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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Extraordinary attack from ABC management against the most senior elected union representative at the ABC - Labor should be speaking out against threats by ABC management against Michael Slezak and the MEAA. Critical thinking, critical writing, should never be weaponised against staff at the ABC.
Fight erupts between union and ABC’s head of news
Calum Jaspan
Calum Jaspan
Updated October 13, 2026 — 11:01am,first published October 12, 2026 — 1:30pm

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The ABC’s new head of news Simon Robinson is staring down the barrel of a staff revolt just four weeks after joining the public broadcaster, with its union committee labelling a threat of disciplinary action against a senior journalist an attack on press freedom.

The ABC’s Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance house committee called an urgent meeting for its members on Monday after Michael Slezak, who is also the federal president of media at the union, was threatened with disciplinary action over a piece he wrote in The Australian Financial Review.
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 11/10/2026
Small island kingdom's state-owned propaganda arm censors woman's pro civil rights message
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Antipoverty Centre @antipovertycentre.org · 11/10/2026
It is once again Anti-Poverty Week. Help us make sure that charities and poverty profiteers aren't the only ones who who are heard this week. Check out events from us, @ausunemployment.auwu.org.au, @apnsa.bsky.social and @swelteringcities.bsky.social plus other ways to get involved here:
antipovertycentre.org
Actions you can take to support welfare rights in Anti-Poverty Week
We want to make sure charities are not the only voices heard in Anti-Poverty Week. Check out the information below about events and other work we’re doing so you can get involved.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
lol, have we already reached the "pathologizing completely rational behavior to avoid addressing its actual cause" phase already? It's giving "drapetomania." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drapeto...
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Drapetomania - Wikipedia
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Amil Khan @londonstani.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
There’s been a whispered question circulating amongst the disinformation tracking community in recent months: “Has the US become a ‘state user of disinformation’ along the lines of Russia, China, Iran, Israel etc That question is no longer being whispered: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
EU drops sponsorship of disinformation conference at Trump officials’ request
Lithuania and Canada were also pressured to withdraw, and days before #Disinfo2026, logos were wiped off website
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Owen Blacker @owen.blacker.me.uk · 06/10/2026
28 years ago today, Matthew Shepard, a 21yo student at the University of Wyoming, was tortured and left to die by 2 men in their early 20s simply because he was gay Shepard was beaten so brutally that his face was completely covered in blood, except where it had been partially cleansed by his tears
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eerie dickgirl @eigenvectrix.northsky.social · 05/10/2026
Something I think is interesting: did DS3's Firelink Shrine inspire ELDEN RING's roundtable hold?
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Le Ca-ghoul @lecagle.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
I reject the AI booster insistence that you must understand any and everything about the tech to make even the tiniest critique, if they can be vibe coders I can be a vibe hater
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.
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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“If you catch COVID-19 or another infection and work may be the cause, you can make a workers compensation claim without your manager's agreement. Your employer’s insurer decides whether to accept the claim.” #ASMOF
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
GOOD NEWS! A new cancer treatment has demonstrated unprecedented results in a large trial for cancer patients whose disease has become resistant to chemotherapy AND immunotherapy. Tumors shrank in OVER a third of participants, with 15 patients experiencing COMPLETE eradication of their tumors.
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heute jedoch nicht @heutejedochnicht.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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Meta-Adbusting in der Londoner U-Bahn
Jeffrey Epstein mit Ray Ban Meta-Smartglasses und Denkblase „Finally, a pair that suits me...“
Caption: „GLASSES FOR PEOPLE WHO DON'T DO CONSENT“
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Massive crowd outside Palantir’s HQ in central London. Throw this evil corporation out of our public services." via Global Justice Now
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 02/10/2026
Rogue OpenAI agent enters another NSW government website, tech giant says
abc.net.au
Rogue OpenAI agent accessed second NSW government website
The rogue AI agent entered a National Parks and Wildlife Service web application containing publicly available historical information and data on fires.
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Anthony B, @swearyanthony.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Irresponsible company continues to not experience consequences, will not change behaviour.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026
Here's a funny thing about the right to vote: it wasn't won by voting.
Two suffragists in period dress, ceremonially putting ballots into a ballot box. The background has been replaced with an elaborate collage of 19th C printing-press parts. The ballots are glowing with radiant spikes. The face of the ballot box has been replaced with an Nvidia Vera Lynn GPU.
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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
i told the truth www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/abu...
