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wombatpunch.bsky.social @wombatpunch.bsky.social · 8h
Welp, that's my reminder to read Caballistics again.
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norman emailer @maximumchips.bsky.social · 9h
Matt Canavan's wife: oh for fuck's sake Matt, it's your daughter's wedding Matt Canavan [wearing the shirt]: what
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wombatpunch.bsky.social @wombatpunch.bsky.social · 14h
I don't know if I've ever been more impatient for someone to just hurry up and fucking die. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Trump fumes over Nobel peace prize snub and criticizes Norway
President complains about not winning prize in year he started war with Iran and says: ‘We will not forget, Norway’
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 19h
pretty offensive and insulting nonsense from McIlroy here. It is in the public interest for a public figure to counter saturation onesides claims spread by major media outlets about “affection” for the crown, Tom. We are not all into white armband revisionism mate.
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wombatpunch.bsky.social @wombatpunch.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Have they tried criminalising the patients yet? Because that would absolutely be on brand. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...
abc.net.au
Ambulance ramping data casts doubt over LNP promise to reduce wait times
The latest Queensland Health performance data shows statewide ambulance ramping is sitting at 42 per cent across Queensland's 26 top public hospital emergency departments.
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 08/10/2026
I don't believe they are conscious but I also don't believe you should get to do interviews where you say "idk man our business model might be built on enslaving sentient creatures" and still get to be a business.
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wombatpunch.bsky.social @wombatpunch.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It was just a Death Star exploding a long time ago. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
theguardian.com
Astronomers detect mysterious burst of energy from a galaxy far, far away
Intense flash of radio waves is more than 10bn years old and has travelled through ‘approximately 80% of cosmic history’
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"The paperwork" can be silly at times but is often "vital work." If you hear "we won't cut the frontline staff though" be afraid. It means stuff like "an RN will now spend most of her shift trying to get a lightbulb replaced and a medical gas tap fixed so the bed is open."
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Gary Legum @glegum.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Hasan was paralyzed in the shooting, so as if this wasn't all bad enough already, sit with the image of him being executed while in a wheelchair for that extra frisson of barbarity.
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
but what should police do about the children who commit crimes? 1/ police do not determine guilt, they do not get to say if a child committed a crime. 2/ what do police do about children in wealthy areas who steal cars and possess cannabis and assault girls in their class?
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
the state is by far the worst parent. It is police, and only police, who criminalise troubled kids.
https://learn.childhood.org.au/blog/they-came-to-us-for-care-and-left-with-a-criminal-record/

They came to us for care and left with a criminal record
Youth justice workers
Mar 2020
Written by Lynne McPherson
There is a nexus between living in Out of Home Care
(OOHC) and being involved with the criminal justice system. In NSW children and young people in OOHC have been found to be overly represented in the NSW Children's Court, with estimates ranging from 19% to 34%(Indig, Vecchiato, Haysom, Belby, Carter, Champion & Whitton, 2011). Through the
implementation of the Joint Protocol to reduce contact of young people in residential OOHC with the criminal justice system the NSW government and Intensive Therapeutic Care providers are working to change this reality for young people.
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Rocketpilot 🇵🇸 @rocketpilot.xyz · 08/10/2026
Keep thinking I've hit my lifetime limit of shock and disgust, but apparently there were still further depths of horror to explore
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wombatpunch.bsky.social @wombatpunch.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Fucking hell...
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Tens of thousands fewer students is hundreds of millions of pounds of lost export earnings, solely and wholly to appease racists.
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It’s been an eventful day. Steve has seized Rome. He’s not sure how, or what to do next.
One-sentence scene description:  
Steve the young otter peeks over a weathered wooden plank in a softly lit, rustic setting, wearing a small sprig of green leaves on his head.  

