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Matt Golding @goldingcartoons.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
The trial, day one.
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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
For academic friends researching fantasy and mythic/folkloric literature:
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 06/12/2025
Feeling holiday stress? A psychologist (and native Dane) shares how Denmark relies on two words to stay grounded: overskud (the energy/space to take something on) and pyt (to let it go). This season: say no when you lack overskud and say pyt when things don’t go as planned 💛
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How to deal with holiday stress, Danish-style
Denmark, despite its cold and gloomy winters, is full of people who consistently rank among the happiest in the world.
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Quackademic @quackademic.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
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Quackademic @quackademic.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Been there, sheepie. Sending 💜💜
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 05/12/2025
okay australian government: now take the direct incentives you did for household batteries and do it for massive, large-scale renewable energy
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An Leavy @an-leavy.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Download the Australian Bites and Stings app and keep a couple of pressure bandages handy at home, in the car and when walking or out exercising Teach your kids to apply a pressure bandage
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Emergency advice about snake bites now at your fingertips
As a new app is launched to provide first-aid advice for venomous bites and stings, a reptile expert urges people to learn how to respond in an emergency ahead of an expected spike in demand for antiv...
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ThatIngrid @thatingrid.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Tell you what .. black friday and cyber Monday are good for one thing only: figuring out who has your email address and UNSUBSCRIBING
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An Leavy @an-leavy.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
The toll keeps rising but I am not sure what penetration the story is getting
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Deborah Lee-Talbot @colourfulhistories.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/ha...
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Hands off our State Library!
Library workers deliver essential services to 2.8 million people in our community each year. They run information services, connect people online, hold free workshops, develop community connections an...
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
I seriously cannot get over how stupid it is to be cutting back on research right now #ThePoint thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
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CSIRO 350 job cuts a damning indictment on Government priorities, misses 'golden opportunity' on research
The announcement this week that CSIRO are to cut 350 research jobs is another damning indictment on Australia’s ongoing failure to prioritise research and development.
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3wombats @3wombats.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Please sign. This stupid decision needs reversing actionnetwork.org/petitions/cs...
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CSIRO needs urgent support
CSIRO is under attack. Sign the petition calling on the Albanese Government to act now to secure the future of CSIRO’s world-leading science and research.
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Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
This week in Art I Am Obsessed With: this self-portrait by Suzanne Valadon. It looks so incredibly contemporary (I would literally wear that exact outfit on hot summer day) but it’s from 1923. Anyway, love a queen with flowy pants and a dangling cigarette!
Self-portrait of Suzanne Valadon that shows her smoking in bed while gazing off into the middle distance. She’s wearing a peach-coloured camisole and green and white striped pants cotton pants with a drawstring. Her bed and the curtains around her bed are blue with a pattern of white leaves.
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Emerge Australia @emergeaustralia.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
If you’re living with #MECFS, #LongCOVID, or want to volunteer as a ‘healthy control’ for medical research studies, becoming an AusME Registry participant is the simplest way to get involved in research! Sign up today and make a difference! zurl.co/KiZQs
Calling for people to sign up to the AusME registry. Person completing a form on a clipboard "Nobody knows ME/CFS and long COVID like those who live with it"
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
A reminder - governments *can* do things. A progressive government *should* do things. A better country is possible. Governments *choose* what they do (or do not do). #ThePoint #Gough thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Why not have a racial discrimination act that put the final stake through the heart of the White Australia policy, why not have no-fault divorce, why not end conscription, why not recognise China, why not ban sporting teams from apartheid South Africa, why not abolish the death penalty, why not introduce free healthcare, why not ratify the World Heritage Convention, why not have equal pay for women and welfare assistance for single mothers and maternity leave for Commonwealth employees, why not have free tertiary education, why not have a Law Reform Commission, a National Gallery, and a National Council for the Arts, why not recognise Indigenous land rights, why not lower the voting age to 18, why not ditch Imperial Honors and why not have a national anthem?
