Jane Waldock
@janewaldock.bsky.social
Motto: one house/one chicken. I live in Melbourne. I very slowly paint watercolours of flowers and vegetables. I moved to the hills. I lean quite left. And I do crosswords.
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Several Australian retailers have kept facial recognition technology (FRT) on despite the Australian Privacy Commissioner ruling Kmart and Bunnings’s use of the technology illegal, sparking concerns from computer scientists, unions and privacy advocates ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...
Retailers still using facial recognition tech
Sparks workplace and consumer rights concerns.
ia.acs.org.au
December 3, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Several Australian retailers have kept facial recognition technology (FRT) on despite the Australian Privacy Commissioner ruling Kmart and Bunnings’s use of the technology illegal, sparking concerns from computer scientists, unions and privacy advocates ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...
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Disappointed to see this. 160 union workers are fighting for a fair contract at Individualized Shirts, a US factory that makes high-end men's button-ups. The managers there have rejected the union's request for fair wages and health insurance. The union is asking for support 🧵
December 2, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Disappointed to see this. 160 union workers are fighting for a fair contract at Individualized Shirts, a US factory that makes high-end men's button-ups. The managers there have rejected the union's request for fair wages and health insurance. The union is asking for support 🧵
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Gambling ruins lives. It is absolutely unacceptable that the Albanese government will continue to choose vested interests over the wellbeing of Australians and hide behind a watered-down policy - if they ever introduce one. We need action on gambling harms now.
Labor tipped to drop proposal for online gambling ad ban
Political and industry sources expect Communications Minister Anika Wells to crack-down on illegal offshore gambling websites.
www.afr.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Gambling ruins lives. It is absolutely unacceptable that the Albanese government will continue to choose vested interests over the wellbeing of Australians and hide behind a watered-down policy - if they ever introduce one. We need action on gambling harms now.
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Gillian Wearing’s statue of Suffragist Millicent Fawcett, 2018, Parliament Square, London. The words are a quote from Fawcett on the death of suffragette Emily Wilding Davison, killed when walking in front of the King’s horse at the Derby,1913, to highlight the women's cause.
October 30, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Gillian Wearing’s statue of Suffragist Millicent Fawcett, 2018, Parliament Square, London. The words are a quote from Fawcett on the death of suffragette Emily Wilding Davison, killed when walking in front of the King’s horse at the Derby,1913, to highlight the women's cause.
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The ACTU is calling for a 25% tax on all gas exports and for the tens of billions it would raise to be invested in public housing…sounds good to me…what do you reckon we should spend all the money we’d get if we stopped giving our gas away for free? #climate
thepoint.com.au/news/301025-...
thepoint.com.au/news/301025-...
The gas industry is ripping us off, and 'it’s been an open secret for years': ACTU
ACTU calls for a 25% tax on gas exports to help fix Australia's housing problem
thepoint.com.au
October 30, 2025 at 6:24 AM
The ACTU is calling for a 25% tax on all gas exports and for the tens of billions it would raise to be invested in public housing…sounds good to me…what do you reckon we should spend all the money we’d get if we stopped giving our gas away for free? #climate
thepoint.com.au/news/301025-...
thepoint.com.au/news/301025-...
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'Fishing Otter' linocut and silkscreen print by Angela Harding, contemporary artist based in the UK #WomensArt
October 22, 2025 at 4:41 AM
'Fishing Otter' linocut and silkscreen print by Angela Harding, contemporary artist based in the UK #WomensArt
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I'm a Japanese to English #translator whose "general" work has vanished, but I do cultural articles (like on Nippon.com) etc. Lately, I've been translating novels, especially the mystery/horror works of author #Uketsu: Strange Houses, Strange Pictures, and coming soon, Strange Buildings!
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October 10, 2025 at 3:48 AM
I'm a Japanese to English #translator whose "general" work has vanished, but I do cultural articles (like on Nippon.com) etc. Lately, I've been translating novels, especially the mystery/horror works of author #Uketsu: Strange Houses, Strange Pictures, and coming soon, Strange Buildings!
Click it!
Click it!
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Jesus, and we can’t even get a damn crosswalk painted in my California town.
October 5, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Jesus, and we can’t even get a damn crosswalk painted in my California town.
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I nominate Greta Thunberg for Nobel peace prize. 🏆
October 5, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I nominate Greta Thunberg for Nobel peace prize. 🏆
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This week’s cartoon, by Oslo Davis: satpa.pe/p5NSWHb
Oslo Davis cartoon, October 4, 2025
satpa.pe
October 5, 2025 at 3:01 AM
This week’s cartoon, by Oslo Davis: satpa.pe/p5NSWHb
Wordle 1,569 2/6*
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It’s been a while since I had a 2.
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It’s been a while since I had a 2.
