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I like making music, mostly with guitars, but with anything, really.
Frequently sighted in Dee Why, New South Wales, Australia 🇦🇺

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Fascism
Trump's FCC Chair says he will put a "bias monitor" in place who will "report directly" to Trump as part of the deal for Sky Dance to acquire CBS
July 26, 2025 at 9:35 AM
RIP Rick. Thank you for your huge part in the gift of The Jam 👏

www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Rick Buckler, drummer of The Jam, dies aged 69 after short illness
The musician, along with band members Paul Weller and Bruce Foxton, had many hits in the 1970s and 1980s, including four UK No 1s
www.theguardian.com
February 19, 2025 at 4:24 AM
'Peter Dutton says US president Donald Trump brings “gravitas” to the Middle East conflict and that he is a “big thinker”.'

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Australia politics live: Dutton says Trump a ‘big thinker’ as Francesca Albanese condemns ‘pathetic’ countries for not pushing back on Gaza plan
Follow the latest updates live
www.theguardian.com
February 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
This is a very cool thing. Annabel Sutherland is the first woman to score a test century at the Melbourne #Cricket Ground, and they've already put her name up on the honour board, just like they would for a man who scores a century. No fuss, no controversy, no separate board for the ladies. Classy.
February 1, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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If you are a federal worker being offered a buyout, I would advise against taking it.

Of course, this is a personal decision for everyone and it’s your choice.

But these offers are a rush job. The legality is questionable and this admin does not keep to its word.

They aren’t firing for a reason.
January 30, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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i think people who complain about the language police are, by and large, just cowards. say whatever you want! no one is going to stop you. but people may judge you or even, if you say the wrong thing in front of the wrong person, pop you in the mouth. but that’s life!
January 28, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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I will continue to teach about these heroes, including in my current WW2 class, as was on the syllabus long before Trump tried to suppress these histories.
The Air Force will no longer teach its recruits about the Tuskegee Airmen, Black pioneer pilots honored for their service during World War II. Also halted, teaching the history of Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs, the female World War II pilots who were essential in ferrying warplanes…
January 26, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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FINALLY we are seeing some pushback from SOMEBODY! Lawyer up, Donnie
January 26, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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Can we get people to focus on the fact that Greenlanders have EU status (which is kinda valuable) and that 90% of Greenlanders are indigenous Inuits??

No, they don’t “want to be with us.” This is straight up imperialist menace and a prelude to war with Denmark. A nightmare.
On Greenland: “I think we’re going to have it. I think the people want to be with us,” President Trump tells reporters on AF1. “I don’t really know what claim Denmark has to it, but it’d be a very unfriendly act if they didn’t allow that to happen because it’s for the protection of the free world.”
January 26, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Sserioussly?!?
January 26, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Indeed, indeed
January 25, 2025 at 6:15 AM
This's how you do free speech. 👍
January 25, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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Anyone trying to chalk this up to Elon’s announcement that he’s on the spectrum or w/e likely doesn’t know people with autism, who are often very lovely and usually not imbecilic Great Replacement Theory freaks
January 24, 2025 at 4:18 AM
What a nice little vid:

Let Me Tell You About Garth Hudson of The Band

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLBu...

#RIP Garth
#TheBand
Let Me Tell You About Garth Hudson of The Band
YouTube video by Weird Catastrophe by Kody Cava
www.youtube.com
January 22, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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Just to be clear, Australian law definitely doesn’t say we need to blur Nazi salutes in news reports come on, folks.
The entire nation of Australia gets it. Media in that country are having to blur what Elon Musk did twice in public today because of laws there regarding the Nazi salute.
January 21, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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Who gets the benefit of the doubt?A teenager tagged by cops as a gang member b/c he shops at a particular bodega or wears the wrong color? A Black man the NYPD decides is “furtively walking”? OR a white man from apartheid S.A. who posts antisemitic/racist stereotypes & endorses the Nazi adjacent 1/
January 21, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Apparently, some people are trying to dismiss this behaviour as a "Roman salute".

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

They should try reading a history book:
January 20, 2025 at 11:14 PM
What. A. Catch.

Ash Garner takes a classic:

#AUSvENG #Cricket 🏏
January 17, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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"Australians may have to pay more for their home insurance as catastrophic fires in the United States add to a growing list of climate disasters driving up premiums."

Don't believe in #climate change? Well, your insurance company does.

https://buff.ly/4gRjlP5 #auspol
January 14, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Where was this an hour ago?🤷‍♂️

#AUSvIND
December 30, 2024 at 5:25 AM
Oh, Rishabh 🤦‍♂️

#AUSvIND
December 30, 2024 at 4:44 AM