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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 1h

They’re just completely making shit up. It’s depressing that it’s just reported and not challenged as total nonsense by the traditional media

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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 6h

I see antifa. They’re everywhere…

Scene from The Sixth Sense with Bruce Willis replaced by Donald Trump

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Antipoverty Centre @antipovertycentre.org · 3h

Lmao the employment department has recovered 10.6 MILLION from providers due to fraud tip-offs over 3 years, and not shut down a single provider.

Reminder: They spend 4 BILLION A YEAR on this system, which is about 25% of how much they spend on JobSeeker payments each year.

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davidmckwrites.bsky.social @davidmckwrites.bsky.social · 2h

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
Laura Tingle is right. The thousands of First Peoples are right. Australia is a racist country. 🤬

'There's no justice': Outrage as Jake Danby walks after fatal hit-and-run

A fatal hit-and-run case in Darwin has exposed deep disparities in the NT’s justice system, say Aboriginal leaders, as the victim’s family speaks out.

www.abc.net.au

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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 2h

Department of Defence officials distance themselves from F-35 fighter jet parts allegedly shipped from Australia to Israel, saying the material is the property of Lockheed Martin.

Defence officials grilled over report F-35 fighter jet parts sent from NSW to Israel

Department of Defence officials distance themselves from F-35 fighter jet parts allegedly shipped from Australia to Israel, saying the material is the property of Lockheed Martin.

www.abc.net.au

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davidmckwrites.bsky.social @davidmckwrites.bsky.social · 2h

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Public Holiday, street parade, etc for footballers (I.e. "entertainers") but at a for people who actually make beneficial changes to the world? Baby cheeses!!

Nobel prize in chemistry awarded to scientists for work on ‘Hermione’s handbag’

Trio honoured for developing revolutionary materials for applications ranging from gas storage to drug delivery

www.theguardian.com

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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 3h

If you can’t get gas exporters to pay any tax @albomp.bsky.social how about getting them to contribute a couple of billion towards our rising insurance costs for the problem they’re contributing to?

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

The ABC reports that extreme weather costs Australians more each decade and, as a country, we have some of the highest per capita economic and insurance losses in the world.

This is why we need a climate compensation levy on fossil fuel exports > theaus.in/fossilfuelco...

Betting on the weather emerges as a solution as insurance costs skyrocket

Amid more extreme weather events, parametric insurance — described as a bet on the weather —is on the rise. It is now being touted as a possible solution for Australians, who have some of the highest ...

www.abc.net.au

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 6h

Updated COVID shot led to less severe illness, fewer hospitalizations last year, US study finds

Veterans who got both 2024–25 COVID booster and flu shot saw 29% fewer ER visits, 39% fewer hospitalisations, and 64% lower deaths over 6 months, vs. those who got only the flu vaccine.

archive.md/UFmPF

Updated COVID shot led to less severe illness, fewer hospitalizations last year, US study finds

By Nancy Lapid

October 9, 2025 9:30 AM GMT+11 Updated 2 hours ago

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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 5h

In the court of King Caractacus…

Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 5h

I am the girlfriend of one of founders of antifa!

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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 6h

What certainly isn't AI is the interviews Deloitte conducted with guilty bureaucrats and executives inside the Department. Here is one of them saying their system disproportionately-incorrectly punishes First Nations people

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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 6h

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 · 6h

Why did the Department have to outsource a basic review to Deloitte in the first place? Because they do not know how their own system -- which is unlawfully punishing ppl -- actually works. And haven't documented its processes

Here is the Secretary, in February, confessing that

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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 6h

An FOI I put in at the start of the year found that senior officials at the Department of Employment were aware of these significant issues in 2020, but refused to act

It took until DECEMBER 2024 to get Deloitte to review the system & report back

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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 6h

The Deloitte report was received by the Department last year but was not publicly released until almost 12 months later

DEWR tried to hide it as long as possible — not because of AI errors — but because it documents the widespread unlawful administration of Mutual Obligations

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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 6h

I see antifa. They’re everywhere…

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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 6h

What’s the name of your boyfriend who’s one of the founders of antifa?
It’s George. George…..Glass

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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 6h

The late great Habeas Corpus

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Michael Truscello🏴 @mtruscello.bsky.social · 8h

"Almost 55,000 children in Gaza are estimated to be acutely malnourished, far more than have so far been identified as victims of the potentially lethal condition, a study published in the Lancet, the respected international medical periodical, has revealed." #FreePalestine #Genocide

Almost 55,000 children in Gaza acutely malnourished, Lancet study estimates

Study shows clear link between Israeli restrictions on aid entering Gaza and levels of malnutrition among children

www.theguardian.com

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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 9h

Thinking this is a classic example of the evils of centrism you talk about in your book
Labor not negotiating with the Greens and independents so they can introduce a crap bill and claim it was the best they could do because of the LNP

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 21h

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 11h

Scale.
My @smh @theage cartoon.

Single frame. Scale. On one side of scale, weighing heavily, a small gold weight marked “OCT 7 2023”. On the other side, much lighter, a huge bag (of sand?) marked “EVERY DAY SINCE.”

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ABC News (Unofficial) @abc-news.bsky.social · 10h

University caught out using AI to wrongly accuse students of cheating with AI: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-09/artificial-intelligence-cheating-australian-catholic-university/105863524

University caught out using AI to wrongly accuse students of cheating with AI

An Australian university has accused thousands of its students of cheating with artificial intelligence. The problem? Many have done nothing wrong.

www.abc.net.au

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David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 9h

Where’s the evidence for why these changes to create more secrecy and less transparency are supposedly needed?

Public service can’t point to any.

This is a terrible bill that should die an early death in the parliament.
region.com.au/no-bots-abou...

No bots about it, government can't even identify if an FoI request is AI-generated | Region Canberra

Federal Government officials have admitted they can’t identify Freedom of Information requests from artificial intelligence bots, or even if they…

region.com.au

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 11h

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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