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I’m a retired linguist and lawyer. I follow Australian politics. I also love cats but will try and keep them out of this!
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@maureenjohnsonbooks.com made sure Uggi got noticed on his walk today. And yes he got a treat and a pat!
November 14, 2025 at 11:41 AM
@maureenjohnsonbooks.com made sure Uggi got noticed on his walk today. And yes he got a treat and a pat!
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Git to noe yr #catsofbluesky frends - 10 tings Imb like:
1. owtside
2. mine Dade
3. birbs
4. Bocks - bonus fur cringly pabers
5. red dot
6. catnibb
7. Bonkers
8. bakken
9. wet fuds
10 (tie) Momb bed and
heeted bathroomb flore
1. owtside
2. mine Dade
3. birbs
4. Bocks - bonus fur cringly pabers
5. red dot
6. catnibb
7. Bonkers
8. bakken
9. wet fuds
10 (tie) Momb bed and
heeted bathroomb flore
1. Cats
2. Dogs
3. Farm Animals
4. Sour Brite Octopi
5. Music
6. Tea and Almond Biscotti
7. All of my Blue Sky friends
8. Cake
9. Diet Coke
10. Mexican street corn Dip
2. Dogs
3. Farm Animals
4. Sour Brite Octopi
5. Music
6. Tea and Almond Biscotti
7. All of my Blue Sky friends
8. Cake
9. Diet Coke
10. Mexican street corn Dip
Get to know your Bluesky friends!
10 things you like:
1. Mötley Crüe 🤘
2. Jane Austen 📚
3. The smell of plumeria 👃🏼
4. Math jokes 🤓
5. Trivia competitions 🏆
6. Anything flavored mocha, mint, or maple 🍁
7. Grammar 🤓
8. Judith Martin (Miss Manners) 👵🏻
9. So many podcasts 🎧
10. Genealogy 🧬
10 things you like:
1. Mötley Crüe 🤘
2. Jane Austen 📚
3. The smell of plumeria 👃🏼
4. Math jokes 🤓
5. Trivia competitions 🏆
6. Anything flavored mocha, mint, or maple 🍁
7. Grammar 🤓
8. Judith Martin (Miss Manners) 👵🏻
9. So many podcasts 🎧
10. Genealogy 🧬
November 14, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Git to noe yr #catsofbluesky frends - 10 tings Imb like:
1. owtside
2. mine Dade
3. birbs
4. Bocks - bonus fur cringly pabers
5. red dot
6. catnibb
7. Bonkers
8. bakken
9. wet fuds
10 (tie) Momb bed and
heeted bathroomb flore
1. owtside
2. mine Dade
3. birbs
4. Bocks - bonus fur cringly pabers
5. red dot
6. catnibb
7. Bonkers
8. bakken
9. wet fuds
10 (tie) Momb bed and
heeted bathroomb flore
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NEW: More than 1,600 fossil fuel lobbyists on the ground in Brazil for U.N. climate talks.
The Philippines is facing devastating typhoons. Jamaica is still reeling from Hurricane Melissa. But it’s #BigPolluters that have direct access to #COP30.
The Philippines is facing devastating typhoons. Jamaica is still reeling from Hurricane Melissa. But it’s #BigPolluters that have direct access to #COP30.
November 14, 2025 at 11:07 AM
NEW: More than 1,600 fossil fuel lobbyists on the ground in Brazil for U.N. climate talks.
The Philippines is facing devastating typhoons. Jamaica is still reeling from Hurricane Melissa. But it’s #BigPolluters that have direct access to #COP30.
The Philippines is facing devastating typhoons. Jamaica is still reeling from Hurricane Melissa. But it’s #BigPolluters that have direct access to #COP30.
