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Tim Lyons

@Picketer

8 years

"I remember the moment I knew that the labour movement and unionism were in very serious trouble." Me in @Meanjin

The Labour Movement: My Part in its Downfall

Tim Lyons on transforming unionism

meanjin.com.au

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Tim Lyons

@Picketer

5 years

Workers at Amazon are striking for Prime Day! Respect the digital picket line and boycott Amazon on 15 and 16 July.

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@LucyXIV "I have a thing for older women. We found ourselves in a hotel room and didn’t leave for five days." Dear god Lucy why did you post that?

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Tim Lyons

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3 years

The most expensive private school in Australia is Geelong Grammar with a base tuition fee of $43 000 a year. It gets Federal Government funding. Obscene,

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2 years

If you work for any of these mastheads, walk out to somewhere quiet, and just sit and think about what you've done with your life.

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Tim Lyons

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6 years

To men doing "not all men" to women about the Eurydice Dixon tragedy: Shut up and get in the god damn bin. To all men, we should: (a) remember it's not all men but it's always men (b) reflect on the women talking about fear we never feel (c) listen to women about what we can do

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Tim Lyons

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3 months

News24 doing a phone interview with a Sydney woman about her family's ordeal in the IT outage: all the blinds in their house are controlled via Outlook and will not close and it's a bit chilly.

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Tim Lyons

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8 months

Mate this is a real sport. The captain on the field deals with this. We listen to it on broadcast radio for hours, sometimes in the middle of the night. Once heard a caller say, "he's between a regulation silly-point and slightly deep silly-mid off" and I UNDERSTOOD IT EXACTLY.

Hispanic Shaun King

@okimstillhungry

8 months

Somebody just tried to explain cricket to me and they pulled this insane graphic up. There's no way this is real. Be serious.

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Tim Lyons

@Picketer

2 years

So to recap, the ABC sent 27 people to London and just took the BBC commentary anyway. Well done all.

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Tim Lyons

@Picketer

2 years

That photo is a gas plant. But keep up the good work.

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Tim Lyons

@Picketer

9 months

"What's the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent Chinese meal? ....... Ladies and Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest."

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Tim Lyons

@Picketer

28 days

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29 days

Perhaps the coolest sports picture ever taken.

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Tim Lyons

@Picketer

4 years

They are not allegations against Dyson Heydon. They are findings. Of an independent inquiry. It is an important distiction.

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Tim Lyons

@Picketer

5 years

Try robbing a bank of $8 million. Say you get caught. See if you get away with paying it back and giving an enforceable undertaking (a promise not to do it again). No criminal record. No gaol. Wage theft needs to be a criminalised.

George Calombaris underpayment scandal blows out to $7.8 million

Celebrity chef George Calombaris has issued an apology after he was slapped with a massive fine after admitting to underpaying $7.83 million in wages to 515 current and former employees of his...

www.theage.com.au

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Tim Lyons

@Picketer

4 months

I think I'm having a stroke.

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Tim Lyons

@Picketer

3 months

Why are landlords and cafe owners in CBDs entitled to conscript customers? (You can bet there is a whole bunch of suburban service businesses - cafes, yoga studios whatever - that have benefited a lot from a reduction in lost-time commutes.

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Tim Lyons

@Picketer

4 years

The @AuschwitzMuseum account is confronting. It pops up in your feed of nonsense with the stories of people taken to their death and murdered. Follow it. Remember them. Never forget. Never again.

Auschwitz Memorial

@AuschwitzMuseum

4 years

21/22 September 1940 | 2nd transport from #Warsaw arrived at the German #Auschwitz camp with 1705 people, including: Władysław Bartoszewski (4427), Stanisław Dubois (3904), Konstanty Jagiełło (4507) oraz Witold Pilecki (4859). 1/5

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Tim Lyons

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3 years

Adelaide Hills man complains on social media about people complaining on social media.

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Tim Lyons

@Picketer

5 years

I reckon a PM could recall Parliament now and pass a comprehensive climate policy and federalised fire response force to massive public acclaim about now. Feels like Howard and guns.

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Tim Lyons

@Picketer

3 years

This is so very deeply offensive. You are not Rosa Parks on a bus in Montgomery Alabama taking a stand, at great personal risk, to serve her community. You are a performative idiot and a danger to your fellow humans.

