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Irene

@basrene.bsky.social
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Into cryptic crosswords, cooking and growing my own food. Living on Gunaikurnai lands.

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Humanity Must Win @humanitymustwin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Zionist mafia @vanhollen.senate.gov. Anyone in Congress who has taken AIPAC money is compromised
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REVY @catgirlfingies.quest · 21h
Boosting this again 🥺💙
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Honor Laois 🦘#DoNoHarm🦘 @honorlaoiss.bsky.social · 21h
All men - please!
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Joint statement from Senator David Shoebridge and Senator Steph Hodgins-May
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Meagrebones @meagrebones.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I think the headlines sholuld be reading " People trying to feed and house their familes forced to enrich banks to stop inflation" #AusPol
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Honor Laois 🦘#DoNoHarm🦘 @honorlaoiss.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Seriously..wtaf... There are many better words but they have many more syllables than I am able to choke through seeing this.
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Twang 🍉 @twangmaker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Crisafulli cancelled the Gold Coast Airport Light Rail in the same week he let Adani off the hook for paying any royalties or tax. So the money to build the next stage of the light rail was instead transferred into Adani's pockets.
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 29/09/2026
Did you know that 83% of Australia’s gas is used for exports? Australia Institute research shows that over the past 5 years the Australian government has allowed the export of enough gas to supply Australia for more than 20 years? A 25% tax on gas exports could end the gas shortages. #auspol
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Kon Karapanagiotidis @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This.
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David Marler @qldaah.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The 2017 news report about the recording of James Ashby outlining how One Nation could make money out of the Queensland state election that year & fleece their candidates. #auspol youtu.be/24HcUFHnwRQ
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The Ashby scam: Pauline Hanson & James Ashby recorded discussing profiting from elections
YouTube video by Qldaah
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Jessica D. M. 🇺🇦 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 🇵🇦 🇬🇱 🪃 🟧 @jessicaperthwa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#Auspol Please repost this on all your Social media Sites and help Kon out here Australia. Mateship Fairgo
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Paid for by the U.S. Government @bluefrommagioh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Lady Luddite (KJ Colt) @moistenedtart.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We've just started getting cases of Measles in Australia because of returning travellers fyi
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Honor Laois 🦘#DoNoHarm🦘 @honorlaoiss.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Seriously?...
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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 28/09/2026
Google is updating its satellite images of Gaza. The comprehensiveness of effort required to reduce an urban landscape to this is beyond imagining. Literal carpet bombing.
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Jenny Schwartz @jennyschwartz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In the mad world of AUKUS 😜
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Shintaro @justiceninja.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You know, if you *really* cared about the wellbeing of women in college, instead of carping about the statistically insignificant number of trans athletes in sports minding their own business, you’d be railing against these Cornell fraternity cretins who drugged and gang-raped a passed-out women:
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Rob Arnol @robertarnol.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Morning. ☕️
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Kimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
But I need to smile more.
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Irene @basrene.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Riddle me this. Why do Brisbane Lions use the tune to the French national anthem for their team song?? Would have thought that was not allowed.
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dregsfrolics @dregsfrolics.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A lovely Scottish woman told me this...
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Rob Arnol @robertarnol.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Yeah nah, we have a factory of workers near the lakes laboriously putting 2 atoms of hydrogen with one oxygen atom to make the water that drives the turbines. They’re all Chinese because Australians don’t have the skills or small hands to be able to do this. It’s true! Trust me, I’m a Tasmanian.
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Michael Dowling aka MeckeringBoy @meckeringboy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Not a drag queen. Not a migrant. Not a refugee. Not a Muslim.
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Big T @big-tony.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Pauline Hanson has solved the 230 year old question: "Why did England invade a foreign country, steal the land, murder its inhabitants and destroy their culture"? Because they didn't invent the wheel!
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Nicole Chvastek @nicolechvastek.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... These are the pricks lecturing migrants and people in public housing on “Aussie values”
theguardian.com
One Nation admits using party funds to build $56,000 shed on James Ashby’s private property
Email to members says money lent to a party-linked company to establish a micro distillery
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The DILETTANTE @demwar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If this doesn’t get guillotines built then Americans are cowards
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angry-goddess.bsky.social @angry-goddess.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
F*CK OFF Gina Rinehart!!!!!
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Tim Coronel @timcoronel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
abc.net.au
Youth crime down as Victoria's crime rate continues to fall
Home invasions, carjackings and robberies all fell in the 12 months to the end of June, but police say their work is "far from over".
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Ross Floate @rossfloate.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Spotted in the wild today on a Chery Tiggo 7
Bumper sticker of the democracy manifest guy but it says
SUCCULENT
CHINESE
WHEELS
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MickS @mickstec.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Check Canada, over 6% unemployment, just over 2% interest rates. I question, when the banks are making money hand over fist, doubling their profits in 10 years, why the fuck is the RBA doing this to people with mortgages when AI data centres are driving a lot of the demand?
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Phteven @2fbs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Queensland. Beautiful one day. Moist warty sores the next.
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Megaholt 𓅃 @megaholt.medsky.social · 24/09/2026
Holy fucking shit this is an absolute nightmare; @theford.bsky.social, @cutewriterguy.bsky.social, @drspookyer.bsky.social, @ranaawdish.bsky.social, and the rest of my friends who have any sort of published written works…heads up.
