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Therapist: Do you hear voices?
Voices: Say no.
Me: No.
Voices: Good job.

17.07.2025 11:44 β€” πŸ‘ 266    πŸ” 99    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0

My guess is April Sun

20.07.2025 08:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

100 Yes

20.07.2025 07:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
β€˜A total, miserable, self loathing poser’: The neuroscientist taking on Elon Musk | 7am
YouTube video by The Saturday Paper β€˜A total, miserable, self loathing poser’: The neuroscientist taking on Elon Musk | 7am

Philip Low’s brain-mapping breakthrough made him a billionaire.
Now a blistering Facebook post has thrust the neuroscientist into a new fight – with his old friend, Elon Musk.
Low called Musk a β€œnarcissist with an obsessive lust for power” in a post shared nearly 50,000

youtu.be/rrAqDCRp5mk?...

29.05.2025 23:04 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Discovering new NZ music in the streaming age is getting harder – what’s the future for local artists?

Streaming and social media have transformed the way we discover music. But algorithms and programming formats mean local artists are disappearing in the global mix.

27.05.2025 18:59 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Because free speech.

27.05.2025 19:33 β€” πŸ‘ 16725    πŸ” 5186    πŸ’¬ 1569    πŸ“Œ 575
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This person seems concerned about the United States becoming like β€œNorth Korea”.

There are not many clearer ways to take America a step closer to North Korea than seizing central government control of private universities, and professors, and students, and research.

Which is what he’s justifying.

25.05.2025 12:45 β€” πŸ‘ 44    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 6

I miss the days when the most terrifying security crisis was the Naruto Run into Area 51

24.05.2025 05:06 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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The underpinning compassion was beautifully illustrated when Peter Dutton spoke of how proud Albo’s mother would be and how Albo stopped people jeering Dutton β€˜we don’t do that’

This is the leadership on both sides we need

04.05.2025 00:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes ❀️

Been doing this for 30 years - it’s the civility, camaraderie and humour at the polling booths that I love

03.05.2025 23:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

What an idiot

He needs a steaming hot helping of FAFO

03.05.2025 23:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I scutineered at Sandringham Primary School last night

A rogue saxophone player hovered around outside for 20m playing some pretty chill stuff annoying the AEC Officer In Charge

The US πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ has assault rifles we have jazz

#auspol

#goldstein

03.05.2025 23:30 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Cancer: Like a piece of toilet paper stuck to the wheel of a mobility scooter, you occupy an uncomfortable liminal space between comedy and tragedy.

06.04.2025 17:16 β€” πŸ‘ 197    πŸ” 52    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 17
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Dutton has a responsibility to lead.

Instead he gets led around by some of the more moronic units out there.

He would have not have stood up to his own constituency after Port Arthur like Howard and Fischer did.

28.04.2025 09:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I had, up until this point, been freaking out

Good to see it’s finally all in hand

27.04.2025 20:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Meet the man who keeps the world’s busiest railways running from a shed in Melbourne From Dubai to the Hong Kong metro, train operators rely on this service to maintain reliability. So why is it so hard to get a contract in Australia? * Get our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcast When a train on Hong Kong’s metro is speeding along its route slightly bumpier than usual, Ravi Ravitharan’s phone buzzes in Melbourne – at all hours of the day. β€œMy phone is next to my bed when I sleep, because we will get calls in the middle of the night.” Sign up for the Afternoon Update: Election 2025 email newsletter Continue reading...

Meet the man who keeps the world’s busiest railways running from a shed in Melbourne

27.04.2025 15:03 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I guess Trump was the real panican all along

09.04.2025 23:40 β€” πŸ‘ 47    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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National public health group calls for RFK Jr. to resign, citing 'complete disregard for science' Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has shown "complete disregard for science” and should resign, says Georges Benjamin of the American Public Health Association.

Georges Benjamin, exec director of the American Public Health Assn, calls on Secretary Kennedy to resign, calling him "a danger to the public’s health.”
www.statnews.com/2025/04/09/r...

09.04.2025 20:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2780    πŸ” 823    πŸ’¬ 63    πŸ“Œ 54
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A story in two parts.

06.04.2025 21:37 β€” πŸ‘ 4905    πŸ” 931    πŸ’¬ 342    πŸ“Œ 53
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πŸ”Š

03.04.2025 00:58 β€” πŸ‘ 6160    πŸ” 1498    πŸ’¬ 124    πŸ“Œ 109
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Doctor Behind Award-Winning Parkinson’s Research Among Scientists Purged From NIH Leading scientists at the National Institutes of Health, the US’s leading medical research agency, were swept up Tuesday in the Trump administration's latest firing blitz.

NEW: The doctor behind breakthrough Parkinson’s research was among the scientists purged from the National Institutes of Health, the US’s leading medical research agency. www.wired.com/story/doctor...

02.04.2025 00:13 β€” πŸ‘ 3501    πŸ” 1943    πŸ’¬ 138    πŸ“Œ 200

Sounds like there are great French, Swedish or Japanese alternatives - we need to seriously explore those

02.04.2025 10:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Congratulations to Judge Susan Crawford on her victory, and to the people of Wisconsin for electing a judge who believes in the rule of law and protecting our freedoms.

02.04.2025 02:45 β€” πŸ‘ 103455    πŸ” 14387    πŸ’¬ 1307    πŸ“Œ 611

🀣🀣🀣πŸ”₯πŸ”₯πŸ”₯

01.04.2025 23:45 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Gavin Newsom's like hmmm should I hold a 24-hour podcast sΓ©ance with Hitler's ghost

01.04.2025 23:37 β€” πŸ‘ 2642    πŸ” 420    πŸ’¬ 40    πŸ“Œ 13
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Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"

01.04.2025 19:41 β€” πŸ‘ 75229    πŸ” 15645    πŸ’¬ 1388    πŸ“Œ 1812

Cory Booker nearing the 24th hour of his filibuster: "We are in this moral moment now. We are in this moral moment now. This is not right or left, don't let them say this is partisanship. This is not left of right, this is right or wrong, does the Constitution live in your heart?"

AMEN.

01.04.2025 22:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1322    πŸ” 242    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 5

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