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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 19h

Funny how he's always downplaying the chance of cost-of-living relief when I thought we were supposed to understand it's their number one focus, and always has been.

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John Delmenico @thebigjohnnyd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

nice to see prime minister is putting his foot down and making it clear that if you hack the Australian government, he will say it is ‘concerning’ then roll over and continue with his plans to change the law so you can steal from Aussie artists

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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Punching a barely conscious man strapped to a hospital guerney: NOT a sackable offence for NSW Police. Chris Minns and Labor have set this standard.

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

i believe our problems are fixable. we did manage to create a period of time when people could work a job, buy a house, and retire. i don't think this is some crazy unattainable thing, and i do believe essentially all of our big economic problems are fundamentally due to runaway wealth inequality

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norman emailer @maximumchips.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Abolish private education, shut down all the schools. Give these kids back to their parents. They all now go to their local schools. Prahran High might need a few more campuses. The good news is I’ve got a few suitable sites that have just come onto the market.

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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

The Coalition made social security recipients exempt from the ordinary statutes of limitation on debt that apply to everyone else, it was a cornerstone of Robodebt. The Royal Commission recommended theses changes to the law be repealed, which would be simple. Labor have ignored this for >3 years.

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McLean @mcccclean.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

The vector classes have move_toward as an instance method rather than a top level function, but it's there!

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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Scott Morrison was referred to the NACC over Robodebt and the Govt paid his $461K legal fees. I won an #AUKUS nuclear waste #FOI challenge and the Govt is threatening I’ll have to pay their $150K legal fees. @albomp.bsky.social thinks that’s fair play! #auspol

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Anger at Labor as Rex Patrick faces potential six-figure legal fee if he loses Aukus documents battle

Australian government insists legal costs should be paid by former senator as FoI fight escalates

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McLean @mcccclean.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

If it helps, the OP you're reacting to and the expanded view with the bins are two separate photos of the same wall. One's not a crop of the other - slightly different angles and the binless one has some extra graffiti off to the left

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McLean @mcccclean.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

the paint/shading/lettering isn't immaculate, it's just skilled. compare this from the same artist, from 2018

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Briony Kidd @brionykidd.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I don’t trust that these people are going to helped when I see phrases like “offered opportunities to connect with support services.” We do provide “opportunities to connect” in this country—usually it means providing a phone number. Whether there’s anything at the other end is another matter.

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jason grinblat @jfg.land · 24/06/2026

YOU IN 7D?

goofy youtube thumbnail for a popsci physics video.
0D: glowing point
2D: flat projection of a bald man
3D: also a flat projection of a bald man because it's on a computer monitor
4D: Many images of the man transposed in a vertical line
5D: Transposed man shadows around a man orb
7D: Escher-like maze and question mark

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 22/06/2026

Really wild story here. I had no idea about any of this - Tim's research is amazing and this absolutely mad fake climate policy cannot persist in its current form

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McLean @mcccclean.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

<looking at fascists working hard to bring about fascism> wheew they have NO idea what they're doing. embarrassing. we're going to end up with fascism if these dummies don't change course

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McLean @mcccclean.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

PH dogwhistled her way through the speech and most of the people in the room were dogs and enjoyed the whistling

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McLean @mcccclean.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

pardon earnestposting but yeah the prayer would boil down to something like "dear lord, we believe you're a god of conquest and dominion who rewards the powerful, witness us work to eliminate rabble in your name." Not every Christian worships a god of compassion and charity!

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McLean @mcccclean.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

The journos giving fawning coverage to Hanson are competent actors, working in line with their values, to bring about a future that they want to live in. They can see Hanson's fascism perfectly well. Time to decide if we can see theirs.

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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

At some point we’ve got to stop seeing this as a series of oopsies moments and recognise that we are in institutional collapse. This system never “worked” the way we pretend it did. But at least there was some semblance of responsibility, of learning from mistakes It’s over. Time to build new ones

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Jim Malo @maloism.com · 04/06/2026

In my brief and ill-advised stint as an ABC journo, Rebel News was among a group that mobbed me and other staff and taunted us at a 2021 anti-vaxxer rally. It was treated as a safety incident and IIRC we adopted new policies in response. Five years later, a star radio host is giving them comment.

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Purplepingers ☭ @purplepingers.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

In the process of demolishing every single public housing tower, Homes Victoria evicted a family, offered them a home that was boarded up, and another home that was infested with mice and cockroaches, then said oh you’re no longer public housing tenants now coz u said no so fuck you I guess

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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Guy who has called two royal commissions and is required to lead the response:

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McLean @mcccclean.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

It's such a weird move to publicly air such a cynical view of RC's. It's 100% correct to be cynical of them, for sure, but to hear it from the PM himself is astonishing. And right in the middle of the antisemitism RC? And for what gain?? Why???

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

My latest free newsletter is about one of The New York Times's specialties: publishing the opinions of wealthy elites as if they are news.

