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Collette Snowden

@drcollette.bsky.social
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British/Australian - Communication and Media academic and writer interested in media effects on human society. Everything interests me, especially communication, media, language, music, technology, complexity, and contradiction.

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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 21h
This man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10h
This is the book corporate America does not want you to read — which is exactly why you should pick up a copy.
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mariewalsh18.bsky.social @mariewalsh18.bsky.social · 23h
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Stilgherrian @stilgherrian.com · 29/09/2026
It is my sad duty to report that the Australian government failed to renew the trademark registrations of Sabin the Immunisation Bear, mascot of the Immunise Australia Program. search.ipaustralia.gov.au/trademarks/s... search.ipaustralia.gov.au/trademarks/s...
A black and white cartoon outline of a bear's head, highly stylised, but cute, and tilted to the right at a jaunty angle.
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Eriko Christy @erikochristy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
what a strange coincidence that every woman has friends who have been sexually assaulted (and quite possibly has been herself) and no man seems to be friends with any rapists!
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Experts say it is spreading unchecked in healthcare facilities. The (CDC) has recorded over 3,130 screening cases of Candida auris, a highly resilient yeast that can cause severe, sometimes fatal infections in seriously ill patients.
A drug-resistant fungus is spreading across the U.S. and has infected people in 23 states
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It's already estimated that the richest 1% alone evade $163 billion in taxes every year. But Trump gutted the IRS — including the unit tasked with auditing billionaires. The agency's audit revenue fell 35%. Now, Trump's IRS is not publishing data on unpaid taxes. See the problem?
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angry-goddess.bsky.social @angry-goddess.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Tim Wilson will never need child care, will never need the NDIS and will never need aged care. #auspol
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Paul @irishpaul68.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
No words required.
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I was a rape crisis counselor for many years. The Cornell story is not just Cornell. It’s all colleges and universities. And it reminds me why I am so relieved that my own daughter is done with college.
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
33,000 Palestinians expelled from refugee camps nearly two years ago are still forbidden from returning. In January 2025, the IDF launched an operation dubbed “Iron Wall” across refugee camps in the West Bank, leading to what the UN describes as “the longest and largest displacement crisis
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David Marler @qldaah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
91 Queensland children known to protection services died last financial year. The report was dropped last Friday but neither Premier David Crisafulli or Minister Ros Bates have faced the media. Police Min Dan Purdie said the LNP was doing more than Labor. #qldpol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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Qld opposition says premier needs to 'front up' after child deaths report
The Queensland Family and Child Commission's annual report reveals 452 children died in the last financial year, with preliminary figures showing 91 of those children were known to the child protectio...
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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is what your glorious mainstream media supports, what saviour Segal supports, what your 'light-on-the-hill' Labor Party supports -- wantonly, deliberately, demolishing 1000s of surrounding private homes, but saving one school building, 'for the vibe'.
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LAFAYETTE @lastudiolafayette.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Kon Karapanagiotidis @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I’m devastated this morning. We have just had two of our @asrc1 social enterprise catering vans stolen. Roller door smashed. Food stolen. Safe destroyed. Staff distressed. TWO VANS LICENSE PLATES - mini vans with ASRC Catering on them Renault is 1UO2YV Peugeot is 2DW4TB
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Collette Snowden @drcollette.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
How many times do you need to be told? The consequences of climate change are not massive catastrophic events like a blockbuster disaster movie, but creeeping, insidious, everywhere, and everyday, and cumulative, until the point of total collapse is reached.
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Rocky @blakbob0.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The preliminary data also revealed 102 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander child deaths have been recorded, compared to 88 deaths in the year before. This is fucking criminal.
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Collette Snowden @drcollette.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Bastardry continuing while the world sits and watches. The despair wreaked by Israel on Palestinians is heartbreaking, and the intentional cruelty incomprehensible.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 27/09/2026
Gaza: a week in the life of five ordinary Palestinians
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Gaza: a week in the life of five ordinary Palestinians
As the war pushes deep into its third year, what does daily life look like for people living there and how has the conflict changed it?
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Didn't expect the bloke who does a Nazi salute and promotes racists to run a company full of racists.
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Israel reportedly dropped hundreds of packets of “skunk water” on displaced Palestinians in Gaza overnight – releasing a rancid smell described as a cross between sewage and rotten corpses. The sickening depravity of Zionists ..absolutely despicable people 🤬🤬🤬🤬
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@SpokaneTom @spokanetom.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"shared values", @albomp.bsky.social ? "upholding international law", @senatorwong.bsky.social ? Time to ditch these fascist clowns in Washington. #EndAUKUS #auspol
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David Marler @qldaah.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
One Nation GM Kelvin Morton sent the email confirming the $56k James Ashby shed. "He said the recently completed 64-square-metre Colorbond shed was built on Ashby’s property in Yeppoon because that was where the party’s master distiller was located." #auspol www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
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One Nation defends $56k party spent on Ashby shed as ‘unconventional’ fundraiser
The minor party’s general manager assured members the “unconventional” endeavour would benefit the party.
