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David Jones

@antsyturbo.bsky.social
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Retired, Widower & a Grandfather. 27 yrs in public service. Believes good people do exist. Lives in Mooloolaba. Not a religious person in any shape or form.

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Productivity Commission on the GST changes Scott Morrison did to try to win WA: "The 2018 reforms were expected to cost the Australian Government about $5 billion by 2024–25, but have ended up costing almost $23 billion" Just 360% blowout. Thanks Scotty.
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Damian Lynch 🟧 🇦🇺 Rebellion is Mandatory during times of Tyranny @dpsl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
27 years of Republican success in Texas, making their citizens sicker, dumber & poorer!
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Wild Colonial Girl - Voting Green 💚 = Voting against genocide 🍉 @colonialgirl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Just got home from Politics In The Pub with David Shoebridge💚 It was packed. New membership numbers are through the roof. The biggest issue discussed was AUKUS, & US weapon stockpiles near our town and others, making us targets. Amazing to see so many people resisting the Lib/Lab/ON war party.
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
starting to think corporate media coverage of tech billionaire bullshit is even more ridiculously credulous than the garbage barfed up by cops.
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Bronwyn Clark @bronwynhill1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The cruelty and barbarity of the absolutely fucked up failed execution of Christa Pike says everything about the death penalty and the cruelty and barbarity of the people who support it.
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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Because the Greens aren't the government and don't have demographic representative weight substantial enough to be dictating government policy. If we go down this route, we end up like Israel - where small parties dominate government policy and direction. Doesn't that work well eh. Time to grow up..
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Prof Deborah Lupton, MPH PhD @dalupton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr... Absolutely appalling - the Australian government is now charging $150 for the COVID vax for most people. The last protection now out of reach for most people
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COVID vaccine set for price hike - ABC listen
From October the COVID vaccine is expected to cost around $150.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
At a time when the most influential leaders of the U.S. need to stand up loudly and clearly for the rule of law, they are leading the charge in the opposite direction. But not Jack Smith. Kudos to him for continuing to be a much needed voice of clarity.
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 29/09/2026
sound on. full screen. oscar for best short subject
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Twitter Exile @twitter-exile.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#DavidCrisafulli & #LNP have overseen the state's first credit ratings downgrade in 17yrs, costing QLDers an extra $1B. Tomorrow his Treasurer will front the #NationalPressClub, will he answer why he's given #Adani a $½B royalty holiday when QLDers are struggling to pay the bills. #AUSPOL #QLDpol
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Cripes Mehreen Faruqi as leader might produce a record number of strokes among the old white pricks in the Australia media www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Sarah Hanson-Young and Mehreen Faruqi announce Greens leadership tilt after Larissa Waters’ shock resignation
New leader expected to be chosen imminently, with David Shoebridge, Faruqi and Hanson-Young among frontrunners
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Graham Lea @evolvable.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If it’s mostly oil prices that have caused the CPI rise, wouldn’t that be excluded from the trimmed mean which I think they’ve said is their main guiding metric? Seems counterintuitive to raise and lower interest rates to match oil prices when the oil going up already reduces spending!?! 🤪
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Kon Karapanagiotidis @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We need your help to find who robbed us. Victoria Police are doing all they can to find the men who did. Hoping the power of community might help too! Here’s 3 short videos of two of the robbers smashing into the side of our catering enterprise
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
RBA raises rates…
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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The NACC still doesn’t know what a conflict-of-interest is Dr Sarah Russell reports. Read it here: michaelwest.com.au/the-nacc-still-d…
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Dana Bergstrom @danambergstrom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Wow what an absolute shitty racists, sexist headline and opener. And ..How to ostracise at least 30% of the population who are either migrants or are children of a migrant parent with that revolting phrase “social cohesion”
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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚🇳🇿 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#NZpol Saw this excellent quote-reply to Simeon Brown’s latest attack on Labour. Worth sharing.
David Peez @RebelEkonomista

"The truck driver in Pakuranga helps pay off a lawyer's loan." No, Simeon. He doesn't. Not a cent.

