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Blood is compulsory. She/Her. Living on Darug country. Dancing the ME/CFS tango

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 15h
"Australians were getting this vaccine for free. Now they could pay up to $180" "Australians could now pay anywhere up to $180 for a COVID-19 vaccination, depending on which pharmacy they attend, with one retailer telling SBS News it was unlikely to stock it at all."
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Australians were getting this vaccine for free. Now they could pay up to $180
It comes after an immunisation program shake-up, with providers now able to set the price at their discretion.
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Ashra 🍉 @ashra.bsky.social · 13h
As an ME sufferer, you have my sympathies. They just throw stuff at you and if it doesn't work you get the blame. Recently covid shots here went from free to $165 AUD which is nuts, because that is going to mean a lot more people with LC which will cost the government more over the long term
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
We genocided some folks.
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House House @househouse.com · 15/10/2026
An explanation on why Big Walk isn't available on Xbox. bigwalk.game/xbox
Regarding Xbox

In June 2026 we announced that the release of Big Walk would be limited to computers, Switch 2 and PS5. Since then, we have received many messages and comments, asking about a future Xbox release. We would like to address those questions here:

We have made the decision not to release Big Walk on Xbox, in accordance with the Palestinian-led BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement’s call to boycott Microsoft, and their designation of Microsoft Games (and Xbox) as a priority boycott target. If you need help understanding our motives, we would recommend reading about why Microsoft is a BDS priority target, the successes this kind of pressure has already had on Microsoft, and especially, watching this great introductory piece by People Make Games.

It has always been our intention for Big Walk to be played by groups of friends, and we know that keeping the game off Xbox runs counter to those intentions. This decision means that some people will miss out on playing Big Walk with their friends, and we understand the disappointment we’re causing. We are disappointed too.

We would love for people to be able to play the game on Xbox, but not until Microsoft and/or Xbox have been removed as BDS boycott targets.

We’ve made this decision with the belief that meaningful change can be made in the world, that coordinated collective action can confront even the most powerful interests, and that one day, Palestine will be free.

Thank you for your understanding.

Sincerely,
House House

(see bigwalk.game/xbox for links)
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Sam Levin @samtlevin.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
NEW: A Palestine book by Alana Hadid and Jenan Matari has been pulled from Penguin Random House just before its release. As a result of the dispute, a long-running series of nonfiction books by marginalized folks on the histories of their peoples is also ending at Penguin Alana + Jenan speak out:
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Palestine book by Alana Hadid and Jenan Matari pulled from Random House before release
Authors withdraw book planned for young readers after disputes with editors over characterizations of 7 October
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Employers worldwide are pulling back on AI as they navigate a flood of errors and low-quality work that sap employee time, raise privacy and security risks, and drive up costs
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Companies rushed in on AI. Now some are pulling back
Rapid AI adoption left workers cleaning up a flood of errors and low-quality work
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Madeleine King told press club emissions from NT fossil fuel basin ‘are accounted for and offset’ but research found 95% of emissions this decade would not have to be offset www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
theguardian.com
Resources minister faces calls to correct her claim all Beetaloo emissions will be offset
Madeleine King told press club emissions from NT fossil fuel basin ‘are accounted for and offset’ but research found 95% of emissions this decade would not have to be offset
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Ashra 🍉 @ashra.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
How are your membership figures looking
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OpenAustralia Foundation @oaf.org.au · 15/10/2026
⚠️ Unless more of the people who use our library start supporting it every month, we will have no choice but to begin an orderly wind-down of Right to Know, They Vote for You, Planning Alerts, and openaustralia.org.au. 🔗 DONATE: open.org.au/yspb
We need your help.

Without regular donations, our free public library will close within months.

