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James P @tchaypo.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Pangolins are cool. Support pangolins! pangolin.net is not cool. Do not support pangolin.net - especially when they choose world pangolin day to reveal how un-cool they are!

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James P @tchaypo.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Pangolin.net have done a stellar job of converting me from a happy customer, paying to get a few extra features on top o the open-source core; to being someone who now will not touch their supposed open-source project with a 10-foot pole.

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Pangolin | Remote Access Platform

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James P @tchaypo.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

I'm trying to get a valid tax invoice from paddle.com. The best I've been able to manage is something that's close, but has our ABN listed as an ARN. I've pointed paddle.com at the ATO docs explaining the difference but they don't seem to care. Any ideas for how to fix, aside from reporting to ATO?

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Donna Benjamin @kattekrab.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Do you care about your #RightToKnow and Freedom of Information? Do you know there's currently a bill before the Australian Parliament? Do you have lived experience with the #FOI system? Consider sharing your perspective? www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar... @oaf.org.au @asherwolf.bsky.social

aph.gov.au

Freedom of Information Amendment Bill 2025

Committee: Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee Date referred: 4 September 2025 Submissions close: 1 October 2025 Reporting date: 3 December 2025 On 4 September 2025, the Senate...

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David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

The Govt should be introducing legislation to provide more transparency, not less. Their proposed changes to FOI are deeply troubling, though not surprising given in the last parliament they were the 2nd most secretive in 30 years. That needs to change. www.canberratimes.com.au/story/907156...

canberratimes.com.au

Australia's FOI system is broken, but proposed reforms miss the mark

This proposed bill risks doubling down on the very problems it should be fixing.

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Donna Benjamin @kattekrab.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

As parliament winds up for the summer I’d like to draw your attention to the OpenAustralia Foundation. We are a small charity with a hard working team running services to support our unique democracy. We need your help to fund our work. Please donate now. donate.oaf.org.au Please boost.

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OpenAustralia Foundation

We need your help: Make a donation today to support the OpenAustralia Foundation

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Amid all the sound and fury of the senate inquiry, the submission from Optus on the triple zero outage reveals a bit more. Firstly, a customer who called to report the outage to Optus was sent into a store, where they bought a new phone.

Optus customer who reported triple zero outage directed to visit retail store instead

An Optus customer who reported September’s triple zero outage was advised to go into a store where they bought a new phone, the company has revealed.

On Monday, Optus executives faced a parliamentary inquiry on the 14-hour outage, during which four people died while 455 calls to triple zero went unanswered.

The telco’s submission to the inquiry revealed during the outage, five calls were received from Optus customers to its contact centres reporting difficulty reaching triple zero. None of these were callers in imminent danger, Optus said, but they were not appropriately escalated internally.

One customer was given the details for the Norwood, South Australia store and told to go in person due to the urgency. The customer then went into the store just before 1.30pm on 18 September to purchase a new phone, telling Optus their phone was old and “not functioning properly”.

The South Australian ambulance service called Optus three times in an hour to inform the company there was a triple zero issue, and the South Australian police also contacted Optus about the issue.

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Anthony B, @swearyanthony.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Danny Pearson, Vic Minister for Economic Growth and Jobs: "Data centres are going to be to the 21st century what the rail lines were to the 19th century." Most of them went bankrupt, not infrequently causing wider economic harm. Read some goddam history, I beg of you.

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Panic of 1873 - Wikipedia

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James P @tchaypo.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

I can never ride a train without mourning the fact that English only has the cumbersome “in the direction of travel” to meet German’s sleek svelte “fartrichtung”

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Finally figured out what has fuelled Kid’s desire to cycle hundreds of kilometres in his spare time: spite for a teen cycling influencer

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Enjoying Ben Butler speak about the experience of FOI as a journo... He waited five years for one request to be finalised. www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9ep...

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Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee | 17/10/2025

YouTube video by Australian Parliament House Streaming Portal

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month

Headline reads: Altman says ChatGPT will soon allow erotic for adult users.

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James P @tchaypo.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

There’s companies who only pretend to care about today’s young people are going to survive in the mess the boomers have made of the world. Then there’s MLC, who seem to think it’s a virtue to not even pretend to care.

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Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Love that in a few short weeks OpenAI has gone from pretending to be about LLMs as a restrained social good to creating a pure slop TikTok and turning ChatGPT into an explicitly sychophantic fuck machine for gooners

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 14/10/2025

I pledge to sext only with adult humans, moreover my sexting will be artisanal, small batch and produced under the highest ethical production standards, that said, some images may be edited to increase contrast, correct lens distortion and heighten curb appeal

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Christopher Owen @oysta.au · 14/10/2025

Imagining this as the opening text crawl for The Phantom Menace

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

There is no democracy without transparency

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

A major new peer-reviewed Australian report warns that the UK’s Cass Review is fundamentally ill-suited to guide care for trans young people — and should not be adopted as a benchmark in Australia www.starobserver.com.au/news/new-rep...

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New Report Says Cass Review Should Not Be Benchmark For Trans Healthcare in Australia - Star Observer

A major new peer-reviewed report warns that the Cass Review is fundamentally ill-suited to guide Australia's care for trans young people.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

the best answer i got for this:

awaitsync on Threads writes: "Metrognome"

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Really, truly amazing that OpenAI wants us to believe that they are worth a trillion dollars but also they are so desperate for revenue that they created an infinite SlopTok app that opens them up to a billion lawsuits just so that they can maybe someday make it even worse by filling it with ads.

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

My undergrad criminology lecturer Colleen Lewis in the Canberra Times this morning: when secrecy wins, democracy loses www.canberratimes.com.au/story/908146...

canberratimes.com.au

Who's scared of the spotlight? Accountability is supposed to be uncomfortable

When secrecy wins, democracy loses.