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Rich Guy Quote Journalism

How the media turns rich guys' opinions into news

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/05/2026

It does not feel right to present data centre caused power sector friction as an 'undersupply' squeeze. The guy who walks into the all-you-can-eat buffet with a bucket and just starts pouring trays of food into it to take home for himself -> also not a restaurant food supply problem

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The energy squeeze behind the Iran war and AI boom

It's suddenly the world's biggest constraint, thanks to oil shocks and AI's global race for electricity.

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McLean @mcccclean.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

our department deserves to have a LITTLE spongebob meme energy

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McLean @mcccclean.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

so it's obviously a joke that Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications, Sport and the Arts is bundled into a single grab bag government department. and it's a fun little bonus joke that their website logo is clearly OCR'd from a physical letterhead www.infrastructure.gov.au

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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

This is a truly eye opening read. And I’ve been following this stuff pretty closely, so I mean that!

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

The entire issue with the NDIS is that a generation of Australians (including almost everyone working in the political media) have become indoctrinated to believe the private sector is more efficient than the private sector. Privatize disability care? What *could* go wrong???

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mahsa alimardani @mahsaalimardani.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

We didn't deserve this day.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

In a shocking twist, impunity has emboldened a narcissist to descend into full megalomania

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 07/04/2026

A 1.4% levy on the gambling industry could compensate the media for ALL revenue lost from a potential gambling advertising ban. Australians lose more money gambling than any other country. It's time for our government to act. @amyremeikis.bsky.social #auspol

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Has Penny Wong expressed her concern yet? Has Marles talked about our shared values? Every time they get asked about AUKUS they talk about the alliance. Well this is the alliance.

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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

we gotta send so many guys to the Hague

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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

people simply love it when you storm out of the gates to support an illegal war, then lecture them about personal responsibility after it makes their lives worse

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will deliver an address to the nation tonight, outlining the government's response to the Middle East conflict and encouraging Australians to "play their part".

He is expected to urge Australians to save fuel for areas and industries that "most need it".

The address will be simulcast on television and radio across Australia at 7pm AEDT.

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McLean @mcccclean.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

some might say it's incongruous that the lamp button is a drawing of my actual lamp, while the fan button is a drawing of a whole wind turbine, which is a different kind of thing but what you need to factor in is that *I* am a fan, of wind turbines

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McLean @mcccclean.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

new hobby: building homebrew IoT devices, housing them in paper + cardboard structures, and then painting wooden tokens for buttons when I got into smart home stuff I was really put off by the glossy/plastic aesthetic basically everything has. so, feels rad to bring a handmade vibe

a 3D print of a plastic structure and a faceplate with three holes in it

the structure, post-assembly, now containing some electronics and with some keyswitches inserted into the faceplate

the structure is now invisible, wrapped in cardboard that's been colored with an alcohol marker and decorated with some William Morris-design borders

handpainted wooden tokens are placed over the keys - a computer, a lamp, and a wind turbine

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norman emailer @maximumchips.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

It’s crazy how likely it is that the cops just straight up executed Desi Freeman

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McLean @mcccclean.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Gourisetty's defense is so funny too. That he's continuing in a proud tradition established by Abbott and Howard -- where's the lie hahaha

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McLean @mcccclean.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

all of those things are great if you are in the mood to pick up some new technical hobbies, but getting a 3D printer isn't a shortcut to anywhere, it's a detour and you gotta be prepared for that

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McLean @mcccclean.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Fell for this trap recently. Absolutely a hobby level-up-er, great fun, super useful. But it's an *order of magnitude* more fucking around. You've gotta learn about plastics, about slicing, how to navigate the various model stores & collections, plus CAD if you want to do any custom stuff.

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

The gas industry likes to boast about how important it is the Australia economy. What they're really saying is look at our profits. #PointLive live.thepoint.com.au/2026/03/the-...

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Admi and Support industry: Wages $64.3bn; Profits $13.1bn; Total, $77.4bn

Oil and Gas industry: $4bn wages; $71.6bn operating profits; Total $75.6bn

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Nick McKim @nickmckim.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Tomorrow the PM is meeting state and territory leaders about the fuel crisis. They should discuss making public transport free for as long as the crisis goes on. And as the Federal government is backing the war, they should pick up the tab.

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Folderal Conspiracy, Esq @folderalconspiracy.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

It is very easy to read statements like this as a joke. This is not a joke. We have proven with AI, completely by accident, what knowledgeable people have been saying for decades: the environment that rich people live in gives them a very specific personality disorder.

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

The NACC works exactly as intended when the Albanese govt set it up. Everyone in the APH can get on the beers tonight’s knowing they’ll always be safe.

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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 11/03/2026

Opinion | The National Anti-Corruption Commission’s reasons why Scott Morrison did nothing wrong on Robodebt are extraordinary and delusional, writes Bernard Keane. www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/11/n...

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NACC's robodebt investigation conjures offensive and stupid excuses for letting Scott Morrison off

The NACC report on robodebt is out and it exonerates Scott Morrison, with a series of excuses and a justification of extraordinary offensiveness.

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

The reality is the Canberra bubble was never going to allow their own to face consequences for Robodebt

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