MichelleP
@pitmi-schmi.bsky.social
Librarian. Australian. Centre left.
Kindness. Like… it’s hard? Bruh!
Kindness. Like… it’s hard? Bruh!
I swear…. Dealing with Bupa in Australia is like snatching death from the jaws of life (sic). They have sent my deceased mother MAIL two years after her death. SPARE ME the automated chatbots and endless cheery advertisements while I wait on the phone to express my disdain!
November 21, 2025 at 6:22 AM
I swear…. Dealing with Bupa in Australia is like snatching death from the jaws of life (sic). They have sent my deceased mother MAIL two years after her death. SPARE ME the automated chatbots and endless cheery advertisements while I wait on the phone to express my disdain!
Wanna know how Downunder feels about your current administration America?
This is a snapshot of the consensus here. 👇🏻
This is a snapshot of the consensus here. 👇🏻
New Australia Institute polling reveals only 8% of Australians are genuinely convinced Australia “shares values” with Trump’s America.
“It is past time Australia rethinks national security – and focuses on fairness and climate action, not blind fealty to America.’
@emmashortis.bsky.social #auspol
“It is past time Australia rethinks national security – and focuses on fairness and climate action, not blind fealty to America.’
@emmashortis.bsky.social #auspol
November 7, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Wanna know how Downunder feels about your current administration America?
This is a snapshot of the consensus here. 👇🏻
This is a snapshot of the consensus here. 👇🏻
#usa_pol Australian here: query re the No Kings rallies in The USA scheduled for Oct 18. Given Trump is ordering the military to mostly Democratic-voting States… is everyone converging on Republican-voting States (for personal safety) for this? Or…1/2
October 1, 2025 at 8:18 AM
#usa_pol Australian here: query re the No Kings rallies in The USA scheduled for Oct 18. Given Trump is ordering the military to mostly Democratic-voting States… is everyone converging on Republican-voting States (for personal safety) for this? Or…1/2
@squigglyrick.bsky.social Huge props to Rick Morton for winning the PM Literary Award in the Non-fiction category for his behemoth tale about hubris, political betrayal and sociopathy in our Australian representative government. It is on my tbr list but I confess that it does rather scare me!
September 29, 2025 at 10:38 AM
@squigglyrick.bsky.social Huge props to Rick Morton for winning the PM Literary Award in the Non-fiction category for his behemoth tale about hubris, political betrayal and sociopathy in our Australian representative government. It is on my tbr list but I confess that it does rather scare me!
Quote this with your reaction to getting left behind during the rapture.
September 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Quote this with your reaction to getting left behind during the rapture.
Hmmm 🧐 so? No more talk about #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles I guess? 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
September 11, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Hmmm 🧐 so? No more talk about #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles I guess? 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
Watching America rn is like….
a man is sitting on a beach with a woman behind him and the words `` oh my god '' written on the screen .
ALT: a man is sitting on a beach with a woman behind him and the words `` oh my god '' written on the screen .
media.tenor.com
September 9, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Watching America rn is like….
So Lachy Murdoch wins his Dad’s biz. My 2c is, he will likely be an even worse global conservative media megalomaniac than Rupert & will unleash untold damage to the planet & people via the disinformation machines he has inherited. #RefuseMurdochMedia
September 9, 2025 at 12:54 AM
So Lachy Murdoch wins his Dad’s biz. My 2c is, he will likely be an even worse global conservative media megalomaniac than Rupert & will unleash untold damage to the planet & people via the disinformation machines he has inherited. #RefuseMurdochMedia
I really resent my tax dollars being spent on this
September 6, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Once a generation ago, I was nicknamed, Mitch. I don’t go by that nickname anymore and just as well; for, to be even remotely associated with the turtle-
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump’s second presidency is ‘most dangerous period’ since second world war, Mitch McConnell says
Former Senate leader likens administration’s fixation with tariffs to isolationist policies of the US in the 1930s
www.theguardian.com
September 5, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Once a generation ago, I was nicknamed, Mitch. I don’t go by that nickname anymore and just as well; for, to be even remotely associated with the turtle-
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
What happens if Couchy McVancy Pants is President come Monday? If you reckon it’s been bad this past 10 months…I’d expect it to be doubly worse by next week if that happens!
