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r1nce.bsky.social @r1nce.bsky.social · Aug 22

for the pin

alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · Aug 21

i am so sick of the dumbest people alive being in charge of everything and the second dumbest people alive writing opinion columns about how it's good

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 11h

It wasn't anti-white to support boycotting South African teams under apartheid.

It's not Russophobia to support boycotting Russian teams after the invasion of Ukraine.

And it's not antisemitism to support boycotting Israeli teams after a genocide.

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Glen Le Lievre @lelievre.bsky.social · 13h

Sub standard housing

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Bill Browne @browne90.bsky.social · 21h

If you missed the hearing into Govt's Freedom of Information bill, @themandarin.bsky.social's @dholmesnoise.bsky.social has great summary.

"Nobody wants to claim credit for the government’s FOI reform bill, or even the evidence being used to promote it." www.themandarin.com.au/301361-infor...

Information optional in blockbuster FOI inquiry

Nobody wants to claim credit for the government's FOI reform bill, or even the evidence being used to promote it.

www.themandarin.com.au

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DESIGN THINKING! Comic @designthinking.lol · 1d

With the AWS outage, now‘s as good a time as any to post this old strip.

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 1d

Could've sworn America witnessed its largest protests in history yesterday but there's literally nothing on the www.nytimes.com homepage. Must have imagined it.

The New York Times - Breaking News, US News, World News and Videos

Live news, investigations, opinion, photos and video by the journalists of The New York Times from more than 150 countries around the world. Subscribe for coverage of U.S. and international news, poli...

www.nytimes.com

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 1d

It is grimly amusing that Australia’s second largest Defence acquisition deal ($46bn!) was referred to the NACC - for good reason - but the Commissioner won’t look at it bc he’s still a ranking ADF officer.
Readers will be astonished that this referral two yrs ago has yielded nothing yet.

BAE frigate deal referred to anti-corruption commission

Referral comes in same week the controversial procurement will face a second parliamentary hearing

open.substack.com

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jeremy kaplowitz @jeremykaplowitz.com · Aug 3

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

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•Anti-capitalist meme pebbler• @seizethememez.bsky.social · 2d

The image is a two-panel meme featuring scenes from "The Simpsons."

In the top panel, there is a silhouette of a person smoking a cigarette, with the label "Centrists." The silhouette is dark, and only the cigarette and hand are visible, giving a mysterious vibe.

In the bottom panel, the same scene is revealed in full color, showing a character from "The Simpsons" holding a cigarette. This panel is labeled "Conservatives."

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UNRWA @unrwa.org · 5d

UNRWA has enough food outside #Gaza to supply people there for 3 months, amid desperate need. Our teams stand ready to deliver it.

But despite the #ceasefire, the Israeli Authorities’ block on UNRWA bringing any supplies into Gaza still continues.

Let us get aid into Gaza at the full scale needed.

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Dumbe Blonde @dumbeblonde.bsky.social · 2d

Lols…The human centipede of the Laborals uniparty has formed

Step and fetch @fetchstep.bsky.social · 2d

Labor now spends more on the criminal BIG 4 consultants than the "consultant addicted Morrison Government".
Minister for #Woodside Watt and chief protector of these criminals is seen here defending Labor paying for AI Fraud from its consultant mates.
#LaborLNPcoalition #FOI

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Wendy Harmer @wendyharmer.bsky.social · 3d

Dunno if youse are across this... but it's forecast that in Sydney on Wednesday the temp will be 38C. (100 F)

It's OCTOBER! That's FIFTEEN DEGREES ABOVE AVERAGE!

Our Government and fossil fuel companies are determined to cook us alive! Boil the oceans. Kill our forests. Turn habitat to ash.🥺😩

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r1nce.bsky.social @r1nce.bsky.social · 3d

PAX pox is up there with death and taxes as one of the few certainties. =)

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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 5d

There is not a single reason to outsource your creativity to a computer.

Not one.

To do so removes the very point of being creative in the first place.

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 5d

New:
The NACC has over two hundred employees and an annual budget of over $60m, but has yet to land a single major finding from over 5,000 referrals.
The pressure is rising.

Does the NACC have any hope of regaining public trust?

The NACC has over two hundred employees and an annual budget of over $60m, but has yet to land a single major finding from over 5,000 referrals.

www.crikey.com.au

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 8d

This is how I imagine JK Rowling when she posts.

JK Rowling says "ha ha.. h-heh. I won! I won!" She sits alone in the dark, bathed in the late of her computer screen. We pull back to see her in a large dark empty room. She continues "I won." Seeing the full scope of her cavernous workplace, she appears small and alone. She says, once again, "I won..."

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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 5d

This. Ban the bastards.

Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 5d

Cardiff will be the first UK city to introduce a surcharge for oversized SUVs and trucks, "while very large vehicles – those over 3,500kg – will be excluded from residential permits entirely."

Cardiff set to tackle SUV 'carspreading' in UK first

Cardiff Council is set to become the first local authority in the UK to introduce higher parking charges for SUVs and other heavy vehicles, in a move campaigners say will make city streets safer and f...

nation.cymru

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Glen Le Lievre @lelievre.bsky.social · 7d

Street poster-

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 8d

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

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Glen Le Lievre @lelievre.bsky.social · 7d

Seen in the wild-

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Victorian Socialists @vicsocialists.bsky.social · 8d

Trump (just like Biden before him) is an accessory to the crime of genocide. He doesn't deserve congratulations, he deserves to be on trial in the Hague.

A screenshot of a headline in the Age which reads: 'Foreign Minister Penny Wong says US President Donald Trump 'deserves congratulations''

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 8d

God forbid that we'd tax gas companies or tech giants or superannuation funds properly tho

Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 8d

🚨 BREAKING: Brand new @ACOSS report finds 1 in 7 Australians are living in poverty, including 757,000 children. Millions of families are struggling while our leaders sit on their hands and let it happen.

Poverty in Australia 2025: Overview – Poverty and Inequality

povertyandinequality.acoss.org.au

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 10d

stop thinking right now

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 10d

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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Glen Le Lievre @lelievre.bsky.social · 9d

The high ground

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 10d

What Francesca said.

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