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This is why I retrained... because for better or worse the courts are still the one place where people have to back up their claims with some evidence, and have to have that brute force bullying and lies up for scrutiny. It's not perfect, but far better than slop merchants.

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Anyway, if you can only win by lying, cheating and thuggery then you will not win. Maybe in the short term, but I urge people to be curious, honest, and kind. Seems rare these days - on here is somehow worse than X - but think for yourself, geez.

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Because unlike that lot, I believe you are intelligent enough to read these works yourself and parse it all for yourself. I have nothing to hide, and believe that people are good. I want you to be free, and engage with ideas. Except they haven't even read it. They pretend to.

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Not to mention the literal cult shit that engages in milieu control based on cherry-picked bollocks that is the opposite of what people said. They did it with Orwell, Mill, etc in 2017 and they're doing it with Arendt over Israel. I suggest you actually read Arendt's work.

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When Free Press/Quillette types invoke Arendt, you really do see the upside down world they live in. In every fibre of her being, she would have hated those people, what they do, and how they appropriate her legacy. How 'IDW' types launder ideas and trick people is disgusting.

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Interesting though, I thought this was HMV UK that was sold to RCA but Gramophone Co in Australia wasn't and continued on. The receiver was made in Sydney in 1969, and has a microphone jack which is amazing. Maple wood. So cool that it was made here. I thought it was an import. Very cool.

Now I'm a fancy lawyer I need to have my Chesterfield and million books actually in shelves rather than lying around. With records and pretend Brandy Because I'm fancy now and not a vulgar ho Fancy

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Speaking of lugging around the country,I was supposed to be in Sydney but haven't been feeling great so will have to settle for the records and not the Manly show. Oh well.

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There really is no sound like a record though. Paul is happily sitting rewiring the motor and whatnot and I can finally listen to records, including the @actualbenfolds.bsky.social ones I've had for years. And all my old ones I've lugged around the country. Heh.

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Téa Smith @teasmith.au · 19/09/2026

This is what I get for suggesting my husband have a day off. He came back from an "errand" with this. Not content with the Phillips ones from the other week... lol

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And my baby girl is 25 wtf

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Téa Smith @teasmith.au · 19/09/2026

I have a friend who was telling me how her religion requires her to pay her bills and not lie in order to be right with God. She is a Muslim. Just saying.

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Téa Smith @teasmith.au · 19/09/2026

Everyone on X has AI psychosis How's it going over here?

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Téa Smith @teasmith.au · 12/08/2026

In light of the "Woke 1 was crazy" discourse, I am posting this. I will, again, point out that it was NOT benign at the time. Lives were ruined. Until people reckon with their role in that, well... teasmith.au/p/when-will-...

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When will ‘the left’ stand up to the threat of totalitarianism?

Totalism is on the rise in the United States, and it isn't coming from where you'd expect.

Téa Smith @teasmith.au · 21/07/2026

Do you ever sit back and look at your life and wonder how you got here? More screens than when I was in tech lol

Téa Smith @teasmith.au · 21/07/2026

Captcha but for Americans They gotta identify basic political concepts and the right way to spell stuff 'click on the socialist' 'click on the Nazi' 'Celebrity or Expert' 'identify this country on a map' 'click on the correct spelling for favourite' Ah, peace on the internet

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Téa Smith @teasmith.au · 20/07/2026

Before that happened I was meaning to tell you that you can get me on my Matrix server now @tea:grith.au - family domain until I can move mine from Substack but too busy getting bonked on the head. Oh and admission into the legal profession lol

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Téa Smith @teasmith.au · 20/07/2026

I'm quite sore but thankfully nothing too bad... but it could very well have gone differently. Very much felt like it'd split my skull. Thank goodness I didn't! Anyway hi, I'm still alive 😁 albeit with a headache.

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Téa Smith @teasmith.au · 20/07/2026

So I was cleaning and I slipped and fell and hit my head, and covered myself in caustic soda in water. That could have been a life ending blow to the head. Thankfully it's just a bump, hurt wrist, and (lol) my right nipple has a band-aid because the caustic went in my bra.

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Téa Smith @teasmith.au · 18/06/2026

Last 2 weeks of the Grad Dip Legal Practice and then I’m done. Definitely taking a break… I had no break between finishing law school and this so kinda need one…

Téa Smith @teasmith.au · 12/06/2026

Widow’s Bay is a fucking masterpiece. Holy shit. Get on it.

