Oldwhitebeard49 @oldwhitebeard49.bsky.social · 30/09/2026My dear old grandma,shearers' cook, had a saying that's apposite: Time to pull out digger, the dogs are pissing on your swag. 010
Oldwhitebeard49 @oldwhitebeard49.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"Fell short of standards" is a heck of an euphemism for death by gross negligence. 000
Reposted by Oldwhitebeard49Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Ivanka Trump dressed as a Balkan embassy bay window pelmet monorail through a bird sanctuary with a valance and a substandard-housing juliet-balcony collar. 9456
Oldwhitebeard49 @oldwhitebeard49.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Federation of the follicly challenged? Denture advert? Albo, what were you thinking? www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...theguardian.comEveryone is talking about Albanese’s selfie with Trump. What was the PM thinking? | Tom McIlroyTrump is not popular in Australia, even if the prime minister views close ties with the US as a key pillar of foreign policy 000
Reposted by Oldwhitebeard49Oldwhitebeard49 @oldwhitebeard49.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Apart from everything else, this is plain embarrassing. Dinosaurs, tiny brain, lived on earth for around 170 million years. Going strong till they lucked out with a flying rock. Not their fault! Homo Sapiens, stable genius and all, gonna fuck it up in less than ONE mill. 011
Reposted by Oldwhitebeard49Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 17/09/2026As I’m arranging interviews for the high-level UNGA week, this made my day.. 😆 2419912
Reposted by Oldwhitebeard49Phil Leighton @joseph-yossarian.bsky.social · 11/09/2026How can you possibly write that? We have the living example of his miraculous ear to behold. Surely if an ear shot through with a high powered rifle can be healed then the miracle of the $5000 checks will happen. Have faith. 142
Reposted by Oldwhitebeard49Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 06/09/2026I haven’t been indicted yet. 332108263179
Oldwhitebeard49 @oldwhitebeard49.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Good to see Marnus maintaining form. 4 from 9 balls totally justifying selectors lack of imagination. 000
Reposted by Oldwhitebeard49Count Binface @countbinface.osintnet.uk · 06/08/2026Clacton's beach is a no-swim zone due to sewage, but Nigel Farage's career is floating on a £5m mystery. As a bin, I know how to handle rubbish. Let's take out the trash on August 13th! #CountBinface #Clacton" Bong. 1208
Oldwhitebeard49 @oldwhitebeard49.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Posting this article so you too can have the joy of reading the line: "Sam Newman, whose thoughts on ruckwork carry more weight than all his other views combined". #aussierules www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/a...theguardian.comFrom the Pocket: Max Gawn has legitimate claims as the best ruck in Australian football historyComparing footballers of different eras is fun but ultimately futile. But by any measure the Melbourne skipper is a giant of his craft, his era and his sport 100
Oldwhitebeard49 @oldwhitebeard49.bsky.social · 30/07/2026You have to be a certain type of shit to sue someone who wants to stop you enabling child porn. 320
Reposted by Oldwhitebeard49Robyn in the west - a difficult woman @robyninthestix.bsky.social · 27/07/2026The arrogance of power: Labor’s complacency is becoming its biggest threat open.substack.com/pub/newpolit...open.substack.comThe arrogance of power: Labor’s complacency is becoming its biggest threatFrom $10,000 dinners and corporate-sponsored conferences to ignoring party members and abandoning struggling communities, Labor is displaying the complacency that eventually destroys governments. 2158
Oldwhitebeard49 @oldwhitebeard49.bsky.social · 24/07/2026I think I'm going to cook American tonight. Anyone know where I can get some laxative lettuce, salmonella eggs and botulism beans de café? 240
Oldwhitebeard49 @oldwhitebeard49.bsky.social · 13/07/2026I've read a lot of comments / anecdotes about Sam Neill. And about Lindsey Graham. There's a lesson there for how you should live your life. 070
Reposted by Oldwhitebeard49Dr nick nobody @nicknobody.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Paying a racist South African to represent the apartheid genocidal regime of Israel is a stain that Labor will never recover from #auspol 22011
Reposted by Oldwhitebeard49Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 09/07/2026Day Two in a nutshell 45258114
Oldwhitebeard49 @oldwhitebeard49.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Where's the grey Wiggle when you need him? 000
Oldwhitebeard49 @oldwhitebeard49.bsky.social · 03/07/2026And this is Australia: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcZr...youtube.comSocceroos celebrate migrant roots and address anti-immigration sentiment before World CupYouTube video by Guardian Australia 021
Oldwhitebeard49 @oldwhitebeard49.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Mick Ryan, a very knowledgeable military and war analyst/commentator has addressed one of my favourite bits of Aussie history. The Great Emu War. Spoiler: the emus won and they didn't have the machine guns. mickryan.substack.com/p/the-emu-wa...mickryan.substack.comThe Emu War: A Case Study in How Not to Fight a Learning EnemyWhat a failed military campaign against Australian emus can teach today's military leaders about retaining professional excellence, adaptation and the discipline of matching means to ends. 000
