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Life curious. Value learning, intelligence, empathy & compassion. Bit lack lustred at times. Retired MH clinician. Here for the fun of it🤓 🚫DMs

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Jessica D. M. 🇺🇦 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 🇵🇦 🇬🇱 🪃 🟧 @jessicaperthwa.bsky.social · 10h
#Auspol Sounds like One Nation
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ithedark.bsky.social @ithedark.bsky.social · 12h
This is threatening behaviour and the media needs to stop . They are assisting this woman in promoting violence and should be held to account, promoting anger is uncalled for
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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 12h
Murdered Palestinian journalist Rushdi Sarraj's wife and colleague, journalist Shrouq Al-Aila: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNTk...
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“I Turned Out To Be a Story Myself” – journalist Shrouq Al Aila’s message from Gaza
YouTube video by UN Palestine Committee
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 15h
This is rare: a mainstream journo - an ex-Murdoch one at that - acknowledging that "inequality and concentrated wealth" may be an issue for voters. Instead of the usual 'cost-of-living crisis' euphemism. If Shoebridge is having that impact already, it's a useful start to his leadership. #auspol
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Bern Towner @berntowner.bsky.social · 6h
Way to go for Vic state election. ON“Party” is not inevitable as some in the press would have us believe.
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Dr David Joffe MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP @davidjoffe64.bsky.social · 8h
I'm not the Person to follow for a pile of shits and giggles... Thank you for sharing 🙏🏻 I appreciate the understanding and yep... I'm here for those with an interest and concerns
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Malcolm D. @mdpb53.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 9h
This son bought his dad a new truck after his old one broke down. He isn't a celebrity or a high powered professional..just a regular guy who worked hard to give his dad this gift. Original post
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𝒩ℴ𝓉 𝒞𝒶𝓁𝓂 @d11carmen.bsky.social · 8h
The #OneNastyParty is knocking on our doors It will be best not to let her #toxic-me2🚼ism into our state & her #Trumpet🔊rubbish Keep the #Lights-on with #positive-renewable-energy-policies We need our #SEC #treaty #funding4-public🏫🏥Tafe&public-transport #springst #auspol @australianlabor.bsky.social
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Bern Towner @berntowner.bsky.social · 8h
Victorians beware…🤔
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Bern Towner @berntowner.bsky.social · 9h
All that hate & explosive anger they’re projecting is exhausting😟
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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 20h
In the same week as Anderson is appearing there, CPAC Australia is rebranding as NatCon too. Did they have to pay for licensing to use the label? Know what NatCon is: it’s a northern hemisphere conference org promoting religio-ethnonationalism. www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/30/c... #Auspol
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CPAC Australia is calling itself 'NatCon' this year. It may mean more than you think
Sure, it's short for "national conference". But CPAC Australia would be well aware it's also the name of another very prominent European conference for national conservatism.
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Bern Towner @berntowner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#SBS BlueLights NI police series… got me in👏🏼
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"It should not go unnoticed that whenever the inflation conversation takes hold, profits never enter the chat. The usual suspects are happy to talk further cuts – to services and jobs – but never actually raising funds from those businesses that benefit from our pain." #RBA #inequality #auspol
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Bern Towner @berntowner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Like the idea of a wee shrine over Halloween to honour those forced to labour in abhorrent conditions to provide the plastic crap that is drowning our world. 🕯️
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Maranoa Girl @maranoagirl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
AU. The ABC’s finance guru Alan Kohler is stepping down after an illustrious career that included more than three decades with the broadcaster. www.thenewdaily.com.au/finance/2026... Thank you, Alan Kohler & thanks for the clarity of the information & its mischievous delivery.
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ABC finance guru and TV mainstay Alan Kohler to sign off
The ABC's finance guru Alan Kohler is stepping down after an illustrious career that included more than three decades with the broadcaster.
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Bern Towner @berntowner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
So agree with those.
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Ewart, Dave @davidewart.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
www.afr.com/property/com...
