Painter, punner, prognosticator “When I use a word, Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less”

Melbourne, Australia
Joined March 2012
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The price of electricity in Victoria’s state grid was lower than every other major economy for the first nine months of 2026, according to Rystad Energy. This will be devastating news for those who insist the exact opposite is happening.
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To all those One Nation and Coalition types who have condemned Labor for its government deficits, the most recent four years are Labor’s (small surpluses and deficits as a proportion of GDP) while the deep red ones are Coalition deficits.
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WARNING: STRONG LANGUAGE President Trump escalated his invective against Norway, calling it a ‘shit house country’ and saying Norwegian immigrants are not welcome in the United States because the Nobel committee, based in the capital Oslo, has not awarded him a Peace Prize reut.rs/3U1joSt
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Senility plus narcissism =
President Trump Reveals that he is Preventing Numerous Wars on a Daily Basis. “I am also preventing on a constant basis a War between Japan and North Korea. China and Taiwan. Australia and New Zealand…” He is Truly the Peacemaker in Chief.
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what walls..?@fin
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@peterhamill If you'll be my Ottoman I can be your helot gal I can call you Daddy And Daddy, when you call me You can call me odalisque #artwiculate
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The romanticised existence of the odalisque may appear supremely relaxed, all that lazing about on settees but, in reality, there was fierce competition for the Ottoman #artwiculate
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China, the worlds biggest car market is closing in on 70% of all new car sales being Electric..
Denmark 🇩🇰 shows the way - electric cars reach 90% of the market. Six years ago, battery electric cars made up less than 10% of Denmark's new car market. In September it reached 90. To catalyse this transition, Denmark helped make electric cars more attractive to buy and own: ✅ Substantial registration tax reductions for electric cars. ✅ Grants for charging infrastructure in housing associations. ✅ Building regulations requiring charging infrastructure in certain car parks. These measures address both the purchasing decision and the practical question of where people will charge. With more than 800,000 electric cars on the road, Denmark is displacing 13% of the country's entire oil consumption - becoming more energy independent! For long we in Norway was alone at the world electric car per capita top. Now we are joined by Denmark. China, Nepal, Ethiopia, Vietnam and some other European countries are right behind. The future of driving is electric!
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Oh how we shall revel in the petrichor After this reign is over #artwiculate
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At least they’re not pretending anymore. The Liberals aren’t just preferencing One Nation. Their candidates are now actively telling people to vote for them. This is a political partnership hiding in plain sight.
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Scoop: ABC has wiped staff devices exposed to malicious ads from an Israeli company that used digital advertising to hack and track devices without a click. ABC is just one of many Australian government/critical infra/media orgs reportedly targeted
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Victorians beware. The cookers are coming!
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Lacroix couture is infamously discordant, a cacophony of colour and texture that is the very height of sophisticated clamour. #artwiculate
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The GRU hacked into Jared Kushner's iPhone. Dutch military intelligence (MIVD) then recruited a GRU spy who gave them access to the hacked phone. What MIVD discovered was that Kushner had access to two bank accounts --one Azerbaijani, the other Israeli --where Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Emirati ruler Mohammed bin Zayed deposited money. It sounds like a slightly far-fetched episode of "Slow Horses," but it's real. And it proves just how eye-poppingly corrupt this administration was and continues to be as its "special envoy" decides the fate of tens of millions in Europe in the Middle East. Simply incredible reporting by Matthew Cole, drawn from his new book on Kushner. vanityfair.com/story/jared-k…
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after drysdale @FinancialReview
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More reporting suggesting that Musk does indeed have his finger on Starshield's operability. Quite a lot of power for a ketamine-addicted trillionaire in bed with hostile foreign regimes. You might even say this endangers U.S. national security. wsj.com/world/trump-called-m…
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