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Sometimes I make stuff. 🧶
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What’s left?
My @smh @theage cartoon.
August 11, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
May 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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If you wondered whether #GenderBias is real, complete the sentence.

'amid a growing recognition that women's pain should be treated'...

...rather than what? Letting us suffer? Needlessly adding barriers to healthcare? Choosing not to listen? 👀👀👀
npr.org NPR @npr.org · May 20
A major medical group now recommends pain-blocking treatments for IUD insertion and other procedures amid a growing recognition that women's pain should be treated.
Doctors urged to treat pain for IUD insertion and other procedures
A major medical group now recommends pain-blocking treatments for IUD insertion and other procedures amid a growing recognition that women's pain should be treated.
www.npr.org
May 20, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Every time you see what sounds like a wild claim about woke research, you can assume a) it will fall apart under the most basic of inspection, b) the person making the claim will never be held accountable for lying, and c) it is a cover to gut useful research that we benefit from.
Trump claimed the Biden administration spent $8 million "making mice transgender." The White House tried to back up this number with records of funding for research into cancer, asthma, and HIV, some of which used *transgenic* (genetically modified) mice.
Trump Decried Millions Spent 'Making Mice Transgender.' It Was Cancer and Asthma Research
President Trump falsely claimed that Biden spent $8 million on 'making mice transgender,' but the real research was for human health.
www.rollingstone.com
March 5, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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What a front cover...
March 6, 2025 at 11:09 AM
So, is putting part packets of different flavour chips in the same container pragmatic adulting or a sign of having given up?
February 16, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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See here's how to do a headline.

fortune.com/2025/02/13/e...
February 13, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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It says something that there is no public clamour for a government response to the Daily Telegraph’s ‘undercoverjew’ operation.
This is because the only source of public clamour in this country is news corp.
February 14, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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News Corp in Australia are running campaigns to try and incite violence towards Jewish people, and film / report on the incidents - this attempt was botched and now the internal documents planning the provocation in News Corp's system are leaked

@crikey.com.au

www.crikey.com.au/2025/02/14/n...
February 14, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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The coup was premeditated and this has always been a core part of the plan.

Kushner was talking about the horrific euphemism of cleaning up Gaza and developing its valuable waterfront property back in march.

#thisisacoup

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024... #uspoli #thisisacoup
February 6, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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They've given up pretending.
My SMH/The Age cartoon.
February 5, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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We needed Albo to show leadership today. Instead he again retreated when it mattered. Asked about Trump wanting to ethnically cleanse Gaza all we got was more meekness. Instead of simply saying “we will never support ethnic cleaning or forcibly displacement of Palestinians.” 1/2
February 5, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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Never forget that Elon *refused to take down* the violent video watched by Axel Rudakubana 40 minutes before he murdered these girls.
January 25, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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January 24, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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The conservative opposition in #Australia has promised to make taxpayers pay for business people to go to the movies, play golf, eat lunch, go to the football &this is reported as a “tax shake up”. Imagine if someone proposed taxpayers pay for union leaders, unemployed people, students getting this?
January 23, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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VICTORY! After over a decade, a federal court has declared that warrantless backdoor searches of US person’s communications collected under Section 702 of FISA is unconstitutional.
VICTORY! Federal Court (Finally) Rules Backdoor Searches of 702 Data Unconstitutional
Better late than never: last night a federal district court held that backdoor searches of databases full of Americans’ private communications collected under Section 702 ordinarily require a warrant....
www.eff.org
January 22, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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January 19, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Anti-voice campaigner Warren Mundine loses Liberal preselection bid for key, inner Sydney seat of Bradfield
Anti-voice campaigner Warren Mundine loses Liberal preselection bid for key, inner Sydney seat of Bradfield
Liberal moderates concerned he could not secure north shore seat which was the only Liberal-held seat in Australia to vote yes in voice referendum * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Anti-voice campaigner Warren Mundine had…
www.theguardian.com
January 18, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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We live in the ✨ world of tomorrow ✨
January 16, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Demolition works next door are intense. My building is shaking.

And I need to sleep...
January 17, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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January 16, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Mysteriously, I got logged out of my account in the other place. Now I'm struggling to get back in as, apparently, there are many other accounts using my credentials.

While I've been looking for my favourite accounts that have migrated, I'd appreciate suggestions for new ones.

My likes below:
January 13, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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I found this LA fires survivor very touching, in all her exhausted clarity.

"Climate change is happening everywhere. So, I guess, pick your disaster and live there. Because that is the world we're in." ~AA
January 10, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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