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Simon Farley @sighmonger.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
He was a vain, dishonest fool, too sexist and racist even for the likes of E.O. Wilson. Like many 'great' 20th-century scientists, his credulous and craven colleagues repeatedly forgave him for his shitty personality and vile opinions, all because he was associated with a much overblown 'discovery'.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 08/11/2025
Ketan Joshi's Irrational Climate Reset I am calling for a return to the wild, unacceptable and unthinkably weird idea that we can decide not to live under the thumb of an expensive, deadly and ancient fossil fuel economy No more hand-wringing about pragmatism. Be idealistic, and don't be sorry 🤜🏽
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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
DEWR's annual report was tabled yesterday. Let's have a read: $1.2b was spent on Workforce Australia (employment services) last year You'll be shocked to see its again failed it's basic performance measure to put people into jobs www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Independent MP Andrew Wilkie said the ATO had failed to learn from the robodebt scandal by using strong-arm tactics against vulnerable people www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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ATO rebuked by tax watchdog for using debt collectors on people ‘doing the right thing’
Inspector general of taxation and ombudsman says she is receiving an ‘increasing number’ of complaints about tax office
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare found the average age of death for people who've experienced homelessness is 55 - almost three decades younger than the general population www.abc.net.au/listen/progr... cc. @purplepingers.bsky.social
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New data on links between early death and homelessness - ABC listen
The Institute of Health and Welfare has examined the link between death and homelessness.
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Quackademic @quackademic.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Or media reporting the LibNat 🤡🎪 as if they were a credible opposition maintains a lazy narrative that positions the fictional ‘centre’ as the only game in town Imagine if they gave equal time to greens & cross bench members whose views are not beholden to the fossil fuels industry If only #AusPol
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 20/10/2025
If you wrote for Bitch and are interested in participating in our reprint series, please reach out to us! flyteam at theflytrapmedia dot com.
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Denise Difficult-Shrivell @deniseshrivell.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Not to be missed #SundayShot - here at 9am #auspol > youtube.com/@thesundayshot
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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 10/10/2025
At a time when the value of research is being questioned, Richard Robson’s story is a powerful reminder of how scientific research leads to real-world impact. #auspol #NobelPrize
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An Australian chemist just won the Nobel Prize. Here’s how his work is changing the world
The 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded for the development of metal-organic frameworks: molecular structures that have large spaces within them, capable of capturing and storing gases and other chemicals.
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Stilgherrian @stilgherrian.com · 26/09/2025
Today, Friday 26 September, is Stanislav Petrov Day. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisl... Also, Situational Awareness Day. www.daysoftheyear.com/days/nationa... And it’s happy 66th birthday to professional racist Andrew Bolt. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_...
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Stanislav Petrov - Wikipedia
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Chadywak @chadywak.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
I have cystic fibrosis, and I don't know many others here on Bluesky, but I'd like to make cf friends. If you have the cfs, then comment and say hi.
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 19/09/2025
For more analysis from @emmashortis.bsky.social and friends on the decline of the US, tune in to our podcast After America. Latest episode ⤵️
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The mindless menace of violence
Instead of trying bring Americans together after the latest act of political violence, the Trump administration is fanning the flames of division.
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 18/09/2025
"Have we reached the point where we can say the US is in a constitutional crisis? Has American democracy failed? Has the US descended into authoritarianism? "If the answers to those questions weren’t clear already, they are now. Yes. It is happening. Right now." theconversation.com/jimmy-kimmel...
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 18/09/2025
Jimmy Kimmel’s cancellation is the latest sign we’re witnessing the end of US democracy – @emmashortis.bsky.social, Director of International & Security Affairs Program at the Australia Institute. Read: theconversation.com/jimmy-kimmel...
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 18/09/2025
"These submarines will lock us into the warlike activities of nuclear weapon states. "It is a complete repudiation of decades of Australian anti-nuclear weapons policy." - The Hon. Doug Cameron, former Senator for NSW #auspol @dncameron.bsky.social
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Full cartoon on how we are spending scandalous amounts of money on useless submarines is here www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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We are spending scandalous amounts of money on useless submarines, but there is exciting news! | First Dog on the Moon
When our Aukus subs are finally (never going to be) delivered they will simply be big goofy underwater zeppelins
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🐈‍⬛💜 phonakins 🍉🌲 @phonakins.com · 16/09/2025
My rent assistance is increasing $1.60 a week from next month My rent's going up $30 a week in December
A social media graphic from "nobody deserves poverty." The main text reads: "Rent assistance only goes to 14% of welfare recipients and tops out at $107 a week." Below that, it says, "Couples get up to $101.50 a week between them." A table titled "Rent Assistance - for payments under the Social Security Act" lists different family situations and their maximum payments.
