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Just a Toasty Warm Hamster in a tiny jumper. I live on Wangal and Jerrinja land and pay my respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.
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Toasty Warm Hamster @toastywarmhamster.bsky.social · Nov 14
Let's get this party started.
I have no idea what I'm doing.
toastywarmhamster.bsky.social
it's for you, Gough
🖤🤍🤎💜💙💚💛🧡❤️

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdo1...
The Whitlams - Gough (Official Video)
YouTube video by thewhitlamsofficial
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November 11, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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drlisacorrigan.bsky.social
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
katz.theracket.news Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · Oct 19
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
toastywarmhamster.bsky.social
Stone added that the team decided to put eyes on the p3n1s, which would make it a character: “If we put eyes on the p3n1s, we won’t blur it. That was a whole conversation with grown-up people for four fucking days.”

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
‘We’re terribly sorry’: South Park creators respond with humour to White House anger over naked Donald Trump
Speaking at Comic-Con on Thursday, Trey Parker and Matt Stone revealed they spent days negotiating with producers to show the US president’s genitals
www.theguardian.com
July 25, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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fionakatauskas.bsky.social
In the @australia.theguardian.com six weeks ago
Four panel cartoon. Panel 1: White woman smiles sadly at her happy child while they both eat from bowls full of food at home. Above the woman's head is a thought bubble with starving Palestinian children holding out empty bowls Panel 2: White woman walking to the park on a sunny day. Her happy child skips along ahead of her. Above the woman's head is a thought bubble showing an exhausted, thin Palestinian mother walking along carrying her belongings looking up at bombs falling from the sky. Her exhausted son walks ahead, also carrying belongings Panel 3: White woman puts a bandaid on her crying son's knee Above the woman's head is a thought bubble with a starving Palestinian boy who has had his leg blown off being raced to hospital on a stretcher Panel 4: White woman hugs her happy son in a tight embrace. Above the woman's head is a thought bubble with terrified starving Palestinian mother tightly clutching her terrified son as bombs drop in the distance
July 25, 2025 at 7:56 AM
toastywarmhamster.bsky.social
This is a great article from the (Australian) ABC! All the 'How to Vote' cards from all the major parties from all the electorates in our Federal election. You can do your own at the bottom of the article, and you can look up your own electorate. Nifty!

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
The strange 'ballot-fellows' revealed on parties' how-to-vote cards
The full set of major party players' how-to-vote guides for the House of Representatives reveals some surprising alliances.
www.abc.net.au
May 2, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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50501movement.bsky.social
You’ve probably seen people mention the 3.5% Rule. But do you know what it really means? 1/
White text on black background with a big 50501 logo at the bottom. The 50501 logo is a blue circle within a white circle within a red circle. The blue circle has "50" over another "50" and a big "1" to the right of those 50's. The blue circle also has a ring of white start near its outer edge. Text at the top reads: "What really is the 3.5% Rule?" White text on black background with a small 50501 logo at the bottom. Text reads: What is the 3.5% Rule? Political scientist Erica Chenoweth (they/them) studied over 300 violent and nonviolent campaigns. They found that when 3.5% of a population joins in a “peak” action, movements have been highly likely to succeed at “maximalist” goals, such as removing a national leader. The 3.5% rule helps us imagine what’s possible. In the U.S. that’s about 11.7 million people or about 107 people in every city and town. We don’t need everyone. We just need enough. Source: Erica Chenoweth, “Questions, Answers, and Some Cautionary Updates Regarding the 3.5% Rule” (2020) White text on black background with a small 50501 logo at the bottom. Text reads: The 3.5% Rule; Maximalist Goals; Historically, when 3.5% of a population has joined together in non-violent action, success at achieving “maximalist” goals has often followed. Maximalist goals are the most ambitious demands a movement can make such as removing a national leader from office, ending an occupying force, or achieving territorial independence. These goals seek to change who holds power or control, rather than making policy reforms within the existing system. Source: Erica Chenoweth, “Questions, Answers, and Some Cautionary Updates Regarding the 3.5% Rule” (2020) White text on black background with a small 50501 logo at the bottom. Text reads: The 3.5% Rule; 3.5% is based on peak participation, not cumulative participation; Many people mistakenly think the rule refers to everyone who ever joined the movement. Chenoweth’s statistic is about how many people were involved at the movement’s largest moment of visible, act of resistance. The rule is descriptive, not prescriptive; Chenoweth only noticed the 3.5% pattern after the fact, when asked how many people it takes to win. The number was not part of the original hypothesis or a forecast; it emerged from the data. Source: Erica Chenoweth, “Questions, Answers, and Some Cautionary Updates Regarding the 3.5% Rule” (2020)
April 17, 2025 at 10:40 PM
toastywarmhamster.bsky.social
Laughsob
mrsbettybowers.bsky.social Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · Mar 18
Don't cry for me bureaucracy!
The truth is, I never liked you.
Not like flattery, or kleptocracy
I'll take your cash now
Then your democracy
March 19, 2025 at 12:34 AM
toastywarmhamster.bsky.social
H0ly cr@p
altnps.bsky.social Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Mar 18
This is a coup! U.S. Institute for Peace called the DC police on the Musk team members in an effort to stop them from trespassing because the institute has control of its own building and the land it sits on. But instead, the DC police allowed them to enter and kicked out the institute’s officials.
March 18, 2025 at 3:39 AM
toastywarmhamster.bsky.social
My sphere of influence is small, but nonetheless, important to broadcast
transarmy.org Trans Army @transarmy.org · Mar 1
To all trans people outside the US including US citizens.