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Tim Lyons

@Picketer

2 years

Jane Caro getting basically no votes running for the Senate is very very very funny.

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Tim Lyons

@Picketer

4 months

Pack it up folks, we are done. Will never be beaten.

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Tim Lyons

@Picketer

6 months

You love to see it.

World Bollard Association™

@WorldBollard

6 months

An American beast. Tamed. #WorldBollardAssociation

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Tim Lyons

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5 years

What a pathetic fraud.

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Tim Lyons

@Picketer

3 years

Julia got days and days of negative press for an empty fruit bowl.

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Tim Lyons

@Picketer

4 years

When the economy is neither jobs nor incomes but merely profits............

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Tim Lyons

@Picketer

3 years

Julie Bishop on #abc730 arguing for FDV leave, but spent her actual parliamentary life, including a decade as Dep Liberal Leader, voting against unions at the forefront of trying to get this done like @ASUnion . Get in the bin. Talk big after you have power.

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Tim Lyons

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4 months

Abolish the Order of Australia. Pack it up, it's done. Replace it with a medal we give people who've been, say, a meals on wheels volunteer or coached kids sport since Whitlam was PM. Politicians & judges don't need them. Services to making money is a joke. Too many grifters.

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Tim Lyons

@Picketer

2 years

The readers must be goldfish.

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Tim Lyons

@Picketer

1 year

Just a note to say that basically all the literature says that the best way to alleviate poverty is to give people cash - unconditionally and without making them jump through hoops. This is true regardless of the society being studied.

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Tim Lyons

@Picketer

7 years

All 280 tweets read like they are part of the Unabomber's manifesto.

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Tim Lyons

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3 years

If you want to know how the climate stuff is going in the Coalition, Senator McKenzie was on ABC this morning saying the only jobs in renewables is “mowing the grass under a solar panel.”

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Tim Lyons

@Picketer

4 years

Imagine if we needed a vaccine and we had a Cth entity, callled say, The Commonwealth Serum Laboratories, that we hadn’t privatized for a fraction of its value.

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Tim Lyons

@Picketer

2 years

Just a *small* fact from someone who has read every Commonwealth Submission on the miminum wage for > 2 decades. The one filed by @Tony_Burke on behalf of the Albanese Government gave the strongest support for a large increase in the minimum wage of any I’ve read. 1/2

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Tim Lyons

@Picketer

5 years

Folks, do not (and i cannot stress this enough) go on a fucking cruise. Ever.

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Tim Lyons

@Picketer

2 months

The real "Australian Story" stuff here: Professor Doctor PVO has written four (4) columns in a month on a proposed change to disclosure rules for accountants without, it seems, mentioning that his wife runs the accountancy lobby.

The Mail and the accountants: a Peter van Onselen story

Most would run a mile from this sort of thing. But that’s never been Peter van Onselen’s style.

www.afr.com

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Tim Lyons

@Picketer

2 years

Mango farmer on AM “We don’t want a handout, but we do need a Government subsidy.” 🤪

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Tim Lyons

@Picketer

4 years

Victorian conservatives a month ago: lack of family gatherings is a crime against humanities. Victorian conservatives this month: we didn’t mean ethnic family gatherings, Andrews must resign.

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Tim Lyons

@Picketer

4 years

Love how MPs gets apparently unlimited time off when faced with very very serious allegations with substantial evidence when ordinary Australian workers get sacked in 30 minutes for virtually nothing.

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Tim Lyons

@Picketer

5 years

Imagine being the sort of racist entitled dipshit who goes to Uluru in the last few months the climb is *open* to deliberately defy the wishes of the traditional owners..........

Rohan Barwick

@rohwick

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This really is nuts. The #Uluru climb two days ago. It closes for good in October. 📷Glenn Minett/ABC Alice Springs

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Tim Lyons

@Picketer

2 years

I do enjoy the acerbic wit of Prof Marcia Langton: on @rnbreakfast today re The Voice “I wish people had read what we wrote, it would have a prevented a lot of pointless newspaper columns.”

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Tim Lyons

@Picketer

9 months

This guy, happily committing an offence without a care in the world because he's a middle aged white male, is such a half-wit flog that he's *tagging* Coles not the hated Woolies.

