Joel

Australia. Most of you noticed that your family, usually not very far back, are in fact, immigrants.

For those that didn’t, and attended rallies yesterday, how does it feel to stand up with the ideals we went to war against?

Stay safe Queensland and NSW, Look after each other, and don’t muck about.

We are in this together, as always. 💙

Working during the pandemic: The future of work is hybrid

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#Union #StaySafe

2020 onwards showed us that more gets done when people can work flexibly. Productivity goes up, sick leave goes down, and talented people are retained. People who may not have been able to enter the APS are recruited, contributing to better outcomes for us all. #AusPol #Australia #TCAlfred

People aren’t delayed in getting services due to Weather. Some of that work cannot be done from home. Public Servants at Agencies like DAFF (💙) and ABF working at the border? They’ll be there to meet the flights that are still coming into BNE. Assisting with Medivacs, and keeping the Nation safe.

While TC Alfred bares down on South East Queensland, the Public Service is working in their THOUSANDS to keep the work of the Nation going. Veterans Affairs processing and claims teams? Working. Where? Safely, at home.

WFH & Flexible Work means they haven’t stopped, work keeps moving…

MEME. Young Person is going to shake hands with an older person. “My Daughter tells me you work for the Public Service. What Union are you with?” “Oh I actually don’t believe in Unions.” “You have exactly 10 seconds to get the hell out of my house.”

#JoinYourUnion

@cpsu.org.au

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Saw a post long ago that Autism causes Vaccines, because of the high ND rates of medical researchers. I can’t find it though.

Waking up to a Nirvana reunion fronted by Post Malone was even less on my bingo card for 2025 than Europe being ousted from peace talks on their own continent, and I’m occasionally wondering if all of this is really happening or whether the ADHD meds weren’t a good idea after all.

RFK Jr. Says He’ll Send People Taking Adderall to Labor Camps Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants to strip people of their tech gadgets and send them to government-funded "wellness farms" to grow organic food.

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This is amazing. Thank you for sharing!!!

Been a while since I posted a cute Echidna, so here you go!

Came across this intrepid one at Mulligan's Flat. To get the shot I put my camera up on the log and shot while hiding my face out of view. Got pretty lucky I must say!

#echidna #wildoz #australianwildlife

“I’ve let myself down. I’ve let my teammates down. I’ve let Australians down". Full story --> tinyurl.com/2s3997u2

#auspol
#LNPNeverAgain

Preemptively, Welcome 😃🇦🇺

Fire chief fears Grampians blazes could join to create 'massive' front A Country Fire Authority captain says his main concern is if bushfires burning at the northern and southern ends of the Grampians meet up.

Residents near Grampians National Park told to evacuate as blaze spreads

Australia

Global ‘gigantism’ hotspot: Tasmanian tree standing at almost 100m tallest in the country State provides perfect conditions for ‘kings and queens of the forest’ – some of which are up to 500 years old

Australian researchers have documented the tallest and most massive living trees in Tasmania, a “global hot spot of gigantism in plants”, including 18 examples over 90 metres www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Trump orders opening of migrant detention center at Guantánamo Bay President signs executive order instructing preparation of facility to house 30,000 immigrants at US naval base in Cuba

Bad times.

in my opinion the whole bloody continent is haunted and that’s why everyone has IBS, these days. fuck Australia Day it puts ghosts up your bum

On Jan26, Australians commemorate Britain establishing a prison in Sydney. It's a vile celebration of invasion, dispossession, colonisation and mass murder of the Indigenous peoples. It has nothing to do with Australia becoming an independent nation. 😔 #InvasionDay

Not a Date to Celebrate.

To the Respected Left in Australia, the UK, and the USA,

The far left is not the issue and has never been the reason for any far-right triumphs. The real problem lies in the centre-left's hesitance on key issues, which is costing us votes. It’s time to stand firm and confident in our beliefs.

A government official of one of Australia's closest allies just did a nazi salute on the presidential stage.

The call is coming from inside the house.

y’all told me i was crazy when i downloaded all of tiktok and put it on blu-rays but who’s laughing now

First time using https://croissantapp.com to do some cross posting.

Anyone remember the days of Adium (Mac) and messaging across different clients with one? Those were the days. #old

Great story by @caseynewton.bsky.social - while this is US only, for now, the obvious ramifications of allowing total lies and misinformation to spread/be amplified when the prior system was at least part effective in preventing that

2025 is the new 2016 for your relatives claiming crazy things. 😖

Behind the scenes, the company was also quietly dismantling a system to prevent the spread of misinformation. When the company announced on Jan. 7 that it would end its fact-checking partnerships, the company also instructed teams responsible for ranking content in the company’s apps to stop penalizing misinformation, according to sources and an internal document obtained by Platformer. The result is that the sort of viral hoaxes that ran roughshod over the platform during the 2016 US presidential election — “Pope Francis endorses Trump,” Pizzagate, and all the rest — are now just as eligible for free amplification on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads as true stories.

NEW: Meta has quietly dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the United States. Machine-learning classifiers that once identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach have now been switched off, Platformer has learned www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi...