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Tim Lyons

@picketer

Ex union boss. Organising, political economy, labour markets, tax, pensions, climate, China, Spinoza. Proud @UnitedWorkersOz member since 1990.

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ah another heartwarming sydney property story

07.03.2026 10:00 πŸ‘ 61 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

Allied with the Sustainable Focaccia Movement.

07.03.2026 08:27 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

How is Private Pyle doin' these days?

07.03.2026 08:20 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

why has nobody else simply hit the button that removes Iran

07.03.2026 05:28 πŸ‘ 344 πŸ” 32 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 0
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A United States Senator says ...... *we need that patriotic American Meth, you don't want that [slur] gear*

07.03.2026 05:28 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Superb. No notes.

07.03.2026 04:16 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Alotta people awaiting the second coming of Christ, just apprehensive about whether or not the Mahdi comes first

07.03.2026 03:46 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Much scat is posted in these eschatological times.

07.03.2026 03:49 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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U.S. May Have Committed War Crime In Sinking Of Iranian Ship The Geneva Conventions say nations have a duty to β€œtake all possible measures” to help rescue victims of shipwrecks. A U.S. submarine left that to Sri Lanka.

It's a long way down from Midway to *drowning the Iranian Navy Band" for the US Navy I would have thought. www.huffpost.com/entry/submar...

07.03.2026 03:46 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

One of the instances in which it is actually emphatically true that by stifling left-liberal criticism of Israel on a liberal basis you just leave open room for nutjobs to do it and fill the space instead

06.03.2026 23:19 πŸ‘ 1106 πŸ” 194 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 7

The Speaker is one. One of their most important Ambassadors spends his time riffing about Bible geography. Etc etc........

07.03.2026 01:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The step-son of the NT attorney-general’s sister!doesn’t even lose his license after hitting two Aboriginal pedestrians with his car, killing one, calling them β€œdogs” and β€œoxygen thieves”. Serving time in home detention. Australia in 2026.

06.03.2026 23:18 πŸ‘ 51 πŸ” 37 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 3

Amazing stuff.

06.03.2026 21:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"Law 8.9: When the Fielding Captain determines that the Batting Team can no longer score any more runs, he/she can declare the innings completed."

06.03.2026 21:30 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Editorial line in the two long local stories on ABC TV Victoria news tonight: we have too much access to oral hormonal contraception and not enough access to guns.

06.03.2026 08:19 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Also if you go back the clerics pretty much backed the MI6 / CIA coup against Mosaddegh in '53 - this is just reactionary people and imperialists finding the worst people they can find to agree with at every pivot point.

06.03.2026 03:17 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The Kels-Liam Trophy for "If It's Flooded Floor It" beckons a new champ.

06.03.2026 02:42 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Graeber very much specialised in extremely shoddy and tendentious books that succeeded because they made the reader feel clever and daring without any effort. The main difference between him and Gladwell is Gladwell is very much conscious he is a charlatan but Graeber managed to trick himself too

06.03.2026 00:04 πŸ‘ 33 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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Politically correct war

06.03.2026 01:15 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

There are similar stories across South and South East Asia I’ve seen

06.03.2026 01:12 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

For all the β€œAussies get out” stuff remember the women workers in that photo are flying back in on a turnaround measured in hours.

06.03.2026 01:06 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Just a small reminder (again) that all the Gulf states rely on migrant labour with few rights (or any if you’re, say, a construction worker or nanny.) The Cabin Crew don’t get asked if they were happy to fly they get told to.

06.03.2026 01:06 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

that is Marxist-Leninist right?

05.03.2026 23:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You don't wanna know what a "Nostril" is in Oklahoma slang.

05.03.2026 23:06 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

ah the Macbook discourse is back which is always funny as I enter my 20th year of using a Macbook without any major complaints or problems, while people swear about Windows constantly

05.03.2026 21:54 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

I feel like I've been reading pieces abut Texas being "about to turn Blue" for about 20 years and yet..............

05.03.2026 22:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Shit sandwiches all the way around. Hope everything is OK mate.

05.03.2026 22:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I been hacked.
All my websites gone.

05.03.2026 21:40 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Who cares what anyone thinks about BlueSky. Of course it’s shit, all the platforms are shit. Unless you’re an investor why would you go into bat for a platform whose managers also seem pretty shit

05.03.2026 21:30 πŸ‘ 75 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1

(Hanson's defence is that there was no direct flight from Tamworth to Geelong. Yeah, no shit.)

05.03.2026 21:25 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0