Glenn McK
@graibeard.bsky.social
Jack of all, Master of none; and still learning.
Linux == 27 years of freedom.
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Linux == 27 years of freedom.
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Europe has had nearly a decade to respond to the Trump threat. It has utterly failed to do so. We can't pretend anymore. US leadership is gone. You cannot hide in their embrace. Europe either stands up for itself now or it serves itself to Russia piecemeal.
February 17, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Europe has had nearly a decade to respond to the Trump threat. It has utterly failed to do so. We can't pretend anymore. US leadership is gone. You cannot hide in their embrace. Europe either stands up for itself now or it serves itself to Russia piecemeal.
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Musk just posted a photo on X that supposedly showed migrants with axes and knives taking over a hospital, but the photo turned out to be a screen shot from the movie Dark Knight Rises.
February 17, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Musk just posted a photo on X that supposedly showed migrants with axes and knives taking over a hospital, but the photo turned out to be a screen shot from the movie Dark Knight Rises.
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Job hunting during the Great Depression (1930s)
February 17, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Job hunting during the Great Depression (1930s)
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Every passing day of the Trump presidency, the US feels less civilised. Through its power and influence, it is attempting to take much of the rest of the world down the same path. #auspol #USpol
Trump's and Musk’s monopoly board - Pearls and Irritations
Hello, is everything to be valued exclusively in financial terms? Is this what human beings are all about?
johnmenadue.com
February 17, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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If the Teals hammer integrity in government and the need to hold the balance of power, they have the perfect formula for giving Labor a great big kick in the bum. #auspol #election2025
Teals should hammer unfinished integrity agenda - Pearls and Irritations
Trickery and two-party system abuse of power that justifies widespread cynicism about conventional politicians feathering their own nests.
johnmenadue.com
February 17, 2025 at 8:45 PM
If the Teals hammer integrity in government and the need to hold the balance of power, they have the perfect formula for giving Labor a great big kick in the bum. #auspol #election2025
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So many victims have predeceased Ridsdale. Thoughts, always, with their families, and those who still manage the trauma of what he did to them and the church’s catastrophic failure in creating more victims by allowing him to be moved to yet more parishes.
www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victori...
www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victori...
February 17, 2025 at 8:08 AM
So many victims have predeceased Ridsdale. Thoughts, always, with their families, and those who still manage the trauma of what he did to them and the church’s catastrophic failure in creating more victims by allowing him to be moved to yet more parishes.
www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victori...
www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victori...
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"The actions of Musk and DOGE have created moral dilemmas of a kind no American government employee has faced in recent history. Protest or collaborate? Speak up against lawbreaking or remain silent?"
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
There’s a Term for What Trump and Musk Are Doing
How regime change happens in America
www.theatlantic.com
February 17, 2025 at 8:07 AM
"The actions of Musk and DOGE have created moral dilemmas of a kind no American government employee has faced in recent history. Protest or collaborate? Speak up against lawbreaking or remain silent?"
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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The folks on Fox News seem to think Russia is a communist country. Several Fox News hosts have made this mistake. Harold Ford Jr. implied that Russia was still communist during a segment about the release of Marc Fogel from Russia. Russia hasn't been communist since 1991.
February 17, 2025 at 6:59 AM
The folks on Fox News seem to think Russia is a communist country. Several Fox News hosts have made this mistake. Harold Ford Jr. implied that Russia was still communist during a segment about the release of Marc Fogel from Russia. Russia hasn't been communist since 1991.
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Incredible but true.
China is installing the wind and solar equivalent of five large nuclear power stations per week
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
China is installing the wind and solar equivalent of five large nuclear power stations per week
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
'Winning the race': How China plans to meet its 2030 renewables target by the end of this month
While Australia debates the merits of going nuclear and frustration grows over the slower-than-needed switch to solar and wind power, China's renewables rollout is breaking all the records.
www.abc.net.au
February 17, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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This makes absolutely no sense. Can't the cartoonists in The Oz at least use some f*cking logic?