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Have kept digging into the Optus triple zero outage (not the one last night) but they're now doing that crisis management thing of saying they won't answer any questions about it because of the independent review that is due to report back by the end of the year.

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自由と正義のRainbow Cleric 🏳️‍🌈🇯🇵 @reinbowcleric.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Well I worked on my dissertation today and it is abundantly clear based on my own survey as well as published research that Queer people generally view police more negatively than their Cishet peers But in my own crosstab analysis, I found younger and non-cis Queers to hold more negative opinions

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Call me conservative, but I’m Catholic & I believe murder is morally wrong—even the murder of a repulsive bigot. Enabling the preventable death of even 1 child—much less thousands—by denying them vaccine access is also morally wrong. Pointing this out isn’t a violent threat.

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Australia’s proposed FOI amendments add layers of secrecy, says Professor Gabrielle Appleby from UNSW Faculty of Law & Justice, and Head of Research for the Centre for Public Integrity www.governmentnews.com.au/foi-amendmen...

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FOI amendments add layers of secrecy - Government News

The federal government’s proposal to amend Australia’s freedom of information laws is taking the legislation in a more secretive direction, says an expert.

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Luke 🏳️‍🌈✈️ @lukeacl.com · 10/09/2025

A couple of years ago Charlie Kirk claimed gun deaths are 'worth it' to protect second amendment rights.

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Thank you for this. Say their names. We probably should have been saying that then.

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Holl🌞 @willows-song.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

This explains it better than I can

Dave Portnoy tweet saying ‘absolutely disgusting and disturbing video from Charlie Kirk shooting today. Hoping for the best for him and his family. Anybody who is happy about this is a disgusting human.’

Pop Crave Tweet: ‘Barstool Sports CEO Dave Portnoy says he hopes a missile hits Greta Thunberg’s boat as she sails away with aid: “I hope they hit a f*cking, like, a missile on her boat. Knock that boat down. Greta or whatever her name is”

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Sean Fay-Wolfe | Diamond Axe Studios @seanfaywolfe.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life. The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

HA HA YOU GUYS ARE SO HORNY FOR EMPATHY YOU’RE NOT ALLOWED TO ACT 10% THE WAY WE DO EVERY DAY LOL CHECKMATE LIBS Isn’t actually the gotcha the people who said “empathy is a sin,” of which Kirk was one, think it is. It would be cruel not to honor his wishes.

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

The Albanese gov is facing scrutiny over proposed changes to FOI laws that critics say will reduce transparency and damage trust in the government. With claims this gov is the most secretive in 3 decades, experts say the government should change its approach to reforms www.sbs.com.au/news/podcast...

sbs.com.au

Does the federal government have a secrecy problem?

The federal government is facing scrutiny over proposed changes to Freedom of Information Laws that critics say will reduce transparency and damage trust in the government. With claims this government...

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James P @tchaypo.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

This video is a year old. You’d love to think that that means it’s out of date. And it is, because @albomp.bsky.social has been busy taking even bigger shits on FOI laws since, so this doesn’t fully cover the shitfuckery.

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Anyway, here’s @thejuicemedia.com on how the Albanese government has taken a giant shit on FOI laws youtu.be/n6O7gHI5YKA

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Honest Government Ad | FOI Laws

YouTube video by thejuicemedia

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Christopher Owen @oysta.au · 06/09/2025

We should reboot “it’s a knockout” on the parliament house lawn

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Dr Pamela L Gay @starstryder.space · 06/09/2025

There are 25 days left in September. Thanks to Patreon + Twitch + podcast ads + one-time donations, we are within $1,288 of hitting our $116k budget for the year (FY25). Can you please donate today so we can end the year in the black? planetaryscienceinstitute.kindful.com?campaign=132...

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Planetary Science Institute | Kindful

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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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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Next they'll be rewriting textbooks to say Japanese American internment camps were delightful summer resorts.

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

One particularly piece of nasty from the FOI bill is that they're increasing the ability for agencies to refuse to confirm or deny that there are documents for your request if they're refusing to release. So even the consolation prize for a failed FOI goes away.

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

An ‘ultracrepidarian’ (19th century) is one who loves to give their opinion, at length, on matters they know nothing about.

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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au · 02/09/2025

Good and honest government's don't need to hide from public scrutiny or accountability. I wish we had one of those. Apparently the problem with Robodebt was just that you were able to learn about it, and the best solution to avoiding that happening again is to change the law so you can't.

abc.net.au

Labor plans to make it harder to access government information

A new proposal would introduce a fee for Freedom of Information requests and tighten the rules around the release of documents related to government deliberations.

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Digging in a bit more on the report today. Interesting that Yoti, which is arguably the most mature of the age assurance companies, had a false positive rate (i.e. thinking someone was 16) of 34% for 14yos and 57% for 15yos. ageassurance.com.au/wp-content/u...

Read table on page 11 in the link in the post.

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Wiredferret! @wiredferret.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Important things to know: 1) Blaha does this every year since she started running for office. It is honestly #MarketingGoals 2) LOOK IN THE MAGNIFYING GLASS. SHE USED BIGGER BEANS.

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Those who haven’t been through the cycle of abuse rarely realize a massive part of why people stay is the horribly human conviction that if we could just find the right words, they’d understand what they’re doing is wrong & that it’s killing us. There are no right words, because they already know.

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Stilgherrian @stilgherrian.com · 29/08/2025

I see that the Administrative Review Tribunal (ART) is doing another bulk recruitment of APS4 Tribunal Officers across eight cities. m-art.bigredsky.com/page.php?Adv... I‘m told it’s a good place to work, both the conditions and in being part of the process of challenging government decisions.

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