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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 5d

Excellent by @ketanjoshi.co
"Australian gas exports don’t cut coal overseas, and here are the charts to prove it"

thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...

Australian gas exports don’t cut coal overseas, and here are the charts to prove it

The point.com.au

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Micah @rincewind.run · 19h

“it’s 2025, surely nobody could still be using ‘password’ as their password”

the louvre: hold our baguette

Perry Areolar @perryodontal.bsky.social · 22h

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre"

www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...

according to the liberation newspaper, documents dating back to a 2014 inspection by the French National Agency for the Security of Computer Systems reported a staggering detail: "the password of the louvre's video surveillance server was simply " louvre. "

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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 4d

their target for a 26 week employment outcome for job seekers forced into this bullshit is so low (15%) and they can never, ever hit it. No matter how much they hit participants

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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 4d

DEWR's annual report was tabled yesterday. Let's have a read:

$1.2b was spent on Workforce Australia (employment services) last year

You'll be shocked to see its again failed it's basic performance measure to put people into jobs www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 1d

Australians voted for stronger climate action, not weaker environment laws.

Australia Institute research shows that Australia is currently expanding gas and coal, with 94 new fossil fuel projects under development.

Sign our petition calling on Minister Watt to stop new gas and coal!

#auspol

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 1d

One month out from the under-16s ban and almost all of the users caught up in the Discord data breach caused by age assurance appeals were based in Australia, OAIC has finally confirmed. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Discord age-assurance data breach includes 68,000 Australian users
Almost all of the users of video game chat platform Discord who were caught up in October’s data breach are located in Australia, making up 68,122 of the disclosed 70,000 users, Guardian Australia has confirmed.

Discord informed in October that a third-party customer service provider that the company was using for age verification had been compromised, with approximately 70,000 users affected, and usernames, email, billing information, IP addresses, and a small number of government ID images.

Discord began using facial age assurance to check the age for users in the UK and Australia earlier this year. The company said facial images and ID images “are deleted directly after” ages are confirmed, but Discord’s website noted that if verification fails, users can contact the trust and safety team for a manual review.

Ahead of the introduction of age assurance measures on social media in Australia as part of the under-16s social media ban, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner confirmed 68,122 Australians were affected by the breach.

Discord had previously refused to break down the number of Australians caught up in the breach, when asked by Guardian Australia.

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Pandymonium @pandymonium.bsky.social · 17h

It also does not acknowledge the costs of inaction, such as managing climate disasters and that these alone are estimated to be $40 billion annually.
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Will Net Zero cost $9 trillion to Australia?

As the Nationals abandon their commitment to achieving net zero by 2050, leader David Littleproud has cited a stunning $9 trillion dollar price tag on the policy as a key reason for the move.

thepoint.com.au

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The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 17h

New research finds it’s becoming harder for many Australians to afford enough healthy food, especially in regional areas.

👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/food-in...

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Pandymonium @pandymonium.bsky.social · 16h

The system is working exactly as designed. The wealthy owners of the 'private job agencies' are robbing the Treasury while ensuring that the economy has its required population of unemployed which the government can vilify, torture, punish and humiliate. #AusVotes2028

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 1d

Nearly 90% of jobseekers unable to get long-term work despite millions spent on private job agencies

Employment department’s annual report shows just 11.7% of jobseekers ended up with jobs lasting at least 26 weeks last year * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Australia’s private employment services are failing to get jobseekers into long-term work, despite costing taxpayers millions of dollars each year, department documents show. Just 11.7% of jobseekers in Australia found long-term employment through a job provider in the latest financial year, according to the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations’ annual report. Continue reading...

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 3d

The press doesn’t get away unscathed: “The legacy media is apparently more interested in the climate musings of an erstwhile PC mogul than a sober assessment by the world’s leading climate scientists.”

Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 3d

"You can’t reboot the planet if you crash it" | My commentary on Bill Gates' flawed new climate missive for @thebulletin.org: thebulletin.org/2025/10/you-...

You can’t reboot the planet if you crash it

What Gates is putting forward aren’t legitimate arguments that can be made in good faith. They are shopworn fossil fuel industry talking points.

thebulletin.org

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 1d

If you are posting on or engaging with content on X, you are working as a volunteer laborer helping this specific man earn money and political influence.

