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“There is no strength to be gained from hurting one another. Only weakness.” Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed

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Jane Caro @janecaro.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
What has happened to our society? Look what too many older people find themselves facing. A national shame.
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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Unpublished docs for review of mutual obligations / targeted compliance framework that form spine of employment services reveals the govt cannot be sure the system is legal or working. Review won't report until after election. ACOSS refers to Ombudsman. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/law-cri...
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Exclusive: JobSeeker payment system errors prompt review
The hunt for ‘anomalies’ in the JobSeeker compliance system will take months and the Department of Employment is unable to say if it is legal.
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Jane Caro @janecaro.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
This is deeply disturbing.
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Jane Caro @janecaro.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Privatisation. Is there anything it can’t fuck up? www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
smh.com.au
A stroke victim waited hours for a bed. These doctors want answers
Doctors at Northern Beaches Hospital have raised several concerning incidents in their submission to an independent audit of the privately run public hospital.
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Nick Knudsen @nickknudsenus.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
If you see this post, can you please help spread this information? #ASafeChoice is a referral network of physicians who provide medication abortion services ACROSS THE US. People everywhere need to know about this option. These doctors have capacity to help more women! Let’s spread word! ❤️✊
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Click to Visit #ASafeChoice Network
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Stosh @stosh44.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
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medthwa.bsky.social @medthwa.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Gotta agree with @squigglyrick.bsky.social “… this shit is properly obscene if you ask me.”
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medthwa.bsky.social @medthwa.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Don’t look away: State sanctioned violence against imprisoned women is intrinsic to gender-based violence.
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medthwa.bsky.social @medthwa.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
The more journalists that stop posting on X the better.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
WATCH: @rose.bsky.team, COO of @bsky.app, on what makes it different from that other hellhole
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Ginny Pav @ginnypav.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Well said Paul Keating! #auspol "In those 50 years I've never seen a public figure as mean or mean-spirited as Peter Dutton," Mr Keating told ABC radio. "Those electors in Dickson [in Queensland] have a chance to drive the political stake through his dark political heart ... and I hope they do."
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medthwa.bsky.social @medthwa.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum: “I informed Mr. Trump the best way to make rapists and criminals feel unwelcome in America, is for people to stop electing them."
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Bluesky Safety @safety.bsky.app · 29/11/2024
1/ With more users joining Bluesky, we know how important it is to identify which accounts are real. Users deserve confidence that the accounts they interact with are authentic. Sharing some details about our impersonation policy 🧵
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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Like, this is a Coalition era system that continues under the current government. In modern memory, there have always been jobseeker compliance routines that cause harm but this shit is properly obscene if you ask me.
Under the Targeted Compliance Framework’s traffic light system, all employment service participants start out in the “green zone” and stay there unless they accrue so-called “demerits” through “mutual obligation failures”.

Demerit points are assigned by outsourced job providers and logged in departmental systems. These demerits, however, are not counted as a “decision made under Social Security Law, and as such, participants are not able to ask for a review of the decision under Social Security Law, or appeal this decision to a court or tribunal”.

