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Eat, read, sleep, repeat. Bots and trolls get reported and blocked, so don't bother. On Whadjuk Noongar land. Currently reading: The Cartographer by Peter Twohig; Prophet Song by Paul Lynch; Still haunted by the end of The Mirror and the Light.

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Sam W 🖤💛❤️🌻🦋☮️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈✌️🫢 @sassisam.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Must read story by @amyremeikis.bsky.social Be angry and bring attention to what’s going on in the NT under the CLP. 🖤💛💔 www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic... #auspol
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Gagging and blacklisting – what's really going on in the NT
Amid Hanson’s latest controversy, Australia’s most right-wing government announced yet another devastating decision for Indigenous people.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270...
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The Point @thepointau.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“The Albanese government is still behaving as though the consequences of the AI boom are a problem for some distant future” writes @sarahhansonyoung.bsky.social Read the full piece on The Point: thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
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WaterBluSky 🇺🇸 🌻 🇺🇦 @waterblusky.bsky.social · 18h
Cloudfare: Russian troll activity on X drops to 49%, after Ukraine strikes Yandex Russian data center. 🤖 🫤 Could this disrupt the midterms for the GOP?
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Dennis @bododenden.bsky.social · 12h
I take every chance I get to make fun of the Telegraph, but credit where it's due.
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Antipoverty Centre @antipovertycentre.org · 10/10/2026
"In May, Minister for Employment Amanda Rishworth announced what the government is calling the biggest reform to employment services in thirty years. It isn’t. It keeps privatisation. It keeps mutual obligations. Those two things are not separate features of the system—they are the system." READ:
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Social Coercion After Robodebt: Labor’s Compliance – Arena
Critical * Radical * Australia * Earth
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Rachel Fairbank @sweetsciencewriter.bsky.social · 20h
This isn’t a “controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr,” this is “playing with the lives of vulnerable infants in a developing nation, which is being pushed by malicious grifters who couldn’t care less about the innocent lives they hurt.”
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Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau
Recommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers
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Rachel Fairbank @sweetsciencewriter.bsky.social · 20h
“The children who are randomly selected not to receive the birth dose of the vaccine, those who “lost the lottery”, face in their earliest days the risk of contracting hepatitis B, which can cause irreversible lifelong damage.” No words. I am speechless. This violates all ethical boundaries.
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Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau
Recommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers
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Sontology @sontology.bsky.social · 12h
Tried to start watching #Carrie. Got about 3/4 of the way through the first episode but gave up. The tone, the acting, the script, all fine, but the music makes it unwatchable. I am clearly not the target market!
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Sam Wood is accused of violent domestic abuse. Our media's coverage of his arrest incl. lots of glossy photos of him as a smiling "dashing romantic reality star" & "fitness expert". Why not just publish the courtroom sketch? 👇 Our media actively protects toxic masculinity. #DV #VAW #sexism #misogyny
Courtroom sketch of accused Sam Wood via video-link.
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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Wear a keffiyeh to your job at a Sydney public school, and you will be directed to take it off. michaelwest.com.au/chris-minns-fash…
Chris Minns’ fashion police. Being Palestinian is now a public order offenceWear a keffiyeh to your job at a Sydney public school, and you will be directed to take it off.But an Irishman in a green scarf is not told to remove it. A Dutchman in an orange football jumper is not barred from his formal. A Frenchman in a beret does not get five police cars at the hardware store.The fashion police
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Hey @albomp.bsky.social - explain why it is so important to have an alliance with a fascist regime that murders people on the streets, separates families and sends kids to concentration camps, and deports people to countries where they have no connection ...on the basis of white supremacy? #auspol
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Kevin Edwards ( Retro game developer ) @kevedwardsretro.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Saddened to hear Margaret Hamilton died recently. She has been credited with naming the discipline of "software engineering" and much more. Her career achievements are truly outstanding. Please read her Wiki page to see what she achieved. A truly remarkable person! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margare...
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Margaret Hamilton (software engineer) - Wikipedia
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Ok, that’s pretty brilliant. Makes total sense.
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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 09/10/2026
America is in that part of the historical cycle where words and books are banned but executions are good clean entertainment and everyone is pretending not to notice the national leader eating his own poo. If only history offered a guide for where this all leads.
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Ette Media @ettemedia.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The Daily Mail used an image of ex-IDF soldier and right wing agitator Avi Yemini as an example of pro-Palestine protesters “clashing” with cops. Righto. It’s been more than 36 hours since this article went live and despite a campaign for a correction by News Cord, the image is still up.
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Hey guess what everybody? We’re doing a climate cartoon award again and we’re naming it in our dear, late friend Jon Kudelka’s honour!
