John Trewin

Yeah well, it's a bit like boxing with one hand tied behind your back on bluesky.

I don't miss Elon, but I do miss the gif library.One reason why I don't post so much anymore. If I can't annoy the hell out of people here, I'll find a way to do it out in the real world. 🤷‍♂️

Careful there. Don't tell folk you a medium format scanner. If I caught you in the wild, you'd wake up handcuffed to a pipe in the basement 'til I was done going through all the old negatives. Still haven't got around to that.

Damn, where's a good hostage gif when I need one...

They were pretty classic.

Old Hedda had an army of Rolleiflex tlr cameras. Lovely machines but I never really got my head around them. Still use one as a paperweight but never got a good pic out of it.

I'm definitely stuck in the single lens reflex generation. Too old to change now...

TLR: I had a Mamiya C330 back when I was studying in the olden times. Loaned it to a friend & it got melted when her house burnt down. 😢

Those twin lens do things to your brain. Everything came out like you were shooting from your groin somehow. 🙃

Bloody good camera though.

My great mentor used to take her voightlander bushwalking well into her eighties. They are serious cameras... She wouldn't let me near it. 😀

I miss you too mate. Only just started doomscrolling here a bit more recently & haven't engaged much. Been meaning to say hello for weeks.

Gotcha! You really don't look anything like your portrait Dave. Was twitter your catfish account???

Becoming quite the collector, I see.

😡 Kindergarten teacher reports her 5 or six year old student's parents to a fake ICE hotline.

Banality of evil indeed.
www.tiktok.com/@palmertroll...

😡 Kindergarten teacher reports her 5 or six year old student's parents to a fake ICE hotline.

Banality of evil indeed.
www.tiktok.com/@palmertroll...

i've decided not to listen to the audio of a teacher reporting a kindergartender because frankly I don't want to become the person that that event would turn me into. but one thing I hope we are collectively coming to grips with is what it meant that we have lived among such people this whole time

Australia news live: Taylor says he doesn’t agree with Hanson’s anti-Muslim comments but won’t say if she should apologise Follow updates live

30 years later & this mob of janus-faced hypocrites are still using the Oxleymoron for all their wet work.

Angus Taylor is as weak as piss.
#AusPol
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Bar declared crime scene as ACT police seize 'clearly satirical' posters under new hate laws Police have seized five posters on display in the window of a Canberra bar, declaring a "crime scene" while they investigate the artworks under new Commonwealth hate laws.

Satirizing the hateful actions & sympathies of these particular notable public dickwads does not = anti-semitism. By any reasonable measure.

Surely the ACT police could have exercised just a little grown-up discretion, instead of acting like a pack of... nazis?
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

ICE agents keep accidentally shooting themselves Three ICE agents accidentally shot themselves in the leg during routine training exercises within two days last year.

🤦‍♂️ Can't get the old time keystone cops theme music out of my mind after reading this piece.

Yes, yes, I know fascism isn't funny, but just a little bit of karma-at-work can be a tonic in these torrid times. 👇

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Hanson issues partial apology for suggestion there are no 'good' Muslims The One Nation leader qualified her earlier remarks, which had been met with condemnation, while reiterating calls for tougher vetting processes for Muslim migrants.

Question for the sub editor responsible for that headline: which part of the Oxley Moron's latest racist tirade amounts to an apology?

Personally, I reckon it is pretty clear by now that there are 'no good one nation voters'. Sorry Not Sorry...
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Hell, the board members rubber stamping all this rot get north of a 1/4 Million for their troubles...

No wonder they all seem to think their customers are stupid.

Coles says ‘Down Down’ ads a ‘furphy’, defends discounts The retailer is attempting in court to emphasise the importance of outside forces in price-change decisions.

Watching the ACCC case against Coles unfold & reminding myself that the CEO overseeing all this pocketed $5.41 million last financial year.

Wouldn't be surprised if her pets eat better than most of us do... How's that vibe going for you, comrades?
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a cartoon of homer simpson and ned flanders talking over a wooden fence ALT: a cartoon of homer simpson and ned flanders talking over a wooden fence

Lift your trolling game, mate.

It's "Jacinta Allan OR the CFMEU". Lord knows you post about it often enough, you'd think you would have it down pat by now.

I'd argue your average rich rw Liberal Party donor/mouthpiece has even less belief in 'democracy, the rule of law and & our basic freedoms'.

If we are tackling the real threats to Australian values, let's start with them maybe?

Our consular staff never even checked in on the poor guy & he was a 15 minute drive away, ffs!

Why do we even have consular reps in Bali & elsewhere if they can't manage that???

I'm sure it is a great posting with all sorts of perks though... 🤨.

Australian man died in Bali after consulate refused to assist with medical transfer Consular officials told son of unconscious, critically ill man they could not discuss the situation for ‘privacy’ reasons

Our tax dollars at work. 💢

This Australian citizen & his son clearly received an appalling level of "assistance" from the consular staff on the ground.

Privacy isn't much use to the dead & no half arsed apology could ever make up for the way this was handled.
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Could be everybody's favourite baby elephant is kinda busy running One Nation at present?

Reckon this would be as good a time as any to revisit that Minerals Resource Rent tax. Forget the politics: I just want to see that fat head explode. 🍿🎉🍾

The last stop on the train line of Australia’s social failures: Tales of a homelessness case worker on the NSW South Coast Life as a homelessness case worker is brutal. You often feel like the last stop on the train line of our country’s social failures. Hardest of all is knowing that people aren’t helped as well as they ...

Excellent post on @thepointau.bsky.social

"The last stop on the train line of Australia’s social failures: Tales of a homelessness case worker on the NSW South Coast"

Lukas Ringland

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Major change could be coming to supermarket shelves The nation's food ministers will this week take a crucial step towards mandating the Health Star Rating scheme on packaged food products.

If other star rating systems are anything to go by this will get co-opted & corrupted in 5 minutes flat.
Here's an idea: how about making & actually enforcing food labelling regs that allow the average human to read labels without a microscope. It ain't rocket science.
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I do think those of us outside the Sky News/MMM bubble need to be reminded just how awful Hanson et al really are. In that respect ABC are doing a public service I reckon.

I, for one, would not have known this was going on if they hadn't posted this. Know your enemy, I say. 🤷

Cheers

🤨 Give her time. She'll be mangling her English same as we do...

One Nation really are the very last group of degenerate cousin fuckers any decent immigrant ought to be assimilating with, is all I can say.

Do they though?

I'm not so sure facts matter to this ugly minded pack of twerps. So long as they can find somebody - anybody - to punch down on, nothing else matters.

One Nation 'spot the Westerner' video condemned A One Nation party official has filmed strangers on Melbourne's streets claiming the city "doesn't look like a Western nation at all".

So, all the racist frothing about Mediterranean immigration in Melbourne post war & onwards never happened?

If fecking racist moron Bianca Colecchia had landed here a couple of generations back, she would have been 'othered' out the arse end of Footscray... 😬🤦‍♂️🤯
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

My local federal MP sends out an appeal for a charity around this time each year.

Imagine being in government, spending all the money on submarines so there’s not enough to prevent poverty, then believing that asking for donations will make you look good?

Charity is policy failure.

#auspol