When the government lends a student money, it creates the dollars and credits their account. No tradie's tax was collected and posted to a law degree. When the graduate repays, those dollars are deleted, drained back out like tax. They don't land in the truck driver's pocket either.

So nobody foots the bill. The worker and the graduate aren't on opposite sides of a ledger. Setting them against each other is the trick, and it runs on the same myth as "add it to the tab", that the government is a household counting coins. It issues the currency. The real limits are real resources and inflation, not a truck driver's tax bill.

"Someone always pays." Sure. Just never the person you keep pointing at.

Read more: http://therebeleconomist.substack.com
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Michael Mazengarb @michaelmazengarb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"One Nation's policy is asking us to doubt the vast volume of evidence that has been collected globally and the conclusions of thousands of climate science experts ... on the basis of a single temperature record." www.tempestsandterawatts.com/p/i-read-one...
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I read One Nation’s brain-rot climate policy, so you don’t have to
I set out to uncover what One Nation has planned for Australian climate policy. What I found was far more disturbing.
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David Jones @antsyturbo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yet played the game! Armbands and non-handshakes ….. pfffft. Cowards.
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Craig's Late Night Douche Bag Patrol🦘🦘🦘 @vincentsworkisdone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The U.S. weren't even investigating anything. Lying sack of shit.
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David Jones @antsyturbo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Request to journalists: When a person says they will vote for ON, bc Hanson will get the country back on track, pls ask them “back on track to what”? Don’t let ppl get away with their cliche statements and ask them to explain their reasoning.
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Kon Karapanagiotidis @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Victorian Police are investigating after our 2 ASRC Catering Social Enterprise Vans were stolen. To those who have reached out asking how they can help. There’s two ways: Chip in to help cover what insurance won’t: donate.asrc.org.au Call 000 if you spot either of our ASRC Catering white vans
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David Jones @antsyturbo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Stories like this have been written about ON members/staff for years, and yet supposedly the ppl of Qld rate her as the person they would like to see as PM. (If you believe the latest poll news)
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Mez @orangecat08.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Dear Anastasia - are you serious really? You pose a question about ‘compassion fatigue’ for family violence? wtf kind of question is that to cross anyone’s mind? No support or kindred spirit for three more female victims? How very vacuous of you. #theconversation #familyviolence
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Dr Jeremy Walker @jeremywalker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#Atlas Info request: does anyone know of any research critically investigating the Atlas Network planted ‘partner’ think tanks in Japan, Indonesia, India, Korea, Phillipines, Malaysia and elsewhere in Asia? If so pls do drop me a link or reference below!
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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
They need to jail those Cornell rapists. And they also need to jail as accessories everyone who got a text about the rape and didn't call the police. And then get rid of fraternities, those things are fucking weird and just petri dishes of abuse.
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Lisa the Leftist @lisatellstruth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Yeah, nah That old cvnt can just fvck off with that shit #fuckoffMargaret #handsoff You know she has her own fkn "church" Yuk
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Messed up. Don’t eat Tassie salmon. Toxic industry. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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More than 150,000 underwater explosives used to deter seals at Tasmanian salmon farms since 2016
Salmon companies operating in Tasmanian marine areas deployed almost 1,800 explosives in first half of 2026, government figures reveal
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 24/09/2026
Cheryl Grimmer's family gives premier deadline to review dropped murder case
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'Catastrophic failure': Cheryl Grimmer family gives Premier deadline
Cheryl Grimmer's family has given the premier until September 29 to review the abandoned murder case or face a parliamentary push for government records.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Concern? How about arrest the f*cker?? Cripes. If you or I hacked Medicare, the AFP would bash down our doors. AI does it? Oopsies! I am concerned! www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Anthony Albanese says OpenAI agent hacked Medicare and he expressed ‘extreme concern’ to Sam Altman
Prime minister says he told chief executive he was disappointed it had taken company ‘way too long’ to inform government of breach
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 19/09/2026
By fixating on immigration numbers, are our leaders missing the bigger picture for working Australians?
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By fixating on immigration numbers, are our leaders missing the bigger picture for working Australians?
