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Sean Wright 🇦🇺🏳️‍⚧️♿
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Teacher Librarian | Disabled |Social Democrat | Prokopton of Stoic Phil. | Poet | Ditmar Winner | Living on Narungga Land | Born on Yolgnu country|He/Him | https://ko-fi.com/sbwright|@sbwright linktr.ee/sbwright
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Le sigh.

Just came across this substack with 71,000 subscribers charging $31 a month “Get happier, wealthier & powerful. Practical advice on Stoicism, Social Skills, Health Tools, Leadership, Relationships & Wealth Creation for daily life.”

Can't read his paid posts but considering the
Screenshot of Substack Profile it reads Stoic Philosophy @thestoicmanual Get happier, wealthier & powerful. Practical advice on Stoicism, Social Skills, Health Tools, Leadership, Relationships & Wealth Creation for daily life. The Stoic Manual 75K+ subscribers #16 Rising in Philosophy
November 4, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Facebook allowing advertising for Fascists/Neo Nazis. Reported but then Facebook community values align with fascists.
A screenshot of an ad for white Australia featuring neo-Nazi poster boy Thomas Sewell
October 31, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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The Hays version is good, but I really like the Robin Waterfield, you might find the former second-hand. Hays pictured below.
The cover of Mediations by Marcus Aurealis Black background with a red crow seeming to perch on a white feather, with title nested in the white feather.
October 31, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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The bookbinding kit that I bought 2 years ago, before my illness and disability, finally got used today. Some rough edges due to a dodgy exacto knife, but not bad for a first try. #bookbinding
October 26, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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First checklist for #AussieBirdCount
Statistics 10 Species sighted 40 Birds sighted Bird species seen Australian Magpie Cracticus tibicen Counted Australian Raven Corvus coronoides Common Blackbird Turdus merula Crested Pigeon Ocyphaps lophotes Dusky Woodswallow Artamus cyanopterusi Galah Eolophus roseicapillus Welcome Swallow White-plumed Honeyeater Ptilotula penicillata Willie Wagtail
October 20, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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Are you up for some didactic Stoic Poetry #stopo? 😁
The Good in Every Choice Act with virtue and let all else go, Meet each moment with a steady mind. Temper your will, and let wisdom show, In every choice, the good you find.
October 15, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Why frogs are perfect anti-fascist mascots: they leap into action when the pond is threatened; master camouflage, blending in until it’s time to strike; croak loudly, proving dissent can’t be silenced;
A circular cartoon logo of a green Kermit the gorf like figure, facing the viewer looking slightly miffed. The background is black and the edge of the logo is black. The words Anti Fascist are written in capitals and curved upwards under the frog..i mean for.
October 15, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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View of emotion Vulcan - Dangerous irrational impulse Stoic - Judgment about what's good or bad Method Vulcan - Suppress and deny Stoic - Examine and align with reason Goal Vulcan - Absence of emotion Stoic - Right emotion grounded in virtue Result Vulcan - Cold detachment Stoic - Tranquil compassion
October 12, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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🚨🚨 **BREAKING: ANTIFA STRIKES AGAIN** 🚨🚨

The radical left has unveiled their latest weapon: a *suitcase-sized portable escalator*. Yes, you read that right — ANTIFA now has the technology to deploy moving stairs *anywhere, anytime*.
Artists impression of the Suitcase Escalator.
September 29, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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Starting the CADA Sushiya Shop #CADA #Lego
A Lego manual with light blue background on the cover and the completed build of the Sushiya shop in the centre Lego base plates in rectangular formation a mix of light grey and brown plates
September 26, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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Matt Canavan outdid himself with mediocrity at CPAC. I decided to honour him with a sonnet.

