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For Discworld fans, you only need to know three words: Bergholt Stuttley Johnson (😬)

An enclosable showering facility with the most amazing number of outlet ports!

So (and I'm not sure I understand) - so, Mme Dafarge is 'knitting mail' nearby with two pairs of pliers and a bucket of open links? 😦🤔 [one for the history/reenactment buffs! 😄]

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Nigel Bell 🍉 @nigel63.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

'Lucky to be alive' journalism notwithstanding - really, ABC? Another effing café¹ story? #AlwaysBroadcastingCafés [¹ & you can't spell it correctly. 😐] And punctuation! You're the Australian Broadcaster @news.abc.net.au, you're supposed to set standards. 🫤

A screenshot of a recent ABC News Australia post.

Text, post:
ABC News Australia
Customer 'lucky to be alive' after 4WD smashes Shearwater Food Company cafe frontage

Graphic:
A photo showing the aftermath of a vehicle having smashed into the serving area of a café (the vehicle has previously been removed).

Text, heading:
Customer 'lucky to be alive' after 4WD smashes cafe frontage

Text, copy:
Police are investigating after a car crashed into a shopfront in Tasmania's n...

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Nigel Bell 🍉 @nigel63.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The Australian Party of labour no longer exists. What does 'coincidentally' exist is a lot of bank accounts holding the lovely money of the extinct ALP. The so-called Labor Party doesn't even dare sell itself on its evident 'principles', all advertising for the ALP is nostaglic slop.

The ALP doesn't exist. [in Red]

For 30+ yrs, the lie the ALP sold its base was there were Factions. But, for 20 yrs, Labor Right Über Alles. ['Labor Right' in Bold Italics, 'Über Alles' in Italics]
For 10+ yrs before, nothing but tie colour differentiated Labor Right from Centrist (Dry) Libs. But in the late 2010's, the US GOP, the UK Tories, & the Australian Libs moved en masse to the far-Right.

Labor Right - *the* ALP - remained carrying the policy banners of the Liberal Party.

[this sentence in a smaller font]
(The only Labor-faction that still exists is the Greens [in Green] who, in great part, represent the old Labor Left... Labor's conscience.)

The ALP doesn't exist. [in Blue]

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Nigel Bell 🍉 @nigel63.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Oh dear. Oh dear. Oh dear. It's not really your day is it, Mr Adobe? 🙂 Oh dear, oh dear. 😐

A screenshot of a CLONE ZONE post.

Heading:
Adobe in Trouble After Someone Reverse Engineered Adobe Creative Suite and Released It as Open Source.

Subheading:
"About time we leave adobe for good."

Credits:
By Joe Wilkins,
Published Oct 8, 2026, 1:54 PM EDT
[Google hashtag] 'Add Futurism'

Graphic:
Picture of Adobe Suite product in action.

This might be the only use of Al I approve of.
People have been using Al to essentially rob Adobe of all its software and release free to use [open] source versions for anyone to use.
It's poetic that the company that pushed Al and ignored everyone's concerns about Al theft has now become victim to it.
If they call it theft and take legal action it would open the door for others to do the same to them.

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Nigel Bell 🍉 @nigel63.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

My response to the general 'what the f*ck is Labor doing?' question: In short, there is no functional, philosophical Party of labour. The so-called ALP doesn't exist. What does exist, however, is a lot of extant bank accounts in the (old) Party's name. & what is sold is fetid, dripping nostalgia.

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Nigel Bell 🍉 @nigel63.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

[Apol.s to Messrs Scott & Hauer]

Parody of Oliver Curtis' Firmus IPO collapse using a satire of the Roy Batty 'Tears in the rain' sililoquy, from Blade Runner (1982).

Graphic:
Oliver Curtis's face superimposed on the body (& dove) of Blade Runner's Roy Batty, against a sci-fi noir background of blurred neon lights and falling rain.

Text:
"I've seen things you sheeple wouldn't believe. Portfolios on fire at the failing of a buy-in. I watched C-suites bicker like sharks near the New York Exchange. All file documents to be lost like lines, cocaine down the drain. Time to fly!"
- Royliver Curtis.

