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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 11h

Yes your taxes should support disabled people.

They should support homeless people.

They should support those living in poverty, children and the elderly.

This is literally the purpose of taxes, and I would far rather support those who need it than continue to enrich the elite.

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A Little Thought @alittlethought.bsky.social · 7h

The face masks turned out to be faulty ☹

A Little Thought @alittlethought.bsky.social · 8h

Don't think of it as a door being closed and locked, but an opportunity to leave work early and get more face masks 😁 😷 👍

A Little Thought @alittlethought.bsky.social · 8h

Found an old photo at work which had been redacted by cutting and stamped "Not for public release".

Curious, I looked up the area on Google Maps and found a military base.

I could zoom in close enough to see individual cars in satellite imagery from this year. For free.

Times sure have changed!

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 9h

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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A Little Thought @alittlethought.bsky.social · 8h

Good luck and well done on finishing it!

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A Little Thought @alittlethought.bsky.social · 8h

Don't think of it as a door being closed and locked, but an opportunity to leave work early and get more face masks 😁 😷 👍

A Little Thought @alittlethought.bsky.social · 19h

"At least 34 taxpayer-funded executive jobs and board positions have been handed to LNP donors, former politicians, candidates, colleagues and party operatives since the party came to power less than a year ago"
#qld #auspol

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

New 'jobs for mates' claim over LNP government appointment

Queensland's Crisafulli government is embroiled in a new "jobs for mates" claim after it appointed a Liberal National Party powerbroker to oversee the state's lead agency for disaster recovery.

www.abc.net.au

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A Little Thought @alittlethought.bsky.social · 19h

I wish appliances were manufactured to similar levels of quality as aircraft and came with similar maintenance manuals.

Looking forward to my $10k kettle that requires servicing every 500 boils and will still be in use in 75 years time (unless it unexpectedly collides with terrain)

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El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · 19h

among all of this, I still can't get over that they got the same $$ for one report as a disability representation organisation gets for one whole year, and for some two years

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Purplepingers ☭ @purplepingers.bsky.social · 1d

Every day we stray further from god or something idk

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A Little Thought @alittlethought.bsky.social · 1d

"governments can be worried that starting a new poverty measure is like creating a stick they can be hit with.
[...]
Treasurer Jim Chalmers didn't respond to questions about poverty measures by our publication deadline."

Poverty is about more than income, but that is what we measure

We get detailed measurements of population, participation and productivity. Advocates want to add a fourth "p" — poverty — so we can understand our economy.

www.abc.net.au

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A Little Thought @alittlethought.bsky.social · 1d

"Boxes stored in bathroom"

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 5d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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A Little Thought @alittlethought.bsky.social · 1d

"Boxes stored in bathroom"
for the archivists

A Little Thought @alittlethought.bsky.social · 1d

Why I vote for the Greens:
"Letting the wealthy off the hook isn't the type of superannuation reform the Greens wanted to see."

El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · 1d

so great that rich people are being heard with their concerns about staying rich #antipovertyweek

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Government offers major concessions on proposed super tax increase

The government has bowed to pressure on its superannuation tax policy, one of the few revenue-raising measures it had promised, two years on from when it was first announced.

www.abc.net.au

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Tess @itstessinadress.bsky.social · 2d

In the name of controlled wage growth our government is playing musical chairs, but if you don't get a chair you die, and every time they take a chair away they announce "remember, if you lose it's your fault but if you win you deserve it!" Some people playing can't walk. Others have assigned seats.

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 2d

Australia: COVID vaccine rollout (1 Oct 2025)

🔹1.8 million doses in the last 6 months
🔹2.6 million doses in the last 12 months
🔹29.8k First Nations vaccinated in the last 12 months
🔹136.5k Aged-care residents vaccinated in the last 12 months
🔹46.1k NDIS participants vaccinated in the last 12 months

Australia: COVID-19 vaccine rollout update – 1 October 2025

This presentation, delivered on 1 October 2025, contains an update to Australia's COVID-19 vaccine rollout.

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A Little Thought @alittlethought.bsky.social · 2d

Yiiikes!
Keeping wearing those masks, peeps! 😷

StephenC @fitzroy777.bsky.social · 2d

That means only 10% of the population has had a recent vax for COVID

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 2d

The ALP might as well merge with the Minerals Council of Australia

Miners to get an early look at Labor’s new green laws

Tom Rabe
WA political correspondent
Oct 12, 2025 – 3.26pm

The Albanese government will give mining companies and other stakeholders draft extracts of its environmental protection laws before they go to parliament, as Environment Minister Murray Watt tries to rebuild trust after earlier negotiations on the reforms collapsed in acrimony.

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Axel Bruns @snurb.info · 2d

Precisely. Banning young people from social media just so ill-informed boomers can get over their made-up moral panic simply ends up harming the most vulnerable, for whom social media are a critical lifeline. 👇👇👇

LGBTQIA+ advocates say social media ban will 'cut off' regional queer teens

LGBTIQA+ advocates are concerned the social media ban will have a significant impact on queer youth in regional and remote areas of Australia. They say there are not enough offline, physical supports for these teens to access when the ban comes into effect.

www.abc.net.au

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A Little Thought @alittlethought.bsky.social · 2d

🤯 wow, this is magic!
please share more

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A Little Thought @alittlethought.bsky.social · 2d

TIL: If you find a weather balloon, it may be an emergency.

"Caution If you find a fully or partially inflated weather balloon, call 000 and ask for fire brigade assistance."

Otherwise, you report it online to the BOM
reg.bom.gov.au/other/feedba...

Bureau of Meteorology - Feedback and enquiry form

reg.bom.gov.au

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Dave Earley @earleyedition.bsky.social · 2d

Electricity generated from renewable sources has surpassed the amount of electricity generated from coal in Australia for the first time. www.theguardian.com/...

One Big Chart from @nickevershed.bsky.social

Electricity generation from renewables has overtaken coal for the first time in Australia

Hand drawn graph Showing terawatt hours of electricty generated per month from coal and renewable sources

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 3d

How the media are gaslighting trans people

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A Little Thought @alittlethought.bsky.social · 3d

Penalties:
Company - $2.2 million pecuniary penalty (131 contraventions of the NDIS Act!)
Director - 10 year ban on certain NDIS activities
2 support workers on duty - 2 year ban on providing NDIS services to ppl with a positive behaviour support plan

A man died due to their negligence

Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 4d

The Federal Court has given a record $2.2 million civil penalty to a (now defunct) NDIS provider, following the death of a 38-year-old Queensland man who wandered onto a motorway www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

NDIS provider fined $2.2m after man killed walking into highway traffic

Proceedings began against the now-defunct provider following the death of a Queensland participant in 2023. The penalty is the highest civil sanction imposed on an NDIS provider to date.

www.abc.net.au

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