Toss up whether Theil or vance’s Mrs is Veep.
Toss up whether Theil or vance’s Mrs is Veep.
August 30, 2025 at 10:25 AM
What happens if Couchy McVancy Pants is President come Monday? If you reckon it’s been bad this past 10 months…I’d expect it to be doubly worse by next week if that happens!
Toss up whether Theil or vance’s Mrs is Veep.
Toss up whether Theil or vance’s Mrs is Veep.
Human hubris is destroying the planet - and us along with it.
We have gotten too big for our boots and our humanly obsessive needs to be all powerful, superior, wealthy and immortal, are killing every kind, hopeful and creative darling we ever thought into existence.
We have gotten too big for our boots and our humanly obsessive needs to be all powerful, superior, wealthy and immortal, are killing every kind, hopeful and creative darling we ever thought into existence.
August 20, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Human hubris is destroying the planet - and us along with it.
We have gotten too big for our boots and our humanly obsessive needs to be all powerful, superior, wealthy and immortal, are killing every kind, hopeful and creative darling we ever thought into existence.
We have gotten too big for our boots and our humanly obsessive needs to be all powerful, superior, wealthy and immortal, are killing every kind, hopeful and creative darling we ever thought into existence.
I am nervous about this proposal from Vic Labor. On the one hand, I can see the benefits but on the other, there’s so much scope for women to be yet again entrapped with the majority of the childcare, home duties, plus work expectations loaded on like an overstuffed potato… it feels like another…
August 2, 2025 at 12:26 AM
I am nervous about this proposal from Vic Labor. On the one hand, I can see the benefits but on the other, there’s so much scope for women to be yet again entrapped with the majority of the childcare, home duties, plus work expectations loaded on like an overstuffed potato… it feels like another…
Memory: July 21st 1969 (a Monday here in oz) – I was 8 years old and we stayed home from school, because a WHOLE BUNCH™ of family – who did not own television sets – conflagrated at our old freezing cold weatherboard farm house in the ONE warm room we had,
July 18, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Memory: July 21st 1969 (a Monday here in oz) – I was 8 years old and we stayed home from school, because a WHOLE BUNCH™ of family – who did not own television sets – conflagrated at our old freezing cold weatherboard farm house in the ONE warm room we had,
As a kid, I was endlessly fascinated by Scheherezade’s 1001 Arabian Nights. She also kept a capricious king in her thrall for >3years…protecting the lives of 1001 women he would have potentially raped then killed. I have read stories every evening for 1001 days in her honour. Scheherezade Level 🔓🗝️
July 5, 2025 at 10:22 PM
As a kid, I was endlessly fascinated by Scheherezade’s 1001 Arabian Nights. She also kept a capricious king in her thrall for >3years…protecting the lives of 1001 women he would have potentially raped then killed. I have read stories every evening for 1001 days in her honour. Scheherezade Level 🔓🗝️
FYI #weekonwednesday @bendavison.bsky.social @vanbadham.bsky.social
Int. Panel on the Information Environment (IPIE) report on Gen AI in elections 2025. Thought this might be good evidence against the disinfo spaces for you. 🙌
www.ipie.info/research/sfp...
Int. Panel on the Information Environment (IPIE) report on Gen AI in elections 2025. Thought this might be good evidence against the disinfo spaces for you. 🙌
www.ipie.info/research/sfp...
Generative AI in Electoral Campaigns: Mapping Global Patterns
Summary for Policymakers - Generative AI in Electoral Campaigns: Mapping Global Patterns
www.ipie.info
May 28, 2025 at 4:41 AM
FYI #weekonwednesday @bendavison.bsky.social @vanbadham.bsky.social
Int. Panel on the Information Environment (IPIE) report on Gen AI in elections 2025. Thought this might be good evidence against the disinfo spaces for you. 🙌
www.ipie.info/research/sfp...
Int. Panel on the Information Environment (IPIE) report on Gen AI in elections 2025. Thought this might be good evidence against the disinfo spaces for you. 🙌
www.ipie.info/research/sfp...
