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I use Viber for a chat group with my oldest friends in Australia. It now features this feature. FFS, if you need AI to help chat with people you are really just wasting everyone's time continuing as a human being. You may as well have the life of a battery hen.

I am actually enjoying that it is highlighting my ignorance of parts of the world. Already I am getting better at those parts. Still a lot of work mind you.

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Absolutely spot on. It is the actions of a depraved terrorist group not a legitimate country.

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I suppose that is another option if we are taking it right back to darker times but I suspect Hegseth will beat anyone to that in the near future.

If this is the scale that is now morally acceptable then I'm not going to condemn anyone who decides to hang all the bodies of the executed Trump regime from lamp posts. Its barbaric but to quote Hegseth: "...people need to understand there’s (sic) serious consequences for these types of things”

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Pentagon says execution of Fort Hood shooter will be livestreamed

These people are not only trying to be the most evil possible, they seem intent on being the most over the top and ridiculous version of evil. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Nidal Hasan, army psychiatrist who killed 13 people, will be executed by firing squad on 3 December

EU still funding I believe just withdrawn being named as a key sponsor.

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I am also horrified by the thought that the increasingly brazen misogynistic rhetoric of the right, especially amongst MAGA types, could see even more of this type of political violence against women standing for office.

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‘I reside in Monaco’: billionaire said to have quit UK over potential wealth tax had already left

Who gives a damn why any of these parasistes leave? They are a net loss to any society they live in. Any one teacher, doctor, nurse, etc leaving is more of a concern. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/oc...

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TaxWatch contradicts claims about David Reuben’s departure and questions stories of super-rich exodus

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Maybe he needs a testosterone boost...

Molotov and Ribbentrop would be proud...

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I thought we just called them mince pies but same issue given mince is also used as shorthand for mince meat. One of those strange names I just took for granted and never thought too much about it.

Ah yes. Have shown amongst footage to classes when teaching about the fall of communism in the satellite states. Knew I had seen it.

I know I have seen that photo before but can't recall the context.

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I hit the right 'stan but opposite side of country. More disappointed I was 98 on Paris instead of 100 given how often I have been there.

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Shitty way for anybody to be treated leave alone having taken shrapnel in the service of a country that then tries to deny his right to live there.

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Didn't a Putin supporter in the Russian Duma once mention the location of a bomb going off before it happened? This being one the bombings blamed on Chechnya to justify the war on them...

Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

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7 October 1897 | A French Jew, Roger Lucien Levy, was born in Boulogne. In May 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz. He did not survive.

Vintage portrait of a man in military uniform, wearing a beret.

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Where to begin with this latest piece of clueless ignorance about US cultural history? Music history is a good point but I'll start with the fact that the USA's first US-born President didn't even speak English as his first language.

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4 October 1941 | Dutch Jewish girl, Margaretha Bertha Aussen, was born in Amsterdam. She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork on 10 September 1942. She was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection. --- Gas chambers and crematoria of Auschwitz: youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck

Vintage black-and-white photo of a little girl with a surprised expression, framed in an oval border.

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Nice. Never been to NZ. My brother's partner is Moari so I have "Mozzie" (Moari Aussie) nephews. Will go there one day. Have always felt NZ people are far more tolerant, progressive and decent than fellow Australians. However, current NZ government bucking that trend by being absolute dickheads.

Glad to hear. Hope she had a good trip overall.

2 bays, not the one with Islands!

North America is more of a challenge for me. Guess at least as an Australian I have a fair idea about many of our Pacific neigbours.

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Oustanding. Thought that particular postcard was very appropriate as it depicts the old historic Saigon Post Office and we purchased and sent the postcard from there.

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Across the river now at Pub with historic link to USA

Bullshit. He is too stupid to realise he is stupid.

We had two cartoonist/authors in our school talking to the Year 8s (encouraging reading of graghic novels) and they were demonstrating how a good character has a distinct silhouette and as soon as they started to draw snoopy, dozens of girls (12 and 13) called out. Was surprised so many knew.

Dave Shackson @djshackson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

@demondawg2021.bsky.social On account it was close to the theatre, dropped in on The Maple Leaf. Used to drink here on occasion in the 90s. Nearby Aussie and South African pubs from that era are gone but I guess Londoners still want a venue that has poutine.

Dave Shackson @djshackson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I have been to Broadway while on holiday and was able to go for cheap on the day tickets. Queue for real play tickets always shorter than Musicals in New York (which with exceptions like Hamilton and Spamelot I mostly despise). No idea how prebooked prices compare.

Dave Shackson @djshackson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

No point living in London if you are not going to go to the theatre on occasion. Today's play:

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

3 October 1900 | A German Jew, Kurt Rosenberg, was born in Berlin. In December 1942 he was deported to #Auschwitz. He did not survive. --- Video about the history of Auschwitz: youtu.be/Fxnl5HTygrs

Smiling man holding a small cat, standing on a pathway next to a brick building with stacked burlap sacks.

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Dave Shackson @djshackson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

No civilised society in the 21st Century still has the death penalty. If you can still support it in the face of an event like this. you are devoid of any essence of humanity.

Dave Shackson @djshackson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Have tickets for this. Last time I was a Twickenham to support The Wallabies was the 2015 World Cup Final. Hope this goes better.