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Miscellaneous Loose Unit

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Unauthorised opinions from a woke leftist Books and trees are some of my best friends 💕📚🌳🪻🌷🌻 Artist, proofreader, typesetter, socialist, food and drink specialist *May contain sarcasm Melbourne/Naarm

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Always a Difficult Earth Girl🐬🐨🐋🦘🦈 @scuttlebutter1.bsky.social · 23h
Can't think of a better way to infarct 'the bloated corpuscles' "Imagine feeding the almost 1,000,000 Aussie kids in poverty while simultaneously giving conniption induced infarctions to the bloated corpuscles running the duopoly. That is taxpayer dollars well spent imho"
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A Mamdaniesque state supermarket?! Anything that causes the duopoly to suffer is good for me| First Dog on the Moon
I endorse this completely
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A new poll has shown the Greens' vote is on the rise! The Greens are the most popular party with young people & ahead of their state election, the Victorian Greens are polling at record highs. People want change.
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Richard E Frankel @refrankel.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Company Owned By Creep Desperately Trying to Ban Creeps Misusing Its AI “Pervert Glasses”
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mad-science-guy.bsky.social @mad-science-guy.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Facebook (and Zuck) started off as a tool for stalkers. This is no surprise. Zuck is the kind of guy who cannot fathom why we need a Drivers Privacy Protection Act, because after all *he* can afford a security detail.
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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
In July alone, russia destroyed 1.5 million Ukrainian books. Books preserve knowledge. They teach us to think critically and ask questions. Is the “great russian culture” afraid of Ukrainian books? It seems so.
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Orchids @orchids.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
It’s another orchid at TJ’s. I wish they also sold some Paphiopedilum and Cattleya orchids, but maybe that’s asking for too much from a grocery store 😝 Oncidium hybrid (noID) #orchid #flowers #gardening #nature #bloomscrolling #photography 📷🌱🌴🪴sky
Red orchid flowers with petals that have slight yellow tips
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Ed Husic is being polite. It's not so much that Labor is allergic to dissent. But that Albanese has infected the government with a neoliberal, corporate donor-driven, chronic case of spinelessness. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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News live: Ed Husic says Labor ‘allergic to dissent’ and Australians want to see politicians ‘stand up for something’
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B heard media 💚🇵🇸 @bheardmedia.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Gary Lineker and 120 other UK millionaires have signed a letter, organised by Patriotic Millionaires UK, to Andy Burnham. It says: 'our new government must raise taxes on extreme levels of wealth for a fairer, better, more hopeful Britain. 'It's time to tax us, the super rich. #TaxTheRich ✅️
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Nicole Chvastek @nicolechvastek.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Much of the U.S. economy is now based on A.I. — or, more specifically, expectations that A.I. will pay off very big in the near future. But it’s becoming a house of cards. We're facing a five-alarm fire that you need to know about. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-cras…
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Belinda Weaver @longtimeleftie.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
"Now is not the right time" for a tax on gas exports, says Albanese at the @australianlabor.bsky.social party conference. Never the right time for this pathetic twerp. Can we boot this pitiful coward out? #auspol
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Rina @rina2012.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Splashes of colour beneath a roof of blossoms. #QueenAnnesLace, bugs' home. #PaintbyWords #Haiku #Poetry #WritingCommunity #MacroMonday #ImageAndVerse #photography #Art #ECK #flowers #bloomscrolling #BugSky #ColorADay #RedWed
A red ladybird is perched on the underside of a large, white umbel.  It is aQueen Anne’s Lace (Daucus carota) with many small, delicate flowers. The background is green and softly blurred. (Bokeh)
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Miscellaneous Loose Unit @misc-loose-unit.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
I’m sick of the press reporting Pauline’s toxic unhinged opinions and fabricated propaganda
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Kate @gaylekate.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
👏👏👏 "When activists n Ireland heard that Peter Thiel’s secret club, Dialog, was planning to meet n the Irish countryside, they launched a campaign to stop it. They succeeded" PEOPLE OF IRELAND CAME THRU & SHOWED THIEL THE DOOR: DON'T LET THIS PASS W/O THEIR PROPS therealnews.com/peter-thiels...
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Peter Thiel’s Dialog conference in Ireland shut down by grassroots action
A former Google worker describes the #DropDialog movement and organizing against Big Tech in Ireland.
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twinfold @twinfold.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
@jimchalmers.bsky.social clearly your response was 'get fucked', right? #auspol
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David Branch @dbranch9.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Just to add, the $21bn quoted isn’t Anthropic’s investment, it’s the additional costs Australians will have to pay for power and water.
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David Branch @dbranch9.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
If I may offer some advice to Mr Chalmers, I believe the correct response to Anthropic should be “Fuck off!”
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Andrew @andrewtweeted.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
No No No No No, reinforce copyright, save integrity, sue the shit out of them and others for already stolen work.
