Nich Hills
@nichhills.bsky.social
Husband, father, Anglican, retired tax and environmental professional.
Ngunnawal, Ngunawal and Ngambri country.
Ngunnawal, Ngunawal and Ngambri country.
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[Sad country song]:
My wife took the house
My kids ran away
My dog turned out fake
My truck turned out gay
What a poor Christian nationalist
Fella to do
Nothin' rhymes good with 'nationalist'
'cept rationalist
And, boy, that ain't you!
My wife took the house
My kids ran away
My dog turned out fake
My truck turned out gay
What a poor Christian nationalist
Fella to do
Nothin' rhymes good with 'nationalist'
'cept rationalist
And, boy, that ain't you!
November 18, 2025 at 2:47 AM
[Sad country song]:
My wife took the house
My kids ran away
My dog turned out fake
My truck turned out gay
What a poor Christian nationalist
Fella to do
Nothin' rhymes good with 'nationalist'
'cept rationalist
And, boy, that ain't you!
My wife took the house
My kids ran away
My dog turned out fake
My truck turned out gay
What a poor Christian nationalist
Fella to do
Nothin' rhymes good with 'nationalist'
'cept rationalist
And, boy, that ain't you!
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And recent research found that sperm whales communication systems (language?) has the equivalent of vowels!
www.popsci.com/environment/...
www.popsci.com/environment/...
Sperm whales use vowels like humans, new study finds
Scientists decoding whale clicks found patterns that echo the building blocks of human speech.
www.popsci.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:15 AM
And recent research found that sperm whales communication systems (language?) has the equivalent of vowels!
www.popsci.com/environment/...
www.popsci.com/environment/...
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Please remove your millinery and join me for a minute's silent mortification in sympathy with Olivia Nuzzi's editor.
It needs to be emphasized that this paragraph is about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
November 18, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Please remove your millinery and join me for a minute's silent mortification in sympathy with Olivia Nuzzi's editor.
I am reminded of a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto who, after a long life goes to Heaven and tells The LORD a Holocaust joke.
The LORD says, "I don't get it."
The survivor replies, "Perhaps you had to be there,"
The LORD says, "I don't get it."
The survivor replies, "Perhaps you had to be there,"
November 17, 2025 at 3:35 AM
I am reminded of a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto who, after a long life goes to Heaven and tells The LORD a Holocaust joke.
The LORD says, "I don't get it."
The survivor replies, "Perhaps you had to be there,"
The LORD says, "I don't get it."
The survivor replies, "Perhaps you had to be there,"
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Genocide prosecutions don’t evaporate just because there’s a ceasefire. What happened, happened. And justice must be done.
www.haaretz.com/magazine/202...
www.haaretz.com/magazine/202...
Ending the Gaza war won't halt Israel's legal troubles in The Hague
A Year After Arrest Warrants for Netanyahu and Former Defense Minister Gallant, and Two Years Into South Africa's ICJ Case, the Proceedings Against Israel Remain Firmly in Place. Trump's Sanctions and...
www.haaretz.com
November 15, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Genocide prosecutions don’t evaporate just because there’s a ceasefire. What happened, happened. And justice must be done.
www.haaretz.com/magazine/202...
www.haaretz.com/magazine/202...
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Can’t help but notice that since Sean Dunn got acquitted, there have been zero other sandwiches thrown at feds in DC.
Seems like an awfully suggestive piece of evidence against general deterrence.
Seems like an awfully suggestive piece of evidence against general deterrence.
November 15, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Can’t help but notice that since Sean Dunn got acquitted, there have been zero other sandwiches thrown at feds in DC.
Seems like an awfully suggestive piece of evidence against general deterrence.
Seems like an awfully suggestive piece of evidence against general deterrence.
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From @birmo.bsky.social, “They know they've lost” aliensideboob.substack.com/p/they-know-...
It’s about the Liberal Party and the net zero thing, but five stars for the new hashtag. #auspol-after-five-schooners-of-box-wine
It’s about the Liberal Party and the net zero thing, but five stars for the new hashtag. #auspol-after-five-schooners-of-box-wine
They know they've lost.
Okay, you’re going to have to bear with me here while I work through what just happened, because things just got very #auspol-after-five-schooners-of-box-wine.
aliensideboob.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:21 PM
From @birmo.bsky.social, “They know they've lost” aliensideboob.substack.com/p/they-know-...