Any person, group or organisation that is still there and helping keep you there: you have to make them get out, not give them reason to stay

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 1d

Elon Musk, "These lovely small towns in England, Scotland and Ireland, they've been living their lives quietly. They're like hobbits"

"And so one day, 1,000 people show up in your village of 500 and start raping the kids"

"This has now happened, God knows how many times in Britain"

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sharperstill @sharperstill.bsky.social · 1d

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💧 simon holmes à court @simonahac.bsky.social · 1d

📢 @climate200.bsky.social launches:
The Canavan Climate Trust

we're cataloguing the stupidest statements by climate denying Nats.

👇 all proceeds → airing ads highlighting Nats' unhinged comments in @liberalaus.bsky.social marginal seats next election!

www.climate200.com.au/campaign/the...

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Lenore Taylor @lenoret.bsky.social · 1d

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

ATO is paying private debt collector $42m to pursue taxpayers, including welfare recipients

The tax office’s increased reliance on Recoveriescorp has coincided with a spike in complaints to the watchdog

www.theguardian.com

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 1d

As climate change super-sizes our storms, should our categories reflect that?

Thoughtful comments and discussion (all too rare today) from @weatherprof.bsky.social, @michaelemann.bsky.social, myself and others.

Check it out and LMK - what do YOU think?

Category 6 is the new hurricane normal, say scientists

Human-caused climate change is making major hurricanes like Melissa much stronger, faster and ultimately more life-threatening

www.independent.co.uk

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sharperstill @sharperstill.bsky.social · 2d

Saw a whale jump today. Incredible 4K (kilobyte) video attached

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 2d

"Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Finland taxed fossil fuels hard and built the world’s most prosperous, equitable societies. We have better mineral wealth than most of them. We have the democratic machinery. We have the evidence.

What we lack is the spine." #auspol
urbanwronski.com/2025/11/01/t...

The Worst Deal in History: Why Mining Has Ransacked Australia While the Press Looked Away

How Australia became the world’s cautionary tale in resource management. The mining industry didn’t steal our wealth. We handed it over. The press, owned by the same mining interests si…

urbanwronski.com

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sharperstill @sharperstill.bsky.social · 2d

can you weigh the amount of single use plastic for me? including costume and house decorations

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 3d

And we have now progressed from data analysis to policy recommendations.

I told her that we'd calculate the cash value of her candy haul, that I'd ask her to raid her piggy bank and donate 1/3 the candy cash value to a local food bank, and that I'd add on a 5X match.

The final candy bar graph, with my 11-year-old recoding the tallies in her journal and calculating their value

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sharperstill @sharperstill.bsky.social · 2d

Just saw some footage from the oasis concert and I’m over the moon that I wasn’t there.

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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 8d

Penny Wong accidentally saying the quiet bit out loud - for Labor the US relationship is more important than the Australian environment. Who do this lot think they work for?

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Jessie L @jessielilley.bsky.social · 3d

Coercive control laws exist across Australia. So shouldn’t someone whose business model relies on teaching men how to exert coercive control over women be shut down?

An Andrew Tate insider is helping Australian Nazis recruit teens

Neo-Nazis are targeting the rich and the young to fill their ranks – and coffers. And one of Andrew Tate’s right-hand men is helping them draw boys in.

www.theage.com.au

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Gadget @gadget44027447.bsky.social · Dec 4

🚨🚨 Leaked ‘War Room’ seminars show Andrew Tate advising men to ‘isolate’ women away from friends, jobs

The recent hacks of Andrew Tate's hilariously insecure online platforms have now revealed these videos featuring Tate, Justin Waller and Stirling Cooper
www.dailydot.com/debug/andrew...

EXCLUSIVE: Leaked 'War Room' seminars show Andrew Tate advising men to 'isolate' women away from friends, jobs

'People will call it manipulation. But what you're really doing is putting the pieces on the chess board in the best place for you to win.'

www.dailydot.com

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The Sydney Morning Herald (unofficial) @smhaustralia.nzcow.com · 11d

📢 In leaked recordings from inside Andrew Tate's "university", Stirling Cooper and Tate discuss with fellow manosphere influencer Justin Waller how to control women.

Andrew Tate and Stirling Cooper talk isolating women

www.smh.com.au

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sharperstill @sharperstill.bsky.social · 3d

Only the one with a pure heart will be able to remove it