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A handy reminder that this sadistic, incompetent, white supremacist, misogynist, Christian nationalist, morally bankrupt buffoon, and former Fox weekend talk show host is who the Australian government is relying on for our defence strategy. #EndAUKUS #auspol
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The USA is so broken it will never be repaired. And a reminder, Richard Marles believes we need to have even stronger defence ties with the USA because of our "shared values"
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Sontology @sontology.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The absolute state of these hideous ghouls. Australia needs to get as far away from them as possible. Ending #AUKUS should just be the start. #auspol
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Maranoa Girl @maranoagirl.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Fair warning. On Insiders Sunday Morning, David Spears will have Angus Taylor on to rehash an Aussie favourite, wog bashing. Started by NSW in 1815 & accelerated in 1831 by UKs Emigration Commission to relieve overpopulation & social unrest at 'home' while supplying free labour to the colonies... 2/
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Dr H Crum (PhD) @minnie-bannister.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Didn't some terrorist group show public beheadings! The moral compass in America has been lost. Australia needs to rid itself of this toxic ally. #auspol Pentagon says execution of Fort Hood shooter will be livestreamed www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Pentagon says execution of Fort Hood shooter will be livestreamed
Nidal Hasan, army psychiatrist who killed 13 people, will be executed by firing squad on 3 December
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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...
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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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AAP FactCheck @aapfactcheck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A Liberal MP is sharing a fake image of Anthony Albanese alone on the tarmac after arriving in the US, claiming it's evidence that "no one wants to be associated with Albo". www.aap.com.au/factcheck/liberal-mp…
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AAP FactCheck @aapfactcheck.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The government is not introducing a China-style social credit system linked to digital ID as a requirement to access social media, despite online claims. bit.ly/3VkZJ06
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AAP FactCheck @aapfactcheck.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
An image that appears to show Anthony Albanese alone on the tarmac with no welcoming party after arriving in the US is an AI fake. bit.ly/4rPGQyt
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
Basically AI allows software engineers to produce shitty code *faster* and in higher volumes which increases the amount time spent on code reviews and revisions nullifying the productivity gained from producing the code in the first place.
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Pretty Awesome 👍
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Information Age @information-age.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Some of Australia’s biggest data centre operators paid no tax in the 2024-25 financial year, despite reporting hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars in income as construction of new facilities accelerates across the country. Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2026...
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The data centre giants paying no tax in Australia
ATO scrutinises the rapidly growing industry.
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Sweden: Measles outbreak linked to music festival • Dozens of cases reported • Outbreak linked to Urkult Festival: 10,000 attendees • Just 10 measles cases in all of 2025 • Childhood MMR uptake: 97% in 2022 → ~93% now • Children make up a significant share of cases
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Measles outbreak in Sweden: most cases in unvaccinated children - VaccinesToday
European experts say combined MMR vaccine is the best way to stop epidemic
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gazotbmtb.bsky.social @gazotbmtb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
One of the reasons why antibiotic resistance proliferates is the stultifying continuation of antibiotic prophylaxis in animal food sources. It was known to have increase resistance decades ago but hey...you know....easy profit.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
a little louder for the cheap seats in the back
One of the biggest myths is that men rape by mistake. Like, "Oh, they need consent training." But research is very clear: Sexual violence is not a mistake. It is an intentionally made decision by people who know they don't have consent. They just don't prioritize consent over things like status, power, domination, and sexual gratification.
For my research, I got a certificate of confidentiality from the National Institutes of Health, so my notes couldn't be subpoenaed. One of the reasons I call them perpetrators in my work is because every single person I interviewed confessed in that context. The first question I would ask them was, "When you received that email from Title IX that you were under investigation, did you know what it was about?" Every perpetrator I interviewed said "yes." If sexual assault were a miscommunication, you would be wondering, What have I possibly done wrong? That is not the way that any of them reacted because they knew.
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Ewart, Dave @davidewart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Why did One Nation's Tasmanian state president cross the road? To avoid a local coffee shop, after discovering that paying for a latte means accidentally funding the Greens, leaving her "genuinely hurt" that a business would judge someone purely for their politics #auspol
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Tim Stephens @proftimstephens.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"the Coalition is demanding the Albanese government intervene [to override the High Court's decision]" The Albanese government could be better on climate, but the Coalition lives in an entirely different pro-coal, anti-climate, universe. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed... #auspol
smh.com.au
‘Groundbreaking’: High Court quashes coal mine expansion over climate emissions
The Coalition and the minerals lobby are calling for urgent new laws to address the decision over a mine in the political battleground of the NSW Hunter region.
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Dee Madigan @deemadigan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Pauline Hanson's daughter is upset that political beliefs might decide whether someone is welcome. Wait until she hears about Pauline Hanson.