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
If you don’t let us steal everything we’re not going to build our massive theft-recycling machines in your backyard
afr.com
Anthropic tells Chalmers: $21b investment hinges on copyright
Chief executive Dario Amodei met with Treasurer Jim Chalmers and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese when AI giant Anthropic launched in Australia in April.
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Serena Joyner @serenajoyner.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Give us the copyright to the collective work of your creatives and in return we will take your water, land, power and data privacy. On what planet is that a ‘deal’ and not just old fashioned pillage?
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The more I think about it: why was she even there? There are no genuine antisemitism allegations against ABC or SBS; she had none to add; and it’s got zero to do with Bondi. Why was she invited to appear again?? To slag off the public broadcasters? Issue wasn’t even in the terms of reference. wtf
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
new White Lotus looks terrible
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Pauline Hanson’s secret Italian rendezvous with Gina Rinehart
The One Nation leader’s appearance on a Sicilian pool deck where the mining billionaire was swimming stunned Australian onlookers.
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Michael Bell @disirregardless.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Gold Walkley to whoever asks her about what *really* happened at Port Arthur
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Nothing says “I’m fighting every day for Aussie battlers” like stepping out at the Dolce & Gabbana Alta Moda showcase in Taormina. You show em, Pauline.
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Pauline Hanson looks glamorous at Dolce & Gabbana fashion show
Pauline Hanson has traded in the Senate chamber for the catwalk.
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
“The Saturday Paper offered to amend last week’s story, if Rinehart were able to articulate some difference between her politics and the far-right positions of One Nation and Advance. She did not respond before deadline, although in fairness there is a time difference with Sicily”
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Jo Dyer @instanterudite.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Instead of waiting until 2027 for "advice", maybe Labor could follow advice from its own 2020 Senate report that rejected the anti-intellectual & inequitable scheme as creating an "Americanised education system characterised by high levels of private debt". And get rid of it. As promised. In 2022.
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Joan ofArc-ing @paisleynclouds.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Fvkg Albanese is as bad as the previous lot for plundering Australian resources.
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Dave M - Prole. 🍉🍉 @davem3393.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Pauline's dog whistling to the older angry white guy vote again. The ones who still believe in a time when "The man was head of the household and could use corporal punishment to keep order". It was wrong back then as well, but the law hadn't caught up is all.
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Max G @maximgrosky.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
That RC is just a taxpayer funded wailing wall for the Zionist lobby. maxgrossarchive.com/2026/07/17/c...
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CRY ME A RIVER TO THE SEA
What became of the “social cohesion” aspect of the Royal Commission’s mandate?
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Jennifer Crawford @ournewhomecoach.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Can Cathy be called to the Royal commission to share her experience? Social cohesion my arse.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Embroidered book covers, fashionable in the 16th and 17th century and saw a comeback in late 19th-century England, from the Arts and Crafts movement in Europe. #womensart
Photo of a book placed upright wirh a symmetrical embroidered design on the cover in gold against a dark background
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LouiseMorris @louisemorris.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The Australia Institute research found 116 new coal, oil and gas projects - including Browse - sitting in the pipeline, which, if they all proceed, would add 1.4 billion tonnes of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere annually by 2030. #auspol thepoint.com.au/opinions/267...
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Browse is a carbon bomb, and it's not the only one on the Albanese government's desk
Woodside wants you to think of Browse as just one gas field, tucked neatly 300km off the West Australian coast, minding its own business. Except, it isn't. Browse is a carbon bomb, and it's sitting in...
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Always a Difficult Earth Girl🐬🐨🐋🦘🦈 @scuttlebutter1.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
What's NOT clear, @albomp.bsky.social? "According to ... Oxfam, Australia has 178 billionaires with a combined wealth exceeding $686Bn. According to Poverty in Australia 2025: Overview Report ... 1 in 7 Australians, or 3.7M people, were living below the poverty line in 2022-23" What's NOT clear?
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Larissa Waters warns Australia is at a tipping point amid One Nation surge
Greens leader Larissa Waters has argued the rise of One Nation reflects growing anger at a system many Australians feel no longer works for them, rather than an embrace of Pauline Hanson’s brand of po...
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Viktor 🇵🇸🍉🦘🦘🪃 @viktx.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
@australianlabor.bsky.social @albomp.bsky.social Instead of sending billions to a rapist in America invest in Australia's future. Do this www.ecoportal.net/en/switzerla...
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Switzerland bolted 5,000 solar panels onto a dam wall 8,000 feet up in the freezing Alps where everyone said solar made no sense, and the plant now makes three times more winter power than any farm do...
