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Simon Payne

@simonpayne.bsky.social
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Semi-professional curmudgeon. What I lack in enthusiasm, I make up for in complacency. Not the target market for anything.

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 15h
Hey guess what everybody? We’re doing a climate cartoon award again and we’re naming it in our dear, late friend Jon Kudelka’s honour!
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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 15h
America is in that part of the historical cycle where words and books are banned but executions are good clean entertainment and everyone is pretending not to notice the national leader eating his own poo. If only history offered a guide for where this all leads.
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Jonathan Green @greenj.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
'super dooper intelligence' was probably taken.'
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Communism has no place in America, the President declares the day before rolling out his new state television station.
The White House •
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Communism directly opposes the United States
Constitution and American values.
While every Democrat voted against the largest tax cuts in American history and over 100 refuse to condemn socialism, President Trump will ensure that communism never has a place in America.
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COMMUNISM HAS NO
PLACE IN AMERICABenny Johnson • • Follow
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TRUMP TV IS OFFICIALLY LIVE 24/7
The White House just launched "TRUMP TV: The Essentials Station" — a nonstop stream featuring President Trump's speeches, major announcements, past highlights and administration updates, refreshed in real time.
The launch comes amid Trump's escalating fight with
CNN, MS NOW and Politico, which have sued his administration after being barred from White House access.
Americans can now watch the White House's own selected footage and announcements DIRECTLY,
24/7.
The media landscape just changed in a BIG way. •*
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Simon Payne @simonpayne.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Barnaby Joyce says he is not Jesus Christ. Just a naughty boy who can't explain his party's policy. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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Under pressure to explain super policy, Joyce says he is 'not Jesus Christ'
The One Nation Treasury spokesperson sidesteps questions about modelling the inflationary impact of the proposal, saying Australians are "not stupid" and can manage their own money.
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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Yeah, great, let's get further up the arses of these Nazi dickheads www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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US declares it will accelerate military presence in Australia
Defence Minister Richard Marles has met with his US counterpart in Washington DC to discuss an expansion of the US military presence at Australian military bases.
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Dave - слава Україні #ScrapBrexit #FBPE - NAFO @krimisukrainian.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
In the UK we complain of heatwaves and yellow grass, but this is the real cost of a warming planet ... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Nepal-Tibet flood: this is the cost of not acting in the face of the climate crisis | Sunil Acharya
Nepalis and Tibetans must not pay the price – with their lives, livelihoods and money meant for education and health – for global heating caused by wealthy states, says Kathmandu-based climate policy ...
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Bob @bobsully12.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Zomi Frankcom did not deserve to die. Israel’s refusal to investigate her death and its failure to apologise is despicable | Geoffrey Robertson www.theguardian.com/world/commen...
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Zomi Frankcom did not deserve to die. Israel’s refusal to investigate her death and its failure to apologise is despicable | Geoffrey Robertson
The Israeli ambassador has claimed ‘a court came to a decision that there’s no criminal liability’ but there is no evidence that any court has been involved
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Rob Arnol @robertarnol.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
True Aussie story. 😉
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Do we need to explain to GOP senators how 5th Amendment works? Disgusting lawless attack to scapegoat Dr. Fauci to score political points. Another distraction from the real issues our government should be addressing. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Senate Panel Votes to Hold Fauci in Contempt for Refusing to Answer Questions
Legal scrutiny is mounting on the former top health official after he repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment during a hearing about the pandemic response.
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Nick Raschke @nickraschke.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
A million bucks a year. That’ll do it.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/07/2026
Wait. They're still having the correspondents dinner after the NYT subpoena thing? Seriously?
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
It's funny how no-one ever asks where the money is coming from when you announce a cut in immigration.
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Dan @thesportress.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Winning is cool and all but it's not always perfect sportress.org/2026/07/18/r... #NRLRaidersSouths #UpTheMilk #WeAreRaiders
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RAIDERS REVIEW: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE PYRRHIC
The Canberra Raiders 34-24 victory over the South Sydney Rabbitohs is not proof they are back. It is not a repudiation of who they are either. In a game where they fought multiple foes; the opposit…
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Andrew Wilkie MP @andrewwilkiemp.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
The Albanese government try to ignore gambling harms, but they can't forever. If you're one of the millions of people affected by gambling addiction, or even if you're just sick of all the ads, let your MP know that they need to do more. Go here: www.stopgamblingads.com.au #auspol
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David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
$18bn reasons why we need a gas export tax… www.theage.com.au/politics/fed... Go to ourgas.com.au and write to your local MP and tell them to stop the great gas scam.
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Gas giants to reap $18 billion war windfall, reviving export tax calls
Australia’s gas companies are poised to cash in on a huge revenue surge in the fallout from the Iran war, intensifying calls for higher taxes.
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Simon Payne @simonpayne.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Your Wilburys aren't going anywhere
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
A Statement on behalf of the Australia Cartoonists Association regarding the murder of exiled Russian cartoonist Robert Kuzovkov, aka Semyon Skrepetsky.
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Simon Payne @simonpayne.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Experts say
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Luke Buckmaster @skillhello.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Me and my running group are doing City to Surf and raising money for Rare Cancers Australia. If you can help, link is below city2surf26.grassrootz.com/rare-cancers...
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New Romantics Run Club in 2026 Voltaren City2Surf
Hi there We are trying to fundraise $1000 to help Rare Cancers Australia Ltd. If you can, please help by fundraising alongside us in New Romantics Run Club. If fundraising is not your thing then you...
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Simon Payne @simonpayne.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
