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Civil responses to my posts sought.
If I want to express myself without response I'll talk into my pillow.

Watching, wrestling, working, dreaming and sleeping in Australia.
Not always clear which is which. #AgedCareBusinesses #WhatHappensAfterYouDie #ArchiveElon #AgedCare #Robodebt #TheColorOfDistance #Dance #PinaBausch #ContactImprovisation #SeaKayaking #HannahNyala #Schnapsen #LibertarianBillionaires #RePurposeMyEducation #HellScapeTheBioSphere #GraeberAndWengrow #DawnOfEverything

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GottaLaff, to random
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“Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) is projected to survive his GOP primary in #Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District, putting him one step closer to reelection this fall, according to Decision Desk HQ.

Bacon fended off a challenge from conservative hardliner and former congressional candidate Dan Frei. Frei received the backing of Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.), the chair of the House Freedom Caucus, while Bacon received the backing of House Speaker Mike Johnson”

https://trib.al/kpqsnSu

skua,
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@GottaLaff
Some days it's just, "You will be having horse urine or goat urine with that."

angeidheal, to queer
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Google Delists Sites Providing DIY Hormone Therapy at Behest of UK Government

https://www.404media.co/google-delists-sites-providing-diy-hormone-therapy-at-behest-of-uk-government/

Google has removed two websites providing “DIY” hormone replacement therapy used in gender-affirming care from search results at the request of the UK government, according to legal letters viewed by 404 Media (@404mediaco).

@lgbtqia

skua,
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@angeidheal @404mediaco @lgbtqia

The sites Google has delisted do not appear in the non-paywalled preview section of the article.

It verges on the edge of being when is paywalled like this. More so when it is .

Below may be one of the two sites delisted in the UK.

If I was using this information I'd do a site rip now as a precaution.

https://diyhrt.wiki/

skua,
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@angeidheal @404mediaco @lgbtqia @canleaf

No problem with you posting this.
It's a complex situation.
Possibly the publisher would have been wiser to make it paywall-exempt.

skua, to Windows11
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Currently resetting/reinstalling .

me with,

"Good things coming your way."

Chilling feeling with this coming from a company with 's record.

Edent, to Cybersecurity
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🆕 blog! “Bank scammers using genuine push notifications to trick their victims”

You receive a call on your phone. The polite call centre worker on the line asks for you by name, and gives the name of your bank. They say they're calling from your bank's fraud department. "Yeah, right!" You think. Obvious scam, isn't it?…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/05/bank-scammers-using-genuine-push-notifications-to-trick-their-victims/

#bank #CyberSecurity #phishing #scam #security

skua,
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@Edent

And then a ummm "successful" Australian bank texts an elderly customer saying they'd like to speak with them.
The SMS included a phone number and a password.

[invective directed against that bank's dipshit customer communication manager]

Yes it was genuinely from the fking bank.

Great way to train customers up to be scammed. Dickheads.

gutenberg_org, to books
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in 1915.

The rondeau "In Flanders Fields" by the Canadian poet John McCrae is written; it is first published on December 8 in the London magazine Punch. He was inspired to write it, after presiding over the funeral of friend and fellow soldier Lieutenant Alexis Helmer, who died in the Second Battle of Ypres. According to legend, fellow soldiers retrieved the poem after McCrae, initially dissatisfied with his work, discarded it.

In Flanders Fields at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/353

skua,
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@gutenberg_org

I like to read that when I hold the Foe to be the systems of government that resulted in that war and the many wars since, and now .

GottaLaff, to legal
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🧵starts HERE.
PLEASE NOTE: I likely can’t reply while live-posting. Adding NFL (Not For Laffy) helps! Thx.

1/…

Via Andrew Weissmann:

Court about to begin. The defense table, from left to right: Blanche, the defendant (ie Trump), Bove, and Necheles (notably farthest from Trump). Gaggle of photographers shoot Trump, inches from his face: he maintains an implacable and dour expression. ADA Josh Steinglass and his team now enter: Steinglass is very much the lead here.

skua,
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@GottaLaff

"Peggy" huh?

More likely "Pegger".

ZwiebeIfisch, to random
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Noch Fragen?

skua, (edited )
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@HistoPol @ZwiebeIfisch

WARNING
The map is interesting.

But the linked site is "Kill them all and let God decide who is innocent" on a global ecological and human genocide scale.

A quote from the article,
"Not solutions that will lead us back to the climate of a few decades ago – costly and pointless – but solutions that work for the world as it will be, when it will be much warmer than it is now."

But maybe you're less blasé about the deaths of billions?
Try here:
https://mymodernmet.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/climate-change-map-HD.jpeg

plaguepoems, to random
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History remembers nothing
it is a closed book
gathering dust on a shelf
history may record
but history does not remember
for that is a responsibility
which is left to people.

skua,
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@plaguepoems
The next pandemic will test the learning ability of our systems of government, health science, and official communications.

They have/had a big WAKE UP call with the arrival of Covid-SARS2.

Will they have display adequate adaptation?

nixCraft, to linux
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skua,
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@nixCraft

That is so not funny.

