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beleaguered citizen, recovering introvert.

[Paddystinian @Paddystinian]

Another Lego-Style Banger by Midnight Curiosities: Lindsey Graham 😎🎶🔥

#Lego #Ai
#Paddystinian ☘️🍉

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

A Scottish Highland cow born just two hours ago
🤍 🩶

[Ronni🧂Salt-WhoWroteGunnawahYeahThatOne @RonniSalt]

Pauline has this week treated herself to a Dolce & Gabbana fashion show in Sicily

What album cover is this from?

Wrong answers only

[Rex Patrick @MrRexPatrick]

Everything the Govt does, it does on our coin. Everything the Govt does, it should do for public purpose. So we have a right to know. When it comes to transparency @AlboMP has proven to be a disappointment and a shameless hypocrite. #auspol

[Jenny Difficult-Frecklington-Jones 🇵🇸🇱🇧🇮🇷 @JonesHowDareYou]

Wilcox. #auspol #Leaderlike

[𝒢𝒾𝓁𝒷ℯ𝓇𝓉 @AbakpaJob]

We cannot have sustainable energy because it threatens the oil industry. We cannot have healthcare because it threatens insurance. We cannot have peace because it threatens the weapons industry. Capitalism built a system where doing the right thing is treated like bad business.

[Cinephilia, anti-authoritarianism, & fuck AI @CCinephilia]

Rest in peace to one of cinema’s most outstanding artists; the legendary actor Sam Neill (1947–2026)

[Gangster Cinema Central @GangsterCinema]

When Tarantino was casting Pulp Fiction, the script had so much heat on it in Hollywood, even Daniel Day-Lewis wanted to play Vincent Vega. But Tarantino was adamant the role had to go to John Travolta, despite the studios seeing him as washed up. Tarantino explains…

“Absolutely nobody in the studio wanted John Travolta. And not only that, but it was also considered a really hot script at that time. When he was turning everything down, Daniel Day-Lewis expressed interest in playing Vincent.

I like Daniel Day-Lewis —but I really wanted John. I had my heart set on him. And it's one thing to want the guy who's out of fashion when nobody else wants him, right? But when there's actually a hot guy who you can actually get, and you want to go with the guy from Barbarino? — Yes, I want the guy from Barbarino, I’m sorry...

I was just kind of tough on it, in so far as — they really wanted to do the movie, and I just said, "look, I want to go this way, and if you don't agree that this is the way to go, then maybe we shouldn't make this movie together. Maybe I should make it with somebody else."

It wasn't a take-it-or-leave-it kind of situation, right. It's like, "look, I think he's a terrific actor. I think what you should do is you should watch him in Brian De Palma's Blow Out, and if you don't think he's a terrific actor after that, then maybe we should talk about whether we should do this movie together."

...But also, aside from just that, there was this aspect: John Travolta is a movie star. Just because everyone in Hollywood had forgotten about it just shows how dumb they are.

I actually walked down the street with John Travolta at his lowest ebb, in pre-production of the movie, and people would lose their minds when they saw him. We'd walk into a regular restaurant and we had to leave. Tourists in Hollywood would see him and just lose their minds.

People were dying to see him in something worth watching. It's just stupid Hollywood didn't realize it.”

Quote comes from Quentin Tarantino's appearance on the Opie and Anthony Show, 12-13-2012

[Bender @Bender_Aus]

DO YOU WANT TO KNOW WHO REALLY RUNS THIS COUNTRY?

It’s not who you voted for. I’ve spent months in the official records, AEC returns, the lobbyist register, Senate inquiries, ATO data.

What I found scares the hell out of me.

Start with the money. Every single year for 27 years, a group of companies has funded Labor AND the Coalition at the same time. Never fewer than 24 of them. Last year, 94, the biggest on record. They don’t bet on a winner. They buy both. Add $1 billion in dark money since 1999 that nobody can trace, and five donors supplying a quarter of ALL party funding this century.

Now the names. Andrew Robb signed the China trade deal as minister, then walked into an $880,000 a year job with Landbridge, the Chinese company holding the 99 year lease on Darwin Port.

Christopher Pyne ran Defence, then advised EY on defence.

Julie Bishop ran Foreign Affairs, then joined the board of an aid contractor feeding off her old department.

Both cleared.

Marise Payne, another former foreign minister, now works for a lobbying firm. The Grattan Institute found 1 in 4 ministers end up working for the industries they used to regulate. The rule against it has never once produced a real penalty.

