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DOB: 329ppm CO₂ (http://CO2.earth). Banner pic: #WarmingStripes for Melbourne, Australia by @edhawkins.bsky.social A.k.a. “timpoliti” on Xitter (and also “timb07” for Python/Django/tech stuff) Naarm (Melbourne), Australia

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Wombat architecture critics.
Two wombats see a cube-shaped house and one comments: Well that looks like shit.

Wombat architecture critics. Two wombats see a cube-shaped house and one comments: Well that looks like shit.

For the Aussies, the zoologists and the architects out there.

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By @chazhutton.com

14.11.2025 17:39 — 👍 432    🔁 123    💬 6    📌 7

Apparently it’s a hoax as well.

12.11.2025 20:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Better tell FIFA before they give Trump their made-up peace prize.

11.11.2025 21:08 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Flying at 8000 feet today
News
Captain says flying at 8000 feet (!) Newark to Savannah today instead of 34000 because of air traffic control restrictions. Everyone has to say seated including flight attendants. Never in my 40 years in flying has this happened … wondering what the view will be 😀

Flying at 8000 feet today News Captain says flying at 8000 feet (!) Newark to Savannah today instead of 34000 because of air traffic control restrictions. Everyone has to say seated including flight attendants. Never in my 40 years in flying has this happened … wondering what the view will be 😀

Things are fine.

09.11.2025 20:34 — 👍 14723    🔁 3198    💬 612    📌 362
Understaffed FAA Recommends Pilots Just Go With Their Gut

Understaffed FAA Recommends Pilots Just Go With Their Gut

Understaffed FAA Recommends Pilots Just Go With Their Gut https://theonion.com/understaffed-faa-recommends-pilots-just-go-with-their-gut/

07.11.2025 22:00 — 👍 1732    🔁 258    💬 39    📌 67

Plagiarism, in fact

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09.11.2025 01:27 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 1

this is actually impressive, making up a brand new nobel peace prize replacement is a genuine innovation in bribery

absolutely nobody does corruption like FIFA

06.11.2025 01:16 — 👍 7941    🔁 1965    💬 95    📌 121

Why give weapons to the jury? They might explode!

05.11.2025 20:27 — 👍 15    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Really looking forward to the Speaker of the House claiming to be unaware of the election results.

05.11.2025 03:05 — 👍 40877    🔁 6408    💬 714    📌 339

There must be something weird about the Congress as well.

04.11.2025 05:19 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

And it’s pretty weird that of the two legal ways to remove him from office before the end of his term (impeachment and the 25th Amendment), there’s progress being made on neither of them.

04.11.2025 05:19 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Patreon?

04.11.2025 02:10 — 👍 16    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

That might be fun, sure. But just because she brought the cases doesn’t mean she’ll run them—they can bring in other (competent) lawyers to do that, if they can find any who will.

But we want the cases dismissed. The Comey case could not be brought again because the statute of limitations has run.

04.11.2025 00:51 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I assume you mean Orwell in print, rather than Orwell being lived out in real life.

03.11.2025 23:58 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Yes of course, not that one.

03.11.2025 22:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

But is there any established legal principle (like this one) that you trust this SCOTUS 100% to uphold?

03.11.2025 22:27 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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“.. for those of us who, in our younger years, revered America as a shining city upon a hill, .. this is quite a painful period.

“..’America has lost its moral bearings; as a result, it has also lost its moral standing in the world.”

@peter-wehner.bsky.social
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31.10.2025 18:19 — 👍 1835    🔁 658    💬 110    📌 33

And that quote was from 5 years ago!

02.11.2025 22:49 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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02.11.2025 19:38 — 👍 7095    🔁 3686    💬 589    📌 388
International Space Station taken by a satellite also in orbit above it. The backdrop of the image is Earth's clouds as the image is looking down from above.

International Space Station taken by a satellite also in orbit above it. The backdrop of the image is Earth's clouds as the image is looking down from above.

2nd Nov. 2025 marks the 25th anniversary of the ongoing human presence off-world.

That is, humans have continuously occupied the ISS for exactly 25 years today.

So if you're <= 24 years old, you've never lived in a world where humans were *only* terrestrial-based.

Image by HEO (from above!)

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02.11.2025 04:35 — 👍 623    🔁 275    💬 12    📌 6

The TL;DR takeaway is lesson 18 from On Tyranny:

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01.11.2025 23:31 — 👍 9    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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The Next Terrorist Attack And What Comes After (Updated)

Six months ago I wrote this post about “the next terrorist attack.” I republish it now (lightly updated) because my fear of this scenario has recently grown much greater.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-t...

01.11.2025 21:12 — 👍 1155    🔁 525    💬 47    📌 76

Will you stop infiltrating legitimate newsrooms and inserting Onion stories please?

28.10.2025 20:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Peter Broelman in Canberra Times

26.10.2025 21:13 — 👍 87    🔁 46    💬 3    📌 3

Also, just a minor point, the bit about Tylenol is addressed to pregnant women. What about the next bit about breaking up the MMR vaccine? Are pregnant women somehow supposed to be able to do that themselves?

26.10.2025 20:42 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Where did Trump get his medical degree from? Trump University?

26.10.2025 20:36 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Is the “Downfall” meme still alive?

26.10.2025 01:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Or do what I’ve done and started rewatching from the first season after finishing the third season.

24.10.2025 03:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

It would be quite funny if he decided to knock down the building at One First Street.

23.10.2025 20:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Find out which other large ballrooms exist in the world but are smaller than this one will be. The answer to “why?” will be there.

23.10.2025 01:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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