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gwenoc.bsky.social @gwenoc.bsky.social · 3h

Australia's deliberately punitive unemployment "relief" system must end.

JobSeeker: Shame, and now with added AI slop

www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

Shame and harm at every JobSeeker turn – and now added AI slop

The system is so convoluted and stacked against people that even if it worked as intended, it would still be not just harmful, but useless.

www.thenewdaily.com.au

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Boze the Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 1d

I find it bleak that ChatGPT now has more users than Wikipedia. Many people would rather be spoon-fed information by a machine than read and research for themselves. Tech isn't just making us dumber. Worse than that: it's killing curiosity itself and the desire to learn.

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Belinda Weaver @longtimeleftie.bsky.social · 15h

“Far from paving a path to peace, it offers a blueprint for the further colonization and subjugation of the Palestinian people – the culmination of decades of dispossession and destruction that reached its dark zenith in the ongoing genocide in Gaza.”

open.substack.com/pub/palestin...

Urgent Next Steps for Palestine at the UN: Time to Invoke ‘Uniting for Peace’

By Nicolas J. S. Davies

open.substack.com

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gwenoc.bsky.social @gwenoc.bsky.social · 15h

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gwenoc.bsky.social @gwenoc.bsky.social · 17h

Too early for congratulations because Netanyahu is not trustworthy.

He and Jared Kushner intend converting Gaza into an elite beach resort.

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AuntieU @umaija.bsky.social · 1d

Maria Corina Machado is one of a new generation of leaders who bring more responsibility, accountability and transparency into governance. She is a role model for all of us, showing that the tools of democracy are also the tools of peace.
www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace...

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papaesoco.bsky.social @papaesoco.bsky.social · 18h

The vast, terrifying scale of Trump’s detention state www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The vast, terrifying scale of Trump’s detention state

With $75 billion and thousands of masked agents, ICE is just getting started.

www.motherjones.com

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Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 22h

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The world’s extremely poor are also often extremely remote, with limited access to healthcare & health education. In many developing countries, the government—often with the help of the UN and, until this year, USAID—maintains health posts that bring these services to people living off the grid.

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PeteSig 🇨🇴 🇸🇩 🇦🇺 @padreilpadrone.bsky.social · 18h

And the ‘after-market’ employment and consultancies 😒💵💰💎

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gwenoc.bsky.social @gwenoc.bsky.social · 18h

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gwenoc.bsky.social @gwenoc.bsky.social · 18h

Parliamentary salaries are on the generous side but it's the expense accounts and perks that bring them wealth.

Gekko @gekko.bsky.social · 22h

More millionaires leave Parliament than enter Parliament

That should say something to every voter!

Peggy Sanders @peggysanders.bsky.social · 22h

The political class think that public money is there to make them all rich.

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gwenoc.bsky.social @gwenoc.bsky.social · 18h

It's difficult not to be cynical after Netanyahu's performance over his three terms of office, which have revealed him as a cruel, corrupt, scheming scoundrel.

Without US backing, he would have been gone long ago.

gwenoc.bsky.social @gwenoc.bsky.social · 18h

More secretive than Morrison's team, would you believe? It's true.

Honor Laois 🦘📎🍉 #auspol @honorlaoiss.bsky.social · 20h

Inside Albanese’s FOI reforms: ‘He hates transparency’ www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/2025/10... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au

Inside Albanese’s FOI reforms: ‘He hates transparency’

Labor’s reforms to freedom of information laws are opposed by every public submission made to the Senate, with the government’s record on secrecy worse than Scott Morrison’s.

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au

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gwenoc.bsky.social @gwenoc.bsky.social · 18h

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gwenoc.bsky.social @gwenoc.bsky.social · 18h

Collect more ideas for stories from the big burn!

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gwenoc.bsky.social @gwenoc.bsky.social · 18h

Correction *anyone or anybody...

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gwenoc.bsky.social @gwenoc.bsky.social · 18h

We don't want no people of integrity spoilin' our cosy set up.

Like Christine Holgate at Auspost, he can go!

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gwenoc.bsky.social @gwenoc.bsky.social · 18h

That's it: they are lying until the concept of Truth is meaningless, and trust in anything or above its destroyed.

The inevitable result will be social chaos.

Peter Relph ᴀᴜ @peterrelph.bsky.social · 21h

They are not lying to hide anything

They are not lying to defend themselves

They are not trying to hide their lying

They are lying knowing that you know they are lying

They are lying until the concept of truth is meaningless

Until you no longer question anything anyone says

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gwenoc.bsky.social @gwenoc.bsky.social · 18h

Good knows everything.

gwenoc.bsky.social @gwenoc.bsky.social · 19h

Who's next?

gwenoc.bsky.social @gwenoc.bsky.social · 19h

Probably the only real sportsman among the membership!

And the only honest politician!

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gwenoc.bsky.social @gwenoc.bsky.social · 19h

Good lateral thinking, but only big rough tough males could hope to succeed but might be attacked by both sides!

gwenoc.bsky.social @gwenoc.bsky.social · 22h

At best, Trump is an entertainer, not a leader.

gwenoc.bsky.social @gwenoc.bsky.social · 22h

Self-selected.
Poor democratic education, widespread inequality and corruption.

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