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@slarty-bartfast.bsky.social
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I’m quite the bleeding heart lefty. I like science. Umm, I loathe the LNP & am often disappointed by Labor. I left the Twattersphere because I like discussion not argument. Oh, I own a sailing boat, which is why I teeter on the razor’s edge of bankruptcy

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slarty-bartfast.bsky.social @slarty-bartfast.bsky.social · 19h
Everyone should watch ’7 Up’. Simply the greatest documentary series ever made. 12 of the 20 kids of 1964 were still involved. Some have recently died. Really amazing series. Neil is still going, if you know the earlier shows. I’m not crying, you are!
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Raymond Wilton @raymondwilton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
👇🏻& most of the rest of the world are paying for it. I blame the capitalist loving magats for the mess trump/gop created. Blood on their hands. All of them.
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Stejwill @stejwill.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
And it’s about time the government administered programs like these properly so the dodgy service providers are caught and prosecuted and the service recipients aren’t prejudiced by having their access to the system curtailed. It’s not their fault!
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Michael Pascoe @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Flying High Dubai. MWM responds to ABC Media Watch - Michael West share.google/qJbhVJKHgysp...
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Flying High Dubai. MWM responds to ABC Media Watch - Michael West
ABC Media Watch has accused this reporter of "perpetuating unsubstantiated conspiracy theories" online. We say the ABC has failed
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Guess which other narcissistic, mentally unstable authoritarian leader called for an arch and a ballroom to be built as grand monuments to his glory. I'm sure it's just a coincidence . . .
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AnthropoceneMPG 🌊 @anthropocenempg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Big oil goes to DC for relief from SCOTUS.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"We should financially support truth-telling news outlets and boycott those that spread lies." Mark's advice is no less applicable to Australia, where Murdoch controls the majority of legacy media. And even our public broadcaster is morphing into NewsCorp-lite. #auspol
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 05/10/2026
In new guidance, the American Academy of Pediatrics says unpasteurized dairy is unsafe and offers no proven health benefits. They are calling for a ban on the sale and distribution of it.
washingtonpost.com
Pediatricians renew their call for a ban on raw milk
In new guidance, the American Academy of Pediatrics says unpasteurized dairy is unsafe and offers no proven health benefits.
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Tom Walsh @tewalsh340.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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George Tsakraklides @tsakraklides.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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slarty-bartfast.bsky.social @slarty-bartfast.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Are there any decent people on Trump’s team? Any at all?
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Things are getting rather interesting over at Reform UK. Nigel Farage has now been questioned by the parliamentary standards commissioner over the £5 million gift he received "Nigel Farage questioned by standards commissioner over £5m gift" www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
International law isn’t dead. It’s being tested. Australia can prove it matters Emily Crawford reports. Read it here: michaelwest.com.au/international-la…
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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Productivity = output/input. Receiving no #AUKUS subs (output) at a cost of billions (input) = zero productivity. As an aside, it does nothing for national security either. #TipForTheTreasurer #auspol
sbs.com.au
Australia is closing in on the world's highest rates. Only one country is in front
Why has Iceland's interest rate been set so high?
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Deepcut News @deepcutnews.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Israeli AI cameras livestreamed a Ballarat Basketball game. Then a female player was allegedly contacted by a man who had a family violence intervention order against him. “No one should have to choose between their safety and participating in sport.” www.deepcutnews.com/p/israeli-ai...
deepcutnews.com
Israeli AI streamed a Ballarat basketball game. Then an alleged family violence breach.
Basketball Australia’s Pixellot rollout is putting women and children at risk – and players are paying for it
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Deepcut News @deepcutnews.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Basketball Australia is rolling out Israeli AI system Pixellot to record games of children, and requiring players to pay for the system with a mandatory fee.
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AW Sylwester @aw-sylwester.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The collective ignorance of MAGA, a cult that mindlessly repeats whatever they've been told by liars—and knows no actual history.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
AI isn't reliable enough to get even a hamburger order right, but reckless Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is pushing to expand artificial intelligence across the U.S. military, including AI-enabled targeting. "Would you like fries with that obliterated girls' school?"
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"I'd rather get free money from the government than have socialism, which just teaches lazy, stupid folks they don't have to work for money they get, y'all!!!"
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Tories to hand free childcare to those earning more than £100,000, would cost £700m to the public purse. Previously, they pledged cuts to universal credit, housing benefit, support for the long term unemployed. Continuation of the Tory war on less well-off.
theguardian.com
Tories would expand free childcare to high earners, Badenoch says
Kemi Badenoch says those earning more than £100,000 should not be discouraged from working more
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 01/10/2026
There’s a war on Iran choking global oil supplies, an artificial intelligence boom & a US president torpedoing the global trading system. But inflation simply MUST be normal, according to the RBA. 🎧 theaus.in/4hWT057 @grogsgamut.bsky.social @skyelark.bsky.social #auspol
Photo of Reserve Bank Governor Michele Bullock standing at a lectern
NEW EPISODE | New world, same Reserve Bank
Listen to the latest episode of Dollars & Sense now via the link or wherever you get your podcasts
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slarty-bartfast.bsky.social @slarty-bartfast.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What a cock-ip. American barbarism and incompetence Vile.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 28/09/2026
UN experts call for halt to Trump policy of migrant deportations to third countries reut.rs/4yqeU6S
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UN experts call for halt to Trump policy of migrant deportations to third countries
More than a dozen UN human rights experts have written to the US government urging a halt to policies that they said on ​Monday were putting migrants at heightened risk of abuse, including torture ‌and persecution, by deporting them to countries other than their own.