February 17, 2025 at 9:59 PM
This makes absolutely no sense. Can't the cartoonists in The Oz at least use some f*cking logic?
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The CFPB has:
-Returned $20B to victims of financial fraud
-Cracked down on junk fees
-Fought against politically-motivated debanking
-Protected veterans from predatory lenders
-Protected consumers' data from corporate abuse
Oligarchs want to reverse all of this.
-Returned $20B to victims of financial fraud
-Cracked down on junk fees
-Fought against politically-motivated debanking
-Protected veterans from predatory lenders
-Protected consumers' data from corporate abuse
Oligarchs want to reverse all of this.
February 17, 2025 at 9:01 PM
The CFPB has:
-Returned $20B to victims of financial fraud
-Cracked down on junk fees
-Fought against politically-motivated debanking
-Protected veterans from predatory lenders
-Protected consumers' data from corporate abuse
Oligarchs want to reverse all of this.
-Returned $20B to victims of financial fraud
-Cracked down on junk fees
-Fought against politically-motivated debanking
-Protected veterans from predatory lenders
-Protected consumers' data from corporate abuse
Oligarchs want to reverse all of this.
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This is just absolutely tremendous trolling. Could only be bettered if the owner drove around after the Tesla playing sad trombone noises at it.
In my city there is one cybertruck and one DIY parody of a cybertruck and the parody truck has become a local celebrity. Meanwhile, I always wish I had some rotten eggs to throw at the tesla whenever I see it.
February 17, 2025 at 10:08 PM
This is just absolutely tremendous trolling. Could only be bettered if the owner drove around after the Tesla playing sad trombone noises at it.
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Quote from Married At First Sight:
"I struggle to relate to her because she's very unrelatable."
So deep. I'm going to have to think about that one for a while.
#philosophy #marriedatfirstsight #bogans #deepthoughts #auspol
"I struggle to relate to her because she's very unrelatable."
So deep. I'm going to have to think about that one for a while.
#philosophy #marriedatfirstsight #bogans #deepthoughts #auspol
February 17, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Quote from Married At First Sight:
"I struggle to relate to her because she's very unrelatable."
So deep. I'm going to have to think about that one for a while.
#philosophy #marriedatfirstsight #bogans #deepthoughts #auspol
"I struggle to relate to her because she's very unrelatable."
So deep. I'm going to have to think about that one for a while.
#philosophy #marriedatfirstsight #bogans #deepthoughts #auspol
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🇦🇺 65 reasons why Dutton's UNFIT
Dutton has regularly graced front pages due to offensive comments, lies, hypocrisy, misogynistic remarks, inflammatory statements lacking evidence, funding scandals & other things like being linked to shady deals or shady people
#auspol
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search.app/371tsJvzsrpT...
Dutton has regularly graced front pages due to offensive comments, lies, hypocrisy, misogynistic remarks, inflammatory statements lacking evidence, funding scandals & other things like being linked to shady deals or shady people
#auspol
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search.app/371tsJvzsrpT...
65 reasons why Dutton is unfit to be PM
No stranger to controversy, Peter Dutton's offensive pattern of behaviour continues to darken his political career.
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February 17, 2025 at 8:55 PM
🇦🇺 65 reasons why Dutton's UNFIT
Dutton has regularly graced front pages due to offensive comments, lies, hypocrisy, misogynistic remarks, inflammatory statements lacking evidence, funding scandals & other things like being linked to shady deals or shady people
#auspol
.
search.app/371tsJvzsrpT...
Dutton has regularly graced front pages due to offensive comments, lies, hypocrisy, misogynistic remarks, inflammatory statements lacking evidence, funding scandals & other things like being linked to shady deals or shady people
#auspol
.
search.app/371tsJvzsrpT...
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It’s a coup. Call it as such. @carolecadwalla.bsky.social on how the media’s cosy status quo bias blinds us to the real-time overthrow of US democracy. Hence muffin recipes sit on the front page alongside polite stories about ‘executive power grabs’. broligarchy.substack.com/p/us-coup-ga...
