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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 4h

Al Jazeera is doing videos of the Palestinian releases and they're heart wrenching. One man was detained for over a year and was released to find out that Israel had killed his two kids. The youngest was three. Her birthday would've been on Saturday. He'd made a small bracelet for her in prison.

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wombatpunch.bsky.social @wombatpunch.bsky.social · 2h

In my defence, I mostly only hurt myself.

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wombatpunch.bsky.social @wombatpunch.bsky.social · 2h

I wish I'd think more before posting something like this, because it's a horrible idea that gets worse the longer I dwell on it.

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wombatpunch.bsky.social @wombatpunch.bsky.social · 2h

Poetry written by Sam Newman.

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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 20h

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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wombatpunch.bsky.social @wombatpunch.bsky.social · 3h

"‘Only the commies in Victoria support pill testing’, Queensland deputy premier says"

Jarrod Bleijie is a complete fucking tool who couldn't thrive anywhere outside of the mutagen-laced talent pool of the LNP.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

News live: Australian parents having children at a later age as nation’s fertility rate falls further, ABS finds

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wombatpunch.bsky.social @wombatpunch.bsky.social · 5h

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

Tenants evicted after taxpayer-funded landlord fails to maintain property

The community housing provider says the landlord was unwilling to complete the necessary repairs, which included fixing doors that would not shut, leaking roofs and mouldy concrete.

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 7h

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 13h

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

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wombatpunch.bsky.social @wombatpunch.bsky.social · 7h

Campbell Newman's legacy: bad teeth.

(In fairness, there was nothing stopping Labor reversing this when they returned to power except for politics or laziness.)
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Major study outlines benefit of water fluoridation as Qld councils opt out

The findings are released as more Queensland councils opt out of water fluoridation and amid rising rates of misinformation.

www.abc.net.au

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 9h

I cannot believe people were losing their jobs for being mildly critical of Charlie Kirk and the president of the united states just went on tv and said "skill issue loser, RIP but I'm different"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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wombatpunch.bsky.social @wombatpunch.bsky.social · 8h

He should play him like the Bowery King from John Wick.

Coliseum of Comics @coliseumofcomics.com · 10h

Laurence Fishburne wants to play Charles Xavier in MCU's version of the X-Men

Laurence Fishburne wants to play Charles Xavier in MCU's version of X-Men

Laurence Fishburne is pitching himself to play Professor Charles Xavier in the MCU's version of the X-Men: 'What do you think about Laurence Fishburne as Professor X?'

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Jessie L @jessielilley.bsky.social · 22h

This is a small print run so pre-order to make sure you don’t miss out on Ezzideen Shehab’s breathtaking book, Diary of a Young Doctor.

Ezzideen’s words are essential reading. As reviewed by @amyremeikis.bsky.social

More: linktr.ee/readerswritersagainstgenocide

Red book jacket with a photo of Ezideen Shehab and the copy:

Tam 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.'

DIARY OF A YOUNG DOCTOR
Notes from the genocide in Gaza
Ezzideen Shehab

Book blurb:

‘With every entry, Ezzideen stitches together what is left of our humanity and reminds us of the terrible privilege of bearing witness. His empathy, honour and heart represent the best of us and is a rallying call to use our own power to stop this genocide and to fight for those rendered trapped by injustice, dehumanisation and cowardice.’
Amy Remeikis

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Dr Ingrid M @ingridm.bsky.social · 1d

remember that time the minister intervened to suspend an ARC funded Future Fellow after zionists created an orchestrated a campaign against her academic freedom.

Ben Walter @benwaltez.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote to Tony Burke about the closure of Meanjin, and finally received a reply from the office of Jason Clare, who had been forwarded the message because it was an issue for higher education, rather than the arts (!).

This is a wholly embarrassing and inadequate buck pass and response.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

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samantha floreani @floreani.bsky.social · 1d

lmao after watching successive governments do absolutely nothing meaningful about the data broker industry nor targeted marketing, I’m not above laughing at them for this

Anthony Albanese, Sussan Ley and Scott Morrison’s private phone numbers exposed on US marketing databases

Richard Marles says investigation under way into how the prime minister and other senior government staff’s phone numbers appeared in the databases

www.theguardian.com

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 1d

This is a great, detailed piece of work. There is really no secret here: OpenAI fully intend to use fossil gas to power their data centres.

All the crap about fusion, dyson spheres etc is misdirection. This is what they're *actually* doing:

www.desmog.com/2025/10/13/o...

