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Pat Miller

@patmiller.bsky.social
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Good grace, the common good and a healthy irreverence. Spare me the hatred, give me the evidence. Words matter, intelligence wins. Living lightly and with respect on Bundjalung country in Australia. Gay, just deal with it..

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Pat Miller @patmiller.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This story reflects the plummeting decline of ethics that's infecting everything. Bitter irony; after surviving an execution attempt she is now back in the Debra K. Johnson Rehabilitation Centre. Christian moral high ground, anyone? Truly awful. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...
abc.net.au
Christa Pike released from hospital, back in prison after failed execution
Christa Pike, who survived two lethal injection attempts in a botched Tennessee execution has been discharged from hospital and returned to prison.
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Pat Miller @patmiller.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I find it utterly incredible that the Nobel committee would give the Peace Prize to an eminent jurist who has actually achieved tangible benefits in landmark human rights cases. After all, war criminal Netanyahu DID nominate the orange buffoon who has done fuck-all except grift for cash.
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Pat Miller @patmiller.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
How to say 'we don't give a flying fuck about climate change' without actually saying it. There's this Minns piece and only 2 non Pacific leaders turned up to the pre-COP charade. Depressing. All for relentless money. #auspol #climatechange www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
theguardian.com
Chris Minns says activists shouldn’t get ‘overexcited’ about ‘technical’ landmark coalmine decision
High court judgment blocking Mount Pleasant mine expansion will not affect state regulation, NSW premier says
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Pat Miller @patmiller.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Excellent advice. #auspol #sexualviolence #rapeculture
A satirical guide to avoiding sexual assault but directed at men, describing behaviours to keep women safe.
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Pat Miller @patmiller.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
But for whom, Rocco? The big end of town? Not acting on climate change will be astronomically worse and will devastate majority world countries and the domestic have-nots first.
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Pat Miller @patmiller.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It started with attacks on protesters. Minns is militarising the NSW police force. Creeping fascism with lawnorda publicity stunts to make us all feel fearfully safe-ish. #auspol
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Pat Miller @patmiller.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
You do realise how that's not going to happen. Referenda in Australia have mostly failed. 8 out of 45 have succeeded, s128 is a vicious speed bump. #auspol www.aph.gov.au/-/media/05_A...
aph.gov.au
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Pat Miller @patmiller.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Yet again the well-off squeeze those who can least afford it. Instead of net greed, how about net kindness? Another choice example of monetary gain at all costs championed by the Real Estate parasites. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...
abc.net.au
Alarming data shows rental tenants have hit breaking point
New data from Domain shows that despite severe rental shortages, landlords aren't having much luck increasing rent as tenants hit affordability limits.
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Pat Miller @patmiller.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The devil is in the detail. The AI data centre that nobody wants and nobody asked for except perhaps the Queensland fascist government, will use a quarter of the state's power demand. Coal fired too? Who the fuck are these people? #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
theguardian.com
Rural Queenslanders have seen gas projects come and go – but a 725-hectare datacentre poses a whole new level of ‘stupidity’
Residents of Dalby may soon live beside a $31bn datacentre. The premier sees ‘opportunity’ for the state – but others fear AI’s global creep
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dindin6.bsky.social @dindin6.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"We ask women why they don't come forward when sexually assaulted. It's because we live in a world where an abuser can become president.
Disgusting. Trump says he feels bad for the seven Cornell students accused of rape, and his biggest worry is that they "won't get a fair shake" with Letitia James as special prosecutor.

Not one word for the victim.

