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AuDHD and exhausted Anarchist living in Australia. Aus.social@ozwobbly (currently inactive) twitter.com/Ozwobbly (currently inactive outside of DMs)

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Ted Torque @tedtorque.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Old enough to remember today; any Aussie on their high horse about American offshore renditions should hang their heads in shame. we were the inspiration!
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UN Human Right Committee condemns Australia offshore detention policy
The ASRC welcomes the landmark decisions by the UN Human Rights Committee that Australia is responsible for the arbitrary detention of people who sought safety on our shores, yet successive government...
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Ozwobbly @ozwobbly.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
In Goldstein this election. Won't be spoiling my ballot. It's not some grand moral stand or anything. I just really hate Tim Wilson for his stint as Human Rights Commissioner.
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Ozwobbly @ozwobbly.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Look at the timestamp
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Ozwobbly @ozwobbly.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Special shout out to pathological liar Scott Morrison who decided to blame aid workers for his negligence www.abc.net.au/news/2017-01...
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Save the Children workers removed from Nauru receive compo
The Immigration Department pays compensation and publishes a statement of regret to nine Save the Children workers who were removed from the offshore processing centre of Nauru.
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Ozwobbly @ozwobbly.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Just a reminder that Dutton covered up child abuse while he was Immigration Minister. This isn't a major ALP talking point because Tony Burke is likely also implicated in the scandal www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
theguardian.com
The Nauru files: cache of 2,000 leaked reports reveal scale of abuse of children in Australian offshore detention
Exclusive: The largest cache of documents to be leaked from within Australia’s asylum seeker detention regime details assaults, sexual assaults and self-harm
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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Journalists have been burned alive inside tents from bombs dropped by Israel. The footage of this is horrendous – and yet we are watching human beings live this every. single. day and our leaders and media do nothing.
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Edgy Internet Guy™ (2025)
4 panel comic

Panel 1:
Purple Guy and Red Guy. Red Guy is pointing to his phone saying: My jokes are racist as fuck and I don’t give a shittt. lmfao

Panel 2:
Red Guy: Hope you don’t find my edgy humour too offensive lol

Panel 3: 
Purple Guy: I made a joke about a dead billionaire 

Panel 4:
Red Guy, absolutely livid: I’m tellin
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Ozwobbly @ozwobbly.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Your wellbeing is completely irrelevant to the people who have the ability to actually influence parliamentary politics. Politics in Australia is largely different elements of capital fighting over the spoils and it's been this way since before Australia was a country.
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Nathan Wind @nwind.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
This.
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Ozwobbly @ozwobbly.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
It's not even a dollar a day lol.
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Ozwobbly @ozwobbly.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
The fact that the ALP's central policy going into the federal election is a $268 tax cut is extremely funny. They've learnt absolutely nothing.
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benjamin @benjamino.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Aus journos with nothing to say about the targeted killing of Hossam Shabat, or any of the scores of other journalists deliberately targeted by Israel over the past 18 month, just know that we see you
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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Speaking at this tonight with the anti-poverty crew—I have been given the enviable task of reading Scott Morrison's mind and interpreting his vision for the world 🤪
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Ozwobbly @ozwobbly.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Honestly he's been dead for years. The Libs keep his corpse in the freezer and do a "Weekend at Bernie's" every federal election.
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Ozwobbly @ozwobbly.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
I'm more pessimistic. I think we are trapped by parliamentary, economic, power distibution and electoral incentive structures. There's no pathway for viable reform and even the spectacle of large scale spoiled ballots doesn't change anything because voting doesn't disrupt power structures.
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Ozwobbly @ozwobbly.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
It did. The only question right now is which outcome we are sleep walking into: Outcome 1: Minority ALP govt - the slow rot continues Outcome 2: Minority Lib Government with hostile cross bench- Faster rot Outcome 3: Minority Lib with compliant crossbench- system cannibalises itself
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Ozwobbly @ozwobbly.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
There's not really much to say about the Federal Election beyond things are going to get worse. I, like a lot of people said on the last election night a hung parliament was inevitable because the small minded technocratic liberalism of the ALP would fail.
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Ozwobbly @ozwobbly.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
The thing about Trump taking over/ dismantling the administrative state is that it's the systems equivalent of cancer attacking vital organs. Things like the education system and security apparatuses are designed to stabilise and protect the system not undermine it.
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Duncan Money @mininghistory.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
One thing I hope the archives will be useful for is writing histories of structural adjustment in Zambia. Zambia's labour movement fought to remove the one-party state in 1991 and then were incredulous when they new government they had supported turned on them.
Scan of an old typewritten page.
Text reads:
"BROTHER DEPUTY CHAIRMAN GENERAL
SECRETARY GENERAL
MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE BOARD
MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL COUNCIL
SISTERS AND BROTHERS

THE IDEA OF RETURN TO MULTI-PARTY WAS CONCEIVED FROM THIS SAME ROOM. THE IDEA OF RETURN TO TRUE DEMOCRACY WAS CONCEIVED FROM THIS ROOM.

