iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 25/06/2026

Hi! I'm looking to speak to anyone who is finding ways to resist/work around mandatory AI usage policies at work. Mostly games industry-related, but happy to speak to anyone adjacent as well! Published quotes can of course be anon if desired. DM me here or email at luke@aftermath.site, thanks!

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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Read @amyfallon.bsky.social at Crikey on how the Alliance Defending Freedom is coming after Australian freedoms for LGBTQIA people and then reproductive healthcare. Your body won’t be your own if they win, Aussies. I share my quotes with you here. 💜🏳️‍⚧️💜 #Auspol www.crikey.com.au/2026/06/24/a...

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John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Calls and text messages have flooded me in the last 72 hours from friends and colleagues in Sierra Leone and elsewhere: Are my meds going to be cut off? Am I going to die? I don't know what to tell them. I don't know what to tell anyone. Hope is my whole jam, but I feel very distant from it.

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 29/01/2025

I have never seen anyone flip as quickly as Robert F. Kennedy did on the question of whether a woman has the right to control her own body.

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Amy Fallon @amyfallon.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Reckon there might be a few people from UK, Canada, South Africa, US and elsewhere who might like this. The huge problem may be the timezone. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...

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New Zealand to loosen visa rules for digital nomads

The so-called "digital nomads" include visitors such as IT specialists, as long as they are not receiving any income from NZ sources.

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Dawn @bluedawn3.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Frangipani flowers are one of my favorites in my garden, they smell divine. Harry as usual has to be in the picture. #garden #australia #dogsofbluesky

Frangipani flowers with a sun chair and border collie in the background

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Amy Fallon @amyfallon.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Waiting on people to get back to me, but in case there’s any climate protesters in Australia happy to speak to me for a story please let me know (ideally looking for people who have been arrested in non-violent protests). Ta #climate #Australia #journorequest

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Emily Mayo @emilymayo.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Everyone interested in campaigning and social change should know that gun organiser @sharna.bsky.social is here. Most of the time great organising work isn’t publicly seen, and that’s deliberate, and it works. X

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Amy Fallon @amyfallon.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

"I remember going to see a play at the Royal Court in which a character fell into homelessness and thinking: 'I’m one screw up away from this, this slipping off the face of the earth.'" hannahbetts.substack.com/p/loving-thy...

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Loving Thy Neighbour

The strength of "weak ties"

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Amy Fallon @amyfallon.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I know I am a natural helper, and I know I'm not the only one to feel like this, but do get sick of doing things for other people at times and then when you need something back they don't do the same.

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Amy Fallon @amyfallon.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

What a toxic site X is. I went back on to DM someone about something for work and I noticed I had a reply to a homophobe from something I posted in December 2023. Such desperados 🤣

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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Every morning we wake up to more horror – but worse than that, more people who are seemingly indifferent to it. Compassion burnout is real, but it is also what power wants. Empathy keeps us human and yes, it is heavy, but it's a burden worth holding ♥️

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Just about sums it up

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 27/01/2025

Withdrawing US funding from the World Health Organization is a potential disaster for public health worldwide, due to the impact it will have on the important work the WHO does. Preventing the CDC from even *talking* with WHO personnel is a step much farther toward undermining global health & safety

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CDC ordered to stop working with WHO immediately, upending expectations of an extended withdrawal

U.S. public health officials have been told to stop working with the World Health Organization, effective immediately. The surprise decision is focused on the U.S.

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Amy Fallon @amyfallon.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Thank god for a cooler day, although have loved the sunshine.

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Amy Fallon @amyfallon.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Got a few free Substack subscriptions to give away atm after I subscribed to some newsletters (not mine! Mostly women writers and journos from UK) so if any one wants me to send them one, particularly any freelancers, please let me know. Good for a month.