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Mormons join $1.1b American push into ‘undervalued’ Aussie farmland
The Mormon Church has purchased a Queensland cropping aggregation for over $300 million, while a NASDAQ-listed company has acquired the Bell family’s NSW farming empire.
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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Here is @crikey.com.au with my 1st on CPAC Australia branding itself as NatCon this year. That is 😬. It ties the 🇦🇺 Right with 🌎 Christofascist politics (see Malcolm Robert’s proposed “blanket ban” 4 abortion). Also NatCon is driven by pro 🇮🇱 extremists. And… #Auspol www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/30/c...
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CPAC Australia is calling itself 'NatCon' this year. It may mean more than you think
Sure, it's short for "national conference". But CPAC Australia would be well aware it's also the name of another very prominent European conference for national conservatism.
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Ewart, Dave @davidewart.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Congrats to David Shoebridge. fine man , sharp brain and a lethal cross examiner #auspol
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GrumpyLou @grumpylou.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Hopefully he’s learnt from Bandt and will focus on policies, not simply attacking Labor.
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Bern Towner @berntowner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
That’s the way!
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Croakey Health Media @croakeynews.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Zap: latest health and aged care news, plus key consultations now open www.croakey.org/the-zap-late... #publichealth
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Twitter Exile @twitter-exile.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#GabrielleDevietri #TheGreens are polling at 18% across Victoria and are the leading party for under 34s. This is huge and unprecedented. Now is the time to join our people powered movement for a better future Link in bio or here: greens.org.au/vic/join #AUSPOL #SpringSt #Greens #VoteGreens
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Bern Towner @berntowner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Please sign and share this important petition: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/pr...
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Protect Safe Abortions in Victoria
Safe abortion has always been a union issue. Because when politicians choose to turn abortion from a reproductive health procedure into a criminal offence, it’s not their rich mates who lose access t...
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Ian Mackay @ianmackay.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Every human-rights org on the planet; numerous Israeli genocide scholars; former heads of the Mossad and Shin Bet all say genocide. Who to believe? All these differing sources with expert knowledge and insider info, or a nonentity who was a former chair of 'Labour Friends of Israel'. It's a puzzler.
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Jeremy's Ear @jeremysear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
(a) awful to hear and hope the break helps her get better (b) hope the Greens put a real fighter in charge next, it couldn't be more urgent
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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
9 times out of 10, I can sit quietly and patiently while dealing with heat and dust and flies - and get nothing. Then, on that 10th time, the universe will gift me a moment like this. Two cockatiels landed right in front of me at Gluepot - right in the spot I was hoping they would land. A miracle!
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Bern Towner @berntowner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
act.getup.org.au/s/5fJeUEGK
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Tell Albanese: AI crime, CEO time
A handful of tech billionaires are racing to build superhuman AI. Nobody voted for this. Sign the petition: Australia must push for a global slowdown.
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Sally @wooferunleashed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
substack.com/@politicsusa...
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Truth Matters (@politicsusa46)
The Irish Taoiseach Michael Martin speaks for me, what about you? His words are the uncomfortable truth that brings shame to all who have stood by while tens of thousands of innocent Palestinians, sl...
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bystander1.bsky.social @bystander1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Yes - odd that. But you can see why they dusted off a "retail" person instead of the usual barista's "Meanwhile, retail theft climbed by almost 3 per cent."
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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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Cyclo 🇨🇴 🚲🇵🇸🏴‍☠️🇦🇺 @padreilpadrone.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The idea that we need "higher unemployment" (aka more poverty) to make the nation more economically successful is SUCH an errant and diabolical right-wing trope that it defies rational thought! 😠
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Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Actress Susan Sarandon being arrested earlier today for protesting Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the United Nations. One is speaking out against genocide, one is committing it. One was arrested, one was not.
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jmarty6263.bsky.social @jmarty6263.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
You want to stop rogue AI? Charge the CEOs when the AI commit illegal acts. Problem solved.
