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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 16/08/2026
Every conversation about bike lanes is like: "Car crashes kill a huge number of people every day, including pedestrians, cyclists, & car occupants. Good bike infrastructure has been shown to make everyone safer (& doesn't increase congestion)." "But sometimes cyclists break rules & hit people!"
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I like @theshovel.bsky.social proposal that #PervGlasses wearers be required to don a Rolf Harris costume. But to make the Perv ID process even simpler, let's make it a Mark Zuckerberg costume. theshovel.com.au/2026/08/11/s...
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“Smart Glasses” Users Required To Wear Rolf Harris Costume, Under New Proposal — The Shovel
Identifying when someone is wearing Meta’s new ‘pervert glasses’ will become easier under a new proposal that will require users to wear a full Rolf Harris costume and carry a wobble board.
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Karen @kcimt122.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Hey, Vic public transport enthusiasts, I have a question. I don't travel outside Melb very often, but I did last Thursday. I thought the Myki fare structure in regional areas was basically the same as Melb. That is: under 2 hours, a 2-hour fare. Over 2 hours, an all-day fare. No matter how far. >
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Karen @kcimt122.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
"Ann-Marie Smith’s case is extreme, but the response to it has been entirely ordinary. It has treated disability as a nuisance, an excuse to do less. It has shown how a system can blame a woman for her own death."
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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The ABC has remembered that JobSeeker exists, and estimates that recipients are being plunged into $420 of debt each fortnight www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
ABC estimates that the average jobseeker us left -$423.75 in arrears each fortnight which doesn't account for medical costs, clothing, transport, bills
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Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.eurosky.social · 07/08/2026
The far right talks about protecting women and girls. It is never about protecting women and girls, But controlling women and girls. Coming to a Government near you, unless you vote to stop it.
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Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 07/08/2026
Labor is firing back up its cooked welfare penalties system despite multiple findings of illegality and dysfunction and no evidence those problems have been fixed. And who's administering these penalties? The profiteering providers generating investor returns from human misery.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
If Spider-Man was real, he’d be kicking ICE’s ass in EVERY friendly neighbourhood. And never forget that his co-creator Stan Lee constantly used his platform to fearlessly call out fascism, nazis and bigotry.
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Alice Grundy @alicektg.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
How come we're still taxing the winners of arts prizes and not the winners of The Block?
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Miles Franklin winners are taxed but winners on The Block aren't. How's that fair?
Last night, Queanbeyan local Omar Musa won the 2026 Miles Franklin award for the 'novel with the highest literary merit which presents Australian life.' He received a $60,000 prize, only he won’t get ...
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The doctor who tried to save lives during Covid is being treated like a villain. The traitors who beat up cops at the Capitol on Jan. 6 are being treated like victims or heroes. It's American madness.
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Live updates: Senate committee to vote on whether to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress | CNN Politics
Sen. Rand Paul, a longtime Fauci foe, announced the vote after the retired scientist invoked the Fifth Amendment over 100 times during a committee hearing last week.
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Fake Yarra Trams @fakeyarratrams.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Throwback Thursday: Swanston St, 1956, during the Olympics. People are just randomly crossing the road wherever they please, blocking cars from using the road, effectively turning it into Swanston Walk, a silly concept that will never work. #YarraTrams
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Karen @kcimt122.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Last week, curious to know just how effective these suppression orders are, I did a bit of googling. In less than 2 minutes, I found the name Ralph Carr mentioned more than once as the high-profile convicted rapist in this case. Sure enough... www.theage.com.au/national/vic...
theage.com.au
Entertainment stalwart Ralph Carr identified as mystery rapist after suppression lifted
Ralph Carr’s name has been shrouded in secrecy for years after suppression battles over his rape prosecution.
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Karen @kcimt122.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I am creating myself a customer account with Opera Australia - name, contact details, etc... They have the most extraordinary list of titles to choose from. I am tossing up between Air Vice Marshal, Her Excellency Prof the Hon, or Marquis. (Marchioness is not on the list. How sexist of them.)
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Tractor Boy🚜 #FBPE 🇪🇺 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @tommoitfc.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
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Alom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Had no idea there was an international day of friendship, probably because as a society we value and celebrate romantic love to the detriment of other types. Anyway, my friends, hope you are all well and thriving despite the mess around us.
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Andrew Copson @andrewcopson.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
In 1776, Adam Smith risked his reputation to tell the world that his friend David Hume had died cheerful, kind, and unafraid — without religion. That is friendship. I’ve written about it (and about making friends in middle age) for the #InternationalDayofFriendship.
