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Limey @limeylimes.bsky.social · 1h

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emily fraser 🌿🐌✨ @emilyesfraser.bsky.social · 11h

A haunted house but it’s losing your health, career, marriage, ability to leave the house to an incurable disease people refuse to believe in, & all the normal things you’d do to grieve like cry, exercise, socialize, make art, make your disease a thousand times worse so you just have to lie there

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Nicole @nicoleintheforest.bsky.social · 10h

And perhaps you say, "But I don't know what chatGPT knows!" And you are wrong. You know so much more. You know context. And you know when you are lying to yourself and making up info or at best pondering hypotheses as you mull over various things you've heard before.

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Nicole @nicoleintheforest.bsky.social · 10h

I have this guttural ache when someone tells me they used AI to craft the most basic of task and saved themselves 10 minutes.

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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 9h

“Why should our generation be banned from social media, when it is your generation that can’t tell the difference between truth and lies, and caused all this mess in the first place?”

Anon kid.

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Victorian Socialists @vicsocialists.bsky.social · 8h

Makes sense. Fascism is an ideology not of workers but of the frustrated upper and middle classes which in practice, historically, has primarily served the interests of big capital. Wherever the far right has come to power, working-class people (and particularly working-class women) have suffered.

A screenshot of a post by @KosSamaras on X. Kos shares a screenshot of an article in today's Herald Sun - 'Neo-Nazi recruitment drive targets rich teens'. Kos writes: 'Today’s Age story shows how Australia’s neo-Nazi networks are now targeting wealthy, isolated young men.

I’ve written about this repeatedly - status anxiety, not poverty is driving this new but small tiny wave. Young men who aren’t materially deprived but feel culturally threatened. They’ve grown up with privilege, but no power over what that privilege now means.

The far right has learned to exploit that gap, offering a fantasy of belonging built on hierarchy, discipline and resentment. They are not selling an ideology but a doll house make believe world for insecure wealthy young men.'

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Limey @limeylimes.bsky.social · 2h

"more than one in seven Australians now live below the poverty line. One in six children. That’s 3.7 million people — entire suburbs quietly doing their best to hold on. After the removal of COVID supports, rents soared while wages, as they have for much of the past 15 years, stayed still." 💔

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Sirius Star 🍉 🍉 🍉 @siriusstar3.bsky.social · 7h

A chance to dream beyond survival

A system that has been gamed to sustain the imbalance. Tax settings reward those who have property, wage stagnation as profits climb, social security payments, have become a tightrope that leaves people one unexpected complication away from crisis.
#Auspol

Daniel James @mrdtjames.bsky.social · 8h

Australia’s biggest problem isn’t the next crisis — it’s the growing gap between those who sail through it and those who drown in it. If we can afford inequity, we can afford to fix it. www.thespencerstreetend.com.au/p/built-for-...

Built for Inequity

How Australia’s quiet architecture of policy and profit sustains disadvantage

www.thespencerstreetend.com.au

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Maddy @maddyoby.bsky.social · 8h

“The measure of a nation lies not in how much it builds, earns or appeases superpowers, but in whether it frees its people from the grind of just getting by.

Whether it can make space for everyone to live with purpose, dignity, and the chance to dream beyond survival.”

#AusPol

Daniel James @mrdtjames.bsky.social · 8h

Australia’s biggest problem isn’t the next crisis — it’s the growing gap between those who sail through it and those who drown in it. If we can afford inequity, we can afford to fix it. www.thespencerstreetend.com.au/p/built-for-...

Built for Inequity

How Australia’s quiet architecture of policy and profit sustains disadvantage

www.thespencerstreetend.com.au

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Maddy @maddyoby.bsky.social · 7h

Great thread on food apartheid, crip tax, and government eugenicist social policies.

Many of the policies discussed in this thread are also relevant in Australia.

While we don’t have a program like SNAP. We do have many who cannot use food banks and soup kitchens for the reasons below.

