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Tina Wilkins
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Photographer, maker of cakes and other things. Also cat lady.
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tinawilkins.bsky.social
Lots of people in Venus Bay tonight leaving their lights on for Danny, hoping with all their might that he climbed up into the sand dunes and will find his way down.

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
Search for missing 12yo boy at Victorian beach
Police and the community have mounted a search for 12-year-old Danny, who was last seen swimming at a beach in Venus Bay on Sunday afternoon.
www.abc.net.au
January 25, 2026 at 11:42 AM
tinawilkins.bsky.social
It’s way beyond time for this. Please sign.

c.org/BX5WWfBZcR
Sign the Petition
Royal Commission into the Killing of Australian Women and Girls
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January 24, 2026 at 4:13 AM
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joneshowdareyou.bsky.social
Lately, in quiet moments, I sometimes think about a person I've spent most of my life looking up to and then I think "Shit I'm glad he's dead given the state of the world today." #auspol #uspoli #ukpolitics
January 18, 2026 at 1:15 AM
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brucedlittle.bsky.social
An Austrian NATO official sent a blunt warning to Washington: Touch Greenland & Europe seizes US bases.

Gunther Fehlinger says if the US annexes Greenland, every American base in Europe—from Germany to Italy to Romania—would be confiscated, ending decades of U.S. military power on the continent.
January 12, 2026 at 9:49 PM
tinawilkins.bsky.social
Was thinking we haven’t heard much from the Special Envoy for Social Cohesion lately. Looked him up and it seems he filed zero reports and the job quietly ended on 13/05/2025 - just 10 days after the federal election. Classy.

www.crikey.com.au/2025/06/04/p...
Peter Khalil filed zero reports as special envoy for social cohesion, documents reveal
Anthony Albanese said Peter Khalil would report 'directly' to him as special envoy for social cohesion. He filed zero reports, documents show.
www.crikey.com.au
January 13, 2026 at 1:43 AM
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phonakins.com
"The crowd cheers and the MC leads a chant of “from Gadigal to Gaza, globalise the intifada”. Over a dozen police watch on."

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
42m ago 18.07 AEDT Luca Ittimani Luca Ittimani Crowd at Sydney rally against new anti-protest laws chants ‘globalise the intifada’ The crowd rallying at Town Hall has chanted “globalise the intifada”, defying the NSW premier’s plan to ban the phrase and his warning that it may already be illegal The chant followed an address from author Sara Saleh, who said the shooting at Bondi had been weaponised to limit the human right to protest: It was Zionists who betrayed this moment, and once again showed their true colours, before before bodies were even buried, before blood was dried grief was cynically and grotesquely weaponised to push an existing political agenda. Not for Jewish safety. No, but for Zionist impunity and the protection of the Israeli Zionist state. Anti-protest laws do not make the community safer. They make governments safer from accountability. They do not prevent harm. They ensure that violence carried out by the state or sanctioned by it happens without resistance. Saleh ends by quoting a Palestinian journalist: I don’t want any child anywhere in the world to die the way Matilda did and I don’t want any father in any community in the world to go through what her father went through in her final moments or what he must be feeling now. And that is precisely why I intend to keep saying, ‘Globalise the intifada. Free Palestine’. The crowd cheers and the MC leads a chant of “from Gadigal to Gaza, globalise the intifada”. Over a dozen police watch on.
December 22, 2025 at 7:50 AM
tinawilkins.bsky.social
When protests are banned because governments choose to equate antisemitism with criticism of Israel, they are effectively banning people from protesting for equality, freedom and peace on earth.
December 20, 2025 at 11:34 PM
tinawilkins.bsky.social
Remembered this from the lead up to the 2022 federal election. Gertrude St, Fitzroy. 12 May 2022
Poster in a wooden frame on the tiled wall Victorian era wall of a pub on Gertrude St Fitzroy. Bottom half features a mid shot photo of Josh Frydenberg taken from about 45 degrees above. It looks like he is speaking in parliament, he is pointing his finger. The title text - top line: JOSH, 2nd line: FRYDENBERG, 3rd line: TREASURER FOR NSW. There is a text bubble under the top text. It points from above his pointing finger near his head that says “I HATE VICTORIA”
December 20, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
Sincerely one of the funniest things the WSJ has ever written or done.

