Jen
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Once compared to a summer’s day and found to be significantly more frigid.
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Lolllll I hadn’t noticed until now. Sorry to the many children who were definitely using that hip platform Bluesky chat, lol.
December 11, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Lolllll I hadn’t noticed until now. Sorry to the many children who were definitely using that hip platform Bluesky chat, lol.
That the places where predators can live chat with your children in an environment designed to appeal primarily to children aren’t the primary target of any control mechanism is the stupidest part of this.
December 11, 2025 at 11:59 AM
That the places where predators can live chat with your children in an environment designed to appeal primarily to children aren’t the primary target of any control mechanism is the stupidest part of this.
Continuous coughing vs Abdominal muscles who will win!? 🤒
December 11, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Continuous coughing vs Abdominal muscles who will win!? 🤒
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An economist can correct me if I’m wrong, but as I understand it, the system as *designed* REQUIRES ~4-5% unemployment.
It then punishes those people for being unemployed, including a payment so low it actively hinders seeking employment.
Then blames them for being unemployed.
DARVO as policy.
It then punishes those people for being unemployed, including a payment so low it actively hinders seeking employment.
Then blames them for being unemployed.
DARVO as policy.
"our system of 'mutual' obligation relies on people continuing to stigmatise welfare as the moral failing of an individual....despite unemployment being baked into economic policy" - @amyremeikis.bsky.social
www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...
www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...
December 10, 2025 at 11:15 PM
An economist can correct me if I’m wrong, but as I understand it, the system as *designed* REQUIRES ~4-5% unemployment.
It then punishes those people for being unemployed, including a payment so low it actively hinders seeking employment.
Then blames them for being unemployed.
DARVO as policy.
It then punishes those people for being unemployed, including a payment so low it actively hinders seeking employment.
Then blames them for being unemployed.
DARVO as policy.
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Tell me about it
“Households need to earn an annual income of at least $112,667 to rent a median-price capital-city home without entering rental stress.
It represents a 51 per cent increase since 2019, according to new analysis from Domain”
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
“Households need to earn an annual income of at least $112,667 to rent a median-price capital-city home without entering rental stress.
It represents a 51 per cent increase since 2019, according to new analysis from Domain”
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
Capital city renting now comes with six-figure-income price tag
The average income needed to comfortably rent a median-priced home in any Australian capital city is now more than $112,000, according to new analysis.
www.abc.net.au
December 10, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Tell me about it
“Households need to earn an annual income of at least $112,667 to rent a median-price capital-city home without entering rental stress.
It represents a 51 per cent increase since 2019, according to new analysis from Domain”
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
“Households need to earn an annual income of at least $112,667 to rent a median-price capital-city home without entering rental stress.
It represents a 51 per cent increase since 2019, according to new analysis from Domain”
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
Lives WILL be changed! For example, if you’re a 15yo in an abusive household, you’re now completely psychologically isolated! If you need help, say with bullying or mental/physical health - your only resources are now the adults at your school. And we all know that works great! Lives changed!
December 10, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Lives WILL be changed! For example, if you’re a 15yo in an abusive household, you’re now completely psychologically isolated! If you need help, say with bullying or mental/physical health - your only resources are now the adults at your school. And we all know that works great! Lives changed!
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#BREAKING: The Commonwealth Ombudsman has published their investigation into the Targeted Compliance Framework & Mutual Obligations system
Their findings on the Department's administration of many parts of the system are incredibly damning 👇
Their findings on the Department's administration of many parts of the system are incredibly damning 👇
December 8, 2025 at 10:44 PM
#BREAKING: The Commonwealth Ombudsman has published their investigation into the Targeted Compliance Framework & Mutual Obligations system
Their findings on the Department's administration of many parts of the system are incredibly damning 👇
Their findings on the Department's administration of many parts of the system are incredibly damning 👇
Your reminder that the social media ban was invented by 2 guys with a commercial interest in monitoring your children:
December 10, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Your reminder that the social media ban was invented by 2 guys with a commercial interest in monitoring your children:
Guess who’s got a positive Covid test, is bent in half coughing, and is cancelling her flight to Melbourne tomorrow?
a breaking news headline that says it 's genuinely over at the top
ALT: a breaking news headline that says it 's genuinely over at the top
media.tenor.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Guess who’s got a positive Covid test, is bent in half coughing, and is cancelling her flight to Melbourne tomorrow?
