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Pope Leo absolutely cooking

"Other job seekers who fail to meet their requirements are not interested in finding work, either because they have other sources of undeclared income or because they see their payments as an entitlement for which they should not have to do anything in return. For these job seekers, strong penalties are required to send a clear message that those who are unwilling to meet their mutual obligation requirements will not receive income support. Based on these findings, a new compliance system is proposed that will address the weaknesses of the current model and deliver the objectives of this review. This new framework will include: • Greater autonomy and emphasis on personal responsibility for most job seekers. • Better identification of factors impacting job seeker capability before penalties are applied. • Targeting of significantly tougher compliance penalties at job seekers who have demonstrated they are not genuine in meeting their requirements. • Greater simplicity through more consistency in the design and application of compliance rules for different types of failures Recommendation 1: Targeted Compliance Framework The new approach will be based around a targeted compliance framework which consists of two phases – a personal responsibility phase for the majority of job seekers who generally meet their requirements and an intensive compliance phase which will apply strong penalties to persistently non-compliant job seekers. The system will be bolstered by new technologies to assist job seekers in monitoring their requirements, and multiple interventions to identify when factors impacting the job seekers ability to comply or inappropriate requirements may be preventing a genuine job seeker from meeting their requirements."

NEW: I have obtained, under FOI, a secret Department report that initially recommended the Targeted Compliance Framework - aka, the unlawful "mutual obligations" scheme

It reveals that, like Robodebt, they recklessly built this thing to punish "entitled" frauds who never existed

Gaza saw its first major rainfall of the season today. Within minutes, people were submerged and tents holding families and children flooded. This is slow death. There is no justification for why proper shelter that can withstand the elements is not being allowed in.

It really needs to emphasised as strongly as possible:

Do not eat Tasmanian farmed salmon.

Heavy rainfall floods the camps of displaced Palestinians in Gaza | CNN Displaced Palestinians in Gaza woke up Friday morning to inches of water flooding their tents, after heavy rainfall overnight left their shelters and belongings soaked with no way to dry them out.

I usually share a new Palestinian account every day but today I am going to do a thread of people I’ve already verified impacted by the recent flooding in Gaza. If you can help any of these families- many who lost everything again- please do. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/14/m...

RIP Sam, you would have loved The Block

Weirdly, it’s never occurred to me to put up a video of the tawnies here.😄 Yesterday, one youngster was making its little sleeping noise - a quieter version of its night time feeding squawk. Dad is on the right. Mikey Magpie with the bung wing can be heard in the background, along with noisy miners.

International Criminal Court to ditch Microsoft Office for European open source alternative | Euractiv The court will move its internal work environment to Open Desk, a German-developed open source software

The International Criminal Court is ditching Microsoft Office, saying it’s too dependent on US tech, in favor of Open Desk, a German open source alternative.

The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.

US military planning for divided Gaza with ‘green zone’ secured by international and Israeli troops Exclusive: Almost all Palestinians have been displaced to ‘red zone’ where no reconstruction is planned

And so the genocide continues in hushed silence, with the rest of the world lulled into a false sense that it has ended... www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

This is the map, commissioned by a mid level State Department employee in 2013-2014 and then unearthed and presented to Kerry who then presented it to Obama in 2015, which allegedly shocked Obama to his core and led him to not veto UNSCR 2334 in December of 2016.

What’s really going on with AI and jobs? Record-breaking layoff reports, Amazon's mass firings, and a slump in entry level employment. Is AI behind it all?

How is AI *really* impacting jobs?

Henley Chiu, the CTO of Revealera, a jobs data analysis firm, analyzed 180 million jobs listings in 2024 and 2025, in an effort to find out. Chiu found an:

-8% drop in all jobs postings
-~30% drop in art, photography, writing jobs
-22% drop in journalism jobs

Cute day of superb parrot babies 😍

Fires spreading in Lebanon as a result of Israeli airstrikes

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I remember them asking me if there was any chance my ex and I would get back together. Happy times.

Oh fuck off

BREAKING: At least two Palestinians, including a child, have been killed in an Israeli drone attack east of Gaza's Khan Younis, Al Jazeera’s team on the ground and Wafa are reporting.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/8wt2nx

“We're seeing a level of proliferation of bodies & body piles from space that's unlike anything I've ever seen…”

Human rights investigator Nathaniel Raymond explains how more people could be killed within a week in Sudan, compared to the past two years in Gaza.