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Lessons in friendship: David Hume and Adam Smith | Andrew Copson
For International Day of Friendship, Andrew Copson reflects on one of humanist history's great friendships – and on why making friends in middle age is worth the awkwardness.
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Vimpete @vimpete.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
This week they suspended my age pension for some very tenuous reason, I went in to Centrelink on Tuesday to sort it out, they told me I had to make an in person appointment, first date they could give me was 10th August, so they expect me to go 4 weeks with no pension.
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Ryan @ryanhumphrey.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Remains true
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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Two way street. My @smh cartoon.
Single frame. Title: “Two way street”. Scene: a road from foreground leading into distance. Left, a woman on a bicycle with a bag and backpack and a small child in a baby seat at the front, riding away from our viewpoint. At left, a series of roadside signs saying, “LEAVE AND I’LL MAKE YOUR LIFE HELL”; “LOOK WHAT YOU MADE ME DO”; SHUT UP OR ELSE”; “BUT I LOVE YOU…”
On the right, driving toward us, a large truck driven by a barely visible man.
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Australia has made the most of compulsory voting; it's a brilliant system that encourages community-engaged whingeing, cake stalls & sausage sizzling at polling places to help fund the public schools that whichever newly elected government will then underfund.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Just loving how John Cleese, now reduced to one of his own caricatures, rages about immigrants coming to the UK and failing to accept "our" culture, from his home in ... (checks notes) ... Nevis in the Caribbean.
Telegraph article: John Cleese: I trust Rupert Lowe more than any other leader
Monty Python star backs the Restore Britain founder in a series of social media posts
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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Cartoon.
Scene is women's public toilets. A woman in a shirt saying 'TERF PATROL" is on a ladder peering over a locked door into a cubicle. She's saying "Just checking your genitalia to make sure you're not one of those creepy perverts who lurk in women's toilets"
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Karen @kcimt122.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Mum (about one of her grandsons): "Oh, he loves his sport! He's a member of the Melbourne Footy Club." Me: "Is he?" "Yep. And he's a member of Arsenic too." "... huh?" "Arsenic." "... sorry, you've lost me." "You know! The English soccer team!" "You mean Arsenal?" "Yeah, them."
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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
How they did emergency alerts in Australia before mobile phones
Skippy and Sonny
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Karen @kcimt122.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Those poor neighbours. I once experienced something similar on a tiny scale. I worked in an office with a printer located in the room next door. Someone put a data server in the printer room. It made the same awful high-pitched screech, 24/7. It drove me mad. Working became almost impossible. >
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
They contest the fines. They completely ignore licensing and regulation (see below). They are not good members of our shared community, and make no effort to show they can change, or even want to. www.reuters.com/world/americ...
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Pollution from Musk’s unpermitted xAI power project hits hardest in Black communities
Exploding electricity demand from AI data centers is driving companies to build off-grid power plants at a pace outstripping environmental oversight, with potentially big risks to public health.
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
You gotta watch the video for the noise. It's insane. Every time I see somebody ask "hey, why the backlash against data centers?" I'm puzzled because those people don't seem to understand data centers are *bad faith neighbors*. gizmodo.com/this-viral-d...
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This Viral Data Center Sounds Like Satan’s Buzzsaw
My God, the looks on the faces of the people who have to live next to this...
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Rob Arnol @robertarnol.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
4 women murdered by men in 4 days in July, and these pelicans think the problem is the Family Law Courts, the definition of domestic violence, and paid domestic violence leave. Just a reminder, Hanson’s son is a convicted domestic violence offender.
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Karen @kcimt122.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
"Every time you pay a toll or an outrageous airport parking charge, remember that the millionaires’ factory was built from the proceeds of charges like these." -- John Quiggin www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Always remember how Macquarie built its millionaires on outrageous tolls and charges | John Quiggin
As Shemara Wikramanayake retires with shares worth hundreds of millions, the public is left counting the cost of high prices for utilities, roads and airports
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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 27/07/2026
Bill Oddie has died aged 85. We'll certainly be thinking of this quote today. #Humanist #Nature #Birdwatching #Humanists #HumanistsUK #BillOddie
My please to people would be... take off those earpieces so you hear nature and, of course, birdsong. you may not realise how precious it is until it's gone. Bill Oddie. Comedian, broadcaster, and naturalist.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Bloodthirsty warmonger Lindsey Graham (RIH) on Donald Trump:
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The FDA has announced that 1.6 million eggs have been contaminated with salmonella, forcing a nationwide recall. Last year, the Trump administration scrapped regulations to limit salmonella and laid off hundreds of food safety inspection workers.
