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🇦🇺 Sandal-wearing layabout in Tropical Queensland 🇨🇦 Canada born, Canberra raised, now thoroughly tropical. 🏝

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Not a fish @verticalpig.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
I'm assuming there will be an ad showing @jamestalarico.bsky.social going through an assortment of meat products, saying how much each one has gone up in price, then chowing down on each one and saying how much he enjoys them. "Now that's good barbeque, if you can afford it."
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Not a fish @verticalpig.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Who does this remind me of? @pepchasdrdave.bsky.social
Very bad Princess Diana plate
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Not a fish @verticalpig.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Hey, the @nytimes.com did a Kash Patel themed #Wordle!
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Not a fish @verticalpig.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
"Bit of a weird one. Presumably Mr Trump just didn’t know what he was talking about." Evergreen conclusion from News.com.au
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news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site for latest headlines
Read the latest headlines covering sports, entertainment, finance, politics and national breaking news. Be on it with Australia's leading news site.
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
That headline hasn't aged very well. Never heard anyone discuss this before
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Not a fish @verticalpig.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Couldn't the Romans have found the risen Jesus and crucified him again the following week? Repeat that enough and we could have a long weekend every week! #PraiseJudas
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Neil deGrasse Tyson @neildegrassetyson.com · 25/02/2026
Not that anybody asked, but… The first 13 months of Biden’s term, the stock market rose 12%, setting a record high closing of 11 times. The first 13 months of Trump’s second term, the market rose 10%, setting a record high closing of 10 times.
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Not a fish @verticalpig.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
#MAHA abcnews.go.com/Health/us-se...
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4 times as many measles cases in a few weeks than US typically averages in a whole year: CDC
It comes as South Carolina is dealing with the largest outbreak recorded since measles was declared eliminated within the U.S. in 2000.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 31/01/2026
“Doctors won’t tell you this, but you don’t need medication for a tapeworm—all you need is the natural power of friction,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said as he dropped to the floor, lifted his legs high, and dragged his ass along the White House carpet during a press conference.
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RFK Jr. Demonstrates How To Remove Tapeworm By Scooting Ass Across Carpet
WASHINGTON—In an address touting the practice as a completely drug-free method to relieve the common affliction, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. demonstrated Thursday how ...
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wes(is no longer)injapan @wesinjapan.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Just to be clear: Watch out for ice AND Watch out for ICE. Both are cold and slippery and will kill you for no reason.
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The Vote Yes on Amendment 87 Podcast @getmoresmarter.com · 20/01/2026
Important perspective from Greenland.
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Benn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Grok is so much worse than you think.
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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
US State Department threatening UK government for investigating Elon Musk's child pornography generating LLM, Grok: www.techdirt.com/2026/01/15/state-d…
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Not a fish @verticalpig.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Wouldn't it be nice if @whitehouse-47.bsky.social had integrity. youtube.com/watch?v=FySt...
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Truth
YouTube video by Hank Green
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Not a fish @verticalpig.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
It is amusing that American tourism ads are popping up so often on YouTube that I've started blocking them. #ShitholeCountry
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
“Weaponizing the DOJ” takes on a whole new level when you order investigations in order to reopen it so it’s no longer closed and you can claim you can’t release information because it’s an “ongoing investigation”
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
this is the most successful a CIA officer has been at toppling a government in years.
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Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 01/11/2025
“While we first heard about this godawful fuckery from the Intercept, it’s probably not a coincidence that charges were dropped but directly after Phil Williams shined a light on them.” www.wonkette.com/p/tn-man-fin...
wonkette.com
TN Man Finally Free After Month In Jail For Mean Comment About Saint Charlie Kirk
There goes newshero Phil Williams, breaking innocent people out of jail!
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune
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Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.
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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
“They are simply going too fast. I really think the speed at which they are trying to rip apart a free and open society is a huge tactical mistake on their part,” says Chris Hayes.
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‘Huge mistake’: Hayes EXPOSES blind spot in Trump’s breakneck power grab
YouTube video by MSNBC
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
"Homan indicated he would facilitate securing contracts for them in exchange for money once he was in office... "On Sept. 20, 2024, with hidden cameras recording the scene at a meeting spot in Texas, Homan accepted $50,000 in bills..." www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...
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Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.
The FBI and Justice officials closed the investigation, which a Justice Department appointee had called a “deep state” probe in early 2025.
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 19/09/2025
This is probably a lot more effective than cancelling your Hulu subscription tho of c you can do both.
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Not a fish @verticalpig.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Jimmy Kimmel should #ReleaseTheMonologue @jimmykimmel.com www.mediaite.com/media/tv/kim...
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Kimmel Was Reportedly About to Give Controversial Monologue When He Was Suspended: ‘He Has To Take Down the Temperature’
Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel was reportedly about to deliver another controversial monologue when his show was suspended by ABC this week.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 18/09/2025
•ABC: fires Kimmel for mocking Trump •CBS: fires Colbert for mocking Trump •ABC: fires Moran for slamming Stephen Miller •MSNBC: fires Matt Dowd for saying “hateful thoughts lead to hateful actions” •FOX: Champions Brian Kilmeade as he calls for Nazi state murder of America’s 600K homeless people
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Antoinette Lattouf @antoinettelattouf.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
What do you see? 👀
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Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Thank you Antoinette. This happens with so many things more often than we realise. Like the freely used word: "terrorists". Don't ask who the terrorist is - ask yourself who's writing the headline.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
How are they going to run a one-hour tribute if they're scared of quoting him? Will they just dub over the original audio? "Haiti is infested with DELICIOUS CUISINE. Their migrants are FEEDING your women and DELIVERING YOUR DOORDASH at night. They are coming for your daughter next WITH FOOD."