DO NOT GET IN THE US.

Trans people are barred from entry. They can arrest you.

If you can provide shelter or asylum, please do it.

We need community more than ever.

Stay safe.
March 3, 2025 at 3:35 AM
toastywarmhamster.bsky.social
EXQUISITE trolling

www.facebook.com/share/p/18pq...
Redirecting...
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March 2, 2025 at 12:44 PM
toastywarmhamster.bsky.social
One of these things is not like the other

from
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...
March 1, 2025 at 6:57 AM
toastywarmhamster.bsky.social
So magnificently fucked up, I can't comprehend.

Still working on the premise that someone is trolling by creating this, and Trump took it to be real. Please?
meidastouch.com MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · Feb 26
Trump just posted an AI video depicting the Gaza Strip as 'Trump Gaza.' Here are some screenshots.
February 27, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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texsuns3.bsky.social
Saw this posted somewhere out there. Yes!!! 🙌🏼
February 24, 2025 at 8:01 PM
toastywarmhamster.bsky.social
Magnificent

www.tiktok.com/@novaramedia...
Activists have hacked bus adverts in London to draw attention to Elon Musk’s endorsement of the far-right AfD party in Germany, which achieved 20.8& of the vote, their best result since the second wor...
TikTok video by Novara Media
www.tiktok.com
February 25, 2025 at 1:24 AM
toastywarmhamster.bsky.social
Something for grooving while you make dinner. And then cleaning up. And then having a little drink ❤️💜🧡

There are no bad grooves from Book Club Radio

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfwn...
Jazzy House Mix at a Cocktail Lounge | Tinzo
YouTube video by Book Club Radio
www.youtube.com
February 15, 2025 at 12:44 PM
toastywarmhamster.bsky.social
Heaven 17 took a photo of this poster whilst in Frankfurt, for a gig. Another excuse to love them 🖤🦇💜

#GothsAgainstFascism #GothSky #DarkWave #goth #gothic #antifa #PostPunk #AntiFascist #AntiFascism #alternative #TradGoth #NewWave #punk #80s

www.facebook.com/share/p/18CJ...
February 6, 2025 at 5:47 AM
toastywarmhamster.bsky.social
Original Doge* is not impressed

*not to be confused with the Doge of Venice. I suspect the blokes who were the Doges of Venice would possibly be impressed by the brazen attitude, but not the stupidity...
February 6, 2025 at 3:58 AM
toastywarmhamster.bsky.social
Wtf google

So apparently Google's motto used to be "Don't be evil". Seems like their new motto is "Be a weasel"
hypervisible.blacksky.app Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Feb 5
Google cited their status as a federal contractor as the reason. 🙄

“…Google also removed a line included in previous annual SEC reports saying that it’s ‘committed to making diversity, equity, and inclusion part of everything we do.’”
Google tells employees why it’s ending DEI hiring goals
Another Big Tech company caves to the Trump administration.
www.theverge.com
February 5, 2025 at 10:43 PM
toastywarmhamster.bsky.social
Just one of my favourite places looking beautiful:
February 2, 2025 at 10:47 PM
toastywarmhamster.bsky.social
Indeed
February 2, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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hcrichardson.bsky.social
January 28. 2025
January 28, 2025
During the 2024 presidential campaign, Trump distanced himself from Project 2025, a plan for a second Trump term prepared by a number of right-wing institutions led by the Heritage Foundation.
open.substack.com
January 29, 2025 at 5:47 AM
toastywarmhamster.bsky.social
I found this via @eveywinters.bsky.social this morning on FB - a well-written and considered post from a former friend and colleague of the muskrat:
msmalarkey24.bsky.social Ms. M @msmalarkey24.bsky.social · Jan 28
WOW.

Elon’s former friend, NeuroVigil founder Dr. Phillip Low, absolutely WRECKED him on Facebook.

It’s long but you have to read every word of this.

Holyyyyyy 🔥🔥🔥🔥
January 28, 2025 at 5:52 AM
toastywarmhamster.bsky.social
So this is what we call a billabong, possibly without the passive-aggressive exchanges, but you can never tell for sure
mooseallain.bsky.social Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · Jan 27
Formation of an oxbow lake
Drawing titled FORMATION OF AN OXBOW LAKE 3 diagrams depicting the formation of an oxbow lake. The diagrams are labelled as follows: First diagram: build up of anger and resentment Gradual erosion good relations Second diagram: awkward dinner party increasingly passive-aggressive exchanges Third diagram (where the oxbow lake has formed): piss off then I'll manage just fine without you
January 28, 2025 at 5:49 AM
toastywarmhamster.bsky.social

More of this please - the integrity and conviction to call out indecency and hypocrisy:

youtu.be/mI4h4zbkNMU?...
WATCH: Episcopal bishop asks Trump 'to have mercy' on LGBTQ+ communities and immigrants
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
youtu.be
January 22, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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thelifeofsharks.com
The comic that got us demonetised on Facebook back in August. (We’re no longer on Facebook).
January 8, 2025 at 9:45 AM