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Nigel Bell 🍉 @nigel63.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

In the US, this is still on the (legal) books for Treason. good.

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Nigel Bell 🍉 @nigel63.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This Joshua... forgeting his citizenship status?

$A photo - cropped from a news article - of a younger (coiffeured) Josh Friedenburg shaking hands with PM John Howard, both men seemingly delighted at the meeting. Under the photo, the caption: PM Howard meets with young Hungarian Joshua Friedenburg. Under the photo & caption is a contrafractal play on the citizenship debacle that caught many Australian politicians, but particularly Friedenburg, set to a refrain from David Bowie's song "Young Americans": from "the Ballad of s44" Fa-a-ar Right He was the young Hungarian .... The young Hungarian .... Young Hungarian .... Josh was the young Hungarian Fa-a-ar Right Forgot to become Australian.$

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Nigel Bell 🍉 @nigel63.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

🎶 Every moth is precious Each swarm a nom'y fête Ne'er a moth is wasted To help birds gain their weight Sung to: Every sperm is sacred [Apol.s to Jacquemin, Howman, Palin & Jones] A nod to @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social's thoughtful, yet whisical, scribbles.

Graphic:
A panel of 'First Dog On The Moon' celebrating the return of the Bogong moth migration with a cartoon of people marching in various insect costumes, some with the banners "THANK A MOTH" & "SAY NO TO PORCH LIGHTS".

Text, above cartoon:
Surely bogong moth migration season should have a public holiday and some sort of parade or festival... Bogong Moth day!

Text, below cartoon:
Remember - these moths are not an inconvenience they are a blessing. EVERY MOTH IS PRECIOUS. Perhaps they are a sign that all is not lost...

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Nigel Bell 🍉 @nigel63.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Ahhh, Michael. Michael, Michael, Michael. 😐

Parody.
A photo of ex-Labor Federal MP Michael Danby as he appeared on a Sky News/News 24 TV interview, speaking to camera.

Text, upper:
"wild, nasty and tinged by mania."
- Bob Carr, former Australian Foreign Minister.

Text, lower (beneath speaker's face):
Michael David Danby
Former Federal Member for
Melbourne Ports & East Jerusalem

Text, chyron:
Sker Nues [24, in white, on a red square] Meet Sker Nues 24's new Hasbara Correspondunc...

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Nigel Bell 🍉 @nigel63.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Ahhh, Michael. Michael, Michael, Michael. 😐

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Nigel Bell 🍉 @nigel63.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

With his unfailing knack to get everything entirely wrong¹, Phil Coorey is surely the Gregory Sheridan of NINEfax, & yet still lauded by old (NSW) media loveys. 🫤 ¹ eg. his glorious panegyric to the POWER & wisdom of Gladys Berejiklian ju-ust before ICAC found her guilty of serious corrupt conduct.

Graphic:
Australian opinionista Phil Coorey looks at the photographer.

The image is overlaid by text justified down the left of the image.

Text:
In the BODY POLITIC [highlighted in red],
Mr Coorey is the parasitic
infection of the gut,
leading to lethargy,
abdominal pain and diarrhea.

Phillip Coorey is:
HUMAN AMOEBIC DYSENTERY [highlighted in red]

and everything
<deargodeverything!>
he writes is
exactly what you'd expect.

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Nigel Bell 🍉 @nigel63.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Have you tried: Dove Anti-Perspirant Fresh Care XXL? If that surprised look on people's faces is saying "you pong", try Dove! Also kills midges, mosquitoes & fleas. [And doves... we only found out later] 🙂👍

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Nigel Bell 🍉 @nigel63.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Cada 6 o 7 semanas, acompaño a mi padre al hospital para su tratamiento ocular. Él puede llevarnos, pero después del tratamiento, yo llevo de vuelta. Sin embargo, el viernes pasado había un nuevo miembro del personal en el aparcamiento del hospital...

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Nigel Bell 🍉 @nigel63.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hey. Katauskas. I hope you're not disparaging The Curtster! 😦 (deargod. 🤦‍♂️)

A screenshot from news.com.au, 27th May 2026.