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Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 18/09/2025
IMPORTANT PERSPECTIVE: What I have not seen anyone discussing is that Nexstar pulling Kimmel, forcing ABC’s hand, comes as Nexstar is leading the way for the industry on trying to get FCC approval for media consolidation. www.poynter.org/business-wor...
poynter.org
Nexstar’s takeover of Tegna would require an overhaul of FCC ownership rules - Poynter
The proposed sale would exceed the FCC’s 39% cap, igniting debate among broadcasters, unions and press groups
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
SNL should run a normal show, with the slight addition that every sketch has three or four men dressed up like ICE agents and FCC officials standing in the background looking menacing. Maybe they disappear Colin Jost in the middle of Weekend Update too.
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Novelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
@npr.org one-upping itself this morning by not only having Kirk’s personal friend on as a neutral expert on his “free speech” legacy, and also letting him gloss the “Professor Watchlist” as “holding a mirror up to academia,” not as a well-documented tool of harassment for speech. At least they asked
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
These deaths are a real feather in the cap of Brian Kilmeade and Fox News.
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Not a fish @verticalpig.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
"Genocide isn't a problem if the victims are more sexually conservative than you" isn't the take I would expect from the Murdoch press. #NYPost #KillThePrudes? nypost.com/2025/09/15/o...
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Hollywood’s latest Hamas stooge Hannah Einbender’s anti-Israel rant made her the Emmy’s ‘biggest loser’
When the biggest raves come from a Hamas-linked media, maybe even a Hollywood starlet can realize her message isn’t quite as morally triumphant as she imagined.
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
The UN Commission is very clear. It concludes on reasonable grounds that the Israeli state is committing genocide. That's because of the incitement of genocide, statements of intent, and the pattern of conduct. www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
It is over for the genocide deniers. Even the BBC is now splashing on the UN commission of inquiry concluding that Israel has committed genocide. Those who supported Israel's onslaught: You backed a genocide. You will never scrub the shame away.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2025
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Losing my goddamned mind. We can condemn political violence without valorizing a destructive, hateful bigot.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 11/09/2025
rarely have I more acutely felt the dynamic by which Dems are held responsible for the rhetoric of every random left-leaning person on the internet and Republicans are not even asked to answer for their own personal words
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 04/08/2025
This is the most intense tsunami footage I've ever seen. It purportedly shows the tsunami from the 29 July Mw 8.8 quake in Kamchatka, Russia, filmed in that same region. Source: seismic.kiwi on TikTok, although I've seen this video all over the internet and may originally be from VK or Telegram.
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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
With everything else going on, I'm not sure people realize that Trump's latest tariff on Brazil took things to a new (lower) level paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trumps-dic...
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Trump's Dictator Protection Program
Using tariffs to fight democracy
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Not a fish @verticalpig.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Ayr #Golf Club in Northern Queensland with rows of mango trees, trimmed to easy picking height, bordering the fairway.
Rows of manicured mango trees sit alongside a green at Ayr Golf Club. In fruiting season it must be tempting to snack.
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Not a fish @verticalpig.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
You know you're visiting a small town in regional Australia when TripAdvisor tells you the best pizza in town is Eagle Boys.
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Not a fish @verticalpig.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Introducing the innovative urban planning solution: the car-centric pedestrian zone... youtu.be/YZXzgIhFAXk?...
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Prague is a Parody of Europe
YouTube video by Adam Something
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Not a fish @verticalpig.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Pepsi apparently decided to make a bad tasting version of Gatorade, add bubbles, and call it Pepsi Max Electric. 🤮 #No
A photo of a plastic soft drink bottle with some blue liquid that Pepsi decided people should consume. The bottle and its contents may have many ingredients in common.
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Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
This is both extremely embarrassing and extremely hilarious Allegedly USD$70 million for a military parade and they couldn't even afford a can of WD40 😂
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Not a fish @verticalpig.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Watching @pepchasdrdave.bsky.social and YouTube tells me the video has 0 views! 😮 youtu.be/1jemDT1F8i8?...
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ICE MAGIC! PEP with Chas & Dr Dave (Ep 216, 13 June)
YouTube video by PEP with Chas and Dr Dave
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
It’s not just that it’s clearly intentional, it’s that it’s clearly intentional knowing that he’s being recorded. They know they can do whatever they want with complete impunity.
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Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
I have stage 4 cancer Joe Rogan recently mocked my physical appearance to millions, calling me a “weird kind of bitchy weak man” I’m ripping out the IV and clapping back at this troll in this video: youtu.be/V0tMcWeOuFY?... /1
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Joe Rogan's Cult of Fake Archaeology
YouTube video by Archaeology with Flint Dibble
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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
in so many videos out of LA i am seeing officers aiming rubber bullets right into crowds, this is filling me with a deep and anxious rage knowing what happens when they do that www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
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Journalist shot by Minneapolis police during 2020 protests dying from injuries
Linda Tirado was in Minneapolis from out of state covering the protests and rioting when police shot her in the face with a rubber bullet, also known as a "less-lethal" round.
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