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Tim Lyons

@picketer

Ex union boss. Organising, political economy, labour markets, tax, pensions, climate, China, Spinoza. Proud @UnitedWorkersOz member since 1990.

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calendar_today17-05-2010 03:02:45

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Just got pocket dialled, by someone I do not know, from a meeting where they were discussing the need to appoint a probity advisor for the transaction...........

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Sticker is flag of the Boer Transvaal Republic that vanished in about 1900. (Pretty sure that even other white people couldn't be citizens if they were Catholic.) Very normal thing to be driving around Perth with on your car in 2024.

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"He won a Victoria Cross for Australia during a terrible battle at St Vincents Plaza against two young males who'd just knocked off at the CBD Telstra store and did not have a valid Myki."

Cindy Calysm (@cindycalysm) 's Twitter Profile Photo

“While crowds flew into liberal Wellington’s centre, out in the suburbs [a 5-min drive to some of the city’s most desirable real estate] it’s easier to find [one of the white boomers whose needs are uniquely met and voices consistently amplified by the government and media] … ”

“While crowds flew into liberal Wellington’s centre, out in the suburbs [a 5-min drive to some of the city’s most desirable real estate] it’s easier to find [one of the white boomers whose needs are uniquely met and voices consistently amplified by the government and media] … ”
Branko Milanovic (@brankomilan) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This must be the most unbelievable opinion piece in the past 50 years. So the international rules are only for one sort of people (Untermenschen) while superior races must be exempt from it. It should be framed and displayed!

Daany Saeed (@daanysaeed) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Jasprit Bumrah statistically one of the greatest quicks ever at the peak of his powers and our best bats are all over 35, but sure it's corporate responses to Indigenous issues that've put them 1-0 down. Clever stuff.

Ken McAlpine (kenmcalpine.bsky.social) (@kenmcalpine) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Did the Financial Review just devote the past month to a campaign against the Victorian Government based on a complete lie? At least they had the guts to publish a correction, I suppose.

Did the <a href="/FinancialReview/">Financial Review</a> just devote the past month to a campaign against the Victorian Government based on a complete lie? At least they had the guts to publish a correction, I suppose.
John Ganz (@lionel_trolling) 's Twitter Profile Photo

the characteristic of "the rich rabble" that hegel describes in the philosophy of right is that they are dependent on the state and civil society but their wealth makes them think that the state and civil society are dependent on them

the characteristic of "the rich rabble" that hegel describes in the philosophy of right is that they are dependent on the state and civil society but their wealth makes them think that the state and civil society are dependent on them
Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) (@doctorvive) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I am in shock. I've started Abundance. On the very first pages Klein & Thompson advance a climate program that rests on mass desalination, vertical farming, & sustainable jet fuel (which will allow us to take flying vacations every weekend). WHO DID THEY TALK TO ABOUT THIS? 1/

I am in shock. I've started Abundance. On the very first pages Klein &amp; Thompson advance a climate program that rests on mass desalination, vertical farming, &amp; sustainable jet fuel (which will allow us to take flying vacations every weekend). 

WHO DID THEY TALK TO ABOUT THIS?

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