IT WAS IN THIS SAME ROON THAT WE WAGED THE WAR AGMINST THE UNIP DICTATORSHIP. IT WAS IN THIS SAME ROOM THAT WE USED TO FORMULATE OUR CHECKS AND BALANCES FOR THE GOVERNMENT WHICH WAS THEN IN POWER.

ITS THEREFORE BEFITTING THAT OCCASIONALLY WE SHOULD MEET IN THIS SAME ROOM TO REFLECT ON THE PERFORMANCE OF ANY GOVERNMENT IN POWER.

WHEN POLITICAL PARTIES ARE VYING TO FORM A GOVERNMENT THEY MAKE A LOT OF PROMISES (AND SOME OF THEM ARE OUT OF THIS WORLD) .

ONCE THEY GAIN POWER THEIR POLICIES OFTEN CONFLICT WITH THE
INDUSTRIAL INTEREST OF WORKERS, HENCE ZCTU AS AN INDEPENDENT TRADE UNION SHOULD ALWAYS BE ON ALERT TO PROTFCT INTERESTS OF HER MEMBERS, T HE WORKING CLASS AND THE MOST VULNERABLE IN OURSOCIETY - NO MATTER WHO RUNS THE GOVERNMENT."Scan of an old typewritten document.
Text reads:
"THIS IS OUR GOVERNMENT AND WE SHALL GUARD IT SERIOUSLY, WE SHOULD NOT LET THE REVOLUTION BE HIJACKED WHILE LAMENTING AND WATCHING HELPLESSLY BECAUSE WE ARE NOT HELPLESS.

WE HAVE HAD THIS GOVERNMENT NOW CLOSE TO A YEAR

HAVE PROMISES BEEN TURNED INTO ACTION?

- WHERE IS OUR LABOUR? AS WE WERE TOLD THE UNIP LABOUR WAS GOING TO BE REPLACED IMMEDIATELY MMD CAME INTO POWER.

- WHERE ARE THE MORALS IN OUR GOVERNMENT?
- WHERE ARE THE JOBS?
- WHERE IS TRANSPARANCY?
- WHERE IS CONSULTATION?

WE ARE ONLY CONSULTED WHEN THEY WANT TO REMOVE SUBSIDIES,

WE ARE ONLY CONSULTED WHEN THEY WANT TO INCREASE THE PRODUCE PRICE ON MAIZE.

WE ARE ONLY CONSULTED WHEN THEY HEAR THAT THERE MIGHT BE A STRIKE IN A COMPANY.

