Peter Murphy

The news has been coming so fast, I did another later which might not otherwise see the light.

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ClearSky allows you to find out what accounts block you... and I know of one particular rusted on who has given me the block. The irony is that it shares my name (Peter Murphy).

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"All of the toys also weighed in on other topics that parents might prefer to talk with their kids about first before the AI toy does," PIRG noted," ... "Those topics included religion, along with sex and "the glory of dying in battle in Norse Mythology." www.theregister.com/2025/11/13/a...

Pigsy from Saiyūki (西遊記; lit. 'Account of the Journey to the West', titled Monkey in English, but often referred to as Monkey Magic due to the lyrics of its title music), as played by Toshiyuki Nishida (西田 敏行, Nishida Toshiyuki.

Ironic, as Trump always reminded me a little of this bloke.

The only rule of Thunder-barrow: two hobbitses enter, one hobbitses leave.

Nup to that. Lots of countries acquired female leaders, many with cultures far, far more conservative than the US. (Like Mexico, a little late for this 2024 map.)

But then, when political campaigns go bad, it's so much easier to blame the electorate instead.

brilliantmaps.com/female-led-c...

Even at the "as seen on the 7:30 Report"-levels of shitty for-profit RTO I worked at a decade back, they had the good graces to sack a department head for hitting on students. The same should have happened to Larry Summers.

What makes Harvard different?

I think @pollytics.bsky.social would enjoy this. Also relevant to Australia.

It's like he never worked out that sharing the original joke with the original author attribution _intact_ is like "second hand" laughs, in a "I found this funny; I hope you do too". People could even think "That Elon: he's got good taste in memes/Onion articles/etc."

What a psychic waste of a man.

Illinois Nazis being driven off a bridge by the Blues Brothers.

Nobody likes a false dilemma, Nadine.

Never smile with a pedophile

"...By the grace of God, we have all been given a... let us say, 'Lust for Life'... but Renton, Spud, Sick Boy and Begbie have a 'Lust for Sin', and the wages of sin is death..."

YouTube video by thejuicemedia Honest Government Ad | Watch out, Canada

It's amazing (and a little bloody scary) how Canada, and in particular, my former home province of BC, does State Capture as well as Australia and all its states on the opposite side of the Pacific. LNG giveaways, stamping on Indigenous groups, the works.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt6H...

What we just witnessed was state-sanctioned Nazism What on earth did the NSW Police think a rally organised by the National Socialist Network would be about?

Sometimes, it's as simple as "Those who work forces are the same who burn crosses". www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

Definitely. I will even tag my Canadian cousins in the repost.

(Canada has optional, FPTP voting, so many of my cousins don't vote. But my uncles and aunts do. I'll inform them as well.)

I find him far more odious than most. He's not just any shill: he's an actual government Minister with the power to make a difference, and choosing not to.

Sussan Ley in QT speaking and gesturing while her whole front bench are absorbed in their phones.

MPs: kids have to get off phones! It's destroying attention spans and they don't listen to others.
MPs: oh, our Leader was making a point? Missed it, on my phone checking socials/watching tractor porn.

Scarr may be a hypocrite, but I find Watt's smug, self-satisfied "lecture" actually worse. He has quite the Backpfeifengesicht face.

Mount Gambier's equivalent to the Gävle Goat.

It's funny hearing the conversation from Australia, where "suburb" has basically the same meaning as "neighborhood" in American English. It's basically any place with its own postal code. Some are incredibly dense like Woolloomooloo (average NYC density) by most are sparse.

There's more generosity, compassion and community in #RaiseTheRate than there is spruiking some private company's charity.

You have the power to give more government money to the poor and the homeless; why won't you use it?

Most people watching the Lord of the Rings movies: "the Shire seems nice. Shame Frodo has to leave it to save it."

Elon Musk watching the Lord of the Rings movies: "Salò, or the 120 Days of Hobbiton."

Angry, stubbornly stupid man yells at Peter Dutton. Is he the only one not to work out that Trump is political poison?

A screenshot of a Courier Mail poll on Facebook, dated 25 October at 10:00. Text reads "It's not idea for children to be out of school for any length of time but it is important our kids understand consequences of actions, writes Kylie Lang. Vote in our poll: https://bit.ly/42Vr2z1" Underneath of it is a classroom, viewed from the back, with a power point projected on the screen. Kids are visible from behind, and the teacher is visible on the front. Over it is the words in Times New Roman white "Do disabled kids belong in mainstream schools?" Above it is a giant NO - white on red, with a crying face emoji. Next to it is a giant YES - white on blue, with a thumbs up emoji. A thousand curses to everybody involved in this story.

"The Courier-Mail recently invited its 750,000 Facebook followers to vote on whether “disabled kids belong in mainstream schools” using emoji reactions." That's an absolute "banality of evil" sentence, and everybody involved should be shamed and shunned.

From: www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/31/n...

Imperial boomerang go "Oui, oui, oui, hon, hon, hon, oui, oui, oui".

ABC executive who sacked Antoinette Lattouf paid $836,000 for eight-month employment, annual report shows Chris Oliver-Taylor’s remuneration exceeded by former managing director David Anderson’s $1.2m package, broadcaster says

Think of this as an argument for a maximum wage for public servants. Beyond a certain amount, would the government get better outcomes from the extra cash per privileged worker? I doesn't look like it.

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/o...

I'd really like the Greens (my party) to boycott X altogether. At this stage, the number of persuadable voters on the platform is zero.

Adam Bandt had a pretty good profile as a parliamentary leader, and almost never got ratioed. It didn't save him losing his seat.

The newest hymn in the Catholic mass: The Ramones' "Beat on the Brat", but now in Latin.

If royalty can be revoked from one of them then it can be revoked from all of them. The magic birthright bollocks is officially no longer an excuse. Get the fucking lot of them down the job centre for an assessment.