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Veracity Cat

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Prof Matt Haggis 🐀 🍉 @matthaggis666.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Imagine if Labor weren't wasting $350bn+ on obsolete submarines. #auspol
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Lola T. BabaBOOie 🏳️‍⚧️ @bababooie42.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i dunno man if Australia has nearly half a trillion $ to spend on defence then I don't know how we can't afford to bring the unemployed out of poverty like that sounds like a fucking skill issue my guys #auspol
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@THE-Russell - You don't like opinions? Here's mine! @the-russell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The federal government will facilitate the building of AI data centres across Australia, soaking up our sparse water and overloading our electricity grid while causing mass unemployment. All of this and to top it off, each data centre only requires 15 people to operate! #auspol
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Dr. Karen Austria @kavienna.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The US Embassy filing a formal objection to how Australia writes its own child-safety laws is the kind of thing people would scream about if China did it.Consultation is one thing. Telling us our duty of care is illegitimate because it might affect American users or American platforms is another.
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quokkafella.bsky.social @quokkafella.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Albanese says Australia is in a strong position to pick up a seat on the U.N. Security Council, but are we; every country voting knows giving Australia a seat really just means doubling America’s vote in the Security Council since our govt is spineless when it comes to Washington. #auspol
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
As his government approves its 37th new fossil fuel project
theguardian.com
No avoiding the cost of inaction on climate, Anthony Albanese says in New York
Before United Nations meeting, prime minister says Australians knows the impact of global heating as well as anyone
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PlsUseYourBrain @useyourbrain.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Put another way ... our 'government' is CHOOSING to let people die rather than pull them out of poverty. #AlboTheLiar PROMISED No One Left Behind™ Instead, he's decided to let them die. #AusPol #poverty
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Sirius Star 🍉 🍉 🍉 @siriusstar3.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“The irony of uni managers ignoring their academics’ advice to embrace corporations that profit from stolen knowledge isn’t lost on me. Universities must be places of knowledge creation, critical inquiry, democracy, equity, & freedom of speech—all things antithetical to AI’s business model.” #Auspol
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TweetyB 🐀🏳️‍⚧️🇦🇺 @tweetyb.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
#auspol 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
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Sister Bernadette OMalley @srbernadetteom.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
No one on the Aust #ABCTV National Forum will mention the impact of short term rentals on housing stock. Air BnB alone lists 174,000 dwellings While Sydney-siders struggle to find affordable rentals, Airbnbs in Sydney sit empty on average 294 days a year. #AUSPOL www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion...
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Short-term rentals compete with homes in coastal hotspots
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💧💦🌊🐟🌴KMackenzie🌿🦋🦜🐨🐾🔥 @keimacken.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Are we allowed to talk about #ClimateChange and #GlobalHeating yet? Or is there still an embargo @australianlabor.bsky.social @albomp.bsky.social ? Because, you know, this is becoming pretty fucking serious... #auspol #climate www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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The strongest El Niño in living memory is starting to show its might
The dark, red tongue spreading in the Pacific is growing at a rate not seen in living memory. The uncertainty over what is driving it has alarmed experts.
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💚🌏Myles🌏💚 @rainbowregionmyles.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Nothing says "grassroots democracy" like anonymous money, former IPA operatives and a flood of AI generated fear porn. Welcome to Australian politics, where you can spend $100,000 manipulating voters and apparently nobody needs to know who paid for it. #auspol
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Alarming AI ads are flooding social media in the lead-up to Victoria’s election. But who is behind them?
