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Caspia Jackmanson @caspia.rocks · 12/08/2026

Not much to be going on with, but maybe a homoeopathic dose will help

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Caspia Jackmanson @caspia.rocks · 16/04/2026

Can I get a frog suit in a sort of really funky blue pattern?

A green and black poison dart frog, except that's just its name, it is actually a sort of indigo and black pattern.

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Caspia Jackmanson @caspia.rocks · 01/04/2026

"You can just be that hot girl, every day'

A white woman is outdoors in the suburbs, sitting on a mobility scooter. She is purpled up - she has a fuzzy purple beret with an owl pin above her left eye, a purple glittery heart stud in her nose, a purple scarf knotted at her throat, and a purple polo shirt. She also wears dark glasses and has some dark moustache stubble.

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Caspia Jackmanson @caspia.rocks · 28/02/2026

Although it honestly seems merely quaint nowadays.

Poster for the film Bob Roberts. The star, Tim Robbins, is wrapped in a US flag and standing next to an acoustic guitar

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Caspia Jackmanson @caspia.rocks · 27/02/2026

Post old memes to confuse young people

A grey cat on all fours. The picture is captioned "I can has cheezburger?"

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Caspia Jackmanson @caspia.rocks · 26/02/2026

"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults—Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe—living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.

A drawing in the style of Lisa Hanawalt showing the main characters and several supporting characters from the cartoon Bojack Horseman

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Caspia Jackmanson @caspia.rocks · 03/02/2026

I am waiting for a friend in Swanston Street. Somehow, I have been given the charge of making sure this pigeon can eat their oats in peace

A blurry photo of a a grey pigeon eating oats from the footpath of a busy city street

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Caspia Jackmanson @caspia.rocks · 02/02/2026

It's already been pointed out that the idea of historical accuracy in a 3200 year old legend featuring gods and demi-goddesses is absurd. I want to dive deeper. Presumably a Spartan queen, daughter of Zeus, in 1200 BCE would have looked not much like either Kruger or Nyong'o.

A Tweet by user Basil The Great, with photos of German actress Diane Kruger in the film Troy from 2004, and Kenyan-Mexican actress Lupita Nyong'o in the film Helen of Troy from 2026. Both actresses play the role of Helen. Both are beautiful. Kruger has pale skin, a sloped pointed and narrow nose, small mouth and thin lips, and straight blonde hair. Nyong'o has very dark skin, a wider nose, fuller lips and tightly-curled black hair. The text of the Tweet reads "Helen of Troy in 2004 vs Helen of Troy in 2026. I never thought Chris Nolan would be the one to do something like this. Completely ahistorical, woke, nonsense"

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Caspia Jackmanson @caspia.rocks · 01/02/2026

This is who runs this account

Three children sit at a low table. One in the middle has a tank top with blue piping. Behind them are a woman in perhaps her twenties, and an adult-sized bear costume wearing a straw hat and a large bow tie. The bear is Humphrey B Bear, an Australian children's TV character.

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Caspia Jackmanson @caspia.rocks · 31/01/2026

Breakfast. It greatly amuses me that the Pepsi Max Electric, which is on clearance, doesn't even pretend to have an actual food flavour. I love it so I hope they have lots more to clear out.

A breakfast of two halved boiled eggs, a yellow nectarine, a banana, a glass of blue-coloured Pepsi Max Electric, and the bottle it came from

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Caspia Jackmanson @caspia.rocks · 30/01/2026

Wowwwww Two creations by Ron Cobb (the first is in the quoted skeet, semiotic symbols he designed to be used in Weyland-Yutani ships in the movie Alien)

A Ron Cobb cartoon of a middle-aged man holding a portable TV and its cord as though he intends to plug it in, except he is in a scene of utter devestation, as though a nuclear holocaust has killed everyone and destroyed everything but him and his TV.

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Caspia Jackmanson @caspia.rocks · 30/01/2026

It's official, they love the trans at Footscray station. And the trains too, I suppose.

On the contact less card reader at a train station, a heart-shaped sticker with diagonal blue, pink and white stripes has been stuck.

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Caspia Jackmanson @caspia.rocks · 24/01/2026

With Alt text This means a lot. Ordinary people protesting doesn't worry the government much, but when those people actively resist fascist operations, like these people who have been disrupting ICE's attempts to kidnap people, the system gets scared because it can't function without consent.