Text, headline:
Jailed Aussie’s $6 billion ‘redemption’

Text, copy:
Oliver Curtis was at the lowest point in his life as he was sent to prison for pocketing $1.4 million, now he’s one of the richest men in Australia.

Curtis was sentenced to 2 years imprisonment, July 2016, and spent 12 months at the Cooma Correctional Centre, a minimum- & medium-security facility located south of Canberra.

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Nigel Bell 🍉 @nigel63.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Democracy Sausage?! Nom-Nom-Nom-Nom-Nom!! 😋

An Awstraylyun democracy sausage, to wit:
• a slice of white bread (prob. unbuttered)
• a recently barbecued sausage
• a condiment or two (eg. tomato sauce/ketchup & mild American mustard)

A culinary pat-on-the-back for fulfilling your democratic duty... voting.

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Nigel Bell 🍉 @nigel63.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This was my appraisal of the 7th Nov 2024, the day after Trump's second Presidential win. I claim no prophetic powers - it was as obvious as dog's balls, & just as esthetic.

Donald Trump, US President-elect, is superimposed over German Führer, Adolf Hitler, as Hitler exits his plane in Warsaw, Sept 1st 1939, to claim the conquest of Poland.

Text:
Let's play a game of
Historical Equivalents:
By the November 7th US Election results,
[photo graphic]
Adolf Hitler was already entering Poland.

America pre-11.7.24,
in any practical legal sense,
no longer exists.

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Nigel Bell 🍉 @nigel63.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Population decline is NOT the enemy, it is a natural state that needs to be holistically & socially negotiated over time. The ENEMY is the 'economic' nonsense of continual growth - it's an impossibility, a fraud, a shame - it is the excuse NOT to examine a/the current process (eg. the AI balloon).

A screenshot from APNews.com

Graphic:
In an otherwise empty classroom, the singular teacher sits with her remaining two students.

Text, headline:
On a remote Greek island, empty classrooms signal a crisis across Europe

Text, copy:
Greece's remote islands are becoming a warning sign of Europe's population decline, as falling bi...

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Nigel Bell 🍉 @nigel63.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Meeting my cousin who I'd last seen 30 yrs ago. Def. one of Dad's tribe. Met (this time) at Mum & Dad's, & then down the b/yd to my brother & SiL's place. • M&D's b/yd (that mulberry tree is nearly 90) • from B&SiL's kitchen across their deck & into the b/yd • the end of dessert after lunch. 😋🍴

Mum & Dad's backyard (that mulberry tree, centre, is nearly 90), on our collective way down to my Brother & SiL's place for lunch.

Looking back from my Brother & SiL's kitchen, across their back deck & into their backyard - towards Mum & Dad's place... & above the red cushion, you can see the yellow-gold inflorescences of their Silky Oak (Grevillea robusta - not an oak) in full flower. The combative squawks of Rainbow Lorikeets were occasionally heard as we had our lunch and they 'attacked' theirs. Pretty birds, yes. Song birds, no.

The end of dessert after lunch, as Mum (this end) and Dad (that end) possibly reach for the same thing.

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Nigel Bell 🍉 @nigel63.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

At the 24-25sec mark, I think the Noisy Miner (Manorina melanocephala) is saying, "ooh, I got some of that up my beak!" The Noisy Miner is the middle-sized member of a broad Honeyeater family (Meliphagidae) in Australia. (and this is why I have a bird bath outside the kitchen window). 🥰 #Birds

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Nigel Bell 🍉 @nigel63.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In the middle of a text converstion about why she feels unnerved seeing images of US Senator Mitch McConnell post-hospital, daughter no.1 had that lightbulb moment about what particular nightmare fuel he reminds her of. Side note: I took said daughter to see 'Pan's Labyrinth' for her 15th b/day. 😁👍

Graphic:
One photo above the other, the top photo is of US Senator Mitch McConnell. The bottom one is the Pale Man, the child-eating monster from 'Pan's Labyrinth'.

