🧵 1 of 3: Young mental patients on the streets over a lack of beds. No oversight on assaults by orderlies or illegal use of sedatives/restraint belts on those 'lucky' enough to get one of those beds. ⤵️ .../2

Andrew Gardiner@ajgardineresq.bsky.social · 6d ago

🧵 Body Corporate skims apartment owners' money. Victim had receipts. Vic Consumer Affairs does nothing about it and 3,500 other cases. Is this a problem in other states, followers? Attributable to a chronic lack of resources at that agency, or something more nefarious? #springst #auspol ...2

Mount Washington. A marvel of modern biology. 21-16. #SteelersvBrowns

Mount Washington. A marvel of modern biology. 21-16. #SteelersvBrowns

Here's an idea, #Steelers. Stop drafting egomaniac CBs (who force their way out after 3 seasons) because Art ("Fredo") Rooney wanted to preserve a family connection. Results below: ⬇️ Here's another idea, Art: retire. #SteelersvBrowns

Here's J̷a̷m̷e̷s̷ ̷A̷s̷h̷b̷y̷ Pauline on the Shoebridge ascent: "Faruqi would be scathing of having a white privileged colonialist male as leader of the Greens". "Over a 𝙘𝙤𝙡𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙚𝙙 woman? My God!" (No wonder the KKK loves her). You forgot to tell Shoebridge to "piss off back to Woollahra", Pauline. #auspol

So this headline came out a few days ago. Been expecting outrage in the corporate/conservative media/politics re Plymouth Brethren who allegedly pay Neo Nazi adjacent activists to attack centre & left #Auspol AND apparently speak open antisemitism. What did I miss? (Must ☠️ Google AI 😬😵‍💫 Tips?)

You'd think he'd quit while he's behind ...

Aaaaand just like that, Senator Eric ("Gotcha Jack Smith! Oops!") Schmitt* goes from Vice Presidential aspirant to meme. 😅 A graduate of Truman State University, it's fitting that Schmitt joins a Pantheon of idiots that includes the "Dewey Defeats Truman" headline-writer ... ↘️ #Trump #Jan6 #Senate

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 3d ago

oh my fucking god, you have to watch this. eric schmitt just made himself the main character.

#Trump lets tech bros self-regulate on #AI. < tinyurl.com/5aupxhyr > Bravo! Worked a treat with salty foods/sugary drinks, at Volkswagen (Emissions Scandal) and at Wells Fargo (fake accounts). Some fear Trump could end democracy. At this point, I'm more worried about his imperilling *humanity* ...

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 3d ago

After heavy lobbying and huge donations from Big Tech, Trump killed a proposed Biden-era rule requiring AI companies to disclose their riskiest experiments to federal officials. Everything is for sale. This is worth a read: https://www.levernews.com/ai-regulation-was-coming-then-trump-killed-it/

I remember when ″⁣Wharfie Time″⁣ was when the Painters and Dockers Union downed tools (yes, I'm that old 🦖). Now, it's just the Dockers! 🥁💿 (Solemn promise: his is my last 'Wharfie Time' gag! #Bloods fans, this (⬇️) used to be us ...) #AFLGrandFinal

When Ex Machina here* walks into NORAD, I'll officially panic. (Doomsday Preppers: "we told you so ...")

Ummm ... didn't 'Wharfie Time' trigger the biggest cataclysm in the history of catastrophes, at the MCG last Saturday? Not the flex you think it is, Vic Premier Ben Carroll ... 🤷‍♂️ #springst #auspol

🧵 Body Corporate skims apartment owners' money. Victim had receipts. Vic Consumer Affairs does nothing about it and 3,500 other cases. Is this a problem in other states, followers? Attributable to a chronic lack of resources at that agency, or something more nefarious? #springst #auspol ...2

🧵 Meet our new US Ambassador David Brat (see 2nd post ⤵️) a prominent far right Tea Party figure in the Obama years who seamlessly switched to #MAGA. Trump only tosses ambassadorships at cronies/benefactors/assorted hangers on (FFS he nominated Ashfield's own Nick Adams for Malaysia!). #auspol .../2

"Conservative and Libertarian" poster (⤵️) mixes politics with sport, backing the "least woke team" in today's #AFLGrandFinal (apparently that's the Brisbane Lions 🤷). Wait til Heinrich hears about Harris Andrews ... 😅

Put together/watched my own V/AFL Grand Final marathon last night. (If you're having trouble identifying the 3rd clip, it's Cowboy Neale pancaking Peter Hudson's ear in 1971). Naturally, my version concluded with a certain drought-breaker from 2005* ... 🦢 (sound up 🔊⤵️) #Bloods #AFLGrandFinal

All aboard the PS Canally, affectionately known as the "greyhound of the Mid-Murray", Morgan, SA. (Actual greyhound in foreground). #TravelsOfElla

MY LATEST: Australia Post says plans to close scores of Post Offices are “embryonic”, but unmanned facilities - spruiked as '24/7 Post Shops' - are popping up all over the place Is this the future? And does it cut the mustard with customers? #auspol @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social tinyurl.com/38a2fk7b

You've got mail? The slow demise of the humble post office - Michael West

As revenue slowly declines, Australia Post is closing post offices and replacing them with unattended kiosks.