Thousands of people protesting in the streets of Minneapolis, Minnesota at the intersection of S 5th Av and S 4th St in the downtown (CBD) area. They are protesting operations of ICE, the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement, who have been kidnapping and seizing residents of the city, and have murdered at least one protestor

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Caspia Jackmanson @caspia.rocks · 16/12/2025

A brand new bicycle path connection I'll use a lot has opened in the last two days, and I just checked it out

A bicycle bridge with a green guard fence crosses a creek on a sunny day

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Caspia Jackmanson @caspia.rocks · 11/12/2025

I went to town today, and poked around for the first time ever at the Shrine of Remembrance, one of the country's most prominent war memorials. It was built from 1927, 9 years after the armistice that ended combat in WW1. Inscriptions proclaim it to be holy ground. And it is. In a bad way.

The Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne, Australia, a war memorial built after WW2. We look down a long, wide plaza at the steps leading up to the Shrine itself, a square neo-classical temple.

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Caspia Jackmanson @caspia.rocks · 22/11/2025

Towering Pylon Bay Trail West on the bank of the Yarra River, Spotswood, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Land of the Yalukit-willam clan of the Boon Wurrung tribe in the Kulin nation alhs.com.au/local-histor... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boonwur...

We stand just in front of, and almost directly under, a huge electricity pylon, the sort that carries power from where its generated to entire regions. Not only can we see the steel beams that are shaped together to form the pylon itself, we can also clearly see the wires that carry the power, and lower barbed wire designed to protect the tempting sculpture from being climbed by adventurous fools. The day is overcast and the clouds appear to roil above is. The photo is black and white; we can only see the tower because its beams are black against the dark grey sky.

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Caspia Jackmanson @caspia.rocks · 21/11/2025

This person isn't worth getting too involved with, they've missed my point entirely. But I'll repeat that this analysis is not about me being good or moral. It's me wanting freedom for those of us who are marginalised in the rich world, AND those people who get bombed by the rich world.

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Caspia Jackmanson @caspia.rocks · 21/11/2025

This post has been floating around. I'm not here to merely dunk, but it needs a serious response. I think the attitude of "What matters is the rights of the marginalised in the Imperial core" shows a huge lack of understanding of the lives of people outside the core....

A post from Bluesky, with identifying information cropped out. The core of the post is a meme showing two strategic bombers. One, captioned "Republicans" is bombing an unseen target below. The second, captioned "Democrats", is the same picture, except the bomber has a Pride rainbow flag on its tail, and "Black Lives Matter" and "Yes She Can" are painted along the fuselage.

The post itself says "I hate this sort of meme.". It quotes a hypothetical speaker saying "The only difference between the parties is whether the power to destroy human civilization rests in the hands of leaders who think gays, women and black people should have their rights acknowledged". It goes on to respond "Even if true, how is Rainbow B-52 not infinitely preferable?"

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Caspia Jackmanson @caspia.rocks · 18/11/2025

The pie floater. Most commonly associated with Adelaide, South Australia, but apparently derived from the UK as a "pie and mushy peas". Should have tomato sauce (ketchup) on it as well.

A pie floater, commonly sold in Adelaide, South Australia. It consists of a hand-sized meat pie in mushy pea soup.

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Caspia Jackmanson @caspia.rocks · 18/11/2025

Melbourne writer Lucia Nardo lived in this coffee palace building from the 1960s to the 1980s; more details of her life there are in the "consider the sauce" blog post about Stephen Street in Yarrraville. lucianardo.com melbournecircle.net/2014/09/14/g... considerthesauce.net/2014/12/28/o...

On an inner-suburban street stands a red-brick building, one half of which has been covered in drab greyish paint. On the red-brick side, a sign near the roof reads "The Yarra Coffee Palace 1914". The upper storey has two modern metal windows, while the bottom has four, with two doors. Although the building was obviously once meant to provide access to the public from the street, the downstairs windows are covered to give privacy to people living inside, and the doors do not invite random visitors. Old faded painted advertisements for Capstan cigarettes and Temple Bar tobacco are on the side wall of the red-brick section.

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Caspia Jackmanson @caspia.rocks · 17/11/2025

Logistics park, seen from the service road of the West Gate Tunnel at the Discovery Day, Yarraville, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Land of the Yalukit-willam clan of the Boon Wurrung tribe in the Kulin Nation alhs.com.au/local-histor... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boonwur... www.bunuronglc.org

We are standing right next to a huge stack of refrigerated shipping containers. The stack is at least six containers high, and over twenty long, just in our view. The white containers with black and yellow markings, and blue compressor units, form a wall we cannot even hope to see over.

