Matt Godden

the largest incarnation of the Klan was primarily centred in the northern states, and its main preoccupation was eliminating Catholics; the Klan in all its incarnations is a strong P in WASP.

2026-05-15 05:31:57 UTC

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once you "own" one property, the bank will fall over itself to offer you finance to buy another.

2026-05-08 13:53:17 UTC

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You have my deepest apologies at causing that piece of information to break a window, and squat in the utility closet of your head.
Look up the history of a show called "Fat Pizza" to see where she came from... or, for a better time, go play with that puzzle box from Hellraiser.

2026-05-08 13:47:16 UTC

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Rebel Wilson is an Australian, for which we as individuals in a nation are either proud, or regretful, depending on how vulgar we are.

2026-04-27 07:36:43 UTC

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Roonie Rabbit tried it as well, & reverted to single 4-panel image. The difference is; read the whole comic inline just by pausing scroll, vs. 5 clicks / taps.

2026-04-27 05:37:55 UTC

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Let’s say there happened to be a large private sculpture collection in the southern hemisphere, a place where the largest example of many of the greatest modern sculptors’ works are held. And, suppose this collection might hold a large tubular work by Anish Kapoor, made of tensioned sailcloth. One might be able to get up to all sorts of mischief inside said private jumping castle art. Theoretically.

2026-04-27 05:28:46 UTC

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It’s like commissioning a Moore of Hepworth sculpture you can hang a hammock on occasionally ;)

2026-04-27 05:01:50 UTC

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When you’re rich enough to commission someone like Mies to design you a “house”, you’re collecting architecture, not looking for a residence.

2026-04-18 21:09:51 UTC

Late afternoon #Photography in #Brisbane Roma St parklands, back in 2019. The world was better then.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/427/757/363/485/239/original/486748f5566fa11e.jpeg

2026-04-18 07:00:01 UTC

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kid had never encountered an old style phone receiver, the object recognition test was out of date.
"why is that woman holding a 3d print of the call icon?"

2026-04-18 06:49:02 UTC

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My friend was called into his son's school to talk about the kid failing a cognitive test, because said kid didn't recognise the silhouette logo of an old phone receiver for what it was.

2026-04-17 03:22:01 UTC

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Greens voter, but it screams "lifelong middle class political insiders who don't understand WHY successful progressive campaigns are successful". You'll notice that Zac Polanski's UK greens video; movement, activity, physical effort literally emphasising his words.
Also, Zac does a whole section on students, pensioners & the disabled.
I am sick and fucking tired of "working people" being the beginning, middle, and end of "progressive" concerns.

2026-04-14 14:16:53 UTC

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wondering, can the individual palettes (properties, Arrange Pages, align & distribute etc) be torn off to separate floating windows / put on separate displays (IIRC Krita can do that)?

2026-03-21 03:00:39 UTC

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Barcelona could be full or mass-produced Gehry, or Hadid, or Forster, (or nightmare of nightmares; Heatherwick) or their derivatives, the contemporary postmodern international genericia trowelled over every empty space. Be thankful somewhere provided a canvas for a singular artist to have a singular vision expressed.

2026-03-21 02:33:18 UTC

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Why do you hate joy?

2025-12-04 21:02:01 UTC

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Some Christmas presents were ordered yesterday :)

2025-09-20 04:44:07 UTC

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Policing welfare is always more expensive than unconditional welfare. #UBI

2025-09-19 07:04:43 UTC

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At least John Major had the decency to be (from all accounts) really funny and gregarious in person, despite being the only man to metaphorically run away from the circus to join an accountancy firm (his father was an old vaudeville theatre performer).

2025-09-05 17:49:46 UTC

You know how everyone came to respect the personal sacrifice of the Vichy leadership, who gave up their integrity to make the #Nazi conquest of #France more peaceful? Oh wait, no that never happened, did it? Pétain was tried, and sentenced to death for Treason.
If #TimCook is thinking history will judge him any less harshly for protecting the interests of #Apple shareholders, understand Timmy-boy, you're not wading across a river of blood, you're walking down the beach and into the sea of it.

2025-07-08 17:19:33 UTC

A sincere groin-kick to the people at #Apple who took away the option for a pre-deletion warning from Time Machine, before backups get deleted, on behalf of the oldest two months of my backup set which are now gone, because Time Machine wanted 80GB free on the disk *after* it had completed a backup that would have fitted in the space that was available.
Also, the people who decided you wouldn't be able to edit the TM exclusions list while there are no TM disks configured? That's a kicking.

2025-06-23 07:12:01 UTC

In the spirit of the approaching #WWIII, I decided to re-process an old bit of #Photography from, jeez 10 years ago. The #Photographic fun you can have with your bike lights. The empty, refuse-dumped blocks on which this serendipitous arrangement of things was found has long since been redeveloped into awful #WhiteMafia #GreyMafia #Hamptons style town houses (built on about 1m of raised earthen embankment - the developers sure believe in sea level rise).
#UrbanExploration #PostApocalyptic
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2025-04-24 05:18:55 UTC

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Did Levi's CEO spend $1 million of their own money so that a rapist could have a nicer presidential inauguration party, the way #Apple's CEO #TimCook did?

