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Pam Swanborough @NettlePot

self-sustaining, graceful degradation, not a robot. Writing, editing, food growing, doodling and noodling about. Angered by climate neglect. LeftieGreeniePirate

Joined April 2013
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LNP bemoaning #CommonwealthGames will damage our international reputation. Fuuny, they didn't care when it came to action on climate... or treatment of indigenous citizens... or robodebt... or having a clown as PM... #auspol
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The main problem the US has to deal with atm -- not homelessness, not climate, not health, wealth or happiness -- is how to schedule all the court hearings for a particular individual before the next election.
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Because, you know, *being in court* can be called electoral interference... Whereas *being proved a liar and a self- serving traitor* is no biggie for RW politicians. And *being in prison* is no bar to being the leader of the :checks notes for irony: free world
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Two Feathers Press@FeathersPress
24 May 2023
Meet people... have fun... plot a murder... 👇👇👇 @YeowartLyn twofeathers.press/2023/05/14…

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When it's too cold for DIY, make yourself a cosy corner and get on with things to an Arvo Pärt playlist #newauthorphoto #waitingforwalls #waitingforheating #brrrrr
Woman in thick winter clothes sits inside by a large window, working on a laptop. Work boots and coffee cup are nearby. The wall behind her needs repair and painting

ALT Woman in thick winter clothes sits inside by a large window, working on a laptop. Work boots and coffee cup are nearby. The wall behind her needs repair and painting
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Marie sarjeant@marie_sarjeant
30 Apr 2023
Replying to @JGademski
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Phillip Adams@PhillipAdams_1
24 Feb 2023
Massacred. Raped. Poisoned. Enslaved. Their children stolen. Their lands taken. Their religions, their culture and their languages destroyed.. yet there’s a No campaign?
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Kitchen Garden pamswanborough.com/2023/02/2… (a frivolous little thing I sold a couple years back :) )

Kitchen Garden

…Her friend Cat seemed to be in love, and, boringly, to be in love with someone else, and Daisy herself felt isolated, surplus to need and ready for recycling, grey as the compound walls; col…

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Sandra K Eckersley@SandraEckersley
20 Feb 2023
Replying to @Dan_Bourchier
The IPA needs then to provide equal funding to the YES campaign. Mundine is yet to respond to questions about whether he is paid, in cash or kind, to campaign for the NO campaign. #auspol
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Idly wondering if 'what the fuc' was overtaking 'how are you' as the most-asked question, i just stumbled on this intriguing result from Ngram 😅 Hey, 1860s, you OK babe?
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Me: Really need to stop thinking about that person. :goes to sleep: My brain: ok, first stop thinking about their shirt... slowly... button by button...
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If you haven't idled on a country station in 35°C shade, waiting for a train delayed by heat, and listening to insects and the tin roof ticking in the sun while the once-staffed now-locked waiting room is cool behind thick brick walls, have you even been outside?
An old country train station platform, tracks disappearing into the distance. A canvas rucksack sits on a bench, unattended.

ALT An old country train station platform, tracks disappearing into the distance. A canvas rucksack sits on a bench, unattended.

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I was in my diary app, scheduling some writing time. But my phone has a problem with English Tomorrow is now a Wring Day, and I think that's possibly more accurate, on consideration
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We're dead 💀
I'm @Ketanjoshi.co on Bluesky@KetanJ0
8 Feb 2023
Holy moly. New CDP shows out of 19,000 corporations w/ data collected by CDP, 81 (!!) have a credible, detailed climate plan. businessgreen.com/news/40741…
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Everything is better for a bit of sunshine
Looking up the unrepaired hallway towards the open front door, with morning sun light coming and highlighting the yellow painted door. Some bits and pieces of renovation stuff are cluttering up the hall.

ALT Looking up the unrepaired hallway towards the open front door, with morning sun light coming and highlighting the yellow painted door. Some bits and pieces of renovation stuff are cluttering up the hall.

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“Fiction isn’t a lie at all, but a true representation of the distortion that everyone makes of life.” “Plot is the gradual perturbation of an unstable homeostatic system and its catastrophic restoration to a new and complexified equilibrium.” J Barth
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“Drolls & dreamers that we are, we fancy that we can undo what we fancy we have done.”
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“Every artist joins a conversation that’s been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene.”
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“In art as in lovemaking heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill, but what you want is passionate virtuosity.” John Barth👌
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I'm at that interesting age where if a guy says I'm beautiful I can't decide if they're hoping to inherit or just taking the piss.
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