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Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Something to remember for you all as social media is swamped by people angry over a man they've never met - especially in Australia where that American white guy's killing is being fed out and manipulated by Advance and the Atlas group. You're being played. All of it is scripted agit-prop trash.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
'Capitalism also depends on domestic labour' by See Red Womens Workshop, feminist silk-screen poster collective, UK (1970s-90s) #ReframingWomenPrintmakers
Printed poster in brown and white showing a line of people exiting and entering a factory building, in the center of the line four women are attending to the workers needs by giving care, feedjng and providing services like providing clean clothes
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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Dr Richard Denniss says the “obvious” ones to pay for damage from increased floods as per the latest climate report should be the Fossil Fuel co’s, as houses will become uninsurable “The insurance industry will not help ppl in 20yrs time with their flooded houses”💯 #Estimates
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David Tomkins 🦋 @davidctomkins.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
The federal government has today finally released the long-awaited national climate risk assessment, providing the most detailed picture of the severe and far-reaching social and economic impact of the climate crisis for Australia. #climatecrisis #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Millions of Australians at risk from rising sea levels and heat deaths to soar, national climate risk assessment report warns
Climate risk assessment find heat-related deaths would surge 450% in Sydney if global heating surpasses 3C
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An Leavy @an-leavy.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
This is a powerful book The story could leave you feeling sad, traumatised Yet I I felt energised by the portrayal of an amazing group of women Through their suffering they achieved so much The companies were callous and cruel They stood against cruelty with help and a lot of strength
Cover of The Radium Girls by Kate Moore
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Dr Desirée Kozlowski @pleasurelab.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
I call on the Australian government to #RaiseTheRate of all support payments to a living wage. This would be the single most effective way to lift the productivity, quality of life, and well-being of the whole country. #CommitToALivingWage
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Lindsay @neomeruru.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Today the internet lost Maru, cat of legend, so I'm putting out an empty cardboard box for him.
A quickly-drawn picture of an empty cardboard box
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Stilgherrian @stilgherrian.com · 06/09/2025
Chats sauvages!
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Ebony Bennett @ebonybennett.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
What an absolute disgrace. The anti-semitism envoy "declined to specifically address the presence of neo-Nazis at anti-immigration marches on the weekend" www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Failure to tackle antisemitism should see organisations’ funding cut like subpar childcare centres, special envoy says
At a Gold Coast conference, Jillian Segal declined to address the presence of neo-Nazis at Sunday’s anti-immigration marches
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
As an activist who helped lead the campaign against Robodebt, I can only think back to the days when legal scholars told us we had no chance of winning in court, and how I thought, fuck it, we’ll keep fighting anyway The Robodebt class action payout is now the largest *ever* in Australian history
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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
So much I could say about the Robodebt Class Action re-settlement. But I am tired and in another time zone and will simply leave this here instead.
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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Commonwealth Ombudsman already smashed them and now not even govt's chosen auditing firm can say if the house of cards system of punitive mutual obligations is legal. Quite literally, they say, it is indefensible. Yet it persists. Even after Robodebt. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic...
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Exclusive: Government warned over ‘legal basis’ of welfare system
Despite being warned in 2018 that jobseekers were being exposed to unfair and excessive decisions, the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations ‘chose to continue with the status quo’.
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Are you following what is happening in the USA where government is systematically attacking the foundations of science? Thread here from Sheena. #academicsky 🧪
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nordacious @nordacious.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Unless you're First Nations, you're a descendant of immigrants. No gatekeeping on stolen land 🖤💛❤️
A bold, lino-cut style protest illustration on a bright yellow background. At the top, black hand-lettered text reads “UNLESS YOU’RE FIRST NATIONS,” above the head of an indignant black koala with yellow accents, staring directly forward and raising its middle finger. Below, more hand-lettered text reads “YOU’RE A DESCENDANT OF IMMIGRANTS. NO GATEKEEPING ON STOLEN LAND.” The word “STOLEN” is in red for emphasis.
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John Delmenico @thebigjohnnyd.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
The whiplash from how quickly Aussie media will label any pro-Palestine protest as ‘antisemitic’ but when actual Neo-Nazis are protesting on some white supremacist shit the media is like ‘woah woah woah. let’s not go throwing any labels around’
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Dr Desirée Kozlowski @pleasurelab.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
A nazi speaking on parliament steps Literal immigrants marching against immigration It's appalling It's laughable But I'll tell you one thing it absolutely is not: A majority
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Quackademic @quackademic.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
That's the combover.
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Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 🏳️‍⚧️ @eliseswords.eurosky.social · 31/08/2025
I'd like to remind Australia that not so long ago American's were saying, "If you're at a rally, and nazis turn up, and everyone marches with the nazis; you're at a Nazi Rally." At today's Nazi Rally in Melbourne, Nazi Party leader Thomas Sewell gave a speech. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
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