October 5, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Wordle 1,569 2/6*
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It’s been a while since I had a 2.
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It’s been a while since I had a 2.
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H U M A N I T Y
October 3, 2025 at 8:18 PM
H U M A N I T Y
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Ugh can we not have AI depictions of witches (or anything else) please. The self-entrenching stereotypes of AI used for women of all ages are shit-house. If you want an image, please search for a usable one that exists & credit the artist, or draw it, or commission it.
October 4, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Ugh can we not have AI depictions of witches (or anything else) please. The self-entrenching stereotypes of AI used for women of all ages are shit-house. If you want an image, please search for a usable one that exists & credit the artist, or draw it, or commission it.
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My Instagram feed is full of nonsense, selling bog-standard shampoo with big lies, moisturiser endorsed by face-lifted celebrities & AI-generated pretendy doctors ; useless Kardashelastic chin bands & time-wasting 'face yoga'. Why not try this ancient-wisdom-transmitted bakelite treatment?
October 3, 2025 at 11:07 PM
My Instagram feed is full of nonsense, selling bog-standard shampoo with big lies, moisturiser endorsed by face-lifted celebrities & AI-generated pretendy doctors ; useless Kardashelastic chin bands & time-wasting 'face yoga'. Why not try this ancient-wisdom-transmitted bakelite treatment?
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“Libraries 📚 literally aren't just a place to obtain books for free.
They're one of the few public spaces left in our society where you're allowed to exist without the expectation of spending money.”
~Amanda Killiar
They're one of the few public spaces left in our society where you're allowed to exist without the expectation of spending money.”
~Amanda Killiar
October 1, 2025 at 9:19 PM
“Libraries 📚 literally aren't just a place to obtain books for free.
They're one of the few public spaces left in our society where you're allowed to exist without the expectation of spending money.”
~Amanda Killiar
They're one of the few public spaces left in our society where you're allowed to exist without the expectation of spending money.”
~Amanda Killiar
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RIP Jane Goodall. Here she is with another incredible conservationist and humanitarian, David Attenborough. Times like this make you wish the world had a few more Janes and Davids.
October 2, 2025 at 6:39 AM
RIP Jane Goodall. Here she is with another incredible conservationist and humanitarian, David Attenborough. Times like this make you wish the world had a few more Janes and Davids.
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“I'd like to be remembered as someone who really helped people to have a little humility and realize that we are part of the animal kingdom, not separated from it.”
Jane Goodall
Jane Goodall
October 2, 2025 at 7:56 AM
“I'd like to be remembered as someone who really helped people to have a little humility and realize that we are part of the animal kingdom, not separated from it.”
Jane Goodall
Jane Goodall
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“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
October 2, 2025 at 2:56 AM
“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
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Official petition to the 🇦🇺 govt: make part-time PhD students' stipends tax-exempt!
www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...
Stipends are low but at least tax-exempt. Unless they go part time, then it becomes taxable. This disproportionately affects PhD students w/ care duties, health issues, young children..
www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...
Stipends are low but at least tax-exempt. Unless they go part time, then it becomes taxable. This disproportionately affects PhD students w/ care duties, health issues, young children..
e-petitions
e-petitions
www.aph.gov.au
September 25, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Official petition to the 🇦🇺 govt: make part-time PhD students' stipends tax-exempt!
www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...
Stipends are low but at least tax-exempt. Unless they go part time, then it becomes taxable. This disproportionately affects PhD students w/ care duties, health issues, young children..
www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...
Stipends are low but at least tax-exempt. Unless they go part time, then it becomes taxable. This disproportionately affects PhD students w/ care duties, health issues, young children..
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Raptcha: select all boxes with people ascending to Heaven
September 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Raptcha: select all boxes with people ascending to Heaven
Fab! Whole sentences. Meaningful words. Aaah - the pleasure of literature.
I follow the Moby Dick bot because it keeps spitting out sentences that are delightfully relevant to the news.
Here Melville reminds us that corruption goes *way* back—no doubt all the way back to the invention of money.
Here Melville reminds us that corruption goes *way* back—no doubt all the way back to the invention of money.
September 23, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Fab! Whole sentences. Meaningful words. Aaah - the pleasure of literature.
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Me spelling my email address to a call centre staffer: 'N for naughty'. Staffer: 'Do you mean N for Nancy?' Me: 'Aren't you too young to know any Nancies?' Stunned silence. Suddenly so far in the weeds ...
September 22, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Me spelling my email address to a call centre staffer: 'N for naughty'. Staffer: 'Do you mean N for Nancy?' Me: 'Aren't you too young to know any Nancies?' Stunned silence. Suddenly so far in the weeds ...
Wordle 1,556 3/6*
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Well that was a bit of a leap.
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September 22, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Wordle 1,556 3/6*
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Well that was a bit of a leap.
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Well that was a bit of a leap.