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💜 phonakins 🍉 @phonakins.com · 28d

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💜 phonakins 🍉 @phonakins.com · 11m

SEO that search term baby

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Mx Maddison Stoff @thedescenters.bsky.social · 17m

The only way to make it even remotely fair would be to rule in favor of the claimant, right? Punish the provider in some way for not providing enough information to justify to suspension. The way she's talking here though (mixed with my irl exposure to the welfare system via long term unemployment,)

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Mx Maddison Stoff @thedescenters.bsky.social · 21m

So, wait, what happens after that? If the notes "aren't enough to make a full assessment" (because of the provider, who supplies them,) they call *the provider*... and then what? If they don't provide more information and just stick to their decision, what happens?

Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 57m

"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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Tess @itstessinadress.bsky.social · 1h

Punishing job applicants for something fully outside their control, like the decision of a company to hire them or not out of thousands of qualified applicants, is exactly the same as punishing someone for eg: how many people walked past their house today. It makes you a fucking inhumane monster.

Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 3d

Labor's employment minister rep admits that payment suspensions "cause harm", but they're "an important part" of the (unlawful) mutual obligations system, because

"At the end of the day we want ppl to get off payments and find a job"

gross 'best form of welfare is a job' stuff from the ALP here

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Vanessa Smith @normalness.bsky.social · 2h

Don't shit on influencers
normalness.com/2025/10/13/d...

Don't shit on influencers - Normal Ness

If you’re shitting on influencers who are losing work over social media bans / platform changes and want them to “get a real job”, then I expect you to detail what you are personally dong to make “rea...

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Wyvernsrose #RaiseTheRate @wyvernsrose.bsky.social · 44m

in research, lobbying, actions peer support, etc etc etc

a body that knows who they are maintains ongoing contact providing them with privacy opportunity and ability to mobilise

@brenthodgson.bsky.social

I don't know how me can, realistically for their privacy it state government responsibility

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Wyvernsrose #RaiseTheRate @wyvernsrose.bsky.social · 44m

OK QUICK BEFORE THE BRAIN FART ESCAPES MY HEAD

we need a measure that REQUIRES state governments to create a body for ex foster care kids... and juvenile justice kids... in order to protect their privacy... providing them ongoing information about their cohort providing them opportunities to engage

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💜 phonakins 🍉 @phonakins.com · 43m

(beams with validation since "documented to cause harm" links to phonakins.com)

The mutual obligations system – the system by which we set (through privatised “job providers”) mostly demeaning and useless tasks for unemployed people to meet in order to receive their welfare benefits – is documented to cause harm, with little evidence it actually does anything to meet its main objective: get people into work.

The system is so convoluted and already stacked against people that even without the issue of lawfulness, it would still be not just harmful, but useless. In terms of punishing people, it is working as intended. But governments tend to pay attention when harm can also be considered unlawful, and that’s the issue here.

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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 57m

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Lisa the Antifascist “Leftist”🇦🇺 @lisatellstruth.bsky.social · 1h

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Vanessa Smith @normalness.bsky.social · 1h

“Right now, the system protects organisations more than it protects disabled people.”

(Regarding updates to the Disability Discrimination Act 1992.)

lsj.com.au/articles/aut...

Autism myths and misinformation in a ‘grey zone’ of legal ramifications - Law Society Journal

The spread of misinformation and disinformation about autism highlights the limitations of disability discrimination laws.

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Dr. Paula R. Curtis @paularcurtis.bsky.social · 7d

Coping with the fact that tomorrow is Monday by convincing local strangers to send me pictures of their pets throughout the week.

Chalk art on a sidewalk of a multcolored burst of angular lines, under which "GOOD DOG" is written in fluorescent yellow, pink, and black with an arrow pointing up to the line burst, encouraging people to put their dogs in the middle and take a photo because sharing pet pictures makes the world a better place. At the bottom of the sidewalk it says "SHOW US YOUR DOGS!" with the handle of the art instagram @rocks_on_the_block

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Elia / Moth @strangemoth.bsky.social · 4h

I want to get away from Spotify, so I contacted TIDAL about potential accessibility features bc that app, and most other alternatives, are not visually accessible. Get out of here with itty bitty text. I can’t SEE!

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💜 phonakins 🍉 @phonakins.com · 4h

$22,600 raised that will probably be transferred to @FoodbankAus for donated and their "collaborative supply" goods @kyleatink.bsky.social ?

This is a massive Shout Out of Thanks.
Our recent concert Feed the Need: Food Relief Concert on 5th September 2025 was a wonderful success. Bringing our amazing community together.
Our financial side is now completed
We are very pleased to inform you The Event raised $22,600.
💯 will be spent on FOOD for those struggling in our area.
The Bikers Hand and Berkeley Vale Neighbourhood Centre inc (includes Bateau Bay Neighbourhood Centre ) are committed to this.
We have many to thank for reaching this total.

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Better Renting @betterrenting.bsky.social · 4h

We don't allow price-gouging or exorbitant price increases with those services, because everyone needs those things to live, and demand for them is inelastic. Why don't we treat housing the same way?

Read the full report summary from the ABC here: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Increasing rent driving people away from employment

Median rental prices have risen to more than $700 per week for the first time, according to Cotality's Quarterly Rental Review.

www.abc.net.au

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Better Renting @betterrenting.bsky.social · 4h

Cotality's Rental Review for the quarter was published last week, and it shows that even though growth in rent increases has slowed, renters are still being squeezed: median capital rents are now more than $700 a week.

[Quote in image from Leo Patterson-Ross.]

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💜 phonakins 🍉 @phonakins.com · 9h

Monday

Woman in a purple onesie with a frilly neckline holding coffee

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💜 phonakins 🍉 @phonakins.com · 7h

My little community foodbank spent $3259 on their Foodbank order last week @kyleatink.bsky.social

A chalkboard announcement for a food service or community kitchen stating they "Don't get the groceries for free," noting last week's cost was $3259, and that they are "CLOSED NEXT WEEK." It also mentions rising costs, with milk, spaghetti, and baked beans now costing $1.50, and that there will be "NO VEG BAGS ON WED."

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 5h

As of now there is nothing Albanese's govt has done that has changed the country in any structural way.

No change at all to how the fundamental debates of the nation are addressed.

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💜 phonakins 🍉 @phonakins.com · 4h

Pills sorted for the week

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PaisleyPrickles(Wendy) @paisleyprickles.bsky.social · 6h

Israeli Soldiers Torched Food, Homes, and a Critical Sewage Treatment Plant in the Wake of Ceasefire Announcement
www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-idf...

Israeli Soldiers Torched Food, Homes, and a Critical Sewage Treatment Plant in the Wake of Ceasefire Announcement

Soldiers called the mass arson of Gaza City their “final touches.”

www.dropsitenews.com

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💜 phonakins 🍉 @phonakins.com · 6h

Washed the dog

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El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · 9h

‘Horrified’ NDIA’s Salesforce probe drags past 2 years

more from #estimates last week

www.innovationaus.com/horrified-nd...

'Horrified' NDIA's Salesforce probe drags past 2 years

The National Disability Insurance Agency has handed Salesforce almost $100 million in the two years it has been investigating suspected misconduct of its staff that involved the software giant. The co...

www.innovationaus.com

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Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 6h

"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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Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 7h

Happy #AntipovertyWeek, Foodbank Sketti and Milk's now $1.50

💜 phonakins 🍉 @phonakins.com · 7h

My little community foodbank spent $3259 on their Foodbank order last week @kyleatink.bsky.social

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