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Beddy

@lancecalhoon.bsky.social
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Aussie dad with Irish streak. Legislative drafter. Whitlamite. My interests are pretty niche: sports, music, movies, games. GWJ. May contain traces of Partridge. Walking on Ngunnawal land.

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Beddy @lancecalhoon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
When the podcast pivots to video, and no one looks like how you’ve imagined all these years
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Barbara Pedersen @barbie4science.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Churches should pay rates and taxes. As well as compensation for centuries of damage to children and women. #Taxchurches #Auspol
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Look how easy it is to frame this issue! This handsome writer did it and he’s not very smart www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"More than 3,700 Australians are stranded in public hospital beds". Hospitals (run by states) clogged as massive NDIS cuts (by Feds) mean patients can't survive at home Claudia Weisenberger investigates #auspol #ndis #medicare michaelwest.com.au/stranded-tho...
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Stranded. Thousands in hospital beds as NDIS cuts bite home support - Michael West
Thousands of patients are stuck in hospital beds in a system that focuses more on who pays than on what benefits the unwell.
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Jennifer C. Martin @notreallyjcm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Extremely grateful for these two grocery store ladies recreating Prodigy’s Firestarter
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Beddy @lancecalhoon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
small businesses would rather hike prices than change banks
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Beddy @lancecalhoon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If education was free for all, with no private schools, imagine how many wanker jobs would also disappear because parents didn't have to pay fees.
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Beddy @lancecalhoon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
129 days' protest and counting in Albania ... and the government is buckling www.intellinews.com/albania-laun...
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Albania launches ‘Flamingo Mirror’ for government files on developments that sparked protest movement
Albania on October 3 launched an online platform publishing government documents and legal references on sensitive projects, beginning with files ...
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Beddy @lancecalhoon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
techbros discussing arts and humanities be like www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONhn...
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Barton Fink (1991) The life of the mind.
YouTube video by Movie Clip Microcosm - what movies mean to us.
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Beddy @lancecalhoon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
wow, she must be getting a sick crouch bonus and carrying capacity upgrade
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Beddy @lancecalhoon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
How I arrived on BlueSky.
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Blues Brothers Bluesmobile
Alt: Blues Brothers Bluesmobile disintegrating just as the blues brothers get to the cook county assessors office to save the orphanage
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3wombats @3wombats.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
✊🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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Beddy @lancecalhoon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
made me wonder of the left needed a bit more 'lets fuck shit up' mentality when protesting ... tho you wouldn't get such big numbers of different folks if so
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Beddy @lancecalhoon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
my main takeaway from the cooker protests was how well-organised, non-violent and focused other protests (eg union, climate change) are -- you don't catch greenies pissing on the war memorial while singing horses
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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Please make sure each person gets one of these at my funeral. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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Dee Madigan @deemadigan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
One Nation says AI is coming for Australian jobs then used AI to make their campaign video.
They didn’t hire an Aussie videographer or Aussie editor or Aussie actors.
Turns out it’s only ‘Australian jobs first’ when One Nation doesn’t have to pay.
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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Kouk makes a great point here. Productivity in human services is extremely hard to measure; the class sizes for teachers example is a great one. Universities have been cramming more students into their classes for years — learning has declined — is that better ‘productivity’?
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Beddy @lancecalhoon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I too have laboured in the Meme mines for paltry likes, comrade
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Beddy @lancecalhoon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
gave you a sympathy like
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Beddy @lancecalhoon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
let's all meet in *checks notes* Rojava
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juan barquin @woahitsjuanito.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
michael mcdonald after seeing the paternity test results
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Beddy @lancecalhoon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
haha snap
Results screen from a '12 axes' political alignment test -- says that my most compatible country is Allende's Chile, and the Paris Communeanother screenshot of results from the 12 Axes Political test -- showing I am most compatible with Scotland!
