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Dave 🇦🇺

@djerra.bsky.social
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Retired. Forever a Geordie and Aussie by great good fortune. Progressive socialist. Husband, Dad, Opa and surrounded by family and friends. . Perpetual #StarTrek optimist, #Pratchett & #Tolkien devotee and #NUFC fan. Real Football = round ball.

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Jess Saphia @jesssaphia.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“Can you guarantee that Zomi Frankcom, an Australian aid worker deliberately targeted and murdered by the IDF, wasn’t killed using Australian manufactured explosives?” 😢 International law was created to stop mass murder, but it only works if countries uphold laws they signed up to #auspol #UN #ICJ
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Dave 🇦🇺 @djerra.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
That could be the only way Australia can get out of this ludicrous agreement because none of our governments are going to back out. 
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Derek @derekianrobinson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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Jeff Rudd 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 🇵🇸 @jeffrudd.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
10,000+ took to Ireland's capital street yesterday, to tell an oval office rapist that he wasn't welcome to Ireland.
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Dave 🇦🇺 @djerra.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
'Fragile' can also be applied to Newcastle, unfortunately or 'poorous' might be a better description. disappointing result, but at least we’re still unbeaten.  #HTL
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Never forget that on March 12, Trump was CELEBRATING oil prices going up because he said his cronies and donors in the oil companies would make more money. He WANTED prices to go up. And Republicans running in the midterms supported it, even though they want to hide from it now.
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local blogger @fergoe.blacksky.app · 29/08/2026
If you're reading this, you don't have as much money as Elon Musk but you are certainly much richer in life than Elon Musk
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Just ‘Steve’ 💙 @steveplou.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The Felon will always do what benefits his own interest.
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Dave 🇦🇺 @djerra.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Peace délégation ? My arse. When the mad Zionists withdraw from all illegally occupied lands, stop the genocide and on that day when pigs can fly then may be a peace delegation could be taken seriously
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Dave 🇦🇺 @djerra.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The #MadZionist might not like the international outrage but he knows with almist 100% certainty that nothing will be done to prevent the genocide and continual expansion. He’s just laughing at the world with relaxed impunity
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Dave 🇦🇺 @djerra.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I don’t like Manchester United and never will but no conclusions and not even much opinion can be gauged after a single match. This instant success stuff is a load of bolloks
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
There are dysfunctional public bodies and then there’s Lord (Ben) Houchen’s Tees Valley Authority and its wholly owned South Tees Development Corporation. 🧵1/3
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
We can nutshell this one: the Conservative Party fucked everyone in Britain. It should’ve destroyed them as a party, but it didn’t: it wrecked all of us instead and they got away with it because Britain has no meaningful systems of accountability that apply to our ruling class.
Revisited - Brexit: an oral history
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Revisited: This year marked 10 years since the
UK chose to leave the EU. In a series of interviews with key players from both sides, Kiran Stacey looks back on the Brexit vote that changed the country for ever.
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Dave 🇦🇺 @djerra.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Piss-weak response like many other governments you’d expect a better more humanitarian behaviour. Israel gets away with murder once again.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The West is weak because people propping up right wing & tankie ideologies are too stupid, selfish & scared of their own shadows that they cling on to corrupt officials and oligarchs in a dumbass delusion that wealth and power will trickle down to them. Regressivism is failure.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Democracy is like a luxury car, it’s beautiful and top notch but no matter how good it is, if you let a shit flinging self hating shit gibbon take the wheel then it’s going to crash and burn 100% of the time.
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Derek @derekianrobinson.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
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Derek @derekianrobinson.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
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Dave 🇦🇺 @djerra.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
This bloke does not live in the same plane of reality as the bulk of humanity inhabits. #OrangeMoron
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MingTheMerciless @mingthemercyless.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
#CancelAUKUS thenightly.com.au/politics/ric... #auspol
thenightly.com.au
Marles admits US will make decision about subs in Australia
Defence Minister Richard Marles says the United States, not Australia, will decide how long its nuclear-powered submarines will remain at an Australian naval base based on American ‘operational requir...
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Sally Deal - 📞 Call your legislators @ (202)224-3121 ⏰24/7! @sallydeal4.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
WTF?! This is insane. Greenland has issued a "strong warning" to an American oil company linked to Trump, as it prepares to drill on the territory despite lacking proper permits. Tons of Americans follow no news. 🗣️Talk to your friends/neighbors! www.upi.com/Top_News/Wor...
upi.com
Trump-linked oil firm prepares to drill in Greenland but lacks permits - UPI.com
Greenland has issued a "strong warning" to an American oil company linked to President Trump, as it prepares to drill despite lacking proper permits.
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Half of England is in drought after record-breaking heatwaves, yet most of our media want to talk about the "problem" of refugees whilst giving airtime to absurd & dehumanising policies from Reform UK.
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Francesca Albanese: "Israel has unveiled its vision for Palestine-which is none. No Palestine between the river and the sea. The genocide is a state enterprise. The apartheid is a state enterprise. There is no good Israel and bad Israel -it's all Israel. Sanction Israel. Isolate Israel" #bds
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 09/08/2026
Israeli settlers and the military are continuing a campaign to displace Palestinians in the West Bank, residents say.
aljazeera.com
Palestinians in occupied West Bank hold firm on Indigenous Peoples' Day
Israeli settlers and the military are continuing a campaign to displace Palestinians in the West Bank, residents say.
