Reposted by VacuousNess#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 28/09/2026ICE alarms with chilling message after hospital-area raid: 'They don't care' #RawStorytwp.aiwww.rawstory.comICE alarms with chilling message after hospital-area raid: 'They don't care' 21415
Reposted by VacuousNess#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Ohio GOP Senate candidate in trouble as voters 'regret' Trump support #AlterNettwp.aiwww.alternet.orgOhio GOP Senate candidate in trouble as voters 'regret' Trump support 1102
Reposted by VacuousNess#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Trump may have blown the cover on a terror investigation tied to key US base #AlterNettwp.aiwww.alternet.orgTrump may have blown the cover on a terror investigation tied to key US base 075
Reposted by VacuousNess#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Trump Attacks Joe Biden as "Sleepy," Then Passes Out During Televised Meeting #MeidasTouchtwp.aiwww.youtube.comTrump Attacks Joe Biden as "Sleepy," Then Passes Out During Televised Meeting 63515
VacuousNess @vacuousness.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Are you anti abortion? Anti LGBTQI ? Hate migrants? Hate Muslims? Believe women are a subspecies to men? Congratulations. The billionaires, fascists, authorisations, fossil fuel industry, mining, tech bros are playing you. It’s called, ‘Divide et Impera’. It’s been used since Alexander the Great 010
Reposted by VacuousNessGreg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Every anti-trans attack is a repeat of the homophobic attacks of the 1960s,70,80s. Every transphobe is a bigot. I have also yet to see a transphobe who is not also racist. The media's coverage of trans hate has been used to make all kinds of bigotry acceptable 517135
Reposted by VacuousNessDr Blair Williams @blairwilliams26.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Rental laws are absolute BS that are geared to benefit landlords and steal more $$$ from renters. A family member has managed to buy a house (yay!!!) but has to break their lease. They just received an email specifying they basically have to prop up the landlord until they can find a new tenant. 6115
Reposted by VacuousNessRick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026'Power is its own constituency. It exists to protect itself.' Authoritarianism sounds scary, but it arrives bit by bit. We're already doing the work for some grim future. Will be talking about this and more at Sydney Opera House's Curious program this Sunday. www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/28/r...crikey.com.auDon't think Australia is immune to authoritarianismNobody wakes up to sudden authoritarianism. We relinquish ourselves to it by allowing our favoured government to get away with bending norms and rules. Over time, these bends become clean breaks. 522090
Reposted by VacuousNessRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.theintercept.comDoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam 6574017911813
Reposted by VacuousNessHoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 17/09/2026For 33 years, McConnell has voted against family and medical leave for working Americans. Then he disappears from the Senate for 92 days and keeps collecting his full paycheck. Apparently, paid leave is only a problem when someone else gets it. 805164345295
Reposted by VacuousNessGreg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 16/09/2026"Can someone explain why – in an economy in which the central bank has decided we need almost 700,000 people to be unemployed – those people live in such dreadful poverty that it can make you up to 10 times more likely to die in the prime of your life?" www.theguardian.com/business/gro...theguardian.comIn such a rich country, it is shameful how many Australians on jobseeker are dying in desperate poverty | Greg JerichoLifting the abysmally low jobseeker rate to the poverty line would save thousands of lives 40459222
Reposted by VacuousNessDavid Marler @qldaah.bsky.social · 17/09/2026If you think I've been too harsh on the Queensland government & media lately, just wait till you hear from Queenslander women. They have enough to deal with on a daily basis. They don't have time for any BS. Queenslander women keep us blokes around for a few things. #qldpol 42714
VacuousNess @vacuousness.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I would rather see a passenger rail network across #Tasmania, light rail in Hobart, Launceston and Devonport - including to SPOT and Airports. I’d rather see an integrated, properly funded and public owned transport system and social housing than Data Centres and completely unnecessary AFL stadium 030
Reposted by VacuousNessSenator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Palantir. All seeing, all knowing. Inspired by Sauron - what could go wrong? More excellent work from @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social michaelwest.com.au/palantir-all...michaelwest.com.auPalantir. All seeing, all knowing. Inspired by Sauron - Michael WestPalantir sells fraud detection software to governments and businesses all over the world. Given its own murky past, is that a good idea? 99340
