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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 7h

Meanwhile, mainstream media is ignoring a new report noting 1 in 7 Australians, and 1 in 6 children, are living in #poverty.

They have more 'newsworthy' issues, like the uber wealthy responding to super changes making them slightly less wealthy.

The political & media class is fucked. #auspol

Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 1d

"Which again, brings us back to the question: If $400 was all the money you could count on every week and it didn’t get paid, how do you think that would impact your life? How well do you think you could cope?"

New from @amyremeikis.bsky.social

www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

Shame and harm at every JobSeeker turn – and now added AI slop

The system is so convoluted and stacked against people that even if it worked as intended, it would still be not just harmful, but useless.

www.thenewdaily.com.au

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Geelan Mitchell Media @victoriannews.com.au · 6h

WFD is just punishment for being unemployed, and I have all the proof of that to back my claims. Cold, hard, proof. Ya know, journalism.

Look at reality. The tasks and places that Centrelink sends WFD in Vic are the same places that Judges send crooks and parolees too ffs.

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Fahad Ali @fahad-s-ali.bsky.social · 6h

I have to find a way to insulate myself from the world. 18,000 dead Palestinian children, on official numbers. True number probably an order of magnitude higher. No outpouring of grief, no outrage: the press and politican class has decided our lives don't matter.

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Tammi, yeah, that one. 2.1 @tammi.bsky.social · 16h

I found a 19th century Cat Villain!

A huge chonk of a fluffy cat sitting on a table near an open fire. The cat is cream and grey and appears to be shaped like a barrel in a fur coat. They are scowling fiercely with their moustache and bewhiskered ears apparently flowing back into the cold wind. There's a definite vibe that this villainous cat twirls their moustache as they evict orphans into the aforementioned blizzard and think Scrooge was an easy-going lightweight. They are magnificent.

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Sharna @sharna.bsky.social · 10h

It really is the equivalent of telling women not to walk alone at night. The government is choosing to regulate the behaviour of victims and potential victims, instead of actually addressing the perpetrators

Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 11h

Leo making the point that the ban doesn't actually remove any harmful content.

"We're not actually addressing the harmful content. It kind of is giving the appearance of that."

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Leni @heradescends.bsky.social · 8h

The actual impacted young people who have spoken intelligently and insightfully to committee making more bloody sense than most of the adults in Canberra, seriously we should lower the voting age and prioritise safety by holding tech companies accountable on the safety of their ‘products’

Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 9h

Leo Puglisi from @6newsau.bsky.social gave evidence to the parliamentary inquiry on the social media age ban - I asked him about the real impacts on young people. This isn't about protection, it's about control. You can't lock kids out of news and social connection and call it safety.

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Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 @eliseswritings.bsky.social · 9h

(Aussie news.) "Privately, Labor MPs acknowledge there is a need to scrap the entire system. It doesn’t need more reviews – the entire punitive job-seeker system is broken, and has been consistently revealed to be such, which is not because it is corrupted but because it was established that way."

David @daverino.bsky.social · 9h

"mutual obligations – the system by which we set (through private “job providers”) demeaning & useless tasks for unemployed people..to receive their welfare – is documented to cause harm, with little evidence it actually does anything to..get people into work"
www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

Shame and harm at every JobSeeker turn – and now added AI slop

The system is so convoluted and stacked against people that even if it worked as intended, it would still be not just harmful, but useless.

www.thenewdaily.com.au

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Alastair Lawrie @alastairlawrie.bsky.social · 8h

Exactly zero surprise that the Albanese Government's social media ban will have a disproportionately negative impact on young LGBTQ+ people - and that they don't appear to have done anything to even attempt to reduce these harms. #auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

LGBTQIA+ advocates say social media ban will 'cut off' regional queer teens

LGBTIQA+ advocates are concerned the social media ban will have a significant impact on queer youth in regional and remote areas of Australia. They say there are not enough offline, physical supports ...

www.abc.net.au

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Cats with Jobs ⚒️ @catworkers.bsky.social · 8h

📸 Maprangwaan

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 8h

Ian Corby from the age assurance lobby group says between 2 to 3 million people in the UK began using VPNs after age assurance was brought in there.

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Bin Chicken @binchicken9000.bsky.social · 8h

"If you’re proud of balancing the books while people go hungry, you’ve lost sight of what good government means."

Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 12h

"Centrelink payments are still hundreds of dollars a week below the poverty line. It’s no wonder poverty is rising. People can’t keep up when the basics are unaffordable and support has been frozen in real terms"

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

#AntipovertyWeek

Critics say Labor government has failed to raise payments and help alleviate poverty

Kristin O’Connell, a spokesperson for the Antipoverty Centre and a disability support pension recipient, said the Labor government’s failure to raise payments had made things more difficult for those with low incomes.