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Peta says bring back Łink @petabytes.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
"Things my new home has that I've never had before ... [multiple] powerpoints in a room, flooring that doesn't look cheap, fan forced oven, range hood, storage, a pantry, bench space, cooling ... It hit me hard that what my new home has that none of my other homes have ever given me is dignity."
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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 17/07/2026
“Here’s a government website that will help you find your cheapest electricity provider” - hey, you know an even *more* convenient way government could get me the cheapest possible deal on my power bill?
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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 17/07/2026
This piece does at least acknowledge the better scenario would be centrally-set prices. But if having to shop around for e.g. power and insurance is any guide, I’m not sure having to go on a website featuring a Russian-sounding meerkat to find slightly cheaper statins is a future worth striving for.
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Alex White @alexjpwhite.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Call me crazy but introducing marketisation to vital health products and medication seems like a catastrophically bad idea. The reason why supermarkets & petrol companies offer discounts is because they're profiting massively - why would we want that with medicine? #auspol
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Public Transport Users Association @ptua.org.au · 15/07/2026
We support the Monash Graduate Association's call for concession fares for full-time graduate students. Find out more and sign their petition here: mga.monash.edu/polic...
Every other state gives grads a concession fare. Victoria doesn't.
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Hayley Gleeson @hayleygleeson.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
sometimes, when the world feels heavy and bleak, a fireman holds out an oxygen mask for a pigeon and it’s like a window has opened www.instagram.com/reel/DazTE7c...
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Oakland Firefighters Local 55 on Instagram: "Earlier this evening, after a vehicle fire, E29’s crew of #youroaklandfirefighters noticed a pigeon in distress. The crew reported the pigeon came up to th...
565K likes, 8,581 comments - oaklandfirefighters on July 14, 2026: "Earlier this evening, after a vehicle fire, E29’s crew of #youroaklandfirefighters noticed a pigeon in distress. The crew reported t...
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ℭ𝔥𝔞𝔬𝔰 ☽|☾ 𝔓𝔯𝔦𝔢𝔰𝔱𝔢𝔰𝔰 @chaospriestess.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
My favorite Sam Neil fact will always be that he designed a future Australian flag that replaces the union jack with the aboriginal flag for Event Horizon and insisted the film use it.
Screencap of Sam Neil in Event Horizon, his flight suit features an Australian flag with the union jack replaced by a yellow circle on black and red, the Australian aboriginal flag
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Karen @kcimt122.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
"The grandson has been holding his grandfather’s hand & crying. Now he hastens to wipe his face but his one soggy tissue is not equal to the task. It is a picture of bewilderment & love & mourning. This is the sight that trips me up." -- Dr Ranjana Srivastava www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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At a dying man’s bedside, I see something much rarer than grief: the courage to include the young | Ranjana Srivastava
If we spare youth the reality of death, we postpone to middle age the struggle to reconcile with it
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 14/07/2026
How is Pauline Hanson’s UK trip going down with the locals? | Fiona Katauskas
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How is Pauline Hanson’s UK trip going down with the locals? | Fiona Katauskas
It’s sparking some interesting conversations * See more of Fiona Katauskas’s cartoons here Continue reading...
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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
The Jetsons lied to us
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Christine Wyld, 61, died in a South Australian care facility in 2022 after she slipped and was strangled by her wheelchair's lap belt www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...
abc.net.au
Staff shortage led to woman being strangled by wheelchair belt, court hears
A woman who died after slipping from her wheelchair and being strangled by its lap belt had been left unsupervised due to a staff shortage at an Adelaide care facility, a court has heard.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
14 July 1938 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Evika Herzl, was born. In 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber. --- 📖 Deportations of Jews from Hungary to Auschwitz: lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_6_dep_zydow
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
The fundamental strengthe of everye civilization ys empathye. "Empathye" and "civilization" (yn the truest and most noble sense of the worde) are synonyms.
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Matthew Dow Smith @matthewdowsmith.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
In a world of men who think the only way to be a man is to stand on the necks of everyone else, be a Sam Neill.
Sam Neill and a pig being the manliest man everSam Neill and a pig being the manliest man everSam Neill and a pig being the manliest man ever
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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 13/07/2026
Live a life where people talk about you after you die like they do Sam Neil.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Ahh crap. This is a sad one. Brilliant actor, good bloke. 7news.com.au/entertainmen...
7news.com.au
Beloved actor and Jurassic Park star Sam Neill dies aged 78
Neill only recently revealed he was living cancer free with his family saying the loss was ‘sudden and unexpected’.
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