Verity Chambers

Journalist and photographer, formerly SMH; teacher. In dog years I'm dead. Views expressed here are my own, etc. Illo from Gorey's Gashlycrumb Tinies

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Relax, everyone

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@MistaMark78 @AlboMP Go to the bathroom, look in the mirror, breathe in and out a few times, and ask yourself why you need to politicise someone’s death. Dude, really.

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@ELNVdc @MagdaSzubanski Get out of Pine Gap, dickheads

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@thmsenglsh @nickschadegg He was an amazing journo

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@thmsenglsh @nickschadegg I had my Day Drinking stripes before I was graded

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@thmsenglsh @nickschadegg Can confirm. When I was a cadet working with gruff legend Jack Darmody 5am shifts started at the Hollywood. On quiet mornings we’d use code on the two-way to meet up with the journos in the other early news car at one of a few regular pubs.

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@LauraPowellEsq I'd suggest viewers are no longer accustomed to seeing human faces, with their inevitable differences in skin tone and texture. We want airbrushed, perfected fiction. These people are not models. What do you want from your political leaders - truth, or beauty?

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@SummerShaddows @LauraPowellEsq Is it the job of a photographer to make a subject "look good"? Good to whose eyes?

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@Xcacone @tasheminx @TheQuartering Wow, hilarious. Sixteen people died. You need psychological support.

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@SocDoneLeft @PressSec @svdate An insult to 12-year-olds

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A fantastic hour of TV - so much talent in one studio! Hey @ABCTV make this a weekly show!
#NAIDOC #naidocweek
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@MikeCarlton01 Jill Biden has a doctorate in education, not medicine. The Trumps are beyond stupid.

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@Darreluss7842 @karlmehta Such science

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@stackharderpleb @JackieHansard @TrumpetPatriots The policy they're proposing is taxing unrealised capital gains when their super account is worth more than $3m. Is that you? It's not most of us. It actually applies to 0.5 per cent of us, or about 80,000 people.
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@JonathanSarfat1 I'm interested in what you thought about the president promoting Tesla on the forecourt of the White House. I'm not trying to be provocative - just curious about how you perceive that?

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@Parameterise @Scaramucci Erm unlike being a panther because they're trustworthy lol whut

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@JonathanSarfat1 @PeteCEng1 @DrNeilStone I am really interested in your points of view. Mainly because you seem like a decent, intelligent human, and it has to be better for all of us that we take time to listen to people we don't agree with, right?

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Trump wants less spending and a more isolationist approach, but in the same breath talks about annexing Canada (wtf?) and grabbing Greenland. Er, no.

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Heading over to @bluesky hoping to find most of you. Dear Twitter, when it was good it was very very good. But now that it's bad, it's horrid. New handle: https://t.co/9YedCYSsuc

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It actually *benefits* richer countries to spend money supporting poorer nations to help build infrastructure and maintain strong economies. Foreign aid stabilises governments, helps track disease, reduces immigration, and is positive in so many other ways.

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@JonathanSarfat1 @PeteCEng1 @DrNeilStone We live in really large communities, where total individualism doesn't work for people who have fewer resources. It must be the responsibility of richer people, and richer countries, to assist those who have less.