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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Best of 2024: Reflections on Aroona Dam near Leigh Creek.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Wow. Caroline Kennedy breaks her silence on RFK Jr in a message to Senators: “We grew up together. It’s no surprise that he keeps birds of prey as pets because Bobby himself is a predator. He enjoyed showing off by putting baby chickens & mice in a blender to feed to his hawks.”

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

The Government’s own shocking data shows a staggering 97% of new patients who try to get an NHS dental appointment fail to get one We all need to back the @thebda.bsky.social in its call for urgent action to save NHS dentistry youtu.be/UtqAtGAnuC0?...

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People having to pull out their own teeth with pliers is not Victorian - it’s medieval

YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic

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Amy Fallon @amyfallon.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I know someone will @ me about this, but sick of stuff like this by JSO now (although not as bad as four days of highway disruption). www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Just Stop Oil activists interrupt play starring Sigourney Weaver in London

Two protesters walk on stage to boos and some cheers during performance of The Tempest in West End

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Amy Fallon @amyfallon.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

On the topic of dentists in Oz, the UK and elsewhere, here's something interesting I learnt and got shown when I recently went on the #Katoomba Story Walking Tour (which btw I highly recommend): it's an 1886 ad feature. Apparently the dentist used to do monthly sessions here. #Australia

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peppagirl.bsky.social @peppagirl.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Days are getting longer! Lake Ontario,Toronto.

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Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Just a quick update from my publishers today for those having problems buying the book version of #Gunnawah Apparently the 2nd print run has also sold out They're doing another print run as we speak & it should be back in all good bookstores and online in about a week'ish. Thx for your patience🙏🏽

A front cover of Ronni Salt's novel, Gunnawah, which features a dark grey-green river with bushland in the background, a high cloudy sky and a crow sitting on a tree branch in the water. This book cover is laid over a still from a movie of a 1970's RSL club with poker machines in the background and Australian 1970s licenced club's decor, including hideously coloured wallpaper. A middle aged woman with dyed black hair and lots of make-up is playing the poker machine and staring at a man beside her in a cream, short-sleeved polyester shirt and a bad hair-cut.

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Amy Fallon @amyfallon.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

True, although am also happy to not have to pull out my own teeth or stand in a queue of hundreds where the cops are called for a dentist like the Brits. (Maybe that's a warning sign for us and of course things could always be better). www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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How Australia’s ‘unfair’ dental system – and the way $1.3bn is spent – is driving inequality and leaving millions of people behind

Half of all government spending on dental care goes to private insurance rebates – meaning those without often skip treatment until things get worse

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Amy Fallon @amyfallon.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

OMG it’s a sizzler. The pool later or else 🌅

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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

That surreal feeling when an Australian of the Year wears your website's merch to meet the Prime Minister

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 24/01/2025

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

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LIV 🌻🍉😷 @mmechomski.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Bundjalung country. The beautiful NSW north coast.

Country scene , fields, river, hills. Bundjalung country nsw Australia.

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Amy Fallon @amyfallon.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Posted a link to a news story on Sudan and someone said what about Palestine? Gotta love it. Please don't let more of these people come over here from X.

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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

The horror continues in eastern Congo — yes, mineral-rich eastern Congo. Rwanda-backed M23 fighters have taken Goma, a city of a million people. Water & power cut off. Thousands are fleeing. Over a dozen UN peacekeepers killed. Those minerals? Some are probably in the phone you're holding.

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Amy Fallon @amyfallon.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

This is great to know about. (Incidentally I just signed up for the paid newsletter the other week). freelancewritingjobs.substack.com/p/the-freela...

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The Freelance Writing Jobs New Directions Bursary

Announcing a new writing opportunity.

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Amy Fallon @amyfallon.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

"Is it time to start using the word “addiction” to describe our phone-induced solitude? It might help nudge us in the direction of treating the problem." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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There’s a word for people who prefer phones to meeting friends: addicts | Martha Gill

Ditching hanging out for isolated scrolling on our sofas is a dangerous habit that warrants help on a par with gambling

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