Imagine having your own identity as a country. Couldn’t be us, apparently!
Australian employers cut back on diversity and inclusion programs amid US ‘anti-woke’ backlash
Australian employers cut back on diversity and inclusion programs amid US ‘anti-woke’ backlash
Executives tell Pride in Diversity report Donald Trump’s election ‘opened the floodgates’ to challenge DEI initiatives, including in Australia
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Major Australian employers are toning down their diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs and a handful have scrapped initiatives altogether amid a US-led “anti-woke” backlash, new research shows.
Some businesses have also cancelled their membership to Australia’s major workplace inclusion organisation, Pride in Diversity (PID). Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Imagine having your own identity as a country. Couldn’t be us, apparently!
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Labor is failing to meet even Scott Morrison’s moral benchmark here. He brought Australian children home.
Albanese is refusing to repatriate citizens from Syrian camps despite US warning leaving them there ‘compounds risk to all of us.’ Utterly shameful. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Albanese is refusing to repatriate citizens from Syrian camps despite US warning leaving them there ‘compounds risk to all of us.’ Utterly shameful. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Australia refuses to repatriate citizens from Syrian camps despite US warning leaving them there ‘compounds risk to all of us’
US offers to get Australians out of camps if they are issued with travel documents, but Labor has said ‘this is not something the government is considering’
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Labor is failing to meet even Scott Morrison’s moral benchmark here. He brought Australian children home.
Albanese is refusing to repatriate citizens from Syrian camps despite US warning leaving them there ‘compounds risk to all of us.’ Utterly shameful. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Albanese is refusing to repatriate citizens from Syrian camps despite US warning leaving them there ‘compounds risk to all of us.’ Utterly shameful. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Hoping the amount of time I willingly spend on r/laundry is enough that I won’t have to verify 🥴
Reddit to comply with Australia’s ‘legally erroneous’ under-16 social media ban
Reddit to comply with Australia’s ‘legally erroneous’ under-16 social media ban
Platform to introduce age-prediction model analysing users but argued to eSafety commissioner it was a source of information not a social media platform
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Reddit will comply with Australia’s under-16s social media ban, due to begin on Wednesday, but says it is “legally erroneous” and “arbitrary” in its effect.
The company argued to the eSafety commissioner that its platform was a source of information, not primarily social media. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Hoping the amount of time I willingly spend on r/laundry is enough that I won’t have to verify 🥴
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A gay man from a country town once showed me the newspaper column of mine he'd kept in his wallet since (pre-socials) school; it said he was not alone & would find his people. Social media can be a lifeline for kids who're bullied, live in abusive home, or whose hobbies/interests are anti-anxiety.
A whole lot of not thinking things through with this policy.
Pretty much assumes everyone is a middle-upper class white, straight teenager with no issues living in a city
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Pretty much assumes everyone is a middle-upper class white, straight teenager with no issues living in a city
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I’m 15 years old and have a disability. Social media has been a lifeline – why is the government kicking me off? | Ezra Sholl
As I come to terms with life as a quadriplegic, Instagram and TikTok are a reminder I’m not alone
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:23 AM
A gay man from a country town once showed me the newspaper column of mine he'd kept in his wallet since (pre-socials) school; it said he was not alone & would find his people. Social media can be a lifeline for kids who're bullied, live in abusive home, or whose hobbies/interests are anti-anxiety.
