Posts by stacey_campbell@aus.social
(DIR) Post #At4AQwysAUwlbTup8K by stacey_campbell@aus.social
2025-04-13T23:02:12Z
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This is your occasional reminder that the father of the husband of my mum's Aunty Ruby introduced the private member's bill that ultimately resulted in Australia having compulsory voting.https://www.foundingdocs.gov.au/item-sdid-89.html#auspol
(DIR) Post #At7lHMCVpFgkhjSp8q by stacey_campbell@aus.social
2025-04-15T17:54:59Z
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@FantasticalEconomics I recall an extremely knowledgeable European explaining why it shouldn't happen.(Hans Blix is still with us, now 96 years young!)https://www.cnn.com/2013/03/18/opinion/iraq-war-hans-blix/index.html
(DIR) Post #AtDOG2Xcsyx7yfxBI0 by stacey_campbell@aus.social
2025-04-18T12:11:15Z
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@futurebird I don't care to be chastised by a distant cousin who enjoys dirt-flavored snacks."Tooth anatomy suggests consumption of gritty foods covered in particulates such as dust or dirt."https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_naledi
(DIR) Post #AtlEk1iOeCms9cTrUG by stacey_campbell@aus.social
2025-05-04T14:23:10Z
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Judith Brett explains how compulsory voting almost certainly nudges social policy in Australia to the left.I've always felt that was the case, and I suspect the US would look wildly different if voting were compulsory here.https://boltsmag.org/compulsory-voting-australia-election/#uspol #auspol
(DIR) Post #Au8mo2ewwZmPJp26OO by stacey_campbell@aus.social
2025-05-16T04:39:24Z
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@ai6yr Last year I traveled through Germany, Austria, a bit of northern Italy, France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Denmark, and went cashless the entire trip (credit card and tap-to-pay on the Android phone).Having said that, there's ATMs everywhere if cash is required.
(DIR) Post #Auf8DVvcBD1IAFBD60 by stacey_campbell@aus.social
2025-05-31T15:59:06Z
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@AkaSci There's a red thingy moving towards a green thingy.https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/communities/space-weather-enthusiasts-dashboard
(DIR) Post #AuuSrbdvGTf5vRhLZw by stacey_campbell@aus.social
2025-06-08T03:18:53Z
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Other than the pure racism, the point of immigrant crackdowns (and Congress blocking immigration reform since Reagan) is to maintain a large highly exploitable labor force.That's why ICE is hitting up day laborers at Home Depot parking lots and small Los Angeles businesses, and not, for example, shutting down the entire US meat and dairy industries which have relied on that exploitable labor for decades.#uspol #ice #losangeles
(DIR) Post #Av6EcF7V3BVu5OYWwa by stacey_campbell@aus.social
2025-06-13T21:00:12Z
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@futurebird I have two passports, out of sync with each other. It's stressful.
(DIR) Post #AvCS4v2xE4mga2C3sW by stacey_campbell@aus.social
2025-06-15T21:41:57Z
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Australian tourists, come visit the good ole USA, you'll have a great time...if you make it out of the airport.https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-16/australian-denied-entry-united-states-israel-gaza-columbia/105419154#uspol #auspol
(DIR) Post #AvuJkfw3ZecoNjDb9s by stacey_campbell@aus.social
2025-07-08T00:57:35Z
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@tomjennings The other day I saw a page where someone documented their test-to-failure for all manner of SD cards from Alixpress and Amazon. It tracks with what you've said here.
(DIR) Post #Awxe5Vn7a0CxISZVgm by stacey_campbell@aus.social
2025-08-08T13:20:37Z
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@aral "Affordable housing, fully-funded education and NHS, smashing racism, and reversal of Brexit key for cutting crime, says police chief."Ad in a parallel universe.
(DIR) Post #AxLiZ4uv7maAFIbzpQ by stacey_campbell@aus.social
2025-08-20T04:04:54Z
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@historyofpunkrock "Who's to blame when situations degenerate?Disgusting things you'd never anticipate?"The B-52s apparently.
(DIR) Post #AxdEZJKW2Q8TAP3cC8 by stacey_campbell@aus.social
2025-08-28T14:53:34Z
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@stux
(DIR) Post #AyJSw0K8ZOkh6slXIu by stacey_campbell@aus.social
2025-09-17T23:52:28Z
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@Nonilex Kimmel relentlessly and effectively skewered the Trump regime from top to bottom, night after night.If it wasn't this Kirk thing they would have found another way to stop him.Russian broadcast television features fawning coverage of Putin's doings every night and every channel, and it's been like this for years. This is the direction US broadcast television is now going, Constitution notwithstanding.
(DIR) Post #AyPb4ir8qgH27gdBU8 by stacey_campbell@aus.social
2025-09-20T19:34:02Z
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It's odd that pointing out the irony of the Kirk quote “It’s worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God given rights" marks you as a critic of Charlie Kirk.It's almost as though GOP/MAGA are trying to conjure false outrage from thin air so they can silence more critics.BTW, 47,000 gun deaths in the US in 2023 isn't "some gun deaths". That's an entire medium sized town of gun deaths.#uspol https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/us/florida-charlie-kirk-free-speech.html?unlocked_article_code=1.nU8.XxIj.GaLEwy3rl06L&smid=url-share
(DIR) Post #AymS4Y4VK2kz8aQfmC by stacey_campbell@aus.social
2025-10-01T23:29:25Z
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@futurebird A nice young woman started chatting me up on a suburban train in Melbourne, Australia around 1981. Things were going well until she invited me to enjoy the warm embrace of...the Unification Church.
(DIR) Post #B0e9xxA8XtQJyVt7IG by stacey_campbell@aus.social
2025-11-26T16:17:05Z
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@Nonilex Summary of the coaching: "You may not know this, but Trump is a textbook narcissist, if you stroke his ego he'll give you want you want. Also, he's not very smart."Witkoff explaining this to a Putin aide would be like me explaining physics to Einstein.#uspol #trump #putin #npd
(DIR) Post #B1OQuMTR8J2boIwebQ by stacey_campbell@aus.social
2025-12-18T23:16:00Z
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Still looking at the archive of this brief note that appeared in Australian newspapers in 1912 and shaking my head.1912 'COAL CONSUMPTION AFFECTING CLIMATE.', The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal (NSW : 1888 - 1889; 1895; 1897 - 1954), 17 July, p. 4. , viewed 19 Dec 2025, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article100645214 #globalwarming
(DIR) Post #B1OQuULZrPVYEFKUSm by stacey_campbell@aus.social
2025-12-18T23:24:17Z
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And here we are in Los Angeles, finally giving up coal in 2025.#ladwp #losangeles #globalwarming https://lacity.gov/news/los-angeles-officially-ends-its-use-coal-power
(DIR) Post #B3DvWeAF97Qzk3mJQu by stacey_campbell@aus.social
2026-02-11T21:04:40Z
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@hn50 lol