It’s about the Liberal Party and the net zero thing, but five stars for the new hashtag. #auspol-after-five-schooners-of-box-wine
It’s about the Liberal Party and the net zero thing, but five stars for the new hashtag. #auspol-after-five-schooners-of-box-wine
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Just failed a captcha because of autocorrect. How am I supposed to prove I'm not a robot to the robot if robots keeps pushing me out of the way and showing off to the robot about their spelling.
November 12, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Just failed a captcha because of autocorrect. How am I supposed to prove I'm not a robot to the robot if robots keeps pushing me out of the way and showing off to the robot about their spelling.
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How quickly the mainstream media has chosen to forget about the site of the hideous Bowling Green massacre!
ICE reportedly standing down in Chicago as Trump cries: ‘CALL IN THE TROOPS’
President insists ‘murder and crime’ rampant in Miracle Mile Shopping Center area but federal forces being withdrawn and redeployed after contentious two-month stay, according to a report
www.independent.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 9:43 PM
How quickly the mainstream media has chosen to forget about the site of the hideous Bowling Green massacre!
You preside over economic growth, you expand the territory of your country, but some people can't get over your orchestration of the mass murder of half a million or so.
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto courts controversy by granting his former father-in-law, the authoritarian dictator Suharto, "national hero" status.
Indonesia accused of 'twisting facts' as former dictator named national hero
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto courts controversy by granting his former father-in-law, the authoritarian dictator Suharto, "national hero" status.
www.abc.net.au
November 11, 2025 at 9:43 PM
You preside over economic growth, you expand the territory of your country, but some people can't get over your orchestration of the mass murder of half a million or so.
I see The Guardian Australia has a new chief political correspondent, Dan Jervis-Bardy.
First, congratulations Dan.
Secondly, as that paper's chief political correspondent has a half-life approximate to a Spinal Tap drummer, good luck!
First, congratulations Dan.
Secondly, as that paper's chief political correspondent has a half-life approximate to a Spinal Tap drummer, good luck!
November 10, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I see The Guardian Australia has a new chief political correspondent, Dan Jervis-Bardy.
First, congratulations Dan.
Secondly, as that paper's chief political correspondent has a half-life approximate to a Spinal Tap drummer, good luck!
First, congratulations Dan.
Secondly, as that paper's chief political correspondent has a half-life approximate to a Spinal Tap drummer, good luck!
Mark Parton is the new leader of the ACT Liberals. Colourful yet eesults oriented, Parton represents a ne positive for the Libs.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
November 10, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Mark Parton is the new leader of the ACT Liberals. Colourful yet eesults oriented, Parton represents a ne positive for the Libs.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Strewth!
I need to know more but I guess this is good for ACT Liberals.
I need to know more but I guess this is good for ACT Liberals.
Leanne Castley's resignation comes after weeks of silence following the removal of Elizabeth Lee and Peter Cain from the Canberra Liberals party room.
Breaking: Leanne Castley, Jeremy Hanson step down as Canberra Liberals leaders
Leanne Castley's resignation comes after weeks of silence following the removal of Elizabeth Lee and Peter Cain from the Canberra Liberals party room.
www.abc.net.au
November 10, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Strewth!
I need to know more but I guess this is good for ACT Liberals.
I need to know more but I guess this is good for ACT Liberals.
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"There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus."
(Internally) "Is that laying it on too thick? Surely no one in the future will miss the message here"
(Internally) "Is that laying it on too thick? Surely no one in the future will miss the message here"
November 9, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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I love that first cuppa in the morning. At 5 AM most of the world are still waking up, it's quiet time for me and big dog, sharing a moment and just enjoying each other's company. When the cup is empty I'll go in and watch the News to find out what insane shenanigans went on overnight. Sigh.........
November 8, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I love that first cuppa in the morning. At 5 AM most of the world are still waking up, it's quiet time for me and big dog, sharing a moment and just enjoying each other's company. When the cup is empty I'll go in and watch the News to find out what insane shenanigans went on overnight. Sigh.........
I'm cool with a warfighting acquisitions system. It seems like something a Department of Kabloom!! should have.
Hegseth: "Today, at my direction, the defense acquisitions system as you know it is dead. It's now the warfighting acquisitions system. This isn't just a name change."