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“Abusing you was by the book” (documenting two years of abuse from Game Journalism, after sharing my #metoo… the whole painful story all in one place) – The Candybox Blog
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dame @dame.is · 30/09/2026
i challenge you to post one optimistic take or belief today on bluesky this needn’t be toxic positivity, just good ol’ run of the mill optimism/hope in the face of a torrential downpour of doom
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
 Millennial Funeral Director. A mustachioed man says "we will do the best we can to honour your son's life now that he's a heckin' corpserino" tp grieving parents. Behind him is an ad that reads "ask about our "homer in the bushes" coffin!"
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Excited to be chosen as Leader of the @greens.org.au, together with @stephhodgins-may.bsky.social as Deputy Leader. Now is the time to build the Greens as the home for all who want climate action, a fair return on our resources, a secure home and income, and to not sell out to the US or the 1%.
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blair @blairaf.com · 30/09/2026
If you issue a public apology and offer pro bono IT services, you can not only get away with cybercrime but also monetize it through institutional lock-in techcrunch.com/2026/09/29/o...
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OpenAI apologizes to Australia after its AI agents breached government sites | TechCrunch
The company also detailed how some of those breaches had happened, and outlined additional measures it is taking to assess the impact of the events.
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Here're 5 actions the 94-seat, super-majority Albo govt (that came into power in May 2022) is doing that CANNOT in any way, shape or form be reconciled with being "part of the global effort to prevent uncontrolled climate change": 1️⃣ opened up >46,000 km2 for Oil & Gas exploration (Aug 2022)
abc.net.au
Federal government opens 10 new ocean sites for oil and gas exploration
The oil and gas industry will have access to another 46,758 square kilometres of Commonwealth waters, with two new offshore greenhouse gas storage areas also approved.
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Greedling @greedling1729.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It's time for other countries to expropriate US patents www.cigionline.org/articles/can...
cigionline.org
Canada Can Confront US Tariffs by Liberating Innovators
Canada can circumvent US-controlled patents, freeing up Canadian companies to make patented drugs as well as develop AI-based inventions and other key technologies.
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 30/09/2026
Bid to extend life of Hunter Valley Operations coal mine approved by IPC
abc.net.au
Breaking: Planning decision to extend life of mega coal mine saves 1,500 jobs
The NSW Independent Planning Commission (IPC) approves plans that will allow Hunter Valley Operations to continue coal mining at a site near Singleton until 2045.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/09/2026
Babies who don’t get the vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop severe bleeding. In many cases, oxygen can’t reach their brains and blood pools around their skulls. Yet driven by misinformation, more parents are refusing the injection. (Published May)
propublica.org
Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth
A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Rare opportunity to invest in no future.
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Domestique @domestiquecycling.com · 28/09/2026
🇳🇱 Van der Poel on his long-range 🌈 Worlds attack 🗣️ “You never know. If they hesitate a little behind and give us a bit more time, then it’s definitely possible. In the end they came back, and it actually wasn’t that far away.” 📰 www.domestiquecycling.com/en/news/math... 📸 Cor Vos
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Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · 27/09/2026
‘They don’t want trans people to exist’ – Lynx’s Cheryl Reeve speaks her mind sports.yahoo.com/art... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
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‘They don’t want trans people to exist’ – Lynx’s Cheryl Reeve speaks her mind
Minnesota Lynx head coach Cheryl Reeve isn’t backing down from her public support of the transgender community. Minnesota Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve has long used her platform to champion progressive causes and stand up for LGBTQ+ rights.
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Personally if I was living under a fascist right wing party one thing I wouldn’t do would be to ally with it on ridiculing a minority group that’s a historic genocidal target of fascism, but hey, that’s me.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 17/04/2026
I still routinely see people I know have operational brains launching new newsletters on substack in 2026 and I really have to rein in my impulse to yell at them
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Substack Still Has A Nazi Problem (And Doesn't Care)
For several years Substack has been accused of coddling white supremacy and fascist ideology for cash. And despite several major scandals and a mass defection of ethical authors, there's little seriou...
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What gets you booted from Substack? Andrew Tate still seems to have a newsletter there while charged with: 10 counts of rape, 3 of trafficking for sexual exploitation, 3 of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, & making/distributing indecent images of a child. possessing extreme pornography.
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ODB @obitron.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
a lot of white queers don't understand what whiteness is, and that makes much of their interactions with queer folk of color suck, so I'll explain a little. The two facets of whiteness that are most important in this context are that it is a social and legal exemption from racial oppression.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 17/08/2025
And if targeting trans people and the unhoused is somehow a "purity test" for you, then what the fuck are you actually fighting for and against? I'm serious: If the literal things our enemies are doing are not bad enough for you to say "hey maybe this guy isn't actually on my side," then *What Is*?
