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💜 phonakins 🍉 @phonakins.com · 5d
Thinking of being a wish-granting #PovertatiXmas Angel?
Got any questions about how it works? Drop them below! x
phonakins.com 💜 phonakins 🍉 @phonakins.com · 16d
COMING DECEMBER 2025 #PoveratiXmas

Start prepping those wishlists and setting up paylinks

Get ready to share widely and hopefully some Xmas Angels will make some wishes come true!
A cheerful and festive image for a campaign called #POVERATIXMAS COMING DECEMBER 2025. The central illustration shows a cool Santa Claus wearing sunglasses, a red shirt, and red and white polka-dot shorts, standing on a green surfboard and riding a wave. He has a large sack of toys slung over his shoulder and is holding another small bag filled with colorful wrapped presents. In the background is a stylized green Christmas tree with a star on top and various small stars scattered around. Below the image, the text reads: #POVERATIXMAS COMING DECEMBER 2025 Start prepping those wishlists and setting up paylinks #PoveratiXmas Get ready to share widely and hopefully some Xmas Angels will make some wishes come true!
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floreani.bsky.social
Three years ago I emailed Jathan in response to a PhD call-out. Now I’m two years in (to a different project because I waited too long and missed the opportunity - don’t be like me! send the email!) and it’s been great. Jathan is a wonderful supervisor and this project is both cool and important
jathansadowski.com Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 1d
Call for PhD Student!

I'm recruiting a PhD student to work with me on a project related to my Future Fellowship at Monash University on the political economy of insurance, risk technology, climate governance, and the crisis of uninsurability. Here's the overview of my fellowship.
A necessary analysis of polycrisis and its consequences must account for the industries, technologies, and policies that govern risks-and, crucially, how they engage in socio-technical processes of defining, predicting, and valuing risks. By synthesising the following objectives into a cohesive research program, this Future Fellowship aims to create essential empirical knowledge about urgent problems of insurability, which will inform new policy solutions and critical theories, all for the purpose of understanding and tackling the complex polycrisis at the nexus of insurance markets, risk technologies, and climate governance regimes. • Objective 1: Examine the design and construction of climate risk models by insurance industry and risk analytics firms to identify the assumptions, trade-offs, values, and goals built into these systems. • Objective 2: Engage directly with governments and communities at the frontlines of risk vulnerability to understand how abstract computational models and simulations connect to lived experiences and ground truth. • Objective 3: Develop new policies and frameworks for climate risk justice, which are informed by original empirical work and contribute to greater equity and security in risk governance. • Objective 4: Generate critical theoretical contributions that guide analytical and applied work about the techno-politics of risk governance in an age of global polycrisis. This fellowship advances our understanding of climate risk governance across three Workstreams. Workstream 1 will conduct ethnography at insurance industry conferences and with companies building climate risk models. Workstream 2 will engage in research with governments and communities who are managing the risks and realities of uninsurability from natural disasters. Workstream 3 will collaborate with a climate policy think tank to develop innovative policies grounded in original empirical research and conceptual analysis-that advance climate justice.
November 27, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Friday
Woman with glasses wearing a green onesie with cartoon reindeer under a romper with yellow ducks. She is holding coffee
November 27, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Good

The ambulance service says it is training its respiratory protection team to use the 'Singh Thattha' method of mask fitting.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Student paramedic wins battle with Ambulance Victoria over beard policy
A student paramedic who accused Ambulance Victoria of discrimination on the grounds of race and religion is "ecstatic" to have won his battle to allow cultural beards on the job.
www.abc.net.au
November 27, 2025 at 8:08 PM
phonakins.com
Natalie had to inspect and apply for a minimum of one to four private rental properties every day while staying in temporary accommodation with her kids.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
'Constant threat': DV victim-survivors recount temp accommodation ordeals
Two women who fled their violent partners say their efforts to stay in emergency accommodation via state government housing offices left them "deeply traumatised".
www.abc.net.au
November 27, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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brontelee.bsky.social
chonky bat plate for @petrastock.bsky.social 😎

