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Matthew Toohey

@tooheymatthew.bsky.social
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Owner of a large and slightly weirdly-shaped head. | "Can become unpleasant when stressed." - Reviewer 2 | Purveyor of #GenderBalancingClothingCommentary

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Jess Davis @jessmarindavis.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Good start, Canada. apple.news/AW5Gdi9eXQ4y...
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U.S. tourism faces $5.7B US loss as Canadians continue to stay home — CBC News
Many Canadians continue to boycott travel to the United States, and the U.S. economy is paying the price. A U.S. Travel Association report forecasts a 3.2 per cent decline in international tourism spe...
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Derek @derekianrobinson.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
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Matthew Toohey @tooheymatthew.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Since 1999, it seems. 26 years of battling cancer would certainly explain his prematurely aged look.
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Matthew Toohey @tooheymatthew.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Congrats! That is an attractive bowl right there. I'm sure it's going straight to the pool room.
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Matthew Toohey @tooheymatthew.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Graham Richardson was only 76?!?! Hoo, all that factional powerplaying must've really messed with his DNA. I could've sworn he was in his mid-80s! #AusPol
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 95th day out of the last 107. 12 days of work in 107 days. With full pay and benefits. The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown. It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
She believes in the sanctity of traditional Christian marriage.
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Hume Hannity @hugh-manatee.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Good grief…
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3wombats @3wombats.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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Firefighters sound alarm over missing data on new BOM site
As bushfire season approaches, firefighters say the BOM's redesigned website is missing crucial safety data — a gap some fire chiefs fear could put lives at risk.
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Matthew Toohey @tooheymatthew.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
It was old and needed a refresh (not least because it was still using http rather than https). But, as here, web developers and IT change managers often prioritise form over function. To lose existing functionality in any IT 'upgrade' is to demonstrate that it's not an 'upgrade' at all.
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
The utter stupidity of pursuing a criminal trial against someone for throwing a sandwich that bounced off a bullet proof vest pissing away hundreds of thousands of dollars for this joke is the perfect encapsulation of this Administration.
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The Shovel @theshovel.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
“What we need is a sensible, modern approach to energy policy and hunting whales and killing them for their oil is exactly that"
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Nationals To Resurrect Australian Whaling Industry As Part Of Exciting New Energy Policy — The Shovel
“What we need is a sensible, modern approach to energy policy and hunting whales and killing them for their oil is exactly that"
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Matthew Toohey @tooheymatthew.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Oh, I can be. I didn't say anything about what proportion of the bill you could take on the vibes, did I?
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Matthew Toohey @tooheymatthew.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
'Just' 17 points, Kyle? That's still a pretty healthy margin.
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Matthew Toohey @tooheymatthew.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
I think you can quickly work out which parts of the bill you need to read in forensic detail and which parts you can settle for knowing the vibe.
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Matthew Toohey @tooheymatthew.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Also, I find Krishna to be incredibly watchable. I'd probably watch her reading out the train timetable. But that's just me ... 🤷‍♂️
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Matthew Toohey @tooheymatthew.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
If you're a fan of food nostalgia, you will *love* this chronicle of Priya Krishna's attempt to recreate her family's spice blend. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kSL...
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The Year-Long Quest to Recreate My Family’s Secret Recipe | Priya Krishna | NYT Cooking
YouTube video by NYT Cooking
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Matthew Toohey @tooheymatthew.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
I see what you did there ... 😉
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Matthew Toohey @tooheymatthew.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Thanks for giving this a signal boost. Have added it to my list of Things To Watch When I Need To Forget About F***ing HR For A While.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution. The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
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Matthew Toohey @tooheymatthew.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Alternatively, by dissolving it in some liquid and drinking it. 🤷‍♂️ Whenever legislation is rushed through, you do have to wonder what the government is hiding, don't you?
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Matthew Toohey @tooheymatthew.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
By relying on a couple of cheat sheets: 1 - The explanatory memorandum for the bill; and 2 - The Parliamentary Library analysis of the bill. Or by relying on advice from: 1 - Your own (admittedly very small and overworked) staff; and 2 - Commentary from others you trust (think tanks, etc.)
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Kath and Jenny lost their sons following illegal robodebts, the ongoing secrecy of the NACC is compounding their trauma. They deserve answers and accountability.
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Matthew Toohey @tooheymatthew.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Perhaps edit the hashtag? #VoteIndependent
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Matthew Toohey @tooheymatthew.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
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a close up of a woman 's face with a ponytail and a surprised look on her face .
Alt: Cady Heron (played by Lindsay Lohan) in Mean Girls (the original) thinking through a maths problem before suddenly realising "the limit does not exist" (whispered quietly to self). Then confidently answers: "The limit does not exist!"
