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Claire

@pedersen85.bsky.social
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uquiz.com/quiz/1Zd8Yl/which-norther… I kind of thought I might be Chris, but hopefully I am evolving into a kind of Marylin in my old age.

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Claire @pedersen85.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Please tell this also to the Australian libs-mockers, although they themselves are more likely to be in the so-called Liberal Party, or intending to vote for the dreaded Trumpian One Nation.
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Claire @pedersen85.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I am always captivated by paintings of empty boats, because of the Zen parable on just that!
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Claire @pedersen85.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This is why religious indoctrination before the age of consent should be called the fourth form of child abuse, after the physical, emotional and sexual (see Richard Dawkins); also, where you find on form, you usually find at least one or two of the others!
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Claire @pedersen85.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
...and Captain James bloody Cook!
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Claire @pedersen85.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
More boomers than my son's gen X, imo, because I cannot recall him ever learning cursive, whereas i, as a boomer, did!
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Claire @pedersen85.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I think this is more us boomers! 🙄
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Claire @pedersen85.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Re Christa Pike and a botched execution: have they not heard of Babbacombe Lee and the English court's recognition of divine intervention in the event of a failed execution? I used to own the Fairport Convention album: youtu.be/XJOmi0E1gOw
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John "Babbacombe" Lee | The man they couldn't hang
YouTube video by thehistorysquad
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Claire @pedersen85.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Cats have been getting away with this malarkey for way too long!
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Claire @pedersen85.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Because why the f not?
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Claire @pedersen85.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Redactions and withholdings are by definition never sufficient 🙄
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Claire @pedersen85.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Hiter reincarnate, come back to have a second go?
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Claire @pedersen85.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Frat boys = spoilt, overprivileged brat boys!
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Claire @pedersen85.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Fuck you, anti-vaxxers!
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Claire @pedersen85.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
...and way better than the TV series, which I had to abandon, as keepiing up with the two of them was doing my head in!
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Claire @pedersen85.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
When Maggie Thatcher died, in Britain they celebrated with this: youtu.be/r0TuXLrvyE4
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Margaret Thatcher's funeral - Ding Dong, The Witch is Dead!
YouTube video by maestro66uk
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Claire @pedersen85.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Well, photography is also supposed to be an art, but I agree!
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Claire @pedersen85.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
i.pinimg.com/originals/65...
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Claire @pedersen85.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
And Pauline Hanson is our equivalent down under!
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Claire @pedersen85.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
😆
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Claire @pedersen85.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Israeli terrorist:
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Claire @pedersen85.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Kermit the Frog Dancing Wildly
ALT: Kermit the Frog Dancing Wildly
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Claire @pedersen85.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Feels much the same in Australia, and here there are those who want to blare their own alarm as well! 🙄😳
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Claire @pedersen85.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Wow! Did I just agree with the pope, again?! 😳
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Claire @pedersen85.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Or how the United States and Kingdom are not really united? 🙄
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Claire @pedersen85.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Try these two white, conservative she-bitches down under, the orange one on the left being our wannabe Trump and the plus-sized one on the (political) right, being our richest person:
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Claire @pedersen85.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Such a little bird, so much attitude, deservedly popular! 💘😎
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Claire @pedersen85.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Awww....!
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Claire @pedersen85.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
So nice; now I am going to suggest a banned books table, or shelf, also at my next public library Book Chat!
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Claire @pedersen85.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Nice; great idea, should be in every bookstore... and public library!
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Claire @pedersen85.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Not nice! 😡
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Claire @pedersen85.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
😢
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Claire @pedersen85.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
What is this "British politics" of which you speak? Surely charities and cultural institutions are far worthier recipients of funding.
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Claire @pedersen85.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
😅
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Claire @pedersen85.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Now I want to know why she and her date were asked to leave the performance!
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Claire @pedersen85.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
So not funny... sorry.
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Claire @pedersen85.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
...and even they are losing faith in their own sharia?
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Claire @pedersen85.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Our PM Albo is also in the US at this time, re AI, so hopefully he will contribute something, showing Australian leadership in setting up the guardrails?
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Claire @pedersen85.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
OK... but never heard of them, sorry; I was thinking more William Blake and the likes of the Beat poets, Jack Kerouac et al... different generation, I guess? Different generation, same "Jerusalem"... now there is a poem in that, somewhere!
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Claire @pedersen85.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
...and Australia too, please, since we are already "associate members" of Eurovision 🙏
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Claire @pedersen85.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Writing a (good, or even great) novel does not consist in compiling a certain number of words, imo... presumably any dumbass AI bot is well and truly capable of that, in a fraction of the time!
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Claire @pedersen85.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Never mind the US; spare a thought for the rest of the world (I realise "rest of the world" is a concept many Americans may struggle to get their heads around!).
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Claire @pedersen85.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
That painting makes me seasick! 🤢
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Claire @pedersen85.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Might as well shut the stable door after the horse has bolted! 🙄
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Claire @pedersen85.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Similarly in MAGA America, it seems...!
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Claire @pedersen85.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
We need an Aussie Mamdani, starting about... now!
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Claire @pedersen85.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
...but not well done, Trump, because he is now officially a dictator, if he wasn't before!
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Denzel Washington: This Is No Democracy, It's a Dictatorship
ALT: Denzel Washington: This Is No Democracy, It's a Dictatorship
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Claire @pedersen85.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I am pleased for you too, but isn't poetry more for savouring or declaiming (if not actually singing), rather than binge-reading? Which poets were you reading, dare I ask, because some of the greatest poets are actually songwriters, e.g. Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, to name a couple.
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Claire @pedersen85.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
😢 Fwiw, here is a "fuck you, Trumpy" from me.
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Eminem
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Claire @pedersen85.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Cheers to the month of the electric deer, just begun yesterday (Mayan calendar)!
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Claire @pedersen85.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Well, for 4c a day, or whatever that is at current market value, I figure our live- and other-streamed national broadcaster, the ABC, is still more worth it, than any of your other streaming services! youtu.be/xoEHf21KgFk
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Classic ABC News theme returns to the airwaves | ABC News
YouTube video by ABC News (Australia)
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