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Caspia Jackmanson @caspia.rocks · 16/11/2025

Veloway West Gate Tunnel Discovery Day, West Gate Tunnel northern entrance, Yarraville, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Land of the Yalukit-willam clan of the Boon Wurrung tribe in the Kulin Nation alhs.com.au/local-histor... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boonwur... www.bunuronglc.org

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Caspia Jackmanson @caspia.rocks · 16/11/2025

The Big Sneak West Gate Tunnel Discovery Day, West Gate Tunnel northern entrance, Yarraville, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Land of the Yalukit-willam clan of the Boon Wurrung clan in the Kulin Nation alhs.com.au/local-histor... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boonwur... www.bunuronglc.org

We are standing next to a smoke stack that lets dirty air out of the new West Gate Tunnel. Its long front stretches past us, and rises into an oval-shaped top. It is covered in white, triangular panels and it looks like a giant sneaker that would be endorsed by a famous NBA basketballer in the USA.

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Caspia Jackmanson @caspia.rocks · 14/11/2025

Hi everyone. I have some big personal news. This year I have been deeply considering my gender. After being sure of what I want for months, yesterday I saw an endocrinologist and got a prescription for estrogel. So I am transitioning to female, and my name is now Caspia. I use she/her pronouns now

A woman sits in a large armchair, dressed in yellow. She has a yellow beret and an earring looking like a lemon in her left ear. She has a small yellow and black scarf knotted at her neck, turned around so the triangular end covers her throat like a tiny bib. She also has on a yellow polo shirt, and dark eye liner.

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Caspia Jackmanson @caspia.rocks · 13/11/2025

Newport Power Station Bay Trail West, Newport, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Land of the Yalukit-willam clan of the Boon Wurrung tribe in the Kulin nation. alhs.com.au/local-history/indigenou…

A huge concrete chimney, part of a now-disused power station rises high into the air. It is behind a cyclone fence topped with razor wire, and framed by two gum trees. The photo has a cross-processing effect, which adds a cream tinge to the white clouds and grey chimney, and a slight green to the blue sky

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Caspia Jackmanson @caspia.rocks · 11/11/2025

If you see this, post your bird art

It is a cloudy afternoon. We are on a concrete path, running between some waste ground fenced off with cyclone wire, and a nature strip with trees and grass separating us from a suburban back street. Just above us, an Australian magpie flies towards the fence. They have been captured with their wings open wide. The feathers on the end of their wings are spread out so we can clearly see each individual one, and so are their tail-feathers. The bird is mostly black, with white curves running from the base of the wing to the leading edge. The part of the tail closest to the body is white too, as is a small marking on the back of their neck. The bird's grace and power are on full display.

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Caspia Jackmanson @caspia.rocks · 09/11/2025

That's because you don't follow Australian politics closely enough

Former Australian Opposition Leader, of the conservative Liberal Party (yes), Peter Dutton

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Caspia Jackmanson @caspia.rocks · 06/11/2025

[food] [meat] Duck meat and cracked black pepper on light rye sourdough

On a blue, white and yellow crockery plate decorated in a geometric Moroccan pattern inspired by flowers and feathers are two slices of light rye sourdough bread spread with butter. On top of the butter on each slice are small pieces of cooked duck cut from a whole bird, with the skin and fat easily visible. On top of the duck is sprinkled some freshly-cracked black pepper.

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Caspia Jackmanson @caspia.rocks · 05/11/2025

This building is at Sutton Street, North Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The photo is taken from the Moonee Ponds Creek trail. Land of the Wurundjeri-willam clan of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung tribe in the Kulin nation alhs.com.au/local-histor... www.wurundjeri.com.au

We are in front of a high grey concrete wall that blocks off at least two thirds of our view. Above it, the pillar and base of an elevated highway block off another fifth of it. In the gap between them, we can see blue sky and the top two floors of a large modernist redbrick, sawtooth-roofed warehouse. Just under the roof line the words "Victorian Producers Co-Operative Co. Ltd. are painted, in black on a white background. In two other places the words "No 5 Store" are painted in the same colours.