US Coup Gains Speed
Europe shakes as new world order emerges. Here's what's not on the front page of the New York Times right now
broligarchy.substack.com
February 17, 2025 at 10:05 PM
It’s a coup. Call it as such. @carolecadwalla.bsky.social on how the media’s cosy status quo bias blinds us to the real-time overthrow of US democracy. Hence muffin recipes sit on the front page alongside polite stories about ‘executive power grabs’. broligarchy.substack.com/p/us-coup-ga...
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Tell me again how the federal government firing someone for having disapproved opinions about favored corporations is not the literal definition of fascism
"One FAA employee who was fired over the weekend suggested he was targeted for his views on Tesla and X..'The official DOGE Facebook page started harassing me on my personal Facebook account..Less than a week later I was fired, despite my position allegedly being exempted due to national security.'"
Trump begins firings of FAA air traffic control staff just weeks after fatal DC plane crash
The Trump administration has begun firing several hundred Federal Aviation Administration employees, upending staff on a busy air travel weekend and just weeks after a fatal mid-air collision in Washi...
apnews.com
February 17, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Tell me again how the federal government firing someone for having disapproved opinions about favored corporations is not the literal definition of fascism
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Incoming Consequences
February 17, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Incoming Consequences
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A Jewish man in Miami shot two Jewish Israeli tourists, thinking they were Palestinians.
The Israelis spoke of antisemitism & said “death to Arabs”.
There were *no* Palestinians or Arabs involved.
A Zionist fantasy, a fever dream, full of hallucinated monsters. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The Israelis spoke of antisemitism & said “death to Arabs”.
There were *no* Palestinians or Arabs involved.
A Zionist fantasy, a fever dream, full of hallucinated monsters. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Jewish man mistakes two Israeli tourists for Palestinians and opens fire on them in Miami
Victims reportedly posted ‘death to Arabs’ on social media after shooting while suspect held on attempted murder charges
www.theguardian.com
February 17, 2025 at 10:11 PM
A Jewish man in Miami shot two Jewish Israeli tourists, thinking they were Palestinians.
The Israelis spoke of antisemitism & said “death to Arabs”.
There were *no* Palestinians or Arabs involved.
A Zionist fantasy, a fever dream, full of hallucinated monsters. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The Israelis spoke of antisemitism & said “death to Arabs”.
There were *no* Palestinians or Arabs involved.
A Zionist fantasy, a fever dream, full of hallucinated monsters. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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The only political party in Australia where being found rolling drunk in your suit on the footpath swearing into your mobile is a winning job interview strategy. Welcome to Pauline Hansen’s One Nation party.
😒 [from the SMH]
😒 [from the SMH]
February 17, 2025 at 10:18 PM
The only political party in Australia where being found rolling drunk in your suit on the footpath swearing into your mobile is a winning job interview strategy. Welcome to Pauline Hansen’s One Nation party.
😒 [from the SMH]
😒 [from the SMH]
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72% of Australian students don't understand the basics of democracy. This utter failure of governments and educators opens the door to disinformation, manipulation and authoritarianism. Civics education should be mandatory all the way to Year 12. #auspol
Call for 'immediate' curriculum overhaul after 'shocking' civics results
National test results show just 28 per cent of Year 10 students are proficient in civics.
www.abc.net.au
February 17, 2025 at 10:18 PM
72% of Australian students don't understand the basics of democracy. This utter failure of governments and educators opens the door to disinformation, manipulation and authoritarianism. Civics education should be mandatory all the way to Year 12. #auspol
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This money that they are 'saving' in the USA, it isn't for you.
It's for tax cuts for the billionaires.
It's for tax cuts for the billionaires.
February 17, 2025 at 10:20 PM
This money that they are 'saving' in the USA, it isn't for you.
It's for tax cuts for the billionaires.
It's for tax cuts for the billionaires.