It can be tempting to blame grievance politics or the rise of One Nation for the tenor of current debate, but these are symptoms of a deeper malaise When the immigration minister, Tony Burke, approached the National Press Club podium on Thursday, the eyes of every migrant in the country would have been fixed on him. But, in fact, Burke’s address was a message for all working people across the country – and a signal of the times ahead for all of us. The past 12 months have seen all sides of politics cohere around the consensus articulated in the introduction to Burke’s address by the press club’s president, Tom Connell: “there is furious agreement over a need for a cut to immigration.” The only difference across the political spectrum is in the detail: who deserves to be cut, and who is valuable or otherwise deserving enough to remain. Continue reading...
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David Jones @antsyturbo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Keeps saying it, bc we are powerless to stop it apparently.
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I saw a post earlier saying I need to integrate AI into my workflow as an artist or I'll be left behind. Sure I've seen dozens of posts like this before, but I'm really seriously thinking about it now and I am at a total loss as to what it would possibly do to improve my work.
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David Jones @antsyturbo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Condemnation will come from all areas, until her next disgusting outburst, and we will condemn her again, then rinse /repeat. She is a vile human who knows she can get away with this behaviour. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09... as
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Hanson swiftly condemned for labelling Indigenous Australians 'primitive race'
Politicians have swiftly condemned Pauline Hanson's remarks about Indigenous Australians, labelling them "vile", "divisive" and "derogatory".
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David Jones @antsyturbo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Just as the Robodebt RC showed, the moment you take away human checks/assessment and leave a machine to make decisions, you will end up with a clusterf*ck of mistakes, misery and worse, including suicide, as ppl give up hope in having any sort of bearable life. Labor shame.
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David Jones @antsyturbo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Stock up now. The need for these is increasing😡
Image of a white and blue package that shows a picture of the contents of the package. The picture is of an expandable plastic bag with a red plastic rim, often used when a person is vomiting
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David Jones @antsyturbo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Never a truer word spoken. 😢
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tonywindsor.bsky.social @tonywindsor.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
What a pathetic statement from Credlin.She was the architect of much of the vitriol Abbott used against PM Gillard.
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Victoria Fielding @drvicfielding.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Then why did you mount a campaign of lies about Gillard’s carbon price to destroy her?
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David Jones @antsyturbo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Thank you, Launceston. Mooloolaba, here I come. 🙂
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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The farright pro-Israel activists carrying out these campaigns are creating antisemitism, which is an additional tragedy in the whole damn mess. These radicalised Right operations (like most such) taint the reputation of the rest of the community for *some* scarred by a live-streamed genocide.
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David Jones @antsyturbo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Hello Launceston. Visiting family till Monday. Requesting fine weather please! #fukcancer
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David Jones @antsyturbo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The ODFO list is getting very long.
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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Waiting for the media to ask well known Catholics like Tony Abbott and Barnaby Joyce for their opinion about the conduct of the Christian Brothers and Edmund Rice Education Australia #4Corners
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This is sewer-level stuff from Littleproud.
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MsPraxis @mspraxis.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I worked for a periodontist for a couple of years and the amount of patients he had where he had to fix botched overseas treatments was shocking. I get why people do it but dental tourism can be really dangerous and end up costing so much more. Not worth it. 
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Imagine if we had a national anti-corruption commission that exposed corruption
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The Icac allegations are astounding – even with NSW’s inglorious history of corruption and property development
The evidence presented so far raises some disturbing questions about the influence of certain figures in NSW politics
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David Jones @antsyturbo.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I wouldn’t be surprised if Marles retires at the next election, to take up a cushy Defence Industry job.
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Jewish Council of Australia @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Pro-Israel groups are pressuring governments & institutions to adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism, which would prohibit legitimate criticism of Israel. We can’t let widespread adoption of this definition cement further censorship. Sign our petition: www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2026/08/dont...
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