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ClaireBear

@ttlyovrit.bsky.social
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Trekkie, swing dancer, beach bum. I know genocide when I see it 🇵🇸 Boorloo, Wadjuk Noongar Boodja Perth, Western Australia

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 03/10/2026
when your most trusted interlocutor is telling it to you straight about your new haircut
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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
another day at the machine learning factory. everyone keeps asking me if the machine is intelligent. buddy, they won’t even let me fuck it
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Tony Cartledge @decentral21.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Amy should form her own party, the FFS, and run for a seat in the House. I'm sure she'd get lots of people to join the party. Vote 1 Amy Remeikis, FFS. #Auspol amyremeikis.substack.com/p/ffs-stop-p...
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FFS stop punishing households and just tax gas
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Stilgherrian @stilgherrian.com · 01/10/2026
“The 2026 BirdLife Australia photography awards – in pictures” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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The 2026 BirdLife Australia photography awards – in pictures
Images of gliding king penguins, a sugar thief rosella and a bin brush turkey are among the winning and shortlisted photos in this year’s prize
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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Here’s me talking about my heart attack www.nine.com.au/lifestyle/he...
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‘I would’ve died’: A Google search told Fiona she wasn’t having a heart attack - adding one word changed everything
Fiona Katauskas’ heart attack was nothing like the dramatic heart-clutching moments you see in the movies, so when she felt breathless, dizzy and sweaty while exercising at home on a Sunday morning la...
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ClaireBear @ttlyovrit.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
He's 100% correct.
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ClaireBear @ttlyovrit.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Ffs... 🙄 Wordle 1,919 4/6* 🟩⬛⬛⬛🟩 🟩⬛⬛⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Why is a woman still not safe @treemuseums.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Domestic terrorism
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Dr Tracy Westerman AM @drtracywesterman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Five best-practice trauma treatments share one flaw: they were built for trauma that ends. Racial trauma doesn't. My new paper, the Racial Trauma Treatment Triad, is the first culturally adapted trauma treatment framework for Aboriginal Australians. Its Free for 3 months: doi.org/10.1080/1328...
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The Racial Trauma Treatment Triad (RTTT): a culturally adapted cognitive-behavioural-physiological framework for Aboriginal Australians
This paper proposes the Racial Trauma Treatment Triad (RTTT), a culturally adapted treatment framework for Aboriginal Australians experiencing racial trauma. It compares the RTTT against five best-...
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livesarah @livesarah.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“Mr Cruse said he and his siblings were taken to the Macleay District Hospital when he was about five years old, making it the late 1950s or early 1960s. According to the Macleay River Historical Society, segregation ended at the hospital in July 1964”
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Aboriginal man's fight for 'just' compensation after alleged healthcare abuse
Uncle Benjamin 'BJ' Cruse still lives with the trauma he allegedly suffered as a child while in hospital, but is using his experience to advocate for today's Indigenous youth who have fallen through t...
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Robyn D - Difficult Woman @koparafallskid.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I love this story! #Aboriginal #FirstNations He is a fighter and a winner and fabulous. Trailblazing eye surgeon Kris Rallah-Baker took on the establishment and won
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The racist email that made this doctor take on the establishment
Australia's first Indigenous eye surgeon Kris Rallah-Baker has walked a zigzag path, driven by family struggles and overcoming 'unashamed racism'.
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NT Socialists @ntsocialists.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Compulsory income management in all its forms is a racist disgrace. The BasicsCard should be abolished and Aboriginal people across the NT should be given control over their own money. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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Concern over federal Labor's quiet extension of mandatory income management
The federal Labor government has extended its compulsory income management scheme which affects 30,000 Territorians, despite many experts claiming the practice is discriminatory.
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Winkypop @winkypop.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09... #auspol #qldpol #nswpol
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NT Aboriginal leaders' resignations come with an explosive exit note
Several Aboriginal leaders have resigned from their positions in recent months, in protest of Northern Territory government policies they claim are "dividing" Territorians.
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Gustav Klimt @klimtgustav.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I botfrens.com/collections/109/conten…
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women
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Rob Arnol @robertarnol.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Just leaving this here.
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 18/09/2026
The UN often feels damned to irrelevance, but it is needed now more than ever
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ANALYSIS: In a world of conflict and terrifying new weapons, where is the UN?
When Anthony Albanese and Penny Wong attended the United Nations General Assembly 12 months ago, it felt like something significant might be happening. This year, things feel like they will be a bit more... prosaic.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 18/09/2026
New Bolivian cat claws its way into species list: What we meow aje.news/u06on3
New Bolivian cat claws its way into species list: What we meow
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
god this is good
flight of the concords scene with murray, brit and jemaine. 