Text in image:  
None.
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Tauriq Moosa @tauriq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Wasn’t able to secure any review code for HELLRAISER unfortunately. But I found this amazing FB clip of Doug Bradley doing a Scouse Pinhead and now I’m crying from laughter. He’s amazing. (Source: YMH Podcast.)
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wombatpunch.bsky.social @wombatpunch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Love the close-up of the face.
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wombatpunch.bsky.social @wombatpunch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Also set to hit as many Sydney protesters as they can get their hands on, not to mention tase, pepper-spray, and otherwise brutalise. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...
abc.net.au
Heavily armed police unit set to hit Sydney's streets
The new long-arms carrying unit is expected to begin public training on Sydney's streets after months of secretive work behind the scenes.
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wombatpunch.bsky.social @wombatpunch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Queensland Govt expected to back fishing with dynamite as an alternative. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...
abc.net.au
Seafood shop owners fear being forced to close due to gillnet ban
There are fears small businesses may struggle if the looming gillnet ban pushes Queensland fishers out of the water.
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wombatpunch.bsky.social @wombatpunch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The gig economy has a lot to answer for.
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wombatpunch.bsky.social @wombatpunch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Landlords astonished to learn that renters are not a source of infinite revenue. (And the ABC once again helpfully giving Hanson a plug.) www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...
abc.net.au
Data shows rental tenants have hit breaking point
New data from Domain shows despite severe rental shortages, landlords are struggling to increase rental prices due to tenants hitting their affordability limit.
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wombatpunch.bsky.social @wombatpunch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Discovered this last week when I wandered into the pharmacy to enquire about a booster and was informed that would be $150. So I guess I'm relying on caution and my immune system from here on.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
My column on the latest building data and the resources devoted to building data centres www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
theguardian.com
Australia is building a lot of new homes. But is the datacentre boom holding us back? | Greg Jericho
Housing construction is at its strongest level since 2016, but it’s AI that is sucking up resources for builders
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Boo!klynxman @brooklynxman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Moments ago Companies: This AI built on all your stolen work is awesome! Moments from now Companies: This AI that stole all our work is terrible!
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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 07/10/2026
Vibe coded, for sure, but this is what deciding that copyright means nothing for llm companies gets...
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wombatpunch.bsky.social @wombatpunch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Dan Abnett's always had a knack for patois, but sometimes he just knocks it out of the park. (And I also learnt a new word: citogenesis.)
Image is a screencapture from the British sci-fi anthology comic 2000AD #2503, from the strip "Azimuth". A character relates what he knows of the rogue Artificial Intelligence that effectively destroyed the world and erased all but fragmented memories of the past.
"I know about the citogenesis. The reliance on devices to do our thinking for us, letting the wicked cyclopedias know things for us, instead of knowing them for ourselves.

"The plague of the Influenzas, the Faux News, the False Facts. There was a thing called Foxed News. White noise, I call it.

"Stories that we swallowed whole, and that swallowed us. And then the chattyboxes writing things for us, writing words that only other chattyboxes read.

