Flag worship is for Americans.
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Flag worship is for Americans.
Hands are too big.
Once upon a time I would have said don't name your child Sparkle, they'll never become a Judge with a name like that. These days, (a) I wa wrong, and (b) Sparkles make the world a better place. So listen up gestating folk, Sparkle is a brilliant name. Gift it to your child.
Even when the monster is dead, I'm not sure I'll believe it. Such is the trauma.
I've been arguing on Facebook (I know, play silly games, win silly prizes) about this. The level of ignorance is astounding, but the lack of interest in trying to think beyond their limited beliefs is despairing.
Watch @theshot.net.au instead.
Rizz-less. Sans rizz. Utterly devoid of rizz. Reverse rizz. It's like he was de-rizzed at conception.
They call him lots of things in Europe, president not being one of them.
I hate people
Sorry, what?
America really is the strangest place.
Utter gronk.
In my experience it's faster. But it shouldn't be.
Agreed. I have it, but why should I get to the top of the queue faster just because I have more money?
Omg I love being in my 50's. Best decade by far (so far, I hear the 60's rock!). I can feel my gradual slide into swamp witchdom underway, no longer weighed down by the unwelcomed opinions of strangers and unnecessary fucks. Life is good.
And Australia
I don't want to wish my life away, but roll on 2028.
A fecally smeared scrotal tag.
Where governments choose to tax and where to spend money shows a lot about their priorities. We should be taxing things we want less of (like fossil fuels), and subsidising things we want more of (like education). Pretty simple. #auspol
America is such an odd place.
Beautiful ❤️
Reading some of the comments here reminds me that Americans, with their gun-loving ways, are so odd.
What a scrotal tag.
We did you proud.
And Brisbane is going off!
The Brisbane rally is going off 🍉
The Brisbane #PalestineRally is going off!
Brisbane is now at Queens Gardens.
He's a scrotal tag
I came here hoping to see a Four Seasons reference.
Came to say that.
Ignore 90yo white hippies at your peril.
It just keeps getting better.
I'd prefer to eat razor blades and wash them down with prune juice.
I'm cringing with embarrassment.
They must both be standing there thinking "what a total scrotal tag". Excruciatingly embarrassing.
Monstrous 😞💔💔💔 Anybody who knows better and is still supporting the dairy industry has some serious soul searching to do
You know you’re a winner when you leave Putin looking like this.
‘Veganism is not a diet. It’s a refusal to be complicit in injustice’ 💯⚖️
Orange sphincter 😂
When you’re having trouble with your DUI field test…
Michael Pascoe and Chris Wallace!!! What gets Sunday Shot team ✅ #TheSundayShot ☕️ going from strength to strength ✅ Sunday’s 9am on YouTube ✅
I've got ADHD and I'm not distracted.
I feel like there was also a promise to not build a stadium at Victoria Park.
People with nothing to lose behave like people with nothing to lose. Give people something to lose and they behave like people with something to lose. It seems so simple 🤷🏻
You know what would actually reduce crime and homelessness? Universal healthcare, free education, affordable housing and a basic living wage. When people have their most basic needs met, they have happier and healthier lives. Those hoarding the wealth don’t want to give us those things.
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Antony Loewenstein: Israel has killed more journalists in the last 22 months than were killed in the US civil war, WW1, WW2, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan combined.
This is a much younger me, at the 2015 ALP National Conference, soon after I founded Labor Friends of Palestine. The credit goes to rank-and-file party activists, and to you, everyone who has joined the protests and raised your voice for justice. It's taken Labor more than a decade.
Trying to remember why Fatima Payman was kicked out of the ALP…
Penny 'non-lethal parts' Wong.
#IsraeliCrimes #Gaza #JournalismIsNotACrime
What about earthworms Joanne?
I've known people with cancer have to wait months for treatment. I had a few days wait at most. But I do believe everyone should have access to the same high quality treatment, free of charge. It's a basic right. And I'd be happy for my private health premiums to go towards paying for that.
#PersonalChoiceTho
C'mon @albomp.bsky.social, if not now then when? What a massive disappointment this government is.
