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Marita @mareetsyo.bsky.social · 13h

Some good areas happening in the House of Reps EPBC debate if anyone’s feeling wonky

Marita @mareetsyo.bsky.social · 19h

I really need to get up but this boy is resting his head on my ankle so

Marita @mareetsyo.bsky.social · 2d

everyone in my house went to bed so I went to bed but now I really want a Vegemite sandwich

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 2d

Secondly, the main cause of the outage was Nokia personnel who were doing the upgrade were relying on an old procedure document during the upgrade that didn't outline that traffic needed to be handed off elsewhere to avoid phones not being able to connect.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Nokia engineers relied on old manual in upgrade that caused Optus outage

The 55-page Optus submission to the parliamentary inquiry goes into deep detail on what caused the triple zero outage – and why the company did not realise it sooner.

Optus’s network provider, Nokia, was upgrading its firewall in Regency Park, South Australia. Optus sent Nokia instructions on how to do the upgrade by off-loading phone traffic elsewhere while the upgrade was taking place. Nokia personnel instead relied on an “outdated method of procedure” document that did not include this step, and when the upgrade was commenced, calls could not connect.

Automated email alerts just after the outage commenced were also just dismissed as normal activity during an upgrade.

The submission reveals of the 605 unique numbers that attempted to call triple zero during the outage, 150 had successful calls, 65 connected through another Optus exchange, 19 were ultimately successful in connecting after a delay, and 66 connected via emergency camp-on to other mobile networks.

Optus said 455 did not connect to triple zero.

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 2d

Amid all the sound and fury of the senate inquiry, the submission from Optus on the triple zero outage reveals a bit more.

Firstly, a customer who called to report the outage to Optus was sent into a store, where they bought a new phone.

Optus customer who reported triple zero outage directed to visit retail store instead

An Optus customer who reported September’s triple zero outage was advised to go into a store where they bought a new phone, the company has revealed.

On Monday, Optus executives faced a parliamentary inquiry on the 14-hour outage, during which four people died while 455 calls to triple zero went unanswered.

The telco’s submission to the inquiry revealed during the outage, five calls were received from Optus customers to its contact centres reporting difficulty reaching triple zero. None of these were callers in imminent danger, Optus said, but they were not appropriately escalated internally.

One customer was given the details for the Norwood, South Australia store and told to go in person due to the urgency. The customer then went into the store just before 1.30pm on 18 September to purchase a new phone, telling Optus their phone was old and “not functioning properly”.

The South Australian ambulance service called Optus three times in an hour to inform the company there was a triple zero issue, and the South Australian police also contacted Optus about the issue.

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Marita @mareetsyo.bsky.social · 4d

I have so many muted words but I still know way too much about The Discourse

Erin Cook @erincook.bsky.social · 4d

closest thing we'll get to an American news filter ig

Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 4d

“As users ‘dislike’ posts, the system will learn what sort of content they want to see less of. This will help to inform more than just how content is ranked in feeds, but also reply rankings.”

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Marita @mareetsyo.bsky.social · 5d

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

‘It’s been a cesspit, really, my life’: war photographer Don McCullin on 19 of his greatest pictures

At 90, McCullin has spent seven decades recording conflict and tragedy – while escaping snipers, mortar fire and capture. He reflects on pain, pride and regret

www.theguardian.com

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About the House @aboutthehouse.bsky.social · 6d

The Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Water @tonyburkemp.bsky.social has introduced the Environment Protection Reform Bill 2025.

ℹ️ To find out more, visit: aph.gov.au/bills.

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Marita @mareetsyo.bsky.social · 7d

They’re famous in our group chat! Also WE MET THE OTHER DAY outside the car park at work and I didn’t realise

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Marita @mareetsyo.bsky.social · 7d

WAIT. Chutney as in Chutney and Pickles??

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Rohan Alexander @rohanalexander.bsky.social · 8d

Number of unique speakers in the Australian parliament, by gender, 1998-2025. By Lindsay Katz and @inessadeangelis.bsky.social.

A graph from 1998 to 2025 with date on the x axis and number of unique speakers on the y axis. There are a lot of dots, but it broadly shows the number of women rising over time, to around 40 in 2025.

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Marita @mareetsyo.bsky.social · 9d

A real convo in my house this morning:

2 year old holding up my phone which was streaming RN Brekky: Mum! Bluey?
Me: no sweetheart, we’re listening to Mark Butler

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Marita @mareetsyo.bsky.social · 10d

Watched this last night thanks to your recommendation. ☺️🙏

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Björk 182 @sigkill.bsky.social · 11d

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Hannah Shelley, MLIS (Metadata, Lattes & Impostor Syndrome) @hannahshelley.bsky.social · 12d

Why aren't childbirth contractions called push notifications?

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Marita @mareetsyo.bsky.social · 12d

Just muted a political commentator who’s just perpetually bitter and grumpy and I tell you what, it feels good!!

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Marita @mareetsyo.bsky.social · 13d

A wombat from our daily walk in honour of Wombat Day yesterday

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Marita @mareetsyo.bsky.social · 14d

If I were a man cornered by my boss to do Movember I would simply resign

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Marita @mareetsyo.bsky.social · 16d

My child, 47 minutes into bedtime, holding out the drawstrings on her pyjama shorts: pants! Pants! Pants! Mummy! Pants!

Me: we can look at our pants tomorrow, baby.

Her: ok! Pants!

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 17d

Lotte Reiniger's director cameo in CINDERELLA showcasing her meticulous cut paper silhouette animation technique.

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Marita @mareetsyo.bsky.social · 18d

You can blend some with frozen berries and freeze as a sorbet

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Marita @mareetsyo.bsky.social · 19d

@jcsalterego.bsky.social had dinner with a toddler named Jerry tonight and the constant ‘Jerry, no!’s and ‘yes, Jerry!’s made me feel like I was in real life Bluesky

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Marita @mareetsyo.bsky.social · 19d

:(

Nick Miller @nickdmiller.bsky.social · 19d

Uh oh!

Marita @mareetsyo.bsky.social · 19d

in very exciting APS news we can now talk on Teams between departments (especially exciting since we got rid of desk phones)

Marita @mareetsyo.bsky.social · 19d

Omg

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