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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 1d

can't believe outlets are running moral-panic headlines again based on flimsy anecdata from the *same* trade group (the national retailer federation) and sponsored by the *same* anti-theft company (sensormatic) that had to retract this *same* "study" just two years ago for being bogus.

Retailers Dealing With Increasing Levels of Theft and Violence

Report emphasizes importance of preventive measures, coordination with law enforcement

progressivegrocer.com

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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 2d

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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benjamin @benjamino.bsky.social · 3d

Happy anniversary to those who celebrate 🥳

The Age
Opinion
I wrote a book and no one read it. It's time to face up to what we have lost
Chip Le Grand
October 30, 2024

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"Captain" "Ruck" "Cohlchez" @captainruck.bsky.social · 2d

oh my god

"My newest hobby is finding lines from The Simpsons that could pass for Morrissey song titles."

I took this image from somewhere else and can't write all of these out on my phone, so if you're reading this because you need the alt-text, take the opportunity to brainstorm some good ones of your own.

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local oaf @notanoaf.bsky.social · 2d

Probably my top:
"Does My Withered Face Remind You of the Grim Specter of Death?"
Also:
"Let's Just Do This and I Can Get Back to Killing You With Beer"
"The Leader of the Wiener Patrol"
"Are Those Morons Getting Dumber or Just Louder?"

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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 2d

We really need to have this debate in Australia too

Will Jennings🗠🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 3d

I've written a couple of things over the last days about how the government and much of Westminster remaining on X as the platform becomes increasingly toxic is having consequences for our politics...

Our politics is increasingly normalised to racism – because politicians are addicted to X

The platform has quietly dragged British politics into a dark place

inews.co.uk

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Batman or halo @milesklee.bsky.social · 2d

on a run this week i twisted my knee, took a medium gnarly spill. guy setting up his tent on the curb saw the whole thing and asked if i was okay. that small, reflexive kindness has been echoing in my brain as i think about how extravagantly cruel this country is to anyone living in poverty

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Boston Married @bostonmarried.bsky.social · 2d

Once domestically violent men become aware of this law, it will encourage more DARVO claims of abuse against their victims, to keep them financially powerless and unable to leave.

Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 2d

The amendment to the income apportionment bill, would mean police officers would have the power to request the cancellation of Centrelink payments to those accused of a “serious violent or sexual offence” where an arrest warrant had been issued

The statement: apcentre.substack.com/p/joint-stat...

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Cait Kelly
Cait Kelly
Potential law allowing Centrelink payments to be stripped criticised as ‘shocking overreach’

Proposed laws allowing Centrelink payments to be stripped from those evading arrest while accused of serious crimes would be a “shocking overreach of police powers into the social security system”, welfare advocates warn.

The amendment to the income apportionment bill, added by Labor this week during parliamentary debate, would mean police officers would have the power to request the cancellation of Centrelink payments to those accused of a “serious violent or sexual offence” where an arrest warrant had been issued.

A Centrelink office in Melbourne
A Centrelink office in Melbourne. Photograph: William West/AFP/Getty Images

Some advocates and social security legal experts, including the Antipoverty Centre, The Council of Single Mothers and their Children, Anti-Poverty Network South Australia, The Australian Unemployed Workers Union, and Everybody’s Home have said the amendment represents punishment without conviction and blurs the separation of powers.

Anglicare Australia Executive Director Kasy Chambers said the proposal was “completely at odds with the principles of fairness and justice” and called on the government to scrap the amendment. Chambers said:

This is a shocking overreach of police powers into the social security system. We’ve seen too many times what happens when governments rush through changes without thinking through the consequences. Robodebt should have been warning enough.

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local oaf @notanoaf.bsky.social · 2d

I wonder if this was the inspiration for 'Greensleeves' in 'Uncanny' by Paul Jennings. From memory (a long time ago) the outcome is similar. Whale flesh raining down over the whole town.

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Larissa Waters @larissawaters.bsky.social · 2d

A historic moment as Treaty passes Vic Parliament, the first time in our history that a Treaty has been enshrined in law.

To those who have fought for this - thankyou.

This must act as a guiding light towards federal truth, Treaty & justice for all First Nations people.

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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 2d

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benjamin @benjamino.bsky.social · 3d

The analysis* on the abc this morning was all around M Watt being a wily political operative over this bill when really he is just being a smug shitcunt beholden to Big Fuck Everything Up Forever

Tim Baxter @timinclimate.bsky.social · 3d

There is really only one set of takes on this bill that I think are valid, and it is the take provided by those who are fighting at the literal coal face every day to protect nature. Conveniently they compiled all their takes into one media release.

You should read it:

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Marco Chitti @chittimarco.bsky.social · 4d

I cobbled together four photos of the same corner of via Rizzoli in Bologna, taken between the 1930s and the early 1970s. They show the evolution of road use and design in the early days of mass automobility. A pattern similar throughout the so-called developed world.

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Frank Cvetkovic @gofrankgo.bsky.social · 4d

Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!

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The White Rose Society (Australia) @whiterosesociety.bsky.social · 8d

National Socialist Network member and neo-Nazi Zachary Makkinga, who works for Queensland Rail, was given a six-month suspended sentence for abhorrent racist posters in Brisbane. The magistrate called him "pathetically small-minded."
archive.is/jPSf5

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𝔻𝕒𝕟 [spooky pun] 🎃🍻🐦‍⬛ @danmynrd.bsky.social · 3d

AI sitcom accidentally a Lynchian fever dream. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and insane lament.

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Purplepingers ☭ @purplepingers.bsky.social · 4d

Must be an incredibly slow news day in between all that shirt stuff

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A. Marmot 🌱 @aminus.bsky.social · Mar 22

such a classic scene

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local oaf @notanoaf.bsky.social · 4d

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debbshock @debbshock.blue · 4d

you can't stop us mom WE'RE IN LOVE

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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 4d

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Adam P. Knave @adampknave.com · 5d

They are also intentionally conflating machine-learning and generative AI slop to confuse and try to make GenAI seem necessary. Google Maps traffic stuff is machine learning, not GenAI, for example. Auto-correct is too. Don't let them make you lose the thread. GenAI slop is slop.

doom boy @doomboy.bsky.social · 5d

the nyt posts this stuff like avoiding AI for 48 hours is hard and meanwhile i have literally never once intentionally used an AI program for anything ever

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 5d

This is the protest march that an Australian court just ruled 'inoffensive'

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

a picture of a sign being held up that says Australia for the White Man National Socialist Network and about 40 men with personality disorders standing in front of a cannon and posing for a photograph

Ultimately, Magistrate Mike Wardell agreed and said he had not been convinced of the OPP's case that Mr Sewell's behaviour during the rally was "deeply or seriously insulting".

"Behaviour deemed unacceptably offensive by some, may not trouble others at all," Magistrate Wardell said.

"The test … is whether the impugned behaviour is so deeply and seriously insulting … as to warrant the interference in the criminal law.

"Society is evolving in attitudes all the time … Fringe groups are arising all the time."

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 5d

Sewell: “It’s the vibe of it. It’s the Constitution. It’s Mabo. It’s justice. It’s law. It’s the vibe & ah, no that’s it. It’s the vibe. I rest my case.”

Wardell: "Society is evolving in attitudes all the time… Fringe groups are arising all the time. Case dismissed."

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

Thomas Sewell found not guilty of offensive behaviour by Victorian court

A Victorian Magistrate says he has not been convinced that Thomas Sewell's behaviour during a 2023 Neo-Nazi rally in Ballarat was offensive.

www.abc.net.au

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local oaf @notanoaf.bsky.social · 5d

final session rained out

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