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Fire Emblem, Atlus & Falcom tragic. I like trains.

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The utter, utter stupidity … Cratering our higher education sector, with regional areas hit hardest, to pander to One Nation immigration politics. They pegged uni finances on intl students, and then started attacking the student visa intake.
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Falling international student numbers create ‘massive problems’ for Australian universities, expert warns
Immigration debate and visa uncertainty are putting students off and increasing pressure on budgets
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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 10/10/2026
Leuven might be the best cycling city you’ve never heard of. 37% of trips are by bike; not by accident, but by years of rethinking streets, reducing car dominance and recirculating traffic. While the large capitals attract most headlines, Leuven is another example of a small city making big moves.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854
Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…
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Skasaha @skasaha.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Digital privacy laws are wholly inadequate for dealing with the kinds of things that can be done with... 15+ year old tech - and not just by the big ones like Google.
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A picture is worth a thousand data points
YouTube video by Reject Convenience
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Taka Hanazawa @takahanazawa.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I want to be so clear: if you have decided for yourself that in your life you must use AI for something that's your business. I don't decide right and wrong for anyone but me. but do not tell me about it. I don't want to hear about it. I do not want to normalize or validate what you are doing.
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Roger @arbejdsmyren.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In Denmark a scientist plotted data and research findings into Claude, only to see Anthropic publish the findings as something the LLM had conjured up on its own. The theft of one scientist’s data and work translates into false claims about the model’s ability to generate research #ai #eupol
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 06/10/2026
This is a good illustration of how so much of AI theft isn't indirect (ie, data sucked into a model to train the chatbot) - it's actually **direct** copying, but *enabled* by GenAI. Of course it is: chatbots absolutely suck at creating good, new stuff.
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Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 01/10/2026
just came across this incredible picture of Terry Pratchett
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therun.gg @therun.gg · 02/10/2026
SRC changed their terms of use yesterday, and released a news post with an FAQ. They make it sound like not a big deal. It's a big deal. The Creative Commons licence is gone. They claim ownership over the data now. Thread about what this means, and what we can do about it 🧵
Comparison of the old src terms and the new src terms
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 28/09/2026
These AI companies should be responsible for everything they do, and they fact nobody is holding them accountable is driving me insane: aftermath.site/ai-agents-resp...
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"We vote, we make submissions, we go to court,we meet our MPs, we compile & present evidence.All of this activity rests on a belief in the systems of govt that have now clearly failed to meet their solemn public duty.We must seriously consider what avenue remains available to us to fend off despair"
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible.
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It takes more than three months for the federal government to detect data breaches, according to new analysis www.governmentnews.com.au/agencies-slo...
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Agencies slow to detect data breaches - Government News
It takes more than three months for the federal government to detect data breaches, according to new analysis.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 16/09/2026
Young activists have utilized social media to create change and launch powerful advocacy campaigns for over ten years. However, Meta’s new settlement will create many barriers for future advocacy work done by young people. www.eff.org/how-the-met...
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How the Meta Settlement Silences Youth Activism
The recent Meta lawsuit on the use of Instagram and Facebook by young people silences youth activism.
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Kon Karapanagiotidis @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Episode 1 of Out of Sight, Out of Mind is here from the ASRC. Our podcast series takes you inside Australia's offshore detention system, through the first-hand accounts of refugees, including people still detained there. You can listen on Spotify or Apple via 👇 pulse.ly/daubusdufv
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Cathy Tuttle @cathytuttle.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The rich and powerful have sunk trillions into concrete, steel & fossil fuels that benefit them, not us. Our lives and our bodies are on the line. Car culture kills & maims millions of us every year, especially our children & people who are poor or old or disabled. We must win this #WARonWALKING
Two people walking in a street in the Rainier Valley of Seattle. Cars are parked on the street. One of the people is carrying groceries, the other looks like a teen coming home from school. There are no sidewalks, but wide roads and a collection of oddly placed wooden and metal poles.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/09/2026
I don't think there's a better illustration of the incredible danger of people credulously and irresponsibly over-adopting generative AI than the use of it by DOCTORS to note vital information. This should be as illegal as fabricating notes by hand. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
Error by AI scribe during medical appointment leaves patient devastated
But that decision would cause her a lot of stress, with the AI scribe making up the serious but false claim that Ms Green was taking illegal drugs.