High in the Swiss Alps, on a concrete dam wall more than 8,000 feet above the sea, someone bolted thousands of solar panels to a place almost no one thought
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Charlotte Graham-McLay had a lot of fun writing this and it shows 🤣🤣🤣
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Australian officials ask fans to respect the privacy of Neil, a 1-ton seal who respects nothing
Neil, a 2,200-pound elephant seal, has returned to his birthplace on the Australian coast, causing quite a stir.
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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
If your patriotism attracts white nationalists, it isn’t patriotism… It’s hate. If your Christianity attracts them too, it isn’t Christianity… It’s a cult of personality. Learn the difference. 😎✨
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
anyway remember when Albanese donned a Yellow Line to receive the genocide-inciting Israeli President on stolen lands.
pic of Hebrew and Star of David imprinted yellow painted concrete blocks with blank posters attached, marking the genocidal invasion of Gaza by Israelis. 
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The IDF uses these blocks to mark the "Yellow Line" between Israeli-and Hamas-controlled territory. (ABC News)
In short:
The so-called Yellow Line in Gaza that marks the boundary of Israeli-controlled territory has been moved further into the enclave.picture of Israeli President in blue suit and tie with white shirt and Albanese in charcoal suit, white shirt, and yellow tie shaking hands. SBS news report of Israelis deliberately targeting and killing children in Gaza near the “yellow line”. 

Text: • An independent UN Commission of Inquiry found Gaza's ceasefire has not ended the
deliberate targeting of children in Gaza.
• Since the ceasefire, children have been killed crossing the "yellow line" that divides Israel and Hamas-held territory.
Eight months after the Gaza ceasefire began, Palestinian children are still being targeted by Israeli forces for crossing the vaguely defined
"yellow line", according to a new report from the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry.UN Commission of Inquiry finds Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
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253. On incitement to genocide, the Commission concludes that Israeli President Isaac Herzog,
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, have incited the commission of genocide and that Israeli authorities have failed to take action against them to punish this The Commission has not fully assessed statements by other Israeli political and military leaders, including Minister for National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir and Minister for Finance Bezalel Smotrich, and considers that they too should be assessed to determine whether they constitute incitement to commit genocide.
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
scheduled post Charlie Pingree Photography Videography - Drone Pilot - Wildlife // Travel Photographer "As my time in Oregon begins to wrap up, I was given one last gift by the orcas of Oregon"
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Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 06/07/2026
Some aged care providers are gouging residents for services they don't provide or telling them that opt-in fees are mandatory. Labor's letting the market rip and older people are paying the price. Is it any wonder American private equity vultures are circling the sector?
Screenshot of Guardian news headline reading Australian aged care firm accused in class action of charging residents for high teas and classes they couldn’t useScreenshot of headline from The Source reading Aged care operators being investigated by regulator
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kyliev3375.bsky.social @kyliev3375.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Tax Gas Jim! Tax Foreign Companies Jim! Get the cash before solar makes gas redundant- not long now thank goodness 😅 and stop backroom lobby deals for low or no tax - it’s a bloody joke!
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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Snowy 2.0’s costs have gone from 2 to 6 to 12 to 40 billion dollars. Despite the fact WE’RE PAYING for the project, the Govt says WE’RE NOT ALLOWED TO SEE the project’s monthly cost and schedule updates. Let’s see what the Full Federal Court has to say about that! #FOI 👊 #auspol
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daily bunnies 🐇✨ @dailybunnies.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
A brown and white lop-eared bunny wears large eyeglasses held by a hand above with a lined notebook and a pen in the foreground.
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Margaret G @mls0308.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Barack Obama's thoughts on finding inspiration to keep going and not sink into despair. 📽️ IG HigherGroundMedia #Pinks #ProudBlue
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gmf 1979 🇦🇺 @gmf1979.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Never forget how fucking corrupt our #auspol duopoly gov is. @albomp.bsky.social called a S.A survivor Grace Tame a "DIFFICULT" woman, encouraging domestic & FOREIGN Zionists to organise a smear campaign & harm her future earnings. The Australian PM.
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Sirius Star 🍉 🍉 🍉 @siriusstar3.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Hundreds of anti-genocide protesters converged on the NSW Labor conference to condemn Labor’s support for genocide. #Genocide #Auspol We vote 🗳️
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Mybuddysully @mybuddysully.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Wisconsin residents sue Microsoft over noise caused by new data center
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Wisconsin residents sue Microsoft over noise caused by new data center
Residents have also complained the area has become a ‘dust bowl’ due to construction
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Lilly @lillyull.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
You and I have to pay tax on all our income. Why WOULDN'T the gas industry have to pay tax on this $27 billion windfall? It's outrageous! You're stealing big time, from the people who voted for you, Albo. I hope those people have the nous to realise it. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Predicted $27bn wartime windfall for Australian LNG exporters reignites calls for new gas tax
David Pocock says the huge revenue boost for gas companies underscores that Australians are ‘missing out on a fair return’
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