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Collette Snowden @drcollette.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Steve makes an important and urgent argument here. We cannot allow the tech industry to get off the hook with the defence that they "Didn't know this would happen" or that the technology somehow "did it by itself."
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Steve Moskal @samoskal.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
OpenAI admits hacking via its own designed and managed software infrastructure, but potrrays to be amplifying its negligence by ridiculously suggesting its inanimate software 'agents' are accountable for it and not them, the owners, designers and developers ! See the anthropomorphising scam ?
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Richards' boycott and public statement...marks the first time a participant at the Chess Olympiad has boycotted Israel and explicitly pointed to the country’s genocide of Palestinians." @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social A moral compass the Australian govt lacks. www.lamestream.com.au/australian-c...
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Exclusive: Australian Champion Announces World-First Boycott of Israel Over Genocide
Australian Heather Richards has made the world-first statement of explicitly saying that Israel's genocide is the reason she will boycott a match against the country at the chess world's biggest tourn...
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Collette Snowden @drcollette.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
There are about 3500 billionaires in the world if each of them gave a half a million dollars i.e. 0.05% of only one billion dollars - there would be 1750 million dollars immediately. Most of which would be spent in enterprises directing profit BACK to them. But still they won't help.
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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"The World Food Programme said it had received around $206 million for its operations in Sudan since the beginning of the year, compared with $645 million last year, & needs another $300 million to maintain its current operations." www.youtube.com/shorts/Ukv9y... #News #Sudan #SudanNews #WorldNews
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WFP: Sudan needs $300M more as 20M Sudanese are at risk of hunger
YouTube video by Al Mayadeen English
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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
KENYA: Public University Lecturers Issue October 2 Strike Notice Over Stalled Collective Bargaining Agreement streamlinefeed.co.ke/news/public-...
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Public University Lecturers Issue October 2 Strike Notice Over Stalled Collective Bargaining Agreement
The Universities Academic Staff Union has directed lecturers across Kenya's public universities to strike on October 2 over a stalled funding agreement.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Have the BBC forgotten how to do proper reporting? The arrest isn't "over video", it's over the dinghy slashing.
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Briony Kidd @brionykidd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Sheeran still trying to both sides it, calling Palestine 'the most complex political issue on the planet'. It's *not* complicated and that bullshit stopped many of us seeing reality for years. In 2026, there's no excuse. We have all witnessed a government murdering children and gloating about it.
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Collette Snowden @drcollette.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The logic of him having a clear record should be adopted across the whole legal system e.g. I hadn't murdered anyone before this one, which was just a random one-off slip, so really I'm innocent.
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Collette Snowden @drcollette.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
When will the Special Envoy on AI be appointed? And will they be on the board of Anthropic?
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When the Special Envoy on AI be appointed? And will they be on the board of Anthropic?
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Sean Brodrick @seanbrodrick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
U.S. has worse wealth distribution than pre-revolutionary France did. #EconSky
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Collette Snowden @drcollette.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Sensible move by Greens to ask for audits of government IT systems - but the AI companies should pay for it - it's their flawed technology that makes it necessary.
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Collette Snowden @drcollette.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Anthropic need to be prosecuted for cybercrime in Australia
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mleroi.bsky.social @mleroi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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‘People had given up on Gaza’: Norman Finkelstein on The David Hearst Podcast
YouTube video by Middle East Eye
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recyclotronix.bsky.social @recyclotronix.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
21% of Israeli are Arabs. Now with no vote.
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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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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
In the US, AIPAC operates as a foreign agent for Israel. The Israel lobby in Australia performs the same function. With their added advantage that the PM has one of the lobby's foremost reps, Jillian Segal, to advise him on policy. Foreign interference by prime ministerial appointment. #auspol
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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The arts in Victoria are in crisis. A key reason is the state government has slashed arts funding. A group of artists and small cultural organisations have got together to campaign for better policy dontbreakourarts.org
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Don't Break Our Arts
Don't Break Our Arts : Make a donation today to support Don't Break Our Arts
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DemCast USA @demcast.com · 23/09/2026
Rep. Maxine Waters confronted Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent over the administration's Cuba strategy. "You cut off all the oil to Cuba. You’re starving the families, you’re starving the children." Bessent’s Treasury has sanctioned Cuba’s oil, gas, & energy imports.
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Collette Snowden @drcollette.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The living definition of a two-faced crawler.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 19/09/2026
We made the mistake of accepting “ambitions” instead of actions (like making polluters pay as they should) and we’re now paying the price for that. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/u...
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Why States Are Cutting Back on Their Climate Goals
Ambitious aims have given way to political anxiety over prices as many states’ 2030 emissions targets appear increasingly out of reach.
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Please someone write again about Albanese's peerless political instincts
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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine personal opinions only @papootx.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Trump Confessed War Crimes
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