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David Killick

@surlydave.bsky.social
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Tasmanian bike rider, bushwalker, journalist - probably in that order.

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David Killick @surlydave.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Is it better to shit the bed breakdancing and come last, or shit your pants in a Hydrox race and win?
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
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David Killick @surlydave.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Gems of Hansard: Unknown - [a sneeze] #politas
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Paul K. Smith @paulksmith.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
🎵 🙋‍♀️ 🎙️
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David Killick @surlydave.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Ban big utes now. theconversation.com/big-us-style...
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Big US-style trucks are killing more pedestrians in Australia – our research proves it
Pedestrians are more likely to be killed by heavier cars – and even more so if the vehicle is taller, Australian-first research has found.
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David Killick @surlydave.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Tasmania has rotated through three different leaders in a single week as Premier Jeremy Rockliff takes leave, leaving Guy Barnett holding the reins. Full breakdown of the state's leadership shuffle: www.themercury.com.au/news/tasmani... #politas #themercury #tasmania #auspol
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David Killick @surlydave.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
MEAA calls out Tasmanian Police Minister Felix Ellis for online targeting of a journalist. #politas #themercury #auspol #tasmania themercury.com.au/news/tasmani...
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Jimmy Malone @malonespeaking.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Unfortunately, politicians and sports broadcasters keep convincing gullible citizens that stadium deals are economic drivers for the region. We keep getting scammed. www.currentaffairs.org/news/taxpaye...
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Taxpayer-Funded Sports Stadiums Are a Massive Scam
With daily life getting more expensive for working-class people, why are sports owners still being handed subsidies for publicly-funded stadiums?
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Thomas Fortenberry @thomasfortenberry.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
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CoolHandNuke @mrfawkes50.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Sealant Team Six guarding our vulnerable shores against Algae-Qeada, Algaetifa. And Algae Sharpton.
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Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 25/05/2026
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ANALYSIS: Xi served Putin and Trump Peking duck. Albanese missed out
Xi Jinping has learned that every ingredient placed on a state table is a word in a diplomatic sentence.
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Living the Best Life. 😃
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The Onion @theonion.com · 10/05/2026
Depraved Inbred Community Distances Itself From Prince Andrew
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 09/05/2026
JK Rowling is now represented by a trans person in the Scottish parliament. Absolutely incredible.
Two transgender MSPs elected to Holyrood in first for Scottish parliament
Dr Q Manivannan and Iris Duane secured regional list seats for the Scottish Green Party.
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Friday 08 May 2026 17:52 EDT
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David Killick @surlydave.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
I can't get over this photo on the SMH app.
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omgisme @omgisme.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
In Turkey, an elderly man who earns his living by shining shoes is visited every morning at the same time by a cat that asks to have its fur brushed. The man never turns down this little friend.😍👍💙
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Tom Red @tomredmemes.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
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scha·den·freu·de @blisterpearl.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
We're terrible neighbors right now, and it hurts to keep caring. Care anyway. You are needed.
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Dear America, I'm Canadian, and even from across the border I can tell your gentlest people are doing the heaviest lifting. They are feeding people, protecting people, defending people, comforting people, organizing people, and carrying a country that keeps calling their pain politics. If America has a soul left, it is living inside the people who refuse to stop caring. Your cruelest people may have the microphone right now, but your best people still have the moral weight.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Spoiler alert: nothing trickled down.
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Killing a civilisation is a war crime. Threatening it is obscene. No country that does this is a worthy ally or friend of Australia. The world needs to respond with action to prevent these crimes.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 31/03/2026
A viral clip in Australia from 1991 of the con man Jack Karlson shouting about his groin in front of a Brisbane Chinese restaurant while being arrested, has been deemed one of the country's important cultural recordings. It will now be preserved in the country's National Film and Sound Archive.
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Why Australia Enshrined ‘a Succulent Chinese Meal’ Rant in Its Archive
A clip of the con man Jack Karlson delivering a theatrical soliloquy while being arrested in 1991 has been deemed one of the country’s important cultural recordings.
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Maryanne Chisholm 🌊 💙 @maryannechisholm.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
A view of the night sky from Mars. (Yes, really)
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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Get a load of Obadiah Ice at the left. "Why art Thou resisting?"
A picture from Ken Klippenstein of a couple Ice guys at th airport. One seen from the back wearing a plate carrier Police Ice vest. At the left of the image is a redheaded guy with a buzz cut, wraparound shades on his head, no mustache, and a 6" red beard. He is wearing a shirt that is straining under his "fitness" and has his thumbs looped in his plate carrier like he's wearing fucking overalls and is planning on churning the shit out of your butter. There is a blurry crowd in the background. None of them appear to be contemplating violence despite the situation
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Dana Bergstrom @danambergstrom.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
👇Hang on to your seats - this Iran summary will leave your head spinning 😵‍💫
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norman emailer @maximumchips.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Israel: the world does not sufficiently support our insane suite of military projects. Everywhere foul racists oppose our inalienable right to fuck shit up on the regular. How do we make people support us? Hmmm. Let’s engineer a situation whereby everyone in the world has to pay 100% more for petrol
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The Shovel @theshovel.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
“He used to rev the engine whenever he left the driveway. Now he just sort of rolls down the hill in neutral,” one neighbour said. theshovel.com.au/2026/03/18/d...
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Dickhead With Ute Taller Than Himself Not So Fucking Smug About It Now — The Shovel
An Australian man who bought an American pick-up truck the size of a two-storey townhouse because he thought it would make him look tough, has pulled his head in a little after realising he may be spe...
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Ebony Bennett @ebonybennett.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Jesus fucking christ, the detail in the article will make you sick to your stomach. Nina Funnell is an incredible investigative journalist
news.com.au
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Debbie Northway 🇦🇺🦘🐨 @debbienorthway.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Just reminding everyone that if you don’t like Iran’s Islamic authoritarianism, it exists because the US overthrew a secular socialist Iran in 1953 because BP was losing oil profits.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 05/03/2026
Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’ theonion.com/netanyahu-these-so-cal…
Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 10/02/2026
lmao
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
1. Noam Chomsky's response to the first tranche of Epstein docs - arrogant, high-handed, obfuscatory and, we now know, dishonest - reminded me of something: his response to my questions about genocide denial, 15 years ago. 🧵 www.monbiot.com/2012/05/21/2...
monbiot.com
Correspondence with Noam Chomsky
This is supporting material for the article See No Evil.
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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Hypothetically if someone was accused of having sex with goats by over 30 different people and regularly denied it, but also dropped very public hints about how much he liked to have sex with goats for decades, and ran a goat pageant to find the best looking goats, and was best friends with someone who got convicted of fucking goats and trafficking goats to friends all over the world who also liked to fuck goats, and his name was in the classified goat fucker chronicles 
5,000 times, and he wished other goat fuckers well in prison, what do you think the odds are that person is also a goat fucker?
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 05/12/2025
The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor
Polymarket tweets: "BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani to require all New York elementary school students to learn Arabic numerals."