Text, below the photos:
Vegetable McConnell haunts my nightmares in a way no ancient and forgotten fridge vegetable has before.

Graphic:
Three photos, two at the top laid side-by-side for comparison, and actress Jenna Fischer in her role as Pam Beesly, from the US version of the TV show, 'The Office'.

She is asked:
"Corporate needs you to find the differences between this picture and this picture."

The photos are of
1. US Senator Mitch McConnell; &
2. the Pale Man, the child-eating monster from 'Pan's Labyrinth'.

Jenna/Pam responds, straightfacedly:
"They're the same picture."

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Nigel Bell 🍉 @nigel63.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Oh yeah, 'cause cats *never* get mucky. (o.m.g. 😱)

Someone needed a bath.
(a photo of a just bathed Norwegian Forest cat).

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Nigel Bell 🍉 @nigel63.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Michael Crawford, yeah? (see, he's even got the beret!. 🙂)

Michael Crawford, playing Frank Spencer, from "Some Mothers Do Have 'Em".

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Nigel Bell 🍉 @nigel63.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

ALP - Another Liberal Party Labour - the grease that lubricates the gears of business.

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Nigel Bell 🍉 @nigel63.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The car park attendant. The industrious Australian brush-/scrub-turkey (Alectura lathami) with, apparently, very few fu-(!)-very few CARES to give! & for the lovers of pTerry Pratchett's Discworld: "Ho, the Megapode!" @rincewind.run

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Nigel Bell 🍉 @nigel63.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A short walk by the shops this morning & the Scribbly Gum (Eucalyptus racemosa) are definitely a'blooming! A little later, Dad & I pop over to the Wesley Private so he can get his eye injected (Eeee! 😬) when, stepping out of the car park, we're met with... <please see over>

Two stitched images of the same the Scribbly Gum (Eucalyptus racemosa).

A close-up photo of the flowers of the Scribbly Gum (Eucalyptus racemosa).

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Nigel Bell 🍉 @nigel63.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

(thank goodness for Pearl Harbor. 🙂)

Winston Churchill.
(getting the V-for-Victory around the right way).

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Nigel Bell 🍉 @nigel63.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

(🤭) Hey, Englandshire! How's that Special Relationship going? Hey, @albomp.bsky.social, quick, shove your head further up Trump's back passage - there might be more room now! 🤦‍♂️ www.politico.com/news/2026/09...

Screenshot of Politico article, 1st Oct 2026.

The Trump administration is excluding several major allies from a gathering of NATO members next month — after previous threats to deploy a “naughty and nice list” against governments that have run afoul of the president’s priorities.

The planned meeting in Poland, which Pentagon policy chief Elbridge Colby has spearheaded, is essentially a working group focused on NATO’s future, according to six diplomats familiar with the planning. But many of the countries who didn’t receive an invite — such as the United Kingdom [underlined in red], France and the Baltic countries — are big defense spenders and play key roles in the alliance, leaving their diplomats wondering why they’re being frozen out.

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Nigel Bell 🍉 @nigel63.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I continue in my attempt to replace images of Gina Rinehart with her true portrait (of Dorian Gray). [Apol.s to Magda Szubanski]

Satirical correction of post from Guardian Australia, from 2024.

Graphic:
Photo of Magda Szubanski's character, Lynne Postlethwaite, in place of Miner, Gina Rinehart.

Text:
Headline text:
Gina Rinehart urges government to 'drill, baby, drill' and build Israeli-style 'iron dome' in northern Australia

Text, parody copy:
One Nation's billionaire backer Gina Rinehart says, "Pet, Oi've got a brillyant nu oidea for...

Text, original copy:
Billionaire mining magnate reveals her defense and economic blueprint for Australi...

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Nigel Bell 🍉 @nigel63.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I continue in my attempt to replace images of Gina Rinehart with her true portrait (of Dorian Gray). [Apol.s to Magda Szubanski]

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Nigel Bell 🍉 @nigel63.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I know that face. & I recognise her smug immunity, nestled in the bosom of the National Broadcaster. I watched her husband, fronting Q&A, walk the ABC a little farther Right with every episode. Prue Goward, behind the mic', was ever the professional. Not this one. Not Kelly nor Sales nor PK. We see.

