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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 1d

book bindings on both sides. people keep prying them open from the right side and snooping around. mind your own business

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 1d

the artist is Emma Buswell

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 20h

Boo!

Happy looking ghost annotation at the top right of a printer page.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 20h

Financial Advisors Recommend Throwing Away Unopened Bills https://theonion.com/financial-advisors-recommend-throwing-away-unopened-bills/

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Liz Crash @lizcrash.bsky.social · 20h

i‘ve passed that spot many times and had the exact same thought!

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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 22h

Switching 50km/h speed limits to 30km/h would protect cyclists while barely affecting commutes, research finds

One expert says a cyclist hit by a car travelling 50km/h has about a one-in-ten chance of surviving, while at 30km/h it was a nine-in-ten chance * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Reducing residential speed limits from 50km/h to 30 km/h would protect cyclists from danger and make riding less stressful while not causing traffic delays for cars, according to new research. Researchers from RMIT University rated traffic stress levels for every road in greater Melbourne and modelled the effect of lower speed limits on bicycle and car travel. Continue reading...

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged millinery opinion, as a treat

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Liz Crash @lizcrash.bsky.social · 23h

“let the bourgeoisie look upon my boils and tremble“, or words to that effect

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Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 1d

I have yet to see a truly unhinged literary opinion on here. "It's ok to read trilogies out of order" come back when you think books are food

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Liz Crash @lizcrash.bsky.social · 23h

in fairness didn’t Marx also blame his haemorrhoids for exacerbating his irritability about economic injustice? bit of a chicken-egg question

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Liz Crash @lizcrash.bsky.social · 23h

*SYNERGIZE

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Liz Crash @lizcrash.bsky.social · 23h

i keep forgetting about the $3 million in super i have squirrelled away for tax minimisation purposes

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benjamin @benjamino.bsky.social · 1d

What I don't get is why people living in poverty and struggling to survive don't simply dip into the $3 million in super they have squirreled away for tax minimisation purposes

'Eating mostly brown food': The 'devastating' juggle faced by a rising number of Australians

With one in seven Australians living below the poverty line, researchers and advocates say that COVID-era universal income is the solution.

www.sbs.com.au

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Liz Crash @lizcrash.bsky.social · 23h

SYNERGISE

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Liz Crash @lizcrash.bsky.social · 23h

they keep them uncomfortable on purpose so that it doesn’t get too crowded in there

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 1d

Is this a pigeon meme, guy is gesturing to a butterfly captioned "never ending parade of tasks" and is saying "is this a life?"

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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 1d

It's still going. The republished Deloitte report into the Targeted Compliance Framework is STILL full of slop references. How long is it going to take the Albanese Government to do something about this?

✍️ @paulkarp.bsky.social

More errors, ‘irrelevant citations’ in Deloitte’s revised AI report

Paul Karp
NSW political correspondent
Oct 14, 2025 – 5.31pm

The corrected version of a Deloitte report to the Albanese government reissued by the big consulting firm after it was found to include AI-generated mistakes contains new citation errors and other flaws in referencing the academic work it relies on.
Two academics have questioned the relevance of citations of their work in the new report, raising concerns that Deloitte merely substituted out false references to works that don’t exist in favour of real works with no or very limited relevance to welfare compliance, which was the subject of the report.

The republished report also incorrectly cites work by Australian National University’s John Braithwaite by giving the wrong publication year and repeatedly omitting his co-author.

Officials from the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations, while unhappy about the use of AI and errors in the original report, told a Senate estimates hearing last week the recommendations in the Deloitte report had not changed and would be taken up by the department.
Details of errors will further embarrass Deloitte and the department as both parties claimed to have checked the references of the rewritten report. The academics say the new problems call into question the quality of the research used to back up Deloitte’s effort to recommend how to fix IT systems for welfare compliance.

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Liz Crash @lizcrash.bsky.social · 1d

i really like Skritter. it’s the nicotine gum of apps
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‎Skritter: Write Chinese

‎Practice Chinese writing with Skritter, whether you have a strong grasp of written Chinese and want to remember the characters better or are a beginner who doesn’t know where to start. Skritter has...

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Liz Crash @lizcrash.bsky.social · 1d

duolingo, in a pinch

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Liz Crash @lizcrash.bsky.social · 1d

language learning flashcard app

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Jessie L @jessielilley.bsky.social · 1d

Must read: an eyewitness account of the genocide in Gaza by Dr Ezzideen Shehab, an incredible young writer and GP.

Published by Readers & Writers Against the Genocide. Out Nov 10. Pre-order from indie bookstores now! All $ go to support Ezzideen. More deets:
linktr.ee/readerswritersagainstgenocide

Red book cover with photo of Ezideen Shehab.

DIARY OF A YOUNG DOCTOR
Notes from the genocide in Gaza

Ezideen Shehab

Pull quite:

‘I am no longer a doctor. I am a witness. To the slow murder of dignity.To a land where medicine is a cruel joke and survival is a sin.'

Pull quote:

‘How did we come to this?
How did we become a people the world no longer believes are fully human?
Is it because our blood is too cheap? Or is it because the world has learned to look, and then to look away? If so, then it is not we who have lost our humanity. It is you.’

From Diary of a Young Doctor by Ezzideen Shehab

'Written under siege and in the shadow of unrelenting violence, Dr Ezzideen Shehab's words carry both the clinical precision of a doctor and the searing intimacy of a witness.
These are writings of unbearable clarity, carved out of catastrophe, that will not allow the world to look away?’
Sara M Saleh

'What a privilege to read these words from a brave and compassionate witness to Israel's genocide in Gaza.
When language is often insufficient to describe the daily horrors, Dr Shehab conjures a world of grief, resistance and unimaginable resilience. Read this book.’
Antony Lowenstein

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Liz Crash @lizcrash.bsky.social · 1d

cigarettes are now a gateway to a life of crime

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Liz Crash @lizcrash.bsky.social · 1d

lmao

ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 1d

Internal tobacco industry data estimates the illicit tobacco market now makes up 64 per cent of all tobacco consumed in Australia and 82 per cent of the total nicotine consumed.

Economist says Australia's tobacco excise 'way too high' as illegal sales grow

Internal tobacco industry data estimates the illicit tobacco market now makes up 64 per cent of all tobacco consumed in Australia and 82 per cent of the total nicotine consumed.

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Liz Crash @lizcrash.bsky.social · 1d

i’ve been saying this!

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Liz Crash @lizcrash.bsky.social · 1d

truly an indictment of our legal system

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