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Rocketpilot 🇵🇸 @rocketpilot.xyz · 3h

Dear Labor, if you can't be bothered to think about getting amended defamation laws off the ground after they've been used to drive a rape victim into repeated mental health crises, what fucking good are you

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Harry Saddler @harrysaddler.bsky.social · 4h

It’s heartbreaking to learn of the existence of an animal only by learning of its extinction.

Australian Mammal Society @ausmammals.bsky.social · 5h

Sad news for Australian mammals..Australia's only shrew officially declared #extinct.
theconversation.com/and-then-the...

And then there were none: Australia’s only shrew declared extinct

Australia’s only known shrew has been declared extinct. Its loss emphasises the need for national protection of Australia’s rare and unique wildlife.

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benjamin @benjamino.bsky.social · 4h

Linda Reynolds launches bankruptcy proceedings against a young woman who a court of law found to have been raped in her office by a Linda Reynolds staffer

Vaxatious Litigant 💉 @exposingnv.bsky.social · 5h

Linda Reynolds launches bankruptcy proceedings against Brittany Higgins

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cam smith @sexenheimer.bsky.social · 4h

Is Linda Reynolds really such a despicable person that she doesn't have a single person in her life who cares enough about her to tell her to stop? What a truly miserable existence.

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 10d

RIP

A Far Side Comic. a couple of apes and a tree one grooming the other and the one doing the grooming is saying "well well another blonde hair conduct a little more 'research' with that Jane Goodall Tramp?" and this copy of the cartoon is autographed across its face by Jane Goodall

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Liz Crash @lizcrash.bsky.social · 5h

i’m chewing two nicorettes rn and nodding furiously

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Liz Crash @lizcrash.bsky.social · 5h

those damn microplastics really got us

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Liz Crash @lizcrash.bsky.social · 6h

sidebar can i ask, did your mum smoke when you were cooking

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Liz Crash @lizcrash.bsky.social · 6h

in terms of the safety profile it’s about as good as you’re going to get. if you‘re the kind of person who was born wanting a cig (i am too) then i highly recommend this option

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Liz Crash @lizcrash.bsky.social · 6h

i used to do this but it got too expensive. then i discovered nicotine gum

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Liz Crash @lizcrash.bsky.social · 9h

yeah you gotta bridge the gap with something else ime. have you tried nicotine

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Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 15h

"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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Liz Crash @lizcrash.bsky.social · 9h

noisy miners are grubby little fascists and i’m tired of their nasty chants!

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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 9h

"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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Liz Crash @lizcrash.bsky.social · 9h

you have to give the new woman TIME! lest she shrivel in the chrysalis!

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Liz Crash @lizcrash.bsky.social · 11h

you gotta take it easy comrade!!!

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Liz Crash @lizcrash.bsky.social · 11h

don’t let me detain you any further!

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Liz Crash @lizcrash.bsky.social · 13h

so true

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The Spooky Dude @2house2fly.bsky.social · 17h

@suicidepets

Wtf am i gonna go to therapy for??? So I can pay money just for some bitch to tell me I'm gay? To find out im gay and in the closet? To help me discover that deep down im a gay ass homosexual man? Lmao pass. Miss me with that shit. Im straight. I am straight

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Liz Crash @lizcrash.bsky.social · 13h

not anymore! I’m letting you go

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 14h

Here's what she told them fwiw www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Social media ban will create a ‘social gap’ for young people, youth advocate says

The Senate committee looking at the under 16s social media ban and other age checks coming online has heard from youth advocacy organisation Project Rockit on what the ban will mean for young people when they’re kicked off social media from 10 December.

Caitlin Blanch, a member of Project Rockit’s national youth collective and a young disabled person from Tamworth, NSW, said for her social media was a “pivotal way” to make connections with other people with living experience that she could relate to, to find health information, and share her story.

She said:

I think that it’s been pivotal for my friend groups in finding representation of queer people that’s not stereotypical of finding cultural content that is not stigmatised. It’s had an incredibly impactful role on connecting otherwise isolated communities to places that they would not have access to, and for young people in regional Australia who perhaps have that physical isolation.

When the ban comes into effect, she said it will change how young people interact with the world:

It creates a social gap, but it also sends a narrative that young people don’t have the power to articulate their own narratives, that they can’t be in control of their agency online, and that they are responsible for the harmful content that they’re exposed to. And I don’t think that’s fair. I think there should be greater emphasis on the corporations that are in control of the algorithms.

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Liz Crash @lizcrash.bsky.social · 13h

the vibes are bad because everyone is incredibly tired

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Liz Crash @lizcrash.bsky.social · 13h

anyway i’ll let you go

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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · Sep 3

The Coca-Cola Freestyle machine is an echo chamber. Good luck finding nuanced debates about hot button issues on that touch screen. It’s just soda names and flavored syrups

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Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 18h

Single JobSeeker just hit $400 a week
How would you go if you were getting that little and were randomly not paid?
'Happy' #AntiPovertyWeek
#AbolishMOs and #RaiseTheRate

Great piece from @amyremeikis.bsky.social on the current debacle
www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

#NobodyDeservesPoverty

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