💜 phonakins 🍉
@phonakins.com
💅 she/her
💜 e-girl and activist
🧠 neurodivergent
💷 on DSP
💸 http://phonakins.com/support
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💜 speak because your voice shakes
💜 e-girl and activist
🧠 neurodivergent
💷 on DSP
💸 http://phonakins.com/support
📝 phonakins.com
💜 speak because your voice shakes
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COMING DECEMBER 2025 #PoveratiXmas
Start prepping those wishlists and setting up paylinks
Get ready to share widely and hopefully some Xmas Angels will make some wishes come true!
Start prepping those wishlists and setting up paylinks
Get ready to share widely and hopefully some Xmas Angels will make some wishes come true!
Thinking of being a wish-granting #PovertatiXmas Angel?
Got any questions about how it works? Drop them below! x
Got any questions about how it works? Drop them below! x
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I will be the first to admit I couldn’t understand why anyone would oppose Assisted Dying… and then I became disabled and had it “offered” to me.
It’s not compassionate when there’s coercion.
It’s not dignified when it’s offered in lieu of care.
Listen to disabled people.
It’s not compassionate when there’s coercion.
It’s not dignified when it’s offered in lieu of care.
Listen to disabled people.
November 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM
I will be the first to admit I couldn’t understand why anyone would oppose Assisted Dying… and then I became disabled and had it “offered” to me.
It’s not compassionate when there’s coercion.
It’s not dignified when it’s offered in lieu of care.
Listen to disabled people.
It’s not compassionate when there’s coercion.
It’s not dignified when it’s offered in lieu of care.
Listen to disabled people.
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Why don’t I write anymore? Well, during Covid my income via Patreon kept dropping. After the lockdown I had to take work in care industries, and that burns me out, physically, mentally
November 25, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Why don’t I write anymore? Well, during Covid my income via Patreon kept dropping. After the lockdown I had to take work in care industries, and that burns me out, physically, mentally
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If I’m brutally honest my experience has been that my chance of losing power during a heatwave scales hard with both (1) rent and (2) distance from Brisbane CBD and I am no longer as convinced that that’s an accident as I used to be
November 25, 2025 at 5:19 AM
If I’m brutally honest my experience has been that my chance of losing power during a heatwave scales hard with both (1) rent and (2) distance from Brisbane CBD and I am no longer as convinced that that’s an accident as I used to be
Cutting off someone’s income on the basis of an allegation is not justice. It is not safety. It is not fairness. It is a shortcut around the principles that are supposed to protect all of us.
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Poverty is not evidence, the presumption of innocence must apply to everyone
In the final days of October, the Federal Government quietly inserted a last-minute amendment into an unrelated bill. It has been trying to rush through a change that would allow police and the Home A...
thepoint.com.au
November 25, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Cutting off someone’s income on the basis of an allegation is not justice. It is not safety. It is not fairness. It is a shortcut around the principles that are supposed to protect all of us.
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
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a friend of mine needs new glasses! please help her out #mutualaid
Donate to Help Cover the Cost of New Glasses, organized by Jasmine Carrion
Starting a fundraiser for new glasses that I can not pay for right now. Anything he… Jasmine Carrion needs your support for Help Cover the Cost of New Glasses
www.gofundme.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:08 AM
a friend of mine needs new glasses! please help her out #mutualaid
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Same punishment @mehreenfaruqi.bsky.social got for holding up a sign saying "Gaza is starving. Words won't feed them/ Sanction Israel"
the Senate has overwhelmingly voted to censure Pauline Hanson for her burqa stunt
Motion passed 55 to 5 - only One Nation and Ralph Babet voted against
Hanson will be barred from overseas parliamentary delegations
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Motion passed 55 to 5 - only One Nation and Ralph Babet voted against
Hanson will be barred from overseas parliamentary delegations
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
November 25, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Same punishment @mehreenfaruqi.bsky.social got for holding up a sign saying "Gaza is starving. Words won't feed them/ Sanction Israel"
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Some days I wish people knew how difficult “basic” tasks are. Managing my health is hard enough this week in heat but then I had to juggle a medication I needed to refill but it’s on shortage so I had to wrangle finding it and going out in the heat to get it.
