Nice little segment on ABC News from our state election campaign launch this evening. Thanks to the 770 or so people who made it along! It was wonderful to see so many news faces keen to take a socialist message to people across Victoria between now and November. ❤️

I'm thinking about setting up a mail club for my artwork - something to take people offline. It would have: -a 4x6 print - a postcard (maybe) so you can share snail mail with other people - a few stickers - a letter instead of more crap to junk up your inbox Thoughts?

Business tax fraud is worse than NDIS fraud. Disabled people are paying the price thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

Business tax fraud is worse than NDIS fraud. Disabled people are paying the price

The Albanese Government wants to make huge changes to the NDIS in the name of fixing fraud, however, only a small fraction of savings are expected to come from targeting fraud. So, while everyone has ...

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This is probably the easiest accessibility change to make!

Accessibility Awareness@a11yawareness.bsky.social · last mo.

In hashtags, it helps if each new word starts with a capital letter. Otherwise, sighted users could see a string of letters and not immediately know where one word ends and a new word begins. Capitalized words also help screen readers properly read out the hashtag.

Quite a lot of people lost someone, maybe an elderly relative, during the heatwave. My Aunt Barbara, very ill with advanced dementia, died yesterday aged 91. She was unmarried, no kids and I had been taking care of her affairs for the past few years. That’s the least interesting thing about her. 1

Educate your friends: ‘Social housing’ is not public housing. ‘Social housing’ is a scam on the public.

Purplepingers ☭@purplepingers.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We’re protesting Labor’s demolition of public housing and the Labor housing minister keeps saying we’ll build social housing when he knows damn well he does not mean public housing.

Ghost Daughter My mother, she held me when I was a babe. When I was wee and I couldn't breathe, she looked after me. She was there to hold me, there to enfold me, there to stand by me and comfort me. 1/4 #MECFS #Poetry

Goals.

Runalong Womble@runalongwomble.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The British Library sent an email for a new Agatha Christie exhibition later this year but one of the pictures is this with her roller skating buddies when she was younger! (Christie is centre)

PSA for authors: gen-AI kills your "voice". Gen-AI works using a probability model (which word is most *likely* to come next), drawing on a database of other writers' work. I know a lot of editors, and what they're talking about right now is the manuscripts they're seeing sounding the same

I would pay extra to get a cologne and perfume free uber. Must have been a previous passenger, as the smell is on my top where the seat belt would have been. Damn sniffer dog nose.

Australians with Down syndrome among those to suffer most from proposed NDIS cuts government analysis says www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Australians with Down syndrome among those to suffer most from proposed NDIS cuts government analysis says

‘It’s heartless to cut supports we need to leave the house, work and study at a time when the cost of living has dramatically increased’, advocate says

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My daughter is obsessed with three books and the interesting thing is they’re all by Margaret Wise Brown, but we didn’t force it at all. Those are just the books she responded to most, and now wants to hear over and over again: Goodnight Moon, The Runaway Bunny, and Big Red Barn

Let's face it, all books are colouring books. We writers provide an outline and the readers fill it in with their imagination.

PS. Pauline's plane's callsign is VH-AU7 and we have a network of trackers, including my ham radio mates, so even if Pauline's (it's Gina Rhinehart's plane and she leases it from the manufacturer) plane is blocked by say, the flightaware or flightradar 24 web apps, we're tracking it ...

11 brave Australians trying to bring urgent aid to Gaza have just been illegally intercepted in international waters by the Israeli Defence Force. Including Melburnians Violet, Anny, Bianca, Neve and Gemma. Call your Federal MPs now and demand their release: actionnetwork.org/letters/inte...

To Minister Wong: Stand up for Australians onboard Global Sumud Flotilla

Send a message to Penny Wong and your local MP now to secure the safe release of all Australians intercepted by Israeli military.

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Thought I’d share this photo I took way back in 2008 in Florida. If the metadata is right, I shot this from St. Pete Pier looking east over Tampa Bay as the sun rose. #sunrise #feedcleanser

The Pirates of the Mediterranean Sea have kidnapped Aboriginal activist Sam Woripa Watson on open waters, along with 100s of other humanitarians. Free the flotilla members. Free Palestine www.blackwitness.com/p/we-have-a-...

"We have a Blackfulla from Magan-djin and we don’t know where he is": Fears felt for Brisbane Blacks activist Sam Woripa Watson, who has been kidnapped by Israel

Eleven Australians have been illegally abducted by Israel in international waters. Call DFAT and Penny Wong's office today to demand they act.

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(this is my Shavuot poem this year So much Torah here.) Snail By Langston Hughes Little snail, Dreaming you go. Weather and rose Is all you know. Weather and rose Is all you see, Drinking The dewdrop’s Mystery.

4 key things about the new £4.7m ME/CFS DNA study DNA uses 4 chemical letters — A, T, G and C — to encode the instructions to build and run a human. The genome contains 3 billion of these letters. 1️⃣ This study uses full genome sequencing to read all of them, while DecodeME…

Zohranist Mamdanism may not be your cup of tea but it's hard to argue he's not doing stuff. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Here’s a list of things Zohran Mamdani has done in just four months | First Dog on the Moon

Note to politicians: you can just do stuff regular people actually need and want and it’s OK

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Tonight I learned about the Heavy Metal Tooth Fairy Project www.heavymetaltoothfairy.com

The government limited access to public data that would tell researchers if the water is poisoning kids

But here’s where it’s really fucked up: “Dr Stokes said access to data on heavy metals such as uranium and lead in water has been limited”

Last week some of the wealthiest people in the country had tantrums because there’s small changes being made to the tax system. (Not enough in my opinion) while we have disabled people being thrown off the only support they have. While charities are running out of food for people.

Done so much reading today for the course I’m doing and this quote stood out

this is your regular reminder that some meds/supplements can make hormonal birth control less effective (increasing the risk for unplanned pregnancies) - antiseizure meds (may also be used for migraines, MH stuff, etc) - certain antibiotics - some HIV meds - St John's Wort #NEISvoid

A Guide to Birth Control Interactions: What You Need to Know

Birth control interactions occur when medications or supplements affect how well contraception works or increase side effects. These interactions vary depending on the type of birth control you use.

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Reuters Legal@legal.reuters.com · 3mo ago

SCOTUS has for now refused to block a FDA rule allowing the abortion pill mifepristone to be prescribed via a telehealth appointment and dispensed through the mail, preserving access to a drug used in more than 60% of U.S. abortions reut.rs/438DCud

"We have 800 languages. We are all different: Central, Western, Gulf, the Highlands. Our ways of living are also slightly different. But when you're playing netball, people become friends" www.abc.net.au/pacific/veit...

Age is no barrier as 80yo Veitu Diro continues to shape PNG netball - ABC Pacific

At 80 years old, Veitu Diro is still out on the netball courts every Saturday, coaching, mentoring, and shaping the next generation.

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The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan The Wind Knows My Name by Isabel Allende Tom Lake by Ann Patchett

John Wiswell@wiswell.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Say a group of friends is making their own Top 100 Best Novels List. Your friends ask you for your recommendations. What are the first three books that come to mind? No overthinking. Share the first three greats that hit you.

I've been reporting on local communities opposing massive new data centres. An update on one of the ones I covered. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Developer withdraws plans for Perth datacentre after fierce community opposition

Three-storey GreenSquare datacentre in Hazelmere was to power cloud computing and the acceleration of AI

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