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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 10h

"If someone has a payment suspension & they want to challenge it & they believe it's either unfair or unlawful, do you hold all the information that you need in the system?"

DEWR: "In some cases the notes aren't detailed enough for us to make a full assessment"

extraordinary misadministration

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 15h

A gray cat labled Derek about to leap onto an unsuspecting orange cat labeled Matt

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 15h

My latest is the story of how my community has rallied to protect and defend our neighbors in recent days, as ICE has targeted the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. "This is not a story about a moment of victory, but a moment of being reminded of our power."

They Came for Our Neighbors. We Showed Up.

Before long, there were dozens, and then hundreds of people in the streets, watching and responding.

organizingmythoughts.org

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Micah @rincewind.run · 18h

Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather

The late (or at least severely delayed) Bergholt Stuttley Johnson was generally recognized as the worst inventor in the world, yet in a very specialized sense. Merely bad inventors made things that failed to operate. He wasn’t among these small fry. Any fool could make something that did absolutely nothing when you pressed the button. He scorned such fumble-fingered amateurs. Everything he built worked. It just didn’t do what it said on the box. If you wanted a small ground-to-air missile, you asked Johnson to design an ornamental fountain.

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Cultural Champ @culturalchamp.bsky.social · 16h

blows

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raven-mumur @raven-murmur.bsky.social · 16h

It's entirely typical of the messenger and his constituency that such inflammatory speech fed the fire resulting in dead police in Wieambilla and Porepunkah. Elected politicians using metaphors promoting violence normalize the weak minded's conviction that their violence is righteous.

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 17h

National/ACT Coalition government spends over $100,000 a year on a road cone hotline that increasingly hardly anyone uses - with each call leading to less than one road cone removed.

And they took this funding from real worksafe work

WTAF #nzpol #kiwi

After 5 months of the heralded ‘tipline’, just 204 road cones are confirmed gone

In Whanganui, information from the Government’s own Road Cone Tipline had actually led to more cones being put out than taken away. In Wellington, 110 complaints resulted in just two cones being remov...

www.stuff.co.nz

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Mike Melton @mikemelton.bsky.social · 17h

I spent some time with the young Agami Herons yesterday at Agami Island #costarica

So many youngsters are still around the colony, busy fishing in the canals. The adults are long gone now and the kids are own their own.

#birds #herons #nature #wildlife

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Cultural Champ @culturalchamp.bsky.social · 16h

‘Truth Overboard’ Howard

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Cultural Champ @culturalchamp.bsky.social · 16h

Good thread
(responding to small minds)

#auspol

Dr Ingrid M @ingridm.bsky.social · 20h

poor old Tony Abbott is on the public broadcaster dismissing the oldest and longest continuous oral histories in the history of humanity as “hearsay” how’s your morning going.

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 19h

We’ve been saying this forever. The social media ban will harm kids

ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 20h

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 for these teens to access when the ban comes into effect.

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 for these teens to access when the ban comes into effect.

www.abc.net.au

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 19h

One of the many touching things that happened this past week was that my friends at @merrymacsanctuary.bsky.social named a new rabbit after Fergus. Like my Fergus, he is BIG and soft and sweet and has huge adorable paws.

Photo of a very handsome brown rabbit, sitting up and looking disapprovingly at the camera.

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Louise Milligan @milliganreports.bsky.social · 19h

Watch reporter John Lyons’ story Chasing Trump’s Billions, on #4Corners ABC TV tonight 8.30 AEST & support public interest #journalism. Via YouTube for international viewers. This story famously led Donald #Trump to threaten John’s questions were “hurting Australia”.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

As Trump's wealth skyrockets, accusations of conflicts of interest mount

Donald Trump's wealth has skyrocketed since his return to the White House nine months ago, leading to accusations that he is profiting from the presidency.

www.abc.net.au

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Cultural Champ @culturalchamp.bsky.social · 1d

Is heron on the bridge real?

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LostArcNZ @lostarcnz.bsky.social · 1d

The solutions proposed for New Zealand's (and virtually every other country's) problems are always like:
"We need to make people work for more years"
"We have to cut back on services, I'm sorry, there is just no other way"
"We have to cut benefits for young people"

never:
"We need to tax the rich"

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🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🍉 @chrishehim.bsky.social · 1d

This is a much watch. Heartbreaking and infuriating in equal measure.

This should disqualify the Coalition from ever being allowed in government again.
www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-... #auspol #robodeb

Watch The People vs Robodebt

Watch The People vs Robodebt for free with SBS On Demand, your ultimate destination for diverse entertainment. Stream now!

www.sbs.com.au

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Karen Masters @karenlmasters.bsky.social · 1d

Jess Wade is amazing, and it's my absolute honour to be one of the more than 2000 women in STEM whose wikipedia page she started: mymodernmet.com/jessica-wade... 🧪🔭👩‍🔬

Meet the Physicist Who Wrote Over 2,000 Wikipedia Biographies for Women in STEM

After noticing a lack of entries on Wikipedia for incredible women throughout history, this incredible woman decided to take matters into her own hands.

mymodernmet.com

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Cultural Champ @culturalchamp.bsky.social · 1d

Loves it- Aunt Tifa 👊🏾

1EarthMedia @1earthmedia.bsky.social · 1d

The Knitting Nannas have gone global ... led by Aunt Tifa.

#AuntTifa #KnittingNannas #GrandmasUnite #UmbrellaSquad #IamAuntTifa

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Cultural Champ @culturalchamp.bsky.social · 1d

I’ll have 1 cup of parrot chicks thanks ✋🏾 🤩

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

Regent parrot chicks getting weighed are just so absurdly adorable and undignified 😂😭😇

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Cultural Champ @culturalchamp.bsky.social · 1d

Rest up & take care mate
(it’ll still be a weird place when you get back)

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Nandor Tanczos @nandortanczos.bsky.social · 1d

MĀORI WARDS
40% of areas chose to keep Māori wards. Some by a wide margin.

A better result than I expected, given the demographics and embedded racism in our country.

In areas that lost, I'd love to know whether the numbers have improved since any previous referendum.

Aotearoa on the move.

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Cultural Champ @culturalchamp.bsky.social · 1d

Loki but make it Gator?
Fkn brilliant!

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Cultural Champ @culturalchamp.bsky.social · 1d

a man with curly hair wearing glasses and a t-shirt that says t on it

Alt: A smiling person with curly hair parted in the centre is wearing glasses and sitting in front of a big microphone. They start to laugh and look away to not show it.

media.tenor.com

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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 1d

Massive crowd in Melbourne/Naarm today (in case you thought this movement was going to be placated with more colonisation). Until the occupation ends. Until Western war criminals and their enablers face justice. Until Palestine is free.

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Alice Soper @alicesoapbox.bsky.social · 1d

There were plenty of the cool things about Ken’s campaign in the Hutt but chief amongst them was outside of a small handful of us, the majority of folks who volunteered had never gotten involved in a political campaign before.

They now know they have power. And that’s fucking rad.

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