"If you call zero or negative a sort of “partially.” Because zero or negative is what their own graphs show."
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
In countries that have successfully reversed democratic backsliding in recent years—from Poland in 2023 to Hungary in 2026—opposition movements made prosecuting those who have broken laws a central campaign issue.
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Simon Payne @simonpayne.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
I am staying in a nice motel. Modern equipment, spacious bathroom, spotlessly clean. But International Roast coffee. I will deduct 3 stars every time for that abomination.
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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
* Writers you've somehow never read another book by even though you really liked the one you did read * Writers you don't read because you confused them with another writer * Writers you don't read because their author photo is so annoying * Writers you don't read because of petty personal animus
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tonywindsor.bsky.social @tonywindsor.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Woman with 30 years of racism as her political totem talks racism to Australia’s Press Club and the media just wave it through….there’s headlines in racial tension apparently. m
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Rosalind Franklin @odagar.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Cervical cancer deaths fall to zero in young women given vaccine
A new study finds that hundreds of lives have been saved since school-age girls were offered the HPV jab in 2008.
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Pauline Hanson dog whistled her way through the entire Press Club speech and apparently nobody in the room heard a thing.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 16/06/2026
Trump is the same guy who negotiated the Afghanistan pullout too don’t forget
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LisaZed 👩🏻‍🎨 🌏 🐨🌳🇪🇭🇺🇦 @lisazed.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
David Pocock’s campaign to get a #Lobbyist register has succeeded, so now the 2200 unknown lobbyists wandering the halls of parliament & having unfettered access that the voters never know about will have to be on the register! #auspol www.facebook.com/share/r/1UXh...
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 10/06/2026
It's hard to be excited about the Artemis III mission announcements when the CEO of the company making one of the mission's rockets has spent his week inciting racial violence via his personal social media platform.
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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 10/06/2026
What happened in Belfast will happen here if our politicians and media continue treating racism as a spectator sport. The "find out" phase is not far off.
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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Imagine being outwitted by Andrew Bolt. It's going to be a long few years
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Dan @thesportress.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Oh no we suck again sportress.org/2026/06/05/r... #NRLRaidersRoosters #UpTheMilk #WeReRaiders
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Raiders Review: Embarrassment
BY DAN The Canberra Raiders 26-0 embarassment at the hands of the Sydney Roosters was revealing. For weeks we’ve been trying to get a handle on this team. Good weeks have been matched with ba…
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Simon Payne @simonpayne.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
"Experts warn..." must be one of the laziest journalistic tropes.
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Dumb Beezie @dumbbeezie.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
As a person who overreacts a lot we are still underreacting
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Beyond parody.
Screenshot of a post from @Acyn on X.com, quoting Vice President Vance stating that anyone committing fraud against the American people should go to prison, and that public officials who fail to fight fraud should have their money taken away. Below is a C-SPAN video still of Vance speaking at a podium in Kansas City, MO, surrounded by supporters holding "Made in America" signs. The chyron reads "VP Vance Delivers Remarks on Manufacturing & the Economy Amid the Rising Cost of Living."
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Dan @thesportress.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Good. Great even. Not good enough. #NRLRaidersPanthers #WeAreRaiders #UpTheMilk sportress.org/2026/05/10/r...
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Raiders Review: A Stand Against Perfection
It was a shame that Seb Kris’ last pass to Jed Stuart was ruled forward. The Canberra Raiders had worked hard to have one last shot at the Panthers’ line, and the movement that got them…
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Simon Payne @simonpayne.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
No shame in that one
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Kate McNamara @kaydo.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Imagine winning a by-election and declaring that the solution to cost of living was to get rid of renewable energy. Wild.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Man, that sounds terrible. Killed with impunity by agents of the state for just being on the street and protesting? Hard to see how regimes like that can continue to claim a popular mandate.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 30/04/2026
J. Craig Venter, a scientist and entrepreneur who decoded the human genome, has died at 79.
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J. Craig Venter, Scientist Who Decoded the Human Genome, Dies at 79
A risk-taking outsider, he brought speed, competition and controversy to one of science’s biggest races.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
CNN: “It’s a blowout… not even close… Pope Leo absolutely crushing Trump when it comes to how popular they are.”
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
"I don't think people are sufficiently prepared notwithstanding what happened in 2021, for the possibility that he will try to fuck with this election. And he will. He's already basically telling us that's what he's going to do, just the same way he told us he would do that in 2020."
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Nudibranch @duckbytheoboe.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
The Canberra toilet is getting weird
A screenshot of a post on the Canberra Notice Board FB group in which someone “wants to find a church that casts demons out of people regularly”
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Kim Dotcom: Told my wife to have dinner ready at 6 or I will obliterate her entire civilization.

She now charges me a fee to use the bathroom, that used to be free, and I didn't get dinner. WTF
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Dan @thesportress.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Just hanging on sportress.org/2026/04/11/r... #NRLSouthsRaiders #WeAreRaiders #UpTheMilk
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Raiders Review: Survival
BY DAN The Canberra Raiders’ 36-34 victory over the South Sydney Rabbitohs was a loss in spirit but a victory on the scoreboard. Instead of vanquishing their demons, the Raiders embraced them…
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Some thoughts about the President of the United States speaking about ending a civilization. The president speaks genocide. Anyone who has been involved in that conversation or associated actions would be complicit. And so we too must speak. Not only about crimes, but about their legal punishment.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” These are the words of the president of the United States, today. The president speaks genocide. And so we too must speak. Not only about crimes, but about their legal punishment. snyder.substack.com/p/the-presid...
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The president speaks genocide
The words, the law, the future
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
At the very least someone (Jeffries) force an impeachment vote immediately and make the entire GOP support the clearcut threat of genocide
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