November 25, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Some days I wish people knew how difficult “basic” tasks are. Managing my health is hard enough this week in heat but then I had to juggle a medication I needed to refill but it’s on shortage so I had to wrangle finding it and going out in the heat to get it.
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⚫️ LIVE NOW: The Point Live with Amy Remeikis, Chief Political Analyst at @australiainstitute.org.au, is live now.
All the day’s parliamentary events, live as it happens on The Point ➡️ live.thepoint.com.au
All the day’s parliamentary events, live as it happens on The Point ➡️ live.thepoint.com.au
November 25, 2025 at 12:04 AM
⚫️ LIVE NOW: The Point Live with Amy Remeikis, Chief Political Analyst at @australiainstitute.org.au, is live now.
All the day’s parliamentary events, live as it happens on The Point ➡️ live.thepoint.com.au
All the day’s parliamentary events, live as it happens on The Point ➡️ live.thepoint.com.au
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An excerpt from Senator Fatima Payman's brilliant essay from @australiainstitute.org.au latest book, "A Time For Bravery".
Rather topical given Hanson's bullshit yesterday
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Rather topical given Hanson's bullshit yesterday
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
The Floor I Crossed Was Between Fear and Freedom
The point.com.au
thepoint.com.au
November 24, 2025 at 11:12 PM
An excerpt from Senator Fatima Payman's brilliant essay from @australiainstitute.org.au latest book, "A Time For Bravery".
Rather topical given Hanson's bullshit yesterday
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Rather topical given Hanson's bullshit yesterday
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
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Poverty is not evidence, the presumption of innocence must apply to everyone
@kristin8x.antipovertycentre.org and @maiyazize.bsky.social from @antipovertycentre.org
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
@kristin8x.antipovertycentre.org and @maiyazize.bsky.social from @antipovertycentre.org
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Poverty is not evidence, the presumption of innocence must apply to everyone
In the final days of October, the Federal Government quietly inserted a last-minute amendment into an unrelated bill. It has been trying to rush through a change that would allow police and the Home A...
thepoint.com.au
November 23, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Poverty is not evidence, the presumption of innocence must apply to everyone
@kristin8x.antipovertycentre.org and @maiyazize.bsky.social from @antipovertycentre.org
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
@kristin8x.antipovertycentre.org and @maiyazize.bsky.social from @antipovertycentre.org
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
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Ok, everybody gather around in a circle.
Let's have a big happy Awooooo for the birthday werewolf, @wolfierankin.bsky.social.
Happy birthday, mate. Hope you have a great day.
Let's have a big happy Awooooo for the birthday werewolf, @wolfierankin.bsky.social.
Happy birthday, mate. Hope you have a great day.
November 24, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Ok, everybody gather around in a circle.
Let's have a big happy Awooooo for the birthday werewolf, @wolfierankin.bsky.social.
Happy birthday, mate. Hope you have a great day.
Let's have a big happy Awooooo for the birthday werewolf, @wolfierankin.bsky.social.
Happy birthday, mate. Hope you have a great day.