THE WHITE HOUSE LIVE 14:02 PM 

BREAKING NEWS

NOV: TRUMP TAKES QUESTIONS FROM REPORTERS
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Pat Miller @patmiller.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
True, Al, as Australia slides off to the right. The idea of the 'fair go' is in palliative care.
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Pat Miller @patmiller.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Very true, Your Majesty, but the alternatives are pretty crap too .
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Pat Miller @patmiller.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We can only hope. But I think buying a lottery ticket might have a better chance of winning..
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Pat Miller @patmiller.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Only in the land of violence governed by the vicious could judicial murder be celebrated. The death penalty is favoured by fascists. Keep a close watch on the "policy" law and order ramblings of Australia's emerging RWNJs. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...
abc.net.au
A 'bent' needle and multiple doses: How a botched execution unfolded
Convicted killer Christa Pike remains in hospital receiving emergency treatment after surviving two doses of the lethal injection drug pentobarbital.
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Pat Miller @patmiller.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Albanese worried about Shoebridge? 'Crikey' has it right. Labor is bogged. #auspol www.crikey.com.au/2026/10/02/d...
crikey.com.au
How worried is Labor about new Greens leader David Shoebridge?
It seems Anthony Albanese would rather only One Nation spoke to voters’ “searing anger”, even if it means more seats for the right than the left.
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Pat Miller @patmiller.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The terrorist aircraft PR opportunity is yet another example.
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Pat Miller @patmiller.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Note the groundswell of objection not only to the power poles but to the AI centres. It's universal, growing and the ALP member for West Footscray is missing the entire fucking point. Not underground, not 'up a busier street'. Not there. Shut them down. The tech bros have bought democracy. Fukem!
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Pat Miller @patmiller.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Don't forget the 'Brexit' thing. Hasn't that gone well? (Sarcasm font!)
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Pat Miller @patmiller.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Yet we are still employing Palantir to work on the basic functions of government infrastructure. Surveillance, anyone? AI will fuck us all over and we're just sitting around letting the tech Bros tell us how good it is. #auspol #ai www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
abc.net.au
OpenAI agent hacked Medicare portal, PM says
Anthony Albanese says he has spoken to the Open AI chief executive to express his concern about the incident and the length of time it took the tech company to inform the government of the breach.
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Pat Miller @patmiller.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Seriously. How fucking angry do you have to get? Violence against women is a growth industry. Nobble our bozo dickhead culture. It needs a bit more than raising a pissweak concerned eyebrow. Intervention. Now. #auspol #sexualviolence #rapeculture #alpnsw www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
theguardian.com
Three men charged with domestic violence-related murders after three women killed in separate incidents in NSW
A Bondi Beach woman in her 90s, a 23-year-old in Wagga Wagga and a woman in her 70s in Mole River died within hours of each other on Saturday
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Pat Miller @patmiller.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Dog-whistling racists? The bigots are circling the wagons because the NSW ICAC enquiry into property developers is not going to end well. Back to the golden-era sixties. #auspol #racist #lgbtiq www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
theguardian.com
’National pride’ and ‘Western values’ the focus of Coalition education plan that would reduce First Nations content
Curriculum proposal, unveiled by shadow education minister Julian Leeser, would also cut content about sustainability and Australia’s engagement with Asia
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Pat Miller @patmiller.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Welcome to the Brave New World where AI is the bully and the victim has no redress. Note the titles of the debt collection companies. #auspol #fuckAI www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
abc.net.au
Suncorp's debt collector engaging in 'worst kind' of bullying, former ACCC chair says
Insurance giant Suncorp's debt collector spent months using AI to harass an 81-year-old woman into paying a claim she was not responsible for.
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Pat Miller @patmiller.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
And the Yanks swallowed it hook line and sinker. The Murdoch media llabelled anyone who dared criticise it a traitor.
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Pat Miller @patmiller.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Tried tracing if this was AI. The bots seem to think it's real. Oh the irony. Trump shares his right ear, the one allegedly damaged by a high-velocity bullet. As with the real orange dickhead there's no sign of damage. If indeed real this is obsessively sad on so many levels. #auspol #fucktrump
Middle aged man in MAGA cap with Trump's image tattooed on the right side of his head, the image shares his ear.
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Pat Miller @patmiller.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Very true Peter. It's the Trump/Bannon 'flood the zone' logic.
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Pat Miller @patmiller.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
From hitting people on stretchers to victimising teenagers to bashing protesters. The NSW police are becoming the secret police. The Minns government isn't exactly cutting it. #auspol #nsw www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
abc.net.au
Mothers settle trespass case over 'distressing' bail checks by NSW Police
Two mothers reach a confidential settlement with the police after alleging that visits to check on their sons amounted to trespass.
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Pat Miller @patmiller.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The question isn't 'how' One Neurone screens candidates. It's 'if'. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
abc.net.au
'No face-to-face meeting': Former One Nation candidate questions vetting process
Warren Pickering's public reckoning with his past has raised a broader question for One Nation: How is the party vetting candidates it puts before the electorate?
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Pat Miller @patmiller.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This idiocy has gone far enough. From a White House official account. While your losing your mind over its narcissistic ineptitude, spot the AI mistakes for your amusement. From the Leader of the Greed World. #auspol
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Pat Miller @patmiller.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
MPs are often made honorary members of clubs in their electorates. It does not mean that they have much - if any - connection to those clubs. The club used the cash to stop sewage flowing into a creek. A sensible use of public money.
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Pat Miller @patmiller.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
No it's not. Being a dickhead is.