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socalbookish.bsky.social @socalbookish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This👇👇👇👇👇👇
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
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Beddy @lancecalhoon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
we've seen warfare by Nazis on meth brace yourselves for warfare by Nazis on K
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Beddy @lancecalhoon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
why does small business hate every policy that happens to benefit me
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Beddy @lancecalhoon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
we're still paying those fkn franking credit rebates
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Beddy @lancecalhoon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
article was a Nestle press release + a ragtag assortment of quotes about cafes and coffee.
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Beddy @lancecalhoon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
'we spoke to Nestle'
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Purplepingers ☭ @purplepingers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Reserve Bank of Australia: "millions of working class people have to suffer because some rich fucks got a bit greedy again x"
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Beddy @lancecalhoon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I love how Australian mortgagees are being punished for Trump's warmongering and Silicon Valley's AI obsession ... trying to make us demand that people get sacked to make number go down
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Beddy @lancecalhoon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This reminds me of that time in grade 4, when a few of us worked out how to print stuff on the library printer and we printed Licences to Fart for ourselves
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 30/09/2026
Liam Hogan Thought expresses this as a large, not a small problem
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Beddy @lancecalhoon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Love the interviewer gently grilling him for including Smells Like Teen Spirit alongside Strange Fruit and Beds are Burning (and leaving off Treaty) -- I guess the author has to appeal to white Gen X blokes
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
He was told it was coming and did nothing.
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Netanyahu was warned of October 7 Hamas attack, reports say ahead of election
With only weeks to go until elections in Israel, an unrelenting stream of well-sourced, detailed stories has suddenly appeared, documenting multiple failures by Benjamin Netanyahu to heed warnings of ...
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Beddy @lancecalhoon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
... all it would take is just one of those drones that Obama used to send to Yemeni weddings
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Beddy @lancecalhoon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"move fast and break things" "disruption" "fail fast" -- these are not slogans for longevity
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RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Other notable examples of common stock being used to raise capital while other, closely held, shares with more voting power preserve entrenched rights include the NYT and News Corp. There are plenty of others.
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RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Looks like I have a new example to give to students when talking about different classes of shares. The reason this is remarkable, btw, is not because it is illegal or unethical. It is remarkable because, in most cases away from tech, investors would reject something over which they had no control.
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Beddy @lancecalhoon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
many such cases!
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Beddy @lancecalhoon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Plenty of other cool DJs, like Radius, Monster Mash, Da Bonez Collective ...
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Beddy @lancecalhoon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
it's gravecore m8 .. came out of the Nottingham scene in the 2010s
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Beddy @lancecalhoon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
nice! I remember the days of being 30+ floors up ... since joining public service I haven't worked higher than a 10th floor
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Beddy @lancecalhoon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I hope Nige from North Fitzroy is happy somewhere, and not just ironically
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Beddy @lancecalhoon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
m8 any neutral barracking for the Lions this weekend is a dog -- it's wharfie time!! www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2...
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Annoyingly likeable Lions or Fremantle’s fairytale? How to pick a team to cheer for in the 2026 AFL grand final
Forget the cup, who will win the hearts of the undecideds, casuals and neutrals – the juggernauts from Brisbane or the underdog Dockers?
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Beddy @lancecalhoon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This feels like a jurisdictional error -- why is the leader of a nation bothering with the mayor of a city in another nation? A mayor has no foreign policy
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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Trump when he lashes out at critics and the press for this reason. But fundamentally, I think it's a failure to recognise that there are still standards out there that people expect him to keep and that when he does otherwise, to put this in 90s terms, all the average Australian sees is a sell-out.
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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I also suspect that if you put any of this to Albanese, he'd be hurt. It was just a photo. It's part of the job. He wants the UN Security Council position and the subs. The US is *the* ally. He has to play nice. He's attacked no matter what he does. I also have the feeling Albo kinda envies...
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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Posing for a grinning selfie with Trump would make sense to the PM in the moment because it's gormless suburban Gen X dad behaviour. Thing is, on any objective measure, Trump is a widely loathed figure. Peter Dutton was destroying by the Australian electorate for seeming Trumpy.
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