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Claire πŸ‡¦πŸ‡Ί

@matchingpegs.bsky.social

I believe in evidence based policy. I work on websites for local government. I sew, πŸͺ‘ 🧡 and despite being a lifelong Melbournian, I don’t wear black. My curiosity is my superpower. πŸ‡¦πŸ‡Ί 🦘 Living on the lands of the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung of the Kulin Nation

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I’ve heard a prediction that it will be the most visited gender neutral toilet on the planet.

09.11.2025 10:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID

Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine

08.11.2025 23:02 β€” πŸ‘ 13791    πŸ” 3168    πŸ’¬ 59    πŸ“Œ 27
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2025 Advent Calendar Our 2025 Advent Calendar is here and ready to bring some joy this holiday season ✨  We've designed special labels just for this calendar that are bright, sparkly, cheeky and with a dash of dry wit her...

I look at this one every year but have never actually purchased it. Her sewing labels are fabulous (I’ve bought plenty of them, but not in this format). She also does a sweary version…

www.kylieandthemachine.com/collections/...

09.11.2025 00:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

OVER A MILLION USERS

DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT

EVERY *WEEK*

what the fuck are we DOING here

07.11.2025 22:59 β€” πŸ‘ 5520    πŸ” 1855    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 29
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More than 40 per cent of children in single-parent households live in poverty in Australia. Enforcing child support payments would go a long way towards fixing the problem. Read more: satpa.pe/isLbMem

08.11.2025 00:00 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And LGBTQIA+ folk πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈ

08.11.2025 10:06 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Every time a tech entrepreneur says β€œwe don’t need to stop global warming because AI will” I want to slap them with a fish that says, β€œif a superhuman intelligence came into being and we asked it how to stop global warming, it would say β€˜stop burning fossil fuels, you fools.’”

07.11.2025 15:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1122    πŸ” 253    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 15
The Ideology versus the Science of Evolved Sex Differences - Replicability-Index 1. Introduction: Competing Stories About Gender Debates about sex differences often swing between extremes. One narrative, familiar from strands of radical feminism, portrays masculinity as dangerousβ€”...

Women are not ruining the workplace because women are not so very different from men:

β€œIn personality and evolutionary psychology, the consensus is clear: Men and women evolved under shared pressures for cooperation, mutual dependency and parental investment, not perpetual conflict or exploitation”

07.11.2025 19:53 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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What happened, @nytimes.com? Why not stand by your original headline? Because it’s absolutely an accurate representation of this trash conversation.

To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil

07.11.2025 20:10 β€” πŸ‘ 5183    πŸ” 1309    πŸ’¬ 164    πŸ“Œ 114
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Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative

electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

06.11.2025 04:58 β€” πŸ‘ 23153    πŸ” 7991    πŸ’¬ 668    πŸ“Œ 1515

Zohran Mamdani polled +40% on men under 30. So we wasted all that time on all those think pieces about how we need a Joe Rogan for the left, when what we actually needed were *policies* for the left.

05.11.2025 10:27 β€” πŸ‘ 7097    πŸ” 1487    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Every time one anti-vaxxer is quoted in the media, one million scientists and healthcare workers should also be quoted in support of vaccines.

False equivalence in the media is killing us.

05.11.2025 15:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1199    πŸ” 268    πŸ’¬ 38    πŸ“Œ 13
tern @1goodtern

There are two main ways to make people feel safe:

1) lie to them that there is no danger

2) take action to reduce the danger

Why, in the name of all that is rational, did society choose option 1.

1:05 AM Β· Nov 5, 2025 Β· 18K  Views

tern @1goodtern There are two main ways to make people feel safe: 1) lie to them that there is no danger 2) take action to reduce the danger Why, in the name of all that is rational, did society choose option 1. 1:05 AM Β· Nov 5, 2025 Β· 18K Views

Society only chose option 1 because they were lied to.

β€œIt’s just a cold”
β€œKids are fine”
β€œHerd immunity”
"Only the vulnerable are at risk"

Repeat it enough times and people believe there’s no danger.

Denial is easy. Prevention takes effort.

Source: x.com/1goodtern/st...

05.11.2025 23:44 β€” πŸ‘ 268    πŸ” 77    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 4
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Far too many critically important projects miss out on vital funding and far too many brilliant Australian scientists scramble to survive in their careers

ThisπŸ‘‡is VITALLY important and LONG overdue

05.11.2025 20:18 β€” πŸ‘ 72    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Seeing this bubble grow from the front row and yelling into the void as we head towards 2008 part deux is making me lose my mind.

06.11.2025 01:56 β€” πŸ‘ 789    πŸ” 197    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 2
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From the Guardian.
Cartoonist Ella Baron.

06.11.2025 00:26 β€” πŸ‘ 5331    πŸ” 1527    πŸ’¬ 72    πŸ“Œ 73

Anyone with a pen should write this on every piece of blank wall that they see.