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Caspia Jackmanson @caspia.rocks · 04/11/2025

Pylon Bay Trail West/Hobsons Bay Coastal Trail, Spotswood, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Land of the Yalukit-willam clan of the Boon Wurrung tribe in the Kulin Nation alhs.com.au/local-histor... www.bunuronglc.org

It's a gloomy day; the sky is almost completely overcast. We are near the bank of a largish river and directly in front of us is a huge electricity pylon. It is silhouetted in front of the clouds and we can see how engineers design it with the strength of steel triangles. Electric transmission wires, at least six pairs of them, are attached to its top, heading away in two different directions. There are some trees near its right-hand legs. Arising behind them, like a tiny cigarette stuck in a sandy flowerpot to extinguish its heat, is the actually-enormous chimney of the Newport Power Station, made artificially small by the phone's tiny lens.

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Caspia Jackmanson @caspia.rocks · 28/10/2025

This sculpture is called "Apparatus for Transtemporal Occurrence of Impending Space", by Russell Anderson artplusdesign.com.au/portfolio/ap... whatson.melbourne.vic.gov.au/things-to-do... melbourneartcritic.wordpress.com/2014/09/18/m...

On the concrete ground mere feet from the bank of a wide, still river is a sculpture that looks a little like the anthropomorphic desk light used as a mascot by Pixar. It is made of steel, copper, bronze and brass, with most of its main "body" being steel.

There is a steel base attached to the ground, which has a short "leg" shaped like a snub-nosed bullet. Attached to the semi-spherical tip of the bullet are two curved limbs. One arches upwards for about a metre and a half, looking somewhat like a human back. This limb has four metallic ribs, three near the bottom and one near the top. Another is short and stubby, still curved but not gracefully so. The stubby limb is attached to a steel cylinder with a short crosspiece at the end, parallel to the ground, and at the end of that is a bronze sphere with a semi-transparent eyepiece. The end of the crosspiece appears to be broken off, as a close look reveals interior machinery.Now we return to the top of the "back". Attached to that is an ominous cylinder, which leans perhaps twenty degrees from the vertical. Its lower end points at the bronze sphere, and it is finished off with a black knob that looks like it might be the business end of a death ray. On the upper end of the ominous cylinder is another sphere, which is partly covered by a copper half-dome, attached to the back by thin struts, looking like an umbrella or the cover of a lamp.

Beyond the sculpture we see a footbridge across the river, with suspension arches that create a curve like the cover of a baby's pram.

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Caspia Jackmanson @caspia.rocks · 25/10/2025

Passing Loop Just west of Westona station, Maidstone Street, Altona, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Land of the Yalukit-willam clan of the Boon Wurrung tribe in the Kulin nation alhs.com.au/local-histor... www.bunuronglc.org

We are looking west, into the beginnings of sunset in a partly cloudy spring sky. Two train tracks converge into a single track; they are the tracks of the Westona passing loop finishing off as suburban Melbourne passenger trains run to Laverton. One of those trains heads there to finish its Laverton line run; soon it will head back to us.

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Caspia Jackmanson @caspia.rocks · 19/10/2025

And THIS. This is Emily Johnson. She will cut you down with her katana that never misses. In the unlikely event you're too far away, she'll shoot you with her Arashi. Her armour is from the skin of a defeated monster snake, and it scares the fuck out of any lesser snake-enemies.

A screenshot of an in-game propaganda poster from XCOM 2, featuring a female ranger in blue armour made from the skin and head of a powerful mutated snake developed by an out-of-control scientist. She carries an Arashi rifle in her right hand and a katana on her back; both powerful weapons taken from a defeated servant of the alien masters. An abstract green and red background is behind her, and the words "Col Emily 'Fatal' Johnson" are written at the bottom.

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Caspia Jackmanson @caspia.rocks · 19/10/2025

This is "Boomer" Hauffman. She dislikes her nickname, because she's actually Gen X. She loves launching acid grenades to melt alien armour.

