Jeremy's Ear
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Jeremy's Ear
@jeremysear.bsky.social
· Nov 20
a man with long hair has a quote that says so do all who live to see such times but that is not for them to decide
Alt: Gandalf and Frodo from LOTR "I wish none of this had happened ..." "..so do all who live to see such times but that is not for them to decide"
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Good people don't vote Labor.
So Labor and the Liberals teamed up to pass legislation to give police the power to recommend cancellation of Centrelink payments of people who have not been found guilty of a crime by a court of law. It’s discriminatory financial punishment of people in poverty who are already over-policed
November 26, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Good people don't vote Labor.
"Yes but getting around the law is the whole purpose of all our shonky anti-refugee deals - are you saying we need to somehow find an ethical person to do our dirty work for us? HOW?"
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Nauru president accused in parliament of corruptly siphoning off millions of Australian funding
Senator uses parliament to accuse Albanese government of knowing David Adeang was ‘seriously corrupt’ yet still signing $2.5bn deportation deal
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:27 AM
"Yes but getting around the law is the whole purpose of all our shonky anti-refugee deals - are you saying we need to somehow find an ethical person to do our dirty work for us? HOW?"
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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I've been wondering why the b new State Library station isn't really platforms 5 and 6 of Melbourne Central station. To be honest, revenue generation wasn't high on my list of reasons.
November 25, 2025 at 8:56 PM
I've been wondering why the b new State Library station isn't really platforms 5 and 6 of Melbourne Central station. To be honest, revenue generation wasn't high on my list of reasons.
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Wow. If you’re using Quickbooks for payroll you better do an audit RIGHT NOW before your employees get screwed.
November 25, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Wow. If you’re using Quickbooks for payroll you better do an audit RIGHT NOW before your employees get screwed.
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Minister Watt really is making a mockery of this critically important environmental law reform. If he wanted, he could act on the advice of scientists and experts, and amend Labor's bills, and the Greens would agree to support them. Summon the courage, Murray. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Labor’s attempts to woo Greens and Coalition on nature laws revealed amid criticism of ‘coin toss’
Labor is continuing talks with both sides and could be prepared to give more ground
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Minister Watt really is making a mockery of this critically important environmental law reform. If he wanted, he could act on the advice of scientists and experts, and amend Labor's bills, and the Greens would agree to support them. Summon the courage, Murray. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Ireland should be doing this too. There isn’t an alarm bell big enough to wake this government up. We should be in crisis mode, but instead it’s still shaking-developers’-hands-at-the-race-course, business as usual.
Iceland has designated the potential collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) a national security concern and an existential threat.
Yet still fossil fuel usage continues to grow, and they barely agreed to *name* the problem at #COP30.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Yet still fossil fuel usage continues to grow, and they barely agreed to *name* the problem at #COP30.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Iceland deems possible Atlantic current collapse a security risk
Iceland has designated the potential collapse of a major Atlantic Ocean current system a national security concern and an existential threat, enabling its government to strategize for worst-case scenarios, the country's climate minister told Reuters.
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Ireland should be doing this too. There isn’t an alarm bell big enough to wake this government up. We should be in crisis mode, but instead it’s still shaking-developers’-hands-at-the-race-course, business as usual.
They could bring in caps for spending on consultants, and wages for top public servants - but they won't. They'll just slash services and remove capacity from the system. To fund stage 3 tax cuts and AUKUS.
November 25, 2025 at 9:37 PM
They could bring in caps for spending on consultants, and wages for top public servants - but they won't. They'll just slash services and remove capacity from the system. To fund stage 3 tax cuts and AUKUS.
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November 25, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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No more wars for oil.
November 25, 2025 at 9:34 PM
No more wars for oil.
It's wild to see any Australian worker being annoyed about this, as if worker solidarity wasn't the only reason you have the rights you do have. Each group of workers getting paid more increases your bargaining power with your own employer.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Australia is bringing in ‘world first’ minimum pay for food delivery drivers – here’s how it will work
Deal between companies and union, which includes an hourly wage and accident insurance, still requires approval from the industrial umpire, but this is what we know so far
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:35 PM
It's wild to see any Australian worker being annoyed about this, as if worker solidarity wasn't the only reason you have the rights you do have. Each group of workers getting paid more increases your bargaining power with your own employer.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Your regular reminder that higher wages for one group of workers increases pressure on other employers to pay *their* workers better. Including you. The reverse is also true - using contractors to undercut wages and conditions helps reduce yours as well.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Worker at Australian Taxation Office call centre takes court action demanding ‘same job, same pay’
Fair Work Commission application comes amid scrutiny of ATO’s use of for-profit call centres
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Your regular reminder that higher wages for one group of workers increases pressure on other employers to pay *their* workers better. Including you. The reverse is also true - using contractors to undercut wages and conditions helps reduce yours as well.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Fossil fuel lobby to the commercial media, especially Sky: thanks guys, it would be so much more difficult to wreck the planet without you
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Guardian Essential poll: only a quarter of older Australians believe climate change can be prevented
Results show a ‘general sense of gloom’ as fewer Australians now believe climate change is caused by humans compared with March
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Fossil fuel lobby to the commercial media, especially Sky: thanks guys, it would be so much more difficult to wreck the planet without you
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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What is Australia using decades of water extraction for? Industrial agriculture for cheap meat overseas for McDonalds.