Right to Know, They Vote For You, PlanningAlerts and OpenAustralia.org.au will all be lost.
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Still trying to understand how Napster got shut down, but Anthropic is going public and still hasn’t paid us authors yet after stealing our work.
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Ashra 🍉 @ashra.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I love that you're trying to gaslight us that you just didn't explain it properly. No, we understood you just fine.
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404 Media @404media.co · 14/10/2026
Men find yet another way to film and harass women without consent, this time, using a remote controlled robot to push against a "16-year-old girl's buttocks", and this is how the most well-resourced news agencies cover it: Read *our* piece here: www.404media.co/theres-nothi...
The English coverage by even well-resourced outlets like CNN, CBC, and the BBC have almost no information beyond the police press release, which is lazy and stupid, because it is possible to figure out everything that happened here with three seconds of clicking around the internet. The Associated Press wrote that the entire phenomenon is "new territory" for the police, which, I'm sorry to say, men using tech to harass women on livestreams in 2026 is not "unusual" or "new territory" and hasn't been for many years.
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404 Media @404media.co · 14/10/2026
News from CNN, CBS, and the BBC have almost no info beyond the police press release, which is lazy and stupid. It's possible to see happened in like three seconds of clicking around the internet. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social on the German police "investigating" a robot. www.404media.co/theres-nothi...
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Being GenX/Millennial is such a trip. In our lifetimes, we saw people our age getting wild criminal penalties for pirating music and now have to sit and watch as companies gobble up our work with impunity.
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 14/10/2026
Israel's foremost natsec think tank says Israel's new doctrine rests on these principles 1. Jewish supremacy over democracy. 2. Peace is illusory 3. No such thing as an independent Arab state 4. War is key to security 5. The US is declining, Israel does not need it 6. Settlement is key to security.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 14/10/2026
Hungover Egyptologist Just Gonna Call In Cursed Today theonion.com/hungover-egyptologist-…
Hungover Egyptologist Just Gonna Call In Cursed Today
Absence Blamed On Accursed Relic From Ancient Tomb
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Ashra 🍉 @ashra.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Hey Sam, remember that lady that threatened to stab you with her hat pin if you didn't stop harassing her? That took place in a place of worship too, as I recall.
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Ashra 🍉 @ashra.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
yes, I believe Avaaz was waffling about this recently too
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
instagram.com/johnohannesian
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Pretty extraordinary for the Jewish Chronicle to run an op ed & news story about Nigel Farage warning of antisemitism in the Greens without mentioning that he is the only serving major party leader to have been criticised by Jewish groups for using tropes linked to antisemitic conspiracy theories.
Exclusive: Nigel Farage calls on Labour to rule out pacts with Green Party
After Polanksi’s party calls Zionism racist, former Labour minister says: I’m no fan of Reform leader but he’s right hereLabour must rule out electoral pacts with the Greens who have embraced antisemitic dogma
Reform UK’s leader says sectarian politics and importation of fundamentalism have no place in our democracy
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Ashra 🍉 @ashra.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
There is no such thing as ethical use of AI. What a betrayal of your members
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Ashra 🍉 @ashra.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
The family specifically asked for him not to be named, so why did you name him?
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 13/10/2026
Eisenkot released an ad earlier today which attacks Netanyahu for “expressing support for two states dozens of times”— ie in the last two weeks of the election season the opposition leadership is attacking Netanyahu from the right.
Benjamin, this is Palestine.
On 27.10, it's either the man who expressed support for two states dozens of times and will form a government of evasion, or a Zionist mobilization government of Yesh Atid! With Gantz.
Rate this translation:
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Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
This is an actual reason why Bari Weiss’ CBS foreign editor told staff that they could not include reporting on Netanyahu receiving advance warning of a Hamas attack before Oct 7. The astonishing tirade in @status.news www.status.news/p/bari-weiss...
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The hypocrisy of the UK govt laid bare. Defence minister @lukepollard.bsky.social (talking about the Houthis & Iran): "You are responsible if you fire a missile at a civilian target.. countries should not have their civilian infrastructure targeted by extremists or by another state"
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 12/10/2026
As I predicted a while ago, the media response to this is blaming the "fractious debate" and putting all responsibility on the community's tone, rather than the design choices and priorities of the corporation designing invasively, creepy products mostly used for abusive behaviours
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Travis @someforeignfield.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
A country just used jet airplanes dropping explosive bombs to drive off illegal gold miners who crossed the border from a neighboring country. Dozens of civilians were killed. That country was Egypt, and it used US-made F-16s to do it, and the people who died were Sudanese, so nobody gives a shit.
