(a.k.a. Teo) Software engineer, runner, voracious reader of fantasy novels, former podcaster and gamer, whitefella (English/German/Italian).
Brisbane, Australia
Joined March 2008
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Puzzle #1240
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Clean sweep. I feel much better about it relative to yesterday!
Jason Etheridge retweeted
Trump, Musk and their billionaire friends are spending huge amounts lying about Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan and Angie Nixon in Florida.
Why? Because they have no agenda to help working people. So they resort to Islamophobia, red-baiting and fear-mongering.
NOT GONNA WORK
Jason Etheridge retweeted
Lucious Malfoy actor Jason Isaacs refused to join in the celebrity pile-on of JK Rowling:
"She has her view, and I have mine," Isaacs said. "They differ on many levels. But one thing people should also know about her, and I'm not saying it as a counter-argument, is that through her charity Lumos she has given a huge part of her fortune to making the world better for hundreds of thousands of vulnerable children. And that is unquestionably a good thing. Many of us Harry Potter actors have worked with it and seen the work she does up close."
Is it brave to stand up for someone and say something nice about them when there's social pressure to attack them?
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Puzzle #1239
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Blue was a complete shot in the dark based on the types of words; I really had no idea. 😔 Not enough familiarity with the usage to trigger.
Likewise had no clue on purple.
What an orderly mess.
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Puzzle #1237
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Had no idea on blue. Still a little baffled, actually.
Jason Etheridge retweeted
This was an article in the New York Times two years ago.
He’s done all of it.
Jason Etheridge retweeted
More prominent people saying this so plainly can only help. But action is still required to stop this catastrophic and treasonous turn.
"It cannot be stated often enough or vociferously enough: the Trump Administration is helping Russia to conquer Ukraine. The United States of America has taken the side of an aggressor against its innocent victim."
By my @AEI colleague @KoriSchake. aei.org/foreign-and-defense-…
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Puzzle #1236
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Green was the challenging one today, and a bit tenuous in my opinion.
Jason Etheridge retweeted
This Australian's reply to Trump's rant about “NATO not being there for America” is perfect.
"Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban in Afghanistan thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
'NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your f----- mouth."
Credit to: Jim Keller
