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Nich Hills
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Husband, father, Anglican, retired tax and environmental professional.

Ngunnawal, Ngunawal and Ngambri country.
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What search phrase should I use to find images of common floor materials magnified by 100x?
November 20, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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Good luck!
My @smh @theage cartoon.
November 19, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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This is extraordinary.
We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community.

The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.

Don’t give up the ship.
November 19, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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November 19, 2025 at 5:06 AM
'All but one congressperson voted "yay"...'

I think you'll find the word is 'yea'.
November 19, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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Killing season.
My @smh cartoon.
November 18, 2025 at 8:56 PM
A rather jolly pictoral history of The Ashes by David Squire:

www.theguardian.com/sport/pictur...
David Squires on … the history, histrionics and heroism of the Ashes
Our cartoonist looks back at cricket’s biggest rivalry as we gear up for seven weeks of joy, despair and animosity
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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I had much too much fun working an utterly unauthorized and unofficial sequel to this.

(in this timeline, Stephen Urquell invents the hydrogen bomb.)
the somewhat-dubious map of North America in Sobel's text. (contradicted by the text in several places and doesn't make sense in others.) oh well somebody's passion is graphic design, as the saying goes.
November 18, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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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!
November 18, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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And recent research found that sperm whales communication systems (language?) has the equivalent of vowels!

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
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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
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,"
November 17, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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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...
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
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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.
November 15, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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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
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
Noes!
November 12, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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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
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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
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.
November 11, 2025 at 9:43 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!
November 10, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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...
November 10, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Strewth!

I need to know more but I guess this is good for ACT Liberals.
November 10, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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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"
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'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