Reposted by VacuousNessPeter Gardner @peterdgardner.bsky.social · 14/09/2026US ‘super-emitters’ of planet heating methane identified by satellite analysis www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comUS ‘super-emitters’ of planet heating methane identified by satellite analysisEnergy Transfer, whose CEO is a major Trump donor, named as biggest single methane producer in new rankings 004
Reposted by VacuousNessAlways a Difficult Earth Girl🐬🐨🐋🦘🦈 @scuttlebutter1.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Does mean we should hold current & past governments plus the oil, coal & gas industries to account, though, since they're the primary perpetrators of worsening the crisis. 011
Reposted by VacuousNessABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 08/09/2026Boy with shattered kneecap left waiting 6 days for RFDS flight from Karrathaabc.net.auSix-day medical transfer wait for boy with shattered kneecapTen-year-old Noah Ross has spent six days in Karratha hospital waiting for an RFDS flight to Perth for urgent specialist care. 02012
Reposted by VacuousNessMichael Dowling aka MeckeringBoy @meckeringboy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026If we were not wasting shitloads of taxpayers’ hard earned on obsolete, unnecessary AUKUS we could afford all the really good things like: free education, healthcare, agedcare, NDIS, ABC, CSIRO, housing for all, First Nations, women & girls, DV & VAW, renewable energy for all, NBN, climate action… 054
Reposted by VacuousNessPeggy Sanders @peggysanders.bsky.social · 08/09/2026pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/09...pearlsandirritations.comEurope should stand with Canada against Trump’s economic coercionTrump’s escalating pressure on Canada should be a warning to Europe: middle powers need deeper economic and strategic cooperation if they are to resist coercion. 071
Reposted by VacuousNessKevin Bonham @kevinbonham.bsky.social · 02/09/2026ABC radio news this morning referred to the member for Wentworth as "independent MP Allegra Spender". That is incorrect; please refer to her as "Community Strong Australia MP Allegra Spender". Get it right! 54610
VacuousNess @vacuousness.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Guess that might make it easier to steal from farmers for data centres 032
VacuousNess @vacuousness.bsky.social · 31/08/2026There are soooo many things wrong with Ai, I’m not sure where to start Dross patriarchal advertising for ultra fast land fill fashion The sheer amount of water and electricity it uses The rage bait political polarising and hate dross-bots Wars they’re used to bomb hospitals, civilians, journos 010
Reposted by VacuousNessRoyce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 27/08/2026New Zealand faces $4bn in damages a year from natural disasters made worse by climate change. When faced with being taken to court, the country's biggest emitters wrote the law to make the claim go away—a tactic borrowed straight from the United States. New from me in @drilledmedia.bsky.social.drilled.mediaNew Zealand to Become First Country in the World to Lock the Courthouse Door on Climate ChangeBorrowing a tactic from the United States, New Zealand will adopt a law authored by industry to give legal immunity for tort claims against fossil fuel producers and big emitters. 23022
Reposted by VacuousNessPossum @pollytics.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Downgrade a movie: Men Who Stare At Goatse 7286
VacuousNess @vacuousness.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Random #BookShop observations. All BookShops 📚 have a Marginalia stand. Stocked with cheap: 2B pencils, erasers, small ‘emergency’ notebooks, sticky notes and a handy reading torch / light. What would you add ? 000
VacuousNess @vacuousness.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Why tax billionaires and multinationals when you can **** over the disabled, or send students into the world with a massive $ debt ? #NDIS #HECS #LNP #ALP #PHON are increasingly all extremes of the same party. Who do they REALLY serve? Because it’s NOT Australians. #auspol Remember this 🚩 082
Reposted by VacuousNessGreg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Anyway, a reminder. Fuel Tax Credits over the next 4 years will cost the Govt $47bn. The savings from the cuts to the NDIS is $38bn. Gillard in 2010: "Budgets are about choices, and you show what you value through the choices you make" Indeed. 14437207
VacuousNess @vacuousness.bsky.social · 18/08/2026#Auspol #Tate #Billionaires #Manosphere #Childhood #Auspol 021
VacuousNess @vacuousness.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Who’d thought in 2026 across westernised world: building your own cyberdeck (computer), using dumb phones, reading books, owning books, public libraries, little street libraries in communities, buying vinyl records, using typewriters and notebooks, physical diaries etc become acts of resistance. ❤️✌️ 130
