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Growing calls for Labor to abandon police involvement in stopping Centrelink payments Civil society organisations representing welfare recipients, First Nations people, survivors of family violence, disabled people and legal experts are calling on the government to scrap a proposed law...

'Growing calls for Labor to abandon new powers to stop Centrelink payments for people accused of a serious offence'

@antipovertycentre.org is joined by many other organisations

apcentre.substack.com/p/growing-ca...

Mackerel and sardines are so good

Just got to remember that I'm incrementally inching towards my goals.

This week's squats were 4 sets of 4 at 75, 80, 85 and 80. Four week's ago it was 5 sets at 70, 70, 75 75 75.

This week's deadlifts were 5 sets of 4 at 90.

Four weeks ago it was 80, 85, 85, 90, 90.

Slow progress counts.

My mum's neighbour gave us kilos of seedy, impossibly sour mandarins. I ended up having to juice them and add sugar syrup.

When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.

Now even The Australian is rinsing the government for keeping payment suspensions turned on in their unlawful Mutual Obligations system

archive.is/2025.10.24-2...

Microsoft sued for allegedly misleading millions of Australians with its AI pricing Tech giant faces hefty fines from consumer watchdog for allegedly trying to convince customers to pay more than needed for their Microsoft 365 subscription

Microsoft forced its AI into 365 and wanted people to pay extra for the privilege. Didn't make it obvious that there was an option without AI.

The ACCC is now suing them over it. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Photo of two people in chefs costumes holding up what appears to be a large tray of blueberry muffins, but one of them in supposedly a chihuahua. The sign reads “Chihuahua or blueberry muffin? #knowyourmeme”.

The winning entry at today’s 27th annual Great PUPkin dog costume contest in Fort Greene Park.
📷 📸 🐶 🫐 🧑‍🍳 🎃 #photography

I'm so sorry. I hope he's comfortable and that you have support.

Palak tofu is so good

Right? I want a fucking sticker I can use to redeem my free small fries.

Queensland puberty blocker ban unlawful due to ‘political’ interference and lack of consultation, court hears Queensland Health denies claims about directive after mother of transgender child launched legal challenge * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Queensland’s controversial ban on puberty blockers and other hormone therapies is unlawful because of a failure to properly consult health executives on a decision affected by political interference, a court has heard. The supreme court in Brisbane on Wednesday heard the ban should be overturned as part of a legal challenge launched by the mother of a transgender child. The mother cannot be identified for legal reasons. Continue reading...

Queensland puberty blocker ban unlawful due to ‘political’ interference and lack of consultation, court hears

Jewel Heist at the Musée du Louvre "A blog about art crimes, illicit trafficking, forgery, art theft and cultural heritage protection."

Today's theft from the Louvre (
art-crime.blogspot.com/2025/10/jewe...) is making me think about my favorite series of museum heists. Buckle up for a 🧵 on priceless porcelains, the Dead Zoo Gang, a Pekinese named Looty, and the unsolved mystery of who's stealing Chinese art from European museums.

Evicted and dying of cancer Tammie spent her final months desperately house hunting in Brisbane ‘I’m suffering from as much rage as I am grief, because for so long I had managed to keep her in her own home,’ her mother says * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast A month before she died of cancer, Tammie Thrower was evicted and thrust into homelessness. The mother of three had battled stage four bowel cancer since 2023, undergoing round after round of chemotherapy. But in January of this year it spread to her brain. Continue reading...

Evicted and dying of cancer Tammie spent her final months desperately house hunting in Brisbane

That seems unsurprising

Screenshot from Windows Settings>Privacy and Security>Text and image Generation. "Text and image generation uses on-device AI technologies to quickly respond to requests. Turning this settings off will not affect apps and features using cloud AI technologies. Text and image generation Windows and anyone using this device can use Text and image generation.

BY THE WAY

If you've updated to Windows 11 recently, you're probably on version 25H2.

There's a new setting in Settings: Privacy & Security.

Scroll aaaaaaaalll the way to the bottom and you'll see "Text and Image Generation."

TURN IT OFF.

A story in the parts

A story in three parts

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD ***************** Investigation of: LOSS OF THE SUBMARINE TITAN IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN ON JUNE 18, 2023 * * * * * * Accident No.: *********** * * * * * * Interview of: Co-designer/Pilot Deepsea Challenger DCA23FM036 via Microsoft Teams Friday, July 26, 2024

INTERVIEW OF 10 BY LCDR 11 Q. So how did you get yourself started into submersible 12 operations? 13 A. Well, I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic. When I 14 set down the path to make that film, the first thing that I did 15 was arrange to be introduced to the head of the submersible 16 program at the P.P. Shirshov Institute in Moscow, a guy named 17| Professor I. I did that through a mutual friend 18 of ours, a guy named , who is one of the preeminent underwater cinematographers in the world. And had been on a 20 submersible expedition out to Titanic the previous year with the 21 Russians. And that was organized by a Canadian company that was 22 doing an IMAX film which was released under the title Titanica.

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

🚨🚨🚨 Indonesian coffee brand Kopi Kenangan has opened in Australia 🚨🚨🚨 after years of watching Australia coffee culture influence Indonesia it's so interesting to see it go the other way!
www.instagram.com/kenangancoff...

I don't have a lot to say. The whole situation is so fucked up and I am so upset for you.

All I can say is look after yourself first.

Shame and harm at every JobSeeker turn – and now added AI slop The system is so convoluted and stacked against people that even if it worked as intended, it would still be not just harmful, but useless.

"Which again, brings us back to the question: If $400 was all the money you could count on every week and it didn’t get paid, how do you think that would impact your life? How well do you think you could cope?"

New from @amyremeikis.bsky.social

www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

This Halloween I’m going as the scariest thing of all, emotional intimacy!!! ha ha just kidding I’m prion disease

Australia’s March Toward 100 Percent Clean Energy The country’s grid operator says shifting from coal to clean power is not only possible but inevitable. The work there could provide a road map for other countries.

The country’s grid operator says shifting from coal to clean power is not only possible but inevitable. The work there could provide a road map for other countries.

Also someone on this bus needs to go and do a poo because they are dropping some rank fucking farts.

I have had an unreasonably shitty morning. I was pulled over at 6:30 this morning on the way to gym because apparently my car rego is suspended.

I have no idea why (it's paid) and now my car is stranded on the side of the road in an industrial park and I have a $1018 fine coming.

I feel utterly pathetic in saying this but sometimes I am deeply jealous of friends who got the basic social skills and ability to flirt/recognise flirting package, rather than overly serious presumed AuDHD with social problems package because being single is very very difficult.

I HATE COLLINGWOOD Wolfenstein 3D mod on floppy disk. This version doesn't work. :(

Australians, please raid your Uncle's old PC in his shed, and help me find a copy of this to archive.

#Australia #AFL #DOSGaming #Wolfenstein #RetroGaming #MSDOS #RetroComputing

(Also, films are allowed to be unrealistic or have, quote, unbelievable plot points for the narrative. That's not a bad thing?)

You know what else was super infuriating? The absolutely non-existent tolerance for drama that is "unrealistic" on any front. Watched a movie where some aspect of racism or sexism is skipped for narrative? No, of course not.
(This extends to casting POC in ways she would not expect to see them)

The Mountain Goats: The Life of the World to Come