Clown Down Under 🤡

@clowndownunder

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Australia is the best country in the world 🇦🇺

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Tim Lyons

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2 months

Every Catholic priest in the state must condemn this immediately. Tighter bail laws for the Irish are needed.

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@NearyTy_9

2 months

Police have arrested a gang of Irish nationals who allegedly committed a wave of home invasions and burglaries across Melbourne… netting more than half a million dollars worth of stolen goods. Story @9NewsMelb

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Tim Lyons

@Picketer

6 years

[Almost 100 experts spend two years wrting report including conducting meta analysis of thousands of research papers.] Oz Columnists: Fart Noise

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Tim Lyons

@Picketer

2 years

2 years gaol for blocking a road. This is insanely punitive criminalization of protest.

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Tim Lyons

@Picketer

10 months

Rain aside, this is the reason I dislike the SCG Test and why we should give it to Hobart.

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Tim Lyons

@Picketer

5 years

Currently suffering through a presentation from someone whose title is (no shit) Head of Thought Leadership.

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Tim Lyons

@Picketer

5 years

Absurd. There has been exactly one murder in an Australian airport and that was a bikie caving in the head of another bikie with a bollard in the Jetstar terminal.

Peter Dutton

@PeterDutton_MP

5 years

The Federal Government is increasing counter-terrorism measures across nine airports by boosting the Australian Federal Police's capability to disrupt and deter high-risk-incidents. Our first priority is always to keep Australians safe. @ScottMorrisonMP @AusFedPolice

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Tim Lyons

@Picketer

5 years

I hate these stories. They work *6 days a week and 56 hours* to get this money. Why is it an issue if people who wear hi-viz to work earn good money? These projects are capital intensive too.

Labourers raking in $200k in West Gate wage bonanza

Labourers on giant road projects earning $195,000 as builders' group says enough is enough

www.theage.com.au

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Tim Lyons

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8 months

Hi, when Bob was on the grog he ran the Basic Wage and Margins Case and got millions of people a pay rise every year you drove into a fence after dinner, hope that helps.

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Tim Lyons

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6 years

How cooked is Australian media economics? Gun young journos who break stories get sacked while Judith Sloan is paid $357,000 a year.

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Tim Lyons

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2 years

Whoever did this take a bow.

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Tim Lyons

@Picketer

2 years

The almost complete absence of climate in the #AusVotes2022 campaign is astounding (and very depressing.)

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Tim Lyons

@Picketer

4 years

One Nation losing all its money in a Ponzi scheme is extremely amusing

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Tim Lyons

@Picketer

3 years

If you are traveling over Easter through an airport (or anywhere) *BE NICE TO THE STAFF IT IS NOT THEIR FAULT. THEY ARE DEFINITELY UNDERSTAFFED AND VERY VERY PROBABLY UNDERPAID.*

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Tim Lyons

@Picketer

2 years

We laugh at cookers, but they can easily turn murderous terrorist. That stuff online, all the hate and conspiracy, the radicalization pipeline, the glorification of violence, is dangerous.

Wieambilla shooting: property owner Gareth Train posted regularly on conspiracy website before...

Exclusive: The brother of missing man Nathaniel Train had posted about preparing an ark and alleging the Port Arthur attack was a ‘false-flag’ operation

www.theguardian.com

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Tim Lyons

@Picketer

2 years

RTing this instant union classic again.

Dripped Out Trade Unionists

@UnionDrip

2 years

after you win that new contract with wage increases

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Tim Lyons

@Picketer

8 months

Some very very well paid people thought it was a good idea to have someone they knew had a glass jaw do this sit-down interview while cosplaying re-stocking the Tim Tams.

ABC News

@abcnews

8 months

This is what happened when Four Corners asked Woolworths CEO Brad Banducci about the lack of competition in the Australian grocery market. Watch the #4Corners documentary tonight:

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Tim Lyons

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2 months

What is the ABC doing here? 57% of output on a 100% pie chart?!?!?!??!

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Tim Lyons

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10 months

Dude, FFS get over it!

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Tim Lyons

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4 years

Can you think of another Head of Government that submitted themselves to a juducial inquiry in the middle of a crisis? Fuck ups? For sure. And the I stand with Dan stuff is silly. But he deserves a lot of respect for this. Name another leader in our time that would have done it.

