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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 12h

What you should consider in particular is that to be able to work as a professional journalist in this country has ALWAYS relied on the investment of mining magnates.

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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 12h

I have never said there's a problem. I have simply asked you to consider things from my perspective and that of others engaged in this work. I have regularly criticised income management, Forrest AND the Australia Institute for many years and will continue to do so 🫡

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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 13h

They just have a platform, and blood money buys platforms, and if we are occupying it they're not talking about something more horrible.

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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 13h

I'm still not sure why you think people are supporting the Australia Institute when they're not the publisher and the author has a job there separately. Jeremy has been on Sky News, we've talked to the Murdoch papers plenty of times. That's the job. Does not mean we support how they do what they do.

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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 13h

Our only job, and the work of the movement, is to ensure welfare rights issues are covered as widely as possible, to increase public understanding and interest and create support for reform. It's not about 'supporting' any publication or think tank. It's about spreading good information everywhere.

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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 13h

So, you've just answered your own question—it's not up to us which mainstream media or organisations will cover welfare rights issues.

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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 13h

That's an infographic, not a reason.

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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 13h

1. The Australia Institute didn't commission that article.
2. SBS staff still aren't allowed to call it 'Palestine'. So you've given me Al Jazeera. That's not a list.

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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 14h

I require from you a list of publications in the Australian media who only receive funding from 100% ethical sources and in particular are not directly complicit in genocide.

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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 1d

Great run-down of the mutual obligations system — both it's current unlawful administration, and it's rotten ideological underpinnings that destroys lives — by @amyremeikis.bsky.social here: www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 1d

My partner's OCD is responding much better to DBT for this reason

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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 2d

😭

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Caitlin Welsh @caitlinwelsh.bsky.social · 2d

Oh my god they counted the Tele’s botched Cairo Takeaway sting as an “antisemitic attack“

Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 2d

www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...

Revealed: NSW Police ‘significantly’ overstated antisemitic attacks

An internal review of Operation Shelter found a “significant number” of cases had been mischaracterised as motivated by anti-Jewish sentiment.

www.smh.com.au

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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 2d

See no UNO tournament
Hear no UNO tournament
Speak no UNO tournament

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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 2d

Yeahv

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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 2d

archive.md/43JCo

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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 2d

www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...

Revealed: NSW Police ‘significantly’ overstated antisemitic attacks

An internal review of Operation Shelter found a “significant number” of cases had been mischaracterised as motivated by anti-Jewish sentiment.

www.smh.com.au

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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 2d

Criticising the Labor Party = antisemitism

The entries included a sticker picturing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with the words “wanted” and “accusations of genocide” found near the Sydney Cricket Ground in January this year. Other cases included pro-Palestinian graffiti on the offices of Labor MPs, including one that “referenced Gaza and accused the Labor Party of complicity”.

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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 2d

Incidents which were mistakenly described as antisemitic incidents by NSW Police

20-Mar-24 A Palestinian protestor was sitting outside Anthony Albanese MP's office when a man approached, made remarks about hostages, and verbally abused the demonstrators, calling them 'anti-Semites." He then damages a Palestinian banner taped to a pole, returned shortly after to repeat the act, and stomped on the banner's frame.

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Travis Jordan @grugstan.bsky.social · 2d

A young person died just days after the LNP make pill testing illegal.

There’s a good chance that if they could have had these pills tested, they’d be with us all today.

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 2d

Highly potent synthetic opioids found in teddy bear-shaped pills linked to a death in Queensland

Public health warning issued after drugs known as nitazenes detected amid move to ban pill testing * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Teddy bear-shaped pills laced with synthetic opioids have been linked to a death in Queensland, triggering a public health warning about a group of highly potent illicit drugs called nitazenes. N-pyrrolidino-protonitazene and protonitazene were detected in toxicology and samples taken from pale yellow pills marked with the letter “Y” in the state’s south-east. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 2d

He's going to kill me

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Nick Evershed!? @nickevershed.bsky.social · 2d

this is a good story but it shows that people still fundamentally misunderstand LLMs - there is no "working properly", they're inherently probabilistic models. hallucinations aren't a bug, they're a fundamental part of language models. these aren't fact machines!!!

www.bbc.com/travel/artic...

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 2d

You actually don't need thousands of dollars sponsorship and a legal entity with staff and to consider political donation and lobbyist laws to kick the footy in the park opposite work, you can just go and do it but there is no hydration sponsor or free shoes. bsky.app/profile/kanc...

Kancho Yogo @kanchoyogo.bsky.social · 2d

'Corporate membership of the club begins at $2,500, according to its website, and allows sponsors to access "key opinion leaders" and "over 200 parliamentary members" at social games and functions.' www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Gambling lobby’s sponsorship of Australian parliament’s sports club condemned by crossbench MPs

Exclusive: Kate Chaney calls on PM to remove Responsible Wagering Australia’s membership, which allows sponsors to access ‘key opinion leaders’

www.theguardian.com

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 2d

Congrats to the people taking the sponsorship for some low key influence peddling who decided that “publicly purging a professional-athlete Senator from the sports ball” was part of that brief. I’m sure you’ll fail up some more.

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