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Ashra 🍉 @ashra.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I feel like that would probably give you a terrible infection, but then I'm not a 17th century physician
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casey briggs @caseybriggs.com · 12/10/2026
An AI company now lets cops take a photo and nearly instantly figure out what specific home it was taken in, using only clues in the photo itself, and is clearly pulling data from sites like Zillow and Airbnb. www.404media.co/ai-company-l...
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AI Company Lets Cops Pinpoint Specific Houses Based on a Single Interior Photo
Raven, previously called GeoSpy, lets cops figure out what specific Airbnb or Zillow property a photo was taken in.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
modi has spent the last 12 years being the guy that Trump wishes he could be and gets about 1/300th as much attention as Orban who was lording it over a country maybe 1/35th the size
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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
‘Protect the Dolls’ is a term meaning ‘take care of trans ppl’. Its origin is due to the campaign of persecution & violence aimed at this vulnerable part of the Gay community. LGBTQ ppl nationally, & internationally, have been flagging that UK state TV is actively transphobic, for years. More proof!
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Ashra 🍉 @ashra.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Elias Greig @eliasgreig.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is an extraordinary example of a liberal writer laundering far right politics. The property the author drives past is notorious for far right messaging — the banner 'Centrelink is Evil' likely refers to the belief, spread by the Telegraph, that "Muslims" are rorting it to fund terrorism.
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A banner along the Pacific Highway speaks volumes about why some communities are turning to One Nation
‘Centrelink is evil’ isn’t a call to slash welfare payments – it’s a sign people are frustrated about the ability to access government support
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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
What’s happening to our climate is utterly terrifying. We’re looking at 4 degrees above average this southern summer www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
‘Jaw-dropping’ El Niño bursts through temperature record months before peak
‘Godzilla-level’ phenomenon is supercharging the climate crisis and will have a huge impact on communities across the world
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 09/10/2026
Three years on, Israel continues to asphyxiate #Gaza. With Israeli forces now occupying approximately 65 per cent of Gaza, the ‘Yellow Line’ is further restricting where Palestinians can live, putting people at risk of being shot and disrupting aid. www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-th...
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Emma Shortis @emmashortis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Once again, Australia goes missing.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
As others pointed out, Farage lost multiple times before having a single victory. And every loss was accompanied with a media discourse playing up his influence. They kept that up until he actually won.
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Hey guess what everybody? We’re doing a climate cartoon award again and we’re naming it in our dear, late friend Jon Kudelka’s honour!
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Ette Media @ettemedia.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The Daily Mail used an image of ex-IDF soldier and right wing agitator Avi Yemini as an example of pro-Palestine protesters “clashing” with cops. Righto. It’s been more than 36 hours since this article went live and despite a campaign for a correction by News Cord, the image is still up.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The "Kudelka Climate Cartoon Award announces 2026 longlist" thepoint.com.au/new/261009-k...
thepoint.com.au
Kudelka Climate Cartoon Award announces 2026 longlist
The annual Stanley Awards, Australia’s premier awards for cartoonists, has announced its long list for best climate cartoon honours. Born out of a boycott of fossil fuel sponsorship, from this year th...
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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Ashra 🍉 @ashra.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Have you tried prunes?
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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Find a special enemy in your life who hates you as much as Chris Minns hates activists
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Chris Salisbury @chrissalisbury.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Remembering (yes, remembering) that time 40 years ago this month when Queensland Museum carted replica dinosaurs through busy inner city Brisbane streets to new museum digs at South Bank/Kurilpa
A flat bed truck carrying a replica Tyrannosaurus Rex through traffic in inner Brisbane/Magandjin in October 1986 [pic: QLD Museum]A truck arriving with a replica Tyrannosaurus Rex at Grey St, South Brisbane where Queensland Museum opened on its new site in October 1986 [pic: QLD Museum]
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Ashra 🍉 @ashra.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
She looks like she has suspicions
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🐈‍⬛💜 phonakins 🍉🌲 @phonakins.com · 07/10/2026
Under-pressure families suffering cutbacks to their disability supports are being referred to child protection services if they complain.
canberratimes.com.au
Complaining NDIS families face child protection threats
The national disability agency is referring families that complain about support levels to child protection services, an autism...
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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026
ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)
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Ashra 🍉 @ashra.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It's also around the $160 mark, which is insane, considering how much cheaper the flu shot is?
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