#AusPol

Ly Xīnzhèn M. Zhǎngsūn Brown, Esq. @lydiaxzbrown.com · 4d

SNAP benefits make it possible for the many disabled people (especially those who are multiply marginalized) relying on them to buy specific foods necessary to stay alive and stable. Food pantries/food banks often do not offer food reliably or at all that meets specific dietary requirements.

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Ly Xīnzhèn M. Zhǎngsūn Brown, Esq. @lydiaxzbrown.com · 4d

Disabled people must spend more money to stay alive. On average, disabled people must earn 28-29% more to have the same standard of living as otherwise comparable nondisabled people. These added costs of living with a disability (the "crip tax" or "disability tax") show up in all parts of life.

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Nigel Bell 🍉 @nigel63.bsky.social · 2h

Okay, subsidies aside, the responsibilities of the *employers* aside,

what are the relevant *Unions* doing?

Are Unions offering classes in renewable technologies to their members - properly looking after their long-term interests?

'Cause 100+ yrs ago, British Unions were educating their members!

Michael Dowling aka MeckeringBoy @meckeringboy.bsky.social · 1d

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

“AGL, Australia's biggest single carbon emitter, has brought forward the planned closure of its two coal-fired power stations and is investing $20 billion to build 5GW of renewable and firming technologies by 2030”

AGL to shed hundreds of coal jobs and accelerate green transition

AGL is preparing to shed hundreds jobs as part of a massive restructure aimed at freeing up capital to accelerate its transition away from coal and towards renewables.

www.abc.net.au

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 1d

An account of Gates' track record with the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) and its steam-rolling and strangulation of seed and food sovereignty

Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · Sep 23

Are philanthropic juggernauts like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation a force for good?

Go beyond the typical fawning, hagiographic accounts from mainstream media with Alex Zaitchik's tremendous longread informed by on ground field work
www.thenation.com/article/worl...

The New Colonialist Food Economy

How Bill Gates and agribusiness giants are throttling small farmers in Africa and the Global South.

www.thenation.com

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Tom Kindlon @tomkindlon.bsky.social · 2d

A patient who created a popular sheet on how to deal with somebody in postexertional malaise (PEM) has adapted it for hospital staff

#MEcfs #LongCovid #PostExertionalMalaise #PEM

Hospital Guidance: Post-Exertional Malaise (PEM) - Care Requirements
CLINICAL WARNING: When the patient is in PEM, any extra activity (sitting up, walking, answering questions) can worsen symptoms, reset recovery, and accelerate long-term decline. Strict protection of rest is required.
Overnight Care Guidance
Lighting and Noise: Keep the room dark and silent overnight. Avoid unnecessary door openings. Use minimal light if checks are required.
Sleep Protection: Do not wake for routine observations unless clinically essential. Cluster any checks to reduce disturbance.
Environment: Ensure call bell, water, and medications are within reach before settling for the night.
Communication: Avoid questions or conversation if the patient wakes. Speak quietly and keep interactions minimal.
Escalation: If pain, tachycardia, or instability occurs, respond calmly, minimise sensory exposure, and escalate as clinically indicated.
Documentation: Overnight staff should record sleep protection strategies and PEM episode status at shift start and end.
Personal Care - Showering and Hygiene
Daily shower prompts are not required. Please be guided by the patient as to when capacity allows.
General Principle: Patient will indicate readiness for washing or showering. No need to prompt daily. Frequency: Showering may be limited to once a week or less during severe PEM. Over-exertion can worsen symptoms.
Alternatives: Patient may use wet wipes or gentle seated wash in lieu of shower as tolerated.
Assistance: Provide quiet, minimal support (e.g., washcloths, seated wash). Avoid standing or prolonged exertion. Environment: Keep lighting low and surroundings quiet. Ensure seating for safety if required. Aftercare: Allow full recovery time after shower; avoid further activity immediately afterwards.
Shift Handover Note - Include in SBAR
S-Situation: PEM episode Yes No | Start: | Severity: mild/mod/severe
B- Background: ME/CFS with PEM; significant light/noise sensitivity; cognitive overload risk. …

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Limey @limeylimes.bsky.social · 2d

Better than deciding by goal difference but I don't understand why we don't just play a fifth game!