Reposted by VacuousNessThe Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 05/08/2026Is Australian climate policy finally heading in the right direction? @leanneminshull.bsky.social, @rodcampbell.bsky.social & @glennconnley.bsky.social discuss dodgy carbon credits coming under fire, the federal review of the Safeguard Mechanism & the demise of Climate Active. 🎧 theaus.in/4pXWYgb 23118
Reposted by VacuousNessSimon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 05/08/2026"most of the media, most of the time, provides a platform for people who say things that have the effect of serving capital, whether or not they are true, whether or not they are coherent, whether or not they may hasten disaster." Fossil fuels are deadly, but more profitable than renewables. 1289
Reposted by VacuousNessLeo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 27/07/2026++BREAKING++ The Daily Telegraph has... *rubs eyes* ...published something sensible about climate change: "I’m coming to the view that the Online Right is going wrong, eschewing compassion or charm, talking itself into corners of angry irrelevance. Take climate change." 1011186392
Reposted by VacuousNessChris Wallace @chriswallace.bsky.social · 02/08/2026‘The starry-eyed picture they all painted was of a mesmeric bulldozer who could reduce all in his presence to putty or puddles. Reinhard Spitzy, Ribbentrop’s private secretary, “loved being in his aura”.’ A chilling account of Hitler’s rise, by those who knew him www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/28ebed2...telegraph.co.ukA chilling account of Hitler’s rise, by those who knew himChannel 4’s exemplary documentary, Dictator: The Hitler Interviews, feels terrifyingly relevant to today 1118
Reposted by VacuousNessChris Wallace @chriswallace.bsky.social · 29/07/2026‘You have to go back to the refugee flight from Normandy in the bombing and artillery battles of 1944 to surpass the mass evacuation of 220,000 people seen last week in Aquitaine. It is frighteningly new and dystopian to see fires beyond human control…’ www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/ae375a7...telegraph.co.ukBadenoch must reverse course on net zero before she destroys the ToriesRunaway climate change is threatening the conservative way of life: Kemi must end her green purge 2118
Reposted by VacuousNessRex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 02/08/2026For those Victorians who support a Royal Commission into the CFMEU, it would not have been necessary if One Nation hadn’t backflipped on the Ensuring Integrity Bill in 2019. #insiders #auspolmichaelwest.com.auThe 'Ensuring Integrity Bill' that Pauline Hanson defeated kept the CMFEU rorts rolling - Michael WestThe CFMEU’s conduct has been known for a long time, and could have been stopped in 2019, but wasn’t. Politics and Pauline Hanson stopped it. 210252
Reposted by VacuousNessMaranoa Girl @maranoagirl.bsky.social · 29/07/2026⁉️⁉️THE ROYAL OMISSION 📢 the ordinary voices of Jews ignored by the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion by Anti-Zionism Australia.🥺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHu5...youtube.comTHE ROYAL OMISSION 📢 the voices ignored by the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social CohesionYouTube video by Anti-Zionism Australia 01711
Reposted by VacuousNess3wombats @3wombats.bsky.social · 29/07/2026www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/parliamentar...parliament.nsw.gov.auSign ePetition 464
Reposted by VacuousNessPeggy Sanders @peggysanders.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Advance and the Atlas Network work hard to undermine the Greens. David Shoebridge and Barbara Pocock are exceptional in holding the Albanese Government to account. michaelwest.com.au/advance-warc...michaelwest.com.auDark Money. Hard-right Advance targets Greens, Teals with $14m warchest - Michael WestHard-right lobby group Advance Australia has amassed a $14m warchest to target Greens and Teals at the Federal Election. 1127
Reposted by VacuousNessSenator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 29/07/2026AUSTRAC gets your personal data from your Real Estate agent and also can't seem to give enough money to Palantir - check out this answer that shows how they keep varying already $$$ contracts to add on more $$s! 911768
Reposted by VacuousNessbenjamin @benjamino.bsky.social · 28/07/2026I actually sense the long and silly reframing of 'elites' as anyone with a social conscience has been largely successful and there is little evident hypocrisy in portraying yourself as pro-battler while hobnobbing with the country's richest provided they too are sufficently racist/evil. 42410
Reposted by VacuousNessLiam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 28/07/2026‘the [productivity] commission suggested should [heritage listing] apply building by building or to small areas rather than to whole swathes of suburbs, and should be justified in each case by a cost-benefit study’ What happens when a CB study finds heritage listing increases land values 171
VacuousNess @vacuousness.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Is there one of these circulating for Palantir in Australia ? #Auspol www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t... 000