It's the printers, the , that take a year.

realTuckFrumper, to random
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skua,
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@realTuckFrumper
Ahh, it's the old "died of a heroin overdose while watching animal porn and your auto company has gone to shit so you play the sentient humanoid card" trick, .

gutenberg_org, to books
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American novelist, humorist, and critic Mark Twain died in 1910.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, often called "the Great American Novel," is particularly noted for its vivid depiction of people and places along the Mississippi River. Twain's other notable works include The Prince and the Pauper, Life on the Mississippi, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, & his autobiography, which was published posthumously.

Books by Mark Twain at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/53

Cover of Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

skua,
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@gutenberg_org

I read a far more recently written sequel to this book.

It made explicit the racism and sexism of the times, culture and geography that Huckleberry Finn the character was living in.

What do you think the implications of the name "Huckleberry" were?

skua, to random
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Oooooooh, pretty pretty, looking very comfortable.

Probably just needs the door lock fixed and it'll be ready to go around Australia.

Subscribe for more great holiday ideas!

gutenberg_org, to books
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in 1897

The Grand Guignol is opened in Paris by Oscar Méténier.

From its opening in 1897 until its closing in 1962, it specialised in naturalistic horror shows. Its name is often used as a general term for graphic, amoral horror entertainment, a genre popular from Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre (for instance Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, and Webster's The Duchess of Malfi and The White Devil), to today's splatter films.

skua,
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Amoral natural horror entertainment huh?

"Beware of , any excess and global politics so easily becomes a Grand Guignol."

Does that scan?

campuscodi, to random
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The developers of the Notepad++ text editor have asked users to help report a new website impersonating its brand and ranking high in search results

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/help-to-take-down-parasite-site/

skua,
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@campuscodi

I used to think computing was cool.
I still have a soft spot for Notepad++.

Reported.

But By Satan's Balls I don't miss the scene.

melissabeartrix, to random
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The war between Israel and Gaza, Will end the moment the Israeli government forces the ultra orthodox Jews into national service ... My opinion

Hugz & xXx

skua,
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@melissabeartrix

Hehehehehe.

Next you'll want DJT cleaning his own toilet bowls.

Really, who'd elect some jerk who does not clean their own toilet bowl?

Wanna bet whether Dutt's wife is assigned the toilet cleaning role?

melissabeartrix, to random
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Just walked into a room, turned the light off and then walked into the door jam ... Nobody has moved the door ... I've been here for 23 years, I built the place ... You'll think I would know the layout ... But no ... Giggles

No blood ... Maybe a fat lip ... I always wanted big fat lips ... Giggles

Hugz & xXx

skua,
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@melissabeartrix

Back when the pandemic was new I got a N95 injury!

Adjusted my mask as I turned around, got it tangled over eyes and walked forehead into the doorjam.

Really jarred something neural as I had super olfactory sense for over a year - until I got COVID and lost sense of smell for month plus.

GottaLaff, to Texas
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👀👀👀👀 :
A appeals court just threw out the five-year prison sentence for Crystal Mason, the Texas woman sentenced for trying to cast a provisional ballot in the 2016 election that was rejected. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/28/crystal-mason-texas-woman-acquitted?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other…

skua,
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@GottaLaff
The article says that her case got significant attention in USA.

The attention was global.
And USA looked like an unreliable racist nation.

melissabeartrix, to random
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These guys are good choppers ... Giggles

Hugz & xXx

Underhand chopping

skua,
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@melissabeartrix
Are you out visiting timber towns?

melissabeartrix, to random
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Lunch ... With sides of anxiety

Hugz & xXx

skua,
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@melissabeartrix

Knowing those sides all too well recently - I've got to remember, "And that's without anxiety sides today" when I order at the counter.

skua, to random
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Hey, look what I found.

Wondering if Kerry Stokes was looking at or already had this investment back when John Howard re-jigged the Australian aged care system into something that could produce serious profits for private operators who could stomach mistreating the elderly?

And if Kerry conferred with Ol' Brown-nose Johny about the details of the second rate system that Johny set upon the frail aged?

https://www.crikey.com.au/2020/07/30/will-seven-ever-address-kerry-stokes-coronavirus-debacle/

StillIRise1963, to random
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"Following the Republican National Committee's takeover by Trump loyalists, the party will be shuttering a heavily-touted program designed to boost minority engagement."

GOOD. STAY AWAY.

FULL NAZI IS IN EFFECT.

https://www.rawstory.com/rnc-2667501622/

skua,
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@StillIRise1963

Thinking of my beginner level goals when playing chess.

  1. Don't make stupid moves.

  2. Take advantage of stupid moves by my opponent.

ronsboy67, to aotearoa
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4.5/5
@thestorygraph for The Seven by
Chris Hammer

skua,
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@ronsboy67 @thestorygraph @bookstodon

It's just a name for the Western Province.

skua,
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@ronsboy67 @thestorygraph @bookstodon

It's great seeing cartography used to promote peace and understanding.

melissabeartrix, to random
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I want to drive my truck where I want

He should be fined a lot more

Hugz & xXx

https://au.news.yahoo.com/big-fine-owner-ripped-mangroves-062704306.html

skua,
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@melissabeartrix

  1. What's the name of this ?

  2. This is the - it's finally happened, but not as claimed by the chump.

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