3wombats

Retired opera costume maker. Music fan opera to BJM
4x back surgeries. Melbourne (Naarm)Australia
Wurundjeri Land

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2025-11-09
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David MarlerQldaah@aus.social
2025-11-09

3.. 2...1. It's 1987. Queensland is firmly in the grip of the Hillbilly Dictator. The Courier Mail's Phil Dickie has found a thread. ABC's Chris Masters goes to air with The Moonlight State. This changes Qld forever. Next comes Mr Fitzgerald. #qldpol
abc.net.au/news/2011-08-08/the

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David MarlerQldaah@aus.social
2025-11-09

The Queensland Nationals did two exemplary things for Australia. One was the implementation of the Fitzgerald Inquiry under Qld Premier Mike Ahern "lock, stock & barrel". The other was sensible gun ownership under Qld Premier Rob Borbidge.

Those two were last century. #qldpol

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2025-11-09

I am reminded, with the death of James Watson, of the comment - "What did Watson and Crick discover? Rosalind Franklin's notes..."

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2025-11-09

Forgot what it was called and described the moving ramp thing at the mall as The Skedaddleator

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2025-11-09

There is one very simple reason this protest was allowed by the Police. Police are sympathetic to the neo-Nazi cause. They view this as a peaceful and safe protest because it is no threat to them

NSW police accused of ‘sickening’ double standard over neo-Nazi rally as Jewish groups demand answers | New South Wales | The Guardian
theguardian.com/australia-news

2025-10-06

@teddie Signing in is a pain for some reason it keeps wanting to use the wrong password. At least I can get in if I need to

2025-10-06

@Digital_Archivist Miffy? She’s twice as offended

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2025-10-06

Everyone knows Quokkas are marsupials, right?

A cute, furry quokka - they look like the happy teddy bear version of a kangaroo. This one has a joey in her pouch, another tiny, cute teddy bear poking it's head out to look around.
2025-10-06

Hello I seem to be able to get to my account but only on the site app still doesn’t want to work

2025-10-06

@Digital_Archivist I think I worked out the problem. There was an old password it kept reverting to that

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Zhi Zhu 🕸️ZhiZhu@newsie.social
2025-03-12

"the people who spent years warning us about an imaginary #DeepState have built an actual one. The people who claimed to fear unaccountable bureaucrats have installed literally unaccountable bureaucrats. The people who insisted they would drain the swamp have filled it with their own particularly toxic sludge.

Their accusations weren’t warnings — they were spoilers."
techdirt.com/2025/03/10/doge-h

#ElonMusk #Musk #Doge #Coup #Corruption #Trump #GOP #USPol #USPolitics #Politics #Tech #News #US #USA

Text from article(edited for length):
...DOGE has emerged as the genuine embodiment of the “deep state” we were warned about — except instead of civic-minded career officials, we now have nihilistic power-mad adrenaline junkies running the show.

This matters because DOGE isn’t just another example of hypocrisy in action — it represents a fundamental threat to the systems and institutions that actually make government work for people.

Of course, DOGE’s defenders claim they’re just “cutting red tape” and “eliminating waste” — as if they discovered government employees whose sole job was to light taxpayer money on fire. In reality, they’re dismantling the systems that protect us from everything from food poisoning to financial collapse.

When you replace expertise with ego and public service with personal enrichment, you don’t just get bad policy — you get the systematic dismantling of the infrastructure that supports innovation, protects civil liberties, and maintains the guardrails that keep power in check. The deep state they imagined never existed. The one they’re building is all too real.

So here we are: the people who spent years warning us about an imaginary deep state have built an actual one. The people who claimed to fear unaccountable bureaucrats have installed literally unaccountable bureaucrats. The people who insisted they would drain the swamp have filled it with their own particularly toxic sludge.

Their accusations weren’t warnings — they were spoilers.
2024-04-02

@Wolfie_Rankin You ok Wolfie? I was attempting to reply to your last skeet and your account seems to be gone . Sending hugs and best wishes

2024-01-18

Always interesting when stories reappear as if they’re new

2024-01-16

Bank’s urgent warning against new scam - news.com.au apple.news/As5sH7nasRm2jkKiHQU

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