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Verbatorium @verbatorium.bsky.social · 10h

Andamooka’s 110 million-year-old fossil in mint condition share.google/WKS3xhopFehb...

Andamooka's 110 million-year-old fossil in mint condition - News | InDaily, Inside South Australia

Andamooka Underground Art Gallery has welcomed the return of a fossilised plesiosaur following a two-year restoration.

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MediaActive ▪️EQUALITY ▪️JUSTICE ▪️PEACE @mediaactive.bsky.social · 13h

“ @albomp.bsky.social Government has appointed Robyn Denholm, global chair of #Tesla, to lead Australia's review of our research & innovation system, even as Tesla & her other business interests could stand to gain from the policies she's helping to design.” Insane. www.getup.org.au/campaigns/ec...

Billionaire Hands off Public Policy!

Tesla's chair is in charge of our tech future - but it should be us shaping policy

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Verbatorium @verbatorium.bsky.social · 12h

Labor criticised over worker visa rule backflip that could affect thousands
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Labor criticised over worker visa rule backflip that could affect thousands

Tens of thousands of people from the Pacific and East Timor currently work in Australia under the PALM scheme.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

To be effective, protest must be noisy, obstructive, annoying. No longer is this allowed. Now the last attribute of effective dissent – persistence – is also to be banned. But the moment protest ceases to be effective is the moment democracy dies. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Here’s what you need to know about Starmer’s illiberal protest curbs: they would have killed the Labour party at birth | George Monbiot

The rights we enjoy in the UK, and the movement the PM purports to lead, were built on protest. Those rights are in dire peril, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Verbatorium @verbatorium.bsky.social · 13h

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 13h

So to summarise: the Tas government bought two ships, that are years late, to run between Devonport and Geelong, but there is no wharf at all for them at Devonport because people forgot to build one and they can't safely use the wharf at Geelong.

ABC News (Unofficial) @abc-news.bsky.social · 15h

Breaking: Spirit of Tasmania IV ship unable to berth at Point Henry in Geelong, report finds: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-15/spirit-of-tasmania-iv-unable-to-berth-at-geelong/105883912

Breaking: Spirit of Tasmania IV ship unable to berth at Point Henry in Geelong, report finds

The ABC understands that a recent safety assessment found the berth would need two additional bollards for the ship to berth there at a cost of $2 million.

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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 21h

As with many things, the data is just the data. You might not like what its says, that's fair enough, but it doesn't change anything.

Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 23h

"Immigration is coming down," Labor Assistant Minister Hill, this morning. Except it clearly isn't, other than as a reversion from the artificially high post-COVID rebound ... which, tbf, is what he said. But why lie about this, by obfuscation? What is the objective?

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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 14h

Raising children is now *wildly* expensive. It shouldn't be, and wouldn't be, if we valued it more than the many other things the federal budget gets spent on ... like subsidising coal, iron ore and gas miners.

Do we have a future, at all, without the child-raisers?

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Verbatorium @verbatorium.bsky.social · 14h

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Green Left @greenleftonline.bsky.social · 18h

NSW Labor is rushing to overhaul planning laws, which environmentalists and others say are a gift to developers and would make it easier to approve fossil fuel projects. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1404/ne...

NSW Labor’s ‘planning’ changes a gift to developers, threaten environment

Opponents of NSW Labor’s planning law changes say they are a gift to developers and make it easier to approve fossil fuel projects. Jim McIlroy reports.

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Verbatorium @verbatorium.bsky.social · 18h

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Verbatorium @verbatorium.bsky.social · 18h

Is baldness really still ripe for ridicule? I’ve not heard anything like that for ages.