"How's this, then? Ed Sheeran, beloved by all, left without an opening band at present. Enter you two."

"What if we want a free Palestine, Murray?"

"I reckon you'll get lots of things for free when you're proper rockstars. This might be your ticket."
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LouiseMorris @louisemorris.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Their number-one ticket holder – Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker – has added fuel to the fire by covering the Woodside logo on his Freo guernsey urging the club to “call time” on the fossil fuel sponsorship. thepoint.com.au/new/260917-t...
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Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker adds his voice to calls for Freo to ditch Woodside
The Fremantle Dockers are facing a battle off the field ahead of this weekend’s preliminary final against Sydney. Their number-one ticket holder – Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker – has added fuel to the fi...
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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 18/09/2026
The thing about the Howard-era ministers is that they've never realised how much their own instinct for technocratic cruelty influenced the national attitude to migrants and refugees, leaving a lasting residue of nastiness.
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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 17/09/2026
Mel Blanc screams are like Greek fire, we lost the technology to make sounds like this
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shaneb25.bsky.social @shaneb25.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
More than 900 wheelchairs, donated by two Australian charities to help injured children in Gaza, are stuck in warehouses in Jordan due to Israeli restrictions on aid deliveries into the war-ravaged strip. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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Australian wheelchairs donated to Gaza stuck in Jordan warehouse
Hundreds of wheelchairs, donated by two Australian charities to help injured children in Gaza, are stuck in warehouses in Jordan due to Israeli restrictions.
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Robyn D - Difficult Woman @koparafallskid.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Disaster! #auspol Health officials in turmoil over 11th-hour backflip on aged care algorithm override powers, emails reveal
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Health officials in turmoil over 11th-hour backflip on aged care algorithm override powers, emails reveal
Ministers given emergency briefing about changes to algorithm decisions just three days before tool rollout
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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 16/09/2026
True story.
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ClaireBear @ttlyovrit.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Just goes to show, Ed... If you sit on the fence too long, you slip and end up with a fence post up your arse.
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3wombats @3wombats.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
If Israel had any respect for them they wouldn’t be under tons of rubble to start with
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
he played the middle in front of Irish bands now no one’s on tour with this English man
Ed Sheeran
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 16/09/2026
Demonstrations held across country against president's proposed constitutional changes seeking third term.
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Police crack down on protests against constitutional change in DR Congo
Demonstrations held across country against president's proposed constitutional changes seeking third term.
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The Point @thepointau.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“A thorough examination of Nauru Airlines’ operations gives a unique insight into Pacific relations, and how immigration politics in Australia corrupts everything it touches” writes Nick Feik. Read the full piece on The Point: thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Oof, right in the gut
The worst part of having mental health issues is that you're seemingly required to have a breakdown in order for people to understand how hard you were trying to hold yourself together
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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 14/09/2026
That's about as clear an articulation of the present problem as has been made by anyone.
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
New statue spotted today in Dublin Ireland. Time to take out the trash 🚮! 🎥 AlternativeDublin
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
So @news.abc.net.au publishes Aruma’s CEO promoting the introduction of an unnamed algorithm as a *solution* to neoliberal NDIS plan cuts without mentioning it’s the IAT algorithm? We know from the aged care system the IAT algorithm leaves people worse off www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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NDIS slashes Brisbane woman's physical therapy hours, citing 'value for money'
A bleed on April Coulson's spinal cord left her paralysed. Funding for her NDIS plan has been slashed.
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 12/09/2026
As Australia faces an AI-generated future, a human rights act is needed more than ever
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As Australia faces an AI-generated future, a human rights act is needed more than ever
Without laws requiring transparency or a right of review, our human rights will be rationed away by algorithmic and automated decision-making tools As we hurtle towards a post-human future, the absence of a human rights act in Australia will put us all at ever greater risk. Human rights, which the Australian parliament has never managed to properly legislate despite overwhelming public support, risks becoming a dimly remembered artefact of another age at precisely the moment we need it most. Continue reading...