Laura Loomer replies: "You know things are bad when you can't tell if this is real or a joke. 

Dear God. It's real. Isn't it?"
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David Killick @surlydave.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
We're live-blogging the stadium debate in the House of Assembly today. #politas www.themercury.com.au/news/tasmani...
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
I love this for her. Karoline Leavitt is now the official face of covering for Jeffrey Epstein and friends. ❤️❤️❤️
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one dozen bats at a keyboard @panasonicdx4500.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
QANON CULTIST IN 2017: "In this 1,879 page thread I will unravel the byzantine system of codewords and phrases the global elite use to mask their pedophile cabal." JEFFREY EPSTEIN WRITING AN EMAIL AT THE SAME TIME: "helo its me jeff had fun cmmitting sex crimes wit u lst weeknd"
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
The allegation here is that wealthy tourists paid to be able to shoot human beings. Perhaps killing wildlife wasn't enough for them. If true, psychopathic scarcely begins to cover it. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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Milan prosecutors investigate alleged ‘sniper tourism’ during Bosnian war
Groups from Italy and elsewhere alleged to have paid Serb soldiers to shoot Sarajevo residents during siege
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Another historic achievement in transparency by the Albanese govt: cratering the FOI system. thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
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David Killick @surlydave.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Everything's going fine, thanks for asking.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Grog's rule of privatisation: "The day you decide to allow the private sector deliver a public service is also the day you should set the future date for the Royal Commission into abuses in the system."
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Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives @darrencullen.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Did a new one
Government style ad in watercolour. Image of a burglar stealing a painting from the wall of a home. Tagline: "It's not theft... if you say you're using it to train your AI algorithm". Body text: "Theft is now legal, so we can boost the economy by eliminating jobs. If that doesn't make any sense, ask a chatbot to explain it to you." HM government logo in the corner.
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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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Barbara Pocock @barbarapocock.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Shame on Deloitte. Bigger shame on Govt for using them for core public sector work: $440k contract for rubbish: “Deloitte has admitted to using generative AI for a core analytical task; but it failed to disclose this in the first place.”
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 04/10/2025
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
The Trump administration spent $167,000 to destroy $9.7 million worth of birth control and other contraceptives that were supposed to go to low-income countries. Imagine hating helping so much that you’d actually spend money just to make sure others don’t get help.
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Unconscionable: US plan to destroy $9.7 million of contraceptives
MSF condemns the decision to destroy these critical medical supplies, which will have devastating consequences for the communities where we work.
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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Lowering the flags on 9/11 at the Guantanamo Bay McDonald's for Charlie Kirk is the most dril tweet thing that's ever happened
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Amanda Finley Digs All the Spooky Things @rubyslippahs.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
A little ditty I wrote
Two measures of music in common time on perpetual repeat. Quarter note equals 80. Three voices needed. Children's choir, which screams any sound they want on the first beat, sforzando. And then silent. Ar -15 which keeps a steady, nonstop beat. And Congress, which is always silent
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The Onion @theonion.com · 06/09/2025
ICE Opens New Supermax Detention Center For Most Hardened Toddlers
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ICE Opens New Supermax Detention Center For Most Hardened Toddlers
CORNUDAS, TX—In response to growing issues with its population of juvenile detainees, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency reportedly announced on Tuesday the opening of a new supermax ...
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