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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books

A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.

www.pilsencommunitybooks.com

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Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 21h

"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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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 1d

The Federal Court has given a record $2.2 million civil penalty to a (now defunct) NDIS provider, following the death of a 38-year-old Queensland man who wandered onto a motorway www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

NDIS provider fined $2.2m after man killed walking into highway traffic

Proceedings began against the now-defunct provider following the death of a Queensland participant in 2023. The penalty is the highest civil sanction imposed on an NDIS provider to date.

www.abc.net.au

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El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · 20h

I don't remember seeing this before

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El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · 20h

your reactions were pretty much mine when reading this

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El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · 1d

curious 'statement of expectations' from the minister about the NDIS quality and safeguards commission

www.health.gov.au/resources/pu...

www.health.gov.au

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El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · 1d

genuinely wild ombudsman report into the NDIS participant service guarantee, including disagreeing with the agency about whether they have delivered on it, and that rules haven't been finalised since 2022! [very good plain English report too btw]

www.ombudsman.gov.au/__data/asset...

www.ombudsman.gov.au

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El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · 1d

because it's me, I watched a chunk of #estimates from a seat outside Katoomba hospital while waiting for my cardiac appointment (routine) while texting with @dougieherd.bsky.social

good summary of some of the questions

thenightly.com.au/politics/bur...

Bureaucrats deny States left in the dark on NDIS overhaul

Several State leaders have publicly claimed they were blindsided when Health Minister Mark Butler announced a new ‘Thriving Kids’ program in a National Press Club address on August 20.

thenightly.com.au

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El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · 1d

'Why is there so little nature writing by disabled Australian writers?' Jessica White

www.artshub.com.au/news/opinion...

Why is there so little nature writing by disabled Australian writers?

Author Jessica White considers ecobiography, and how deafness shapes her relationship with natural and built environments.

www.artshub.com.au

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El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · 1d

“Homes are a source of dignity, and Israel deliberately knew how to attack our very dignity by destroying our houses.” Nour Alsaqa

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

Nour's home lies in ruin. This is how Israel made so much of Gaza unliveable

When 25-year-old Nour imagines herself back home in Gaza City, she remembers the things that made her smile. Now that's all gone.

www.abc.net.au

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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 2d

Next Tuesday, I'll be speaking at this online event about the Targeted Compliance Framework scandal, & how mutual obligations worsens and commodifies poverty. I'll throw some jokes in as well, dw

Come along if you like - it's free
www.eventbrite.com.au/e/unfinished...

Unfinished Business: 50 Years After Henderson

An initiative of the Australian Social Policy Association and the Australian Journal of Social Issues, as part of Anti-Poverty Week.

www.eventbrite.com.au

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El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · 2d

“It makes you feel like, ‘am I even a human to you guys?’. What’s the point of being here? Will that save your budget?” Kieron D’Netto

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

Kieron relies on NDIS after surviving a catastrophic diving accident – but new rules could put his life at risk

Brisbane man is one of hundreds reporting devastating cuts to NDIS plans after rule changes last year

www.theguardian.com

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El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · 2d

this whole story about Monique Jeremiah and 'Diversity Models' is wildly awful, and keeps getting worse

9now.nine.com.au/a-current-af...

Outrage after agent painted model's face to make her look 'more Aboriginal'

Former model Hayley, who claims Monique told her to look disabled, also has functional neurological disorder,

9now.nine.com.au

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Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 2d

The @antipovertycentre.org watched #estimates yesterday so we didn't have to - 🧵of some of the questions and non-answers (some which sound very LNP era) about welfare and the TCF...

Antipoverty Centre @antipovertycentre.org · 3d

"If they don't deliver, they don't get paid,"

The first flagrant lie from the employment department in today's senate estimates hearing about the welfare cops who profit from poverty. No doubt there will be much more bullshit to come!

Antipoverty Centre @antipovertycentre.org · 3d

If you want to watch the employment department defend their unlawful operation of compulsory activities (so-called mutual obligations), you can tune in to the senate estimates hearing here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WId...

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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 4d

This is devastating but hard to think of more important journalism. 18,457 children have been killed in Gaza (many more not accounted for). Here, The Guardian prints their names and beautiful faces and tells us what they were like before Israel stole their lives. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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Melissa @artistaffame.bsky.social · 4d

ko-fi.com/post/Punch-u... I had a tv interview with abc today and it made me think about this

Punch up

Artistaffame published a post on Ko-fi

ko-fi.com

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El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · 3d

ooo looking forward to this!

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 3d

If you've fallen down inflammation-type wellness circle rabbit holes, hmu for a @motherjones.com essay I'm working on. My email is [email protected]. I can you your first name only.

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Sarah Schwartz @sarahschwartz.bsky.social · 4d

A letter to those who taught me my Jewishness, and who now sit on the other side of a deep chasm.

When you first heard me speak against this genocide, you heard my words as betrayal. But they were meant as love

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

When you first heard me speak against this genocide, you heard my words as betrayal. But they were meant as love | Sarah Schwartz

Not speaking would go against everything I was taught to honour: the righteous among the nations – those who refused to be bystanders to injustice

www.theguardian.com

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El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · 4d

abuse of older disabled people found out because the aged care home followed NDIS standards. horrifying, and points to the urgent need to implement the disability royal commission recommendations to stop this

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

'It's a human rights tragedy': Aged care facility inappropriately restrained residents

A South Australian government aged care home, which looks after 23 people with dementia or complex disabilities, inappropriately used lap belts and other mechanical restraints to stop falls and contro...

www.abc.net.au

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El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · 4d

doesn't look like the NDIS is there, but Centrelink and Medicare are

bill is online here: parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/sea...

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El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · 4d

good summary of the Thriving Kids inquiry hearing last week, with key concerns from a wide range of groups and folks

www.sbs.com.au/news/podcast...

Advocates alarmed as major change for autistic kids looms

There are fears that many children with autism or learning difficulties will fall between the cracks of a new support system that aims to limit access to the National Disability Insurance Scheme. The ...

www.sbs.com.au

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El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · 4d

more restrictions on disability supports = higher costs, or what we all said at the time

''Everyday living cost' or assistive technology? NDIS participants frustrated with flexibility of rules'

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

'I was so cross': NDIS participants blast 'nonsensical' spending rules

A year after a controversial NDIS change, advocates are growing increasingly concerned that "counterintuitive" and "nonsensical" funding decisions are reducing participant independence.

www.abc.net.au

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El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · 4d

hmm, wonder if this includes the NDIS and their wildly terrible IT systems?

'‘Tell us once’ laws to sweep away data sharing barriers'

www.innovationaus.com/tell-us-once...

'Tell us once' laws to sweep away data sharing barriers

Australians will be able to update their personal information across multiple federal government agencies in one go, rather than contact them individually, as part of a new bill introducing sweeping c...

www.innovationaus.com

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El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · 4d

trying to have the patience to let myself rest and recover. not really succeeding.

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