2025-04-17 06:33:26 UTC

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I hope the Greens and Independents make a condition of their support that Albanese not be Prime Minister.

2025-03-28 09:36:37 UTC

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what's so hilarious, or sad, is they can surely all pronounce the shortened version... oh god, they say "nook", don't they?

2025-03-06 08:43:59 UTC

#ThoughtsForBallina #PrayersForPrawn #TropicalCycloneAlfred
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2025-03-06 04:03:40 UTC

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most likely the majority of Americans, when it comes down to it, are as compliant and generally supportive of their government as the majority of Germans were during their dictator phase. It will be phrased as "America Vs. The World" and their clockwork patriotism will kick in.
When Americans start abducting collaborators, and dumping the bodies in public places to send a message, THEN you'll know they're resisting.

2025-02-20 06:39:17 UTC

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I recall him saying we will never get American boats, because by definition the Americans will never have the excess quantity required to enable their release under the treaty.

2025-02-19 04:50:32 UTC

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Yeah, after all Chalmers needs all the handover work underway for his role as Opposition Leader while #AlboMP is working out decoration schemes for his clifftop Stronghold of Retirement Irrelevance.

2025-02-17 03:03:44 UTC

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“universally" agreed by whom?

2025-02-17 02:46:35 UTC

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I'm not sure that's a universally agreed "point" to quote posts.

2025-02-17 02:27:35 UTC

Here's the thing about #QuotePosts - it doesn't matter what #Mastodon does, how much they "thought about" it, how "smart" they were with making an "abuse-proof" system, because client apps already do them, and your client app IS your Mastodon experience.
The most important thing a client app can do, with respect to quote posts, is ignore the official guidelines, and keep doing things the way they were doing things.

2025-02-09 07:13:22 UTC

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Take the source of *this* article with the appropriate salt, given Canada's recent experiences with India (and one of the sites it quotes sails very close to being a Chinese propaganda asset at times), but it's a reasonable summary of the Australian experience with F-35s:
https://www.eurasiantimes.com/buying-f-35-fighters-biggest-mistake-of-australia-us-jets/

2025-01-03 23:55:53 UTC

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Because he genuinely enjoys President Cheeto's company.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/767/124/379/143/595/original/47b5e4ac564371c3.jpeg

2024-12-29 11:42:35 UTC

Health insurance is literally a company gambling on people dying.
#FreeLuigi
#GreatestAmericanHero
#PuttingOnMyDancingShoes
#EatTheRich
#JusticeIsAVerb
#UnitedHealthCare
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2024-12-26 04:00:33 UTC

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I watched nurses on Facebook high-fiving each other over not being required to mask at work any more, and parents joining in the "celebration" at not having to wear a mask when they took their children to the doctor.
We are doomed.

2024-12-12 09:52:07 UTC

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Yeah, I had that happen with one I used to share calamari with down by the river at the end of my street. It brought a juvenile out to meet me, which proceeded to roll onto its back and play with a stick. Parent went all Victorian-disciplinarian on it for making a fool of itself in formal company *lol*.

2024-12-12 06:33:01 UTC

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The secret is to make friends with them, so there will be a place for you and your family overseeing the conservatory, once the date is set, and the New Regime takes charge.

2024-11-08 07:09:05 UTC

Taking a line for a walk as I work out some glass gleaner through the #FountainPen nib. I always wish I could #Draw neat well, but I know that I’m better fast & messy, without the safety net of slow and painstaking. #Sketch #Doodle #Ink #Drawing.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/446/076/087/109/037/original/ba0af3e2fbe20087.jpeg

2024-10-04 03:10:26 UTC

Another stage in the #Jackpot unlocks.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-04/bird-flu-h5n1-kills-47-tigers-vietnam-zoos/104432308

2024-09-27 06:00:17 UTC

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Missing from the assessment of the iPhone SE - it’s the only iPhone on which you can use Apple Pay in a store, while wearing sunglasses and a mask. And, even if you’re not wearing those things, the Apple Pay experience is MUCH faster with TouchID than FaceID, AND TouchID works more reliably, requires fewer entries of a passcode, so encourages stronger passcode use... (1/2)

2024-07-31 06:12:22 UTC

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I sometimes harbour dreams of a formal educational institution of learning whose purpose is maintain the skills to go from nothing, to steam power for mechanical drive. On the basis that a total collapse of the post-industrial economy will end all infrastructure dependent on electricity, as well as the ability to make the infrastructure of electricity.
How to keep animals alive, how to make textiles, how to smelt, cast and work metal, how to join timber etc.