gerry
@geraldmellor.bsky.social
Permanently exhausted dad. Programmer. Tea drinker. Plant eater (he/him)
Profile pic drawn by Alana (www.alanavision.com / @deathtodickens)
South Australia/Scotland
Profile pic drawn by Alana (www.alanavision.com / @deathtodickens)
South Australia/Scotland
In the 90s, “what if the president was horny” was not so hard to imagine. The real stretch was “what if the president was horny but also a decent guy”
THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT is part of an honest-to-goodness mini-genre of movies in the 1990s that you could sum up as, "what if the president was horny?"
The Charming Wish-Fulfillment of The American President
Aaron Sorkin’s first dramatization of life in the West Wing hit theaters 25 years ago, and it seems even more like fantasy today:
crookedmarquee.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:35 AM
In the 90s, “what if the president was horny” was not so hard to imagine. The real stretch was “what if the president was horny but also a decent guy”
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How terrible do you have to be for one of the worst people who ever existed to say you’re the most “bad” person he’s ever met?
Jeffrey Epstein: "I have met some very bad people. None as bad as Trump. Not one decent cell in his body."
November 13, 2025 at 3:06 AM
How terrible do you have to be for one of the worst people who ever existed to say you’re the most “bad” person he’s ever met?
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marco rubio and elon musk
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 2:51 AM
marco rubio and elon musk
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No more Black or trans staffers. No politics of any kind. The cowardice of mainstream media isn't just insulting, it's *boring.* Now TV is just like any other beauty rag. Why not just kill it quickly? Why the slow-motion pretense?
thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
November 4, 2025 at 12:35 AM
No more Black or trans staffers. No politics of any kind. The cowardice of mainstream media isn't just insulting, it's *boring.* Now TV is just like any other beauty rag. Why not just kill it quickly? Why the slow-motion pretense?
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kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school
October 15, 2025 at 7:45 AM
kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school
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Counter Protests nationwide this Sunday 19 October against March for Australia:
Melbourne - 11am @ State Library
Brisbane - 11am @ Queens Gardens
Perth - 12pm @ Forrest Place
Canberra - 11am @ NLA Lawns
Sydney - 11am @ Belmore Park
Adelaide - 11:30am @ Beehive Corner
Melbourne - 11am @ State Library
Brisbane - 11am @ Queens Gardens
Perth - 12pm @ Forrest Place
Canberra - 11am @ NLA Lawns
Sydney - 11am @ Belmore Park
Adelaide - 11:30am @ Beehive Corner
October 13, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Counter Protests nationwide this Sunday 19 October against March for Australia:
Melbourne - 11am @ State Library
Brisbane - 11am @ Queens Gardens
Perth - 12pm @ Forrest Place
Canberra - 11am @ NLA Lawns
Sydney - 11am @ Belmore Park
Adelaide - 11:30am @ Beehive Corner
Melbourne - 11am @ State Library
Brisbane - 11am @ Queens Gardens
Perth - 12pm @ Forrest Place
Canberra - 11am @ NLA Lawns
Sydney - 11am @ Belmore Park
Adelaide - 11:30am @ Beehive Corner
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I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.
October 11, 2025 at 11:10 PM
I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.
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A story indistinguishable from those depicted/dramatized in all the WWII / Holocaust movies and plays and novels we grew up with
During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.
It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.
He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’
During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...
chicago.suntimes.com
October 11, 2025 at 2:05 AM
A story indistinguishable from those depicted/dramatized in all the WWII / Holocaust movies and plays and novels we grew up with
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Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.
Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild
October 7, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.
Indescribably depressing that an old Tory like Heseltine comes across as more radical than most politicians who are ostensibly to his left, just by speaking honestly and being capable of understanding history
“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”
“Because that’s what they are”
@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.
#Newsnight
“Because that’s what they are”
@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.
#Newsnight
October 8, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Indescribably depressing that an old Tory like Heseltine comes across as more radical than most politicians who are ostensibly to his left, just by speaking honestly and being capable of understanding history
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Not a single Greta hater could do what she has done, face what she's faced, bear abuse and humiliation at the hands of the most psychotic and genocidal army. They haven't an ounce of her bravery and that's what drives them crazy. Free Greta, free Palestine🇵🇸
October 4, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Not a single Greta hater could do what she has done, face what she's faced, bear abuse and humiliation at the hands of the most psychotic and genocidal army. They haven't an ounce of her bravery and that's what drives them crazy. Free Greta, free Palestine🇵🇸
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one thing that is true for everyone reading this: unless something changes dramatically the number of people who agree with you on what basic facts constitute "reality" will shrink every year for the rest of your life
September 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
one thing that is true for everyone reading this: unless something changes dramatically the number of people who agree with you on what basic facts constitute "reality" will shrink every year for the rest of your life
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It feels like an insult to the notion of objective reality to invoke “experts” to weigh in on a numerical fact you can verify with a pocket calculator
September 26, 2025 at 3:42 AM
It feels like an insult to the notion of objective reality to invoke “experts” to weigh in on a numerical fact you can verify with a pocket calculator
Can’t wait for this shit show to hit Australia
Wrote about how the UK's online age verification requirements are already proving to be a disaster (as UK regulators were clearly warned it would be) and how unhelpful the UK's response to this mess has been, including their tech minister saying anyone who complains supports predators.