#pottersaurus #pottery #ceramics #firstdogonthemoon #heysaurus
a white clay plate with black slip on the front with a first dog on the moon cartoon about chonky bats scratched into it
November 27, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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Thursday
My hair is out Wearing a light blue onesie with cartoon elves under a purple romper with yellow ducks Holding coffee
November 26, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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eigenvectrix.myatproto.social
My phone is never charged for these kind of things because every time it gets hot and humid in the kind of way which precipitates power outages, the internet starts failing every minute or two several hours beforehand, forcing me to hotspot into my phone
eigenvectrix.myatproto.social moFREE LINKgirl @eigenvectrix.myatproto.social · 13h
“Our power grid is fine” [grid collapses every winter when too many people run their heaters because their houses are cold as balls] “Our power grid is fine” [grid collapses every summer when too many people run AC and desk fans so they can survive] “Our power grid is fine” [grid collapses just bc]
November 27, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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grogsgamut.bsky.social
The latest corrective services data is out today, and it points a horrific picture of the systemic racism in our judicial system #PointLive
live.thepoint.com.au
Males (Average daily number) Indigenous Non-indigenous 2022 3,881.7 270.8021887 2023 4,119.4 266.419147 Sep-24 4,454.5 263.0404971 Dec-24 4,518.3 259.3942345 Mar-25 4,652.8 265.7101833 Jun-25 4,715.1 269.4114629 Sep-25 4,717.3 267.8862789
November 27, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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normalness.bsky.social
And no, paying more second-hand than it cost new is not “investing in a system that reduces waste”.

Just let poor people buy things they NEED.

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
$10 for a pair of used tongs? When secondhand prices are higher than new
For op shops, setting prices is a delicate balance. Too high and they risk pricing out customers, too low and it becomes difficult to cover costs
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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alycecaswell.bsky.social
And the OP shop folks always say "oh we give things cheaper if you can't afford the price - you have to ask though!!!". People don't ask. There's too much shame or they have other reasons.
November 27, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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robert24039377.bsky.social
I am entitled to receive JobSeeker payment due to my partner not working. For whatever reason, I can't bear to fill out the form and go through the excruciating technical process.

This is how the government saves money right? Administrative burden scares people away.
November 27, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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Yeah the intersection between people able to take advantage of the home battery scheme and those needing support from Vinnies is pretty small

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Liberal MP Melissa Price takes the next opposition question, and asks if Chris Bowen has “ruined Christmas” by not being able to deliver Labor’s once promised $275 energy bill reduction. She quotes the Vinnies CEO who says, “The demand for our support services particularly for emergency assistance is greater than ever before”. Bowen says he agrees with the Vinnies CEO and concedes again that energy bills are currently too high. He says the government is “delivering” and plugs the cheaper home battery scheme. I’m pleased to tell the House that 15,825 West Australian families have installed a cheaper home battery since July 1. Reducing bills to zero or get a rebate instead of a bill, getting money in their bank account, rather than getting a bill.
November 27, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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crikey.com.au
Twitch and Kick confirm they will ban Aussie teens under 16. Twitch users have until Jan 9 before they’re kicked off. Cam Wilson reports.
Twitch and Kick will ban kids under 16. YouTube, Reddit and X still won’t say
www.crikey.com.au
November 27, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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0b5essed.bsky.social
When Fatima Payman left the Labor Party there were calls to resign given she was elected as a Labor candidate. In the interests of consistency I await the same pile-on for Barnaby.
November 27, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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amyremeikis.bsky.social
It's the last day of parliament and I am all out of fucks to give:
Party that refused to properly negotiate on laws now bitching about laws they refused to negotiate properly on live.thepoint.com.au/2025/11/the-...
The Point Live — Daily Updates
Stay updated with the latest from The Point.
live.thepoint.com.au
November 27, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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myfreecats.com
Remember how every time we point out they claim all these "donations" for their own nefarious purposes, someone will turn up and go "but that'd be illegal, they can't do that"