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Chainsaw-wielding Javier Milei (🇦🇷): " #Trump & #Netanyahu are far above the average individual". Bibi "understands the link with the culture war like very few people, except Marco Rubio and Trump". ... and there I was, thinking Argentina bottomed out in the crazy department with Eva Peron. 🤷

MY LATEST: Australia Post says plans to close scores of Post Offices are “embryonic”, but unmanned facilities - spruiked as '24/7 Post Shops' - are popping up all over the place Is this the future? And does it cut the mustard with customers? #auspol @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social tinyurl.com/38a2fk7b

You've got mail? The slow demise of the humble post office - Michael West

As revenue slowly declines, Australia Post is closing post offices and replacing them with unattended kiosks.

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Look at the photo👇. #Trump's casting a shadow over @albomp.bsky.social. How apt. #LateStageColonialism #auspol

The Terminator movies had a visceral impact on audiences. And the corporate avarice bringing 'Judgement Day' got plenty of attention. But the one thing James Cameron couldn't possibly foresee was nation states fighting each other tooth-and-nail 👇to (potentially) make it happen ... (🔊sound up ⬇️) #AI

Mass local post office closures in the name of corporatisation. @ajgardineresq.bsky.social goes inside the auspost transformation project from LPOs to unmanned kiosks #auspol michaelwest.com.au/youve-got-ma...

You've got mail? The slow demise of the humble post office - Michael West

As revenue slowly declines, Australia Post is closing post offices and replacing them with unattended kiosks.

michaelwest.com.au

MY LATEST: Amid Hanson’s vitriol, supporters are recasting aspiring Liberal leader Andrew Hastie as a voice of integrity and reason. Unfortunately, his track record on the religious far right makes it a hard sell. #auspol @independentaus.bsky.social tinyurl.com/5d46m7sk

Andrew Hastie’s political makeover puts integrity in the spotlight

Amid Hanson’s vitriol, supporters are recasting aspiring LNP leader Andrew Hastie as a voice of integrity and reason, but his track record makes it a hard sell.

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🧵Pauline removes white robes, issues statement: reports of Ku Klux Klan praising One Nation are "absurd and offensive" (Channel Nine's report: see 2nd post ⤵️). Don't distance yourself from your neo-Nazi pals, Pauline. You'll need them to hand out how-to-vote cards ... #PaulineKlanson #auspol .../2

"Under the settlement terms, CBS/CNN will have a news editorial independence board to protect them from pro- #Trump interference". Who will be on this board? What's their definition of "independence"? And the biggest question of all: will Bari Weiss knock it off (narrator: no). tinyurl.com/2p9pp5nc

Paramount Settles With California, Other States Over Warner Bros Merger

The settlement removes a major obstacle to closing one of the largest media mergers in history.

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#SydneySwans Charlie Curnow & Dane Rampe at last night's #BrownlowMedal, looking like extras from 𝘛𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘤. ↘️ Seems they (wisely) went from a subdued Mad Monday straight to the red carpet.🤷 Finishing 3rd despite 3-4 banned stars isn't exactly sinking to the floor of the Atlantic, guys... #AFL

A six-litre bottle of De Bortoli Shiraz, signed by ... Ben Roberts-Smith. < t.co/jCDEL9km6A > Collectors of Nazi memorabilia would kill for it ... #auspol

2025: We "obliterated" 🇮🇷 nukes! 💥 Feb '26: "We had to go back in. 🇮🇷 was days away from having nukes!" 😱 March: "We have a deal!"🎉 April: "A whole civilization will die tonight!" 🤯 July: "What's that? We're out of ammo?" 🤪 Sept 20: ⤵️ Fess up, 🇺🇸 followers. 𝑺𝒐𝒎𝒆 of you voted for this ... 🤦 #Trump

🧵Richard Flanagan (“Albanese is selling out Australia to AI colonists as artists face ruin”) looks back on the Whitlam years, when artists thrived, the left had a meaningful presence in government and colonial shackles were being thrown off before a drunk in a top hat ruined it all. #auspol ...2