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💜 phonakins 🍉 @phonakins.com · 28d

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💜 phonakins 🍉 @phonakins.com · 4h

Monday evening meds check

Pills on a white hello kitty face shape saucer

💜 phonakins 🍉 @phonakins.com · 6h

White hot chocolate time
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White mug with purple text speak because your voice shakes

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Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 7h

🚨 BREAKING: Brand new @ACOSS report finds 1 in 7 Australians are living in poverty, including 757,000 children. Millions of families are struggling while our leaders sit on their hands and let it happen.

Poverty in Australia 2025: Overview – Poverty and Inequality

povertyandinequality.acoss.org.au

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Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 7h

This report from ACOSS & UNSW reveals a shocking reality. Since 2020, hundreds of thousands more have fallen below the poverty line. 3.5 million Australians now struggle to pay rent, put food on the table, and cover basic living costs. This is unacceptable.

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💜 phonakins 🍉 @phonakins.com · 6h

Showered and onesied

In the purple onesie with computer items under a green romper with a groovy mushroom design

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KnowYourStuffNZ @knowyourstuffnz.bsky.social · 7h

If the LNP truly wanted to hurt dealers like they say they do, they'd let people use drug checking services. The reputational and associated economic consequences would fall on the dealer and the rest would be history.

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KnowYourStuffNZ @knowyourstuffnz.bsky.social · 7h

We thought that was unacceptable because we're decent humans and we don't think death is an acceptable consequence for ANYTHING, not just taking drugs.

Queensland had legal drug checking up until last month, when the LNP defunded and outlawed it because they 'didn't support drug dealers'.

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KnowYourStuffNZ @knowyourstuffnz.bsky.social · 7h

Hi friends. Just want to give a heads up to what's happening in Queensland right now bc it's heartbreaking.

We started KnowYourStuffNZ 10 years ago because we knew sooner or later someone was going to die from an adulterated or substituted substance.

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

Person dies after deadly opioid detected in yellow teddy bear pill

Queensland Health issues a public health alert warning nitazenes have been detected in tablets.

www.abc.net.au

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💜 phonakins 🍉 @phonakins.com · 7h

Dinner prep

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💜 phonakins 🍉 @phonakins.com · 8h

SEO that search term baby

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Mx Maddison Stoff @thedescenters.bsky.social · 8h

The only way to make it even remotely fair would be to rule in favor of the claimant, right? Punish the provider in some way for not providing enough information to justify to suspension. The way she's talking here though (mixed with my irl exposure to the welfare system via long term unemployment,)

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Mx Maddison Stoff @thedescenters.bsky.social · 8h

So, wait, what happens after that? If the notes "aren't enough to make a full assessment" (because of the provider, who supplies them,) they call *the provider*... and then what? If they don't provide more information and just stick to their decision, what happens?

Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 8h

"If someone has a payment suspension & they want to challenge it & they believe it's either unfair or unlawful, do you hold all the information that you need in the system?"

DEWR: "In some cases the notes aren't detailed enough for us to make a full assessment"

extraordinary misadministration

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Tess @itstessinadress.bsky.social · 9h

Punishing job applicants for something fully outside their control, like the decision of a company to hire them or not out of thousands of qualified applicants, is exactly the same as punishing someone for eg: how many people walked past their house today. It makes you a fucking inhumane monster.

Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 4d

Labor's employment minister rep admits that payment suspensions "cause harm", but they're "an important part" of the (unlawful) mutual obligations system, because

"At the end of the day we want ppl to get off payments and find a job"

gross 'best form of welfare is a job' stuff from the ALP here

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Vanessa Smith @normalness.bsky.social · 10h

Don't shit on influencers
normalness.com/2025/10/13/d...

Don't shit on influencers - Normal Ness

If you’re shitting on influencers who are losing work over social media bans / platform changes and want them to “get a real job”, then I expect you to detail what you are personally dong to make “rea...

normalness.com

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Wyvernsrose #RaiseTheRate @wyvernsrose.bsky.social · 8h

in research, lobbying, actions peer support, etc etc etc

a body that knows who they are maintains ongoing contact providing them with privacy opportunity and ability to mobilise

@brenthodgson.bsky.social

I don't know how me can, realistically for their privacy it state government responsibility

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Wyvernsrose #RaiseTheRate @wyvernsrose.bsky.social · 8h

OK QUICK BEFORE THE BRAIN FART ESCAPES MY HEAD

we need a measure that REQUIRES state governments to create a body for ex foster care kids... and juvenile justice kids... in order to protect their privacy... providing them ongoing information about their cohort providing them opportunities to engage

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💜 phonakins 🍉 @phonakins.com · 8h

(beams with validation since "documented to cause harm" links to phonakins.com)

The mutual obligations system – the system by which we set (through privatised “job providers”) mostly demeaning and useless tasks for unemployed people to meet in order to receive their welfare benefits – is documented to cause harm, with little evidence it actually does anything to meet its main objective: get people into work.

The system is so convoluted and already stacked against people that even without the issue of lawfulness, it would still be not just harmful, but useless. In terms of punishing people, it is working as intended. But governments tend to pay attention when harm can also be considered unlawful, and that’s the issue here.

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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 8h

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Lisa the Antifascist “Leftist”🇦🇺 @lisatellstruth.bsky.social · 9h

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Vanessa Smith @normalness.bsky.social · 9h

“Right now, the system protects organisations more than it protects disabled people.”

(Regarding updates to the Disability Discrimination Act 1992.)

lsj.com.au/articles/aut...

Autism myths and misinformation in a ‘grey zone’ of legal ramifications - Law Society Journal

The spread of misinformation and disinformation about autism highlights the limitations of disability discrimination laws.

lsj.com.au

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Dr. Paula R. Curtis @paularcurtis.bsky.social · 7d

Coping with the fact that tomorrow is Monday by convincing local strangers to send me pictures of their pets throughout the week.

Chalk art on a sidewalk of a multcolored burst of angular lines, under which "GOOD DOG" is written in fluorescent yellow, pink, and black with an arrow pointing up to the line burst, encouraging people to put their dogs in the middle and take a photo because sharing pet pictures makes the world a better place. At the bottom of the sidewalk it says "SHOW US YOUR DOGS!" with the handle of the art instagram @rocks_on_the_block

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Elia / Moth @strangemoth.bsky.social · 12h

I want to get away from Spotify, so I contacted TIDAL about potential accessibility features bc that app, and most other alternatives, are not visually accessible. Get out of here with itty bitty text. I can’t SEE!

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💜 phonakins 🍉 @phonakins.com · 12h

$22,600 raised that will probably be transferred to @FoodbankAus for donated and their "collaborative supply" goods @kyleatink.bsky.social ?

This is a massive Shout Out of Thanks.
Our recent concert Feed the Need: Food Relief Concert on 5th September 2025 was a wonderful success. Bringing our amazing community together.
Our financial side is now completed
We are very pleased to inform you The Event raised $22,600.
💯 will be spent on FOOD for those struggling in our area.
The Bikers Hand and Berkeley Vale Neighbourhood Centre inc (includes Bateau Bay Neighbourhood Centre ) are committed to this.
We have many to thank for reaching this total.

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Better Renting @betterrenting.bsky.social · 12h

We don't allow price-gouging or exorbitant price increases with those services, because everyone needs those things to live, and demand for them is inelastic. Why don't we treat housing the same way?

Read the full report summary from the ABC here: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Increasing rent driving people away from employment

Median rental prices have risen to more than $700 per week for the first time, according to Cotality's Quarterly Rental Review.

www.abc.net.au

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