Operation Grift Like Hell
16.11.2025 19:25 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@drmuzz57.bsky.social
Researcher and editor. Retired academic. Amateur musician and cook. Cryptic crossword tragic. Coffee obsessive (roast my own beans & use a Rocket Appartamento). Still running (just). Kei truck owner.
Operation Grift Like Hell
16.11.2025 19:25 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0ππ€£
16.11.2025 19:23 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Indeed - and hereβs an intriguing factoid: the bloke who set up the existing exploitative publishing model was the late Robert Maxwell, with Pergamon Press (known as Capβn Bob to readers of Private Eye). He just happens to be the father of Ghislaine Maxwell. I kid you not.
16.11.2025 00:41 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Brace yourself
14.11.2025 05:40 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Follow the Curia fundingβ¦
14.11.2025 05:39 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I think βstupid RW cowβ is appropriate here
14.11.2025 04:49 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Isnβt obesity Americaβs number 1 export?
12.11.2025 20:29 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0βLine of Duty Aotearoaβ was on the TV news tonight
11.11.2025 05:24 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Nice one!
10.11.2025 09:01 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Architect is not a verb, FFS
09.11.2025 19:33 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0You can accidentally stand on the whole trayful instead of individual pieces π
08.11.2025 20:58 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0But did it raise eyebrows among the other visitors to Kelly Tarltonβs?
07.11.2025 04:01 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Looks like the POTUS barnet on the top of that torch, unfortunately
05.11.2025 22:04 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0NZ First MPs keep proposing laws they have no intention of passing, and the media falls for it every time.
thespinoff.co.nz/politics/06-...
Summer in Dunedin, then
04.11.2025 19:20 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0And no-one has EVER SEEN such a beautiful lightbulb π€£
04.11.2025 05:06 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Yes, Philippa gets her work peer-reviewed, whereas Bish wings it
03.11.2025 04:41 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Seen elsewhere. π―
01.11.2025 20:03 β π 191 π 80 π¬ 4 π 0The Barretts are dropping like flies
01.11.2025 20:31 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0And now a red card - absolute shocker of a decision
01.11.2025 20:28 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Ridiculous number of replays - and they have a bloke who is paid to make the call - and he couldnβt π
01.11.2025 20:23 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Invoke the 25th, FFS
01.11.2025 04:16 β π 8 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Aw shucks π - and happy birthday to you for earlier this week πΎ
31.10.2025 05:07 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Purple reign, purple reign
30.10.2025 21:49 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0And what do they mean by the Luxonesque βleveragingβ, I wonder. Maybe βusingβ would have been a better choice. Management-speak is polluting the language π
29.10.2025 20:29 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Well done, Frank. Good oral hygiene is so important π€
29.10.2025 04:49 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Good video too
27.10.2025 00:33 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A phots of hardworking hands being washed with the words βLabour Day Brought to you by the hard working men and women in our Unionsβ Below the hands is a line up of David Brent PM, Atlas Network plant Sleazemour, Drunkle, and No Idea Nicola with the added words βNot them:β
Stolen off FB #NZLabourDay2025
26.10.2025 22:02 β π 121 π 41 π¬ 1 π 0We need to be vigilant, and call them out wherever/whenever we see them
26.10.2025 03:19 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Stephen Mitler
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