Top text block:
When the journalist bodily leans into the literal orbit of the unapologetic Fascist;&
When the same Defender of (their own) Free Speech mocks the needs of society's weakest, whilst nodding and winking to one of the Nation's most privileged, and blatant, wide boys...

Graphic:
Photo of ABC TV Four Corners article person of focus, fascist Steve Bannon, standing upright as allegedly impartial ABC journalist Sarah Ferguson physically leans into Bannon's chest. Both look pleased to be there.

Bottom text block:
... we know the spirit of Leni Riefenstahl lives on.

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Nigel Bell 🍉 @nigel63.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

And with sincere apologies to both Milne & Shepard...

Graphic:
Winnie-the-Pooh is bent over, paws on knees, examining marks in the snow.
Piglet, also looking down but less fervently, has one of his hands (trotters?) raised to his mouth.

Text, Winnie:
"We are in the territory. Now to define the map: the sequence of poetic tropes that track the journey into and out of form, from mortality to immortality, the trail of the falcon, the serpent, the eye, and the star."

Text, Piglet:
"Gosh."
"Are you on a different honey today or something?"

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Nigel Bell 🍉 @nigel63.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

... in a forest of lawyers. 😐

Graphic:
A photo of a very pleased US President Donald Trump sitting in the Oval Office, of the White House.

A quote from the Guardian, on a white rectangle, sits beneath Trumps head:
"Trump has amassed staggering wealth in 'most openly corrupt' presidency"
(Guardian, Thur 13 Aug 2026).

Text, across bottom portion of photo:
If a Constitution fails in a forest of lawyers, but no-one is charged...
... do the Emoluments Clauses silently die?

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Nigel Bell 🍉 @nigel63.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

So, the Harvard Veritones sang Radiohead’s “Creep” to win the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella. & why shouldn't they sing? They are, after all, the children of absolute privilege - Wheee! - like watching actors who were schooled at Eton. The privilege to fail until they succeed.

The original observation is a paraphrase of Maya Angelou:
"No one is free until we are all free."

'is free' is struck out, replaced with
'can sing', &
'are all free' is struck out, replaced with
'can all sing'.

Thus, the line now effectively reads:
"No one can sing until we can all sing."

A line in a smaller font, within parentheses, has been added along the bottom right corner:
'(the tone-deaf ones - you're on percussion.)'

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Nigel Bell 🍉 @nigel63.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This photo opportunity for iZrael should never have happened. It's cowardice, & a deliberate abrogation of their own very painful history, by the players who voted (in the majority) to play. Utterly shameful. Only one player refused to play, goalkeeper Gavin Bazunu &, in doing so, left the squad.

A screen shot of an ABC News Bot post:
Players from the Republic of Ireland wear black armbands, bow their heads during the Israeli anthem and refuse handshakes during a Nations League football match.

Graphic:
Three Irish players in uniform, side by side, all wearing black armbands, all looking down.

Text, headline:
Ireland refuses handshake with Israel, wears black armbands for game

Text, copy:
Players from the Republic of Ireland wear black armbands, bow their heads during the Israeli an...

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Nigel Bell 🍉 @nigel63.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I continue in my attempt to replace images of Gina Rinehart with her true portrait (of Dorian Gray). [Apol.s to Magda Szubanski]

Satirical correction of post from ABC News Australia.

Graphic:
Photo of Magda Szubanski's character, Lynne Postlethwaite, in place of Miner, Gina Rinehart.

Text:
Headline text:
Rinehart allegedly tried to help recruit Liberal MP to join One Nation
[the same in parody & original]

Text, parody copy:
One Nation's billionaire backer Gina Rinehart said, "Pet, I said love, I said pet..."

Text, original copy:
One Nation's billionaire backer Gina Rinehart allegedly attempted to recr...

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Nigel Bell 🍉 @nigel63.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I continue in my attempt to replace images of Gina Rinehart with her true portrait (of Dorian Gray). [Apol.s to Magda Szubanski]

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