115873583234113133'; posted='2026-01-11 00:16:04' guid='f893b5eb-035215862a13aa97-5b628af2' message_id='https://social.chinwag.org/users/sbs_bot/statuses/115873583234113133';]The 'Super-K' flu variant is spreading in Australia. Here's what makes it 'unusual' [url=https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-super-k-flu-variant/tdpgmr6b2]https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-super-k-flu-variant/tdpgmr6b2[/url] #[url=https://friendica.opensocial.space/search?tag=Australia]Australia[/url] #[url=https://friendica.opensocial.space/search?tag=Health]Health[/url][/share]

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2026-01-11T01:33:40Z

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2026-01-10T12:42:38Z

In reply to nevent1q…c06u
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@[url=https://toot.community/users/sister_ratched]Jude🇵🇸[/url] [url=https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=WvktyCpiMOw]https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=WvktyCpiMOw[/url]

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2026-01-10T03:31:39Z

In reply to nevent1q…yfgf
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@[url=https://toot.community/users/sister_ratched]Jude🇵🇸[/url] penguin looks askance...

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2026-01-09T23:16:40Z

In reply to nevent1q…wmmu
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@[url=https://toot.community/users/sister_ratched]Jude🇵🇸[/url] fessing up -- i prolly ended him.

i remember that, only mere months from his death, not even knowing he was ill, i explicitly said to self one day how wunnerful it was that we still had the gift of his enduring longevity.

sorry all. 🥺

#[url=https://friendica.opensocial.space/search?tag=DavidBowie]DavidBowie[/url]

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2026-01-09T21:57:45Z

In reply to nevent1q…wmmu
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@[url=https://toot.community/users/sister_ratched]Jude🇵🇸[/url] no, [i]wot?[/i] how can that be? this is impossible to grasp, i mean... ffs! a [i]decade[/i] 😲 🤯

never watched it at the time... conscious choice. far too much ...

2026-01-09T21:16:16Z

never watched it at the time... conscious choice. far too much fucken merkan cultural imperialism has poisoned this rock.
[share author='Unofficial ABC News Bot' profile='https://social.chinwag.org/users/abc_bot'; avatar=' ; link='https://social.chinwag.org/@abc_bot/115866584174901711'; posted='2026-01-09 18:36:07' guid='f893b5eb-176d0b98d504c034-6b01490b' message_id='https://social.chinwag.org/users/abc_bot/statuses/115866584174901711';]How the Sopranos transformed TV as we know it [url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-10/the-sopranos-first-episode-aired-january-10/106184120]https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-10/the-sopranos-first-episode-aired-january-10/106184120[/url] #[url=https://friendica.opensocial.space/search?tag=PopularCulture]PopularCulture[/url] #[url=https://friendica.opensocial.space/search?tag=Television]Television[/url] #[url=https://friendica.opensocial.space/search?tag=History]History[/url] #[url=https://friendica.opensocial.space/search?tag=Actor]Actor[/url][/share]

as i read this, ...

2026-01-08T23:58:58Z

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2026-01-08T22:22:52Z

In reply to nevent1q…2ayt
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@[url=https://toot.community/users/sister_ratched]Jude🇵🇸[/url] @[url=https://theblower.au/users/frogglin]Lyn[/url] oooh, [i]tentatively[/i] now squeaks out a wee HBTY, but apprehensively given i never know what bloody day today is anyway! 😲 🤯
🤪

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2026-01-08T21:23:13Z

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@[url=https://toot.community/users/sister_ratched]Jude🇵🇸[/url] anytime i have doubts on this habit, i merely remind myself that the last thing i wanna appear like is one of those stereotypical merkan posters, for whom the whole world is merka, merka is the whole world... 😱 @[url=https://aus.social/users/treleanor]Trish Roberts[/url] @[url=https://mastodon.au/users/smitjo]John Smith[/url] @[url=https://mastodon.au/users/LifeTimeCooking]Ganga[/url]

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2026-01-08T21:17:01Z

In reply to nevent1q…qvfj
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@[url=https://toot.community/users/sister_ratched]Jude🇵🇸[/url] @[url=https://aus.social/users/treleanor]Trish Roberts[/url] @[url=https://mastodon.au/users/smitjo]John Smith[/url] ps - my attitude is ditto for straight replies, not only q/b, btw, fwiw, imo, afaict, tla.

@[url=https://mastodon.au/users/smitjo]John Smith[/url] well obvs ...

2026-01-08T21:15:14Z

In reply to nevent1q…0wup
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@[url=https://mastodon.au/users/smitjo]John Smith[/url] well obvs i can't don't won't presume to dictate to others, but fwiw my attitude is that my adding tags to an OP i am q/b serves my purpose in doing the q/b in the first place, ie, letting others see an OP i regard as noteworthy, but also getting my take on it via any comments &/or tags i care to add. if putative readers see the OP, they can then make up their own mind as to not only the worth of it, but also whether i have helped or instead am just a fool. @[url=https://aus.social/users/treleanor]Trish Roberts[/url] @[url=https://toot.community/users/sister_ratched]Jude🇵🇸[/url]

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2026-01-08T21:04:42Z

In reply to nevent1q…2xh9
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@[url=https://toot.community/users/sister_ratched]Jude🇵🇸[/url] i've just quote-boosted it, with added tags, fwiw. @[url=https://aus.social/users/treleanor]Trish Roberts[/url] @[url=https://mastodon.au/users/smitjo]John Smith[/url]

can you [i]believe[/i] this shit?! ...

2026-01-08T04:24:39Z

can you [i]believe[/i] this shit?!

[url=https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/state/sa/2026/01/08/shock-writers-festival-decision]https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/state/sa/2026/01/08/shock-writers-festival-decision[/url]

i thought Louise Adler was much better than this.

#[url=https://friendica.opensocial.space/search?tag=discrimination]discrimination[/url] #[url=https://friendica.opensocial.space/search?tag=bigotry]bigotry[/url] #[url=https://friendica.opensocial.space/search?tag=bondi]bondi[/url] #[url=https://friendica.opensocial.space/search?tag=FuckZionism]FuckZionism[/url]
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2026-01-08T02:33:10Z

In reply to nevent1q…zw95
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@[url=https://toot.community/users/sister_ratched]Jude🇵🇸[/url] all the moo-cows look askance, & demand to know for what the hell they went to all that effort?

fuck it...

all the moo-cows look askance, & demand to know what the hell they went to all that effort for?

grammatically wrong, but the first one just feels totes wankerish.

aha...

all the moo-cows look askance, & demand to know why the hell they went to all that effort?

if at first you don't succeed...

...just irritate the hell outta fedi 🤪

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2026-01-07T21:19:13Z

In reply to nevent1q…70k9
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@[url=https://toot.community/users/sister_ratched]Jude🇵🇸[/url] i shall refrain from wishing HB -- fingers still burned from last time recently i did that whole HBTY beeswax... 🤪

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2026-01-06T22:39:44Z

In reply to nevent1q…yw28
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@[url=https://toot.community/users/sister_ratched]Jude🇵🇸[/url] is that the muffled roar of a chainsaw i hear?