Didn’t Take Long To Reveal The UK’s Online Safety Act Is Exactly The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About
Well, well, well. The “age assurance” part of the UK's Online Safety Act has finally gone into effect, with its age checking requirements kicking in a week and a half ago. And what…
Well, well, well. The “age assurance” part of the UK's Online Safety Act has finally gone into effect, with its age checking requirements kicking in a week and a half ago. And what…
August 5, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Can’t wait for this shit show to hit Australia
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Opinion | It is absurd to claim that it’s “too late” to stop climate change. If you accept the basic science explaining how we make things worse, you must accept the basic science of how we stop making things worse, @ketanjoshi.co writes.
Climate fatalism is just as wrong as climate denial — it's never 'too late' for change
Veteran environmentalist David Suzuki believes the time has passed us to stop climate change. He's wrong.
www.crikey.com.au
July 14, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Opinion | It is absurd to claim that it’s “too late” to stop climate change. If you accept the basic science explaining how we make things worse, you must accept the basic science of how we stop making things worse, @ketanjoshi.co writes.
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hey every single journalist who still uses twitter as your primary site, does the fact that the chatbot is promoting the Final Solution rise to the level of a news story or no
stop making this the global hub for news communication
stop making this the global hub for news communication
July 8, 2025 at 9:05 PM
hey every single journalist who still uses twitter as your primary site, does the fact that the chatbot is promoting the Final Solution rise to the level of a news story or no
stop making this the global hub for news communication
stop making this the global hub for news communication
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This 83-year-old priest has just been arrested for holding a sign which read:
“I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.”
According to Starmer’s new law, this puts her in the same category as an ISIS or Al-Qaeda terrorist, with a prison sentence of up to 14 years.
“I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.”
According to Starmer’s new law, this puts her in the same category as an ISIS or Al-Qaeda terrorist, with a prison sentence of up to 14 years.
July 5, 2025 at 3:18 PM
This 83-year-old priest has just been arrested for holding a sign which read:
“I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.”
According to Starmer’s new law, this puts her in the same category as an ISIS or Al-Qaeda terrorist, with a prison sentence of up to 14 years.
“I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.”
According to Starmer’s new law, this puts her in the same category as an ISIS or Al-Qaeda terrorist, with a prison sentence of up to 14 years.
@scalzi.com I just finished reading The Kaiju Preservation Society. During an intensely anxiety-filled week, it was the perfect escapist distraction for me, so I just wanted to say thank you
July 6, 2025 at 4:39 AM
@scalzi.com I just finished reading The Kaiju Preservation Society. During an intensely anxiety-filled week, it was the perfect escapist distraction for me, so I just wanted to say thank you
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When the conversation "is AI racist" first came up it was the argument that it will just mirror the unconscious biases of the creators. I wasn't expecting something as brazen as a nazi (Elon) actively injecting white supremacist talking points into the algorithm
gizmodo.com/grok-ai-is-r...
gizmodo.com/grok-ai-is-r...
Grok AI Is Replying to Random Tweets With Information About 'White Genocide'
Elon Musk's AI is obsessed with the South African conspiracy theory.
gizmodo.com
May 15, 2025 at 8:33 AM
When the conversation "is AI racist" first came up it was the argument that it will just mirror the unconscious biases of the creators. I wasn't expecting something as brazen as a nazi (Elon) actively injecting white supremacist talking points into the algorithm
gizmodo.com/grok-ai-is-r...
gizmodo.com/grok-ai-is-r...
Was feeling pretty great and energised from Dutton’s loss but Albo’s long speech is slowly sapping it all away
May 3, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Was feeling pretty great and energised from Dutton’s loss but Albo’s long speech is slowly sapping it all away
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Perhaps Albo will feel secure enough to start growing a spine now.
May 3, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Perhaps Albo will feel secure enough to start growing a spine now.
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Just got a message from a mate: “Can Peter Dutton get a ‘Goodbye From Country’?”
😂
😂
May 3, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Just got a message from a mate: “Can Peter Dutton get a ‘Goodbye From Country’?”
😂
😂
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It’s actually the law to punch every Nazi in the face
Refugee forum in Kooyong electorate, Victoria last night, Rick shares this incredible picture.
Respect to the woman✊
#Auspol #AusVotes2025 #PunchANazi
Respect to the woman✊
#Auspol #AusVotes2025 #PunchANazi
April 24, 2025 at 9:11 AM
It’s actually the law to punch every Nazi in the face