05.11.2025 10:40 β€” πŸ‘ 83    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

And this is why the corporate class shut down Teen Vogue.

05.11.2025 04:16 β€” πŸ‘ 6776    πŸ” 1698    πŸ’¬ 36    πŸ“Œ 18

Head in hands wondering how this could happen to me, the popular president who posted a video of myself shitting on everyone 2 weeks ago

05.11.2025 01:57 β€” πŸ‘ 18350    πŸ” 3089    πŸ’¬ 54    πŸ“Œ 53


Nick Pettigrew
@Nick_Pettigrew
Polio was eradicated because Jonas Salk chose not to patent the vaccine, if you want a perfect example of a socialist act.
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Garry Kasparov
@Kasparov63
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Socialism is like polio, it comes back when people forget about the horrible damage it did last time.

Nick Pettigrew @Nick_Pettigrew Polio was eradicated because Jonas Salk chose not to patent the vaccine, if you want a perfect example of a socialist act. Quote Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63 Β· Jun 24 Socialism is like polio, it comes back when people forget about the horrible damage it did last time.

REMINDER: A socialist act by a New Yorker was a major reason why polio was eliminated in the US.

04.11.2025 22:41 β€” πŸ‘ 15878    πŸ” 4396    πŸ’¬ 273    πŸ“Œ 103

Alright Libs, listen the fuck up. Zohran just gave you the path to victory. "But NYC isn't the same as the whole country" SHUT THE FUCK UP! Zohran paved the way. All you have to do is walk it. Stop moving to the right, and campaign on working for the working class.

05.11.2025 02:17 β€” πŸ‘ 942    πŸ” 176    πŸ’¬ 30    πŸ“Œ 11
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Tom Hanks explains to Stephen Colbert why he masks on the subway:

"I'm doing a play right now so I cannot get sick... I've had COVID enough in my life, I don't need to do that again. So I'm wearing this for health reasons."

Thank you Tom! Masks are still a key part of public health.

04.11.2025 20:57 β€” πŸ‘ 5872    πŸ” 1236    πŸ’¬ 80    πŸ“Œ 62
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Landmark study makes 'important' finding about COVID vaccines

"Children who catch COVID-19 are at risk of contracting dangerous heart inflammation, but don't face the same danger from getting vaccinated against the virus, a new, large-scale study has found."

www.9news.com.au/health/covid...

05.11.2025 02:08 β€” πŸ‘ 132    πŸ” 56    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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Aus is supposed to be a country where the rule of law & natural justice applies. The Gov’s sneaky attempt to strip welfare from people before they’ve been convicted of any crime is a fundamental breach of these principles. We may as well dissolve the court system. #auspol #politas

03.11.2025 23:30 β€” πŸ‘ 130    πŸ” 67    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 9
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The medical treatment for septic uterus, eptopic pregancies and a miscarriage that the body cannot release is abortion

Without the medical procedure of an abortion for these medical emergencies, women die

This Far Right anti-abortion shtick has nothing to do with human rights

It’s misogyny, 101

04.11.2025 01:50 β€” πŸ‘ 287    πŸ” 108    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 4
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Welfare payments are increasingly conditional and subject to the whims of profiteering job agencies - who can't even help people find work!

We must stop expecting Labor to be better. Maintaining an underclass of people living in permanent precarity is part of their business model.

04.11.2025 00:42 β€” πŸ‘ 51    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 1

*Woman works to support herself and her family.*

β€œFucking girlboss.”

03.11.2025 05:11 β€” πŸ‘ 252    πŸ” 26    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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This is brilliant

03.11.2025 04:44 β€” πŸ‘ 11231    πŸ” 5257    πŸ’¬ 276    πŸ“Œ 390
American College of Cardiology: COVID triggers prothrombotic state persisting beyond acute stage, pulmonary embolisms can occur weeks, months later.

β€˜We’re just beginning to see the cardiovascular aftermath. People can have extensive chronic clot in their lungs and not know it.’

American College of Cardiology: COVID triggers prothrombotic state persisting beyond acute stage, pulmonary embolisms can occur weeks, months later. β€˜We’re just beginning to see the cardiovascular aftermath. People can have extensive chronic clot in their lungs and not know it.’

🚨🧡 by Jammer aka @acrossthemersey:

"American College of Cardiology: COVID triggers prothrombotic state persisting beyond acute stage, pulmonary embolisms can occur weeks, months later.
β€˜We’re just beginning to see the cardiovascular aftermath...’"

Full 🧡
threadreaderapp.com/thread/19850...

03.11.2025 02:39 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1
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Pauline Hanson, Gina Rinehart sighted at Trump’s Halloween party The One Nation senator and Australia’s richest person were both spotted at the president’s lavish Great Gatsby-themed Halloween bash in Florida.

Trump attracts all the heartless ghouls…

www.theage.com.au/cbd/pauline-...

03.11.2025 03:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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