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Tom Oakley
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Brit now Aussie. I love pop music, hot weather and learning about people.
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I know no-one watches it anymore, but I feel like it should still be broadcast regardless, on the basis that it provides subconscious nostalgic comfort 😂🇦🇺
Neighbours cancelled - again - two years after Amazon lifeline
The series will finish at the end of 2025, after 40 years and more than 9,000 episodes.
www.bbc.com
February 22, 2025 at 12:40 AM
February 19, 2025 at 6:01 AM
The USA’s dangerous situation: What are the causes? 1) Education where sport is lauded & teachers paid peanuts? 2) Fear of God with a redemption clause, rather than duty of compassion? 3) Biased TV news: one side is chosen / inherited, so even the baddies think they’re virtuous?

What’s the fix?
February 18, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Reposted by Tom Oakley
A Tesla Model 3 is now ‘like driving a Beetle in 1939 Germany.’

www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
‘I’m giving up my Tesla because of Elon Musk’
Once the stuff of car geeks’ dreams, a Model 3 is now ‘like driving a Beetle in 1939 Germany’
www.telegraph.co.uk
February 16, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Reposted by Tom Oakley
European friends: Do not accept lectures on democracy & freedom of speech from an Administration that denies the 2020 election results and is now suing & intimidating news outlets whose reporting they don’t like.

Stand tall against right-wing extremism.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/w...
Vance and Musk Attack German Consensus on Nazis and Speech
Vice President JD Vance and Elon Musk have challenged decades-long approaches to political extremism that were designed to prevent another Hitler.
www.nytimes.com
February 15, 2025 at 10:42 PM