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Tassie Devil @tassiedevil.bsky.social · 8d

tasmaniantimes.com/2025/10/afl-...
If Japan, with all it's resources, population size and tourism popularity can't make a stadium viable what hope has Tasmania got? #politas

AFL Team, Yes. Billion-Dollar Stadium, No. - Tasmanian Times

As a Tasmanian living near the Sapporo Dome in Hokkaido, Japan—Simon Jackson details how poor logistical planning, namely the barrier of water and the exorbitant cost of shipping, has turned a state-o...

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Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · Oct 5

Thank you everyone

❤️ 🙏🏽 ❤️

#Gunnawah

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻🚫👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · Oct 6

Greta Thunberg speaks to the press after being released from illegal detainment in Israel: "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me, but that is not the story.”

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 6d

Covid and Flu Can Triple Your Risk of Heart Attack

Heart attack risk triples within weeks after a COVID-19 infection and quadruples within a month after a flu infection, per a large review and analysis published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

Source: archive.li/kbL8w

Screenshot of a New York Times article titled “Covid and Flu Can Triple Your Risk of Heart Attack.” The subheading reads, “A new analysis adds to the research about the link between viral infections and heart disease.” Below, a photo shows a person sitting indoors wearing a dark shirt and grey cardigan, clutching their chest with one hand and raising the other toward their mouth, suggesting chest discomfort.

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Radical Centrist @procedurepols.bsky.social · 5d

#AUSPol AUS State of Victoria parliament passes legislation to enshrine a democratically elected body for First Peoples. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Australian-first treaty legislation passes in Victorian parliament

Historic legislation has passed that will see the creation of an Indigenous council that will be consulted on laws and policies affecting Indigenous communities.

www.abc.net.au

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Kade @namelessactivist.bsky.social · 6d

Climate Change Is Here, And It's Killing Millions healthpolicy-watch.news/climate-chan...
Extreme heat, wildfires, disease and air pollution claim record death toll as global response moves in the wrong direction.

Climate Change Is Here, And It's Killing Millions - Health Policy Watch

Climate change is claiming millions of lives annually through extreme heat, air pollution, wildfires and the spread of deadly infectious diseases, according

healthpolicy-watch.news

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Lena📎 @eriksdotter.bsky.social · 6d

Tassie, you’ve done it again 🤦‍♀️

‘…many issues could have been avoided if the council had consulted more closely with hospitality and theatre groups when the building was designed.’

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

Historic hall's $20m modern makeover slammed as 'not fit for purpose'

A ratepayers' group is calling for an audit of the $20 million redevelopment of Launceston's heritage-listed Albert Hall for what it says are design flaws.

www.abc.net.au

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Hunter Felt 🏳️‍⚧️ @hunterfelt.bsky.social · 7d

We all told you this was coming. All of us. Loudly and repeatedly.

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 7d

Citing a Trump executive order banning "gender ideology," the VA is withholding coverage and treatment for male veterans with breast cancer, an increasing condition among veterans exposed to toxic chemicals during service. 100 male veterans a year are diagnosed with breast cancer.

Citing Trump Order on “Biological Truth,” VA Makes It Harder for Male Veterans With Breast Cancer to Get Coverage

A Department of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica erects new roadblocks to care for veterans with the rare but deadly cancer. The agency cites no new science but relies on an executive orde...

www.propublica.org

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · Sep 29

“Morton admits writing it "sent me mad"; he stopped seeing his friends and felt angry all the time.”

Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · Sep 29

What a ride. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Writing the book on Robodebt drove Rick Morton mad. Now it's won him $80k

Journalist Rick Morton didn't want to write a book about Robodebt. Now that book, Mean Streak, has won the Prime Minister's Literary Award for non-fiction.

www.abc.net.au

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · May 16

listen guys stop virtue signalling, eurovision is for everyone

4 panel comic

Panel 1: Presenter saying “Eurovision is for everyone. Black, white, rich, poor

Panel 2: Weird little guy leans into panel and says “A-And people who blow up children?”