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This is Carl. He was just woken up from a nap. Hopes for your sake the house is on fire. 12/10 (IG: grumpus.steve.carl)
November 13, 2025 at 8:01 PM
This is Carl. He was just woken up from a nap. Hopes for your sake the house is on fire. 12/10 (IG: grumpus.steve.carl)
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#Auspol cartoon calendar with Herbert, Katauskas, Wilcox, Kudelka, le Lievre, Golding, & lots of other jokers. The Scribe website search function is a non-intuitive fiasco: if you get lost on the site search Radcliffe then 'More' to get to 2025 calendar. scribepublications.com.au/books/best-a...
Best Australian Political Cartoons 2025 by Russ Radcliffe | Book
2025: the year in politics as observed by Australia's funniest and most perceptive political cartoonists.
The established wisdom at the beginning of the 2025...
scribepublications.com.au
November 12, 2025 at 12:11 PM
#Auspol cartoon calendar with Herbert, Katauskas, Wilcox, Kudelka, le Lievre, Golding, & lots of other jokers. The Scribe website search function is a non-intuitive fiasco: if you get lost on the site search Radcliffe then 'More' to get to 2025 calendar. scribepublications.com.au/books/best-a...
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Wild VEC political party name change alert
November 12, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Wild VEC political party name change alert
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In the run-up to Christmas we challenge you to stop for a moment and talk to a Big Issue vendor. You never know where it might lead.
Why it's so important to talk to our vendors this Christmas
www.bigissue.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:03 AM
In the run-up to Christmas we challenge you to stop for a moment and talk to a Big Issue vendor. You never know where it might lead.
#auspol
These are our most vulnerable. Imagine being rejected just because you are you?? We’ll all get old (if we’re lucky). I am terrified of getting old and hopeful VAD is around
These are our most vulnerable. Imagine being rejected just because you are you?? We’ll all get old (if we’re lucky). I am terrified of getting old and hopeful VAD is around
How can a person get rejected 21 times from Aged Care - by being too costly to care for?
You shouldn’t have to audition for care.
www.couriermail.com.au/health/condi...
You shouldn’t have to audition for care.
www.couriermail.com.au/health/condi...
www.couriermail.com.au
November 12, 2025 at 11:00 AM
#auspol
These are our most vulnerable. Imagine being rejected just because you are you?? We’ll all get old (if we’re lucky). I am terrified of getting old and hopeful VAD is around
These are our most vulnerable. Imagine being rejected just because you are you?? We’ll all get old (if we’re lucky). I am terrified of getting old and hopeful VAD is around
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Exclusive | FOI logs reveal Australia's national security chief, Hamish Hansford, used the AI chatbot Copilot to write speeches and messages to his team. @cameronwilson.bsky.social reports.
How Australia's national security chief used AI to write speeches and 'personnel communications'
www.crikey.com.au
November 12, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Exclusive | FOI logs reveal Australia's national security chief, Hamish Hansford, used the AI chatbot Copilot to write speeches and messages to his team. @cameronwilson.bsky.social reports.
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the lady that filled the bird feeder was two hours late and chester was starting to get pissed
November 11, 2025 at 2:20 PM
the lady that filled the bird feeder was two hours late and chester was starting to get pissed
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There is nothing like a freshly made bed. Huey and Louie show off their amazing skills. Such good boys
November 11, 2025 at 9:06 PM
There is nothing like a freshly made bed. Huey and Louie show off their amazing skills. Such good boys
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It's just been confirmed that Monash University is dropping Woodside as a partner because they don't align with their sustainable values. This is an incredible win for @stopwoodsidemonash.bsky.social who have run a dedicated grass roots campaign for years.
November 11, 2025 at 5:37 AM
It's just been confirmed that Monash University is dropping Woodside as a partner because they don't align with their sustainable values. This is an incredible win for @stopwoodsidemonash.bsky.social who have run a dedicated grass roots campaign for years.
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A recording of Laws asking a life-long sexual abuse victim if it was her fault should be played on a boombox outside his state funeral www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
John Laws asks sex abuse victim if it was her 'fault'
Radio broadcaster John Laws has asked a sexual abuse victim live on-air if she was 'provocative' and 'unattractive', sparking outrage over his sensitivity on the subject.
www.sbs.com.au
November 11, 2025 at 4:33 AM
A recording of Laws asking a life-long sexual abuse victim if it was her fault should be played on a boombox outside his state funeral www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
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I'm still waiting on the "career success" that's supposed to come from the binge drinking I did in my youth.