John McCarrick, the company’s new head of Global Energy Policy, was a senior energy policy advisor in the first Trump administration’s Bureau of Energy Resources in the Department of State while under former Secretaries of State Rex Tillerson and Mike Pompeo.

As deputy assistant secretary for Energy Transformation and the special envoy for International Energy Affairs, McCarrick promoted exports of American liquefied natural gas to Europe in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and advocated for Asian countries to invest in natural gas.

The choice to hire McCarrick matches the intentions of OpenAI’s Trump-donating CEO Sam Altman, who said in a U.S. Senate hearing in May that “in the short term, I think [the future of powering AI] probably looks like more natural gas.”

It also aligns with the company’s early moves toward powering new data centers, huge warehouses full of linked-up computers that require enormous quantities of water and electricity, to run with gas. OpenAI’s U.S. Stargate Project site in Texas, which is slated to become one of the largest data center sites in the world, is already installing off-grid gas turbines to power its operations.

“Big Tech’s collusion with the Trump administration’s fossil fuel agenda for artificial intelligence is evident in their massive investment in methane gas power infrastructure — as well as pro-gas political operatives like McCarrick,” Tyson Slocum, director of consumer advocacy organization Public Citizen’s Energy Program, said.

The “solution” of powering AI with gas is part of Trump’s AI energy policy platform. In a July speech to announce a $96 billion AI and energy funding package, Trump lauded fossil fuel and coal-powered data center development while flanked by oil and gas executives.

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wombatpunch.bsky.social @wombatpunch.bsky.social · 1d

... it was a fake invoice, wasn't it?
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

AI used to imitate personalities defrauds Noosa council of $2.3m

The mayor of a small council that lost nearly $2 million in a "sophisticated" scam says international fraudsters were able to "imitate personalities" using AI.

www.abc.net.au

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Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 1d

A mom in Houston reported her 15-year-old son with autism missing. She spent 6 days terrified, searching for him. The whole time, Houston police knew exactly where he was since they helped ICE place him in a refugee facility.

This is beyond cruel.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Missing teen with autism transferred to refugee facility by HPD

He is currently being held at an Office for Refugee Resettlement facility.

www.houstonchronicle.com

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wombatpunch.bsky.social @wombatpunch.bsky.social · 1d

"Murray Watt backs tawny frogmouth as bird of the year as poll enter home stretch"

Well that's the kiss of death for the poor Tawny Frogmouth, then.
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News live: record year for EV sales; Venezuela to close Australian embassy; hiker still missing in Tasmania

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Dr swift parrot @teamswiftparrot.bsky.social · 1d

Look at how greenly gorgeous this little regent parrot is💚💚💚

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Dr Ingrid M @ingridm.bsky.social · 1d

the online places where kids will increasingly gather when blocked from their standard communication channels (“social media”) are already riddled with nazis and sexual predators.

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

How sexual predators and far right extremists are using Roblox to target children

Experts warn Roblox has a predator problem, amid reports Australian children are being exposed to a range of disturbing experiences on the platform.

www.abc.net.au

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El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · 1d

so great that rich people are being heard with their concerns about staying rich #antipovertyweek

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

Government offers major concessions on proposed super tax increase

The government has bowed to pressure on its superannuation tax policy, one of the few revenue-raising measures it had promised, two years on from when it was first announced.

www.abc.net.au

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Adam @kels316.bsky.social · 1d

let me guess, they need more money and power to combat it?

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

Artificial intelligence is amplifying the cyber threat landscape, enabling attackers to operate faster and at greater scale, according to Australia's federal cyber agency. Follow live.

Live: AI fuelling the next wave of cyber threats

Artificial intelligence is amplifying the cyber threat landscape, enabling attackers to operate faster and at greater scale, according to Australia's federal cyber agency. Follow live.

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Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 1d

"Israel also forbade people from celebrating the release on Monday, firing teargas at family members and journalists waiting near Ofer prison in the occupied West Bank, where detainees were kept. A flyer distributed by the Israeli military warned people that “we are surveilling you everywhere”"

Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 1d

"... some bearing the marks of recent beatings and a few unable to walk without being propped up by their relatives.

When asked about their treatment in the prisons, a prisoner apologised and said he could not answer, for fear that he would face repercussions from Israeli authorities"

‘Locked up for 24 years’: release of Palestinian prisoners and detainees sparks joy and sorrow

Nearly 2,000 people, including about 1,700 seized from Gaza and held without charge, set free from Israeli jails

www.theguardian.com

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Paul Dutton @pdutts68.bsky.social · 1d

Babet gets away with disgusting language on social media and is never held to any standards.
Lydia Thorpe, however ….
#AusPol

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