She said in a statement the group had regularly heard from people who say “life has gotten harder since the Albanese Government came to power”:

Centrelink payments are still hundreds of dollars a week below the poverty line. It’s no wonder poverty is rising. People can’t keep up when the basics are unaffordable and support has been frozen in real terms. …

There’s no such thing as a responsible budget that keeps people in poverty. If you’re proud of balancing the books while people go hungry, you’ve lost sight of what good government means.

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PaisleyPrickles(Wendy) @paisleyprickles.bsky.social · 12h

Israeli Soldiers Torched Food, Homes, and a Critical Sewage Treatment Plant in the Wake of Ceasefire Announcement
www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-idf...

Israeli Soldiers Torched Food, Homes, and a Critical Sewage Treatment Plant in the Wake of Ceasefire Announcement

Soldiers called the mass arson of Gaza City their “final touches.”

www.dropsitenews.com

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Bin Chicken @binchicken9000.bsky.social · 8h

Their 'motivation thru punishment' approach assumes motivation is the problem. Or at least, they want other ppl to think that's the problem. It's possible they know the truth & are just that cruel.

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 1d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 1d

"Which again, brings us back to the question: If $400 was all the money you could count on every week and it didn’t get paid, how do you think that would impact your life? How well do you think you could cope?"

New from @amyremeikis.bsky.social

www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

Shame and harm at every JobSeeker turn – and now added AI slop

The system is so convoluted and stacked against people that even if it worked as intended, it would still be not just harmful, but useless.

www.thenewdaily.com.au

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Seattle Dave in Boise @mcblah.bsky.social · 1d

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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 1d

A system entirely designed around cruelty.

Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 1d

"Which again, brings us back to the question: If $400 was all the money you could count on every week and it didn’t get paid, how do you think that would impact your life? How well do you think you could cope?"

New from @amyremeikis.bsky.social

www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

Shame and harm at every JobSeeker turn – and now added AI slop

The system is so convoluted and stacked against people that even if it worked as intended, it would still be not just harmful, but useless.

www.thenewdaily.com.au

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Ryan McDiarmid @ryanmcdiarmid.com · 2d

Every underfunded school and library, every overfilled bus, every person sleeping and dying on the street, all for this.

Michelle Gamage @michellegamage.bsky.social · 6d

A single Vancouver police officer made $397,258 last year, making $239,258 in overtime on top of their base pay of up to $158,000.
This is the wildest FOI I've seen in a long time. Well done Liam Britten for digging this up. #CBC
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

47 VPD officers made over $100K in OT last year — and one banked $239K, FOI data shows | CBC News

A single Vancouver police sergeant was paid $239,258 in overtime alone last year, on top of the rank's base pay of up to $158,000. The figure comes from a freedom of information request filed with the...

www.cbc.ca

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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 2d

Laugh. Cry. Another cracker from @thejuicemedia.com.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-yj...

Honest Government Ad | Visit New Zealand!

YouTube video by thejuicemedia

www.youtube.com

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Bill Bennett @billbennett.bsky.social · 1d

Have I got this right? We can't afford to fund the health system but we can build a Death Star.

www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

NZ defence strategy explores space weapons export potential

Defence Minister Judith Collins insists NZ-produced technology could compete internationally.

www.rnz.co.nz

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"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 1d

LA: we will fight you.
Chicago: we will fight you.
PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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Travis Jordan @grugstan.bsky.social · 1d

Here's some of my rules of thumb:

> If its more than three paragraphs, make a dedicated PDF

> If its more than ten pages, make a covering letter

> If its more than twenty pages, make an executive summary, table of contents and recommendations list

> If its more than fifty pages, get an editor

Travis Jordan @grugstan.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t stress enough that if you’re writing anything longer than a couple of paragraphs, spend time thinking about formatting, layout, readability and design.

The amount of work it takes to get to “compelling and professional advocacy” from “unhinged rant” is ten minutes of using a style sheet.

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camcantanything @camcantanything.bsky.social · 1d

Fuck the Salvation Army

They can do shit like this but give us barely a days worth of food for 2 people for the entire month at their food banks?

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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alex䷰trismegistus @technihilism.bsky.social · 1d

it's beyond fucking tiring that a party with an obsession for holding people accountable for every single cent of welfare payments is handing out "how to crime" guides to their fucking employees #auspol

David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 1d

The Albanese govt’s first term was the second most secretive on record.

Rather than changing their ways, they’re doubling down and tightening our FOI system to make it even harder to get information. Not a single expert or member of parliament outside of the Labor party has backed their new bill.

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Sirius Star 🍉 🍉 🍉 @siriusstar3.bsky.social · 1d

Punitive, cruel, harmful. If $400 was all the money you could count on every week & didn’t get paid, how do you think that would impact your life? How well do you think you could cope?

We need total political, environmental & social change. #Auspol #Jobseeker

Picture of a lying spineless weasel, we need a government that leaves no one behind.

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