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crafty ghost @craftyanddevious.bsky.social · 2d

I love these spiky little dudes!!
#FlowerReport #bloomscrolling

Spiky red and orange waratah flowers in front of a green-lawned front yard

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Limey @limeylimes.bsky.social · 4d

‼️ALP using ICE tactics in Australia: "authorities have been conducting night-time and dawn raids on those within the cohort who have been granted a 30-year visa for Nauru"

Kon Karapanagiotidis @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · 4d

Adnan thought he’d served his time. But one night border force raided his home to deport him to Nauru. The Albanese Government have been accused of copying the ‘worst tactics of ICE’ in their treatment of the NZYQ cohort

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Adnan thought he’d served his time. But one night border force raided his home to deport him to Nauru

Australian authorities have been accused of copying the ‘worst tactics of ICE’ in their treatment of the NZYQ cohort

www.theguardian.com

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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA @rgleadow.bsky.social · 4d

‘JobSeeker… "the dole" — is currently below all poverty measures and is far below the average of similar nations, leaving 830,000 recipients with extremely low incomes’ - we should hang our heads in shame - it’s also economic nonsense #AusPol

Prof Brendan Crabb AC @brendancrabb.bsky.social · 4d

Of course it’s the human thing to do but it’s also economically and societally smart to eliminate poverty. The pandemic showed us that it can be done, and that we all win from that investment.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Price of poverty hurts us all, yet research reveals an easy fix

In 2020, Australia massively increased welfare payments and conducted a live experiment in ending poverty, but when the subsidy was removed, many were thrown back into hardship. Leaving aside the mora...

www.abc.net.au

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Jason Jasonson @jaseygalore.bsky.social · 4d

#NDIS strikes again:

Letter received today, October the 28th, dated the 16th, saying that new medical information and reports from therapists have to be received by the 30th.

This is one example of the impossible demands placed on disabled people by the NDIA, and we are powerless to stop it.

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3-mob.com @3mob.bsky.social · 5d

Zimbabwe's netball team picks up important series win in Harare.

Follow the 3-mob.com Whatsapp Channel for Regular updates whatsapp.com/channel/0029...

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 7d

End all funding every single private employment services provider.

Salt the earth so those in change of them never get any public money ever again - run them out of the country.

Get rid of mutual obligations

Bring back the CES

Raise the fricken rate

Ain’t hard.

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 7d

Sometimes defective, maybe unlawful: what can be done about Australia’s crisis-ridden welfare system?

Run by multiple departments and hundreds of private companies, advocates warn errors will continue to rock a system ‘in crisis’ * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast It’s a system designed to help Australians who most need it. Yet its created continuous scandals, with parts of it paused because the government can’t say if it’s operating legally. Hundreds and thousands of Centrelink clients are affected by its frequent problems, being charged or overpaying debts incorrectly calculated as another class action is launched. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Limey @limeylimes.bsky.social · 6d

"This mould has some hints of house."

Purplepingers ☭ @purplepingers.bsky.social · 6d

youtube.com/shorts/rnD6E...

The most mould you've ever seen in a rental

YouTube video by PurplepingersTV

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Netball Scoop @netballscoop.bsky.social · 7d

Dame Noeline Taurua will resume full Silver Ferns coaching duties after the Northern Tour.

Read the full press release ⤵️ www.netballnz.co.nz/.../dame-noe....

📷 May Bailey-Ireland | Clusterpix Photography

#NetballNews #SilverFerns

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Bridget O’Brien @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 7d

Went to a prayer service tonight at St. Mary of the Lake, where they have cardboard cutouts throughout the church representing parishioners afraid to come to Mass because of ICE.

a photograph of the interior of a church. Several people are visible sitting in pews. In the pew immediately in front of the photographer, a black human-sized cardboard cutout in the outline of a woman is visible, as though a shadow is sitting in the pew in front of you.

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Limey @limeylimes.bsky.social · 7d

For me, I think the "feeling" of laziness usually comes when I almost feel up to doing something but actually need rest. True "Laziness" seized to be possible long before I stopped being able to wash my hair, or read longform or stand long enough to cook a meal from scratch.

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