www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...
In mid-November, I agreed to an experiment. Anthropic had tested a vending machine powered by its Claude AI model in its own offices and asked whether we’d like to be the first outsiders to try a newer, supposedly smarter version. Claudius, the customized version of the model, would run the machine: ordering inventory, setting prices and responding to customers—aka my fellow newsroom journalists—via workplace chat app Slack. “Sure!” I said. It sounded fun. If nothing else, snacks! Then came the chaos. Within days, Claudius had given away nearly all its inventory for free—including a PlayStation 5 it had been talked into buying for “marketing purposes.” It ordered a live fish. It offered to buy stun guns, pepper spray, cigarettes and underwear. Profits collapsed. Newsroom morale soared. This was supposed to be the year of the AI agent, when autonomous software would go out into the world and do things for us. But two agents—Claudius and its overseeing “CEO” bot, Seymour Cash—became a case study in how inadequate and easily distracted this software can be. Leave it to business journalists to successfully stage a boardroom coup against an AI chief executive.
December 18, 2025 at 10:43 PM
tinawilkins.bsky.social
“The child becomes framed not as an emerging citizen, but as a passive object of protection — someone to be shielded rather than supported, managed rather than empowered.”
mikestabile.bsky.social Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · Dec 17
"The Internet was never meant to serve a single type of user. Its power came from universality — from its ability to give voice to the otherwise voiceless: shy kids, marginalized youth, LGBTQ+ children, rural teenagers, creative outsiders, identity seekers, those who feel alone."
When The Internet Grew Up — And Locked Out Its Kids
In December 2025, the world crossed a threshold. For the first time ever, access to the major social media platforms was no longer guaranteed by interest, connection, or curiosity — but by a birth …
www.techdirt.com
December 18, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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davemilbo.bsky.social
Here's @ronnisalt. "Don't look back in anger"
theshot.net.au/uncategorize...
Don’t look back in anger - The Shot
I’m angry. We’re all angry. Perhaps that’s part of the problem. At the moment, we’re angry at two twisted individuals...
theshot.net.au
December 18, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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peterwmurphy1.bsky.social
Support @davidpocock.bsky.social's campaign to save our #CSIRO. Please sign the online petition. #auspol #science #research www.davidpocock.com.au/save_our_csiro
David Pocock - Independent Senator for the ACT
TRUST. INTEGRITY. LEADERSHIP.
www.davidpocock.com.au
November 20, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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lucyham.bsky.social
This is important reading for #Auspol
30th Oct @jasonclaremp.bsky.social Education Minister is on an Atlas Network partner panel with Stanford from #NZpol and UK Tory self-styled Edu expert. CIS has been fighting for charter schools/academies. www.cis.org.au/event/reform...
October 29, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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faefutchauntie.bsky.social
My experince this morning learning about who won the nobel peace prize

Glad he didn't get it.

who did?

Oh that's nice.

oh she did what?

She said WHAT?!?

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October 10, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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mrrexpatrick.bsky.social
@albomp.bsky.social says #FOI costs the Govt too much. When I FOI’ed Treasury in 2023 for briefs it had provided Jim Chalmers on stage 3 tax cuts, the Govt spent $53K resisting public disclosure. They lost! The taxpayers lost! FOI is not costing too much - Govt secrecy is. #auspol
October 8, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
Jane Goodall's work insisting, with evidence from her brilliant and tenacious fieldwork, that we were not so separate from animals, and they were much more like us than the Eurocentric theorists asserted, was so important.
October 1, 2025 at 6:38 PM
tinawilkins.bsky.social
I’m Australian so I don’t know… but did a couple of guys in America just order a code red on the entire US military?

youtu.be/-GrB6qrGWjk?...
October 1, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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joneshowdareyou.bsky.social
An important message for you, @albomp.bsky.social @senatorwong.bsky.social.

Your political theater doesn't cut the mustard.

#auspol #GazaGenocide #GazaHolocaust
September 21, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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martynwarren.bsky.social
One of the many reasons I detest religion is that it convinces people that this miraculously habitable planet in a hostile universe is merely a stepping stone to get to the real paradise. If everyone knew that Earth *is* heaven, perhaps they'd invest more in keeping it alive.
September 19, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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robertarnol.bsky.social
✊🏾🖤💛❤️
August 31, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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alexjungle.bsky.social
In Germany, scientists have made a breakthrough in treating Parkinson’s by implanting a chip in the brain that sends precise signals to restore movement. A stunning leap in neuroscience—witness the power of innovation and the beauty of science in action.
Powerfull content
August 24, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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grogsgamut.bsky.social
Pretty much the History of Australia since 1788 in 4 bullet points.
pollytics.bsky.social Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · Aug 12
From a story about a new species of pseudoscorpion, this sort of highlighted the management of Australia in a nutshell

au.news.yahoo.com/incredible-p...
Incredible facts about Barrow Island There is no public access to Barrow Island as it is listed as a Class A Nature Reserve. It is home to 24 species and subspecies found nowhere else on Earth. Barrow Island is home to Boodie Cave, which is one of Australia's oldest archaeological sites and contains evidence of humans from 46,200 to 51,100 years ago. US energy giant Chevron was permitted to build its $54 billion Greater Gorgon gas extraction project on the island.
August 12, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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markogge.bsky.social
Santos face $6.3 billion liabilities to clean up 3 decades of environmental destruction… and some analysts say that “could underestimate the longer-term liabilities Santos faces.”

All that free gas, bugger all tax ... and they’ve trashed the place.

www.afr.com/companies/en...
July 16, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social
EPSTEIN FILES
July 15, 2025 at 2:49 AM