Chupacabracadabra
@castironbalcony.bsky.social
Opinionated ageing rocker
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Every legal story now is either
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
October 3, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Every legal story now is either
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
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Every interview with a right-wing politician is like: "Mr. Hitler is adamant: If we sacrifice enough children, Santa Claus will come back and deliver 5% GDP growth. But I have to ask him: Do you ever worry that your relentless advocacy for working folks offends the rootless cosmopolitan parasites?"
I don’t get how Jenrick can actually believe that we should shrink the population and then start making more of our own things from pots and pans to what iPhones? How does he think that happens?
December 6, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Every interview with a right-wing politician is like: "Mr. Hitler is adamant: If we sacrifice enough children, Santa Claus will come back and deliver 5% GDP growth. But I have to ask him: Do you ever worry that your relentless advocacy for working folks offends the rootless cosmopolitan parasites?"
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Even 10 years ago this would have looked like a fun but unbelievable piece of world-building for a cyberpunk dystopia. But here we are.
"Soon, CNN will run live odds on world events where its viewers can gamble on them in real time on their smartphones."
CNN Partners With a Gambling App That Lets You Wager on Starvation in Gaza
The app company’s two biggest investors are also heavily invested in the Israeli military.
truthout.org
December 6, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Even 10 years ago this would have looked like a fun but unbelievable piece of world-building for a cyberpunk dystopia. But here we are.
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Sure Murray Watt will be clapping his flippers at that news.
60,000 African penguins starved to death after sardine numbers collapsed. Climate crisis and overfishing contributed to loss of 95% of penguins in two breeding colonies in South Africa.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
60,000 African penguins starved to death after sardine numbers collapsed – study
Climate crisis and overfishing contributed to loss of 95% of penguins in two breeding colonies in South Africa, research finds
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Sure Murray Watt will be clapping his flippers at that news.
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I suspect you have to be quite racist to stand out as "the racist guy" at a boys public school of the 1980s.
December 5, 2025 at 8:25 AM
I suspect you have to be quite racist to stand out as "the racist guy" at a boys public school of the 1980s.
While we, the rest of the world, look on with horror at the things going on in the US, sometimes we see good things too
A broad swath of religious leaders packed into a Minneapolis mosque condemn ongoing attacks from President Donald Trump against Minnesota’s Somali community.
Twin Cities religious leaders unite to support Somali community and condemn Trump attacks
Religious leaders from churches, Jewish temples and mosques from across the state opposed remarks from President Donald Trump that included calling Somalis “garbage.”
www.startribune.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:39 AM
While we, the rest of the world, look on with horror at the things going on in the US, sometimes we see good things too
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Once again, a Scottish newspaper takes a stand, refusing to follow the mainstream media mob in perpetuating the great fiction that is the Gaza “ceasefire”.
The @scotnational.bsky.social puts their peers to shame.
The @scotnational.bsky.social puts their peers to shame.
December 4, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Once again, a Scottish newspaper takes a stand, refusing to follow the mainstream media mob in perpetuating the great fiction that is the Gaza “ceasefire”.
The @scotnational.bsky.social puts their peers to shame.
The @scotnational.bsky.social puts their peers to shame.
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December 5, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Laughs in politician, woman, LGBTQ+ people, Muslim, young person, Indigenous person, blogger, cyclist, asylum
seekers….
seekers….
December 1, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Laughs in politician, woman, LGBTQ+ people, Muslim, young person, Indigenous person, blogger, cyclist, asylum
seekers….
seekers….
Lazy Sunday afternoon
November 30, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Lazy Sunday afternoon
Feeling very smug today having ridden into work and arrived just before this storm blew in #MelbourneWeather
November 25, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Feeling very smug today having ridden into work and arrived just before this storm blew in #MelbourneWeather
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Can I just point out:
American Journalists and Influencer folk if your president has dementia, X just accidentally gave you a beautiful gift to cause severe destabilisation and distress in your president, which will cause exhaustion, and faster decline.
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American Journalists and Influencer folk if your president has dementia, X just accidentally gave you a beautiful gift to cause severe destabilisation and distress in your president, which will cause exhaustion, and faster decline.
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Meanwhile on TruthSocial...
Shared today by President Trump
Shared today by President Trump
November 24, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Can I just point out:
American Journalists and Influencer folk if your president has dementia, X just accidentally gave you a beautiful gift to cause severe destabilisation and distress in your president, which will cause exhaustion, and faster decline.
1/
American Journalists and Influencer folk if your president has dementia, X just accidentally gave you a beautiful gift to cause severe destabilisation and distress in your president, which will cause exhaustion, and faster decline.
1/
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November 24, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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So you mistakenly dismembered a journalist?
MBS claims the murder of Khashoggi was "a huge mistake and we're our doing our best that this doesn't happen again."
November 18, 2025 at 6:12 PM
So you mistakenly dismembered a journalist?