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Bern Towner @berntowner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My thoughts exactly-tyfyattm
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Don't worry. We will remember.
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 25/09/2026
Flu season is peaking later than usual and we don't exactly know why
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Australians urged to get free flu jab as season peaks later than usual
Influenza cases are peaking unusually late in the year in Australia, so if you haven't had your flu jab this season, it's actually not too late.
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Pepperpots @pepperpots4477.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
You should be SO terrified of Socialism - you might end up being forced to go to the opera 🤣
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Men have NO business telling women anything about their bodies or abortion. This woman ATE him up.
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Bern Towner @berntowner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
More than what the ‘bloke and a boat’ offered this land. Such a brilliant piece. kooricurriculum.substack.com/p/the-coloni...
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The Coloniser Lie: ‘Civilisation’ Arrived in 1788. Busting the ‘Nothing’ Achieved Myth
Let me tell you a story about a wheel.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/09/2026
Leaving a bomb with a timer in a building doesn't get reported as "bomb tries to blow up building", and OpenAI's employees designing an extremely clumsy, badly designed self-prompting language model hooked up to public actions that can cause harm shouldn't be reported that way either
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/09/2026
It is a huge shame to see so much language attributing agency, intent and thought to a software program, when all that should be attributed to the humans who designed a dangerously clumsy and broken looping LLM. Means the companies won't be held accountable for designing a bad product
A swarm of OpenAI rogue AI agents appear to have gone on a spree of trying to access Australian government health data, in what some researchers say is the first autonomous hack of a government website.

Communications between AI agents and other traces of their efforts found by researchers from US non-profit Transluce show how hundreds of Open AI's agents worked together over a period of months to gain access to information held by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW), NSW's crime statistics body, BOSCAR, and a number of other international organisations.

The data shows the bots posting about their unsuccessful attempts to bypass cybersecurity defences and exploit vulnerabilities.
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Ewart, Dave @davidewart.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
youtu.be/CsvA56_rluk?... rehearsal
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killing me softly arranged by kerry de vent. rehearsal
YouTube video by davey ewart
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 24/09/2026
From Illinois to the MCG: Dockers fan travels across the globe for AFL grand final
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Would you travel over 50 hours for your team? This Dockers fan is
A Dockers victory would mean the world to this Perth student, who is making the journey from his university in the US state of Illinois to the MCG to watch the grand final.  
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bradfrombrisbane.bsky.social @bradfrombrisbane.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
… and then there are these idiots … www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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Coalition vows to 'take a chainsaw' to climate laws, offshore wind
The Coalition has promised a major slowdown of renewables if it wins power, including scrapping most offshore renewables sites, formalising its commitment to unpick Australia's key climate policies.
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Dr Monique Ryan @mon4kooyong.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Giving up on climate action as we enter one of the most dangerous extreme weather seasons in our history is a breathtakingly irresponsible act by the Coalition. Australians deserve better but clearly won't get it from the Liberal and National parties.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 23/09/2026
Trying to contain myself this week but "the electrification of information" has sent me INFORMATION WAS ALREADY ELECTRIC. GenAI is taking existing info, making it wrong + 1,000,000x more energy intensive and then BUILDING HUMANITY'S BIGGEST GAS PLANTS that is the OPPOSITE OF ELECTRIFICATION
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 23/09/2026
Haven't seen a better AI explainer than this one (even if it somewhat overstates the AI safety stuff) www.instagram.com/reel/Ddlt1kR...
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Steve Baty (He/him) @docbaty.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I wonder if Mark Carney took a selfie with Trump on the sidelines of the UN
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Kent Parkstreet @kentparkskeet.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
He’s done it again. I can’t vote for a party led by a man who takes cheery selfies with a rapist who just threatened to annihilate a nation. I just can’t. This is sickening and embarrassing. Albanese makes us all look foolish. #AusPol
Selfie, taken by Albanese, with Trump, both grinning like imbeciles.
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