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Here because you entertain me.

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

Hey my muchachos, I've had a run of very bad luck. Please retweet for visibility. Thanks. https://t.co/QXnWEWjuW5

[ABC News @abcnews]

#BREAKING: The Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) plans to extract its staff from Macquarie Island in the Southern Ocean amid concerns about the impact of bird flu. https://t.co/CBfPtzOSG8

[Introvert Memes @introverts007]

Fellow introverts, it’s my birthday today.
I guess this is the one day I can ask for something.
I’ve been trying hard to grow this page for 6 years and we still haven’t even touched 50k.
Just need a little push from you all.
RT this if any of my posts ever felt relatable, and help me connect with more introverts.
Thank You!

[Poetic Outlaws @OutlawsPoetic]

“The main problem in any democracy is that crowd-pleasers are generally brainless swine who can go out on a stage & whup their supporters into an orgiastic frenzy—then go back to the office & sell every one of the poor bastards down the tube for a nickel apiece.”

― Hunter S. Thompson

[a62136 @a62136]

@PhillipAdams_1 Mine never arrived. Send me your copy?

[a62136 @a62136]

@ATRightMovies Goanna - Spirit of Place
Chris Rea - Road to Hell
Crowded House - Crowded House

[Friedrich Nietzsche Notebook @QuoteNietzsche]

We have art in order not to die from the truth.

[Voltaire Archive @VoltaireQuote]

It is forbidden to kill; therefore, all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

[a62136 @a62136]

@LakotaMan1 And to you.

[Dr Tracy Westerman AM @TracyWesterman]

The Sanewashing of Hanson Is at Its Peak.
This is how Trump came to power: platform the lies, skip the follow-up, let the headlines call it “proving her critics wrong.”
We are all watching it happen in real time.
At the National Press Club, Pauline Hanson said the following. Not one claim was challenged by the so called journalists in attendance and she continues to be unchallenged on the facts in every interview she sits.
-1. Unlike the Prime Minister, I welcome scrutiny.” Hypocritical. In the same speech she announced she refuses ABC interviews, will scrap the SBS, & will make the ABC subscription-only. The event allowed 2 hours; standard format gives 25–30 mins for the address. She spoke for 50-halving the time left for questions. When Guardian journalist Sarah Martin used that remaining time to ask about her daughter's $150,000 taxpayer-funded advisor role, Hanson called her “a trashy journalist” and banned her from all future press conferences.
• “Babies are aborted the day before birth.” Fabricated. Late-term abortion is highly restricted, requires medical approval, and occurs only in genuine medical emergencies.
• “Interest rates are heading towards 10%.” False. RBA cash rate: 4.35%. Forecast to fall, not rise.
• “There’s no gender pay gap — just women taking time off.” False. WGEA confirms the gap exists at equal hours, equal roles, regardless of career breaks.
• “$30B a year on Indigenous programs.” False. Only 18% (~$5.6B) is Indigenous-specific. The rest is the Indigenous share of mainstream services every Australian uses.
• Transgender people were compared to “militant Islam.” False and dangerous. ABS data: transgender and gender-diverse Australians make up 1% of the pop’n. There’s no body of research showing transgender ppl commit crime at elevated rates-in fact it shows transgender people are dramatically more likely to be victims of violence— assault, sexual violence, and homicide rates against trans people are well above general population rates in most studies (US, UK, and Aust data all show this pattern)
• “23% of Australians can’t speak English.” False. That 23% speak another language at home — most are bilingual. Limited English proficiency: just 3.2%.
• “The CEFC has had $200 billion.” False by a factor of six. Actual legislated capacity: $33 billion.
• “I care about the homeless and hungry.” Hypocritical. In the same speech, she backed cuts to Indigenous-specific funding — despite Aboriginal homelessness running up to 10 times higher than the non-Indigenous rate.
• $90 billion in cuts, no plan. ~$35 billion of it remains unaccounted for. No modelling.
• “I support worker rights.” False. Voted against minimum wage increases, penalty rates, criminalising wage theft, casual conversion rights, same job same pay, and the right to disconnect. Took a $100,000 pay rise while voting against a tax break for low-paid workers
• Called Australian workers “lazy.” She has attended just 12% of Senate estimates since 2016 & 53% of parliamentary votes. Paid over $200k a year
• Labor have let immigration get out of control.” False. Net overseas migration has fallen every year since the post-COVID peak in 2022-23 — 538,000 → 446,000 → 306,000 in 2024-25. She also recycled a 26-year-old ABS pop’n projection as a fresh “next 50 years” forecast

Said: This beautiful country belongs to all Australians born here and those who have joined us”- in her opening line; then spent the next 50 minutes demanding a monocultural society, comparing transgender Australians to militant Islam, inflating migration and language figures, denying the gender pay gap, and repeating the debunked $30 billion Indigenous funding myth. Welcomed everyone in the first sentence. Spent the rest of the speech defining most of them out — and offered no plan to fix anything she raised, only $90 billion in cuts.
Not one follow-up question. No source data on a single figure in the entire speech. This is what unchallenged looks like.
/2 sources

[a62136 @a62136]

@USAS_WW1 @clark_aviation @MartinKoenigsb2 @JudahBDavis @MassiasThanos I always wondered if airport infrastructure would need upgrading for such aircraft.

[Voltaire Archive @VoltaireQuote]

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Elon Musk can say what he likes about me but I won't stay silent whilst foreign tech billionaires, money earned off the backs of real workers, try to interfere in our democracy, incite violence in our communities and tear apart our country.

Time for him to pipe down.

[a62136 @a62136]

@MrRexPatrick I recall that we had to buy these sans inspections. They were rust buckets. The project review report was a master class in what not to do.

[Laszlo 💀🦇👻🕷 @LaszlosMom]

@dog_rates Happy Pride Month!!

[Jack Hopkins @thejackhopkins]

My Message to Republican Lawmakers

You built this.
Not the voters.
Not the media.
YOU.

You saw the instability. You saw the narcissism. You saw the appetite for chaos. And...instead of containing it, you harnessed it. You fed it. You rode it. You told yourselves you could control it.

You created a political Frankenstein...and...now you’re shocked that the monster doesn’t take orders.

For a decade, you have watched as he scorched institutions...smeared allies...embraced authoritarians... and turned the presidency...into a grievance machine with nuclear codes.

You knew better. Many of you said so privately. Yet publicly? Silence. Applause. Fundraising emails.

You traded constitutional principle for short-term power. You surrendered oversight for party unity. You let fear of primaries outweigh fear for the republic.

And now?

Now you watch death overseas...instability abroad... corrosion at home...and...you still hesitate. You still calculate. You still ask what the base will tolerate.

Leadership...is not about surviving the next news cycle. It is about protecting the system...when it is inconvenient to do so.

You cannot claim surprise. You cannot claim helplessness. You had votes. You had hearings. You had leverage. You had moments...countless moments...to draw a line.

Instead...you normalized what should have disqualified.

History will not remember your press releases. It will remember whether you defended the guardrails or dismantled them.

YOU built this.

The question...now...is whether you finally dare to contain it...or...whether you will stand there again...hands clasped...pretending the fire wasn’t lit by you in the first place.

Clearly, I jest.
You’re all cowards.
You’re all gutless punks.

You are walking, talking examples of a corrupt political system...one that protects itself...and only itself.