Just started listening to Don Quixote on Librivox (Project Gutenberg) and chapter 1 has me asking this legit question…
Is the orange one, a type of 21st Don Quixote? Someone so consumed fantasies, he’s gone mad & now believes himself to be a hero in a fantasy of his own making?
Is the orange one, a type of 21st Don Quixote? Someone so consumed fantasies, he’s gone mad & now believes himself to be a hero in a fantasy of his own making?
April 10, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Just started listening to Don Quixote on Librivox (Project Gutenberg) and chapter 1 has me asking this legit question…
Is the orange one, a type of 21st Don Quixote? Someone so consumed fantasies, he’s gone mad & now believes himself to be a hero in a fantasy of his own making?
Is the orange one, a type of 21st Don Quixote? Someone so consumed fantasies, he’s gone mad & now believes himself to be a hero in a fantasy of his own making?
Hey America? #USApol
Australia has an anthem “of the people” for ya!
Uno… to counteract the stupidity currently happening your way!
#YoureTheVoice #Defiance
music.youtube.com/watch?v=6m2m...
Australia has an anthem “of the people” for ya!
Uno… to counteract the stupidity currently happening your way!
#YoureTheVoice #Defiance
music.youtube.com/watch?v=6m2m...
John Farnham & Melbourne Symphony Orchestra - Your the voice
YouTube video by Gmph10
music.youtube.com
March 18, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Hey America? #USApol
Australia has an anthem “of the people” for ya!
Uno… to counteract the stupidity currently happening your way!
#YoureTheVoice #Defiance
music.youtube.com/watch?v=6m2m...
Australia has an anthem “of the people” for ya!
Uno… to counteract the stupidity currently happening your way!
#YoureTheVoice #Defiance
music.youtube.com/watch?v=6m2m...
Reposted by MichelleP
Ten years after former Treasurer Joe Hockey advised Australians to get “a good job that pays good money” to buy a house, new analysis by The Australia Institute reveals just how bad that advice actually was.
March 13, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Ten years after former Treasurer Joe Hockey advised Australians to get “a good job that pays good money” to buy a house, new analysis by The Australia Institute reveals just how bad that advice actually was.
This is how it’s done. Kudos to Canada! Top work friends 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇦🇺
Ending the night with this.
*Get your hankies*
A D-Day veteran called a gracious and humbled Zelenskyy a hero.
*Get your hankies*
A D-Day veteran called a gracious and humbled Zelenskyy a hero.
March 1, 2025 at 10:46 PM
This is how it’s done. Kudos to Canada! Top work friends 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇦🇺
Has anyone asked the disUSA what shenanigans are planned by president musk for global interwebs servers? Aka forcing non-american nations onto starlink etc? Or, are the interwebs a no-go bc it’s a direct funnel for disinfo & Ruski-Orban propaganda?
February 28, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Has anyone asked the disUSA what shenanigans are planned by president musk for global interwebs servers? Aka forcing non-american nations onto starlink etc? Or, are the interwebs a no-go bc it’s a direct funnel for disinfo & Ruski-Orban propaganda?
Boom 🎤
At what point do we conclude that by sharing intelligence with the US, the UK might as well be sharing it with Russia?
February 27, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Boom 🎤
#usa_pol Perhaps if the world keeps referring to “President Musk” in every discussion and retort, social media post and even in MSM media - he will be summarily dismissed in a fit of pique by the ‘old bloke?
#Sh1tShowSeason2
#Sh1tShowSeason2
February 6, 2025 at 1:52 AM
#usa_pol Perhaps if the world keeps referring to “President Musk” in every discussion and retort, social media post and even in MSM media - he will be summarily dismissed in a fit of pique by the ‘old bloke?
#Sh1tShowSeason2
#Sh1tShowSeason2
A’meh’rica is cosplaying Jurassic Park but the dinosaurs are all pasty techbruh billionaires.
February 3, 2025 at 9:53 AM
A’meh’rica is cosplaying Jurassic Park but the dinosaurs are all pasty techbruh billionaires.