Much like "you can't be murdered, that's illegal"
November 27, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Classic
have a sook cunt simpsons meme
November 27, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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$3Mill in "customer donations" and $81mil in "unwanted stock" from Woolies

australiainstitute.org.au/post/dubious...
ble 2: Dubious contributions, nature and value Company Nature of expense Value declared (A$m) Commonwealth Bank Forgone revenue 274 CSL Support to patient communities 39 (US$26 million) National Aust. Bank Forgone revenue 31 ANZ Group Forgone revenue 107 Westpac Forgone revenue Corporate sponsorships 107 13 Macquarie Group Employee donations and fundraising 20 Fortescue Metals Local training programs Support of local residential employees 46 34 Santos Mandatory contributions 5 (US$3.6 million) Wesfarmers Employee and customer donations 66 Woodside Mandatory contributions 7 Woolworths Unwanted stock Customer donations 81 3 Telstra Forgone revenue Employee contributions 48 0.03 Total (including admin costs) 905 Source: As for Table 1 Note: Total includes administration costs, split in proportion to dubious contributions and the remainder unless reporting or correspondence made it clear that the management costs were not incurred in relation to the dubious contributions.
November 27, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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nickfeik.bsky.social
Just to cut through the backslapping: the very small emissions reduction (2%) is nowhere near enough even for our own local targets. These are also the easiest cuts (ie from local pwr generation bc we are buying solar panels) and are only in one sector.
Exported emissions are 4x bigger and growing.
November 26, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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The TMR sent notices to the North Ipswich Free Shop, ordering them to cease all "dumping" on state-owned land.

The "free shop" is a community cupboard stocked with canned food, women's sanitary products, children's toys, and other items

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Government threatens to shut down 'illegal' street charity
Queensland's transport department has threatened to penalise residents who set up street-side charity cupboards without filling in the requisite paperwork.
www.abc.net.au
November 26, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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bluntshovels.bsky.social
"Fixing the main road and infrastructure isn't on their priority list, but taking down a free shop is."

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Government threatens to shut down 'illegal' street charity
Queensland's transport department has threatened to penalise residents who set up street-side charity cupboards without filling in the requisite paperwork.
www.abc.net.au
November 26, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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bluntshovels.bsky.social
more info on the new NDIS legislation - includes most of the already flagged a year ago measures for the Commission, including consultation. focus on giving the Commission the powers to act that other regulators have (WILD 'oversight')

www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...
National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Integrity and Safeguarding) Bill 2025
Helpful information Text of bill First reading: Text of the bill as introduced into the Parliament Third reading: Prepared if the bill is amended by the house in which it was introduced. This...
www.aph.gov.au
November 26, 2025 at 9:58 PM
phonakins.com
Switching to Hellow Fresh next week, cos discounts lol

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November 26, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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suzanne-suzanne.bsky.social
This is a low blow, but I wasn't surprised. So, which rich cunt's house will be hit because these people have no income? Don't these "leader people" think before they make decisions? What do they hope to prove with this?

That they're fascists? It's working for me.
phonakins.com 💜 phonakins 🍉 @phonakins.com · 1d
Shame Labor shame: New powers to cancel Centrelink payments before conviction pass the senate open.substack.com/pub/apcentre...
Today the government has successfully granted police and ministers new powers to cancel welfare payments for people accused of a serious violent or sexual offence, disposing with the presumption of innocence and removing the right to due process – on the simple basis of a person’s income.
November 26, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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5 days til launch

Any questions? Drop them below 👇

#PoveratiXmas
phonakins.com 💜 phonakins 🍉 @phonakins.com · 16d
COMING DECEMBER 2025 #PoveratiXmas

Start prepping those wishlists and setting up paylinks

Get ready to share widely and hopefully some Xmas Angels will make some wishes come true!
A cheerful and festive image for a campaign called #POVERATIXMAS COMING DECEMBER 2025. The central illustration shows a cool Santa Claus wearing sunglasses, a red shirt, and red and white polka-dot shorts, standing on a green surfboard and riding a wave. He has a large sack of toys slung over his shoulder and is holding another small bag filled with colorful wrapped presents. In the background is a stylized green Christmas tree with a star on top and various small stars scattered around. Below the image, the text reads: #POVERATIXMAS COMING DECEMBER 2025 Start prepping those wishlists and setting up paylinks #PoveratiXmas Get ready to share widely and hopefully some Xmas Angels will make some wishes come true!
November 26, 2025 at 8:49 PM