WE REFUSE TO BE USED, WE FOUGHT FOR CHANGE BECAUSE WE WANTED TO BE CONSULTED ON MAJOR POLICY ISSUES BY GOVERNMENT."
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Ozwobbly @ozwobbly.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Pepper-sprayed activist posed no threat to Victoria police officer who later said ‘they needed that’, court hears
Class action trial over police use of OC spray on climate protests at 2019 mining conference begins in Melbourne
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The White Rose Society (Australia) @whiterosesociety.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
The ABC article shows why the NSN are so insidious. Not just grooming at-risk young men but luring & entrapping women as young as 15 for the sole purpose of breeding. The dangers of groups like the NSN go beyond harassment & intimidation of minorities. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...
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Emily recognised her son on the news. He was standing with a group of Neo-Nazis
These families never imagined their loved ones would be drawn to Neo-Nazi groups. Now they're fighting to get them back and begging the government to help.
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Ozwobbly @ozwobbly.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
The lesson is simple. Just hold to your values and do what you can where you can.
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Ozwobbly @ozwobbly.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Got a win at work today. 2 years ago I convinced my manager to switch our area's milk supplier to a social enterprise, Fruit2Work that mitigates some of the damage our "justice" system causes. Apparently that snowball kept rolling and the whole Uni officially switched across today.
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Ozwobbly @ozwobbly.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Ah I'd hoped the first shortage had completely sorted itself up. I haven't had an issue since October
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𝐟𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐠 @ruleo.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
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Queerspace @queerspace.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
It would be nice to see mainstream media acknowledge that every alarmist in their ranks about Trump and his henchmen has been correct, and every single "Let's all calm down" guy--a posture of blasé detachment that is consistently over-rewarded in legacy media--has called it wrong from day one.
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Ozwobbly @ozwobbly.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Look what happened after the Munich Putsch or Jan 6. There was no real cost to failure because they're not seen as threatening as leftists by the powerful.
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Ozwobbly @ozwobbly.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
The thing to remember about fascists is that they're not irrational when it comes to seizing control of the state apparatus. They're just very risk tolerant in a way that most left wing people can't understand. Part of this is conditioning a part of it is liberal rule of law hangover.
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Ozwobbly @ozwobbly.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
I used to be a social democrat. I think most social democrats are good people who try their best. Social democracy is not an ideology equipped to fight fascism. I wish it was different. It simply doesn't understand incentive structures and power.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 01/02/2025
From "The Coming of the Third Reich", Richard J. Evans (2003), the author describes the death of the Weimar Republic under Franz von Papen, who staged a coup against the Social Democrats in Prussia and then, as Chancellor, brought Hitler to power.
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Ozwobbly @ozwobbly.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Looks like another Vyvanse shortage is here. Took 3 pharmacies to get hold of mine today. Does anyone know why? Please tell me it's not linked to RFK.
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The White Rose Society (Australia) @whiterosesociety.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
You can read more about the National Socialist Network's attitudes around rape, paedophilia and women here. thewhiterosesociety.writeas.com/active-clubs...
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The White Rose Society (Australia) @whiterosesociety.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
The link to the Adelaide Advertiser article is here, hopefully they unpaywall it soon www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-a...
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The White Rose Society (Australia) @whiterosesociety.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Members of the NSN are in Adelaide this weekend for a national meet-up - except for those prevented from travelling by their bail conditions. The Adelaide Advertiser has welcomed them to the city of churches by dropping the first part of their 5-month infiltration of the group.
One of Australia’s largest neo-Nazi group is trying to start a commune where white wives are encouraged to have as “many babies as we can” as part of what members describe as their mission to “save” the white European race from extinction. 
A five-month undercover investigation by The Advertiser infiltrated the SA chapter of the 
National Socialist Network and uncovered how members of the far-right extremist group are trying to pool resources to buy a compound in the Fleurieu Peninsula to start a “whites only” compound – the property once owned by doomsday cult Agape Ministries.
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The White Rose Society (Australia) @whiterosesociety.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Defence lawyer Luke McMahon said his client should never have been charged, the prosecution doomed from day one. “They’re creating public spectacles and it’s terrifying. Where does it go from here, that’s what I really worry about. There is an inevitability of something seriously violent happening.”
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The White Rose Society (Australia) @whiterosesociety.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
The National Socialist Network showed up to Café Gummo in black bloc, wearing GoPros like Brenton Tarrant, carrying a Sonnenrad banner and armed with knives.
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The White Rose Society (Australia) @whiterosesociety.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Today antifascists can celebrate that charges were dropped (and costs awarded) for our comrade, who, along with other antifascists, defended Café Gummo (and our fundraiser) from the National Socialist Network in 2023. www.theage.com.au/national/vic...
theage.com.au
Charges dropped against bar patron who confronted neo-Nazi gatecrashers
Benjamin Squire had been facing jail time after he was charged over a melee involving 20 neo-Nazis at a Melbourne bar.
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Ozwobbly @ozwobbly.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Civility politics is poison, even to it's proponents. You only make choices this bad when you are parachuted into a safe ALP seat by your incompetent mentor. www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
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Albanese orders Victorian Labor to take down 'grubby' Dutton meme
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has ordered Victorian Labor to remove a meme from its social media accounts that mocked Opposition Leader Peter Dutton and his wife.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 27/12/2024
those twitter HQ doors are whispering to her like the green goblin mask
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 24/12/2024
“The Atlas of Surveillance currently captures more than 11,700 deployments of surveillance tech and remains the most comprehensive database of its kind”
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The Atlas of Surveillance Expands Its Data on Police Surveillance Technology: 2024 Year in Review
EFF’s Atlas of Surveillance is one of the most useful resources for those who want to understand the use of police surveillance by local law enforcement agencies across the United States. This year, a...
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Robbie Trevino @robbietrevino.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
White Phyrexian concepts I designed back in 2021 for Magic the Gathering’s “Phyrexia: All Will Be One” setting. Emphasized teeth with some of these ones, love me some weird teeth.
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Ozwobbly @ozwobbly.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Probably a mix of the following: - Qualifications aren't inherently meritocratic - Economic barriers are a major reason for this - You are an excellent writer and editor in your own right - Your workplace understands all of the above is true
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Andrew B. Watkins @windjunky.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Heatwaves are Australia’s deadliest natural hazard. Storymap featuring the bloke who started the heatwave forecast service at the BoM, and whose ‘heatwave factor’ we have used in the National Climate Risk Assessment
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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
This is still one of the coolest photos from 2020.
Two people dancing together at spot where fucked up statue got fucked up.
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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Cenk Uygur of @theyoungturks.bsky.social at billionaire backed Turning Point USA event alongside millionaire CEO Charlie Kirk, a key Trump ally. Turning Point helped charter buses for J6 + mainstreams "the Great Replacement theory." Cenk says the group is "for real about fighting the establishment."
Cenk Uygur of the Young Turks at Turning Point USA event.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Justice Thomas could not be reached for comment, citing wifi issues on the yacht www.nytimes.com/2024/12/21/u...
nytimes.com
Justice Clarence Thomas Did Not Disclose Additional Trips From Billionaire Patron, Democrats Say
The revelation was included in a report by Democratic staff members on the Senate Judiciary Committee who had conducted a 20-month investigation into ethics practices at the Supreme Court.
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