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Italian journalist Gabriele Nunziati was fired after asking the European Commission whether Israel should pay to rebuild Gaza, just as the EU says Russia must rebuild Ukraine. His outlet, Agenzia Nova, dismissed him weeks later, calling the question “out of place.” Today, Euronews’ Vincenzo Genovese raised the issue directly with the Commission—asking for comment on the firing and repeating the same question about Israel’s responsibility for Gaza’s destruction. Brussels said it reaffirmed the EU’s “commitment to press freedom,” without commenting on the firing or the question itself.

Italian journalist Gabriele Nunziati was fired after asking the European Commission whether Israel should pay to rebuild Gaza, just as the EU says Russia must rebuild Ukraine. His outlet, Agenzia Nova, dismissed him weeks later, calling the question “out of place.”

Today, Euronews’ Vincenzo...

MEDIA RELEASE: The Jewish Council of Australia condemns the antisemitic Nazi stunt held yesterday outside NSW Parliament.

W refuse to be intimidated by these pathetic media stunts.

We stand with all Jewish people impacted by today’s racism and with all those experiencing bigotry and hatred. 1/5

© Reuters Subscribe = Israeli settlers attack Palestinians, journalists at West Bank olive harvest, witnesses say By Reuters November 8, 2025 1:42 PM CST • Updated 4 hours ago Aa ㄱ K PBFES

Earlier today, a mob of Israeli Jewish settlers attacked and assaulted roughly 30 Palestinian villagers and activists, plus about 10 journalists who had gathered during an attempt to harvest olives near a settler outpost in the Israeli-occupied West Bank

Ketan Joshi's Irrational Climate Reset

I am calling for a return to the wild, unacceptable and unthinkably weird idea that we can decide not to live under the thumb of an expensive, deadly and ancient fossil fuel economy

No more hand-wringing about pragmatism. Be idealistic, and don't be sorry 🤜🏽

Biden Discussed Potential Israeli War Crimes In Gaza. He Kicked The Can To Trump. New intelligence shocked officials in late 2024, spurring heightened fear of U.S. liability, HuffPost has learned. The period saw Secretary of State Antony Blinken ask if Israel’s actions constituted ...

NEW: Inside the Biden administration debates in late 2024 that could have changed the course of the Gaza war

-top intel official sought to cut support for Israel but Brett McGurk pushed back
-talk of "very likely" US liability
-Blinken spoke of "ethnic cleansing"

www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-...

the Iranian drought story is insanely undercovered.

foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/07/i...

That is an extremely attractive dog

Oh Omar, I'm sorry. Poor little guy.

I definitely have a lion-like focus on the caterer's tray at all times. Less a strategy and more a biological imperative

Police allowed Nazi rally outside NSW parliament More than 60 people attended Saturday morning’s rally after notifying police more than a week ago. The police commissioner said he had no idea it was going to happen.

The National Socialist Network held an antisemitic rally outside New South Wales Parliament today - astoundingly, it's emerged this afternoon that they did this with approval from NSW Police. www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...

I can count on one finger the friends and family members who have not been sucked into this scam. Enraging.

Where Is OpenAI's Money Going? Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - Song For The Dead Editor's Note: The original piece had a mathematical error around burnrate, it's been fixed. A few days ago, Sam Altman said that OpenAI’s rev...

Based on analysis of years of revenues, losses and funding, since 2023, OpenAI has taken in $28.6bn in cash and had $13.7bn in losses.

However, reports say OpenAI ended 1H 2025 with $9.6bn in cash - suggesting OpenAI's losses are billions higher than reported.

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There is no ceasefire. It's a lie. More than 200 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli government since Trump claimed a ceasefire was achieved. The Israeli government never even stopped bombing Lebanon. They are still committing war crimes.

I feel like people on Bluesky who have convinced themselves that the institutional Left in the United States is pro Trump and falling over backwards to credit Trump should have to reckon with the fact that the only Palestinian in Congress, and a DSA member, says (rightly) that the ceasefire is fake.