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Philip Thalis @philipthalis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This SMH letter writer clearly has a better grasp on what could happen if LNP policy thought bubble on superannuation & housing were to be adopted. The banks already the beneficiaries of so much housing policy & tax breaks - don’t give them anymore leeway to ‘protect their interests’
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Irene @basrene.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Good to hear the Jess Wilson is onto the important task of stopping the AFL of moving the grand final to a night game by using ministerial powers should she ever get some. What a complete failure.
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Good Gord @goodgord.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Ffs people are just pricks Guy cancels my job last night 7pm via text due to start today and run till Friday. anyone need building and maintenance work Melbourne fully licensed fully insured - preferably 15km radius of the cbd I’m available Cheers
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3wombats @3wombats.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
WHAT: SNAP RALLY: STOP AI Data Centres, Moratorium Now! WHEN: Wednesday, 23 August | 9AM WHERE: Yarraville Community Centre, 59 Francis Street, Yarraville, VIC
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Tassie Devil @tassiedevil.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Bit of scaremongering about EVs going on here. Any modern ICE vehicle is just as vulnerable. The type of energy used to operate the car isn't the issue. It's computerised systems and internet connectivity that are also found in modern ICE vehicles. Why focus on BYD? Why not Tesla?
abc.net.au
We asked a cybersecurity expert to remotely access a BYD. It was too easy
To test the risks of surveillance and sabotage, Four Corners asked a hacker to show what China's top EV brand could see and do remotely.
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Jeffery Davis @jefferydavis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
NORWAY POST TO MAGA…
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GFRE @guildford.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
If you want lower migration then you'll also need to accept... Higher retirement age Longer working hours 6 day rolling rosters Less annual leave Fewer public holidays Compulsory aged pension part time employment Compulsory welfare recipient part time employment #Auspol Hanson as PM
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Craig's Late Night Douche Bag Patrol🦘🦘🦘 @vincentsworkisdone.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This should be a war crime.
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.
opb.org
Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report
A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.
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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Follow this very important special independent news focus from a range of outlets on the crises overwhelming the Northern Territory. Betraying children, fossil fuel, US militarisation. Don’t miss it. #Auspol truenorthnews.substack.com/p/sun-20-sep... @deniseshrivell.bsky.social
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This place is so messed up and dysfunctional and the rest of the country is paying for it all without truly
understanding the extent of the corruption and dysfunction going on here.
Chris Walsh - NT Independent
TrueNorth
Independent news media matters
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Barbara is fun
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Andrew Wilkie MP @andrewwilkiemp.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Scandalous that big oil companies are pocketing $700k a minute profit while some families are going without meals & pensioners are forced to choose between filling the car or a prescription. Australians aren’t fooled by the economic jargon trying to hide price gouging #auspol #politas
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Amante2 AmeliaBee7 @amante2ameliabee7.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Actually, PM Gillard passed 570 bills Introduced NDIS Launch RC into Child Sexual abuse Introduced National Parental Leave scheme National apology for forced adoption And more Peta’s beloved Tones gave the Queen’s hubby a fricken knighthood, FFS
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Can someone explain why – in an economy in which the central bank has decided we need almost 700,000 people to be unemployed – those people live in such dreadful poverty that it can make you up to 10 times more likely to die in the prime of your life?" www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
theguardian.com
In such a rich country, it is shameful how many Australians on jobseeker are dying in desperate poverty | Greg Jericho
Lifting the abysmally low jobseeker rate to the poverty line would save thousands of lives
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Pat G🇨🇦 🍁🏳️‍🌈🍉 @pguist.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Seriously, this is getting ridiculous. He’s the President of the WH he needs to start acting like one Instead of the GANGSTE-in-Chief FFS
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Outstanding reporting from #Canada on how deeply embedded Atlas Network partners & people are in trying to get #Alberta to be a separated US pawn. (Note Gina Rinehart is part of the problem there too.) The Atlas Network’s ppl want profit for donors, not your good. See #NZpol links. #Auspol #Cdnpoli
INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM FOUNDATION
Before immigrating to Canada, Alberta Institute founder McCaffrey was president of the youth wing of New Zealand's right-wing ACT Party.
McCaffrey said he was introduced to Atlas partner Frontier Centre for Public Policy by David Seymour, who directed the think tank's Saskatchewan office before returning to New Zealand to resume his political career with ACT.
Since being elected to the New Zealand parliament in 2014, Seymour has denied his links to Atlas Network, calling questions about his connections to the group a "conspiracy theory."
McCaffrey replaced Seymour at the Frontier Centre's Saskatchewan office in early 2012, went
through the Atlas Network's leadership academy program in 2013, and worked for the Manning Centre from 2014 until establishing the Alberta Institute.
McCaffrey has also been active in the UCP since its founding, including as a member of the party's 2018 policy committee.INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM FOUNDATION
Separatism has gone from an idea on the margins of the conservative movement to one at the centre of Alberta's government.
Over the last decade, a cadre of libertarian think tanks has been instrumental in bringing Alberta separatism into the mainstream, promoting the idea through research, conferences, social media and the press. They've helped craft government policy to prepare Alberta for independence, and to make the threat of secession a powerful "or else" in the province's stand-off with Ottawa.
Connecting this web of institutes and academics are their ties to the U.S.-based Atlas Network, and the revolving door relationship between members of the network and the administration of Alberta Premier Danielle Smith.
Atlas Network is a U.S. non-profit that acts as the hub connecting a global network of about 500
libertarian think tanks in more than 100 countries.
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