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they have been lobbying for years for more money, after getting a range of 'one off/temp' funding increases, without offering any changes to what they deliver to the most marginalised disabled people
November 24, 2025 at 9:32 PM
they have been lobbying for years for more money, after getting a range of 'one off/temp' funding increases, without offering any changes to what they deliver to the most marginalised disabled people
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there are SO many disabled folks who are experts in the NDIS and can provide context for this kind of blatent, inaccurate spin from non-disabled companies that commodify the most disabled people
November 24, 2025 at 9:32 PM
there are SO many disabled folks who are experts in the NDIS and can provide context for this kind of blatent, inaccurate spin from non-disabled companies that commodify the most disabled people
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and yes, they can brand themselves nfp providers, but they are huge - life without barriers and scope have close to a billion dollars a year revenue EACH
November 24, 2025 at 9:32 PM
and yes, they can brand themselves nfp providers, but they are huge - life without barriers and scope have close to a billion dollars a year revenue EACH
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now they are lobbying their arses off, which is what this report is about, for more funding for their model, and less for support in the community
there is already plans to increase regulation, focused on what disabled people need, not more funding for big providers
there is already plans to increase regulation, focused on what disabled people need, not more funding for big providers
November 24, 2025 at 9:32 PM
now they are lobbying their arses off, which is what this report is about, for more funding for their model, and less for support in the community
there is already plans to increase regulation, focused on what disabled people need, not more funding for big providers
there is already plans to increase regulation, focused on what disabled people need, not more funding for big providers
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these big providers haven't evolved their models for some of the most disabled people, still insisting on institutional places, known to hurt and kill those disabled people
www.ndiscommission.gov.au/media-centre...
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04...
www.ndiscommission.gov.au/media-centre...
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04...
Record $2.5 million penalty imposed on NDIS provider for failing to keep participants safe | NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission
www.ndiscommission.gov.au
November 24, 2025 at 9:32 PM
these big providers haven't evolved their models for some of the most disabled people, still insisting on institutional places, known to hurt and kill those disabled people
www.ndiscommission.gov.au/media-centre...
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04...
www.ndiscommission.gov.au/media-centre...
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04...
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laverty was on the board - if he was an architect, I have spent the last decade flying spaceships
he heads up one of the big providers, that mostly does old fashioned supports like group homes and day programs, but also now has ghastly abusive services like Irabina
www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09...
he heads up one of the big providers, that mostly does old fashioned supports like group homes and day programs, but also now has ghastly abusive services like Irabina
www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09...
Jadon wouldn't sit on a cushion, so staff in 'Severe Behaviour' shirts stepped in to force him
Children with autism spent hours with staff in padded rooms, where they were sometimes sat on and held down by adults as part of a controversial NDIS-funded therapy.
www.abc.net.au
November 24, 2025 at 9:32 PM
laverty was on the board - if he was an architect, I have spent the last decade flying spaceships
he heads up one of the big providers, that mostly does old fashioned supports like group homes and day programs, but also now has ghastly abusive services like Irabina
www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09...
he heads up one of the big providers, that mostly does old fashioned supports like group homes and day programs, but also now has ghastly abusive services like Irabina
www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09...
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this interview, and the subsequent reporting around it, was absolutely infuriating. any other sector's big business lobby wouldn't get this kind of uncritical, uninformed, wildly inaccurate coverage, yet disabled peoples' essential services do [little 🧵]
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
NDIS described as 'trainwreck' - ABC listen
A market failure is happening now in the National Disability Insurance Scheme, with many not-for-profit providers heading to insolvency.
www.abc.net.au
November 24, 2025 at 9:32 PM
this interview, and the subsequent reporting around it, was absolutely infuriating. any other sector's big business lobby wouldn't get this kind of uncritical, uninformed, wildly inaccurate coverage, yet disabled peoples' essential services do [little 🧵]
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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I live in Alice Springs/Mparntwe so local shopping is limited. And I just have a personal antipathy to using Amazon. I’ve just made a youpay list. Do you think it looks ok?
youpay.me/debbie481
youpay.me/debbie481
youpay.me
November 24, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I live in Alice Springs/Mparntwe so local shopping is limited. And I just have a personal antipathy to using Amazon. I’ve just made a youpay list. Do you think it looks ok?
youpay.me/debbie481
youpay.me/debbie481
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Treat yourself to an Xmas gift from mine or @artistaffame.bsky.social's shops while there's Black Friday Discounts:
www.redbubble.com/people/phona...
www.redbubble.com/people/artis...
www.redbubble.com/people/phona...
www.redbubble.com/people/artis...
phonakins Shop | Redbubble
phonakins is an independent artist creating amazing designs for great products such as t-shirts, stickers, posters, and phone cases.
www.redbubble.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Treat yourself to an Xmas gift from mine or @artistaffame.bsky.social's shops while there's Black Friday Discounts:
www.redbubble.com/people/phona...
www.redbubble.com/people/artis...
www.redbubble.com/people/phona...
