Michael Ruyg
@michaelruyg.bsky.social
Still chronically gobsmacked
Careful what you wish for Mr Minns
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Wanting action after the Bondi attack is understandable - but kneejerk responses that curtail freedoms have their own perils
Proposed changes to gun laws and protest rights in NSW need to be approached with forensic clarity – taking a pause might be wiser
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December 22, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Careful what you wish for Mr Minns
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If I could ask one question of the Prime Minister.. I would like to understand his definition of “hate preachers that promote violence”, bc signing missiles that fall on children & hanging out with a genocidal army would absolutely fit the bill if he was of any other religion.Explain it to me..
December 19, 2025 at 2:53 AM
If I could ask one question of the Prime Minister.. I would like to understand his definition of “hate preachers that promote violence”, bc signing missiles that fall on children & hanging out with a genocidal army would absolutely fit the bill if he was of any other religion.Explain it to me..
A lengthy read but tells how we allowed ourselves to be conned and complicit in genocide and @albomp.bsky.social can even make a virtue of it
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Instruments of Dehumanization - Boston Review
How U.S. laws—branding Palestinians as “terrorists” and redefining anti-Semitism—serve Israel’s interests.
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December 19, 2025 at 4:58 AM
A lengthy read but tells how we allowed ourselves to be conned and complicit in genocide and @albomp.bsky.social can even make a virtue of it
www.bostonreview.net/articles/ins...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/ins...
Questions for our children which we need to answer.
Or become Luddites.
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Or become Luddites.
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Why universal basic income still can’t meet the challenges of an AI economy
Andrew Yang’s revived pitch suits the automation debate, but UBI can’t fix inequalities concentrated tech wealth drives
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December 16, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Questions for our children which we need to answer.
Or become Luddites.
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Or become Luddites.
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“We’re not Nazis! We just want to subjugate inferior races by force and blindly follow orders to torture and kill for no good reason!” — Republicans unironically 🤷🇺🇸🦅
December 12, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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My weekend column for #ThePoint.
The rich gets advice on how to rort the system, the poor get told to suck it the f*ck up.
thepoint.com.au/news/251213
The rich gets advice on how to rort the system, the poor get told to suck it the f*ck up.
thepoint.com.au/news/251213
The rich get tax advice; the poor get lectures: super tax saga lays bare a skewed system
A new report on the amount of revenue expected to be raised by the changes to superannuation tax on balances over $3m highlights yet again how the tax system is weighted in favour of the rich and that...
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December 12, 2025 at 10:17 PM
My weekend column for #ThePoint.
The rich gets advice on how to rort the system, the poor get told to suck it the f*ck up.
thepoint.com.au/news/251213
The rich gets advice on how to rort the system, the poor get told to suck it the f*ck up.
thepoint.com.au/news/251213
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Fascism doesn’t go away on its own. Say no. Keep fighting! 👊
As long as Spotify is taking money from ICE, they don’t need or deserve free advertising for Spotify Wrapped.
Stop using Spotify until the ICE recruitment ads stop (and be on the lookout for Fascism Wrapped in Los Angeles, Austin, and NYC): indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=bluesky
Stop using Spotify until the ICE recruitment ads stop (and be on the lookout for Fascism Wrapped in Los Angeles, Austin, and NYC): indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=bluesky
December 12, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Fascism doesn’t go away on its own. Say no. Keep fighting! 👊
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Letter to #smh right to focus on multiple impacts of grossly oversized vehicles that now dominate our roads, putting everyone at risk, trashing emissions, wasting space.
Tax them commensurately, to balance out the all their costs & risks to all of us
Tax them commensurately, to balance out the all their costs & risks to all of us
December 12, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Letter to #smh right to focus on multiple impacts of grossly oversized vehicles that now dominate our roads, putting everyone at risk, trashing emissions, wasting space.
Tax them commensurately, to balance out the all their costs & risks to all of us
Tax them commensurately, to balance out the all their costs & risks to all of us
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Bet it was the Far Right, it didn't have enough flags on it for them.
December 12, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Bet it was the Far Right, it didn't have enough flags on it for them.
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Despite years of sanctions and export controls, U.S.-made electronic components — which have unique markings and cannot be copied — continue to appear in Russian cruise missiles and drones.
15 Ukrainians are suing US tech factories over chips in Russia's deadly weapons
It was a regular workday when the air raid alarm sounded at Okhmatdyt Children’s Hospital at 11 a.m. on a Monday in Kyiv. Dr. Olga Babicheva and her colleagues moved their young patients to a room wit...
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December 12, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Despite years of sanctions and export controls, U.S.-made electronic components — which have unique markings and cannot be copied — continue to appear in Russian cruise missiles and drones.
Now let's see if NSW Department of Planning will abide by the law
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Coalmine expansions would breach climate targets, NSW government warned in ‘game-changer’ report
Environmental advocates welcome Net Zero Commission’s report which found the fossil fuel was ‘not consistent’ with emissions reductions commitments
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December 12, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Now let's see if NSW Department of Planning will abide by the law
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Australia’s under-16s social media ban is framed as child safety, but its real impact is shifting power and profit back to legacy media, not improving young people’s digital lives, writes Stewart Sweeney. #MediaPower #SocialMediaBan #ChildSafety #NewsCorp #DigitalPolicy #auspol
The real winners of Australia’s under-16s social media ban
Australia’s social media ban for under-16s is sold as child protection, but its most tangible effect is a transfer of power away from global platforms and back to legacy media interests.