1. MLA archive: archive.is/WJbL8
2. www.ft.com/content/e593...
@ipes-food.org how is this even legal?
1. MLA archive: archive.is/WJbL8
2. www.ft.com/content/e593...
@ipes-food.org how is this even legal?
November 25, 2025 at 5:58 AM
What is Australia using decades of water extraction for? Industrial agriculture for cheap meat overseas for McDonalds.
1. MLA archive: archive.is/WJbL8
2. www.ft.com/content/e593...
@ipes-food.org how is this even legal?
1. MLA archive: archive.is/WJbL8
2. www.ft.com/content/e593...
@ipes-food.org how is this even legal?
Instead of Stage 3 tax cuts, we could have decent public services. "Efficiency" drives just remove capacity from the system necessary when things go wrong. Sure we could cut top salaries and consultants without any loss (no $90m websites, BoM), but this isn't that. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Labor puts squeeze on public service, sparking warnings of job losses
After it campaigned against a Coalition pledge to cut 41,000 public servants, Labor is ramping up its own efficiency drive in a move expected to cost jobs.
www.abc.net.au
November 25, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Instead of Stage 3 tax cuts, we could have decent public services. "Efficiency" drives just remove capacity from the system necessary when things go wrong. Sure we could cut top salaries and consultants without any loss (no $90m websites, BoM), but this isn't that. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
UK Labour getting ready to really ramp up the oppression of climate and justice protesters
EXCLUSIVE: Jury trials to be scrapped in most cases to tackle court backlog - in @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/uk/law/artic...
Jury trials to be scrapped in most cases to tackle court backlog
David Lammy, the justice secretary, is proposing that judges hear cases alone for crimes that could result in a sentence of up to five years
www.thetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:16 PM
UK Labour getting ready to really ramp up the oppression of climate and justice protesters
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Btw there should be more reporting on the basis of the Greens as the opposition vs "bipartisan" ALP/LNP on these issues, as the latter two are basically the same. The Greens are the only party really fighting on
* Affordable housing
* Actual environment protections
* Cost of living
* Civil liberties
* Affordable housing
* Actual environment protections
* Cost of living
* Civil liberties
Thanks Albo and the ALP for pushing prices up higher and flooding the market with more investors. Here they are boasting about being "back in force", as prices skyrocket. Max Chandler-Mather and the Greens were entirely correct. You can't improve affordability without ending their tax breaks.
November 25, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Btw there should be more reporting on the basis of the Greens as the opposition vs "bipartisan" ALP/LNP on these issues, as the latter two are basically the same. The Greens are the only party really fighting on
* Affordable housing
* Actual environment protections
* Cost of living
* Civil liberties
* Affordable housing
* Actual environment protections
* Cost of living
* Civil liberties
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It doesn't matter how you think the Ukraine war should end. This is not normal. (also, a bit too soon to call Gaza ceasefire a 'triumph')
EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg
Witkoff Advised Russia on How to Pitch Ukraine Plan to Trump
US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, fresh from the triumph of the Gaza peace deal, held a phone call last month with a senior Kremlin official to suggest they work together on a similar plan for Ukraine — and that Vladimir Putin should raise it with Donald Trump.
bloom.bg
November 25, 2025 at 8:10 PM
It doesn't matter how you think the Ukraine war should end. This is not normal. (also, a bit too soon to call Gaza ceasefire a 'triumph')
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No bailouts. The US should extort these companies when the crash happens so they get minimal compensation in return for nationalizing the entire panopticon industry and then destroying it once harvested for socially useful parts. It won’t happen but it should
November 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
No bailouts. The US should extort these companies when the crash happens so they get minimal compensation in return for nationalizing the entire panopticon industry and then destroying it once harvested for socially useful parts. It won’t happen but it should
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Deploying counterterrorism tools against domestic political opponents.
Last night, the FBI's Counterterrorism Division appeared to open an inquiry into me in response to a video President Trump did not like.
November 25, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Deploying counterterrorism tools against domestic political opponents.
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Thanks Albo and the ALP for pushing prices up higher and flooding the market with more investors. Here they are boasting about being "back in force", as prices skyrocket. Max Chandler-Mather and the Greens were entirely correct. You can't improve affordability without ending their tax breaks.
November 25, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Thanks Albo and the ALP for pushing prices up higher and flooding the market with more investors. Here they are boasting about being "back in force", as prices skyrocket. Max Chandler-Mather and the Greens were entirely correct. You can't improve affordability without ending their tax breaks.
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Pretty funny that the party who fights culcha wars for Aussie flag thongs in supermarkets on Australia Day sold our gas to tax dodging foreign owned multinationals so you pay more. How very patriotic
November 25, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
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The government will be lazier without them because it benchmarks itself against the Coalition. The old slur about the ALP as Alternative Liberal Party may or may not have been true in the past but it is now
November 25, 2025 at 9:43 AM
The government will be lazier without them because it benchmarks itself against the Coalition. The old slur about the ALP as Alternative Liberal Party may or may not have been true in the past but it is now
Oh wait, she did that dumb burqa thing *again*? I suppose no-one ever accused racists of being original.
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Oh wait, she did that dumb burqa thing *again*? I suppose no-one ever accused racists of being original.