The fact that a person may end up in the “penalty zone”, where their payments can be suspended or cancelled, is the result of unreviewable decisions made by private for-profit and non-profit companies who know even less than the government about the complex laws under which they operate.
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medthwa.bsky.social @medthwa.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
This 👇 “… the complexity of these mutual obligation requirements … has led to … human and computer failures – twinned with an employment services system now called Workforce Australia that outsources the vast majority of work to privatised providers with minimal oversight from public officials.”
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Terry Hughes @profterryhughes.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Snorkeling with a whale shark off Western Australia.
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medthwa.bsky.social @medthwa.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Just your average blokes -who gang rape #NoMoreExcuses
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Adrian Esterman @profesterman.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
COVID notifcations for South Australia have dropped slightly from last week (from 322 to 306), with the %positive PCR tests steady at 9%. However, the 7-day moving average tells a slightly different story.
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Rising Tide Australia @risingtideaus.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
BREAKING - Rising Tide protesters disrupt Federal Parliament to demand no new coal and gas! #risingtideaus #peoplesblockade #canberrawave
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medthwa.bsky.social @medthwa.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Being a good ancestor: elders protest and resist arrest #risingtideaus
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medthwa.bsky.social @medthwa.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
#Motherfrackers
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Linda Matija @lindamatija25.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Where's the National Party?
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medthwa.bsky.social @medthwa.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Macquarie word of the year coincides with the exodus from that other place? www.theguardian.com/science/2024...
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‘What many of us feel’: why ‘enshittification’ is Macquarie Dictionary’s word of the year
The committee’s honourable mentions went to ‘right to disconnect’ and ‘rawdogging’
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Terry Hughes @profterryhughes.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Mass bleaching of corals on the Great Barrier Reef in early 2024 was the most severe and most widespread yet recorded - surpassing 1998, 2002, 2016, 2017, 2020 & 2022. The overall mortality rate this year will exceed the 30% loss in 2016. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 🇨🇦 🍁 🇸🇪 🇵🇷 @vero1986.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
We are the first generation that is affected by climate change and the last generation that can do something about it. Do something!
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medthwa.bsky.social @medthwa.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Today Rising Tide “successfully blockaded the world's largest coal port.” 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
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𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒂 𝑯𝒊𝒋𝒂𝒛𝒊 🇵🇸🫒𝑰𝒏 𝑮𝒂𝒛𝒂 @monahijazi.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
If you see this picture, put 🇵🇸 to help me spread it, 🫂 🫒🫒🫒🫒🫒🫒🫒🫒🫒🫒🫒🫒 gofund.me/1b5beef0
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Adrian Esterman @profesterman.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
The new COVID vaccine based on JN.1 should be available in Australia from 9 December.
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medthwa.bsky.social @medthwa.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
@robertarnol.bsky.social is right Juice media have done it again. Australia don’t become America
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medthwa.bsky.social @medthwa.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
“I feel like an art lover wandering through the Louvre…as it burns to the ground.” We cannot keep allowing this to happen. The Great Barrier Reef will be wiped out. #GreatBarrierReef
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Machine Pun Kelly @kellyscaletta.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
When we were children, we were taught that no matter how you reached, no matter much wealth and power you accumulated, you were not above the law. We can no longer teach our children that. And that's really fucking tragic.
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medthwa.bsky.social @medthwa.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Take a guess: Kakka and Kácke both mean shit
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medthwa.bsky.social @medthwa.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
“This is not somebody else’s horror.” It’s all our horror - Northern Territory coroner Elisabeth Armitage Trigger warning: brutal DV Note: Indigenous and Torres Strait Islanders the article contains names of people who have died. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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‘This is our horror’: the grim stories driving the Northern Territory’s reckoning with domestic violence
Since 2000, 81 women in the NT have died as a result of domestic violence, 93% of them Aboriginal – a landmark inquiry is looking at what went wrong
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medthwa.bsky.social @medthwa.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Ironic the right to protest in NSW is being eroded on “dubious safety concerns” when the protests are about protecting people …
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Gary Schwall Sr. @glschwall.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
How many MAGAt cult supporters does it take to change a light bulb? None. Trump just says it's fixed, and they all sit around in the dark and applaud!
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medthwa.bsky.social @medthwa.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
That Trump gave the nod for Gaetz to be attorney general shows the deep shit the US is in
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Dr. Hello Bonjour @hellobonjour.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I'm totally OK with being called woke. It just means that I'm showing off my green flags. Happy to follow others with green flags. #woke
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medthwa.bsky.social @medthwa.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Keep blocking any escapee trolls from that other place, keep Bluesky a place to share and debate
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Terry Hughes @profterryhughes.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
If you’re looking for facts about coral reefs please consider following me. And ignore Murdoch propaganda. www.skynews.com.au/opinion/outs...
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Great Barrier Reef looking ‘as wonderful as ever’
The Great Barrier Reef is “in wonderful shape”, according to IPA Senior Fellow Dr Jennifer Marohasy. “I was just diving off Cairns a few weeks back and it’s looking as wonderful as ever,” Dr Marohasy told Sky News Australia host Rowan Dean. “Do you know why we have record coral cover – it’s because for decades now both the number and intensity of cyclones hitting the Great Barrier Reef has actually been decreasing. “And that’s not something the Bureau of Meteorology is telling us.”
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medthwa.bsky.social @medthwa.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Possible US health policy just around the corner
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medthwa.bsky.social @medthwa.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
A Swastika decoration likely on the vegan pastry?
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medthwa.bsky.social @medthwa.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Quick and clear It really is a 30sec read
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medthwa.bsky.social @medthwa.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
No support by Māori or their allies? Their march against undermining Te Tiriti o Waitangi has been going NINE days before culminating in Wellington
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Aaron Bryant @ajbry.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
The state of GBR — and virtually all reefs globally, tbh — is the most underreported ecological disaster of our time. We’re watching them bleach and die off in real time.
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medthwa.bsky.social @medthwa.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Wielding power through fear rather than respect. Who would have thought … ?
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 18/11/2024
Every once in a while I see some chud complaining I was a perfectly good writer until I started writing about politics and I'm all, motherfucker, I had a newspaper column where I wrote about politics long before I wrote novels, I was never NOT writing about politics, where the hell have YOU been
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Alan White @aljwhite.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
New hero just dropped
The old man who went viral in China for making dry sandwiches
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