"I was gobsmacked and in tears … it made up that I take [psychedelic] mushrooms. I have never done mushrooms in my life,"  she said.
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 15/09/2026
If you want to know how much you can trust your news source: if they're reporting artists are dumping Ed Sheeran's cowardly ass for Macklemore, they're not to be trusted. If they're reporting they're dumping Ed Sheeran because he's a spineless coward afraid to speak up against genocide, you're good.
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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
⚠️ "People receiving an income support including disability, unemployment or carers payments had an average mortality rate more than nine times higher than people who did not access the welfare system." What an epic waste of human life. Raise the rates. 7news.com.au/news/shockin...
7news.com.au
'Profound' increased death rate for Aussies on welfare payments
‘Australians facing economic disadvantage are carrying a much higher burden of premature mortality than others.’
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Jess Saphia @jesssaphia.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
“The UN Commission of Inquiry has found that Israeli forces in Gaza have committed war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.” #auspol has responsibilities under international law #ICJ
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This German comedy sketch (with English subtitles) perfectly captures so much of what is going on right now in the UK, the US, and across Europe. "Playing the 'Nazi Card' in the Third Reich", by Browser Ballett.
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 10/09/2026
Steam is asking Australians to verify they're adults by linking a credit card, something millions of Australians don't have: aftermath.site/steam-is-askin...
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Hamish Plaggemars @hamishplaggemars.com · 10/09/2026
See also AI captions - I used to work as a captioner and they introduced AI to "make workflow faster" and it ended up being more work because I had to keep fixing the fact a computer does not understand the nuance of language context Now it's all AI and it's garbage
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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Well, here goes. I tried to keep it contained. Ridicule is what we use to fight institutional hostility. Make no mistake, that's what this is. rick-morton.ghost.io/deliver-us-l...
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Deliver Us, Lord, From Ridicule
On Friday, Defence deputy secretary Celia Perkins began her evidence before a senate inquiry into asset sales by the department and Australian military with an embarrassing manoeuvre. 'In closing, I ...
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Anti-democratic APS sentiment
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Goodnews @goodnews.computer · 04/09/2026
Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.
A hand holding a model train with a replica of the same graffiti on the full scale train car behind it.A model train with two graffiti pieces on opposite sides.
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"There have been a lot of provocative comments made [about climate change] over the last few days from all sides of the debate & I find it very unhelpful." NOW IS NOT THE TIME FOR ACCOUNTABILITY says PM of super-majority govt that's approved 36 Coal+Gas projects www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Part of a First Dog on the Moon cartoon

above an image of a snow-clad mountain range are the words:
'A glacier collapses, a 50m wall of liquefied rocks and ice hurtling down at 170 km/h rolling house-sized boulders but this is not the time to talk about climate change'

Frame below is an image of a fossil fuel extraction facility with the words:
'According to the prime minister this tragedy is NOT the time to talk about climate change but IS time to turn on Beetaloo, the biggest gas tap in the country which will spew 1.2 billion tonnes of carbon over its lifetime.
In the left corner is a suited man with a hard hat labelled 'Minister for Ignoring Climate Change'

In the bottom panel, a guy in a hotdog suit shrugs. The words say 'We're all trying to find the guy who did this!'
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 03/09/2026
Young mother loses baby after being forced to sleep on floor in overcrowded house
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Alice Springs baby dies after mother forced to live with DV perpetrators
A six-week-old Aboriginal baby died after her mother was evicted and forced to sleep on the floor of an overcrowded house with people who had previously assaulted her, a coroner has found.
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I Liv, I Die, Oliviagain Hill @machineiv.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Watching this outstanding video on DRM, law, copyright, and the way digital culture has robbed all of us of private ownership. Featuring some killer takes from @doctorow.pluralistic.net back in 2016 warning about how far DRM could forward totalitarian politics. And he was 100% spot on.
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The Subtle Art of Normalising Dystopia
YouTube video by struthless
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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au · 03/09/2026
Governments should be held to the commitments they set for themselves. The science is clear that we cannot merely offset and forget the consequences of a brand new fracked gas basin. However, when government policy so comprehensively fails to meet a bar this low it should give us all pause.
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The Raccoon Overlord @raccoon-overlord.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Always a good idea to protect bigots from consequences. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox...
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Paradox of tolerance - Wikipedia
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The Shot has the right to "self-defence"
The Shot has the right to “self-defence”

In Crikey, Sami Shah stated that The Shot is anti-Semitic, describing our masthead as “an attempt at a satirical site for people who found Facebook comments insufficiently moderated” and our work as “Practically demonstrations of antisemitism". Embarrassingly, in the same week, The Australian more accurately described us as “left-wing” and “probing the limits of law and language”.  
 
Sami singled out two article headlines, The royal commission into the hurt feelings of genocidal psychopaths and Updates from the royal commission into the selective outrage of Zionists, which he clearly didn’t read before accusing us of sloppy “media criticism”. The headlines were mine, the body copy written by Joel Jenkins. They were no-bullshit, reality based tear downs of the fascistic assaults on our democracy, which all of us can see so plainly with our own eyes. Even liberal Zionist cowards like Shah. 

During a mass slaughter that our government is supporting materially and diplomatically, it's not good enough to have segments of the indie media community trying to un-stretch the Overton Window back inside the borders set by decades of hasbara, horrifically biased and supremacist mass media, and the whims of the genocidal psychopaths. We don’t know how many Australians love milquetoast fence-sitting during atrocity, but Pew research shows that 80% of us despise Israeli atrocity and fascistic overreach into our democracies.

Description continued on next slide As a credo, I try to treat people with the same level of respect I am shown. We have done more serious analysis and investigative reporting on this depravity than Crikey has, a much larger outlet with more staff and resources. Over the years, The Sunday Shot has also platformed many Crikey writers. Needless to say, that moment has passed us by.