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 05/10/2026
Plague, plague!
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Crocodile Spanky 🇦🇺🍍🍤🐨🦘🍺🫖🐊 @spankymccracken.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Melbourne, Australia: Uber driver tried to kidnap and extort passenger during ride from Melbourne Airport. She was saved when she called police from the back seat. Very disturbing report, and what's more disturbing is that Uber refuse to discipline the driver. youtu.be/hl9LWNhvODQ?...
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Uber Passenger Locked In Car After Driver Demands Inflated Fare In Airport Scam | 10 News
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 06/10/2026
In the latest episode of “What’s the Point?” co-CEO Richard Denniss examines neoliberalism, and just how damaging it has been to our economy. Listen here or wherever you listen to your podcasts! ⤵️ australiainstitute.org.au/post/whats-the-point-of-neoliberalism/
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"We've been trained for decades by governments - State and Federal, Labor and Liberal - that the smaller the government, the happier our lives will be. The data does not bear that out." #NeoliberalNightmare #inequality #auspol
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 06/10/2026
Japan PM leads outcry after US Marine arrested over alleged killing of woman on Okinawa
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Japan PM leads outcry after US Marine arrested over alleged killing of woman on Okinawa
Crimes involving US troops on Okinawa have been a constant source of tension between Tokyo and Washington Japan’s prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, has led public outcry over crimes committed by US servicemen after a marine suspected of killing a woman on Okinawa was arrested on Saturday. In a speech in parliament, Takaichi described the alleged crime as “heinous” and urged US military authorities to enforce discipline among American servicemen stationed on Okinawa, an island 1,000 miles south of Tokyo. Continue reading...
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Tasmanian Inquirer @tasinquirer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Tassal plans to use the controversial antibiotic Oxytetracycline (OTC) at its Great Taylors Bay #salmon lease near Bruny Island from October 8 to treat a bacteria that causes piscirickettsiosis. #politas #auspol
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Peggy Sanders @peggysanders.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Nations bastardised tax systems have to be radically changed to stop moving all wealth to the super wealthy few. A few ideas contained here to reverse economic system. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The interest rate rise is the wrong medicine and an even worse alibi | Yanis Varoufakis
Inflation is again being used as an excuse for acts of vandalism on some of Australia’s important institutions
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3wombats @3wombats.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
AUKUS
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
One of those "oh things are improving... wait, WTUF, the gap is that big?" graphs
Chart of median age of death:

	Non-indigenous	Indigenous
2009	80.9	56.1
2010	81.1	56.5
2011	81.3	56.7
2012	81.6	57.2
2013	81.7	57.3
2014	81.8	57.8
2015	81.9	57.9
2016	82	58.7
2017	82	59.3
2018	82	60.1
2019	81.9	60.4
2020	81.9	61
2021	82	61.7
2022	82.1	62.3
2023	82.3	63
2024	82.3	63.2
2025	82.2	63.5
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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 04/10/2026
“Their rights are being rolled back, their voices silenced, their bodies turned into battlegrounds, and their freedoms treated as bargaining chips.” António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, urging action on the injustices facing women around the world. #SheShed #VivaHerAlliance
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 05/10/2026
Hundreds of Australians, including war veterans, are being buried in unmarked communal graves
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Hundreds of Australians, including war veterans, are being buried in unmarked communal graves
Exclusive: Guardian Australia investigation reveals state governments use shared graves to bury those deemed too poor to pay for funerals. ‘It’s unspeakable,’ one relative says * Find more from the Unmarked graves investigation here * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Vietnam veterans, rough sleepers and other impoverished Australians are being buried in unmarked communal graves often holding four or more people, a practice relatives have described as “unspeakable” and “a disgrace”. A Guardian Australia investigation has identified more than 100 unmarked graves across New South Wales, and some in Queensland, that are being used by state governments to bury those deemed too poor to afford their own funerals. Continue reading...
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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 05/10/2026
Begging news media to stop making themselves unwitting NPCs in a weird cult's alternate reality game You do not need to breathlessly repeat claims that LLMs will end the world or create utopia with handwavy details or abstract philosophical arguments Ask follow-up questions or hire people who can
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 05/10/2026
#Antarctic sea ice extent has now dropped to the lowest on record for this time year... See more at zacklabe.com/antarctic-se...
Line graph time series of daily Antarctic sea ice extent for each year from 1979 through 2026. This year is currently the lowest on record for the date. A seasonal cycle is also visible on this graphic, but no long-term trend is visible.
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jane phượng, Ph.D (she/her) Ngunnawal Country @janephuong.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...
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There are only six of these trees left in the wild. Conservationists are cloning them
The trees are estimated to be between 3,000 and 6,000 years old but they have no future without intervention.
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