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Pat Miller @patmiller.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Ah I see. Perhaps inanimate objects might be a useful creative comparison benchmark. And no it wasn't a reprimand, rather standing up for cockroaches' impending national budgets.
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Pat Miller @patmiller.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Gordy please don't diss cochroaches' economic management skills.
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Pat Miller @patmiller.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The problem is that democracy isn't addressing it. governments are pissweak in the face of moneyed lobbying.
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Pat Miller @patmiller.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
To add to the macro pile-on, this landed last night. Business is not your friend. Digitally fucked over. #auspol substack.com/app-link/pos...
substack.com
10 Brutally Honest Predictions on the Future of AI
Forget the hype—here’s what will really happen
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Alan Kohler says what few mainstream commentators will. #inequality #auspol
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Pat Miller @patmiller.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
And thank you for correctly spelling 'arse' Robynne 😎
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Pat Miller @patmiller.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Ah the law 'n' orda beatups and the creeping fascism that we seem to be regressing to. The infectious paranoia generated by the right wing is so pervasive people are starting to believe it. Rabid inhumanity in the name of 'safety' is no way to live. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
theguardian.com
Queensland concedes law imposing mandatory jail on some offenders as young as 10 breaches human rights
State government says ‘breach bail, go to jail’ laws raise risk of overcrowding in jails, while one expert warns they may lead to ‘cruel outcomes’
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Pat Miller @patmiller.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The new smoking? 25% of former NFL (Gridiron) players died with - because of is uncertain - chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) caused by head impacts. Rugby league is worse in terms of head impact. Tribal bozo battering for entertainment. #auspol #NRL www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
abc.net.au
CTE study finds 70pc of head impacts happening in sports practice
At least one in four former NFL players who died between 2016 and 2021 was found to have had CTE, according to a new study.
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Pat Miller @patmiller.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
"South Australia is the only jurisdiction where it has declined by 16 per cent."
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Pat Miller @patmiller.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Cue the tech bros and the Queensland government telling us how fabulously good for us data centres are. I can smell the bullshit from here. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
abc.net.au
International company's plan for multi-billion-dollar data centre in regional Qld
A $31.9 billion hyper-scale data centre proposed for regional Queensland promises huge economic scale, while raising questions about energy demands and water security.
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Pat Miller @patmiller.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Just let me get this right. I'll bet the people who got sacked weren't the people who did the unconscionable, corrupt and just plain nasty malfeasance. The fat arses will still be sitting on their amply padded chairs after all of this falls out. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
abc.net.au
KPMG to cut almost 400 jobs after audit leaks scandal
Accounting firm KPMG says it will cut 27 partners and about 360 staff from its Australian arm, as well as revamp its structure, as it grapples with lower revenue from lost contracts following the audi...
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Pat Miller @patmiller.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Buried in the story is the factoid that aggression towards staff has decreased by 16% in South Australia in the last 12 months. Nobody has asked why. Or are we just a bunch of miserable arseholes who need to take it out on someone else?  #auspol #miserable www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
abc.net.au
Exclusive CCTV captures the violence facing Coles workers
Exclusive video obtained by 7.30 highlights shocking scenes of aggressive behaviour towards retail workers, including a customer armed with a hammer and a security guard being thrown into a check-out ...
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Pat Miller @patmiller.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Tuesday night. Look out for 'Best and Fairest Rapist' award. Sure to be hotly contested. At least 5 front runners. #auspol #sexualviolence
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Pat Miller @patmiller.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Christ on a stick. Surely we're not still wondering about the number of women killed or injured in acts of sexual violence. But an apology will make it all just fine as the AFL and Swans frantically polish the turd. #auspol #domesticviolence www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
abc.net.au
'We are deeply sorry': Swans players break silence over alleged incident
Five Sydney Swans players stood down for the rest of the season over breaches of club standards issue an apology to their club, fans and the wider community.
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Pat Miller @patmiller.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The problem is, it's behind a paywall.
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Pat Miller @patmiller.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Just wait till the NDIS changes kick in. The most vulnerable will be the ones paying the price of the frauds and rorts. #auspol
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Pat Miller @patmiller.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
'Striesland moment'? Why are the Sydney Swans in desperate damage control? It depends who sees your genitals and in what context, willing or not. Hypocrisy, anyone? #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
abc.net.au
Ex-AFL player Ricky Henderson sues Fox Sports, AFL over genitals exposure
Former professional footballer Ricky Henderson is suing the AFL and Fox Sports for more than $1.2 million in damages over an incident in which "compromising footage" of him was aired on live televisio...
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Pat Miller @patmiller.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Seriously? Piss the gambling ads off and make it opt-in. Breathtakingly pissweak. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
abc.net.au
You'll soon be able to register to block gambling ads. Here's how it will work
The government is moving to make opting out of gambling ads online as easy as paying a bill. Here is what we know about how it might work.
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Pat Miller @patmiller.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Forgive my cynicism but why are the Sydney Swans in damage control mode? Horny overpaid footballers abusing women? Who'd have thought? www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
abc.net.au
Breaking: Sydney Swans say players 'in serious breach' of club standards
The Sydney Swans say the players linked to a Victoria Police investigation of an alleged sexual assault "are in serious breach of expected club behaviour and standards".
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Pat Miller @patmiller.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Wallowing in bullshit seems to characterise pretty much everything to do with the response to genocide in Gaza, from draconian anti-protest laws to pissweak policy. Don't forget stern words too. That'll fix it. 
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