The Sonnet Of Sir Coal of Nostalgia

#Auspol #CPAC
A Most Ridiculous Proclamation *Wherein Sir Coal of Nostalgia, Matt Canavan, Knight of the Fossil Age, doth prate of golden yesterdays and "comebacks" most absurd The Sonnet of Sir Coal of Nostalgia Attend, good folk, to Canavan's lament, Who weepeth loud that wages tumble down; Yet Fair Work's gift, by largest rise was sent, Whilst foreign wars have pinch'd each market town. He telleth tales of days without a care, A fabled age when bills were light as air; But truth recalls oil shocks and rents unfair, Each era scarred by hardship hard to bear. His "comeback" seeks to shackle us to coal, Whilst others sail to futures clean and new; He'd crown a fossil, feed it heart and soul, And drag us back, though trade be lost from view. Thus prates Sir Coal at CAC's mirthful stage, A jester bound to folly, not to wage. Printed at the Sign of the Smudge'd Lantern, and sung in taverns for a ha penny.
September 22, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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A Sonnet on the Mouse that Bent the Knee #Disney #Fascist #Poetry #Auspol #UsPol
A faux broadside featuring a sonnet commenting on Disney’s capitulation: It readeth so - THE MOUSE THAT ROARETH SOFTLY Or, A true and lamentable Ballad, shewing how the House of Disney, once proud in Fancy and Enchantment, did abase it selfe to the Orange Tyrant, and in slavish Fear did cast forth the Jester Kimmel, whose tongue was sharpe against Folly. A Lesson for all Nations that sell their mirth for a Crown. A Sonnet on the Mouse That Bent the Knee The Mouse, once bold with stories wrought in flame, Now bows before a petty tyrant's roar; To please one man, it casts aside its name, And throws a jester laughing at the door. Kimmel, whose tongue did prick the bloated pride, Is silenced, not by wit but mandate grim; Thus Disney shows its courage hollow-eyed, A palace trembling at the whim of him. What worth are kingdoms built on painted dreams, If truth itself is bartered for a crown? The Magic fades, the castle cracks at seams, When jesters fall, the courtiers all kneel down. So let the Mouse wear chains of gilded shame, Its kingdom lost to one man's fragile fame. Imprinted at London, at the Sign of the Broken and, for the Sport of the People, and the Rebuke of Cowards.
September 21, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Finished my CADA Sento. #CADA #Lego
A CADA Sento “LEGO” set. A two story Japanese bath house. Front view shown with outside baths to the left of building
September 20, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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A sonnet for the transgendered against folly.

#trans #transgender #poetry #elizabethanpoetry #antifa #Auspol #USPol
A sonnet defending the transgendered and allies against domestic terror designation, rendered to look like it was printed as an Elizabethan broadside - THE TYRANT'S FOLLY, CALLING LOVE A TREASON Wherein is declared the mad conceit of certain rulers and zealots, who do brand as "domestick Terrorists" those kind Allies that stand in fellowship with the Transgendered. A most ridiculous charge, and a vile abuse of Truth, set forth for the comfort of the oppressed and the scorn of the foolish. A Sonnet for the Transgendered, and Against Folly What twisted tongue proclaims, with foolish cheer, That love itself breeds terror in the land? As though a friend, who lends the outcast ear, Were armed in wrath with powder close at hand. The truth is this: they fight no wars but hate, And bear no sword save mercy's gentle art; To call them foes is but the coward's prate, Who fears the strength of one unyielding heart. Trans souls, though scorned, yet walk in noble grace, Their allies hold them fast against the storm; What tyrant dares to brand such love disgrace, Or paint compassion as a threat of harm? So let the fools cry "terror" where they will, For love outlives their lies, and shall stand still. Imprinted at London, at the Sign of the Rainbow dRose, and sold for a Farthing to all who cherish Liberty, for the Comfort of the Just and the Derision of Knaves.
September 20, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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A Sonnet Against Civil War for trifles

#sonnet #elizabethanpoetry #civilwar #charliekirk #Auspol #UsPol #poetry
A Sonnet in broadside format it reads- Imprinted at London, at the Sign of the Broken Sword, and sold by hawkers in Cheapside for a Half-penny, for the Comfort of the People and the Rebuke of Madmen.
September 19, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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THE STONE-HEARTED CLERKS OF THE NDIS #satire #Elizabethanpoetry #NDIS #Auspol
THE STONE-HEARTED CLERKS OF THE NDIS Being a lamentable Complaint against those petty Scribes and Administrators, who, having neither Art in Physick nor Compassion in Soul, yet dare sit in Judgment over the Afflicted, denying their Succour, and stripping the Poor of their Due. A true Mirror of Bureaucratic Tyranny, published for the Enlightenment of the People. A Sonnet Upon the Clerks Who Weigh Men's Pain What folly's this, that clerks with ink-stained hands Should sit in judgment over flesh and bone? They scan their forms, but none the body's lands, Nor hear the cries that sufferers make known. The healer's art is cast aside for coin, While ledgers rule where mercy once had place; The broken seek, yet beggars they are join'd, Denied by pens, with neither care nor grace. What cruel design, to pare the weakest down, And call it thrift, or governance most wise! Such thrift is but a tyrant's paper crown, That hides its theft with bureaucratic lies. So shall the Scheme, in cold accountings shown, Be damn'd as house of stone against the prone. Imprinted at London, at the Sign of the Crutch Broken, for the Relief of all who suffer, and to the eternal Shame of Paper Tyrants.
September 19, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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A Sonnet on the Outrage of the Right.

