Ngāti Kotimana. IT Consultant. Dad. UUC grad. ethos anthropoi daimon, Nix Hibee. @gingereejit@mastodon.nz @gingereejit.bsky.social
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“I don’t know anything about that… I think it’s a waste of our time.” — Scott Bessent
Four days before the midterms, the Trump administration held a press conference in Minnesota to preach fiscal discipline. Then a reporter asked why DHS paid $495 million for a vacant prison that had been offered to the state for $75 million the year before.
That’s a $420 million difference. Apparently, the only thing this administration considers a waste of time is explaining where the money went.
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Seeing this snapshot from 2008 is absolutely surreal, especially with the Royal Bank of Scotland sitting proudly at the top of the mountain. It's the ultimate picture of the calm before the storm just months after hitting that peak, RBS suffered one of the most catastrophic corporate collapses in history, requiring a £45.5 billion bailout from the UK government just to keep their ATMs from running dry. The sheer scale of the hubris leading up to that exact moment is staggering.
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🚨🚶♂️"GENIO DE LA CAMINATA"
Este tipo es un genio en el arte de CAMINAR para ATRÁS y el EFECTO que se genera al grabarlo es ESPECTACULAR.
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Q: How do you expect us to start families young when the average price of a home feels out of reach?
JD VANCE: I want to point out that I've only gotten one question about Jon Husted's ass
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Patrick Stewart as gay opera director Alistair Burke in one of my favourite scenes in Frasier. Rest in Peace
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Practic, Duma a tradus thread-ul ăsta: teapawt.net/actfast/status/2115904…
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🚨BREAKING: The Republican Women’s Caucus Fund has been unmasked as the force behind the fake Texas Transgender Student Union (TTSU). This Wyoming LLC, formed in September, flooded as many as 3 million Texas mailboxes and phones with texts and brochures just as early voting began for the midterms.
Posing as a trans advocacy outfit, the materials—addressed to the children of registered voters—coached minors on seeking gender-affirming care even against parents’ wishes, pursuing emancipation, going out-of-state for hormones or surgery, and finding a “found family.” They copied branding from the real Transgender Education Network of Texas (TENT) and used a near-identical address.
Legal filings named the Republican Women’s Caucus and “John Braun”—the name of a Washington state senator whose campaign treasurer, Paul Kilgore, also handles finances for the RWC Fund and PACs supporting Ken Paxton’s Senate bid against Democrat James Talarico. TTSU’s lawyer is former Paxton assistant AG Chris Hilton.
TENT sued, claiming harassment, threats, and operational harm. Judge Jan Soifer ordered disclosure, rejecting free-speech secrecy claims.
So, a Republican-linked group, with financial ties to Paxton-supporting PACs, mass-produced and distributed materials that impersonated a transgender student resource guide. In other words, the people who routinely accuse the transgender community of “indoctrinating” or targeting children, themselves produced and mailed the very content designed to look like that targeting—so parents would see it and react.
Every Republican accusation is a confession.
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#ULTIMAHORA Una actriz israelí estaba siendo entrevistada, pero pensó que estaban en un corte comercial, así que comenzó a decir la verdad sobre Israel, solo para descubrir después que estaban en vivo:
“Ya no estoy orgullosa de ser israelí. Es una sensación terrible. Me avergüenzo de lo que somos como pueblo… Todo lo que está sucediendo ahora es resultado de la ocupación: la coerción religiosa, la violencia de los colonos, el terrorismo judío y la arrogancia. La minoría [los palestinos] tiene derecho a luchar por su libertad.”
Cuando descubrió que estaba al aire se descompuso materialmente por que sabe el enorme riesgo de decir la verdad!!
#UrgenteCOMPARTAN #RTMasivo
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This Russell pass will forever be remembered 😍🏴
#GuinnessM6N #Since1883
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🎥 Andy Burnham says his son is ‘marrying into a Hibs family’ and trying to get him to support the club
‘He’s trying to get me on this. I’m more Celtic. He’s got me leaning Hibs a bit.’
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This is Paul Graham, the bloke who runs Australia Post. He was paid $3.1 million this year. Australia post lost $108 million so he sold $126 million in property so he could show a paper profit of $18 million and claim his $1.3 million bonus. Nice work if you can get it.
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The most seductive thing these Italian actors do is stand still.
Under Ludovica Rambelli’s direction, they recreate Caravaggio’s paintings with their bodies, draped cloth, everyday objects and a single cut of light.
They build each scene before the audience, hold it, then dismantle it to become another.
Think about the physical discipline that demands. Supporting another person’s weight. Holding an awkward angle. Keeping a face suspended in grief while your muscles strain.
That tension gives the paintings a disturbing intimacy.
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LMAO! Piers Morgan has had enough of Katie Zacharia sounding like a robot.
Piers Morgan: "Katie Katie Katie, timeout. Let's cut the crap here. You're sounding like a robot. Does Donald Trump got some program plugged into you?"
"You're not gonna be betraying his loyalty and when it comes to loyalty, he did fire you after five days."
Katie Zacharia: "You can couch it however you want Piers but I take issue with the way you are couching this and I'm not gonna continue relitigating it. I do not sound like a robot."
Katie then goes back to sounding like a robot.
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In 2012 an ultimately unaired pilot was made for a US version of Only Fools and Horses.
'Kings of Van Nuys' focussed on the lives of sketchy flea market trader, Del, his younger brother, Donnie and their Grandpa, an ex-stuntman...
