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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"In the eyes of the state, a 94-year-old human rights lawyer is a dangerous terrorist supporter." This is precisely where Australia is headed if the PM's Special Envoy for the Israel Lobby* Jillian Segal continues to guide domestic policy. [*not her official job title, but the reality.] #auspol
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Dark Days-i @sopraltotude.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I love this!
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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Brutal! The Cornell rapists had to write those essays in longhand while still recovering from a slap on the wrist.
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Dr Hilary Joyce ⚕️ @drhilary.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Only 3 days to go to vote for your chosen 10 in #RadioNational ‘s 2026 #Top100books #Top100Australianbooks www.abc.net.au/listen/radio...
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ABC Radio National's Top 100 Australian Books Countdown - ABC Radio National
Top 100 Books is Radio National's annual countdown where we hand over the reins to you. You vote for your favourite books, then we take over Radio National for a weekend to count them down.
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Rɪᴄʜᴀʀᴅ Tᴜꜰꜰɪɴ ᵃᵘ ᶜᵇʳ ᶜᶠᶜ @richardtuffin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
So Australia is spending hundreds of millions of $$$ via AUKUS to buy subs from the US to protect us from... China... Meanwhile, Trump wants to sell weapons to... China... Give me a minute to try and figure this one out would you?
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Sandwich Pizza: Confused Math Meme
ALT: Sandwich Pizza: Confused Math Meme
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uppaalaska.bsky.social 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇦🇺🇬🇱🇵🇦🇺🇦 @uppaalaska.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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T. (Tammy) Greenwood @tgwood505.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“Because the truth is, the world will probably whittle your daughter down. But a mother never should.” #270 (2010s) #books #booksky #genxreader #readingcommunity #365books
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
EXACTLY 👇 THIS.......
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vivekgani.bsky.social @vivekgani.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Guess its that time again to revisit this 🧵: bsky.app/profile/c0nc...
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ladystardust ☮️ @ladystardust64.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Tony Abbott and Angus Taylor are both Rhodes scholars. Technically, that makes them well-educated. Neither is intelligent.
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Debbie Northway 🇦🇺🦘🐨 @debbienorthway.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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missinglinkage.bsky.social @missinglinkage.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
David Frazer is an Australian artist. "The Tangled Wood," 2018 wood engraving
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Considering banning smart glasses in commonwealth workplaces to protect themselves but not the broader community is 100% on brand for this government - nothing to stop people filming kids at playgrounds or women at beaches but bureaucrats will be safe 🙃
Labor considers smart glasses restrictions, new national AI standards
By chief digital political correspondent Clare Armstrong
Topic:AI
Posted about 8h agoabout 8 hours ago
A graphic showing a map of Australia with an AI chip, legal scales and cogs superimposed over the top
The federal government is considering national AI standards. (ABC News: Kylie Silvester)
In short:
The federal government is considering a ban on smart glasses in Commonwealth workplaces while advancing a broader suite of AI policies.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Let's be real: politics isn't a game of agree-to-disagree. Your views are the blueprint of your morals and proof of how you see the rest of humanity.
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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This ✊ Defend *all* woman (and everyone) from the far right’s oppressive patriarchal ethnostate plans.
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As a woman, I'm literally BEGGING you to STOP "protecting" me from trans people. I don't need this shit. My rights aren't being stolen because trans people have rights too.
Stop using women as a fucking human shield for your bigotry. We are not your moral cover.
Fucking spare me!
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Nigel Bell 🍉 @nigel63.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Signed.
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Sirius Star 🍉 🍉 🍉 @siriusstar3.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Poverty kills Can someone explain why – (rich peoples yacht money) “in an economy in which the central bank has decided we need almost 700,000 people to be unemployed – those ppl live in such dreadful poverty that it can make you up to 10 times more likely to die in the prime of your life?” #Auspol
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1treehill @1treehill.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“Always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." Elie Weisel, Holocaust survivor
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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I'm excited to announce the first of two essays I've produced this year will be published on 28 October. "Means, Motive, and Opportunity" looks at how fossil fuel producers worked to buy the numbers used to direct Australia's response to the science of climate change from the very beginning.
'Means, motive and opportunity' will be published on 28 October 2026 everywhere book are sold.
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Bronwyn Clark @bronwynhill1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I think the lesson we can all learn from this is that there is no place for fence sitting when an entire people is being obliterated in front of us. Being apolitical is a cowardly cop out. Have the courage of your convictions or don’t claim to have any.
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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Oddly (!!!!!) can't find any mention in the Australian press that the UK Government announced a couple of days ago that they they have delayed commitment to AUKUS submarine hull numbers by at least two years.
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Jewish Council of Australia @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Macklemore spoke out. Now you can take action. Sign our petition urging institutions to reject the IHRA definition. Don’t let Israel define antisemitism. Let’s get to 30k. www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2026/08/dont...
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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Israel funded the legal assault on Mary Kostakidis Stephanie Tran and Michael West reports. Read it here: michaelwest.com.au/israel-funded-th…
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Jonesy Cartoons @jonesycartoons3.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Delighted to have this #cartoon published in @theguardian.com #datacentres #environment
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 12/09/2026
Actual technology with deep, generous purpose remains extremely cool and good. I miss feeling good about machines and computers
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Thinking about how a girl at Christian summer camp asked me if my dad was in Al Qaeda and I got in trouble for asking if her dad was a Klansman bc “her question was understandable”
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WILLIAM😎 @williamstlucia.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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Buddy Guy and Big Mama Thornton • “Ball And Chain” • 1970 [Reelin' In The Years Archive]
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dawn of the debb @debbshock.blue · 12/09/2026
I don't fuckin know; sometimes you just need to look at a jellyfish.
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Dr Monique Ryan @mon4kooyong.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Communities across Australia want governments to spend public funds transparently wisely and well, on the basis of need, not their own electoral prospects.
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It wasn’t enough that a targeted campaign was used to defame and damage me by deliberately mischaracterising one cartoon. Now those same obsessive bullies are using other people’s posts about that cartoon to destroy their careers. Are we living under the Stasi now?
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Bethany Williams @bethanyincbr.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Andrew Hastie is way to conservative for my position on the political/idealogical spectrum, BUT, here are the things that stand him well apart from Pauline Hanson: (1 🧵)
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I’ve reached the point - well actually, I reached it a while ago - where I’m militantly anti-AI. Fine - use it in bioscience labs and radiology where it might help analyse data more effectively. Use it sparingly for systems engineering. Everywhere else, it can fuck off.
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Craig's Late Night Douche Bag Patrol🦘🦘🦘 @vincentsworkisdone.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Can the world news media stop calling them settlers. They are not settlers in the West Bank. They are thieves, rapists and murderers who are ethnically cleansing the West Bank.
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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Perfect description of what's going on.
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HLindalee🦋 @warriorgal.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Jewish Council of Australia @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Booker-prize winning author Richard Flanagan hit the nail on the head during his powerful speech at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas. If you agree, sign our petition urging governments and institutions to reject the IHRA definition of antisemitism: www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2026/08/dont...
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Shazzoir @shazzoir.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Blatantly stolen from AnonOpin... "If the internet had been big around the time Michael Jackson nicked all his dance moves from Bob Fosse, he'd have been hammered online for it." And here's your proof. youtu.be/kg75iIu8yjY
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Bob Fosse influence on Michael Jackson dance moves
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Kate-Eviva @kate-eviva.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Also good talk on #private boys schools and how segregation impacts on their ideas about male privilege and status. Also the use of wealth to avoid consequences.
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💚🌏Myles🌏💚 @rainbowregionmyles.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Bring back OWNING SHIT. Buy it. Own it. Repair it. Keep it for decades. Games, software, cars, appliances, everything possible. Fuck subscriptions. Fuck planned obsolescence. Fuck paying corporations forever for permission to use shit you've already paid for. OWN YOUR SHIT.
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rain-singer.bsky.social @rain-singer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The Shot has the right to "self-defence"
The Shot has the right to “self-defence”