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Marcus Kelson @marcuskelson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Ben Roberts Smith is a fucking war criminal - l am no fan of Hastie’s but Hanson’s unwavering support for BRS and her criticism of Hastie should be condemned - this also shows how gutless many Liberal MP’s have become… www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Andrew Hastie knew taking on Pauline Hanson would cost him. Liberals are divided over the price of following suit
While supporters and rivals of Hastie back his stance on One Nation, some are asking why the party isn’t doing more
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ClaireBear @ttlyovrit.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Ffs... Labor is just fucking useless
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💚🌏Myles🌏💚 @rainbowregionmyles.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
People with dementia are being warned that asking for MORE aged care support can trigger an algorithm that gives them LESS. Their dementia progresses, their needs increase, they ask for help, and risk losing what little help they already have. Who the fuck designed this? #auspol
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Dementia patients warned off seeking home care in case Australia’s aged care algorithm cuts funding
Exclusive: FoI documents show senior health officials were warned of concerns about assessment tool weeks after it launched
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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Nepal says nearly $7 billion is needed for it to recover from the deadly August 26 floods, arguing wealthier countries should treat the climate change-fuelled disaster as a "shared responsibility".
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Nepal estimates reconstruction after deadly floods to cost nearly $7 billion
Nepal says nearly $7 billion is needed for it to recover from the deadly August 26 floods, arguing wealthier countries should treat the climate change-fuelled disaster as a "shared responsibility".
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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 10/09/2026
on the occasion of world suicide prevention day i just wanted to say that if it helps you can imagine your suicidal ideation as a weird little guy in your brain who lies to you and then you can imagine jack reacher is also up there beating the shit out of him
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It's a new series running in my newsletter, which is free to sign up to, and most of what I publish is entirely free to read: everythingisamazing.substack.com Space and time are horrifying. But in a fun way! But also maybe not really. Go drink something. 👍
Logo of Everything Is Amazing, a science newsletter by Mike Sowden.
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Anyway, please now go have a cup of tea. Or something stronger. You need it. This thread is taken from an even more horrifying thing I just wrote on what we've learned about the universe in the 50 years since the famous "Powers Of Ten" (1977) documentary aired: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzRT... 9/
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Powers of Ten™ 1977
YouTube video by Organic Slant
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Space appears astoundingly hostile to life, so we have no idea if anything else - anyONE else - is out there. But even in our own galaxy alone, it seems the dice MIGHT have been rolled - what, millions of times? billions? - if the process of life always requires a planet, which it may not. 8/
Long exposure photograph of the Milky Way on a clear night.
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Of course we still have so much to learn about our world. We’ve barely arrived in it! Meanwhile, here's a view of our galaxy, seen by Artemis II on its recent trip around the Moon. The Milky Way contains an estimated (maybe wildly underestimated) 200 billion planets. That's...quite a lot? 7/
View of the Milky Way, a photo taken by Artemis II.
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
...and the *very last step* of your journey, which takes you those final few inches to the water’s edge? That’s the whole of the rise of humanity. And every other step you took to get here was the same amount of time passing, again and again and again, on a planet we didn’t yet exist upon. 🙃 6/
View of New Jersey from the Battery Park shoreline, in the sunshine with a sailing boat passing, by Anthony on Unsplash.
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
To put this into perspective, imagine standing in the middle of Manhattan’s Central Park and setting off on foot towards the far end of Battery Park - around 90 minutes of relatively brisk walking. You’re walking through those 4.54 billion years of Earth’s existence.... 5/
View of Central Park from a helicopter, by Dmitri Zotov on Unsplash.
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If our species is indeed 315,000 years old, the math here is simple: 4.54 billion / 315,000 = just over 14,412. That means in Earth’s history, there has been enough raw time for a species like ours to reach our current level of global civilization about *14,412 times in a row*. GHAGH. 4/
An Expedition 30 crew member aboard the International Space Station took this nighttime photograph of much of the Atlantic coast of the United States. Large metropolitan areas and other easily recognizable sites from the Virginia/Maryland/Washington, D.C. area are visible in the image that spans almost to Rhode Island. Boston is just out of frame at right. Long Island and the New York City area are visible in the lower right quadrant. Philadelphia and Pittsburgh are near the center. Parts of two Russian vehicles parked at the orbital outpost are seen in left foreground. NASA.
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
According to radiometric dating, our planet is 4.54 billion years old. That’s give or take a “small” margin of error, which turns out to be a stupendous 50 million years - the time between today and the early Eocene, when the world looked something like this... 3/
Illustration of what the continents are believed to have looked like 50 million years ago in the early Eocene.
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