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You would hope that in an age of accelerating technology and environmental risks, that a government that can somehow find hundreds of billions to send on submarines, could meet this challenge by upping the funding for science, rather than firing the scientists.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
'The cost of science has gone up': CSIRO chief defends job cuts
The chief executive of the CSIRO has defended the decision to cut hundreds of jobs, arguing the organisation needs to alter its priorities to remain relevant.
www.abc.net.au
November 19, 2025 at 1:31 AM
You would hope that in an age of accelerating technology and environmental risks, that a government that can somehow find hundreds of billions to send on submarines, could meet this challenge by upping the funding for science, rather than firing the scientists.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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These aren't minor clues missed in investigations, this is systemic misogynist contempt for all women but *particularly* for victims of regular and horrific violence, presumably on the assumption that they have exaggerated it and/or 'asked for it'
CW: DV, murder, rape, cops being fucking useless
CW: DV, murder, rape, cops being fucking useless
Gail Karran recorded the savage beating that killed her. Shocking new evidence reveals how police failed her www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Gail Karran recorded the savage beating that killed her. Shocking new evidence reveals how police failed her
Exclusive: A secret audio device recorded Bill Karran raping, hitting and choking his wife of 30 years – immediately after he was released, drunk, from a Queensland watch house
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:03 AM
These aren't minor clues missed in investigations, this is systemic misogynist contempt for all women but *particularly* for victims of regular and horrific violence, presumably on the assumption that they have exaggerated it and/or 'asked for it'
CW: DV, murder, rape, cops being fucking useless
CW: DV, murder, rape, cops being fucking useless
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On our ABC News site today Karvelas wrote about the Victorian Liberal leadership without mentioning Jess Wilson worked for Josh Frydenberg and has IPA connections.
The article was called “analysis”.
So many alleged journalists appear to be deliberately ignorant of the true nature of the Liberals.
The article was called “analysis”.
So many alleged journalists appear to be deliberately ignorant of the true nature of the Liberals.
November 19, 2025 at 3:29 AM
On our ABC News site today Karvelas wrote about the Victorian Liberal leadership without mentioning Jess Wilson worked for Josh Frydenberg and has IPA connections.
The article was called “analysis”.
So many alleged journalists appear to be deliberately ignorant of the true nature of the Liberals.
The article was called “analysis”.
So many alleged journalists appear to be deliberately ignorant of the true nature of the Liberals.
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November 19, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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"Microsoft warns that Windows 11's agentic AI could install malware on your PC: 'Only enable this feature if you understand the security implications.'"
bro what--
what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?
bro what--
what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?
November 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
"Microsoft warns that Windows 11's agentic AI could install malware on your PC: 'Only enable this feature if you understand the security implications.'"
bro what--
what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?
bro what--
what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?
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Well, this is total garbage!
We need MORE R&D, not less, at this critical time... to be out front in innovation.
World leaders.
We have the smarts, the will and the energy.
WTF @albomp.bsky.social !!
We need MORE R&D, not less, at this critical time... to be out front in innovation.
World leaders.
We have the smarts, the will and the energy.
WTF @albomp.bsky.social !!
Who would think that at this point in Australia’s economic transition we should be spending more, not less, on research and development…
Imagine if we taxed the gas industry and pant more on R&D…crazy talk … #cliamte
thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
Imagine if we taxed the gas industry and pant more on R&D…crazy talk … #cliamte
thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
CSIRO 350 job cuts a damning indictment on Government priorities, misses 'golden opportunity' on research
The announcement this week that CSIRO are to cut 350 research jobs is another damning indictment on Australia’s ongoing failure to prioritise research and development.
thepoint.com.au
November 19, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Well, this is total garbage!
We need MORE R&D, not less, at this critical time... to be out front in innovation.
World leaders.
We have the smarts, the will and the energy.
WTF @albomp.bsky.social !!
We need MORE R&D, not less, at this critical time... to be out front in innovation.
World leaders.
We have the smarts, the will and the energy.
WTF @albomp.bsky.social !!
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100's of jobs cut at CSIRO when it has never been more important for govts to invest in science & research. Why can Labor find $$ for AUKUS but not our nation’s premier science, industry & research org? The Greens implore the Albanese government to commit funding & prevent cuts.
November 19, 2025 at 3:37 AM
100's of jobs cut at CSIRO when it has never been more important for govts to invest in science & research. Why can Labor find $$ for AUKUS but not our nation’s premier science, industry & research org? The Greens implore the Albanese government to commit funding & prevent cuts.
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And people don't get how little CSIRO even costs the government! AUKUS costs the equivalent of *centuries* of CSIRO funding; we're spending less then a billion a year on it. The NHMRC and the ARC, our primary grant bodies, are also struggling and on similar amounts.
November 19, 2025 at 3:40 AM
And people don't get how little CSIRO even costs the government! AUKUS costs the equivalent of *centuries* of CSIRO funding; we're spending less then a billion a year on it. The NHMRC and the ARC, our primary grant bodies, are also struggling and on similar amounts.