In Crikey, Sami Shah stated that The Shot is anti-Semitic, describing our masthead as “an attempt at a satirical site for people who found Facebook comments insufficiently moderated” and our work as “Practically demonstrations of antisemitism". Embarrassingly, in the same week, The Australian more accurately described us as “left-wing” and “probing the limits of law and language”.  
 
Sami singled out two article headlines, The royal commission into the hurt feelings of genocidal psychopaths and Updates from the royal commission into the selective outrage of Zionists, which he clearly didn’t read before accusing us of sloppy “media criticism”. The headlines were mine, the body copy written by Joel Jenkins. They were no-bullshit, reality based tear downs of the fascistic assaults on our democracy, which all of us can see so plainly with our own eyes. Even liberal Zionist cowards like Shah. 

During a mass slaughter that our government is supporting materially and diplomatically, it's not good enough to have segments of the indie media community trying to un-stretch the Overton Window back inside the borders set by decades of hasbara, horrifically biased and supremacist mass media, and the whims of the genocidal psychopaths. We don’t know how many Australians love milquetoast fence-sitting during atrocity, but Pew research shows that 80% of us despise Israeli atrocity and fascistic overreach into our democracies.

Description continued on next slide As a credo, I try to treat people with the same level of respect I am shown. We have done more serious analysis and investigative reporting on this depravity than Crikey has, a much larger outlet with more staff and resources. Over the years, The Sunday Shot has also platformed many Crikey writers. Needless to say, that moment has passed us by.

To make such petty remarks at some of the few unvarnished truth-tellers in Australian journalism on this subject, in this moment of abject moral failure, of cowardice and of complicity, speaks to the hollow pettiness of Shah’s analysis. Focus on what really matters, please. 

There is enough genocide apologia in the corporate press already. It's pathetic to see it in the indie space, too. Do better, Crikey, your readers expect more. 

Fuck fascism. Free Palestine.
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Joy @jjsm.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
We went to see my granchild's Book Week parade. It's wonderful to see the kids celebrate books, but I wish schools would encourage them to make their costumes - perhaps as part of their art class. There were so many plasticky ready made costumes, many destined to be worn once and discarded.
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punterspolitics.bsky.social @punterspolitics.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
That time WA Labor tried to smuggle in a Woodside lobbyist into parliament. A big trench coat might have been more subtle. #auspol
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Justin Jest @justinjest.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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SunnyandSheryl @commgal.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A woman with a cane stands at a ticket window staffed by a man. A nearby kiosk has an out of order sign. The ticket clerk says, "OK, one more time. Go home and log on to our website from your computer, create an account and purchase your ticket with your credit or debit card, download the ticket to a smartphone, then come back at the allocated time...Just what part of 'easier and more convenient ' don't you get?"
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Joy @jjsm.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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Canberra's not for sale – demand a National Lobbying Act
Nine corporate lobbyists for every politician, and most aren't even on the register. Sign the petition to end secret corporate lobbying in Canberra.
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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.
Sorry, I can’t type that.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/08/2026
As November Kelly says, "Trump inherited a poker game rigged in his favour but he flipped over the table anyway because he resents having to pretend to play." The systems that Trump has dismantled as unfair to the US were, in fact, sources of tremendous advantage to America. 37/
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