Panel 3: presenter chuckles softly

Panel 4: presenter smiles, hugs little guy and says “Yes, AND people who blow up children”

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Jason Jasonson @jaseygalore.bsky.social · 7d

Oh hell, that is a huge problem. HUGE 🥺

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Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 10d

The Albanese government has not completed promised reforms to automated decision-making by federal agencies that the Robodebt royal commission said were urgently needed more than two years ago.

www.innovationaus.com/robodebt-tec...

Robodebt tech reforms fade from focus

The Albanese government has not completed promised reforms to automated decision-making by federal agencies that the Robodebt royal commission said were urgently needed more than two years ago. Despit...

www.innovationaus.com

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 8d

Tasmania's government has confirmed that its VETtrak vocational student management system, which is used by several state agencies, has been hit by a cyber attack www.itnews.com.au/news/tasmani...

Tasmanian gov agencies hit by cyber attack

Student data may have been compromised.

www.itnews.com.au

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Jason Jasonson @jaseygalore.bsky.social · 8d

Jesus wept. Repeatedly!

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Climate Dad @climatedad.bsky.social · 9d

It’s official.
1.5C is dead.
An essential listen for everyone who wants a chance of surviving what comes next. 👇👇
www.overshootpod.com

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Jason Jasonson @jaseygalore.bsky.social · 8d

Thank you, Roen. I'm going to need it 😞

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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 19d

Huge story here. Daniel had his payments illegally cancelled by the Mutual Obligations system. After years of bravely fighting, he exposed the error and won the backpay he was always legally entitled to

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 19d

Centrelink illegally cancelled Daniel’s jobseeker payment. He fought back against the system – and won

After taking his case to the administrative review tribunal, Daniel’s complaint then went to the commonwealth ombudsman, which is now investigating Centrelink * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Daniel’s chest tightened, his stomach dropped. The Centrelink worker at the end of the line told him his jobseeker payment had been cancelled. But he knew it wasn’t right. Daniel is one of an estimated 310,000 Centrelink recipients who had their payments unlawfully cancelled between 2020 and 2024 because they were incorrectly told they had not met their mutual obligations under the scheme. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 9d

Queensland’s controversial puberty blocker ban overturned by supreme court

Parent of transgender child successfully challenged decision by Crisafulli government to halt treatment for under 18s Queensland’s controversial ban on puberty blockers for transgender patients has been overturned by the supreme court. On Tuesday, Justice Peter Callaghan ruled in favour of a challenge by the parent of a transgender child, judging that the directive establishing the ban was made improperly and is unlawful. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Jason Jasonson @jaseygalore.bsky.social · 8d

RoRD because my plan was deleted in an administrative error, but the fix was to start a new plan that is somewhere between 40-50% less rather than fix the mistake.

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Jason Jasonson @jaseygalore.bsky.social · 9d

#NDIS strikes again:

Letter received today, October the 28th, dated the 16th, saying that new medical information and reports from therapists have to be received by the 30th.

This is one example of the impossible demands placed on disabled people by the NDIA, and we are powerless to stop it.

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🅱️oofessor Killosk 👻🔪 @professorkiosk.wtf · 28d

getting tired of all the "stuff" "happening" how do I turn it off

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Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 12d

🌊 Marine heatwave leaves critical Florida corals "functionally extinct"

Following the record-breaking 2023 marine heatwave and the ninth mass coral bleaching, staghorn and elkhorn corals have dwindled to populations too small to reproduce

oceanographicmagazine.com/news/marine-...

Marine heatwave leaves critical Florida corals "functionally extinct" - Oceanographic

Following a record-breaking marine heatwave in 2023 Florida's critical staghorn and elkhorn corals have been left 'functionally extinct.'

oceanographicmagazine.com

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 16d

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here."
Anna Bower
Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM
Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about
the Letitia James grand jury.

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 17d

The thing about these grindset lifestyle posts is that they're all fake. None of it is real.

crypto bro pretending he's rich and that a woman can tolerate him for likes on the X platform formerly known as Twitter

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 25d

"Microplastics have been detected in the brains of dementia patients, and in arterial plaques from people with heart disease"

And the response of the plastics industry is......

....to massively ramp up plastic production

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The plastic inside us: how microplastics may be reshaping our bodies and minds

The particles are in our blood, brains and guts – and scientists are only beginning to learn what they do

www.theguardian.com

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