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December 11, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Australia’s under-16s social media ban is framed as child safety, but its real impact is shifting power and profit back to legacy media, not improving young people’s digital lives, writes Stewart Sweeney. #MediaPower #SocialMediaBan #ChildSafety #NewsCorp #DigitalPolicy #auspol
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joke of a country run by feckless fatally-compromised donation-piggy clowns
Scoop: the pro-teen social media ban lobby group 36 Months was funded & co-staffed by its co-founder's ad production firm that was simultaneously making gambling ads
The federal government has ignored calls for a gambling ad ban while pursuing the social media ban.
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The federal government has ignored calls for a gambling ad ban while pursuing the social media ban.
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December 12, 2025 at 2:18 AM
joke of a country run by feckless fatally-compromised donation-piggy clowns
Miners take the profits and our children reap the harm
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NSW Health resists lower blood lead guidelines for children in Broken Hill, documents reveal
Greens MP condemns ‘pathetic’ level of funding to deal with lead contamination in state’s far west
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December 11, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Miners take the profits and our children reap the harm
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FIFA Everyone Gets Their Piece Prize
Days after FIFA awarded Trump a fake peace prize, DOJ moves to drop charges in FIFA corruption case www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/n...
U.S. Moves to Drop Charges in International Soccer Corruption Case
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December 11, 2025 at 1:37 AM
FIFA Everyone Gets Their Piece Prize
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What is the Labor Government trying to hide? The SaturdayPaper
December 11, 2025 at 1:53 AM
What is the Labor Government trying to hide? The SaturdayPaper
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Most people with disabling mental health conditions can’t access the NDIS. Here’s a better way to provide support
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Most people with disabling mental health conditions can’t access the NDIS. Here’s a better way to provide support
A new Grattan Institute report shows how Australia can build a national system of psychosocial supports within five years without spending any more money.
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December 7, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Most people with disabling mental health conditions can’t access the NDIS. Here’s a better way to provide support
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I’ve been looking into the under-16 social media ban.
It wasn’t driven by child-psychology or digital-rights research — the biggest push came from two media-backed campaigns:
• Nova’s 36 Months
• News Corp’s Let Them Be Kids
Both were explicitly praised by the government as key influences.
It wasn’t driven by child-psychology or digital-rights research — the biggest push came from two media-backed campaigns:
• Nova’s 36 Months
• News Corp’s Let Them Be Kids
Both were explicitly praised by the government as key influences.
November 27, 2025 at 12:58 AM
I’ve been looking into the under-16 social media ban.
It wasn’t driven by child-psychology or digital-rights research — the biggest push came from two media-backed campaigns:
• Nova’s 36 Months
• News Corp’s Let Them Be Kids
Both were explicitly praised by the government as key influences.
It wasn’t driven by child-psychology or digital-rights research — the biggest push came from two media-backed campaigns:
• Nova’s 36 Months
• News Corp’s Let Them Be Kids
Both were explicitly praised by the government as key influences.
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They take $371.6bn from you.
Then spend just $241.9bn on Medical Care.
Criminal!
Nearly 50% of your payments spent on paperwork, profits and denying you care.
Then spend just $241.9bn on Medical Care.
Criminal!
Nearly 50% of your payments spent on paperwork, profits and denying you care.
December 7, 2025 at 10:49 PM
They take $371.6bn from you.
Then spend just $241.9bn on Medical Care.
Criminal!
Nearly 50% of your payments spent on paperwork, profits and denying you care.
Then spend just $241.9bn on Medical Care.
Criminal!
Nearly 50% of your payments spent on paperwork, profits and denying you care.
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Shoebridge, Pocock, Hanson-Young et al - this crap must be so wearing. It wears me out watching. #auspol
Last night I questioned the Australian Government on military exports to Sudan and the UAE, watch in full here 👇
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Senator DEMANDS answers: are Australian WEAPONS fuelling Sudanese GENOCIDE
YouTube video by Senator David Shoebridge
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December 7, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Shoebridge, Pocock, Hanson-Young et al - this crap must be so wearing. It wears me out watching. #auspol
Thanks for all the extra coal and gas your government has authorised @albomp.bsky.social
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Anthony Albanese warns of ‘difficult’ bushfire season ahead as almost 40 homes lost in NSW and Tasmania
Disaster payments announced after 16 homes destroyed in Koolewong and four at Bulahdelah in NSW. Nineteen homes were lost in Tasmania
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December 7, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Thanks for all the extra coal and gas your government has authorised @albomp.bsky.social
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Above board? My cartoon for @australia.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How does anyone get on a government board these days? | Fiona Katauskas
It helps to have friends in high places
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December 1, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Above board? My cartoon for @australia.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
'A library without librarians' - matvellous.
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I have a lifelong connection to Victoria’s state library – which is why I am aghast at its crude self-lobotomy | Gideon Haigh
If the ‘suits’ can come for the State Library of Victoria, they can come for anyone, and no public institution is safe
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December 3, 2025 at 9:07 PM
'A library without librarians' - matvellous.
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OMG! The AI cat (er... Dog?) is out of the bag. 😱
November 28, 2025 at 7:25 AM
OMG! The AI cat (er... Dog?) is out of the bag. 😱