A screenshot of an in-game propaganda poster from XCOM 2, featuring a female grenadier carrying a hip-fired light machine gun in her hands, and a grenade launcher on her back. The weapons are in a bright green with regular black dots; the green matches her buzzcut. She has black paint across her eyes, and wears a mask with respirator. Her full-body armour is bright pink, with camouflage splotches in pale pink and black

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Caspia Jackmanson @caspia.rocks · 09/10/2025

Bridge crossing Merri Creek between Queens Parade, Clifton Hill, and High Street, Northcote, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Old photos of it can be seen at the State Library: viewer.slv.vic.gov.au?entity=IE111... and the Museums Victoria website collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/items/773211

We are on a concrete bike and walking trail under a nineteenth-century bridge. The bridge, crossing a small creek in a fairly deep valley, is made of bluestone piers with red brick work arches. It is a bright sunny day, and the water of the creek is partially reflected in an arched shape near the far end of the bridge.

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Caspia Jackmanson @caspia.rocks · 07/10/2025

Off to look around the Merri Creek Trail and maybe CERES if it's open.

A white woman in a bright blue hoody, a purple scarf, a black facemask and a dark blue beret with a wooden pin of a superb fairy-wren in blue breeding plumage is waiting on the outside platform of a suburban train station. A train pulls in behind her.

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Caspia Jackmanson @caspia.rocks · 06/10/2025

This has been my favourite for decades. The expression on his face is just perfection.

A man with a horrified, bewildered expression is holding the cord of a portable TV as if to plug it in. But all around him is complete destruction, and the TV screen is broken too. A cartoon by Ron Cobb.

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Caspia Jackmanson @caspia.rocks · 03/10/2025

From the Spirits Of Time And Place sculpture series by Geoffrey Ricardo on the Kororoit Creek Trail, Altona North, Melbourne, Australia www.geoffreyricardo.com/gallery/ Land of the Yalukit-willam clan of the Boon Wurrung tribe in the Kulin Nation alhs.com.au/local-histor... www.bunuronglc.org

A tall sculpture, perhaps 3 metres high, stands on a sloping piece of bushland. The sculpture depicts a man with arms stretched wide, as though about to do a star jump. There is one difference, however: the arms are aeroplane wings, going straight out, not swept back. The sculpture is made of marble, resin, dust and steel

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Caspia Jackmanson @caspia.rocks · 02/10/2025

Good Evening Westona Station, Maidstone Street, Altona, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. If you enjoy my photos, you can support my work from US $1 a month at www.patreon.com/djackmanson Land of the Yalukit-willam clan of the Boon Wurrung tribe in the Kulin Nation. alhs.com.au/local-histor...

We are looking down the concrete ramp that runs between the tracks of a suburban island railway station. The ramp runs down to gates that allow pedestrians to cross the tracks of the station. It is evening, and we are facing west into a pale golden sunset. People walk away from us to leave the station, their shadows stretching towards us in one last effort to reach our hearts. The train they just departed travels off to the west and the end of this run.

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Caspia Jackmanson @caspia.rocks · 09/09/2025

I have not been well, and have been eating rather unhealthily, as my body craved, for a couple of weeks. Lots of carbs, lots of sugary sports drinks for energy and electrolytes (I was SO dehydrated). I am finally getting well again, so here is the sort of food I try to eat regularly.

On the photographer's kitchen bench are two cloth coasters. One is shaped like a blue coffee cup and holds a double-walled coffee glass full of latte. The other is closer to us and out of sharp focus, holding a small yellow and red condiment bowl. In it are four halves of jammy soft-boiled eggs sprinkled with Tajin seasoning.

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Caspia Jackmanson @caspia.rocks · 07/09/2025

Hi! Getting back on the wagon after the shitty last fortnight of sickness. I was CRAVING high-carb food, and was SO dehydrated that I bought a tub of Staminade powder. I needed the electrolytes, but the sugar and carbs left me bloated I was scared I'd be stuck eating unhelpful food forever

Breakfast is back high-protein toast with butter, Vegemite and mushrooms, banana and a latte.

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Caspia Jackmanson @caspia.rocks · 02/09/2025

This is a fun swipe, I suppose, but it's meaningless posturing when it comes to building a movement against fascism. We need to say we will build good public housing in huge numbers. We need to solve all the issues of public infrastructure. And we need to say mass migration is good and necessary.

A Tweet from satirical account Toilet Paper Australia, whose name mocks conservative outlet Turning Point Australia. It shows a photo of two people wearing Australian and Eureka Flags as capes, presumably after the fascist-led rallies against mass migration in late August 2025. They are lined up at a food cart selling banh mi, called "Banhs on Wheels". The Tweet reads "The hardest part about protesting against immigration is choosing between crispy roast pork and Vietnamese cold cut Banh Mi"

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