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Scalliewags

@trollingstones.bsky.social
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Scalliewags @trollingstones.bsky.social · 18h
Smoked cigarettes in high school toilets. Snuck into R rated movie at Drive-In. Asked your mother to make pants into flares.
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Scalliewags @trollingstones.bsky.social · 18h
One Nation election policies: Build more prisons. Defund public transport. Build nuclear reactors Defund renewable energy. Log old growth forests. Defund climate action. Support neo-Nazis. Defund public broadcasting. #OneNation #Auspol
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Scalliewags @trollingstones.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We’re all in the kitchen cooking to the wonderful new Leon Bridges album. #MusicSky #LeonBridges
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Scalliewags @trollingstones.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
OMG, according to Nine Media, there’s a boom in Date Centres and they need copper too. The mind boggles. Also, position vacant: human editor. #DateCentres #AI #Nine #Auspol 🤪
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Scalliewags @trollingstones.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
@hi-its-alaa.bsky.social And yet it takes a few seconds to find factual verified information on the internet. Yes, it’s staggering how ignorant people are about verifiable info 🤦🏼‍♀️
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Scalliewags @trollingstones.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Unabomber film on #Netflix is very insightful and well made. Was living in US at the height of his terror; and yet his Manifesto is fascinating. And possibly valid in parts.
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Scalliewags @trollingstones.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's worth saying again, so everyone understands it. 12 bearded men carrying box cutters defeated America on 9/11; the country hasn't recovered despite slaughtering a million in revenge. USA is collapsing, as all empires do. Just not this quickly. #Hegseth #fool
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Scalliewags @trollingstones.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, said technological progress hasn't improved life, but led to greater social problems, increased control over individuals and loss of connection to the natural world. Maybe he had a point? #AI
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Scalliewags @trollingstones.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ordered a Grateful Dead CD that I didn’t already have. 🥳🎉🍾
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Scalliewags @trollingstones.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Kendra Smith❤️ #MusicSky www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwvu...
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Bold Marauder
YouTube video by Kendra Smith - Topic
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Scalliewags @trollingstones.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Patti Smith. Track one, side one: 🎼 Jesus died for somebody’s sins, but not mine. Life was never the same after that. #MusicSky #PattiSmith
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Scalliewags @trollingstones.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Playing every Bob Dylan album in order- it’s an incredible journey of development, re-discovery and wonder. #BobDylan #MusicSky #NowSpinning
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Scalliewags @trollingstones.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Saw the Darts support The Damned - they were superbly entertaining.
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Scalliewags @trollingstones.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We recommend WD-40 - it helps loosen even the most rusted on of people. 😂
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Scalliewags @trollingstones.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
FYI. All leadership ballots in Australia are held in secret, as are all votes cast at elections. Also, it wasn't held one day after. Good one, bot.
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Scalliewags @trollingstones.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Crikey needs a Seymour Hersh or Edward R. Murrow, a brilliant investigative journalist who write compellingly to those looking for alternatives, writes Scalliewag. Can a tired old blog cut through? @crikey.com.au #auspol #Greens
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Scalliewags @trollingstones.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Marjorie Budd was a panelist! Please tell me this is real?
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Scalliewags @trollingstones.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I Can See For Miles, is, for me, the most perfect single I've ever owned.
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Scalliewags @trollingstones.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Telstra. Giving Australian communications users the shits since 1993.
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Scalliewags @trollingstones.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🎶 Don't you push me, baby Because I'm moaning low #GratefulDead
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Scalliewags @trollingstones.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We’ll live without data centres. Managed to be born, get educated, have family, travel, enjoy music and books, eat well and have loved pets. None of these needed AI and data centres.
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Scalliewags @trollingstones.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Because of Trump’s Iran war, inflation is rising and Reserve Bank will send us into desperation to stop us spending money we don’t have. Ok AI, just wipe us out now, the delay is stressful. #Auspol
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Scalliewags @trollingstones.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Grateful Dead - Postcards from the Hanging. Their covers of Bob Dylan are inspiring and moving. The dream tour never got to see 😢 #GratefulDead #BobDylan #MusicSky
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Scalliewags @trollingstones.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Still have the original single of this. Sometimes I play for friends and they won't believe it's the Osmonds. #MusicSky
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Scalliewags @trollingstones.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“Australia’s datacentre debate is being fought on America’s facts,” says industry CEO Belinda Dennett. Belinda doesn't live across the road from data centres. She doesn't hear them or see them. Her property hasn't been devalued. That's Australian facts. #DataCentres #Stop
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Scalliewags @trollingstones.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
@bradpsychology.bsky.social You didn’t answer the question Brad. Have you lived under fascist, communist or totalitarian regime; or are your views formed in a safe, suburban middle class nest of tontine pillows?
