Simon Payne
@simonpayne.bsky.social
Semi-professional curmudgeon. What I lack in enthusiasm, I make up for in complacency. Not the target market for anything.
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This is not the video I had planned to make.
YouTube video by Just Have a Think
youtu.be
December 1, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Imagine finding out immigrants aren’t the reason for everything that’s wrong with your life after all and you’re just a piece of shit
November 25, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Imagine finding out immigrants aren’t the reason for everything that’s wrong with your life after all and you’re just a piece of shit
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David Pocock - Independent Senator for the ACT
TRUST. INTEGRITY. LEADERSHIP.
www.davidpocock.com.au
November 20, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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This is why for a long time I've found the Prime Minister's Prizes for Science a rather insulting propaganda exercise
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
CSIRO funding as a percentage of GDP:
1982-83 = 0.17
2024-25 = 0.03
...
Scientific extinction event imminent?
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
CSIRO funding as a percentage of GDP:
1982-83 = 0.17
2024-25 = 0.03
...
Scientific extinction event imminent?
The CSIRO cuts are just the tip of the iceberg for Australia's science funding
Australia is known as a country of innovators, but with a combination of brain drain, continuous cuts, and a loss of critical science projects, is Australia losing its edge?
www.abc.net.au
November 19, 2025 at 7:01 AM
This is why for a long time I've found the Prime Minister's Prizes for Science a rather insulting propaganda exercise
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
CSIRO funding as a percentage of GDP:
1982-83 = 0.17
2024-25 = 0.03
...
Scientific extinction event imminent?
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
CSIRO funding as a percentage of GDP:
1982-83 = 0.17
2024-25 = 0.03
...
Scientific extinction event imminent?
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Has a point
Just here to remind you that, with “net zero”, we’re having a meaningless argument about a meaningless frame in order to distract from the single most important and meaningful issue confronting us.
This is politics today.
We should stop wasting time and energy and build a new system.
This is politics today.
We should stop wasting time and energy and build a new system.
Net zero reality and the extinction of politics-as-usual
On words without meaning, meaning without worlds
The sheer inanity, the ecocidal banality of our current political discourse was encapsulated perfectly this morning on the floor of the House of Repre...
in-between-days.ghost.io
November 12, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Has a point
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Waves gently lap at the beach, the sea breeze caresses the face, and the heart sways with the waves. The endless blue and the distant horizon bring tranquility and strength. Here, every drop of seawater tells a story of a long voyage.
November 9, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, formerly known as Prince
October 31, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, formerly known as Prince
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I for one think the Epstein Ballroom will be magnificent. I love the decor theme of “what if Uday Hussein ran a Ramada Inn.” And giving it a theme song everyone will associate with it is a stroke of brilliance! “Thank Heaven for Little Girls” is very catchy.
October 23, 2025 at 2:17 AM
I for one think the Epstein Ballroom will be magnificent. I love the decor theme of “what if Uday Hussein ran a Ramada Inn.” And giving it a theme song everyone will associate with it is a stroke of brilliance! “Thank Heaven for Little Girls” is very catchy.
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Authoritarianism is a cancer. And it's growing, metastasizing. In America. Now.
YOU are the cure. Do your part and join us on Saturday.
Do it for your country. For the Constitution. For your freedoms.
While you still can.
@ofthebraveusa.bsky.social
YOU are the cure. Do your part and join us on Saturday.
Do it for your country. For the Constitution. For your freedoms.
While you still can.
@ofthebraveusa.bsky.social
October 13, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Authoritarianism is a cancer. And it's growing, metastasizing. In America. Now.
YOU are the cure. Do your part and join us on Saturday.
Do it for your country. For the Constitution. For your freedoms.
While you still can.
@ofthebraveusa.bsky.social
YOU are the cure. Do your part and join us on Saturday.
Do it for your country. For the Constitution. For your freedoms.
While you still can.
@ofthebraveusa.bsky.social
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ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.
October 5, 2025 at 1:58 PM
ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.
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The thing that makes me the sickest is that these folks don’t even have a shred of compassion. It’s one thing to enforce laws and rules. It’s another to do it gleefully and celebrate the suffering of someone born into poverty and desperation
October 5, 2025 at 10:27 PM
The thing that makes me the sickest is that these folks don’t even have a shred of compassion. It’s one thing to enforce laws and rules. It’s another to do it gleefully and celebrate the suffering of someone born into poverty and desperation
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In case you'd like to catch up on our chat about the surprising benefits of pleasure, joy, and all things lovely, here's the link to listen to ABC Radio National's Life Matters from this morning 😘
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Embracing joy in life, and how to support a friend who has bad luck with relationships - ABC listen
When was the last time you had fun or experienced joy? It's something you'd assume should be pretty easy, but sometimes it can feel hard. That struggle to feel joy or notice the small joyful moments i...
www.abc.net.au
October 3, 2025 at 5:00 AM
In case you'd like to catch up on our chat about the surprising benefits of pleasure, joy, and all things lovely, here's the link to listen to ABC Radio National's Life Matters from this morning 😘
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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This!!
Has driven me nuts for two decades… extraction industries are simply not held to account for the damage they do
No one disputes that the industries are needed (up to a point) but seriously… ffs!
Has driven me nuts for two decades… extraction industries are simply not held to account for the damage they do
No one disputes that the industries are needed (up to a point) but seriously… ffs!
September 1, 2025 at 12:33 AM
This!!
Has driven me nuts for two decades… extraction industries are simply not held to account for the damage they do
No one disputes that the industries are needed (up to a point) but seriously… ffs!
Has driven me nuts for two decades… extraction industries are simply not held to account for the damage they do
No one disputes that the industries are needed (up to a point) but seriously… ffs!
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Hello would you like to read this Review?
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#NRLPanthersRaiders #UptheMilk #WeAreRaiders
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#NRLPanthersRaiders #UptheMilk #WeAreRaiders
Raiders Review: The Miracle of Proof
BY DAN The Canberra Raiders wanted proof that they are ready to rock the competition and got it. The world wanted proof they were frauds and didn’t. Everyone will focus on what happened in th…
sportress.org
August 22, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Hello would you like to read this Review?
sportress.org/2025/08/22/r...
#NRLPanthersRaiders #UptheMilk #WeAreRaiders
sportress.org/2025/08/22/r...
#NRLPanthersRaiders #UptheMilk #WeAreRaiders
Where are the progressive voices about how to be a man?
OK so feeling slightly apprehensive about this, which I suppose is kind of the point. This is an attempt at a progressive view on masculinity and on men getting laid. God help me. iandunt.substack.com/p/how-to-be-...
How to be a man
The right story narrative about male attractiveness is grounded in Social Darwinism and free market economics. Can progressives tell a better story?
iandunt.substack.com
August 1, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Where are the progressive voices about how to be a man?
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Didn’t think we’d see another bullshit WMD excuse for a war being so easily swallowed by the worlds media. But here we are.
June 17, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Didn’t think we’d see another bullshit WMD excuse for a war being so easily swallowed by the worlds media. But here we are.