Cloudslave

Spin-busting old boomer commenting on the political circus and wondering why there is no respect for the wisdom of elders in our culture. Oh, wait...

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2026-04-18 02:24:12 UTC

This is hilarious.
https://german.millermanschool.com/
#autism #philosophy #comedy

2026-04-16 04:21:31 UTC

It’s olive picklin’ time in Australia. So many people don’t harvest them and they are wasted. This is the simplest method IMO: Just pack them raw with cooking salt in jars and give them a turn/shake now and then. After a couple of weeks they are soft, so give them a couple of rinse cycles (maybe one day each?) to reduce the salt. That’s it. #gardening
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2026-04-15 08:09:58 UTC

So all of Gina Rinehart's bot army could not sway the courts, which have determined she ripped off her father's business partners for hundreds of millions in mining royalties, which won't make much of a dent in her billions. She will appeal of course. Lawyers' picnic.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-15/gina-rinehart-hancock-prospecting-court-case-explainer/106567844
#auspol #Ginarinehart

2026-04-14 07:20:37 UTC

Meanwhile Australia’s opposition leader Angus ‘well done’ Taylor says asylum seekers from any country being bombed by Israel should stay there and take their chances. #auspol

2026-03-29 05:43:23 UTC

“Norway gets $16,300 per citizen from its resources. Australia gets $50. Same planet. Our choice.” #auspol #taxLPG

2026-02-25 22:24:32 UTC

IS THIS THE SPEECH OF THE DECADE? Amy Remeikis comes out with guns blazing on the back of her new book 'Where It All Went Wrong: The Case Against John Howard'. If you are sick of political doublespeak and sick of our dysfunctional economy, you will love this. I'm buying the book!! Please boost! @npub1q20…9h53 #JohnHoward
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/the-radio-national-hour/the-radio-national-hour/106329234

2025-12-09 00:24:07 UTC

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Say what you like, the rubbish was never there. I was. The 'clean' pic was posted to show the original to which the rubbish was added.

2025-12-05 23:09:12 UTC

Holy smoke, climate denying trolls are making fake pictures showing a huge mess left behind by the Rising Tide blockade on Newcastle’s Horseshoe Beach. Here’s the original pic vs the fake, which has apparently spread widely on social media. #auspol #AI #fakenews #risingtide
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2025-09-19 02:21:26 UTC

With our timid new emissions target of 62-70% reduction by 2035, Australia joins much of the world in sentencing us to a 3-degree warming. Bugger the science! Enjoy the nice weather while it lasts. #auspol #climatechange

2025-09-15 22:40:31 UTC

Ha ha I do love a word-salad from Mad Matt Canavan. On RN this morning he ranted over the host, blaming rising energy prices on renewables while blaming loss of heavy industries on gas because it's too expensive. Hmmmn. He repeated by rote some outdated factoids, eg that China is burning record amounts of coal (it's actually reducing) and cyclones are not "increasing" as the new State of the Climate report says. I presume he means "not increasing in number" because they are becoming more intense. See reply for Google's verdict on this! #auspol #LNP #climatechange #renewables

2025-09-11 06:18:54 UTC

So the Trumpies are losing their sh*t blaming 'radical leftists' for the Charlie Kirk assassination, pushing the lie that political violence comes from those nasty liberals (rather than from the gun-loving Republicans). But it's not true:
• Research from 2020, based on almost 900 politically-motivated plots and murders in the US since 1994, found only one person's death in the last 25 years was linked to "antifa" or anti-fascists, and the person who died was the attacker.
• In comparison, over that same period, 329 murders were linked to the far-right.
When the label was broadened from anti-fascists to left-wing violence, it found 21 victims had been killed since 2010, compared to 117 in right-wing violence in the same time period.
•Jihadist groups were responsible for 95 people's deaths since 2010.
• The Center for Strategic and International Studies compiled database which was launched after Trump's administration spent several months stoking the possibility of left-wing violence, especially during the George Floyd protests.
Seth Jones, a counter-terrorism expert, who helped create the dataset, told The Guardian: "Left-wing violence has not been a major terrorism threat.”
He said: "The most significant domestic terrorism threat comes from white supremacists, anti-government militias and a handful of individuals associated with the 'boogaloo' movement that are attempting to create a civil war in the United States.” #CharlieKirk #Trump

2025-09-05 01:12:36 UTC

One current lie spouted by the LNP is that Australia's emissions under Labor have only just matched those under the last Liberal government. That would be because their incumbency included two years of Covid shutdowns and flight bans. Minor detail, never mentioned. #auspol #climate #climatechange

2025-08-23 03:17:23 UTC

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Fibre also does not interfere with astronomy.

2025-08-18 03:13:35 UTC

We have produced this 4-minute chant/vid clip/dance track to celebrate Rising Tide's huge 'protestivals' against new coal and gas, mostly shot in the beautiful Newcastle Harbour. Enjoy! and PLEASE SHARE! TikTok link shown in replies. https://youtu.be/yw0Dt4IBZck #auspol #climatechange

2025-06-30 22:11:10 UTC

So Israel has admitted its soldiers have been killing dozens of starving, unarmed Gazans each day through 'inaccurate and uncalculated fire'. Their spin-doctors must be working overtime to come up with euphemisms for mass murder. One politician even repeated the old lie that the IDF is 'the most moral army in the world'. #Israel, #Gaza, #Spin

2025-06-04 22:28:20 UTC

Newly minted shadow treasurer Ted 'Talk' O'Brien has switched from bullshitting about nuclear to bullshitting about Labor's superannuation move, horrified that it will reduce the tax breaks his wealthy mates enjoy. On AM this morning he claimed that if this tax is changed Labor will then come after the family home!!! Scary-campaigny!!. He also resurrected that nonsense term 'family recession' instead of the accurate 'per-capita recession', talking down to the electorate in warm cuddly motherhood terms. That amorphous phrase 'Liberal values' got a workout too, to wit 'lower taxes' (for the rich). #auspol