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the bellowing elk

@bellowingelk.bsky.social
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Escapologist and moment collector since 2016. Lapsed Australian, living in Turkey. If found do not return.

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the bellowing elk @bellowingelk.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
A pastelly morning in my Sunday/Monday home
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the bellowing elk @bellowingelk.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Parked for the night, asked this uncle if he minds. Shortly after he asks if I’m hungry. Then the competition begins: we are offering each other various foods, tea, coffee, yoghurt. Like ping pong going back and forth. Uncle drops a bag of pide and a can of tuna in my lap ❤️🇹🇷
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the bellowing elk @bellowingelk.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
I ca-ha-harrryyyyy the weight of the world … (or at least pretend to carry the weight of the table while looking sad, hoping for a morsel of börek) Ayvalık street dog who knows how to work the crows 🤣
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the bellowing elk @bellowingelk.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
And a good night to you all
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the bellowing elk @bellowingelk.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Working from home
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
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In this version of events, Musk is just a blinkered, blundering dunce; a man who thinks his ability to buy companies renders him a Godlike superintelligence, pathologically resistant to the idea that some things are more complex than purchasing websites and turning them racist, or manufacturing cars and rockets which reliably explode.

Staggeringly, that diagnosis gives Musk too much credit.

The fact is, he originally called for FAA director Michael Whitaker to be fired after Whitaker had demanded an investigation into a SpaceX launch which scattered debris across aircraft flightpaths, prompting his resignation the following day. 

This Tuesday, hours after the eighth air crash in four weeks, Musk announced he was bringing SpaceX staff in to work at the FAA, finally capturing the very agency whose ire he’s fought for the past decade — with the near bottomless capacity for conflict of interest and personal enrichment that entails.

That is who Musk is.
 
Not just a thundering charlatan, but one animated by venal personal gain, entrenched bigotry, and personal grudges. 
He has retooled an entire nation’s civic structure with the “move fast and break stuff” approach that’s turned Twitter into an arid wasteland, tanked the stock of the world’s most valuable car brand, and rendered Donald Trump only the second least popular billionaire in his own administration.