#Satire #UsPol #Auspol
A Sonnet with Heading and printers blurb on aged paper it reads- # A Most Lamentable Outrage Performed by the Zealots of the Right F Wherein Is Shewn How Certain Extremists Do Cry and Howl at the Neglect of Mourning One Charles Kirk, And How Their Feigned Sorrows Be Turned to Weapons of Strife; Set Forth in Verse for the Warning of the Simple and the Sport of the Wise. A Sonnet on the Outrage of the Right They wail as mummers feign on painted stage, Loud grief perform d for him they call their knight; Yet hollow hearts, more full of spite than sage, Make mourning mask a weapon for their fight. With cries of "shame!" they rend the common air, As though all men must bow to their lament; Yet in their tears lies naught but cunning snare, To bind the free with false astonishment. They grieve not him, but covet still the rod, To smite their foes with sorrow's counterfeit; Their tongues, unbridled, thunder against God, And turn a grave into a pulpit writ. Thus outrage reigns, a jest for wiser eyes, That see through masks where rancour truly lies. Imprinted at London, For the Laughter of All Honest Folk and the Vexation of Hypocrites, In the Yeare of Our Lord MDCI, By One That Hath No Love for Painted Sorrow.
September 19, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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A Sonnet on Trumpe the Blusterer #Elizabethanpoetry #Satire #UsPol #Auspol #Poetry
A Sonnet presented as if it were printed on an Elizabethan broadside. It readeth so - # A Most Scornful Sonnet Upon Trumpe the Blusterer # Wherein Is Shewn the Vainglory of a Small-Handed Pretender, With the Red-Cappd Horde That Doth Cry His Praise; Together With Divers Mockings, Fit for the Stage or A lehouse, To the Great Sport of the Reader. A Sonnet on Trumpe the Blusterer and His Red-Capp d Horde Lo, Trumpe the Blusterer struts upon the stage, His hands too small to grasp the weight of law; Yet still he roars, a lion feigning rage, While Red-Capp'd gulls cheer folly's every flaw. Behold the Zealot in Scarlet, mouth agape, Repeating each false trumpet's boastful sound; They worship golden calves and mocking shape, And clap for bluster though the realm be bound. O nation, rent by orange pomp and jest, Thy liberties now cower neath his whim; The learned hide, the prudent fail the test, While knaves of endless boast make daylight dim. Yet quills of truth shall pierce this vainglorious show, And ink shall leave his name a jest below. Imprinted at London, For All Men's Mirth and Women's Sport, in the Yeate of Our Lord MDCI, by W. Shakespere, Who Lamenteth the Folly of Princes and the Madness of the Multitude.
September 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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To Americans wondering why Australians and other Anglophone nations feel the need to comment on your domestic politics @vanbadham.bsky.social had a nice succinct post that covers it.
Facebook post text - I received an honest question from an American reader: "Why do (Australians) care about the domestic politics of the USA?"; this is my answer: "We care because 521 of our sons died in Vietnam, following the US to war as your loyal ally - just as we followed in Korea, Afghanistan, and Iraq (twice). "We care because the US has military bases on our soil that are nuclear targets. "We care because our retirement funds are heavily invested in American companies. "We care because America has set the terms of international trade that we, as a smaller power, have been obliged to heed. "We care because the United States communicates in English, and we mostly consume our news in English, and engage social media platforms in English, and watch movies and TV and read books in English, and get exposed to English-language propaganda. "We care because Americans built the internet as an expression of American values - and to be capable of retaining our own cultural sovereignty, it is crucial for us to interrogate those values... and consider where they may lead."
September 15, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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You will know them by their…love? #christiannationalists
Dinesh DaSouza tweet reading - Utah needs to do this execution by firing squad. No weird lethal injection or silly electrocution. Guillotine would be spectacular but has been out of style since the 1790s. Firing squad does to the assassin what he did to Charlie. Retribution=perfect justice.
September 15, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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I think a “bum bag” or “ fanny pack” would complete the ensemble.
A leather “bum bag” for the discerning family man.
September 14, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Memory’s not too bad.
I completed the September Duolingo challenge fast than 95.5% of all learners on duolingo
September 14, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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Brushing up on my Danish, or Bliv ved med at opfriske mit dansk.
89% accuracy on suolingo for danish.
September 13, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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My latest shirt. #SlowHorses
Black t-shirt with the outline of Jackson Lambs (played by Gary Oldman) head and the words “Sorry about that, it lingered”.
August 30, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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Tucking into this. It's amazing how Trump has further enshitified the US since this essay came out 3 months ago. #Auspol
Multi coloured book cover. After America by Emma Shortis.
August 20, 2025 at 2:19 AM