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terrysydney.bsky.social

@terrysydney.bsky.social
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I'm retired and living in Sydney, Australia. I like my dog and noticing small bits of the natural world. I'm interested in politics and think that the social democracies of scandanavia have a lot we can learn from to have a happy life

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ExamineYourZipper 🌊🇺🇸🦅🇨🇦🍁🇺🇦🌻🇵🇸🍉 @cidbarret85.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
They all knew ahead of time who he is...
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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I am the very model of a modern day typographer A font take on the tune “Modern Major General” by Gilbert & Sullivan #typography #fonts #graphicdesign
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terrysydney.bsky.social @terrysydney.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Me and Otto on our afternoon walk. Our shadows came too. #schnauzer #dog
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terrysydney.bsky.social @terrysydney.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Legless lizard in middle Head national Park, Sydney.
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terrysydney.bsky.social @terrysydney.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Lone swimmer at Manly Beach Sydney yesterday afternoon
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terrysydney.bsky.social @terrysydney.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Kookaburra sitting on a rock in the local park. #bird #Australia
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terrysydney.bsky.social @terrysydney.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Otto and I went for a nice walk yesterday at Balmoral Beach in Sydney #schnauzer #dog
A black and white mini schnauzer dog with prominent white eyebrows and moustache sits in a harbourside park in Sydney Australia
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terrysydney.bsky.social @terrysydney.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
#schnauzer #dog Otto is lying on the cold floor in the walk way instead of on his mat. It's body language which means "Have you forgotten that it's walk time?"
A mini Schnauzer lies stretched out across a walkway on a wooden floor in a house even though his sleeping mat is nearby
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terrysydney.bsky.social @terrysydney.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I thought we were going for a walk. #dog #schnauzer
A black and white Mini Schnauzer pokes his head around the bathroom door
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terrysydney.bsky.social @terrysydney.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Nice day in Sydney
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Brian Cardone @cardonebrian.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Good god this is a crazy interview. Listen as Scott Pelley describes how Bari Weiss wanted journalists at CBS to cover the killing of Renee Good in Minnesota. This is why we can’t have oligarchs running our news outlets, this is absolutely devastating.
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terrysydney.bsky.social @terrysydney.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
The lunatic president of the USA wants to expand the hole in the ozone layer. That's bad news for us in Australia.
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Liz Landers @elizlanders.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
I asked President Trump about the FBI reportedly seizing election records in Arizona. He said they must have done that because it was a “rigged” election. I pointed out to him that his own AG said there was not measurable voter fraud to overturn that election. Then he called me a rotten reporter.
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terrysydney.bsky.social @terrysydney.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
This tree was a very popular place for the local cicadas to carry out their metamorphosis. I counted at least 30 of their discarded exoskeletons. #nature #insects #cicada
Discarded cicada exoskeletons on a tree in Sydney Australia
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terrysydney.bsky.social @terrysydney.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
If Harry Potter was set in Australia, these would be the type of tree around Hogwarts. #nature #trees
A very large eucalyptus tree photographed against a bright blue sky. Its bark is slightly pink. Its branches are not straight. They twist in turn like tentacles
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terrysydney.bsky.social @terrysydney.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
This is what happens when citizens think that voting for psychopaths will fix what wrong with their country
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terrysydney.bsky.social @terrysydney.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
My AI buddy making everything perfectly clear about how to spell English words ending in 'ly'
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terrysydney.bsky.social @terrysydney.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
#nature #birds I disturbed this Lorikeet while he was sipping nectar from these red gum flowers. He wasn't happy with me but it wasn't my fault. Although he is brightly coloured I hadn't noticed him among the brightly coloured flowers.
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terrysydney.bsky.social @terrysydney.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Another nice day. I better get my act together and take Otto to the park before it gets too hot
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terrysydney.bsky.social @terrysydney.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
It's been raining the last couple of days but today is fine and sunny. Time for Otto to have his morning nap in the sun before we walk to the park .
A black and white mini schnauzer dog lies asleep on his side on green grass in bright sunshine
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terrysydney.bsky.social @terrysydney.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
What benefit is there for australia from our aukus deal with this erratic, unstable ally?
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Senator Elissa Slotkin @slotkin.senate.gov · 20/11/2025
Earlier this morning, President Trump threatened me and a group of service and veteran Members of Congress with arrest, trial, and death by hanging. Here’s my response:
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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
The best wood, the most beautiful cardboard
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Trump railing against signs that were professionally manufactured and given to crowds to hold is hilarious.
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terrysydney.bsky.social @terrysydney.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
#dogs #schnauzer Another fine morning and Otto enjoying the morning sun again. The grass was not damp like it was yesterday so there's time time for a nap before the morning walk.
A black and white Mini Schnauzer dog lies asleep on a bed of grass
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terrysydney.bsky.social @terrysydney.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
#dogs #schnauzer Yesterday there was another fine morning and Otto enjoyed the morning sun again. He didn't want to lie down because there had been an overnight storm and the grass was still damp.
A black and white mini Schnauzer dog sits on the grass facing the sun with his back towards the camera
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terrysydney.bsky.social @terrysydney.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
#dogs #schnauzer Another fine morning and Otto enjoying the morning sun again. He only suns his belly for a short time just before coming back inside so I had to wait patiently to take this pic.
A black and white mini schnauzer dog lying on his back in the sun on a bed of grass
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terrysydney.bsky.social @terrysydney.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
#dogs #schnauzer Otto enjoying the morning sun again. He goes there every fine morning
A small black and white schnauzer dog sleeping on grass in morning sunlight
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terrysydney.bsky.social @terrysydney.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
#dogs #schnauzer Otto enjoying the morning sun
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terrysydney.bsky.social @terrysydney.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
#nature #birds #cockatoo Cockatoos I saw in the neighbourhood yesterday
Sulfer crested cockatoo on a branch with a clear blue sky as background2 sufer crested cockatoos eating seeds on a tree
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terrysydney.bsky.social @terrysydney.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Huntsman spider in the bathroom. The bright dot on its head is one of its eyes reflecting my phone's flash #spider #huntsman #Australia #nature
A large huntsman spider on a white tiled bathroom wall next to a wooden window frame
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terrysydney.bsky.social @terrysydney.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Can you see the huntsman spider? #spider #huntsman #Australia #nature
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terrysydney.bsky.social @terrysydney.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
#nature #flowers #photography I think this Gymea Lily is the tallest one in the park now. They are endemic to the Sydney region and can grow to 6 meters (20 feet) tall
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/09/2025
Q: My condolences on the loss of your friend Charlie Kirk. How are you holding up? TRUMP: I think very good. And by the way, right there you see all the trucks. They just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they've been trying to get for about 150 years.
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terrysydney.bsky.social @terrysydney.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
The USA has lots of self taught, half baked, loud mouthed medical experts eager to take their places
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terrysydney.bsky.social @terrysydney.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
#nature #flower This was the tallest gymea lily in the park but now its starting to fall. How fleeting is fame
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
There is no moral justification for today’s extraordinary concentration of wealth. It is distorting politics, rigging markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of people. Closing our staggering wealth gap is crucial to the survival of our economy and our democracy.
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 28/08/2025
This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Washington, DC under military occupation in last August 2025, with banners proclaiming the absolute power of the primus inter pares
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Not just an attack on “experts” or science. It’s an attack on facts, knowledge, education or anything that could support someone questioning their iron rule. The bedrock of totalitarian, authoritarian regimes and dictatorships. That’s what RFK Jr is calling for. Only the dictator knows “the truth.”
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Pritzker: This is not about fighting crime. This is about the President and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
BIG DUMB JD VANCE, WHO DEFINITELY FUCKED A COUCH, WANTS US TO BELIEVE THAT WORLD WAR TWO ENDED BECAUSE OF NEGOTIATIONS. HOW FUCKING STUPID IS THAT? FAKE NEWS! THANK YOU JEFF TIEDRICH (ME!) FOR WRITING ABOUT IT — AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO READING MY POST. THE LINK IS HERE: bit.ly/3JRdKws
hang on, what kind of fever-swamp revisionist fairy-tale bullshit is this? Word War Two ended because of negotiation?