November 7, 2025 at 8:17 PM
I'm cool with a warfighting acquisitions system. It seems like something a Department of Kabloom!! should have.
Healthiest alternative, second crappiest. Tomato, tomato.
November 7, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Healthiest alternative, second crappiest. Tomato, tomato.
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Any chance of a repost @ottoenglish.bsky.social @mrjamesob.bsky.social @markhamillofficial.bsky.social @profaliceroberts.bsky.social @lewisgoodall.com @chadbourn.bsky.social @nigella.bsky.social @georgetakei.bsky.social ?
It would be super if you could :-)
It would be super if you could :-)
Hello!
As we know men of a certain age start to get prostate problems, and in certain cases that becomes quite grim. I'm going to embarrass myself for a month by growing an awful moustache, and raise some money for charity.
Any donations hugely appreciated!
uk.movember.com/mospace/5182...
As we know men of a certain age start to get prostate problems, and in certain cases that becomes quite grim. I'm going to embarrass myself for a month by growing an awful moustache, and raise some money for charity.
Any donations hugely appreciated!
uk.movember.com/mospace/5182...
Paul Newport's Mo Space
Paul's Motivation: Globally, more than 1.4M men are diagnosed with prostate cancer each year. The Movember Foundation is working to halve the number of deaths from prostate cancer by 2030, and I want ...
uk.movember.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Any chance of a repost @ottoenglish.bsky.social @mrjamesob.bsky.social @markhamillofficial.bsky.social @profaliceroberts.bsky.social @lewisgoodall.com @chadbourn.bsky.social @nigella.bsky.social @georgetakei.bsky.social ?
It would be super if you could :-)
It would be super if you could :-)
Sound Jewish theology. If you say God can have a body then you're no better than a common Christian.
November 6, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Sound Jewish theology. If you say God can have a body then you're no better than a common Christian.
You cannae change the laws of physics.
November 6, 2025 at 10:47 AM
You cannae change the laws of physics.
I've been a long term believer in a resident for President. Today, looking around I see our Monarch shared by Canada and New Zealand, neither undignified. I also see resident presidents in China, Turkey and the USA.
More important constitutional changes go first. The Voice, anybody?
More important constitutional changes go first. The Voice, anybody?
Awed Albo abandons republic (and Australia's dignity) in haste to embrace King Charles
independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...
independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...
Awed Albo abandons republic (and Australia's dignity) in haste to embrace King Charles
Albo's recent meeting with Charles Windsor and avid declaration that Australia would not become a fully independent nation had interesting echoes to the past.
independentaustralia.net
November 6, 2025 at 1:48 AM
I've been a long term believer in a resident for President. Today, looking around I see our Monarch shared by Canada and New Zealand, neither undignified. I also see resident presidents in China, Turkey and the USA.
More important constitutional changes go first. The Voice, anybody?
More important constitutional changes go first. The Voice, anybody?
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Responded with cranky reflexivity when a friend scorned ACT as being just a local council - cos in many ways we continue to be the mouse that roared. So many reforms that - after proof of concept - eventually get taken up by the states
Why is NSW Attorney General, Michael Daley, refusing to consider a similar reform to the recent ACT bill, which overturned a decision that allowed the church to avoid litigation over the abuse perpetrated by its priests? #auspol #NSWpol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
ACT becomes the mouse that roared in helping survivors fight for justice
Survivors watched on as the ACT took a historic step on Tuesday in passing a bill to overturn a High Court decision that allowed a church to avoid litigation over the actions of one of its priests.
www.abc.net.au
November 4, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Responded with cranky reflexivity when a friend scorned ACT as being just a local council - cos in many ways we continue to be the mouse that roared. So many reforms that - after proof of concept - eventually get taken up by the states
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Prisoners spending entire jail term in police cells as Victoria’s justice system buckles
Prisoners in police cells often have less access to healthcare and less chance of being visited by family and lawyers
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Prisoners in police cells often have less access to healthcare and less chance of being visited by family and lawyers
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Prisoners spending entire jail term in police cells as Victoria’s justice system buckles
Prisoners in police cells often have less access to healthcare and less chance of being visited by family and lawyers
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Prisoners spending entire jail term in police cells as Victoria’s justice system buckles
Prisoners in police cells often have less access to healthcare and less chance of being visited by family and lawyers
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Prisoners in police cells often have less access to healthcare and less chance of being visited by family and lawyers
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...