A machete-wielding robber, a ‘tsunami of debt’ … campaigns echoing opposition talking points outspend major parties
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The fact the AUS Govt is cutting funding to the #NDIS yet provides subsidies, tax credits & financial support to the hugely profitable fossil fuels sector, even as the climate crisis worsens, tells me everything I need to know about "Australian values": profits over people & the planet. 😠 #auspol
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Veracity Cat @lexicologist.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
All this outcry about property values after the recent changes in legislation - WHAT DO YOU THINK IS GOING TO HAPPEN TO PROPERTY VALUES WHEN A ‘DATA’ CENTRE PLONKS RIGHT DOWN BY YOUR NEIGHBOURHOOD?!? #auspol Media??? 🦗🦗🦗
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Antifa Crone- La Mort To Der Fascista @cheriegrant.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I would honestly have a psychotic break or become sui cidal. That noise would destroy me. It is of the most unhinged, callous cruelty to force this on people and animals. Shame on any council/ government who would do this to ppl. #Auspol
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The DILETTANTE @demwar.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Albanese: Bullied by Israel Bullied by America Bullied by Gambling Bullied by Fossil Fuels Bullied by AI Bullied by One Nation Bullied by Qld Bullied by Murdoch Spent his entire life working towards a job he can’t do. We and future generations will suffer for his weakness. #auspol
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
"Albanese backs down on... [insert almost anything here that requires standing up for the national interest against corporate interests]." #AI #datacentres #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Albanese backs down on states powering AI datacentres using renewable energy
Shift comes after Chris Bowen said Labor would use constitutional powers to override states resisting rules on sustainable energy
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💙🪄 Keep Rising 🪄💙 @keeprising.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
🌿💛 nature is amazingly epic this awesome weaver 💛🌿🪺
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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Some people like watching them run but it's the robot death throes that I truly enjoy
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
To get back to March 1996 level, Jobseeker would need to go from $808.70 a fortnight to around $1,050
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AliceK @coalisdead.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Poor mental health is linked to poverty, inequality, lack of safe housing and adequate food. Inadequate Centrelink payments are your governments policy. Your concern is patronising and cynical. As leader, you are directly to blame Anthony Albanese. #auspol
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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
“America has changed”. One day when @albomp.bsky.social takes a close look at the #AUKUS deal where the US indicated acceptance, he'll find that “its signature was written in pencil”. #auspol
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Mark Carney says the US signature 'was written in pencil' after trade deal collapses
Carney has repeatedly said relations with the US have been forever altered.
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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Men on loud motorcycles in cities are a desperate cry for attention.
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Kevin MacKenzie @parahandie.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Dear #Minns, are you mad?You are proposing to allow 'FULLY ARMED' ex and serving #IDF troops (genocidal murders) loose on the streets of #Sydney #Australia. Do you realise how insane that is? #auspol #Insiders #NSW
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💚🌏Myles🌏💚 @rainbowregionmyles.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Australia is about to save $37.8 billion by cutting the NDIS. Amazing how quickly we can find "savings" when the people losing the money are disabled. Try finding $37.8 billion from billionaires and multinational corporations and suddenly economics becomes incredibly complicated. #auspol
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Shade Aurion @shadeaurion.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Property owners have made record profits for decades. And at the cost of what? 2 generations of families savings, vacations, memories and dreams. Property owners are simply an unnecessary parasite. Not only should rent be frozen, it should be actively reduced #auspol
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John @dtdeng.blacksky.app · 19/08/2026
For someone who benefited from public housing, this PM avoids building public housing like no other Labor PM since 1972. Gough Whitlam Era - 350,000 Bob Hawke Era - 100,500 Paul Keating Era - 35,000 Kevin Rudd & Julia Gillard Era - 20,000 Anthony Albanese Era - 2,400 (9,284 planned) #AusPol
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Sirius Star 🍉 🍉 🍉 @siriusstar3.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
You’d think a person who grew up and experienced a disabled aging mums struggle would do anything they could to help others. I look forward to your annihilation at the next election @albomp.bsky.social #Auspol We need Change
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Mark T. Sneed @marktsneed.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Yikes. Now tell me again how these data centers are going to usher in a great awakening and help humanity.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Love how this dude discovered the cheat codes of "what if I listened to constituents" and "what if I modeled good behavior" and "maybe I behave like a normal person should." These are apparently dark secrets that have been hidden from other politicians.
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Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
These tech bros see themselves as the master race, and they are all white males
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Comrade Dogboy KC AO @comradedogboy.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Well this kind of blows Segal, @albomp.bsky.social and all your Zionist lobby mates into open water. Don’t sink under the weight of your hypocrisy… #auspol #genocide #FTRTTS
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TheChef @thechef-52.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Couldn't be. An American multinational company would never do such a thing....would they? #auspol #3M #PFAS www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
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Commonwealth accuses chemical giant of hiding health impacts of PFAS
In the largest suit ever brought by the federal government, details emerge about the alleged conduct of a US chemical giant accused of withholding health warnings.