fact check: fuck all the way off.

oh, come on. this such a stupid and easily-batted-down lie. World War Two ended with the unconditional surrenders of Germany, Italy and Japan.

but oh no no no, World War Two was negotiated to an end, insists JD Vance.

that Harry S. Truman, he must have been one fuck of a negotiator, to get Hitler to agree to put a bullet in his own head — and wouldn’t you have loved to have sat in on the phone call where Truman bargained Mussolini down to being a urine-soaked corpse hung upside down in the street?

‘Benito, have I got a deal for you.’

look, JD Vance is highly educated. he graduated from Yale with a law degree. he knows how World War Two ended — so why on earth would he spew such laughable twaddle? does he think we’re that stupid? spoiler alert: yes, JD Vance thinks we’re that stupid. he also knows that MAGA is that stupid, and will believe anything he tells them. fair point, JD. we’ll give you that one.

but mostly, JD Vance is performing for that Audience of One who’s in the White House, glued to the TV while jamming burger after burger into his gluttonous face.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
This too
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
NASA’s acting chief calls for the end of Earth science at the space agency arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...
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NASA’s acting chief calls for the end of Earth science at the space agency
NASA’s charter clearly states the agency should study planet Earth, however.
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
The FBI came to my house to intimidate me because I’m critical of Trump. And they wouldn’t let my girlfriend take a picture of their badges. They had printouts of my posts.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
The CDC Shooter Was Obsessed With Vaccine Conspiracy Theories. RFK Jr. Was Predictably Slow to Respond. Trump’s health secretary shared photos of himself fishing before he offered any thoughts about the attack.
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The CDC Shooter Was Obsessed With Vaccine Conspiracy Theories. RFK Jr. Was Predictably Slow to Respond.
Trump's health secretary shared photos of himself fishing before he offered any thoughts about the attack.
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terrysydney.bsky.social @terrysydney.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
#nature #birds Kookaburra family sitting in a gum tree in my local park. Kookaburras usually lay 3 eggs. The youngest chick is often killed by its siblings. I only see 1 chick here. Maybe food is scarcer this year?
3 kookaburras sitting in a gum tree.
They are big Australian kingfishers with white bodies and brown wings and tail.
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