Paul McO'Smith III

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'Read that book': PM's address to teenagers as social media ban begins After months of build-up, the time has finally come. From today, Australians under the age of 16 are banned from having a social media account.

Not bsky or mastodon.... interesting. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

yup. love it. like i say, the next election here will be chaos. gawd knows who will end up with a majority. or, otherwise, what a coalition might look like.

grab a drink, everyone...

who is buying up all the bankrupt farms?

seriously. are we all looking at the wrong problem?

absolutely! the scenario here with FPTP with 5 parties all on about 20% makes any upcoming election utterly bizarre. you're going to get MP's elected on 25% or less of the vote.

luckily i can't vote in these elections, otherwise i'd be mightily pissed!

unsure where you're going with this. apparently i have made some kind of weird speling error...

i understand 2PP. your answer is abusive and avoids the question.

what is the alternative? the LNP? is that your preference?

and need a LOT of water. where is that coming from?

the alternative is better...?

in a 2PP model... does that actually work?

the core problem is that it will be trivial to circumvent.

i never drank before i was 18.

as an early teen boy, i never saw porn.

luckily they've fixed all this.

oh, come now. shirley you know about the aquasphere and the fate of rather too randy hedgehogs.

oh, come now. shirley you know about the aquasphere and the fate of rather too randy hedgehogs.

worst problem for me is that i can't figure whether these come from Oz or the UK.

still, the Libs will be a refreshing change!

uh... @mrspockscat.bsky.social ...

Oh Daily Mail, who now are the enemies of the people? Oh Telegraph, where is thy “Mutineers” front page?

yeah, that's good... this though is much better.

Regrets? Has she had a few? | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazine Right in the middle of a fairly standard Kemi Badenoch speech on welfare on Tuesday morning, an extraordinary thing happened. It was a moment so unexpected that no one in the room seemed to notice it…

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This is either dumb or Damascene.....

can i suggest doomscrolling this? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timelin...

oh, this is unexpected! it's far and away the lowest barrier to better relations with the EU.

good work by those (ex?) Labour MPs who voted on conscience. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

i can hardly wait for the #brexit betrayal headlines from the usual suspects tomorrow!

THis is so beautiful

can a "smaller positive number" be i?

i imagine it can.

pfft... on the 23rd day of christmas, my GP prescribed to me... some Class C drugs...

yes. they're excellent.

the timeline would appear to say that it isn't.

the "Commonwealth" repudiated post #brexit trade, and the deals with Oz and NZ can only be described as "disastrous" for the UK. then bizarrely joined a trading bloc on the other side of the planet, ignoring the one on our doorstep. a bloc that collapsed as soon as the UK joined.

yes, no free movement and no contribution of funds. that was #brexit in a nvtshell.

perhaps if we simply keep going back frequently enough, the EU will back down just to keep the UK happy?

however, the line of the article is this. the UK is not a superpower in any context.

honestly... yeah. i'll stop there.

You can say that again

we've got these bins in Winchester in the UK now. we don't have the "temperature issue" causing fermentation and other biological procesess, but... nobody is using them! you get told off for not wrapping stuff. i don't have biodeg bags just sitting in the house. sigh...