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Billie Ellish: “If you’re a billionaire, why are you a billionaire? No hate, but yeah, give your money away, shorties.”

"an eyewitness claims Zuckerberg did not clap following Eilish’s message" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Long silenced, gig workers in Indonesia are organising and fighting for their rights On 29 August 2024, the streets around the Presidential palace and the headquarters of Grab and GoJek in Jakarta, Indonesia's capital, were filled with thousands of striking motorcycle taxi gig workers...

#Gig workers in #Indonesia are coming together to demand fair compensation and better working conditions, despite immense challenges & an anti-labor government.

Read more in my latest at @equaltimes.bsky.social

www.equaltimes.org/long-silence...

The British Patriarchy Protectorate is strong and powerful -whether you are a prince, a celebrity, a politician, a bureaucrat, or finance bro - no crime gets punished.

The most insanely frustrating thing about the #ClimateCrisis is how the breakthrough we so clearly need isn’t technological. It’s just a collective willingness, a determination even, to change in ways that would clearly be SO MUCH BETTER than the clear and obvious consequences of NOT changing.

140,000 brave people ventured into the deserted crime ridden streets of Melbourne last night, many ate at restaurants, drank at pubs, then went to the cricket or an Oasis concert and the worst thing that happened was an Oasis flash mob choir. 🧑‍🎤

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Liniers’s utterly enchanting cover for Halloween 2019’s The New Yorker.

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Holiday workers risking injury so Australians can get meat Many young people on the Working and Holiday Visa programs come to Australia to fill labour shortages in industries like meat processing and farming, but there are concerns around their health and safety in dangerous workplaces.

Many young people on the Working and Holiday Visa programs come to Australia to fill labour shortages in industries like meat processing and farming, but there are concerns around their health and safety in dangerous workplaces.

It's become cliché to turn to Scandinavia for answers but sometimes we must This is not the first revelation about how we treat the most vulnerable in our society but such reports persistently reveal a deeper, and more distressing malaise about Australian society.

This is not the first revelation about how we treat the most vulnerable in our society but such reports persistently reveal a deeper, and more distressing malaise about Australian society.

True cost of critical minerals becomes clearer amid chase for holy grail Researchers warn Australia's pursuit of a critical minerals industry could come at a significant cost.

Researchers warn Australia's pursuit of a critical minerals industry could come at a significant cost.

A small tan and white terrier in a black witch hat.

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Shire suggests blowing up dead whale as alternative to expensive disposal A coastal shire in WA suggests towing a rotting whale carcass out to sea and blowing it up, saying it cannot afford to dispose of the whale itself.

Lol it is clear that no one on Waroona Shire council is on the internet. I so hope they do this.

“Waroona Shire suggests blowing up rotting whale carcass to save money” www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

2 minute speaking limits is a joke. These are serious, complex issues and deliberations that require due consideration

If you can get your pants on, you can accomplish so much 😂

Every time there's a new series (Jason) of Taskmaster I think "oh this might be the underwhelming one" and somehow it never is. Maisie is SO furious, Reece is always angry, Sanjeev is giving "Captain Jackie and the Hot Dog" vibes while Phil and Ania who I'd never heard of are just lovely. So. Good.

Over the last few years I've gone from thinking Halloween was a stupid American import to loving how much my neighbourhood gets into it. The local businesses run a big trick or treat and roads are closed for it. It's incredibly wholesome fun.

My old friend reg.bom.gov.au/products/IDR.... So good to see you again 💙

Who at the ABC wrote, then approved, the words "ceasefire will hold" over an image of Palestinian bodies? Also, how much deference should the media give to Trump given his government continues to provide bombs to kill Palestinians?

It takes a lot to impress me, but this is fucking impressive.

Elon Musk tweets: "Just saw this in a conference room at Tesla Global Engineering HQ in Palo Alto" The attached photo shows a dripping graffiti-style spray-painted text on a wall, which reads: The Future is Autonomous

kind of annoys me when people use the aesthetics of graffiti to show they're edgy and cool while also calling for more punitive laws, which punish the graffiti artists who give that aesthetic its cultural meaning

Australia Institute Live — Daily Updates Stay updated with the latest from The Australia Institute.

Today we learned of a shocking amendment to the income apportionment bill that involves police in social security decisions.

We're joining the call for Labor to abandon police powers to stop Centrelink payments.

Why is @amyremeikis.bsky.social is the only one in the press gallery covering this?

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Basically, Bezos gets to decide what Amazon will pay tax for. And gets away with it.

One of best things about this Graham Bleathman cutaway of Thunderbird 5 is the way it spells out the huge size of International Rescue’s satellite. You can see how John Tracy lives up there for months at a time. Just hoovering the place could fill the days up.

Leaked emails show NBN Co fast-tracked upgrade for Andrew Bolt Senior managers at the National Broadband Network intervened to accelerate a home internet upgrade for News Corp pundit Andrew Bolt and resolve a technical problem for a top executive's friend during ...

Senior managers at the National Broadband Network intervened to accelerate a home internet upgrade for News Corp pundit Andrew Bolt and resolve a technical problem for a top executive's friend during the final stages of the infrastructure project's rollout.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10... #auspol

Halloween should be scary—but fun scary. Not “federal agents are going to drag you and your parents away” scary.

Labor digging into taxpayers' pockets to bail out Rio Tinto again The government can't hide its frustration with Rio Tinto, but at the same time it's preparing to dip deeper into taxpayers' pockets to help the company out. Again.

Government gave Qantas $2.7 billion and we didn't even take a stake.

If a private enterprise needs public money to survive, then it should become a public enterprise. If it's important enough for us to prop it up, then it's important enough for us to control it.
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