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@chrismardell.bsky.social

Aussie back from the Bad(isch)lands of Germany. Web weaver in the corner where sustainability, risk and resilience meet. Trying to avoid politics. Views expressed are neither my employer’s nor my own (please direct all complaints to the rodent in my hat).

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They don’t want or need to invade America. They’ll just help themselves to America’s former markets and geopolitical influence.

07.10.2025 05:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

If you haven’t already canceled Paramount Plus yet,

The hiring of Bari Weiss by CBS News is a great reason to do it now

The Disney treatment

07.10.2025 03:08 — 👍 19    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

Don’t use “sent” without “were” if you mean “received”

07.10.2025 03:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ah, the sweet ambiguity of an unqualified “sent”.

07.10.2025 03:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

the president’s wormtongue/shoulder devil

07.10.2025 03:23 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle,
And away they all flew like the down of a thistle.
But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight,
SORRY!

07.10.2025 03:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Supreme Court of Canadarrrrrr

07.10.2025 02:40 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

the real nutjobs, pushed hard enough, occasionally go so far to the right that they wrap around to the left like pacman and say something with a hint of sense

07.10.2025 02:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Throw hard questions at them:
“Why do you punch down?”
“Why do you support fascism?”
“Why do you support suppression of free speech?”
“Why do you want to take away the healthcare of vulnerable people?”

07.10.2025 00:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Every day I’ve been getting angrier when I think about how maga, the so called alpha male bros, always punch down at people who are less fortunate or struggling.

This isn’t manliness. It’s cowardly, it’s shameful, and it makes you look like a tiny little douche face

06.10.2025 21:09 — 👍 4563    🔁 945    💬 226    📌 44

first they came for the rice
and I did not speak out
because I don’t eat rice

07.10.2025 00:31 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Saw some of these at the Weribee Open Range Zoo in outer Melbourne. The visual impact (compared with regular fences) is quite striking.

07.10.2025 00:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

dude’s never picked up a text book in his life (Mein Kampf für Dummies is NOT a text book)

07.10.2025 00:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

talking about it as if it’s 1925 and people don’t have obvious, instant ways of verifying that the city is not, in fact, burning at all

06.10.2025 23:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A bear sits on an electrical line connected to a telephone pole.

A bear sits on an electrical line connected to a telephone pole.

Cohen looks down at the notepad, closes his eyes, conjures up the image. He shakes his head. Picking up his pencil, he scratches out a word. “No,” he thinks, “definitely 𝘣𝘪𝘳𝘥.”

05.10.2025 22:22 — 👍 205    🔁 36    💬 7    📌 1

😢

06.10.2025 22:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Terrorism

06.10.2025 14:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“liar” is an underutilised descriptor

06.10.2025 14:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Full disclosure: I’m Australian (and prefer to live in a country where the criteria for gun ownership are designed to exclude the unhinged)

06.10.2025 14:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

when will they actually charge anyone with contempt or disbar them for spouting nonsense

06.10.2025 13:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I think someone saying they think the whole legal system is invalid is a pretty strong tell that they don’t plan to comply with the law

06.10.2025 13:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

This is the way

06.10.2025 13:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

narcissists can’t comprehend the possibility that others do anything better

06.10.2025 13:40 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

did you pawn your ring, or did your ring get pwned?

06.10.2025 13:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

don’t mind me crying, it’s just the chilli/notice of foreclosure

06.10.2025 13:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

debts are like curries, they can provide for rich fulfilment one day then burn your ass the next

06.10.2025 13:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Not sure this is a real screen cap…

06.10.2025 08:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

(Not a lawyer, no idea about legality of this)

06.10.2025 02:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Deployed without state approval? Arrest them for firearm offences.

06.10.2025 02:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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