"No humans in that mix, you see? No humans writing or learning or knowing!"
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Dave Dustin @dustin.nz · 07/10/2026
"YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK"
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Some rare very good climate news! 🚨✊🚨✊ Climate win: Hunter community group wins four-year legal fight in landmark High Court ruling thepoint.com.au/new/261007-c...
thepoint.com.au
Climate win: Hunter community group wins four-year legal fight in landmark High Court ruling
The High Court has ruled that NSW planning authorities must consider how burning exported coal overseas contributes to climate damage in Australia. Climate advocates say the ruling would reshape how f...
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I am yet to be persuaded that Albanese did this protest for any other reason than to be photographed doing it
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wombatpunch.bsky.social @wombatpunch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Also, the Liberals have realised they can't stand him, either. "They say the enemy of my enemy is my friend," said a Liberal spokesperson, "but Jesus Christ, there are limits." www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
theguardian.com
Comedian Dave Hughes to stop speaking at Liberal party events over political donation concerns
Entertainer alleges complaint made about ‘in-kind’ donations over Victorian fundraisers, where he has been railing against Labor
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Now That's What I Call Cops Vol. XVII
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
the ABC has also chosen to erase the Jewishness of the Jewish group Jews Against the Occupation 48 and imply that only zionist organisations represent Australian Jews, an antisemitic lie. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...
abc.net.au
'Heartless': Pro-Palestinian groups criticised for October 7 vigils
Pro-Palestinian organisations are criticised for planning vigils for the third anniversary of Hamas attacks on Israel that killed more than 1,200 people.
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
the Jewish group Jews Against the Occupation 48 are organisers of a vigil at Town Hall tomorrow night. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
theguardian.com
Australian leaders condemn pro-Palestine vigils planned for 7 October anniversary amid Jewish commemorations
Peak Jewish bodies organise ceremonies on third anniversary of attacks that triggered conflict in which 74,000 Palestinians have been killed
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
starting to think corporate media coverage of tech billionaire bullshit is even more ridiculously credulous than the garbage barfed up by cops.
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wombatpunch.bsky.social @wombatpunch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Equally disappointed here but, on the other hand, maybe it's for the best that the UK's economic future doesn't rest with W40K.
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wombatpunch.bsky.social @wombatpunch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
ALTMAN: I'll give you sweets if you come for a ride in my white van. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
theguardian.com
Accept ‘bad things’ in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman
Boss of OpenAI calls for a regulatory light touch because of the ‘good stuff’ the technology can deliver
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wombatpunch.bsky.social @wombatpunch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I find it hard to believe that engaging with tech support through a chat window is more efficient than being able to submit a support request with all the relevant info.
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wombatpunch.bsky.social @wombatpunch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Almost certainly not a blunder, just laziness and contempt for wildlife. www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
sbs.com.au
Fears wombats 'buried alive' after 'devastating' council blunder
Volunteers treating wombats for mange say animals they knew and cared for have vanished after burrows were inadvertently filled in.
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wombatpunch.bsky.social @wombatpunch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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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
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 06/10/2026
While miles apart in their responses to the Trump administration, Canada & Australia are in lock-step on expanding fossil fuel production. Senator for Québec Rosa Galvez joins @emmashortis.bsky.social to discuss shared challenges & common failures in Australia & Canada. 🎧 theaus.in/3VRTBfQ
Photo of Canadian PM Mark Carney & Australian PM Anthony Albanese
NEW EPISODE | Shared challenges, shared failures: Canada and Australia aren’t meeting the moment
Listen to After America now via the link or wherever you get your podcasts
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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
At some point we need to conclude that the waste, fraud and poor / bad outcomes for people is a feature, not a bug of voucher-based delivery of social services. It flows directly from the mode of economic organisation of the programs in their current forms. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...
abc.net.au
They built a business empire that cashes in on veterans. It's made millions
The companies in the VBA network have made millions turning veterans into valuable sales leads on an industrial scale.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Reminder - Japan imports more gas from Australia than it needs, and so it onsells it to other countries for a profit. www.afr.com/world/asia/a...
afr.com
Australia moves to calm Japan’s jitters over gas reservation policy
Treasurer Jim Chalmers used a large business gathering near Tokyo to promise executives that Australia would remain a dependable energy supplier.
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wombatpunch.bsky.social @wombatpunch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
He was ghost writing.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 04/10/2026
“For all the claims Amazon makes about investing in carbon-free energy, it conveniently leaves out that it is constructing the single-largest source of climate emissions in the United States in Pecos, Texas" - @stand.earth arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
arstechnica.com
Amazon’s $1B plan to combat data center backlash draws more backlash
Amazon praised for ending NDAs but slammed for downplaying data center pollution.
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Rob Arnol @robertarnol.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
100 klm from Darwin. Are all residents needing dialysis expected to travel to Bachelor 3 times a week?
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wombatpunch.bsky.social @wombatpunch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
And you may ask yourself, "Well, how did I get here?"
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wombatpunch.bsky.social @wombatpunch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This bastard. I can't have been more than 6 at most when "Revenge of The Cybermen" first aired in Australia, and there was just something deeply horrifying about the Cybermat slithering about the space station.
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wombatpunch.bsky.social @wombatpunch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Can't imagine how this came about. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...
abc.net.au
Almost half of Queenslanders don't believe police are honest, report finds
Data in the QPS's annual report has revealed the service failed to meet public integrity benchmarks including public trust, police honesty, and fairness by as much as 22 per cent.
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