Behind them, a record 707 registered lobbyists and over 2,000 unregistered pass holders roaming Parliament’s private corridors with no record of who they meet. When one senator pushed for an inquiry, Labor and the Liberals teamed up to kill it. The one thing they always agree on.

Then your money. Federal contracts to the big four consultancies grew 1,270% in a decade. PwC charged taxpayers nearly $1 million for a Robodebt report it never delivered, an 8 slide PowerPoint, while leaking our secret tax plans to clients like Google.

KPMG stands accused of billing Defence for work never done, after hiring almost 100 ex Defence staff.

Nobody went to jail for any of it.

And the payback? Over 1,100 companies earning $100 million plus paid ZERO income tax in 2023-24. The ATO published the list itself.

Who tells you about all this?

Four companies control 84% of our newspapers. Only Brazil has a more concentrated media on the planet.

Follow the loop:

●Hidden money funds the parties.

●Ministers retire into the industries they regulated.

●Those industries pay nothing back.

And the megaphone deciding what you hear is owned by a handful of boardrooms.

You’ve thrown the government out four times since 1998. Not one part of that loop was interrupted for a single year.

Labor and Liberal aren’t driving the car. They’re taking turns holding the wheel while someone else owns the road.

None of it is illegal. That’s the problem.

Sources:
- AEC Transparency Register 1998–2025; Register of Lobbyists 2026; Senate ministerial standards inquiry; Grattan Institute; Centre for Public Integrity; Senate consulting inquiry; ATO Corporate Tax Transparency Report 2023-24; Global Media & Internet Concentration Project. #auspol #ItsAllCorrupt

[RS Archer @archer_rs]

Perhaps we as a society could take a moment to consider the President of the United States was forced by a Court yesterday to pay $6 million in damages to a woman he raped and the media coverage has been close to zero.

[Kathleen Tyson @Kathleen_Tyson_]

I think what drives high achieving scientists to China, besides better research students and well-funded labs, is China’s genuine commitment to solving real world problems that make lives better.

Not everyone wants profit maximisation.

[💧 Johny Miller ([email protected]) @jmil400]

#CathyWilcox

[Erin 🦕 @DocOldFossil]

sam was always such an endearing storyteller . this one about getting his tonsils out as a kid has got to be my favorite 😭 enjoy

[S★ @xxyllinn]

I don't want a "Smart Fridge" that orders milk for me. I want a fridge that lasts 25 years and doesn't have a privacy policy that allows it to share my late-night snacking habits with my health insurance provider.

[redball @redball2]

🌳🌿🐓🐓🐓🐓 ‘popularity’ .. Sam Neill peacefully with friends at home on the farm in July 2021

[Rex Patrick @MrRexPatrick]

Christopher Pyne’s evidence to the #AUKUS Public Inquiry was different to mine.

* He was a politician; I was a submariner.
* He ran the House of Reps; I ran submarine industry projects.
* He’s profiting from AUKUS; I’m paying for AUKUS.

#auspol https://t.co/yjVSJTOrhX

[Ronni🧂Salt-WhoWroteGunnawahYeahThatOne @RonniSalt]

Interesting contrast

In this instance, the pro-Palestine camp was actively attacked, (by middle-aged men), threats made, threatening music played and the protester's belongings kicked over, and yet somehow - none of this makes the headlines?

The Jewish students who commented on the campus pro-Palestine protests (that were directed at Israel, not Jewish people) said they "felt threatened" even though this was in almost every case, related to the students walking past the protests, as did every other person on campus

None of them pointed to anything about the protests for Palestine, other than subjective feelings as they walked nearby or overheard the protestors

Which actions are more threatening?

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https://t.co/ZgJi0eHeEU

[stranger @strangerous10]

Sharon Pickering revealed that after this violent incursion by Pro Israel group, mostly made up of ‘non students’, they then attended and did the same again a few nights later. So it wasn’t a one-off.
She says police had to be called, but did not detail if there were any arrests

[stranger @strangerous10]

💥Doyle SC presses Monash VC Pickering on Pro-Israel “middle-aged men” who intruded on Pro-Palestine camps — harassing students, trashing property & playing racist Netanyahu lyrics on “seed of Amalek”, taunting Palestinians to “die” in their “rat holes”😳

Not a word from media.

[ScottyForTheNACC @scottysgotagun]

@strangerous10 It's what happens when they employ bean counters to replace engineers

Can't spend money to minimise outages to support the customers when shareholders have priority.

Should never have been sold, nor Qantas nor Comm bank