Binge drinking in your youth may lead to career success in later life, research finds
Author of new study says drinking may help people socialise early on in life, but health officials warn of risks
www.independent.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 1:07 AM
I'm still waiting on the "career success" that's supposed to come from the binge drinking I did in my youth.
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If only the Libs had held the transparency high ground, we’d have been able to judge this week’s appointment of former SA Labor premier Jay Weatherill to UK High Commissioner by reference to standards laid out in the Briggs ‘Job for Mates’ review. #auspol
Jobs4mates. Wong restores duopoly control over Senate, appoints mate. - Michael West
Two weeks ago, Coalition senators supported David Pocock’s motion to extend question time by half an hour, but it's now back to normal.
michaelwest.com.au
November 11, 2025 at 1:17 AM
If only the Libs had held the transparency high ground, we’d have been able to judge this week’s appointment of former SA Labor premier Jay Weatherill to UK High Commissioner by reference to standards laid out in the Briggs ‘Job for Mates’ review. #auspol
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Gough raised unemployment benefits to their highest level relative to poverty - then Fraser (and his treasurer John Howard) fucked it up as soon as they could.
Hawke/Keating repaired some of the damage... then Howard fucked it up for good
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Hawke/Keating repaired some of the damage... then Howard fucked it up for good
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
November 11, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Gough raised unemployment benefits to their highest level relative to poverty - then Fraser (and his treasurer John Howard) fucked it up as soon as they could.
Hawke/Keating repaired some of the damage... then Howard fucked it up for good
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Hawke/Keating repaired some of the damage... then Howard fucked it up for good
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Need to keep religion out of aged care - residents should have the ultimate choice not the facility #auspol
A report, released in September, shows that aged care facilities have continued to ignore the wishes of its residents on Voluntary Assisted Dying. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1442/ne...
Amanda Cohn MP: New Liberal anti-VAD bill ‘cruel’
Despite NSW legalising voluntary assisted dying in 2023, the Liberals, backed by the religious based aged-care sector, have decided on a push to legalise the institutional denial of medical care. Suza...
www.greenleft.org.au
November 10, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Need to keep religion out of aged care - residents should have the ultimate choice not the facility #auspol
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How in the fuck do we live in a place where John Laws insisted female staff wore skirts & had bare legs yet our own PM @AlboMP this morning still called him a “legend” who was an “authentic voice of Australians” and who “built Australia up just as you guys [Kyle and Jackie] do”???
#NewsCorpse
#NewsCorpse
November 10, 2025 at 5:27 AM
How in the fuck do we live in a place where John Laws insisted female staff wore skirts & had bare legs yet our own PM @AlboMP this morning still called him a “legend” who was an “authentic voice of Australians” and who “built Australia up just as you guys [Kyle and Jackie] do”???
#NewsCorpse
#NewsCorpse
#auspol
I think we owe it to the nannas to turn up in yellow knitted bikinis for the protest
I think we owe it to the nannas to turn up in yellow knitted bikinis for the protest
🧶👵 ✅ our trusty crocheted bikinis will have us covered in Newcastle for the 2025 blockade of the worlds largest coal port. But how prepared are you?
Join @risingtideaus.bsky.social 4 last minute training, organising and celebrating 🎉🥳 in Sydney. Details ⬇️ www.risingtide.org.au/syd-pre-bloc...
Join @risingtideaus.bsky.social 4 last minute training, organising and celebrating 🎉🥳 in Sydney. Details ⬇️ www.risingtide.org.au/syd-pre-bloc...
November 10, 2025 at 2:58 AM
#auspol
I think we owe it to the nannas to turn up in yellow knitted bikinis for the protest
I think we owe it to the nannas to turn up in yellow knitted bikinis for the protest