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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 20h

So glad to see the future of relationships is wanking alone to prompts from a chatbot that will raise your electricity and water prices send all your private responses to Sam Altman for unsafekeeping

The Verge @theverge.com · 1d

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

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Verbatorium @verbatorium.bsky.social · 20h

Yes they have the means to provide tailored messaging but for some unknown reason they don’t 🤷‍♂️

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Lock Down Your Life @lockdownyourlife.com · 23h

Imma just say you could pay for GFE with an actual human & not have all your chats later exposed in a lawsuit with OpenAI, in a courtroom through Discovery, and read by your spouse when there is a breach. 🙂

Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 23h

OpenAI has chosen the worst, weirdest possible time to embrace the fact that people want to fuck chatbots www.404media.co/chatgpt-erot...

ChatGPT’s Hail Mary: Chatbots You Can Fuck

As recent reports show OpenAI bleeding cash, and on the heels of accusations that ChatGPT caused teens and adults alike to harm themselves and others, CEO Sam Altman announced that you can soon fuck t...

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 1d

This is why the inflatable costumes works so well -- it works the same way calling them "weird" or "creepy" did. It disrupts their narrative, and makes them seem pathetic rather than cool-and-cruel.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

You need to see this:

“The show of force is the point. They want these images to be out…The Department of Homeland Security is walking around Chicago with a film crew.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 22h

Republican Rep. Cory Mills allegedly threatened to release nude images of a 26-year-old woman and to harm her future boyfriends after she ended their relationship.

Now, a judge just ordered Mills, 45, not to come within 500 feet of the defendant & ruled that she is “a victim of dating violence.”

Judge grants ex-girlfriend restraining order against Rep. Cory Mills

A Florida judge said Rep. Cory Mills had cyberstalked an ex-girlfriend and barred the lawmaker from going near her residence or workplace or referencing her on social media.

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Verbatorium @verbatorium.bsky.social · 20h

It's time to make housing affordable & fair! End investor tax breaks, #BuildSocialHousing, and strengthen protection for renters to create a #FairHousingFuture.#EverybodysHome everybodyshome.com.au/take-action/...

150 MPs. 150 Pledges. - Everybody's Home

Ending poverty starts with a home. This Anti-Poverty Week, we’re calling on every Member of Parliament to publicly commit to more public and community homes […]

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Verbatorium @verbatorium.bsky.social · 1d

Aussie CEOs admit defeat: full-time office days are over | Information Age | ACS ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...

Aussie CEOs admit defeat: full-time office days are over

Report finds a dramatic backflip on forcing workers back.

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Verbatorium @verbatorium.bsky.social · 1d

‘Harvest of loot’: the colonial legacies of South Australia’s Benin Bronzes www.indailysa.com.au/news/in-dept...

‘Harvest of loot’: the colonial legacies of South Australia’s Benin Bronzes - News | InDaily, Inside South Australia

In an exclusive book extract, InReview editor Walter Marsh explores how a group of bronze sculptures behind glass at the South Australian Museum reveals a complex story of British imperialism, a South...

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.

My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:

Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

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kcarruthers @kcar.me · 1d

Happy Ada Lovelace Day – Celebrating the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and maths #ald

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 1d

Come join us for the inaugural Bernie Fraser Oration, featuring the former Reserve Bank of Australia Governor himself.

MC’d by @richarddenniss.bsky.social, this event honours Bernie’s impact on Australian economic and public policy.

🗓️ Tuesday 28th October 6pm
📍 Shine Dome, Canberra

#auspol

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 1d

1/ The March for White Australia RETVRNS this Sunday, OCT 19.

Below is a list of counter-protests, organised under the banner of 'No Room For Racism & Fascism' /// 'No White Australia. Counter The Far Right.'

Melbourne - 11am @ State Library
Brisbane - 11am @ Queens Gardens
Perth - 12pm @ Forrest Place
Canberra - 11am @ NLA Lawns
Sydney - 11am @ Belmore Park
Adelaide - 11:30am @ Beehive Corner

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Collette Snowden @drcollette.bsky.social · 1d

Just one of the reasons why ABC Australia, the national broadcaster should stop prioritising news from the USA and focus closer to home.

Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 2d

🚨 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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