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Tom Oakley

@tomoakley.bsky.social
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Brit now Aussie. I love pop music, hot weather and learning about people.

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Tom Oakley @tomoakley.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
www.bbc.com/news/article... I know no-one watches it anymore, but I feel like it should still be broadcast regardless, on the basis that it provides subconscious nostalgic comfort 😂🇦🇺
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Neighbours cancelled - again - two years after Amazon lifeline
The series will finish at the end of 2025, after 40 years and more than 9,000 episodes.
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Tom Oakley @tomoakley.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
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Tom Oakley @tomoakley.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
The USA’s dangerous situation: What are the causes? 1) Education where sport is lauded & teachers paid peanuts? 2) Fear of God with a redemption clause, rather than duty of compassion? 3) Biased TV news: one side is chosen / inherited, so even the baddies think they’re virtuous? What’s the fix?
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Tom Oakley @tomoakley.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
It is down to personal taste, clearly. This particular reviewer understands subjective taste and gave a 5 star review. The source being more informed than some Joe making impossible claims about auto-tune. Thank you 🤩
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Tom Oakley @tomoakley.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Auto-tune was invented over a decade after Kylie had an acting and music career.
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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
A Tesla Model 3 is now ‘like driving a Beetle in 1939 Germany.’ www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
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‘I’m giving up my Tesla because of Elon Musk’
Once the stuff of car geeks’ dreams, a Model 3 is now ‘like driving a Beetle in 1939 Germany’
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 15/02/2025
European friends: Do not accept lectures on democracy & freedom of speech from an Administration that denies the 2020 election results and is now suing & intimidating news outlets whose reporting they don’t like. Stand tall against right-wing extremism. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/w...
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Vance and Musk Attack German Consensus on Nazis and Speech
Vice President JD Vance and Elon Musk have challenged decades-long approaches to political extremism that were designed to prevent another Hitler.
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