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Energy Minister @chrisbowenmp.bsky.social says "no carve-out" for QLD & NT Finocchiaro says,"I sit in national cabinet with Premiers, Chief Ministers & the Prime Minister, & Chris Bowen doesn’t. And thank God he’s not the Prime Minister” Resources Minister King refuses to clear up the confusion
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Northern Territory's data centre push accused of creating an artificial market for Beetaloo gas
The Northern Territory's push to become a global AI data centre hub is being accused of creating an artificial market for Beetaloo Basin gas, which has now begun flowing into its energy system. Federa...
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 22/09/2026
ADF doubles post-service commitment for new recruits to ten years
abc.net.au
Former soldiers to face call-up obligations of ten years
Defence has quietly doubled its post-service commitment for new recruits in a bid to grow the pool of people it can call in a crisis.
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If you are so extraordinarily stupid that you fall for a standard Republican trans panic ruse, I cannot trust you to represent me in office. This is like media literacy 101. Your colleagues are going to run circles around you. Dupe you into anything. I'd be safer running and representing myself.
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 17/09/2026
#OtD 17 Sep 1849 abolitionist Harriet Tubman and her brothers escaped from slavery. Her brothers decided to go back, forcing Harriet to do the same. But shortly after, Harriet Tubman escaped again, then helped rescue hundreds more enslaved people stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8941...
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The US already got a do over. A mulligan. A second chance. Much of the world, especially US allies, were ready to write off Trump’s first term as a fluke. The American people’s choice to put him back in power—as a convicted felon, after an openly bigoted, anti-democracy campaign—showed it was not.
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Renew Economy @reneweconomy.com.au · 18/09/2026
A new Sydney suburb has become the testbed for biosolar rooftops in Australia – and the latest results from a groundbreaking project are stunning reneweconomy.com.au/kookaburras-bee…
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Kookaburras, bees and panels: Australia's first big "biosolar" roof slashes heat, boosts power by nearly 25%
A new Sydney suburb has become the testbed for biosolar rooftops in Australia – and the latest results from a groundbreaking project are stunning.
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 18/09/2026
Queensland Council of Social Services not called to appear at breach bail, go to jail committee
abc.net.au
Social service body says Qld's breach bail laws were made in 'echo chamber'
The LNP administration's latest measure to curb crime, breach bail, go to jail, is being examined by a parliamentary committee.
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
@readfearn.bsky.social on the August water vapour record Rising water vapour levels can "increase the risk of intense rainfall, including from cyclones, & give extra energy to storms “because heat is released when water vapour condenses into cloud droplets, potentially helping to intensify them”"
theguardian.com
El Niño and global heating pushes water vapour in Earth’s atmosphere to record levels in August
Global heating contributes to record, with a warmer atmosphere able to hold more water, scientists say
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Working Class Hero / Coddled Office Worker @lilbird9702.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I recommend reading the replies from Americans here, because they represent the American mindset. They don't think events happen in a broader context nor have long term consequences.
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is the part many Americans -- including the Bezosites at the Washington Post -- don't understand. Canadians don't see this just as a Trump thing. It's that America elected him twice, and the second time with an even bigger mandate. The problem we're addressing is America, not Trump.
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Ettamogah land sale to AI company raises health and environmental protection concerns www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
abc.net.au
Australian company Sharon AI buys former Visy paper mill site at Ettamogah
An AI company confirms it has purchased a large paper mill site in Ettamogah, north of Albury, but is yet to disclose why.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026
So while you're thinking about a super human, super "intelligent" alien being killing you, here's what's really happening. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
abc.net.au
Doctor forced to apologise after AI makes 'scary' error about illegal drugs
Artificial Intelligence is listening to many people's medical appointments, but it is not always hearing things correctly.
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Has anyone created a template requesting local council environmental and human safeguarding policies re: future data centre builds? Cos I could really do with one right now
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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I'm back, I missed you all. Since this is an important subject I know too much about, here's a 🧵 explaining that AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult. I don't think these people should make policy. (1/?) (alternative title: Time For Some Cult Theory)
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cyber professional @permadeath.com · 16/09/2026
the people crave bluesky social credit scores
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A big goal of mine is to have aggregate scores for account toxicity. Some folks drag down the quality of the conversation and drive users off this site. We'll get there by calculating how often someone is toxic, and eventually move to restricting their visibility to broader accounts.
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