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Paul Bamford
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Old. Bearded. Square-eyed.

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#TrumpIsACunt #FuckTrump
Rest in power, Janey.
Janey Godley holding that Trump is a c*** sign.
November 2, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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This guy?
Andrew bolt in a black suit
October 29, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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'Straya 🙄
A Health, Disability and Ageing Department spokesperson said "associations between PFAS exposure and increased risk of two uncommon cancers, testicular and kidney cancer, have been reported internationally". The spokesperson said the government had been monitoring overseas developments on PFAS but would not adopt policy approaches without determining whether they were suitable for Australia
October 23, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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They are definitely working for free. Or, at best, no more than Mango Mussolini can embezzle from the public purse.
And the $250 million addition — which POTUS is funding — seems to be increasing in scope: Trump said it'll fit 999 people when it's finished by the end of his term, up from original estimates of 650
October 22, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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Asked about the pin he was wearing during the interview, Fears said “it’s basically just like an SS thing.” Explaining the significance of the pin would require an extensive conversation about World War II, he said. “And it’s my heritage, I’m German.”
October 22, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Seriously?
Home in Place would not say why it had not taken the landlord to the Residential Tenancies Authority, the government agency that can enforce tenancy law.
October 15, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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ABC News really need to do something about their sub-editing.
But why should anyone be thanking the president? Instead, they should be asking: why are the remaining hostages only coming home now, when there was a ceasefire he helped broker at the start of the year that saw dozens of hostages released?
October 14, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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No way in the world this could go wrong.
A covert investigation can involve an official assuming the identity of a paedophile online, allowing them to trade in pornography to garner credibility among criminals, for the purpose of gathering evidence to arrest and prosecute real-world offenders.
October 9, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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Oh, FFS!
Just
Employ
People.
Digital health company Healthily approached St Vincent’s about the trial to use its generative AI technology to provide social interaction, as well as an opportunity for home care clients to log any health issues or concerns for a staff member to follow up.
October 5, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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This is why we can't have nice things (like social support systems that actually work).
Antony Albanese's selfie with Donald Trump.
September 30, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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"Automated Decision-Making" is an oxymoron.

Thank you for listening to my TED Talk.
A computer can never be held accountable. Therefore a computer must never make a management decision.
September 26, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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It just keeps getting worse.
After Segal’s speech on Thursday, she was asked why she did not want to comment on the weekend’s anti-immigration rallies. “I don’t think that’s that point of this conference,” she said. Guardian Australia has been told a deliberate decision had been made not to provide neo-Nazi groups with a platform or reward them with attention at an event dedicated to improving social cohesion.
September 4, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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Good article, woeful headline.
The reality is that at many of these events across the nation, Neo-Nazis and those involved with the far right used this as an opportunity to push harmful and racist ideology.
September 2, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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The glue that keeps the fig-leaf of sovereignty attached to the junk of client states:
In 2014, the U.S. and the Philippines signed a similar treaty dubbed the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement, which stipulated that Washington could use select military bases across the archipelago and rotationally deploy troops at the behest of Manila. American forces have used this agreement to send Marine Corps drones and invest in airfield upgrades at Basa Air Base, located northwest of the Philippine capital.
August 28, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Read this and weep:
Both sides agreed to undertake projects that increase our combined collective capability, enhance interoperability and strengthen bilateral and multilateral defense cooperation. These projects will strengthen the Philippines’ territorial defense capabilities in line with its Comprehensive Archipelagic Defense Concept, and the Philippines will maintain full sovereignty over all its sites,” reads a joint statement on the meeting.
August 28, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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It's public land but not public land, know what I mean?
People camping on public land are doing so unlawfully, so it is misguided to suggest council spend ratepayers' money on bins and toilets to encourage an unlawful activity to continue.
August 26, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Spineless.
Anthony Albanese @AlboMP It’s always inspiring meeting with young Australians who are working to make our country a better place. Thanks to the Australian Union of Jewish students for inviting me to speak today to outline how we’re working to crack down on antisemitism. Because every student has the right to feel safe at school or university and deserves every chance to succeed.
August 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Fuck this guy.
But the federal government's target of slowing NDIS cost growth to 8 per cent a year by mid-2026 is dependent on its reforms being adopted quickly. Any delays to already legislated plans to reduce NDIS spending growth will weigh further on the federal budget, either sending it deeper into deficit or threatening the government's other policy aims.
August 24, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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About my mother:
I cannot recall one time in that very early part of my life when my mother and I were visited by members of her own family or even an occasion when she visited them. I think that's because she “had made her own bed and now she had to lie in it”
June 28, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Pat Conaghan (Nationals, Cowper) is shitting himself.
Campaign flyer with text in various fonts and colours: independents Can't fix the cost of living crisis but they can make it worse.
April 16, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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Shit's getting weird again.
Tweet: Betar Worldwide @Betar_USA · 7h Shai Davidai who advocates for a boycott of the Jewish state has today compared the Betar movement to Nazis. As he argues to be kind to Hamas USA and argues for dialogue and peaceful co existence in the same breath this radical extremist literally advocates a boycott of the
April 3, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Scratch a "libertarian" and a fascist bleeds.
In the view of the libertarian Economist, Jesus was mistaken. Conscription the Good Samaritan story, Buchanana made hos cas that "modern man[had] gone soft": he lacked the "strategic courage" needed to restore the market to its proper ordering. By this logic, what seemed to be the ethical thing to do - help someone in need - was not, after all the correct thing to do because the assistance would encourage the recipient to "exploit" the giver rather than to solve his own problems. [Highlight]Buchananaused as an analogy the spanking of children by parents: it might hurt, but it taught "the fear of punishment that will inhibit future misbehaviour."
March 29, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Seriously? No money for public housing, nothing for the unemployed and disabled and Jim's bragging about this?
Jim Chalmers: "Our budget tonight is $207 billion better than what we inherited." Let's not forget that, #budget #auspol
March 25, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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Made the mistake of buying a new bed on-line via Kogan marketplace. Thanks to this, I am now the proud owner of a few kilos of scrap steel.
January 26, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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So, here goes then:

Choose any number of books you like that gave you a bad case of cognitive dissonance that you eventually got over. One per day, for as many days as you can be bothered. Explanations and reviews at your own discretion.
Day 1:
Cover of a 1990s Penguin edition of Michel Foucault's "Discipline and Punish, The Birth of the Prison".
January 12, 2025 at 3:59 AM