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Escapee from what was once the Bird site. Ex social worker. If you can't be kind, if you can't play nice, then PRO

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Someone did a thing in Geelong

31.07.2025 06:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I know what is right, I was raised by parents who lived through WW II in Europe. We were taught "Never again should this be allowed to happen" It seems everyone in power has forgotten this lesson.

23.06.2025 09:52 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#Auspol #AusVotes #Australia #politics #election

03.05.2025 11:09 β€” πŸ‘ 247    πŸ” 62    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 2

My thoughts exactly, he'd bore the govt into submission, there's no in-between with the Libs

03.05.2025 11:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ah Feck! Dan Tehan as new Liberal Leader, FFS Spears, as if.

03.05.2025 11:14 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Or better financial managers, also fucking NOT

03.05.2025 11:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Free trade" was never really a thing, it was a PR banner that the US and its allies hid behind to undermine the economic growth of states that the US deemed a threat to their economy, faux democracy or unwarranted 'world leadership' status.

03.02.2025 08:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

In a sentence: The US has a unasinous government?

22.01.2025 12:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The unfiltered, unhinged and unfettered are now in charge and we all better get used to them saying the quiet bits out loud without repercussions.
Its surreal watching the decay and fall of an empire in real time, I just hope the death throes of the US aren't as disatrous as expected

20.01.2025 20:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That's not an um, that is a definite sign of what the US has become.

20.01.2025 20:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You're going to be busy

20.01.2025 20:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

his politics are complicated, huh

20.01.2025 20:23 β€” πŸ‘ 546    πŸ” 35    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 2
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Israel Loosened Its Rules to Bomb Hamas Fighters, Killing Many More Civilians Surprised by Oct. 7 and fearful of another attack, Israel weakened safeguards meant to protect noncombatants, allowing officers to endanger up to 20 people in each airstrike. One of the deadliest bomb...

The @nytimes finally published a detailed account of how the IDF rationalises its war crimes.
And then the editors immediately removed the report from the home page. A middle finger to their own journalists, all 7 of them who interviewed over 100 people for it.

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/w...

27.12.2024 06:00 β€” πŸ‘ 124    πŸ” 55    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

If only the boffins could find a cure for stupidity.

22.12.2024 09:05 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's doing my head in, we can all see whats happening, we are all witnessing this genocide, we are all outraged and yet our governments carry on "business as usual" in spite of our protests, the evidence slapping us/them in the face, they do NOTHING. I am deeply ashamed of what my Govt is not doing.

22.12.2024 08:40 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The mystery is not why we Irish have responded to Israel’s barbarism. It’s why others have not I don’t believe in the idea of being on the right side of history. The histories of the future are none of our concern. Our concern is the present

"Why should Ireland be a special case? Perhaps I flatter myself, but I’d like to think that even if I were British, or American, or German, or Dutch, I would still be able to look at the campaign of slaughter and destruction Israel is waging, and see it for the moral outrage that it is."

21.12.2024 15:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1713    πŸ” 462    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 10
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Palestinian voices silenced: 14 months of ABC’s RN Breakfast Coverage - Pearls and Irritations The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) is widely regarded as one of the most trusted brands in Australian media. This trust is underpinned by the ABC’s editorial policies. Among these policies,...

johnmenadue.com/palestinian-...

19.12.2024 08:03 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The whole invention and its variations is a type of training collar, wtaf!!

18.12.2024 22:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Former Nine boss Hugh Marks appointed ABC's new managing director Former Nine Entertainment chief executive Hugh Marks has been appointed as the new managing director of the ABC.

If you live in Melbourne, remember this bloke permitted all the 3AW and 2GB attacks on our elected government during a health crisis.

He employed Ben Fordham in Sydney.

He let The Age and SMH become what they are.

He oversaw a culture of sexual harassment and bullying.

Our ABC, gorn.

#AusPol

16.12.2024 23:19 β€” πŸ‘ 714    πŸ” 331    πŸ’¬ 84    πŸ“Œ 34

One CEO was shot and this happened.πŸ€·β€β™€οΈ
bsky.app/profile/unus...

17.12.2024 05:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Maybe its time for them to realise lives are more important than profits, and that all actions have a reaction, some good & some bad.

17.12.2024 04:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Well maybe this will be a wake up call, and they might decide that lives are more important than profits.

17.12.2024 04:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Israel just killed Khaled Nabhan, who called his granddaughter Reem β€œthe soul of his soul” in a viral CNN report after they slaughtered her last year. They shared a birthday - she would’ve turned 5 next week. This isn’t war it’s the erasure of families, memories & histories- with impunity.

16.12.2024 11:30 β€” πŸ‘ 262    πŸ” 144    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 11

A Gun??

17.12.2024 04:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What?? You've got 70+k followers but you're only following 20+k accounts, you need to follow back those 50+k (in your own words, "include everyone"), before you start dissing on anyone.

17.12.2024 04:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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'Punishment Island': That's how one worker described what would happen at Nine when workers spoke up about harassment Bosses in Nine's broadcast division would belittle, intimidate, gaslight and sexually harass employees, and when complaints were made against management, HR would cover it up.

From the company that gave us this.
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10...

16.12.2024 22:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I spent my teenage years in Holland, and I just didn't feel at home there, I couldn't wait to return to Aus when I was 18. I was born here and this land is where I belong, its not a heritage thing, or a values thing, its an undefinable resonance with the country itself.

16.12.2024 21:56 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Never thought about that before, but yeah, why aren't they? I mean I could hazard a guess that it has something to do with percieved masculinity, with a bit of dominant class thrown in.

15.12.2024 23:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Aint that the fecking truth1

15.12.2024 23:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

ABCNews, an otherwise good story about the health implications of intensifying summer heat in Western Sydney, but not one mention of climate change! Why do you self censor? Speak truth to power. Its actually your job. Your only job.

15.12.2024 08:28 β€” πŸ‘ 668    πŸ” 189    πŸ’¬ 33    πŸ“Œ 5