Plootensnooten
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Plootensnooten
@plooto.bsky.social
Human. Australian.
Geeky nerd, ex-IT retiree. Into books, music, growing plants, cycling, community, world affairs, ideas, humour, science and art. Dog-fancier.
Views are mine. I share random resonating threads.
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Our society provides quite a lot of school holiday programs for children aged 7-14. Opportunities that don’t cost mega bucks crater for the 15-25 age range. And even after 18 years of age, young people still need free, positive shared experiences to help with personal growth and socialisation
December 17, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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"The main cause of antisemitism in world today is the fact that Israel claims to represent all jews & is committing a genocide in Gaza in the name of all Jews.

Jews can be identified with genocide, as son of a Holocaust survivor, this is deeply upsetting"
Holocaust Survivor's Son WARNING to Jewish Community
"Main cause of Antisemitism today is Israel committing genocide in Gaza in the name of all Jews”
www.doubledown.news
October 16, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Amazing!! Women Help Women (womenhelp.org) is manufacturing their own abortion pills in order to make abortion safer, simpler and more accessible across borders. They designed an eco-friendly combi-pack that's easier to mail discreetly and centred around women’s experiences and needs.
A Global Telehealth First: Women Help Women Begins Producing Abortion Pill Combipack
The feminist telehealth provider Women Help Women cuts out pharma middlemen to make its new mifepristone-misprostol abortion pill combo pack.
msmagazine.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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The 15-year-old can't use TikTok, but is comforted by the fact he’ll be old enough to watch a thousand ads from Sportsbet about the latest odds at Randwick.

theshovel.com.au/2024/11/11/t...
Teens Facing Social Media Ban Relieved They’ll Still Be Able to Watch Gambling Ads — The Shovel
“Social media causes anxiety and depression, ruins relationships and is incredibly addictive. On the other hand, gambling does all those things too wields enormous power over governments. So it makes ...
theshovel.com.au
December 10, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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Australians who share AI deepfakes of another person without consent could be sued for it or face steep fines under a new bill.
'You should own your own face': Pocock launches AI deepfake bill
Australians who share AI deepfakes of another person without consent could be sued for it or face steep fines under a new bill.
www.abc.net.au
November 24, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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How Ironic is Irony!?
Marching in Melbourne today - AGAINST Migrants but then chosing to eat at a Chinese Restaurant afterwards...
August 31, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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This is truly one of the best illustrations of what is happening in America.
August 29, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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Volunteers hike into the Victorian mountains to plant banksias that are the "genetic perfect match" to those wiped out by fire.
Volunteers plant 800 seedlings to replace banksia lost in Black Summer
Volunteers hike into the Victorian mountains to plant banksias that are the "genetic perfect match" to those wiped out by fire.
www.abc.net.au
August 31, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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They could have at least blurred it for him
August 10, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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A specific and dangerous species of a relatively common bacteria has killed nine people in Florida and Louisiana.
Deaths Rising From Flesh-Eating Bacteria: What To Know About Vibrio Vulnificus
A specific and dangerous species of a relatively common bacteria has killed nine people in Florida and Louisiana.
www.forbes.com
August 8, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Some questions.
August 8, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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I've never been a fan or organised religion, so much widespread death and destruction done in the name of god for millennia is barbaric - that said, for individuals, being a member of a cult, large or small, can have devastating consequences...

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/religio...
‘We grow up afraid’: Victoria’s public inquiry into cults
In an Australian first, the Victorian parliament is holding a public inquiry into the coercive practices and abuses of cults and fringe religious groups.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
August 9, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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Number 3 for kids, Number 2 for the ageing Millennials, and Number 1 for the Gen Xers.

Honestly? Well f*%#king done Australia.

#hottest100
July 26, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Hopeful for SIA, but maybe wrong demographic.. #Hottest100
July 26, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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Worth saying out loud how dignified and resilient Louise Adler has been on these issues. Not to mention brave. Well worth a read.
Let’s hope that the current government does not yield to this massive over reach . Even if you are so blinkered as to be only concerned with Jewish issues, exceptionalising Jews will foster antisemitism rather than defeat it . www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The special envoy’s plan is the latest push to weaponise antisemitism, as a relentless campaign pays off | Louise Adler
The omissions are as important as the inclusions in Jillian Segal’s plan, which is guilty of overreach
www.theguardian.com
July 12, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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This should be more than ample grounds for Segal to step down from the Envoy position
🚨Antisemitism boss Jillian Segal and her husband are the second biggest funders of far-right group "Advance". The extremist lobby group spreads online racism and xenophobia, including directly targeting Palestinians...
theklaxon.com.au/hrgd
Jillian Segal and husband funding far-right group "Advance" - The Klaxon
Antisemitism envoy Jillian Segal and her husband are among the biggest funders of far-right group "Advance”, which spreads hateful propaganda and racist tropes.
theklaxon.com.au
July 12, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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This morning’s best read.

Skip the headline and dive into an interesting article that reminds me of the work that still needs to be done.

www.theguardian.com/law/2025/apr...
‘Why do they dislike me so much?’: the trials, trolls and triumphs of Britain’s most divisive barrister
She has been called a ‘brave disruptor’ by campaigners and ‘rabid’ by internet critics. But for Charlotte Proudman, only one opinion matters: that of the women and children she defends in the family c...
www.theguardian.com
April 25, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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Mark Butler calls Australia’s private hospitals and insurers to urgent meeting amid Healthscope financial crisis

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Mark Butler calls Australia’s private hospitals and insurers to urgent meeting amid Healthscope financial crisis
Health minister convenes meeting after reports second-largest private hospital operator risks voluntary administration
www.theguardian.com
March 7, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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Trump wants protests, especially with violence, so he can unleash the military, crack down, declare martial law and cancel elections. He'll assume complete power. Republicans and Supreme Court will support him. I don't know why people think he's leaving peacefully. He's never leaving, folks.
March 3, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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From Lech Walesa to the US President.
March 4, 2025 at 4:46 AM