Reposted by Oldwhitebeard49Rhuta Bhayga @rhutabhayga.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Not sure if an Aussie actually said this, but it is 100% true. If the U.S. is circling the drain it's because Republicans have led us here, and yam tits is billing us for the headstone. (apologies for mixed metaphors) 12517
Oldwhitebeard49 @oldwhitebeard49.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Hey. I just realised what the reflecting pool reminds me of. Newsboys' Club circa 1958, swimming pool below Herald Sun building. The scum was probably mostly due to me and my fellow paper selling street urchins, but someone was definitely skimming the chlorine budget. 000
Reposted by Oldwhitebeard49Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 23/06/2026Iranian leadership meeting with Pakistani leadership in Islamabad. The video, in English, was posted by the Pakistani government 2 hours ago. Pay attention to the language, and the message. “Brotherhood has no questions to answer” 1011239
Oldwhitebeard49 @oldwhitebeard49.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Hey. Where do I get paid to be a pro algae protestor? George Spirogyra??? 010
Oldwhitebeard49 @oldwhitebeard49.bsky.social · 19/06/2026When a news article leads with the words "Trump says ", I stop reading. There's just no point. 011
Reposted by Oldwhitebeard49Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Trump is passed out again today in the Oval Office... Zzzzzz!!! 6247
Oldwhitebeard49 @oldwhitebeard49.bsky.social · 15/05/2026@opdeatheaters.bsky.social @youranoncentral.bsky.social do your thing. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...theguardian.com‘Refugees Are Welcome Here’ site could be part of ‘connected campaign’ to funnel votes to One Nation in VictoriaExclusive: Rightwing activist denies responsibility for set of aspiring political parties and their potential preferences, as Guardian analysis suggests links 000
Reposted by Oldwhitebeard49Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Rumours that the govt are about to to target family discretionary trusts in the Budget is a very good thing. My column www.theguardian.com/business/gro...theguardian.comIn this budget, all eyes are on CGT. But Labor’s rumoured family trust tweaks might also help fight tax inequality | Greg JerichoIf Albanese’s newest budget can tame discretionary trust tax dodging, it will be a good step in ensuring the rich are treated the same as the rest of us 912340
Reposted by Oldwhitebeard49Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 06/05/2026If the govt targets discretionary family trusts there will be a lot of guff about how they will hit middle Australians just trying to get by. Don't believe it www.theguardian.com/business/gro... 11252106
Oldwhitebeard49 @oldwhitebeard49.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Existing gas contracts won't be taxed. Existing property investors not taxed. I was an existing consumer pre GST. Where do I apply for 26 years refund? #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...theguardian.comMassive profits already earned by property investors to be shielded from Chalmers’ CGT changesTreasurer tells Commonwealth Bank podcast that he aims to ‘recognise the decisions that people have taken in the past’ 093
Oldwhitebeard49 @oldwhitebeard49.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Iranian trolling not restricted to Lego. Tasnim News subeditor joins in: www.tasnimnews.ir/en/news/2026...tasnimnews.irIranian Snooker Player Vafaei Beats Trump - Sports news - Tasnim News AgencyTEHRAN (Tasnim) – English snooker player Judd Trump was sent crashing out of the World Snooker Championship as a dramatic day at the Crucible concluded with Iran’s Hossein Vafaei clinching a final fra... 000
Reposted by Oldwhitebeard49southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 27/04/2026if only Louis XVI had had a ballroom he might be alive today 1365099751
Reposted by Oldwhitebeard49Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 22/04/2026ConocoPhillips is up before the gas tax committee right now. It is trying to tell us the ATO company tax data is misleading. I can't think why they might want us to believe that. live.thepoint.com.au 48225
Reposted by Oldwhitebeard49Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 17/04/2026Boy I love being a sailor on the USS Tripoli. It's dinner time now, I hope the chef is serving carrots and flipper again 3391365
Reposted by Oldwhitebeard49skeeter devilpenis @guypussy.bsky.social · 17/04/2026i feel like this thing should be called a grinklestink 21272969
Reposted by Oldwhitebeard49shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 12/04/2026“viktor orban has more integrity than the US president” is not a phase i thought i’d ever say but here we are 461909350
Reposted by Oldwhitebeard49Tollytb🇮🇪🇪🇺🇨🇦🇬🇧 @tollytb.bsky.social · 10/04/2026My girlfriend just asked, "Why are you making pancakes for the dog?" "Because he can't cook." 🐢💨 2256798550
Oldwhitebeard49 @oldwhitebeard49.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Credit where due. The sub-editor at Tasnim News Iran with a totally balanced account, almost as balanced as Trump 🙃: www.tasnimnews.ir/en/news/2026...tasnimnews.irSNSC Issues Statement about Iran’s Victory over Enemies - Politics news - Tasnim News AgencyTEHRAN (Tasnim) - The Supreme National Security Council issued a statement regarding the US's acceptance of Iran's conditions to end the war. 000