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Téa Smith @teasmith.au · 12/06/2026

Oh, we may be living in a dystopian hellscape with the most horrendous, awful and immoral shit being given a pass and it will only get worse but have you seen the guy's tattoo? - libs who hate the right but literally do everything in their power to bolster them at every turn

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Téa Smith @teasmith.au · 12/06/2026

I mean when people are so rotten to their core that you think Iran is pretty based...

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Téa Smith @teasmith.au · 11/06/2026

After a year on Mint, I decided to move to Fedora. It's been a slight adjustment due to GNOME, but I get to live the GruvBox life again... just gotta work on some more icons and a bit more of the CSS to make it all look consistent, but... noice.

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Téa Smith @teasmith.au · 06/06/2026

I've done that in the past, where I have bought a ticket to a show and given it to someone local. It's an act of kindness AND you support your favourite artists (throwback to when I used to get a lot of comps and freebies... it made me happy to do that and I might do it more)

Téa Smith @teasmith.au · 06/06/2026

I of course buy albums, but knowing the state of affairs, I genuinely believe I am better off purchasing a ticket and giving them away to someone and the artists will see more money (and I will pay less). They really shoulda gone with my app instead of Slopify huh Anyway, recommend home server.

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Téa Smith @teasmith.au · 06/06/2026

heh I am officially free of pretty much every streaming service except YouTube (which I don't mind paying for). Another album yoinked, so decided to set everything up on NextCloud, with Subsonic app. I'm freeeeeeeeeeeeee (now to convince the boys they don't "need" Spotify, ugh)

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People I mostly agree with and respect maybe don’t be arseholes about abuse of women’s trauma and maybe just say “yes that’s bad and you should still vote for him because people are not necessarily their past and politics is kinda complex like that” challenge

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Bullshido @bullshido.net · 05/06/2026

Americans just be normal for once challenge I’m starting to root for the Tide Pods I gotta be honest

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Reposted by Téa Smith

Dumb men create bad times. Smart people burn themselves out to solve problem created by dumb men. Dumb men say "see, it wasn't a problem after all".

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(Fun aside it is also very funny when lawyers are shocked I write comedy… my answer? “Don’t we all? Surely we’re not actually serious about any of this crap”

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Even when things are shit and I feel like shit about everything- feeling “seen” by that song is enough. Not literally. I’m not deluded enough to think such things but it’s nice to think that one thing I do can empower someone else like that. Especially when everything is stupid fucking bullshit.

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(Just some dumb thoughts. Pain day and dealing with goddamn fucking stupid bullshit that is bullshit… hope you’re all great. So many wonderful lawyers too…)

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And you’re okay. Shit’s fucked. And I am the bootstraps poster child telling you that you’re okay. Just don’t be shitty and understand your own power, influence and its impact. You may even end up on my list and that is very unfortunate for you.

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But we can show up, refuse to submit (or self deprecate), dust yourself off, and remember how you felt when someone abused their power, and also when someone used it to help you. I’ve had more of the latter than the former, but work hard, be kind, and amazing things can happen (Conan reference).

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and Learn to Live With What You are - a personal favourite - just hit me again. And it never fails to amaze me how uncanny his ability is to get under my skin - very, very thick skin - and show up. Anyway I know it’s dumb. But we ever really know our impact.

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Anyway that’s just some thoughts as I walk it off, centre myself and see this is as just another thing to overcome - except now I get to do that for others. It can at least stop with me. And I say this for the dumbest of reasons because I plugged @actualbenfolds.bsky.social into my ear holes…

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… remembering how it feels so that 1) I never, EVER do it to someone else 2) regroup, breathe and remember why I put up with all this bullshit and 3) that I am a fucking badass mofo and I do the work, I do the hard right thing over the easy wrong thing and that is worth something in the long run.

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But also understand that people underestimating you, writing you off, or similar IS your power. Whenever I am made to feel small, or struggling with pain (or like today, both) and in tears, on a walk clearing my head so I can keep going…

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Know that for those who decide who you are - their mind is already made up. And you will never be or do enough. And that’s okay. If they see you at all, it will be as either a tool or a statistic or a problem rather than as someone just trying to figure shit out and get through.

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Anyway I can’t fix all of it. Like the buprenorphine patch, and the 20 years max I have before my body decides it doesn’t want to be tough anymore, I can decide that it stops with me. But so you know… if you are a weirdo or wrong un, know that it isn’t you.

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