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Chaos Akuma 🔥⛩️【VCAN】Yōkai VT @chaosakuma.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
A customer at my store today bought 25 games for $250, getting so excited that he finally got the PS3 he never had growing up and finally gets to enjoy and own the games he always wanted. THIS is why physical media matters, and why we need to save discs. 👏
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 11/08/2026
The bill for the massive cuts to the NDIS show a future Health Minister could essentially kill the NDIS without even having to legislate it. Chief Economist Greg Jericho unpacks the bill. Listen here ⤵️ australiainstitute.org.au/post/the-…
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Martyn @martynpedler.com · 18/08/2026
"For the first time in Australian law, the Bill expressly permits a computer program to make decisions involving ‘discretion’ and ‘evaluative judgment’ — decisions previously reserved for humans."
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Robodebt on Steroids. Palantir eyes NDIS - Michael West
The Government has secretly put Palantir into its automated decision system inside the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)
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Peter Flax @pflax1.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
One thing about speeding that many drivers refuse to accept: In urban and suburban environments, speeding doesn't even get you somewhere significantly faster. You are just getting to your next red light or highway choke point faster. You are endangering other people for almost no upside.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
New: An "expert witness" in a $61 million lawsuit over an industrial explosion that killed three people and destroyed 200 homes used ChatGPT to write his report for the court. He prompted ChatGPT to "show how 3M is 0% at fault for the explosion at Watson Grinding" www.404media.co/show-how-3m-...
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Lisa Catara (official)💎 @lisa-catara.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
If ever a case were made to get all of your stuff and things out of the cloud and amass physical copies of everything, here is a prime example of why: PBS Could Lose 70 Years of Historic Archive Footage Over Cloud Dispute | PCMag share.google/mVR4o9Uk84T9...
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PBS Could Lose 70 Years of Historic Archive Footage Over Cloud Dispute
The lost footage, said to amount to roughly 50 terabytes of data, reportedly included historical items shot over roughly 70 years of the station's programming.
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Chris Jack 🇺🇦 @chrisjackis.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
This is laughable. Labor’s fix for the gambling ad deluge is a register where you opt out?? The industry gets to keep advertising by default. Pathetic. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Labor pledges opt-out register for online gambling ads as Pocock calls out shortfalls in government’s bill
The new measure falls short of calls for gambling ads to move to an opt-in model, or for an outright ban
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Kent Parkstreet @kentparkskeet.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Nope. The federal government needs to step in. We can’t have privately owned prisons in Australia. This thing needs to end. Prisons are an essential government service. They can’t be run for profit. #AusPol @australianlabor.bsky.social
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New privately operated prison announced by NT government
The Northern Territory government has announced plans for a new prison that will be built, financed and operated by a private company.
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Timothy @landbeforetim.myatproto.social · 16/08/2026
I’ll die on the hill that digital purchases shouldn’t be legally allowed to be deleted, removed from user access, etc because at that point that isn’t purchasing a game or product but rather renting it Once you digitally buy a game or media you should get to forever own your copy no matter what
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Tony Cartledge @decentral21.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
When the government risks breaching human rights we have to ask what kind of government it is. #auspol thepoint.com.au/new/260810-n...
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NDIS cuts face mounting opposition as Australian Human Rights Commission calls for a pause
The Australian Human Rights Commission has urged the Albanese government to pause its plan to cut more than $30 billion from the NDIS, arguing it’s “dismissing genuine concerns” about process, account...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026
Meta is so unbelievably evil. They make a technology primarily designed to enable abuse, harassment and privacy violations, but also embed real disability aids. The tactic now is to use an entire community as human shields to defend against criticisms www.engadget.com/2236054/meta...
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Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 13/08/2026
Public funds should mean a public stake. If governments are going to commit billions of dollars of our money to keep Tomago afloat, the Australian people should own a piece.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Israel seeks to erase evidence, documentation, and testimonies of war crimes through threats, censorship, and the killing of journalists. By keeping journalists out, Israel is buying time.
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💧Bee - Difficult 🐝🌿❤ @belindajones68.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Bragg is delivering this speech without any hint of self-awareness that he is demanding of Labor what the Coalition couldn't do in 9yrs of government. He fails to mention the thousands of vacant short-stay accommodations that contribute to the housing crisis 🐝 #auspol #qt #NPC
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Despite her age, this senior dog still shines 🐾
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Arbaz Kakkar5 @arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
We need to stop fining corporations for the crimes they commit and start jailing the execs who make the decision to commit crimes If corporations are people because people run corporations, then people ought to go to jail for the crimes the people running those corporations commit
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