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Dave 🇦🇺 @djerra.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I’m feeling a lot more positive about NUFC even after recenntly losing three excellent players and the coaching staff which was the best I’ve seen in my over 50 years of following #NUFC. The project Is still alive and viable but more recruits are a must. #HTL 
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Dave 🇦🇺 @djerra.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Nothing the #OrangeMoron says is believable. He has the attention span of a moth. The idiots who surround him do not have the backbone to tell him the truth or when he is completely an utterly wrong which is around 99.99% of the time.  we are all doomed. 
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Dave 🇦🇺 @djerra.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The only way to get the genocidal and expansionists Zionist govt. to stop fighting just about everyone on their doorstep is to refuse to supply them with armaments. Of course this won’t happen. Too many vested interests making too much money out of conflict. We are a terrible species. 
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Dave 🇦🇺 @djerra.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
But unfortunately not his arse on the way out.
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Dave 🇦🇺 @djerra.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Not a fan of AC/DC but this came to mind immediately, 'Dirty deeds done dirt cheap but the price in $ numbers would have been staggering. #InfantinoOut 
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Dave 🇦🇺 @djerra.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I suspect you’re right but it’s not something I have to worry too much about now. #NUFC #HTL 
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Dave 🇦🇺 @djerra.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
totally unjustifiable. Land grabs and genocide. Anything else they can do? 
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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
In a better world, Miguel Maduro, the author of this article, would be among the first people drafted in to work on the complete reboot of Fifa. The headline is provocative; but, like @tariqpanja.bsky.social, I agree it is correct. Removing Infantino is only the pre-condition of an overhaul.
ft.com
Infantino is not the problem
Fifa’s regulatory functions must be separated from its commercial activities
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Derek @derekianrobinson.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Politically a coward-and always will be-
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James Huctwith @dainty-bastard.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
The US is fast becoming the world's largest work camp. Nonstop unending surveillance, arbitrary punishments around every corner, very little rule of law except the whims of those in power, no social safety net, little upward mobility, little education. It's terrible.
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 02/08/2026
Australian electric vehicle sales more than double since outbreak of war in Iran
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New data shows fuel crisis triggered record EV sales in Australia
Nearly one in every two new vehicles sold was either electric or hybrid across April, May and June. 
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 01/08/2026
@catgyoung.bsky.social #medsky
Vaccines have saved an estimated 154 million lives over the past 50 years, including more than 100 million infants.
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Glenn Forrest @gn4rest.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Fascism comes wrapped in the flag and carrying the Bible. They are Christian in name only.
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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
1/ For one morning last September, Larry Ellison was the richest man alive. Then the bill hit. Oracle stock has since cratered 60%, erasing $200 billion from his fortune, because he bet everything on the AI boom with borrowed money. I can’t stop laughing🧵 #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy
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Dave 🇦🇺 @djerra.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
That’s an awful image and I was never a fan of Presley and most definitely not a fan of the #OrangeMoron
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Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Sir #DavidAttenborough “Things are going to get worse. This is the new extinction. We are in terrible, terrible trouble and the longer we wait to do something about it, the worse it is going to get." #ClimateEmergency
vox.com
David Attenborough, the voice of Our Planet: “Things are going to get worse”
The voice of some of the most stunning nature documentaries ever made is pessimistic about the future of wildlife on earth.
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Roger 🇦🇺 @rramjet.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Netanyahu is viewed globally as part of the Russia/US lovefest as well as a right wing extremist genocidal maniac. The stain on Israel will last longer than he will
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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
As @davidgoldblatt.bsky.social wrote in his magnificent column, "Dystopia", for @josimarfootball.bsky.social on 14 July, "this could be the moment when the process of reclaiming and reforming the governance of football begins". No paywall. josimarfootball.com/2026/07/14/d...
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Dystopia  - josimarfootball.com
Every World Cup is meant to have a legacy, this one could be the moment when the process of reclaiming and reforming the governance of football begins.
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Dave 🇦🇺 @djerra.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
For too young 😭
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Chris Waugh @chrisdhwaugh.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
🔲 How it came to this for Howe 🔍 🔳 Sadness, relief, acceptance? 🔀 🔲 Why now? ⚖️ 🔳 Howe's legacy 🏆 🔲 Is Bruno gone? 🇧🇷 🔳 Why Jaissle? 🔮 🎧 New free-to-listen @podonthetyne.bsky.social w/ @georgecaulkin.bsky.social @taylorpayne.bsky.social. Eddie Howe leaves #NUFC - why & what happens next?
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Pod On The Tyne: A show about Newcastle United: Eddie Howe leaves; what next for Newcastle United?
It's just shy of five years since Eddie Howe arrived at Newcastle with the team flailing at the foot of the Premier League. What followed is little short of miraculous and the man who drove it all ...
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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
New AFC statement.
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AFC stands in solidarity with UEFA and CONCACAF to protect the FIFA World Cup
The AFC believes that the proposed FFE cannot realistically achieve the necessary broad consensus and unity required to move forward.
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Dave 🇦🇺 @djerra.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
You don’t have to be an expert in any field to also be sceptical about any Israeli withdrawal from Gaza or Lebanon 
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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
This is a very good point. Fifa needs football but football doesn't need Fifa. Fifa has no intrinsic value. There is no special reason it should be maintained and reformed. We could close it tomorrow and organise the World Cup and other tournaments anew and not one thing would be lost.
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🦋 kris🌻⋆⋆⋆ @eviebauer727.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I would be traumatized for life if one of these lightning strikes happened near me. HOLY MOLY! 😱🤯😳
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Independent Australia @independentaus.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
When war is measured in barrels instead of bodies, our moral priorities have gone badly astray. The strait of human life: When oil matters more than children ~ Gerry Georgatos independentaustralia.net/life/life-di...
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The strait of human life: When oil matters more than children
When war is measured in barrels instead of bodies, our moral priorities have gone badly astray.
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