And with a pen stroke Jarrod Bleijie removes Queensland's public housing policy in favour of more post-Olympics land to go to property developers. There just aren't the resources to build the Crisafulli Colesseum & public housing so the most vulnerable are now cut off. #qldpol
Dear PM @albomp.bsky.social cc @senatorwong.bsky.social If you're still confused, uncertain if it's a genocide, or if you should unambiguously condemn #IsraeliWarCrimes or condemn the #GazaGenocide, talented artist @hudsoncartoons.bsky.social provides a handy guide. 🎨 🇵🇸 #auspol #RecognisePalestine
Legality ≠ morality
Starting to feel that way.
I want every image of Trump to have a clown filter from now on.
Huge American-style utes are damaging our roads, reducing safety, and increasing emissions. “In Europe they’re introducing measures to discourage people from driving these big utes... "In Australia we’ve got subsidies for them.” @richarddenniss.bsky.social, Executive Director #auspol
100% behind them. They hold our future in their hands. They should be paid like CEOs!
Driving at full speed in reverse snatching achievements of Qld governments past. 4 hands on the wheel pausing briefly to slap each other on the back. No policy ambition whatsoever. An opposition occupying government benches with no idea what to do beyond the demands of their donors. #qldpol
I was about 7. There were some men doing work in our garden. I was about to get in the bath when the phone rang. I ran to answer it, naked. The men saw me through the window, made obscene gestures, and laughed.
Watchdog Group Downgrades U.S. From Democracy To Whatever Political System Lobsters Have theonion.com/watchdo...
13yo, that's rape not sex.
What in the ever fucking fuck. Who could do that??? I'm speechless
We must prevent the stadium at Vic Park.
Matt Golding's cartoon is beautiful. #MarchForHumanity #SaveGaza 🇵🇸 🍉 #RecognisePalestine #FreePalestine
Same with utilise.
These useless fucks always pick on women. Weak turds that they are.
What must that poor demon have done to deserve getting stuck inside that sack of shit.
Dotard is an underrated word.
Can't view social media, but can do adult time for adult crime. #qlder
People who don't want a stadium in Victoria Park are also unhappy with him.
Can't believe I ever had so much as a shred of respect for her.
A comprehensive list of the non-lethal parts of my big death plane theshot.net.au/uncategorize...
Jesus fucking christ. Fucking reprehensible.
I didn't put tracking apps on my kids' phones, nor did I demand to know their passwords. Kids deserve privacy. And parents don't own their kids. They just have the privilege of being in their lives.
It bears repeating
youtu.be/qdSJTvvWNzk?...
Back when whitegoods got repaired if they broke down, my flatmate took our broken microwave to the local repair shop. Turns out it was full of tiny mutant cockroaches. They cleaned it out, but every now and then a cockroach with a leg growing out of its head would scuttle across the clock display.
They're literally trying to kill 2 million people and @senatorwong.bsky.social is breaking down the parts of a death plane into lethal and non-lethal. That's the West in a nutshell. Silo everything. No accountability. Nothing is connected to anything else. Detachment to exist with barbarism.
Because lots of necessary treatments (eg joint replacement) aren't urgent, and if I get cancer again I don't want to have to wait months to start treatment. I get a higher standard of care because I pay for it. I just think everyone should get that same high standard via a properly funded Medicare.
I'd be happy to pay my private health insurance premiums into the Medicare bucket if it meant access to timely, quality, free healthcare for everyone. I don't see why I should get better healthcare just because I can afford it.
From this moment forward every image of this fecal smear must have the clown filter applied.
#Protein Plant based or animal based - it shouldn’t be a difficult decision.
Her name was Diana. She was 23 years old and 7 months pregnant. Russia murdered her today in an attack on the maternity hospital in Kamyanske.
Stop. Eating. Meat.
STEWART: “I feel like I’m watching something so self-evidently inhumane and horrific and to be told I have to shut up because I risk the Jewish state by speaking out? I would say the opposite — they’re putting the likelihood of a surviving Jewish state much more at risk.”
💔💔💔💔💔💔💔 This is an industry deemed ‘ #DOWNER ’ cow Just part of doing business when it comes to needlessly exploiting grieving mothers. And all because humans can’t seem to evolve away from such a blatantly stupid and cruel practice like stealing milk from babies #whey #dairy #Cheese #AnimalAbuse
I haven't watched anything other than SBS World News for ages. The rest is rubbish. I'm looking at you @abcnewsaustralia.bsky.social
America is unfathomable. Such a strange place.
Mick - Centre to Left 