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Peta @petabytes.bsky.social · 23h

Hello to the new arrivals from Twitter.

Just remember, we have rules here:

1. We can dance if we want to
2. We can leave your friends behind
2a. Cause your friends don't dance, and if they don't dance, well, they're no friends of mine

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Amanda Finley Digs All the Spooky Things @rubyslippahs.bsky.social · 16h

Very cool things in the sky Monday night: two comets, a meteor shower, and possibly even aurora. Go outside, folks.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 16h

Nestlé said Thursday that it would shed about 16,000 jobs over the next two years, accelerating a cost-cutting program six weeks after the global food giant fired its chief executive.

Nestlé to Slash 16,000 Jobs in Cost-Cutting Push

The company’s new chief executive, Philipp Navratil, announced the reductions as part of a plan to turn around the world’s largest food company.

nyti.ms

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Marcus Kelson @marcuskelson.bsky.social · 16h

In the latest instalment of l just put a gun to my own head for no reason whatsoever…

bystander1.bsky.social @bystander1.bsky.social · 17h

"On Wednesday morning, Sussan Ley flew into Melbourne on a mission: to sound the alarm on the city’s “out of control” crime crisis, flanked by two fellow NON-VICTORIAN members of her shadow cabinet – Queensland’s Andrew Wallace and New South Wales’ Julian Leeser."

Sussan Ley’s Melbourne crime crusade achieves little more than a political free kick for Victorian Labor

There’s no question Victoria has a crime problem, but the federal Coalition parachuting in with talking points and a scare campaign is not the answer

www.theguardian.com

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Daryl Maguire’s tractor @daryltractor.bsky.social · 16h

Which worked out really well for him…

Revardin @revardin.bsky.social · 1d

Looks like Sussan Ley is regurgitating anti Victorian sentiment against Victoria ala Peter Dutton. And taking a page out of Trump’s playbook “it’s a war zone”

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Cam Walker @camwalker.bsky.social · 19h

As part of our campaign to gain protection for snow gum forests from the threats of dieback & climate change driven fire, we've launched a 'hike for the high country' citizen science project.

We also produced this map:
umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/snow-...

www.melbournefoe.org.au/hike_for_the...

Hike for the high country

Mobilise! Resist! Transform!

www.melbournefoe.org.au

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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 4d

Once American democracy made it possible for a Black man to be elected president, American conservatives decided that it had to be destroyed

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 4d

While Vought traces the “leftwing revolution” back a hundred years, to the progressive era, there is no question that the election of Barack Obama was a radicalizing moment for him and many key thinkers on the radical Right - as were the multiracial protests in the summer of 2020.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 16h

one of my coworkers loves the way I dress and every day when she gets in she comes over and says "let's see the fit" and then oohs and ahhs over me and it's really doing wonders for my self-esteem

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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 16h

Higher education predates the printing press. Believe it or not, teaching is about more than “information” that a technology can “deliver instantly”

Vlad 🐸 Țepeș @porcupunk.bsky.social · 1d

Wow. Just wow.

"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."

When Knowledge is Free, What are Professors For?

Higher Education Must Stop Competing with AI on Information and Start Teaching What Machines Can’t Do

www.forbes.com

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 20h

Nazi dentist Ian Lomax -- one of Tom Sewell's flunkeys -- is (temporarily?) no longer working as a dentist.

And That's Official.

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

Dental board suspends Ballarat dentist after allegations of Neo-Nazi ties

Dental board suspends practitioner, who was allegedly photographed at a Neo-Nazi rally, while it investigates.

www.abc.net.au

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 16h

7/ You could be forgiven for thinking that flagwits happy to follow Nazis & nep0 babies into battle are less concerned with *checks notes* "housing", and more concerned with, say *checks notes* "white nationalism".

Anti-migration co-ordinator's wealthy property family

A young Aussie who says "mass immigration" is to to blame for the housing crisis has been revealed as the grandson of one of Australia's richest property developers.

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Philip Thalis @philipthalis.bsky.social · 18h

This is a great win for free democratic expression for people in our cities, & a deserved & humiliating loss for our overly-authoritarian Premier Minns.
He keeps serving up his grubby law-n-order, & either the people or the courts tell him to go stick it!
Public space, public life.
#publicsydney

Dr Ingrid M @ingridm.bsky.social · 19h

the NSW Supreme Court has ruled Minns’ anti-protest “places of worship” law to be unconstitutional. Congratulations to the Palestine Action Group for all the work that went in to successfully bringing this case #GadiGaza

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

Court rules in favour of Palestine Action Group over NSW protest laws

The Palestine Action Group has won a NSW Supreme Court challenge against a law that limited protests near places of worship.

www.abc.net.au

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weatherboard.bsky.social @weatherboard.bsky.social · 16h

Go on Chalmers.

What could possibly go [more] wrong?

