Jay Rios

Jay Rios

@jay-rios.bsky.social

Progressive bleeding heart lefty, atheist, sarcasm with cynical tendencies, introvert. Not age verified, can't see DMs. Not looking for love or crypto advice. Live in Aus. Engaged with US politics... because how the hell can we avoid it.

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Pour one out 🫗for the nepo baby Bolsonaro and his fake tears. He met with Trump SIX times this year, begging his American Daddy to intervene in his election, begging him for tarriffs, promising him the land and resources and people of Brazil. But it didn't work 😭😭.

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“Our late-stage capitalist system wants us to be nothing but stressed-out working zombies addicted to sugar and isolated from each other by apps, so that it can more easily control us, exploit us, and monetize us when every other monetizable resource on the planet runs out”

georgetsakraklides.substack.comIs Genocide Nature’s Population Regulation?In The Biology of Collapse I wrote: “whenever culture, politics or religion seem to make no sense, biology always will”.

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You know another thing that could help 'turn the temperature down' Mr Albanese? Raise the rate of unemployment benefits so that some people are less desperate to survive, and feel slightly less hopeless and angry at least #auspol

Great. Finally I'll be able to go to the barber's without having to sweep the floor and restock the shampoo before I leave. #HairBnB

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Remember when George W Bush invaded Iraq for no reason. Then Trump attacks Iran because he never won the Nobel Peace Prize. Imagine if China or Russia did this? The US are not the good guys, I just want an Australian PM to admit it!

Handy that the first live streamed US execution will be of a Muslim man. This administration is hell-bent on cultivating enemies, both home-grown and abroad. The future of Petie's war machine depends on it.

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Well fuck aye. New episode of We Used To Be Journos out now. You can watch it in full on Apple and YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts.

Presumably, Adam, and stay with me on this... if I'm overwhelmed I'll be able to *opt* back in, right? How about you let me decide, then?

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Gawd Australia, we're really going to have to suffer the ignominy of a One Nation ascendancy because legacy media can't think of a classier way to keep selling papers than through racist culture wars, aren't we 🙄

Sure, mate a *twitch* that last seconds. Is that like Trump's extended blink? On the other hand, what's in his subconscious for *that* gesture to fall out?

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How is it that a politician doing standard politician things - opening childcare centres, repairing roads, improving budgets, supporting families - can seem like such a novelty in US politics? Such a breath of fresh air.

For too long, bureaucracy kept 7 child care centers across our city empty — spaces that should have been alive with laughter instead collected dust. We've run through that red tape. This fall, all 7 will open their doors, bringing an additional 240 free 3-K seats & real relief to working families.

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Now I’ve got Matt Finish on my mind. “Short Note” is 1 of my favourite songs by an Australian outfit. “And now I know Why darkness makes me smile The night will have its child And we'll all just blow away Until you're telling your friends we died Laughing still” youtu.be/iX6k9ZEbiKY?...

youtu.beMatt Finish - Short NoteYouTube video by John Prior
wordstoprint@wordstoprint.bsky.social

In the 1980’s I was a roadie for 4 years in Sydney…….saw the Divinyls at the Stage Door tavern, I was working for the support act Matt Finish, I thought Chrissie Amplett was wild and dangerous, I later turned down working for the Divinyls….….I was a 19 yo kid from Adelaide and needed more courage

Clearly it is a fuel crisis for the little people.

Andrew Leigh MP@aleighmp.bsky.social

One Nation says Australia is in a fuel crisis, then hops on a private jet for a fundraiser. Apparently fuel should be saved for essential trips, such as flying donors over Sydney. #auspol

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TRIGGER WARNING In 1943 Japanese officer Chikao beheaded Australian POW Leonard Siffleet. Australia demanded justice for this war crime. BRS is charged with killing a handcuffed Afghan POW. Would those who argue BRS should not be tried have said, 'I stand with Yasuno Chikao'?

Sure Pam Bondi, of all who have gone before you, you were the one he'd show loyalty. Hope the personal debasement was worth it. Wonder if history will be kind to pedo protectors.

"You say ‘oh well, there’s good ex-fish and chip shop owner turned grifting 30-year career politicians out there’. Well I’m sorry, how can you tell me there are good ex-fish and chip shop owner turned grifting 30-year career politicians?” How?!

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Replying to @amyremeikis.bsky.social

Very little. He’ll be remembered for his lack of courage and for all things he *didn’t* do… even when he had a huge electoral mandate and faced an opposition on the verge of collapse. A total and utter disappointment.