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The Conversation Canada @ca.theconversation.com · 28/09/2026
The invisible performance of ‘masking’ ADHD symptoms is exhausting
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The invisible performance of ‘masking’ ADHD symptoms is exhausting
ADHD isn’t just about experiencing fidgeting, distractibility, forgetfulness or restlessness; it’s also about the hidden work adults do to hide those symptoms in their everyday lives.
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 28/09/2026
🚨 Ed Miliband: "Europe is not just our geography, but so much more. "And on economics, on defence, on security, I say to this conference: our future lies in a stronger, deeper partnership with the European Union."
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The U.S. owes $40 trillion in debt. Everyone has an opinion about why. But there’s one question you almost never hear asked: Who’s actually getting paid?
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Wild Colonial Girl - Voting Green 💚 = Voting against genocide 🍉 @colonialgirl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This has got to stop right now. Indigenous women are losing out on wages on two discriminatory fronts. Factoring in the cost of living & housing crises, how are they supposed to live? Why is there no First Nations Special Envoy, @albomp.bsky.social ?
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Reuters @reuters.com · 24/09/2026
Trump says he'll discuss AI with Xi but wants to 'leave it exactly where it is' reut.rs/4xFDsY0
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Trump says he'll discuss AI with Xi but wants to 'leave it exactly where it is'
US President Donald Trump said artificial intelligence will be a "big topic of discussion" when he ​meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday, but said ‌both leaders wanted to leave things as they are.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Sign the petition. Let water companies go bust. Ofwat approved 36% bill increases for 2025-2030, companies want more. Prices doubled - in real terms - since privatisation. We got sewage in rivers, water outages, hosepipe bans. Need public ownership.
weownit.org.uk
We're telling Ofwat: let water companies go bust!
consultation to reject proposed water company bill increases. Ofwat.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Financial Times moans about modest trade union reforms, workers rights. Most of the EU has worker-elected directors on boards of large companies. FT silence on low wages, fire and rehire, worker insecurity, undeserved exec pay. Only unions can negotiate with powerful companies. archive.ph/lbOyk
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Britain’s union reforms are a risk to business dynamism
Labour’s expansion of workers’ rights adds to pressures on the private sector
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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davidej2025.bsky.social @davidej2025.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The most hateful shit on planet Earth 🌎 and beyond.
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Steve Marmel @marmel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Alan Ritchson is the best.
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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The worst Airbinb key pickup ever.
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The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 20/09/2026
"There was a determination to get that content on air in regional Australia because Lachlan in particular had seen how Fox News in America was so instrumental to Trumpism.” How the Murdochs are fuelling the rise of One Nation: trib.al/5JhTRIs
trib.al
Inside the Murdoch television deal driving One Nation
A content deal that came out of frustration when Lachlan Murdoch and Bruce Gordon failed to take over Network Ten is now pushing regional voters to Pauline Hanson.
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Rep. Jason Crow @crow.house.gov · 18/09/2026
The President says he is going to ban CNN, MSNOW and Politico from the White House. He’s trampling on our Constitution and the freedom of the press. His corruption is staggering–and his attempts to cover it up won’t work.
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Navy Man (descendant of ANTIFA since the revolution) @navymanhy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
VOTE.
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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
An acting commissioner was questioned by the Joint Standing Committee on the National Anti-Corruption Commission about the agency's track record. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nJNxDRp6pM…
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Carolirene @carolirene75.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This is a good one.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
By moving to the “center,” Democrats have failed to fight the forces that led us to Donald Trump: widening inequality, economic insecurity, and the unchecked political power of corporations and the rich. Political centrism is nonsense. There is no middle ground between democracy and oligarchy.
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Save America Movement @saveamericamvmt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This administration would be so funny if it wasn’t so historically embarrassing and destructive. America deserves serious leaders.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 18/09/2026
Evidence shared exclusively with Al Jazeera shows ISIL supporters sharing ways to bypass AI safeguards.
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‘Just ask Grok': How ISIL is using Big Tech's AI to build bombs
Evidence shared exclusively with Al Jazeera shows ISIL supporters sharing ways to bypass AI safeguards.
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 15/09/2026
"[The Safeguard Mechanism] allows the unlimited use of offsets to enable fossil fuel expansion. "So it's not a constraint. It's a release valve." - The Wilderness Society CEO Dr Kirsty Howey at today's #ClimateIntegrity Summit 2026
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Freethinkers United For Change @freethinkersunite.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"... the Electoral Commission has now confirmed it is considering a complaint concerning hospitality provided to Nigel Farage and senior Reform figures during fundraising events in Dubai" via Truth Against Hate ps Dubai is a Muslim country with Sharia Law - which Reform say they hate
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David @daverino.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Ah, a “victory” for Hanson and One Netion www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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NSW Police investigating after 13yo Muslim girl verbally abused on bus
A video shows Janna, 13, being verbally abused and called racist and Islamophobic names on a bus on her way home from school in Sydney.
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