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 17h

Experts urge UK to ban cigarette filters to protect health and environment

Researchers say filters do not reduce toxicant exposure and are major contributor to plastic waste crisis Cigarette filters don’t work and are a major source of plastic pollution that should be banned by the UK government, experts have said. In an editorial in Addiction, the journal for the Society for the Study of Addiction, researchers argue that ministers should use a forthcoming tobacco and vapes bill to “ban filters in the interests of public health and the environment.” Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 17h

Experts urge UK to ban cigarette filters to protect health and environment

Researchers say filters do not reduce toxicant exposure and are major contributor to plastic waste crisis Cigarette filters don’t work and are a major source of plastic pollution that should be banned by the UK government, experts have said. In an editorial in Addiction, the journal for the Society for the Study of Addiction, researchers argue that ministers should use a forthcoming tobacco and vapes bill to “ban filters in the interests of public health and the environment.” Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Cam Walker @camwalker.bsky.social · 1d

Avi Yemini: misinformation dispenser:

Apart from boring 'soy latte' jokes & suggesting that 'there are no greens' in the CFA, he claims that 'the Greens say that if we get rid of climate change, we don't need the CFA'.

Nah mate. NO ONE has ever claimed that.

(at the May 20 rally at VIC parl).

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Äpplesche 💚 @aepplesche.bsky.social · 1d

Bette Midler hat wenigstes Courage 👍

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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 1d

"Documents released under Freedom of Information show the company last year was concerned that its aging Darwin liquefied natural gas plant (DLNG) could be forced to achieve net zero emissions as part of its huge new Barossa gas project in the Timor Sea."

Prospect of net zero an 'intolerable risk' for leaking Santos plant

Santos's Darwin gas plant is set for a new lease of life despite a major methane leak. The company told federal officials the risk it could be forced to meet best practice on carbon emissions was "int...

www.abc.net.au

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 18h

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 999:
It’s not just the story that matters, it’s the person telling it. Your stories are filtered through your experience, your culture, your upbringing, your identity. Don’t be afraid to let it show. Those things matter. You matter.

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 21h

Cardiff will be the first UK city to introduce a surcharge for oversized SUVs and trucks, "while very large vehicles – those over 3,500kg – will be excluded from residential permits entirely."

Cardiff set to tackle SUV 'carspreading' in UK first

Cardiff Council is set to become the first local authority in the UK to introduce higher parking charges for SUVs and other heavy vehicles, in a move campaigners say will make city streets safer and f...

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 17h

16 October 1938 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Klára Boda, was born.

In July 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.
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A short video showing the ruins of gas chamber and crematorium III: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ipQmBPAlJQ8

Vintage black and white photo of a young girl holding a toy and standing next to a stuffed animal, set against a patterned backdrop.

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MJ O’Neill 🏳️‍⚧️ @mjoneillchw.bsky.social · 20h

Basically, the Australian political class as a whole is aligned on one central belief - that poor people should be subject to worse laws and treatment than rich people. That’s Centrelink, robodebt, mutual obligations, ndis, all of it.

Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 22h

A lot of very talented lawyers and legal academics/analysts are easily absorbed trying to understand 'mutual obligations' on its own terms. But the aim is, as in Robodebt, simply to construct a vaguely-deniable parallel rule of law for recipients.

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 19h

🇦🇺 Australia's tropical rainforests are among the first in the world to start emitting more carbon dioxide than they absorb, scientists say, linking the "very concerning" trend to climate change.
➡️ u.afp.com/SswN

Mist rises from a rainforest on the outskirts of the Australian city of Cairns.

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Kaya Wanu. @kayawanu.bsky.social · 21h

Ha!!
Pausing a policy found to be illegal for some.

Antipoverty Centre @antipovertycentre.org · 21h

🚨 PSA FOR FOLKS IN DISABILITY EMPLOYMENT SERVICES

"Mutual" obligations are VOLUNTARY from today until 6 Jan 2025. There are no payment suspensions, demerits, or other penalties during the transition to Inclusive Employment Australia.

If your provider isn't helpful, you can ignore them completely.

Government Announces Pause on Mutual Obligations for Inclusive Employment Australia - Disability Advocacy Network Australia

The Department of Employment and Workplace Relations announced last week that they will be pausing mutual obligations for the rollout of the new Inclusive Employment Australia (IEA) program from the 1...

dana.org.au

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NSJ Updates 🩵🌈☀️🌺☮️ @nikisavvasjumper.bsky.social · 18h

And shame on 7:30 who had an entire afternoon to put a story together on their journalism comrades - but elected to go with safe stories.

Seriously, not even a peep

NSJ Updates 🩵🌈☀️🌺☮️ @nikisavvasjumper.bsky.social · 18h

FINALLY the SMH editorial team has called out fascist Trump and his goon squad after their disgraceful act against press freedoms earlier today at the Pentagon

Screenshots of the editors note are in the comments

We need more media to stand up to this normalisation of fascism before it’s too late

Even in Trump’s America, the crackdown on Pentagon reporters is chilling stuff

An unprecedented crackdown represents a dark day for democracy and should serve as a wake-up call for complacent Australians.

www.smh.com.au

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Antipoverty Centre @antipovertycentre.org · 21h

🚨 PSA FOR FOLKS IN DISABILITY EMPLOYMENT SERVICES

"Mutual" obligations are VOLUNTARY from today until 6 Jan 2025. There are no payment suspensions, demerits, or other penalties during the transition to Inclusive Employment Australia.

If your provider isn't helpful, you can ignore them completely.

Government Announces Pause on Mutual Obligations for Inclusive Employment Australia - Disability Advocacy Network Australia

The Department of Employment and Workplace Relations announced last week that they will be pausing mutual obligations for the rollout of the new Inclusive Employment Australia (IEA) program from the 1...

dana.org.au

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