Eric Olthwaite's Strayan Cousin

@olthwaiteeric.bsky.social

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A bit boring Interests: Precipitation, shovels, black puddings Relationship: Enid Bag, it's complicated Work History: Bank robber, Mayor ⸸💉x6 #auspol

Cartoon with Barnaby in a hat and red cheeks yelling at a dog on the ground next to a planter in a very similar pose to when Barnaby last got drunk in public. 'Something like this?'
Cartoon of trump pointing a MAGAt to a Trans Person while the things that matter are burning down in a house fire.
Rental vacancy rates falling from <>4% to 0.9% between Oct 2013 and Oct 2023.
Crude oil jumping 8% after Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia.
A photo of coffins with US flags being unloaded from a jet. 'Don't die for Israel'
The grim reaper wondering if Trump is even in the grab a 'toy' machine after Lindsay Graham died
A tweet by Lindsay Graham from 5 days ago showing his face with a target on it paraded during the Khomeni funeral. 'At least they got a good photo of me. Judge me by my enemies'
Griffens meme with colour chart. Citizen = whitish, application refused = non white (ish)
An Elephant seal attacking a Telstra phone booth
A cartoon of Elbow shooting his own foot.
A chart of electricity prices rising vs CPI shortly after Privatisation with a note from a 2001 article pointing out there is no incentive for Gentailers to build new plant.
A screengrab of Brisbane austion results with 17% clearance rate from 118 auctions. Median price 1.3 million though.
Gold Eagle with Nazi Symbol
A cream Maltipoo enjoying some sunshine on a Winter's day. Wooded floor and a narrow sliver of sunlight.
A headline about German Autobahn buckling in a heatwave A headline about the worst ski season with dry slopes A RAM truck photo in a laneway as part of a story about oversized Wanpanzers.
Hunter Biden @HunterBiden X.com I'm not running for office. But if I were, these are some of the lessons I'd take away from what happened in NY yesterday. 1. Authenticity is measurable. Voters can smell a focus group from a mile away. 2. Endorsements from the current Democratic leadership now read like warnings. The establishment wing of the party is no longer a sword. It's a question mark. 3. Conviction beats caution. The candidates who said hard things about rent, about who pays for what, about Gaza, they won. The triangulators lost. 4. Cost of living is everything. Everything else is wallpaper. 5. The middle is not a strategy. It's an empty room. Voters reached past the establishment to grab someone who actually believes something. 6. Don't fear the base. Court it. The Democrats who ran from their own voters lost. The ones who ran toward them won. 7. If you want to lead a party you have to be willing to fight inside it. Mamdani didn't ask permission. He took the field. The lesson under the lessons: the country is tired of being managed. People want to be led.
A canal in California with a proof of concept array of solar panels providing shade.
A suburb in Queensland probably Headline Rental crisis worsens as landlords sell up.
ReThink X Clean Energy U curve showing the optimum amounts of wind and solar to keep storage costs lower.
'Angus Taylor The best qualified idiot' Malcolm Turnbull.
A cartoon with bright yellow sun and two men looking at the ground 'There must be a source of energy down there'
A cartoon of Trump using culture war issues to divert attention away from real issues with signs on a pole above MAGA hats. 'I love the poorly educated'
Trump looking at a green reflecting pool with Ronald McDonald as a reflection
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A list of those supporting abortion limits including the SA Labor Premier and Treasurer
Gurwinder @G S Bhogal.Follow Replying to @G_S_Bhogal 3. Bonhoeffer's Theory of Stupidity: Evil can be guarded against. Stupidity cannot. And the world's few evil people have little power without the help of the world's many stupid people. Therefore, stupidity is a far greater threat than evil. 4:18 PM . Dec 28,2022 2.7K
A tanker on fire in the Strait of Hormuz and a photo of solar panels and wind turbines
Cory Doctorow Dear Comrade Trump: On this, the occasion of your 80th birthday, I write to extend my sincere thanks for all the work vou have done. After decades of deadlock, you have inspired the world to action! You have done more to de-dollarise the world than any American leader in history. Without you, here would be no way that Ethiopia would be revaluing its national debt in yuan. You have done more to end the global dependence on oil than any leader (except, perhaps, for Comrade Putin). Without you, there would be no way tha ndia would be chucking out its gas hobs and replacing then with induction tops. And, of course, you have done more than any president in history to end American dominance over the internet. Without you, there would be no way the EU would be racing forward with projects such as Eurostack and European Digital Infrastructure Consortium, with whole nations ditching American tech exports like Microsoft Office 365 in favour of free, open, auditable, transparent alternatives running on servers within the EU's borders Comrade Trump, you are, at long last, ushering in the post American world, and a grateful planet salutes you* Photograph: Sean Gallup/ Getty Images • Cory Doctorow is a journalist, author and internet activist
A chart of quarterly net migration over the past 25 years showing a stable amount of 62,400 pre covid and 64,200 post covid
A man and woman at a brown desk addressing a crowd. The woman has 30 microphones the man has one. Text. walking cycling public transport rail parking above the man Electric cars above the woman.