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Tim Lyons

@Picketer

5 years

Boomers on a very expensive motor yacht complaining about the end of cash refund of excess franking credits. Satire is not just dead, the corpse has been burnt.

abc730

@abc730

5 years

The fury over franking credits. Tonight on 7.30. #abc730 #auspol #ausvotes

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Tim Lyons

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6 years

My 4YO Son just said “tweeting fake quotes from your child is emblematic of late capitalism’s tendency to generate bland simulacrums of the profound.”

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Tim Lyons

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4 months

This is the biggest deliberate lie in the history of Australian politics. He may as well have pledged to land the SAS on Mars. Everybody involved in this announcement knows it is utter bullshit. And anyone who does anything other than mock it relentlessly is a charlatan.

Phillip Coorey

@PhillipCoorey

4 months

Seven nuclear plants operating from 2035 under Coalition plan

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Tim Lyons

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4 months

Wait till he finds out about this.

Sky News Australia

@SkyNewsAust

4 months

Opposition leader Peter Dutton says it is “inconceivable” a 13-year-old can access social media.

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Tim Lyons

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4 months

These people are pure hacks. Judith, who would usually be arguing for privatising the High Court or something, wants public nukes now.

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Tim Lyons

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8 months

“What if we’d run a giant multi-year natural experiment and many people liked it and experienced real benefits to their lives and we might give them the option to continue? That might be bad. I am a Doctor.”

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Tim Lyons

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3 years

For the love of god what fresh hell is this?

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Tim Lyons

@Picketer

3 years

This is what global capitalism in a pandemic looks like: Vietnamese workers essentially captive at work. Vaccine inequality is compounding wealth and income inequality.

Dr. Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai

@nguyen_p_quemai

3 years

To prevent Covid infection, many Vietnamese workers have been living, working, sleeping in their factories. Their sacrifices are crucial for our global supply chain. I hope rich countries will share vaccines so these workers can see their families while keeping their jobs.

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Tim Lyons

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5 years

STOP. MAKING. EXCUSES. FOR. MEN. THAT. KILL. THEIR. PARTNERS. AND. KIDS.

Queensland police spark anger with 'open mind' comment on murder of Hannah Clarke and children

Domestic violence campaigners appalled that the force wants to consider suggestions Rowan Baxter was ‘driven to it’ when he set fire to his family in their car in Brisbane

www.theguardian.com

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Tim Lyons

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4 years

This. Did. Not. Happen.

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Tim Lyons

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2 years

Only a lifetime shiny bum could have said this or written it up. An electrician is a "low risk trade" which will surprise anyone familiar with number of fatalities there are involving electricity for a start. And I'm not sure who keen on an unlicensed plumber doing their work.

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Tim Lyons

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5 years

When you see the stories about Virgin going into into administration with more that $5 billion in sub-investment grade debt, remember that only a few days ago the PM suggested Industry Super Funds buy it........

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Tim Lyons

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4 years

Ch9 news Covid story had a cut to Scott allegedly building a cubby house. FMD. This is DPRK shit.

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Tim Lyons

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3 months

This *no shots fired* thing will be news to many in parts of South East Asia (for starters)

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Tim Lyons

@Picketer

5 years

Someone writes a book making the case, using original sources, that Aboriginal society was considerably more complex than it is commonly presented / understood and large numbers of white Australians go straight off the edge of Bill Leak’s balcony. Pretty telling.

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Tim Lyons

@Picketer

2 years

Man who wanted to firehose demonstrators, and tweeted about deliberately and unnecessarily crossing a picket line of people fighting for their livelihoods to get a coffee, wants sympathy. In the bin.

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Tim Lyons

@Picketer

4 years

It's true. Our gender fluid late night cabaret scene is second to none and hard drugs are freely available to all. Visit Victoria Dot Com.

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Tim Lyons

@Picketer

3 years

When Big Pharma is more trustworthy than the Government you know you are in deep shit

Rachel Mealey

@rachelmealey

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Pfizer has released a statement contradicting the Prime Minister's comments this morning. "The total number of 40 million doses we are contracted to deliver to Australia over 2021 has not changed. We continue to work closely with the Government to support their rollout program."

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Tim Lyons

@Picketer

6 years

And the lesson here is don't try and use a Very Serious Ex High Court Judge as a political prop.

