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BeardedGenius @beardedgenius.bsky.social · 3h

Vladimir Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov is clearly David Moyes in a terrible disguise

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Aedan Roberts @aedanr.bsky.social · 4h

And column

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Bill Browne @browne90.bsky.social · 12h

The Australian Public Service Commissioner confirms what many suspected:

Public servants are avoiding putting things in writing to escape public scrutiny.

But what is the Govt doing about it?

Trying to change FOI law to make secrecy even easier.
live.australiainstitute.org.au/2025/10/aust...

Australia Institute Live — Daily Updates

Stay updated with the latest from The Australia Institute.

live.australiainstitute.org.au

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Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 13h

Hundreds of thousands of welfare recipients lose access to payments every year, and Labor have said they can’t even say if it’s lawful. - @pennyallmanpayne.com

To quote @amyremeikis.bsky.social - SIIIGGGGHHHHHH

live.australiainstitute.org.au/2025/10/aust...

39 minutes ago 11.48 AEDT

SIIIGGGGHHHHHH
Thee has been a lot of reporting on the Deloitte report which was found to have used AI and most of the reporting has focused on that, rather than what the report was actually about.

Which was the Targeted Compliance Framework. You probably know that as mutual obligations. The report was about the issues with the automated system being used to cancel people’s welfare payments. You may remember from episodes such as ROBODEBT and EVERY SINGLE PERSON WHO HAS CONTACT WITH THIS SYSTEM TELLING YOU, that this is illegal and this has the potential to cause some pretty major problems for the government. And right now, it is causing major problems for people who are being made to fulfil demands from an illegal and immoral system just to have their below-poverty-line payments reinstated/continue.

That’s a pretty major problem, Australia. And not a new one. The only people benefiting from Australia’s mutual obligation program are the owners of job provider agencies who are paid billions of dollars to set menial and often degrading ‘duties’ for jobseekers to meet so they can maybe continue to pay their rent that week.

So not only is the consulting firm which was paid to do a report into the issues with an automated system which is causing immense harm to jobseekers and returned a report riddled with errors because it used automation to complete that report still getting paid, the government is yet to address the substance of the report.

Greens senator Penny Allman-Payne said

Hundreds of thousands of welfare recipients lose access to payments every year, and Labor have said they can’t even say if it’s lawful.”

These payments can be the difference between food on the table or going hungry. If Labor can’t defend the system they should end the TCF and stop suspending payments immediately.”

Under questioning in senate estimates from Greens senators, Murray Watt has agreed that Deloitte should apologise.

Great.

Let’s see whether the government apologises for keeping mutual obligations and welfare suspensions in place at the later session of estimates which will deal with social services.

Bluesky

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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 12h

Here is a current DIRECTOR within the Department effectively blowing the whistle to Deloitte that the system doesn't demonstrate "natural justice"

The Robodebt vibes here are off the charts and I'm begging media to cover this

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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 12h

Imagine receiving this advice from your independent assurance review, and still operating the system in question as is. That's what the Federal government is doing, currently -- at the expense of hundreds of thousands of participants

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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 12h

This now brings us to WHAT (apart from AI errors) is in the report

Deloitte could NOT provide assurance the system aligns w/ legislation, saying it "impairs" the Department's ability to defend the lawfulness of TCF decisions before a court, or tribunal. Big ramifications there

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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 12h

Now that the Deloitte report, about the government's unlawful administration of mutual obligations, is making international headlines, it's worth looking at what's actually in it (apart from AI slop) and WHY it was actually commissioned

A thread👇

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Adam @kels316.bsky.social · 15h

its very insane there doesn't seem to be a media outlet in that country that will point out 'antifa' is an imaginary villain. It literally does not exist.

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 18h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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ScotsFoundedFootball @gedboy58.bsky.social · 1d

4 of 5 It isn’t the rules: that’s how. Taking a Sheffield mark. Having a three person London Offside. Hacking. Rouges. Scrimmaging. All irrelevant, when placed against the only Football concept that matters: Scottish Combination. THIS is why Scotland invented the modern world game.

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Aedan Roberts @aedanr.bsky.social · 1d

Like Alistair McCoist

Aedan Roberts @aedanr.bsky.social · 1d

I like to think the last panel is the start of an exchange that will end with "someone is wrong on the internet".

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Hi, it's Abby. Yep. @itsabbyyep.bsky.social · May 23

Welcome to America

A sign in a parking lot reads:
NOTICE
MUST BE CUSTOMER AT ALL TIMES

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ScotsFoundedFootball @gedboy58.bsky.social · 2d

1 of 4 #scotsfoundedfootball OTD 1876 QPFC beat Notts County 5-1. How do I know? I read it in the Wrexham Guardian! These Welsh boys don’t half like the #scotchprofessor game. As ever, I expect this to be a Glasgow report put out on the wire for other newspapers to sub-edit. If you know better...

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Aedan Roberts @aedanr.bsky.social · 2d

That must have been a young Andy Goram! And almost 10 years before he would face Leeds and Lukic again, in a Champions League qualifier...

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Aedan Roberts @aedanr.bsky.social · 2d

Bari Weiss? I'll have a mango and macadamia one please

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Aedan Roberts @aedanr.bsky.social · 3d

I'd like to make a Suzuki Swift joke here but can't make it funny. Please imagine one.

Aedan Roberts @aedanr.bsky.social · 7d

"plagiarism problems" being "getting caught plagiarising". Fuck off.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 7d

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

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Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

harpers.org

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Aedan Roberts @aedanr.bsky.social · 7d

Nice to know that people have been wildly misinterpreting things so that they can be offended since long before the internet.

Aedan Roberts @aedanr.bsky.social · 8d

Sure, fella. Making ridiculous offensive generalisations will do that.

Aedan Roberts @aedanr.bsky.social · 8d

Wow so clever

Aedan Roberts @aedanr.bsky.social · 9d

Lorne/square sausage, tattie scone, maybe even a slice of fruit dumpling share.google/YYsfcfmHj6Qu... ... I'm getting hungry

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Aedan Roberts @aedanr.bsky.social · 9d

Do you say the same about babysitters? Are parents ever allowed to pay for someone to take care of their kids for a while so they can have some time to themselves, or is anyone who doesn't spent all day every day with their kids an emotionally dead monster?

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 9d

I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".

Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 9d

hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.

"Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians not directly taking part in hostilities, even if they are believed to be smuggling drugs."

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