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David Lamond @davidlamond.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Well that’s just shocking, @cathywilcox.bsky.social @ingridm.bsky.social, especially given that the Chancellor of ANU is *checks notes* … oh, as you were #auspol
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Matthew Toohey @tooheymatthew.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
When you look into Duffy's eyes, you can just see the absence of a calculating mind behind them. It's not even that he has a mind but it's been clouded by drugs (as with so many others in the Trump Administration) but that there had never been a mind there at all.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
1. MSNBC’s Ken Dilanian got his hands on an advanced copy of a new book that claims to reveal the nature of deliberations inside the US Department of Justice after the 2020 presidential election that “may have hampered the federal criminal investigations” of Donald Trump.
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Cardinal Robert McElroy, a Pope Leo ally who serves as archbishop of Washington, doesn’t mince words about what’s happening. “We are witnessing a full-scale governmental assault designed to produce fear among millions. “It's an instrument of terror.”
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Trump’s Raids Terrorize Catholics — Pope Leo’s Top Cardinal Calls It an ‘Assault on Millions’
Seminarians are leaving the country, priests worry they could be next, and Pope Leo XIV insists the Church must stand with its most vulnerable faithful.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
The president of the United States thinks asylum-seekers come from mental asylums. He says it in almost every interview where the topic of migration comes up. How is this not 25th Amendment territory? How is he not an embarrassment to this entire country?
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Matthew Toohey @tooheymatthew.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Looks delicious. Will it proceed to second round testing?
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Comfortably Boo @numb.comfortab.ly · 04/11/2025
rest in piss www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
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Cheney’s policies as VP caused immense human suffering on a global scale
Framing him as a 'defender of democracy' simply because he endorsed Kamala Harris over Donald Trump is a moral failure.
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Tzippy Shmilovitz @tzipshmil.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
happy to see more and more of @mollyjongfast.bsky.social in the NYT. this is excellent. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/o...
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Opinion | Trump’s ‘Great Gatsby’ Party Did Not Accept SNAP
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Matthew Toohey @tooheymatthew.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Or a circuit diagram. #CouldGoEitherWay
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Matthew Toohey @tooheymatthew.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
And co-authored with Judy Yates, who is one of the most sensible and authoritative housing researchers of the last 50 years and a thoroughly kind and decent person, too.
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Matthew Toohey @tooheymatthew.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Slightly better knowing that this ghoul is gone.
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Matthew Toohey @tooheymatthew.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
*someone in your electorate #ProofreadingFail
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Matthew Toohey @tooheymatthew.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Which is ironic, considering his immigrant status.
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Matthew Toohey @tooheymatthew.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Who's your local member now? Is it Justine Elliott? I thought she was okay, but you'd be in a better position to know than I.
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Matthew Toohey @tooheymatthew.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Have you checked out the independent candidates who've already declared they're running in your electorate? Is there someone in you're electorate who would make a great independent that you'd be willing to spend time and/or money supporting? Sometimes choosing the least worst option is okay, too.
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Laguna Beach Democratic Club @lagunabeachdems.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
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Matthew Toohey @tooheymatthew.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
And if you believe that, I'm sure they've got a bridge they'll be happy to sell you, too ... #ausbiz #CreativeAccounting
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Ronald Mizen @ronpol.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Port of Darwin swings into $10m profit ahead of forced sale #auspol #ausbiz www.afr.com/politics/fed...
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Port of Darwin swings into $10m profit ahead of forced sale
Labor and the Coalition went to the federal election promising to end Chinese ownership of the port.
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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
them: “where do you see yourself in five years?” me: “unless things change drastically, probably still in the mirror, or in photographs”
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/11/2025
📽️ WATCH: The U.S. government doesn’t track how often immigration agents detain citizens. So ProPublica did. We found more than 170 incidents since the start of Trump’s second term. Americans have been kicked, dragged and held for days without access to lawyers. ➡️ Full story: propub.li/3LjuAVS
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Ali Velshi @velshi.com · 03/11/2025
Conservative judge @judgeluttig.bsky.social slams SCOTUS on @velshi.com for ignoring Trump’s 'vicious attacks on the federal courts' www.alternet.org/luttig-scotu...
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Conservative judge slams SCOTUS for ignoring Trump’s 'vicious attacks on the federal courts'
Like attorney George Conway, retired federal Judge J. Michael Luttig is a prominent figure in the conservative legal movement who became a blistering critic of President Donald Trump and considers him...
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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
>>SATIRE  -  Woman Considers Dying In Front Of The Doctor So He'll Finally Stop Calling Her Crazy

[pic of woman holding her nees and looking at you]

MyBodyISTryingTokillMe.com
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Matthew Toohey @tooheymatthew.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
No prizes for guessing what the econoplutocrats at The Economist think of Mamdani ... #ShittingThemselves
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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
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