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On referral, all patients get rapid access to a first appointment but are then triaged for ongoing care according to need – anything from a brief assessment and advice to intensive ongoing treatment.
Did that with a speech WL once.
theconversation.com/some-patient...
Did that with a speech WL once.
theconversation.com/some-patient...
Some patients wait 6 years to see a public hospital specialist. Here’s how to fix this
There are effective ways to reduce outpatient waiting lists that can be implemented now
theconversation.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM
On referral, all patients get rapid access to a first appointment but are then triaged for ongoing care according to need – anything from a brief assessment and advice to intensive ongoing treatment.
Did that with a speech WL once.
theconversation.com/some-patient...
Did that with a speech WL once.
theconversation.com/some-patient...
Youth also face challenges competing for public and community housing where rents are calculated as a percentage of income.
"Their rent will be lower, so it doesn't make them look as attractive on paper as an adult who can pay more rent,"
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
"Their rent will be lower, so it doesn't make them look as attractive on paper as an adult who can pay more rent,"
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Rental market making it harder to help young people 'out of crisis homelessness'
Youth homelessness support services say the pandemic and an associated surge in real estate prices have made it even harder to secure accommodation.
www.abc.net.au
November 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Youth also face challenges competing for public and community housing where rents are calculated as a percentage of income.
"Their rent will be lower, so it doesn't make them look as attractive on paper as an adult who can pay more rent,"
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
"Their rent will be lower, so it doesn't make them look as attractive on paper as an adult who can pay more rent,"
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
One month til Xmas day, and six days til the #PoveratiXmas thread!
I see people are getting theirs in order - feel free to post them here to inspire others as to what services to use and things they might ask for 🎄🧑🎄
I see people are getting theirs in order - feel free to post them here to inspire others as to what services to use and things they might ask for 🎄🧑🎄
COMING DECEMBER 2025 #PoveratiXmas
Start prepping those wishlists and setting up paylinks
Get ready to share widely and hopefully some Xmas Angels will make some wishes come true!
Start prepping those wishlists and setting up paylinks
Get ready to share widely and hopefully some Xmas Angels will make some wishes come true!
November 24, 2025 at 8:25 PM
One month til Xmas day, and six days til the #PoveratiXmas thread!
I see people are getting theirs in order - feel free to post them here to inspire others as to what services to use and things they might ask for 🎄🧑🎄
I see people are getting theirs in order - feel free to post them here to inspire others as to what services to use and things they might ask for 🎄🧑🎄
Servicing a new mortgage eats up 45% of a median household’s pre-tax income, up from 26% in September 2020, the analysis reveals
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Australian households spend twice as much of income on mortgages than five years ago, report shows
Servicing a new mortgage eats up 45% of a median household’s pre-tax income, up from 26% in September 2020, the analysis reveals
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Servicing a new mortgage eats up 45% of a median household’s pre-tax income, up from 26% in September 2020, the analysis reveals
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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#MutualAid If anyone's able to help me and my partner Ms J out, that would be SO much appreciated. With teaching over for the year, I don't have an income from employment. I need to help Ms J out with uni fees and other urgent needs! Love you forever (even if you just share!)
paypal.me/MarkBahnisch
paypal.me/MarkBahnisch
Pay Mark Stefan Bahnisch using PayPal.Me
Go to paypal.me/MarkBahnisch and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.
paypal.me
November 24, 2025 at 4:09 AM
#MutualAid If anyone's able to help me and my partner Ms J out, that would be SO much appreciated. With teaching over for the year, I don't have an income from employment. I need to help Ms J out with uni fees and other urgent needs! Love you forever (even if you just share!)
paypal.me/MarkBahnisch
paypal.me/MarkBahnisch