To make such petty remarks at some of the few unvarnished truth-tellers in Australian journalism on this subject, in this moment of abject moral failure, of cowardice and of complicity, speaks to the hollow pettiness of Shah’s analysis. Focus on what really matters, please. 

There is enough genocide apologia in the corporate press already. It's pathetic to see it in the indie space, too. Do better, Crikey, your readers expect more. 

Fuck fascism. Free Palestine.
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Mark Allen Jr. @markallenjr.com · 02/09/2026
Quote-posting this because it's something I think needs more eyes. The feature literally exists to be able to hide people from our timelines. If it can be "in violation" when there isn't even anyone on it, then Bsky moderation loses all trust. A human needs to make those decisions. Period.
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Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
lmao
The trolley car problem with Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner. The trolley car defies the laws of physics and slams into Wile E. Coyote.
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Deepcut News @deepcutnews.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Louise Adler: 'the Royal Commission is a propaganda exercise.' Watch or listen to the full Deepthink episode: www.deepcutnews.com/p/louise-adl...
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Working on a piece for the newsletter, this is a data point - smart people keep shrugging and saying “communities don’t like data centers because of ‘vibes’” etc when it’s really that people are in fact smart enough to know they are bad faith neighbors. It is *entirely rational* not to trust them.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
“Dutch people cycle an average of 2.6km each per day. If this pattern was replicated worldwide, annual carbon emissions would drop by 686 million tonnes. This mammoth figure exceeds the entire carbon footprint of most countries, including the UK, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Australia.” @euronews.com
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Cycling like the Dutch would slash the world’s carbon footprint
If everybody cycled like the Dutch, we could offset the UK or Australia’s entire carbon footprint.
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Deepcut News @deepcutnews.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The @sydney.edu.au is facing an alumni revolt over Israel. More than 450 graduates and staff signed a letter demanding a rare Convocation meeting to discuss the university's ties to Israel and free speech on campus. www.deepcutnews.com/p/alumni-rev...
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Alumni revolt over Israel: 450 Sydney Uni staff and graduates demand Convocation meeting
Signatories accuse the university of a “profound moral failure” on Gaza in push for first mass meeting in over three decades
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Molleindustria FUTURE? NO THANKS! OUT NOW @molleindustria.org · 27/08/2026
We are here in a booth sponsored by the German government. Here's the PRESIDENT OF GERMANY this morning, posing in front of a game that Steam considers too pornographic for this whole country.
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Auuuulet 🍂👻 @aulet.es · 26/08/2026
"LibreOffice 26.8 contains no generative AI features. Documents are not transmitted to remote services for processing, and no component of the suite requires network access to function. This is a deliberate position."
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
FOI. Train wreck. Who has $20k to pay for public information? michaelwest.com.au/foi-train-wr...
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FOI. Train wreck. Who has $20k to pay for public information? - Michael West
Rex Patrick wins FOI battle against Government, which appeals then caves under pressure, reduces costs to $20,000, still too high
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
“As expected, the likelihood of pedestrian death increased – but the rise was consistently greater for height than for weight. In other words, pedestrian fatality risk appeared more sensitive to increases in vehicle height.” On the other hand, air pollutants are more linked to weight.
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Xploshi @xploshi.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
the Mario Galaxy planet off in the distance with a boss waiting on it
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Consumer privacy advocates have responded with alarm after Coles and Woolworths confirmed they were testing facial recognition technology that they could use in their Australian supermarkets to record shoppers’ personal biometric data www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Alarm raised over ‘privacy dilemma’ of facial recognition technology at Coles and Woolworths
Supermarkets say they are exploring ways to keep people safe, but experts claim the tech is ‘normalising surveillance’
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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Just now, @pennyallmanpayne.com points out that EVERY civil society stakeholder wants the Targeted Compliance Framework abolished Government says it does not support job providers "undertaking action that is unlawful or that is based on fear" False: you directly pay them to do this
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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 14/08/2026
jesus christ
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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
"Without the warming caused by human activity, they calculated, a heatwave of this scale would occur on average once ever 10,000 years."
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Potatoes ‘boil’ in the ground as record heatwave sweeps across swathes of Asia
South Korean farmers are suffering in record heat, as Hong Kong reports its highest ever temperature and Japan swelters through newly designated ‘cruelly hot’ days
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 13/08/2026
Twitch says quiet part out loud: Amazon AI is opt out because "nobody would opt in" aftermath.site/twitch-ai-amaz...
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Em @emaudible.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
When you play Big Walk you're exploring a real place. To capture that in the ambiences @househouse.com invited me on our own big walk through Wilson's Promontory National Park in Australia. Being there with the team was such a special experience, and a highlight in all my time at @ashellinthepit.com
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🐈‍⬛💜 phonakins 🍉🌲 @phonakins.com · 11/08/2026
Hannah* says she wept for several days after Child Safety officers turned up at Redcliffe Hospital to take her two-day-old baby away. Hannah has spent the last two-and-a-half years living in a tent at a homeless encampment.
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Homeless mother's baby taken away while waiting for social housing
Hannah* says she wept for days after child safety officers turned up at the hospital to take her two-day-old baby away.
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