Save me, manuka honey 🍯 😩
December 8, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Save me, manuka honey 🍯 😩
Time to speed-run my immune system 😩🙃😩🙃😩🙃😩🙃😩🙃😩🙃😩
December 7, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Time to speed-run my immune system 😩🙃😩🙃😩🙃😩🙃😩🙃😩🙃😩
Bit late but I just saw this graphic of how the new stadium is supposedly going to get around the fact there’s no passenger rail in Tasmania. Lololol rail haters have really fucked this state. Should’ve spent the last decade rebooting any kind of rail system!
December 7, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Bit late but I just saw this graphic of how the new stadium is supposedly going to get around the fact there’s no passenger rail in Tasmania. Lololol rail haters have really fucked this state. Should’ve spent the last decade rebooting any kind of rail system!
I was just listening to So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright this afternoon. Vale to another Frank who shaped our modern world.
The globetrotting ‘starchitect’ created some of the world’s best-known buildings, from the Bilbao Guggenheim to LA’s Walt Disney Concert Hall: on.ft.com/48oRCDN
December 7, 2025 at 12:58 PM
I was just listening to So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright this afternoon. Vale to another Frank who shaped our modern world.
This year I’m buying most of my presents from the op shop because working in the warehouse of one has radicalised me against purchasing anything new that isn’t a consumable. If you could see the pre Christmas clear-out stuff roll through the door the last week you’d crash the economy.
December 7, 2025 at 12:05 PM
This year I’m buying most of my presents from the op shop because working in the warehouse of one has radicalised me against purchasing anything new that isn’t a consumable. If you could see the pre Christmas clear-out stuff roll through the door the last week you’d crash the economy.
I like to have my ‘moment I discover I am too fat for my planned outfit’ the night before so as to get the self esteem spiral & potential crying out of the way.
Love to be gaslit by my own body, the labels on women’s clothes (What size are you today? Spin the wheel!), and my period simultaneously.
Love to be gaslit by my own body, the labels on women’s clothes (What size are you today? Spin the wheel!), and my period simultaneously.
December 7, 2025 at 11:56 AM
I like to have my ‘moment I discover I am too fat for my planned outfit’ the night before so as to get the self esteem spiral & potential crying out of the way.
Love to be gaslit by my own body, the labels on women’s clothes (What size are you today? Spin the wheel!), and my period simultaneously.
Love to be gaslit by my own body, the labels on women’s clothes (What size are you today? Spin the wheel!), and my period simultaneously.
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near-pure white being named the colour of the year is the kind of omen future generations will blame us for not heeding, once they piece together evidence of society
December 5, 2025 at 4:26 AM
near-pure white being named the colour of the year is the kind of omen future generations will blame us for not heeding, once they piece together evidence of society
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they should have a separate color of the year for people who haven’t lost the will to live
December 4, 2025 at 9:14 PM
they should have a separate color of the year for people who haven’t lost the will to live
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I think it would be fun if writers who love language started intentionally writing more strangely as AI flattens written "content" into a mono-voice. it would cool I think if writers responded by focusing their individual efforts on cultivating a really unique voice that's hard to copy
December 6, 2025 at 9:46 PM
I think it would be fun if writers who love language started intentionally writing more strangely as AI flattens written "content" into a mono-voice. it would cool I think if writers responded by focusing their individual efforts on cultivating a really unique voice that's hard to copy
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Couldn’t Sam Altman just ask ChatGPT how to make itself profitable
December 6, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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I propose a solution to our ongoing RAM shortage:
December 6, 2025 at 2:32 AM
I propose a solution to our ongoing RAM shortage:
We tried Pluribus again but the pacing is so…unearned? Self indulgent? Any moments wither on the vine with extreme telegraphing of punchline and plot. It doesn’t make me feel anything so every episode feels like it could have been achieved in 15 minutes.
December 5, 2025 at 11:45 AM
We tried Pluribus again but the pacing is so…unearned? Self indulgent? Any moments wither on the vine with extreme telegraphing of punchline and plot. It doesn’t make me feel anything so every episode feels like it could have been achieved in 15 minutes.