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inge @ingemajig.bsky.social · 13h

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Let Me Google That

For all those people that find it more convenient to bother you with their question than to google it for themselves.

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Léonie de Jonge @leoniedejonge.bsky.social · 1d

Visualized here. Hot tip for journalists: the real question isn’t why Wilders lost, but why the far right has consolidated — despite Wilders's ineffectiveness in government.

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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 2d

This has been quickly rammed through by the government, and deserves media coverage

The government is amending legislation to allow them to cancel welfare payments of people who are merely ACCUSED of a crime. Deeply authoritarian and absolutely insane to administer

Michael Klapdor @mklapdor.bsky.social · 2d

Government amendments providing new powers to stop welfare payments to fugitives subject to a warrant for a serious violent or sexual offence have been added to the Social Security and Other Leg. Amendment (Technical Changes No. 2) Bill 2025 prior to passing Reps. parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/sea...

Screenshot of p. 3 of the Supplementary Explanatory Memorandum.
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The objective of this measure is to ensure people who are subject to an outstanding arrest warrant for a serious offence, can no longer be supported through the social security and family payments systems.

Social security payments are not payable to a person who is in gaol or incarcerated on remand. It is not appropriate that a person wanted for a serious offence, including a person who is evading arrest by the police, should be able to benefit from Government payments or concession cards through the Social Security Act , the Family Assistance Act and the Paid Parental Leave Act. However, there is currently no lawful authority to cancel a person’s payment or concession card on this basis.

Under these amendments a person’s payments and concession cards can be stopped, provided such a request must be made by an appropriately senior member of the relevant police force, and the extent to which the person is likely to be a threat or danger to the community, and the likely effect on the person’s dependants, must be considered.

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Friends of the Earth Australia @foe.org.au · 1d

Wonderful news!

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inge @ingemajig.bsky.social · 1d

'Doing all of the things I didn't know I missed in my 20s is a rush.' ❤️

Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 5d

On my newsletter: it’s harder to steal My heart than jewels from the Louvre but people have tried during my weakest moments, such as during a John Farnham song at karaoke. rick-morton.ghost.io/down-the-bar...

Down the Barrel of a Vin

Despite appearances, I am not much given to writing about my personal life. Acres of print about my family, my moods, my eternal and meandering self-reflections have been produced. There is also the ...

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inge @ingemajig.bsky.social · 2d

Christ on a bike ...

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inge @ingemajig.bsky.social · 2d

OTD I learnt the phrase 'amicable numbers'

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 3d

Only we can kill AI

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De Groene Amsterdammer @groene.nl · 4d

De strategie van AI-bedrijven is om mensen van vaardigheden te ontdoen die juist essentieel zijn voor het functioneren van onze samenleving. Het onderwijs mag dat niet laten gebeuren.

Docenten moeten zich verzetten tegen techno-fascisme door giftige en verslavende technologieën uit de klaslokalen te weren

De strategie van AI-bedrijven is om mensen van vaardigheden te ontdoen die juist essentieel zijn voor het functioneren van onze samenleving. Het onderwijs mag dat niet laten gebeuren.

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inge @ingemajig.bsky.social · 4d

'When someone says we can’t miss the boat, I ask: where is the boat going? What exactly will this technology improve? That’s rarely discussed. Since when did [universities] become Big Tech's free PR department?'
— Nicky Dries, Future of Work Lab at the Catholic University of Leuven

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 7d

I am close to tears; they listened and made an english version apache.be/2025/10/24/b...

@apache.be you rule 🖤

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inge @ingemajig.bsky.social · 4d

'It’s symptomatic of how much democracy has been degraded since [the 1960s and 70s] that we need, once more, to defend the legitimacy of popular protest.'

Jeff Sparrow @jeffsparrow1.bsky.social · 5d

Wrote a piece responding to critics of recent protests

www.abc.net.au/religion/jef...

A history of dissent: Australian democracy would look very different without the right to protest - ABC Religion & Ethics

Protests occur as part of a political struggle with winners and losers. Like strikes, protests are disruptive; that’s the point — they’re intended to force change on issues that would otherwise remain...

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inge @ingemajig.bsky.social · 5d

'"[These] talking points show that Labor has a position which is inconsistent with their legal obligations under the UN Genocide Convention," [Katie Shammas, APAN’s CEO] added.'

Deepcut News @deepcutnews.bsky.social · 5d

A Labor staffer mistakenly emailed the federal government’s full talking points on Israel, Palestine and Gaza to the Australia Palestine Advocacy Organisation.

Read them in full here:

www.deepcutnews.com/p/exclusive-...

Exclusive: Australian government’s full talking points on Gaza accidentally sent to Palestinian advocacy group

Government notes reveal they won’t back Gaza hospital proposed by Dr Mohammed Mustafa

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inge @ingemajig.bsky.social · 5d

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Prime Suspect

DCI Jane Tennison is confronted by hostility from her male colleagues when she is called in to head a murder inquiry and exposes a cover up within the force.

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inge @ingemajig.bsky.social · 6d

Before the weather

Beach, bay, lonely paddle boarder, headland, low hanging cloud, grey sky

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goldingcartoons.bsky.social @goldingcartoons.bsky.social · 6d

Disappearing jewels. Today’s Age cartoon

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Cam Walker @camwalker.bsky.social · 7d

Treaty legislation has passed the lower house & going to the upper house next week.

The conservative parties oppose Treaty. If you live in VIC *please* contact your local MP via this handy tool from the First Peoples' Assembly:

fpav.good.do/victoriansup...

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inge @ingemajig.bsky.social · 7d

Mooie cover

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Australian Human Rights Act @aushumanrightsact.bsky.social · 10d

An Australian Human Rights Act would make our lives better by putting human rights at the heart of laws and government decisions.

Legislating Human Rights Acts from Whitlam to Now Report shows why the Albanese Government should make an Act a reality.

More: www.humanrightsact.org.au/news-events/...

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inge @ingemajig.bsky.social · 9d

Happy dog

Part of today's First Dog on the Moon cartoon, saying, '6. Irregardless of the actual heat if you want your pets to be really cool -- get them to do a jewel heist on the Louvre!' and showing a grey cat and a brown dog wearing black eye masks, wearing respectively a pearl necklace and a tiara, and sipping champagne from flutes. A voice bubble from outside the frame asks, 'Rexy boy! Where did you get that tiara?' The dog replies,'Moi? Un diadème? Quel diadème?' [Translates to 'Me? A tiara? What tiara?']

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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 10d

"They make a desert and call it peace"
- Tacitus, AD 85

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inge @ingemajig.bsky.social · 10d

Let Brad Battin know you support Treaty and so should he.

inge @ingemajig.bsky.social · 11d

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DM: 'Now whether we like it or not, as journalists we have to report the excuses made by outlets like the IDF, don't we. We have to report their explanations. That's our job.'

CH: 'No, our job is to report the truth.'