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Scalliewags @trollingstones.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We bought a lot of albums during Covid lockdown. Tom Petty - Finding Wildflowers was such a treasure for long days at home. Both the released version and alternatives are perfect records. #MusicSky #TomPetty #RickRubin
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Scalliewags @trollingstones.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The American Axis by Max Wallace. The US has been here before but Lindbergh never became President. Trump fulfilled the vision of a fascist America. Worth reading. #BookSky #Trump #Ford #Fascism
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Scalliewags @trollingstones.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
He looked stunned, as many fans were too. Amazing win
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Scalliewags @trollingstones.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#AFL best entertainment ever. #Kylie 👏👏
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Scalliewags @trollingstones.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
@mrgone66.bsky.social Absolutely. You can’t be a democratic socialist if you live in a monoculture where asylum seekers and refugees are refused entry.
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Scalliewags @trollingstones.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
@mrgone66.bsky.social You're probably not the only person scarred for life by Fiddler On The Roof. Medical advice recommends you never see an Adam Sandler movie. And don't dare look at a poster of Yentl, unless you're armed with bagel and lox antidote. 😂🤦‍♀️
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Scalliewags @trollingstones.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
@mrgone66.bsky.social Prejudice is founded in either fear or envy, or in homophobia, repression of one’s own character. Those with visceral hatreds are oftentimes driven by their own psychological weaknesses and suppressed jealousy.
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Scalliewags @trollingstones.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Rainer and Das Combo #vinyl #nowspinning. Preparing: Chilli spiced flathead fillets. Crispy Blue Moon baked potatoes. Exotic salad. Japanese beer. Then an episode of Widow's Bay. Keeping the blues locked away...
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Scalliewags @trollingstones.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Folks, we give you Superior Intelligence 🤯😵‍💫🤪😱
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Scalliewags @trollingstones.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If he changed AI to Trump Intelligence no one would use it.
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Scalliewags @trollingstones.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Angry Underson stood for Australian Liberty Alliance, he supported Stop the Islamisation of Australia. He blamed immigrants for rise in violence, he blamed Lebanese and Indochinese kids. Let's not pretend he was decent, compassionate, kind. He wasn't. Not every musician is.
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Scalliewags @trollingstones.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We may have been standing side by side. Leon Bridges is a must, he really delivers live. Tinariwen did a truly awesome show at the Forum in Melbourne; the sound was superb. Enjoy!
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Scalliewags @trollingstones.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Three great acts. First time saw Tinariwen was Womad, by chance saw Leon Bridges overseas when he was just starting out and became instant groupie 😁
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Scalliewags @trollingstones.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Hilarious. #AFL grand final features Kylie, the world’s most popular female singer. #NRL has nothing. That’s what happens when a dickhead is appointed czar.
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Fallout with star leaves NRL with no pre-game entertainment for grand final
The AFL secured Kylie Minogue for its decider, but the NRL won’t have a big-name artist at all after negotiations with Australian singer Tones and I fell over.
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Scalliewags @trollingstones.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Cat Steven, now Yusuf Islam (born Steven Demetre Georgiou) was refused entry into US because he was Muslim. Elton John, James Taylor, Nick Drake et al are not on his planet either.
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Scalliewags @trollingstones.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is Australia. Systemic racism has been at the forefront since the British invaded, slaughtered, imprisoned and colonised the First Nations people to steal their land without treaties or agreement. #NyadolNyuon is leaving because of violent racism.
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Scalliewags @trollingstones.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
White House announces launch of Trump TV.
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Scalliewags @trollingstones.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Me neither, they’re like the seven dwarfs - I know there’s a list but I’ve never understood it. My knowledge of religion comes from metal albums 😁
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Scalliewags @trollingstones.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Is there a commandment that says: Thou shalt not covet thy neighbours speakers?
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Scalliewags @trollingstones.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Why headphones matter. Parents: playing Frank Zappa while painting house. Youngest: what does it mean: 'why does it hurt when I pee'? 🤣 #Zappa #MusicSky #Headphones
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Scalliewags @trollingstones.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
One of the best names for a band is the Australian #punk group Nunbait.
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Boboloca @boboloca.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Scalliewags @trollingstones.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Pop loved the Lions. Took a while for him to adapt to Brisbane, but he did. He would have loved that game. #AFL
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Scalliewags @trollingstones.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Saturday afternoon #nowplaying #vinyl picked at random. #MusicSky
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