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Tim Lyons

@Picketer

3 years

I think 3 things when I see a politician (any politician) touring a disaster in a helicopter: 1.) Stunt. Don't you have actual work to do? 2.) Do you really need to see the damage from the air to understand it? Watch TV news. 3.) Coldn't that chopper be doing something useful?

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Tim Lyons

@Picketer

3 years

Just remembering when the NSW Cops kettled and pepper sprayed BLM protestors in Central Station last year………..

Alyx Gorman

@AlyxG

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Crowd size at this anti-lockdown protest is no joke. Just marched past our hotel room. Lots of shouting and tonne of honking car horns.

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Tim Lyons

@Picketer

5 years

Anglo culture is no panic buying of something that might give some food fucking flavour.

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Tim Lyons

@Picketer

2 years

Have just discovered (after 18 months here) that a Sky Noos *commentator* and columnist who rails against *inner city elites* lives almost opposite me in the Melbourne inner city.

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Tim Lyons

@Picketer

2 months

This is the short of childish missing-the-point garbage ("there's fossil fuel byproducts in medicine, owned much!") that you'd think it was for the "IPA Young Australians for Freedom Year 9 Essay Contest" not in a newspaper.

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Tim Lyons

@Picketer

3 years

In their 70s, get a $1million in a bequest and write to the paper asking “what are the benefits available to us?” 🤦‍♂️

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Tim Lyons

@Picketer

3 months

Yelling "nerds" at meteorologists and looking back at the angry mob for approval.

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Tim Lyons

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6 months

Cant remember a disgraced former APS Secretary getting invited on #abc730 for some soft-soap rehab before.

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Tim Lyons

@Picketer

5 years

Um wow. Spain to roll out UBI and make it permanent.

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5 years

He is not a *daggy dad* he is a vicious, manipulative phoney who hasn't previously been properly called on his bullshit act.

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Tim Lyons

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24 days

This is the same AFL that says it will have to execute kid's footy if bookmaker ads are canned. Almost like they are making shit up.

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Tim Lyons

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5 years

Imagine being the “my bucket list is going way out of my way to do something traditional owners have specifically said they don’t want me to do” person.

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Tim Lyons

@Picketer

2 years

Nobody on $200k a year needs a $10k tax cut.

‘Unfair’: Tax cuts for highest income earners to give men double the amount as women

Economists, unions, the welfare sector and the Greens are urging the government to axe the tax cuts, which would provide major income tax relief to high-income earners.

www.theage.com.au

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1 year

Reactions to Melb "the earthquake" Age: is trans people's fault Oz: shows need to Vote No on Voice HSun: shows it's Dan's time to go AFR: shows urgent need for tax reform ABC: [waiting on Sydney panel] 9News: Pies star relives nightmare 3AW: pensioners should panic about looting

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Tim Lyons

@Picketer

7 months

What nonsense is this? "for many generations, driving along the beach"??? Aside from "this has never been very common" when do they think widespread car ownership in Australia started exactly?

ABC News

@abcnews

7 months

For many generations, driving along the beach has been a cherished way of life. But with 4WD sales increasing, more Australians are reportedly driving on beaches and there's concern that's further impacting the natural dynamics of our coastlines.

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Tim Lyons

@Picketer

6 years

The ABC misspelled ‘racist vigilante’ as ‘right wing activist’

ABC News

@abcnews

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Far-right activists and youths of African appearance clash at St Kilda beach

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5 years

Imagine having libertarian rainworms to the extent you think Apollo was about "individuals." It was an amazing collective endeavour: employment peaked at 400K, 200 orgs involved & the whole thing was only possible because of the massive power & resources of the US Federal Gov

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Tim Lyons

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6 months

This speech from Dutton is seriously unhinged. The Opera House demo was the equivalent of Port Arthur. Kids are being "force fed" "anti-Israel hate" at school.

‘Something is rotten in the state of Australia’: Peter Dutton blames police and Labor for rise in...

Opposition leader says ‘national moral fog’ has made antisemitism permissible in speech at Sydney Opera House

www.theguardian.com

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Tim Lyons

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2 years

Dutton being asked by journos if the next Federal Election will produce a hung parliament - can you just stop this damn nonsense?

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