Musk is an incompetent fraud, but that quality makes him more dangerous, not less
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Stormageddon, Dark Lord of All @stormageddon.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
"Heil Donald" als offizieller "amerikanischer Gruß" dauert wahrscheinlich auch nicht mehr lange. Die checks and balances versagen. Wie erwartet. Die US-Demokratie erweist sich als schwächer als es viele angenommen haben. Die USA werden zum Führerstaat.
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the bellowing elk @bellowingelk.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Donkey visitor, my camping pal for the evening. He hung around for a solid two hours
Donkey looking wistfully inside a campervan
Selfie with donkey Donkey in the setting sunlight
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the bellowing elk @bellowingelk.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Dog’s life, Istanbul street dog tucked in on an icy winter day. And don’t they love it!?
Dog lying in a basket, with some bedding spread over him, on a footpath
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the bellowing elk @bellowingelk.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
@aussiemoose.bsky.social now here’s an old face that made me smile
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the bellowing elk @bellowingelk.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Drifting in and out of social media, mostly drifting out. Yea, sometimes on X Moving house IRL, so life’s been a bit upside down lately. Last week spent in the caravan. With returned winter not exactly a Hawaii trip 🥶 But house pics/ news ca 3-4 weeks away
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the bellowing elk @bellowingelk.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Anyone here who's been watching this as well? Enjoying it so much www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-...
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The Turkish Detective
Following three police inspectors as they solve crimes, experiencing euphoric highs and tragic lows in modern-day Istanbul.
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the bellowing elk @bellowingelk.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Mild fever last night, enough for vivid dreams. I argued with Musk all night why it’s nice to be nice 🥴🥴🥴🥴
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the bellowing elk @bellowingelk.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
I could watch this rant on repeat all day www.instagram.com/reel/DDcC87K...
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the bellowing elk @bellowingelk.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
I’m waiting for his next speech where he pulls down his trousers. Australia is ready
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The Shovel @theshovel.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Media organisations that condemned a watermelon as anti-semitic tentatively label Musk Nazi salute "odd", "questionable”
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
I wrote this essay in October 2023 on the rise of fascism in Germany. www.zeit.de/kultur/2023-... Two nights ago I walked past two new and huge far-right election adverts, metres from where I had witnessed a potentially fatal attack. Two years ago it would have been unthinkable to see them there.
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Racism in Germany: The Hatred Is Accelerating
Musa Okwonga moved to Berlin in 2014, one year after the foundation of Germany's far-right AfD party. Ever since, he's seen the country heading in a dangerous direction.
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the bellowing elk @bellowingelk.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
So many tweets about the other awkwardasfuck billionaire who runs the US now. I won’t speculate if it that salute was deliberate. We can assume he has some sort of gross motor control. However a few weeks after meeting with far right German AfD this is not a good look
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the bellowing elk @bellowingelk.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Ayyy that Bodrum winter feeling
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the bellowing elk @bellowingelk.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
@manjitk6987.bsky.social 💐
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the bellowing elk @bellowingelk.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
I see lots of new followers, Foggy brain today from a head cold, I make sure to follow back the next few days. The service of “quite useless but pretty posts from Turkey” will resume shortly
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the bellowing elk @bellowingelk.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Poking my head in again to say hi to old neighbours and tweeps
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the bellowing elk @bellowingelk.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
The noisy neighbors 🌙😊 Owl hooting this time of year is such a nice touch
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the bellowing elk @bellowingelk.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
I get myself so lost with these details of my grandfather's letters and photos. Fighter pilot bloody-mindedness — hard core genealogy 🤣 Finally I have answers, took some wild guessing, emailing, very helpful Slovenians, and Google map.
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the bellowing elk @bellowingelk.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
The bots are all here now 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫
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the bellowing elk @bellowingelk.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Possibly the tiniest mosque around? Çandır Mahallesi Horozlar Camii/ Dalyan
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the bellowing elk @bellowingelk.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Iztuzu plaj (the famous one with the turtles in spring). I went for a chilly swim ☺️
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the bellowing elk @bellowingelk.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Road tripping with my lovely mum (Akyaka, Dalyan / Turkey )
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Justin Brash @justinbrash.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Over two tonnes of cocaine seized off Bundaberg coast. Adds new dimension to the phrase “Bundy & Coke” #ABCnews
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The Chaser @chaser.com.au · 02/12/2024
Hot cross buns just 2 weeks away as News Corp has already started whinging about people not celebrating Australia Day chaser.com.au/general-news...
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Hot cross buns just 2 weeks away as News Corp has already started whinging about people not celebrating Australia Day – The Chaser
"I swear the cycle starts earlier and earlier every year"
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the bellowing elk @bellowingelk.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Coincidence that kind is the opposite of c^nt?? 😃
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the bellowing elk @bellowingelk.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
@danielastehlik.bsky.social gotcha
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the bellowing elk @bellowingelk.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
bejaysus @coalitiontealady.bsky.social is it yourself Miss Doyle
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the bellowing elk @bellowingelk.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
This week’s a wrap
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the bellowing elk @bellowingelk.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Conferring with my firered buddy if we could live on Matilda (or similar) Clearly a live-in boat with the pot plants and curtains drawn. The mind boggles
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the bellowing elk @bellowingelk.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
The weird “hello, how are you” DMs have begun here …. 2 within a couple of hours 🤯🤬
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the bellowing elk @bellowingelk.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
A piece of mansplaining resulting in me asking - what’s BWYM (Is nowhere safe anymore?)
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the bellowing elk @bellowingelk.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Winter wonderland near Istanbul (Kartepe = Snow Hill)
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the bellowing elk @bellowingelk.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
German article about the epidemic killing of women by their former partners, or intended killing bc she's a woman. Worth having a look. Note, last para: In Italy, Spain and Belgium there's a specific law that separates murder from femicide already. taz.de/Gewalt-an-Fr...
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Gewalt an Frauen: Ein Femizid ist ein Femizid und bleibt ein Femizid
In Frankreich läuft der Pelicot-Prozess, weltweit steigt die Zahl der Femizide. Der Mord an einer Frau sollte ein eigener Straftatbestand sein.
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the bellowing elk @bellowingelk.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Anyone else here who says thank you to ChatGPT after you got something helpful out of it?
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the bellowing elk @bellowingelk.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Today’s been all UFO clouds 🙃
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the bellowing elk @bellowingelk.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
This morning I checked on my patio I’ve recently put up on my own to see if my handiwork survived the storm or how much blew away. But turns out, something big blew in ☺️❤️🐾
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The Chaser @chaser.com.au · 22/11/2024
Kyle and Jackie-O hoping to reach 10 Melbourne listeners by the end of the year chaser.com.au/entertainmen...
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Kyle and Jackie-O hoping to reach 10 Melbourne listeners by the end of the year – The Chaser
"It's a big ask, but we hope to pull it off"
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Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
This is the most bizarre hill to die on, and with approx 5-6 months to go until an election, it's an even more bizarre hill to risk votes over Cost of living Anthony - cost of living The man's determined to drive the tractor through the fence *and* through the shed before he drives it into the dam
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Isobelle Ouzman, artist who turns books she finds in dumpsters into fantastical 3D forest scenes #womensart
Photograph showing an open book, the center of pages have been removed giving the impression of depth, red and white flowers on green stems and vines have been painted around the outside of the pages, allowing the viewer to feel they are looking into a forest landscape, to the bottom right a white person's fingers hold the book on a white surface
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the bellowing elk @bellowingelk.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I facebook/social media-stalked a potential real estate guy last night, and gave him the nod. He seems like a good egg. Takes his mum for lunches regularly I feel a bit dirty but the means justify the ends, as they say
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the bellowing elk @bellowingelk.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
My oldest is on that thing wiiiiiiiild (and No. 2 just got his captain licence. ) Dragging them to Australia as young kids was probably the best thing I managed to do for them, no matter my failures and flaws after that) youtu.be/fU3um_Z6UNs
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30 KNOT 18 FOOT SKIFF RACING! (Spring Series Race 5 - Highlights)
YouTube video by 18 Footers TV
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the bellowing elk @bellowingelk.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Umdenken in der Klimakatastrophe - vielleicht hilft’s. Interessanter Blickwinkel: taz.de/Kampf-gegen-...
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Kampf gegen die Klimakrise: Eine Hoffnung, die nicht glitzert
Nach 17 Jahren Klimaaktivismus sagt Tadzio Müller: Der Kampf ist gescheitert. Trotzdem findet er in der Akzeptanz des Klimakollaps auch neue Utopien.
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the bellowing elk @bellowingelk.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
The US system is fundamentally flawed: to leave someone in charge for 2 more months, when in fact they have nothing to lose, is potentially so dangerous.
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